NEW Infantry ANTI-MORTAR WEAPON BREAKS up TWO
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• ttlGH TIDE LOW TIDE ,11-29-66 11-29-66 4.5 AT 0506 007 AT 1100 5.8 AT 1724 0.7 AT 2354 VOL 7 00. 3167 KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS MONDAV, NOVEMBER 28, 1966 UNITED NATIONS (UPI)--THE U.S. CHARGED TO- I DAY THAT THE SOVIET UNION HAS BEEN TRYING ,OR NEW INfANTRY ANTI-MORTAR WEAPON 20 YEARS TO ACHIEVE THE ELIMINATION OF FOREIG~ MILITARY BASES TO WEAKEN FREE WORLD SECURITY. BREAKS UP TWO MAJOR RED ATTACKS AMBASSADOR WILLIAM C. FOSTER, DIRECTOR OF SAIGON (UPI)--TROOPS OF THE U.S. 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION USED A DEADLY NEW ANTI-MORTAR THE U.S. ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY, WEAPON TODAY TO ZERO IN ARTILLERY SHELLS BY DAY AND NIGHT ON VIET CONG MORTAR POSITIONS DENOUNCED IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLylS MAIN PQ~ AND BREAK UP TWO COMMUNIST ATTACKS ON A BATTALION COMMAND POST. LITICAL COMMITTEE A SOVIET RESOLUTION "INVIT THE COMMUNISTS LAUNCH EO THE MORTAR AND SMALL ARMS ATTACKS TODAY ANO TONIGHT AGAINST THE ING" COUNTRIES WITH MILITARY BASES IN "ASIA, TROOpS OF THE 1ST BATTAL.ION, 12TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 15 MILES wEST OF PLEI DJERENG, A AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA IMMEDIATELY TO ELIM CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OUTPOST 225 MILES NORTH OF SAIGON INATE THESE BASES AND NEVER TO ESTABLISH ANY FIFTEEN Of THE INFANTRYMEN NEWLY ARRIVED AT THE BASE HAO JUST BEEN BRIEFED ON HOW SUCH OTHE~S." ATTACKS ARE HANDLEO WHEN THE COMMUNISTS ATTACKED TOOAY. A COUNTER-MORTAR RADAR DEVICE ~---------------------------- WAS QUICKLY PUT INTO PLAY. IT ZEROES IN ON HOLIDAY DRIVERS SET NEW MARK~ ENEMY MORTAR SHELLS, COMpUTES THEIR TRAJECT ORY ANO PINPOINTS THE POSITIONS ~ROM WHICH TAKING 749 LIVES IN 102 HOuRS THE SHELLS ARE BEING FIRED. WITHIN MINUTES, (UPI)--TRAfFIC ACCIDENTS CLAIMED 149 LIVES, A RECORD TOLL fOR THANKSGIVING, DURING THE U.S. PLANES ANO ARTILLERY BEGAN A DEADLY 102-HOUR HOLIDAY WEEKEND. ACCURATE COUNTER-FIRE. A FINAL UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TABULATION TODAY SHOWED THE TOLL TO BE 130 ABOVE THE THE BARRAGE TONIGHT WAS AGAINST A FORWARD pREVIOUS RECORD HIGH OF 619 SET ONLY L.AST YEAR. COMMAND POST. AGAIN, ARTIL.LERY AND TANK THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL SAID THE~CORD TOLL BETWEEN 6 PM WEDNESDAV AND MIDNIGHT LAST FIRE BROKE UP THE Reo ATTACK. NIGHT WAS"pART OF THE PICTURE OF WORSENING TRAFFIC DEATHS BUILOING UP FOR THE LAST FOUR OR THE INFANTRYMEN WERE WATCHING A MovrE WHEN FIVE YEARS." "IT wILL GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER," A COUNCIL SPOKESMAN PREDICTED. THE BARRAGE BEGAN. "FRIENDS, THAT'S INCOM .. A RASH OF MUTIPLE-DEATH ACCIDENTS BOOSTED THE TOTAL ABOVE THE NORMAL TOLL FOR A WEEKEND lNG," SHOUTED SGT. MAJOR KEN TRACEY OF BROOK AT THIS TIME OF YEAR. THE SAFETY COUNCIL HAD LYN, N.Y. "You BeTTER GET TO YOUR BUNKER~.' SAID THAT 738 PERSONS COULD BE EXPECTED TO GOP TO SEEK SS HIKES THEY GOT. DIE IN TRAfFIC IN A NON-HOLIDAY WEEKEND OF THE COMMUNIST ATTACKS CAME OESPITE AN EAR SIMlLAR LENGTH IN LATE NOVEMBER. TIED TO LIVING COSTS LY MORNING SATURATION BOMBING BY 6-52 STRATO IT MADE NO PRE-HOLIDAY ESTIMATE Of THE WASHINGTON (UPI)--HOUSE REPUBLICANS AN- FORTS IN THE SAME REGION NEAR THE CAMBODIAN THANKSGIVING TOLL BECAUSE IT HAS CONSIDEREO NOUNCED TODAY THEY WOULD SEEK APPROVAL NEXT BORDER. THE B-52s ALSO STRUCK SUSPECTED COM THE HOLIDAY A STAY-AT-HOME TYPE WITH LITTLE YEAR OF AUTOMATIC INCREASES IN SOCIAL SECUR- MUNIST POSITIONS FURTHER SOUTH DURING THE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC. lTV BENEFITS TIED TO BOOSTS IN T~E COST OF DAY. IN ADOITION TO THE 749 TRAFFIC FATALITIES, L.IVING. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) UPI COUNTED 36 DEATHS IN FIRES, 17 IN PLANE UNDER THE FORMULA DETAILED BY REP. MELVIN CRASHES, AND 104 IN MISCELLANEOUS ACCIDENTS LAIRD, (REP.-Wlse')1 EACH QUARTER IN WHICH JOHNSON IS UNDECIDED FOR AN OVERALL TOTAL OF906. THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX ROSE BY AN ANNUAL CALIFORNIA POSTED THE HIGHEST TRAF,IC DEATH RATE OF THREE PERCENT OR MORE SOCIAL SECUR ON TAXES, WAR TRUCE COUNT WITH 60 FATALITIES. TEXAS COUNTED 41. ITY PAYMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING QUARTER WOULD AUSTIN (UPI}--PRESIDENT JOHNSON EX PEtTED ILLINOIS AND NEW YORK EACH REPORTED 38, IN BE RAISED 8Y THE SAME AMOUNT. TODAY A DECISION WITHIN A "n;", DAYS" ON A DIANA HAD 37 AND MICHIGAN 34. SO fAR THIS YEAR, THE COST OF LIVING HAS CHRISTMAS ANO NEW YEAR'S TRUCE IN THE VIET ONLY ALASKA, HAWAI I AND VERMONT AMONG THE INCREASED AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF 3.5 PERCENT, NAM WAR. HE ALSO TOOK STEPS TO EASE COLD STATES ESCAPED HOLIDAY HIGHWAY DEATHS. AND THE ADMINISTRATION ~XP[CTS THE AVERAGE WAR TEPlSIONS IN EUROPE. FOR THE FULL YEAR WILL BE 3.7 PERCENT. THE TEXAS WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED THAT TALKS SMITH OFFER REPORTED LAIRD, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN BETWEEN U.S. AND SOUTH V I (T NAM FORCES IN CONFERENCE, SAID IN A STATEMENT THAT THE SIAGON ARE CONTINUING. GOVERNMENT SOURCES IN RHODESIAN CRISIS PLAN NOT ONLY WOULD HELP BRING PENSION PAY SA I 0 THEY SHOULD BE COIotPLETEO "w ITH I N A FEW LONDON (UPI)--RHODIESIA HAS MADE A FIRM OF- MENTS IN LINE WITH HIGHER PRICES, BUT WOULD DAYS." FER ON A GUARANTEE FOR PROGRESS TOWARD MAJOR TAKE SOCIAL SeCURITY OUT OF POLITICS. (IN SAIGON, AMERICAN SOURCES SAID U.S. ITY BL.ACK AFRICAN RULE IN THE BREAKAWAY COL- HE NOTED THAT PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PROPOSAL LEADERS HAVE AGREED TO THE TRUCE. THE SOURC~ ONY, WELL INFORMED SOURCES REPORTED TONIGHT. FOR AN AVERAGE TEN PERCENT INCREASE IN SO ES SAID A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT WILL FOLLOW THEY SAID BRITAIN HAD DROPPEO ITS WEDNESDAY CIAL SECURITY BENEFITS WAS MADE JUST BEFORE WHEN IT IS DECIDED EXACTLY HOW LONG THE DEADLINE FOR TAKING THE MATTER TO THE UNITED THE Nov. 8 ELECTIONS. PAUSE WILL BE.) NATIONS. LAIRD CALLED FOR A BENEFITS INCREASE Of THE WHITE HOUSE WAS ASKED ABOUT THE SAIGON SQUaCES SAID THE NEW PROPOSALS WERE MADE EIGHT PERCENT, THE MAXIMUM THAT COULD BE REPORT ACTING PRESS SECRETARY GEORGE CHRIS IN SALISBURY DURING THE WEEKEND IN A MEETING ENACTED WITHOUT RAISING SOCIAL SECURITY PAY TIAN SAID "CONSUlTATIONS BETWEEN OUR GOVERN BETWEEN COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS SECRETARY HER ROLL TAXES OR THE LEVEL OF ANNUAL INCOME MENT AND THE GOVERNMENT Of SOUTH VIET NAM BERT BOWOEN AND RHODESIAN PREMIER IAN SMITH. SUBJECT TO SUCH TAXES. HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED" SOURCES SAID THAT BOWDEN RETUR~ED TO LONDON TODAY AND CONFERRED THERE IS LITTLE OOUBT THAT CONGRESS WILL PREMIER Ky HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THE fiELD lMMEOIATELY WITH PRIME MINISTER HAROLO WIL- APPROVE A BENEFITS INCREASE QUICKLY AFTER IT TO SAIGON AND THAT TALKS HAVE BEEN ON A LOW SON CONVENES JAN, 10. R(PUBL I CANS, WHO CUT HEAV ER LEVElTHAN THAT IN WHICH DECISIONS CAN BE 'WIL.SON MET INTO THE EVENING'MONDAY WITH IL.Y INTO THE DEMOCRATIC ~AJORITY IN THE MAOE." THESE SOURCES SAID THE TRUCE MATTER TOP-RANKING MINISTERS OF THE CABINETIS RHOD HOUSE, COULO HAVE MUCH TO SAY ON WHAT ~ORM WILL "BE CONSIOERED COLLE:CTIVELY." ESIA COMMITTEE. HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULO IT WIL.L TAKE. As JOHNSON WORKED fROM HIS RANCH OFFICE NOT COMMENT ON THE RHODESIAN SITUATION. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 65 MILES AWAY, CHRISTIAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE THe SOURCES SAID SMITH1S OFFER WAS A MOVE UNITED STATES HAD AGREED TO I~PROVE DIPlO- IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TOWARD SETTLING OF JORDAN TENSELY I ET MATIC RELATIONS WITri IRON CURTAIN COUNTRtES THE INDEPENDENCE ISSUE, BUT DETAILS OF THE FOLLOW ING COUP T RfAT BULGARIA AND HUNGARY. NEW PROPOSAL.S WERE NOT REVEALED. RHODESIA ~ CHRISTIAN SAID AN AGREEMENT HAD BlEN WORKED ISSUED A UNILAT[RAL DECLARATION OF INDEPEN- AMMAN, JORoAN (UPI)--LOYAL ARAB L(GION- OUT WITH BOTH CO"~UNIST BLOC NATIONS TO EX- D[NC[ FROM BRITAIN ON Nov. II, 1965, AND HAS NAIRES BACK EO BY TANKS TODAY MAINTAINED AN CHANGE AMBASSADORS AND ESTABLISH EMBASSIES. WEATHERED MASSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IMPOSED UNEASY ~ALM IN RIOT-TORN WEST JORDAN AS THE (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BY THE CROWN. JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED "ARMCHAIR GERMANS rA1UOUSLY I Rli TE WILSON HAD S£T A Nov. 30 OEADLINE FOR SMITH STRATEGISTS" IN OTHER ARAB NATIONS WHO AC- ~, ~ TO COME TO TERMS OR HAVE THE MATTER TAKEN CUSED KING HUSSEIN OF BEING TOO SOFT TOWARD BONN (UPI)--CHANCELLOR-9ESIGNATE KURT BEFORE THE U.N. SECURITY CoUNCIL WHERE BRITAI~ ISRAEl. GEORG KIESINGER WON THE APPROVAL. OF HIS PLANNEO TO SEEK U.N. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AS ALL WAS ~EPORTED QUIET ON THE WEST BANK CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNtON TODAY, TO FORM A WELL. OF THE JORDAN RIVER. FORMERLY PART OF PAL- COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH THE SOCIAL. DEMO- THE COMMONWEALTH OfFICE MEANWHILE ANNOUNCED ESTINE, WHERE AT LEAST FIVE pERSONS WERE CRATIC PARTY, ITS RIVAL SINCE THE WEST GER- TONIGHT THAT SIR SAVILLE GARNER, PERMANENT KILLED AND MANY MORE WOUNDED IN ANTI-GOVERN- MAN STATE WAS rORMEo IN 1949. UNDERSECRETARY AND HEAD OF THE BRITISH DIPLO- MENT RIOTING LAST WEEK. MOBS DEMANDING THE WEST BERLIN MAYOR WILLY BRANDT, NATIONAL MATIC SERVICE; WOULD LEAVE ,OR WASHINGTON TO- OVERTHROW Of HUSSEIN HAD RAMPAGED THROUGH CHAIRMAN OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, CONTINUED MORROW. THE CITIES UNTIL DISPERSED BY POLICE AND TO RECEIVE SERIOUS OPPOSITION TO THE DEAL A SPOKESMAN SAID GARNER WOULD MEET FOR TWO TROOPS. WITHIN HIS OWN RANKS. HE SAID, HOWEVER, HE DAYS WITH ADMINISTRATION OffiCIALS ON THE IN- THE ARMORED-SACKED ARAB LEGIONNAIRES WHO WAS CONti DENT THE PARTNERSHIP WOULD BE AP- DEPENDENCE I~E. GARNE~ ALSO WILL TRAVEL TO HELPED QUELL THE BLOODY UNREST STILL WERE PROVED. OTlAWA FOR MEETINGS wiTH CANADIAN LEADERS, IT REPORTED MUCH IN EVIDENCE AT STRATEGIC SEVERAL HUNORED YOUNG OEMONSTRATORS tONIGHl WAS ANNOUNCED.