Troops Will Enter Delta As Guerrilla Action Increases
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HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE 11-24-66 11-24-66 4,4 .t.T 0230 1,0 AT 0836 5, I AT [454 1,1 AT 2106 VOL. 7 NO. 3164 KWAJALE IN, WI RSHALL ISLANDS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1966 TOKYO (UPI)--CHINESE REO GUARDS TRIED TO u.s. TROOPS WILL ENTER DELTA TAKE OVER A PEKING MACHINE-TOOL PLANT YES~ TERDAY BUT WERE REPULSED WITH HEAVY CASUAL AS GUERRILLA ACTION INCREASES TIES BY THE FACTORY WORKERS, REPORTS REACH~ SAIGON (UPI)--COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS BLEW UP SHIPPING AND ATTACKED GOVERNMENT OUTPOSTS IN ING HERE SAID TOOAY. THE MEKONG DELTA SOUTH Or SAIGON TODAY AS U.S. TROOPS WERE REPORTED PREPARING TO ENTER JAPANESE CORRESPONDENTS SAID MORE THAN THE DELTA RICE BOWL AREA FOR THE FIRST TIME ~N FORCE. 50 PERSONS WERE I NJURE:D IN 15 HOURS Of A IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF SOUTH Vlf.T NAM, U.S. MARINES AIDED BY PLANES, TANKS AND fiST-SWINGING, HEAD~CRACKING STREET FIGHT WARSHIPS CLASHED WITH COMMUNIST TROOPS IN A SERIES OF ACTIONS THAT LEfT AT LEAST 36 V'ET BEfORE PEKING CITY OFFICIALS STEPPEO IN AND CON.G DEAD. IMPOSED TRUCE LATE YESTERDAY. NQRTH OF THE BORDER COMMUNIST GROUND fiRE SHOT DOWN ONE U.S. AIR FORCE PHANTOM JET REPORTING THE CLASH, Moscow RADIO SAID F"lGHTER ~LANE, AND ITS TWO-MAN CREW WAS LISTED AS MISSING, AS CLEARING WEATHER PERMITTED "THIS IS NOT THE FIRST E:VENT OF THIS KINO," AMERICAN PLANES TO STRIKE TO WITHIN Five MILES OF HAIPHONG, JOHNSON AND MCNAMARA ANNOUNCE IN SAIGON, A HIGH MILITARY SOURCE SAID TO DAY TH£ COMMUNISTS ARE TRYING TO LAUNCH A ONE-THIRD CUT IN DRAfT CALLS HUGE OFFENSIVE THAT WOULD SWEEP THROUGH EV JOHNSON CITY, TEX. (UPI)--PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND DE.ENSE SECRETARY ROBERT S. McNAMARA ERY PART OF SOUTH VIET NAM, BUT THAT HAD BEEN TOOAY SLASHED BY ONE-THIRD DRAfT AND MILITARY REQUIREMENTS IN 1967 BECAUS~ OF FEWER ADDI~ THWARTED AT ALMOST EVERY TURN BY U.S. TROOPS TIONA~ TROOPS NEEDED IN THE VIET NAM WAR. SOUTH VIETNAMESE SPOKESMEN REPORTED THAT McNAMARA SAID THAT HE EXPECTED TO CUT BACK TOTAL MAN~OWER REQUIREMENTS FROM THE CUR~ENT VIET CONG GUERILLAS MINEO AND SANK TWO OF RATE OF 900,000 ~~N BY ONE-THIRO TO SOME 600,000 MEN IN 1967. THEIR VEHICLE AND PERSONNEL CARRYING LAND McNAMARA ALSO SAI9 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MEN REQUIRED FOR VIET NAM "WILL UNDOUBTEDLY IN ING CRAfT WHILE THEY WERE SAILING ON A fOOD CREASE, BUT IT WILL INCREAS( AT A LESSER RATE THAN IT HAS INCREASED OURING CALENDAR 1966. RELlEr MISSION 30 MILES SOUTH Of SAIGON BE MeN.AMARA ALSO ~O I NHO TO II'C REAS(D A I R- FORE DAI.'N TODAY. LIVING COSTS JUMP UP· LifT CAPABILITY AS A REASON FOR ASKING JOHN AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME IN THE DELTA, THE SON TO A~PROVE THE SLASH IN MILITARY MANPOW V'ET CONG SPRUNG A MORTAR ATTACK AGAfNS1 THE BIGGEST RISE IN DECADE ER NEEDS. ~P, Of A COMPANY Of GOVERNMENT MIL IT lA, Ar~ WASHINGTON (UPI}--THE COST OF LIVING ROSE "WE BELIEVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR ADDITIONAl TACKED THE POST Of ANOTHER COMPANY NEARBY FOUR-TENTHS or ONE PERCENT IN OCTOBER, PRO MEN TO BE D£PLOYEO TO THAT AREA (VIET HAM) AND HIT A THIRO STATION HELD BY HALf A PLA- Due I NG THE HIGHEST 12-MONTH INCREASE t N IN CALENDAR 1967 WILL BE LESS THAN THE NUM- TOON. PRICES IN NEARLY A DECADE. 8ER DEPLO'([D THI:RE IN CAt.£NDAR 1966," Mc~ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FOOD ON GROCER~ STORE SHE~VES WAS THE ON NAMARA SAID. LY MAJOR COMMODITY THAT DROPPED IN PRICE, THE SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME AT THE LBJ KREMLIN TELLS OF PUSH BUT THE DECREASE WAS NOT APPRECIALBE. IT RANCH 'WHERE JOHNSON 15 RECUPERATING FROM WAS MORE THAN OFFSET BY HIGHER HOUSING, TWO OPERATIONS PERfORMED JUST A WEEK AGO. IN MISSILE DEFENSES C~OTHING AND MEDICAL CARE COSTS. IN ADOITION TO McNAMARA, JOHNSON TALKED Mosco'W (UPI)--THE SOVIET UNlON IS DEvOTlrJG THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS REPORTED TO SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK rOR A TOP A NAJOR SHARE OF ITS MILITARY EfFORT TO THAT THE COST OF LIVING lNDE~ IN OCTOBER LEVEL CONr£RENCE ON INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS. RINGING ITS CITIES WITH ANTIMISSILE MISSILES, WAS 114.5 COMPARED TO 114.1 IN SEPTEMBER (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SOVIET SOURCES SAID TODAY. THIS MEANS THAT IT COST $11.45 LAST MONTH THE souRCES ADMITTED THE DEFENSE RINGS ARE TO BUY THE SAME GOODS AND SERVICES THAT CANADA PROPOSES PLAN COSTING BILL~ONS at RUBLES WHICH RUSSIA, AT COST $10 IN THE 1957-59 BASE PERIOD OF THE THIS STAGE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT, CAN ILL Af INDEX. fOR INTERIM TWO CHINAS FORD. ARTHUR M Ross, BUREAU COMMISSIONER, UNITED NATIONS (UPI}--CANAOA TODAY SUG U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT S. Mc WOULD NOT COMMENT WHETHER THE LATEST IN GE:STED AN INTERIM "TWO CHINA" SEATING IN NAMARA QUOTED "CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE" EARLI CREASE INDICATEO HOW THE ADMINISTRATION WAS THE UNITEO NATIONS UNTIL PEKING AND TAIPEI ER THIS MONTH THAT ANTIMISSILE MISSILES WERE fARING IN ITS ATTEMPTS TO CURB INFLATION. CAN SETTLE THEIR "JURISDICTIONA1." DISPUTE. BEING PUT INTO PLACE AROUND MAJOR SOVIET ALL Ross WOULD SAY WAS: "OeVIOUSLY IT'S CANAOIAN EXTERNAL AfFAIRS MINISTER PAUL CITIES MORE THAN WE LIKE TO SEE. MARTIN TOLD NEWSMEN HE WAS ENCOURAGED TO IN SEPTEMBER, THE BRITISH INSTITUTE rO~ HE HELD TO HIS EARLIER PRCOICTION THAT MAKE THE SUGGESTION BY THE POSITION TAKEN STRATEGIC STUDIES ISSUED ITS DEFINITIVE THE PRICE INCREASE FOR THE 1966 CALENDAR BY "CERTAIN COUNTRIES." THIS WAS CONSIDERED BOOKLET, "MILITARY BALANCE," WHICH REPORTED YEAR WOULD BE 3.5 PERCENT, BuT HE SAID HE A REFERENCE TO U.S. ENDORSEMENT OF A PROPOS "A TOKEN OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT Of ANTIMIS COULD BE PROVED WRONG. AL FOR A YEAR'S STUDY OF THE CHINA REPRESEN SILE MISSILES" AROUND Moscow ANO LENINGRAD. {CONTINUEO ON PAGE EIGHT} TATION QUESTION, "TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE THE SOURCES, IN ONE 0, THE fiRST Sovln EXISTING SITUATION AND THE POLITICAL REALI COMMENTS ON THE PROGRAM, INDICATED THE ANTI NAZI POWER DISCOUNTED TIES OF THE AREA." MI~SILE MISSILE DEPLOYMENT IS GOING AHEAD BONN (UPI)--A SPOKESMAN FOR THE RULING MARTIN SAID THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAO FULL SPEED. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION (CDU) PREDICTED BEEN WORKING ON ITS INITIATIVE IN THE CHINA THE NEW MISSILE SITES WERE BELIEVED TO BE TODAY HIS PARTY WOULD RETAIN THE GOVERN DISPUTE SINCE LAST ~EAR'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN PLACE OR GOING INTO PLACE NOT ONLY AROUNO MENT WITH A COALITION ASSIST FROM THE SMALL ENDED ANO ASSURED QUESTIONERS "THIS IS ONLY Moscow AND LENINGRAD, BUT ALSO AROUND OTHER FREE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FOP). THE BEGINNlt-iG" OF ITS EFrORT TO SOL.V!: IT. MAJOR CITIES. THE TOTAL COST, WHILE NOT WILL RASNER, A CDU WHIP, SAID A THREE HIS "INTERIM" SOLUTION PROPOSED TO THE KNOWN, WAS ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE BILLIONS HOUR MEETING TODAY BETWEEN THE PARTIES HAD ASSEMBLY WOULD SEAT BOTH THE CHINESE COMMUN OF DOLLARS. BROUGHT THE:M "CLOSE TO FORMING A NEW GOV ISTS AND NATIONALISTS IN THE 12J-NATION (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ERNMENT." WORLD PARLIAMENT BUT GIVE THE SECURITY COUN ALTHOUGH TINY, THE FREt DEMOCRATS ARE CIL SEAT; NOW HELO BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S TAI HOOVER SOUNDS WARN ING KINGMAKERS IN BONN, By BESTOWING THEIR 'WAN (FORMOSA) GOVERNMENT TO THE PEKING Ri WASHINGTON {UPI)--fBl DIRECTOR J. EDGAR 49 PARLIAMENTARY SEATS ON EITHER THE CDU, GIME. HE SAID THE CANADIAN POSITION "IS IN HOOVER SAID TOOAY THE "FLAMES OF CRIME" WHICH HAS 245 SEATS) OR THE SOCIAL DEMO NO WAY INTENDED TO IMPLY" THE ACTUAL EXIST ARE THREATENING TO CONSUME THE NATION'S CRATtC PARTY (SOp), WHICH HAS 202, THEY ENCE OF TWO CHINAS. SOCIAL STRUCTURE BUT AMERICANS REFUSE TO CAN ENABLE THE MAJOR PARTIES TO ~ORM A "THIS IS AN INTERNAL MATTER WHICH IS FOR FACE THE DANGER. MAJORITY GOvERNMENT THE CHINESE PEOPLE TO RESOLVE AND FROM WHICH "THEY SEE THE rLAMES OF CRIME, OF BURGLAR THE FREE DEMOCRATS PRECIPITATED GERMANy 1 S THE UNITED NATIONS, IN ACCORDANCE ~ITH THE IES, MURDERS, PHYSICAL ASSAULTS, BUT, TO ALL CURRENT POLITICAL CRISIS BY LEAVING THEIR CLEAR DSPOSITIONS Of THE CHARTER, IS eOUND INTENTS AND PURPOSES, THEY IMMEDIATELY CLOSE COALITION WITH THE CDU OVER A BUOGET DIS TO STAND ASIDE." THEIR WINDOWS, FORGET ABOUT THE PROBLEM, AND PUTE. As A RESULT, CHANCELLOR LUDWIG ER~ BECAUSE A RESOLUTION TO SEAT REO CHINA RETURN To THEIR ORDINARY OAY-TO-OAY BUSI HARD FELL, TO BE RE:PLACED BY FORMER NALI AND EXPEL THE NATIONALISTS PREJUDGES THAT NESS," HOOVER SAID. "THIS 15 THE DANGER OF KURT GEORG KIESINGER. ISSUE, MARTIN SAID, CANADA COULD NOT SUPPORT 1966." IT. ~--------------------------~----------------------------~------------------------------------- GEMINAUTS-12 MAKE REPORT ON PROGRAM'S FINAL FLIGHT SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON (UPI)--GEMINI-12 ASTRONAUTS JAMES LOVELL AND EDWIN (SUZZ) ALDRIN REPORTED TODAY A STRANGt PHENOMENON THEY SPOTTEn IN sPACE ANa TOLD HOW THEY LICKEO 'REQuENT PROBLEMS TO COMPLETE THE LAST or THE TWO-MAN GEMINI SPACEFLIGHTS LOYELL AND ALDRIN ILLUSTRATEO THEIR NEWS CONFERENCE WITH CDLO~ MOYIES TAKEN OU~ING THEI~ 'LIGHT, INCLUDING A SERIES OF GLOVE-LIKE WIDE ANGLE VIEWS SHOWING THE ENTI~E UNITED STATES. FROM THE NEWS CONFE~ENCE, THE ASTRONAUTS FLEW TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON TEXAS RANCH TO RECEIVE EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AW.t.RD5 -- .t. N.t.TIONAL AERO NAUTICS AND SPACE AOMINISTft.t.TION HONO~ TRADITIONALLY GIVEN EACH ASTRONAUT WHO COMPLETEs A MISSION THE UNUSUAL EVENT THE ASTRONAUTS TOLD ABOUT OCCU~~ED DURING ALDRINS FIRST SPACE STAND, WHEN HE RODE CONVE~T1BLE-FASHION WITH HIS HEAD AND SHOULDE~S STICKING OUT THE SP.t.C£C~AFT HATCH.