Losses Understated by Vietnam Reds
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WEATHER WATER .Fair Charlie 88/73 U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Friday Date Marc , 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Sangster's Condition Losses Understated Remains Unchanged MONTREAL (AP) PRIME MINISTER By Vietnam Reds DONALD SANGSTERofJamaica re- mained in serious condition last WASHINGTON (AP)(By Bob Horton) INTERCEPTED MILITARY MESSAGES night, Jamaican officials dis- indicate Communist battlefield commanders are holding back or closed. toning down reports t Hanoi about their Vietnam war casualties, Dr. Herbert Eldemire, Minis- U.S. officials report. ter of Health in the Jamiacan Captured documents discussed by Gen. William C. Westmoreland administration, told newsmen at this week's Guam conference that Sangster was conscious Military Families Aided were saidto show the Viet Cong during the day but could not By Red Cross Services deliberately understate their speak. battle losses while exaggerat- Eldemire said that Sangster's - Services to military fami- ing American casualties 20 to condition last night was "un- lies with emergency com- 40 times. changed." munications, counseling in American figures reflect 60 Aefering to the 56-year-old personal percent higher enemy casualties Prime Minister's inability to this year compared with 1966. speak, Eldemire said, "this is problems, re- Officials said this masking part and parcel of the bleeding ferral, help of the true situation by Com- in the brain." with govern- munist fighters in the field Eldemier said in his statement may be one reason the North that a medical examination given RED tROSS ment benefits, Vietnamese leadership presses Sangster at the Montreal Neuro- emergency fi- the war despite increasing logical Institute "established nancial assistance, and in allied power. the diagnosis of intra-crarqial many other ways, are pro- Officials said these signs bleeding dueto high blood pres- vided by the American Red favorable to the allied cam- sure.n paign were pointed up during "Mr. Sangster is undergoing Cross. the Guam discussions; treatment and although his con- This help is available 24 --Documents showing Commu- dition is reasonably stable he hours a day, every day of the nistforces plagued with short- is seriously ill," he added. week, for the families of ser- ages of food and ammunition, The Jamaican Health Minister and weakened by disease. made no comment as to the kind vicemen. It is as close. as --Enemy defections increasing of treatment received by Sang- the nearest telephone or Red 100 percent the first 10 weeks ster.(Continued on page 2) Cross office. of this year over 1966. --Interrogation of prisoners revealing friction over tactics and supplies between Viet Cong Garrison Prjile Widens soldiers and North Vietnamese infiltrators servina in the PAGE 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE WASHINGTON (Cont'd from page 1) North Viet- MOSCOW (AP) U.S. AMBASSADOR LLEWLLYN E. namese thay can't win, while bombing the North Thompson and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. to exact a price from Hanoi for persisting in Gromyko met yesterday to try to arrange U.S.- its aggression. Soviet talks on limitation of the arms race in Record U.S. and Communist troop casualties offensive missiles and antimissile defensesys- in the Vietnam war last week were announced tems. yesterday as prominent members of the U.S. The meeting was the first announced follow Senate called for sterner measures against the up to President Johnson's statement March 2 Communists. that the Soviet government had agreed "to dis- The U.S. military command said that in the cuss means of limiting the arms race in offen- week just past,2,675 Viet Cong and North Viet- sive and defensive nuclear missles." namese troops were killed--over 200 more than The U.S. Embassy said Thompson and Gromyko in the previous record week last month. The talked for about 30 minutes about efforts to Communist toll did not include close to 1,000 arrange detailed talks. Reds killed in War Zone "C" early this week American casualties included 211 killed, 1,874 WASHINGTON (AP) SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER wounded and seven missing. Everett Dirksen predicts the U.S. will inten- An additional 4,000 U.S. fighting men ar- sify the bombing of North Vietnam. The Illin- riving in Vietnam boosted U.S. manpower there ois Senator also said in an interview that air- to 427,000. fields near Hanoi probably would be targeted for air strikes soon. MONTREAL (Cont'd from page 1)Ahead was more Dirksen was among the Congressional leaders treatment and "a considerable period of conva- who met with President Johnson yesterday. La- lescence provided we get over this hurdle now," ter they reported that Johnson has little hope Eldemire said. of any peace moves in the immediate future. Sangster was brought to Montreal on a United Johnson has given no indication of his fu- States plane after he became ill in Jamaica ture military plans. Saturday. But Dirksen suggests his strategy will be Eldemire said earlier that "if the bleeding based on the theory that when the enemy fails continues over a certain period of time we are to talk peace, "you do every thing that is in serious trouble." necessary to bring him down. En route from the Caribbean country where Jamaica's Housing Minister, who has been acting WASHINGTON (AP) THE STATE DEPARTMENT says Prime Minister since Sangster arrived in Mon- it will give "prompt and appropriate consider- treal Tuesday for treatment, and the External ation" to any application by Svetlana Stalina Affairs Minister, Hugh Shearer. to enter the United States. Already in Montreal were Sangster's niece, The department confirmed reports the daughter Mrs. Donald Kennedy of Toronto. The Prime of former Dictator Joseph Stalin was given a Minister is unmarried. U.S. entry visa before she left India. She is now in Switzerland undera temporary vlistork NEW ORLEANS (Cont'd from page 1) leads of permit and reportedly undecided about her fu- our own." ture plans. All three men were released the next day. Robert J. McCloskey, State Department press Also subpoenaed yesterday was Donald Dooty, officer, said the entry visa would not auto- a balding, red-bearded man about 35 years old. matically let Miss Stalina into the United No background information was available on States. Dooty. India's Foreign Minister M.C. Chagla earlier Clay L. Shaw,former director of the Iternat- denied charges by some Indian officials that ional Trade Mart here, left ibrt Mississippi the United States had used coercion to get Gulf Coast yesterday following his indictment Miss Stalina to leave New Delhi. 40 by the Orleans Parish Grand Jury Wednesday McCloskey said the visa was issued only to night for conspiring to murder Kennedy. Shaw make it easier for Miss Stalina to enter Italy will go on trial hers at an undetermined date. from India during her defection to the West earlier this moutb. JAKARTA (UPI) AUTHORITIES HAVE CRACKED an He said she asked U.S. Embassy officials in attempt at a Communist party revolution in New Delhi for "a safe haven" abroad, and they Indonesia. helped her "in these circumstances and for The Antara news agency at Jakarta says West humanitarian reasons." But no decision has Java police arrested 16 Communist leaders and been made on whether she would be allowed in seized important documents during raids earlier the United States, McCloskey emphasized. this month. According to the agency, the docu- ments showed the Communists planning to re- group into small cells to organize armed re- bellion. Th I-n-inn rnmminict- Pmr-t- -n n1 k,,- Pages Missing or Unavailable GITMO GAZETTE FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1967 PAGE 7 ' THE PWC CENTERITES turned the tables on the Phil Gagliano drove in four runs with a pair Gtimo Volleyball League this year in amassing of doubles leading St. Louis to a 9-4 victory an unbeaten record and dethroning the unde- over Minnesota. feated champs of the two previous years, the San Francisco edged Cleveland 5-3, Detroit VC-10 Crusaders. trounced Baltimore 11-0, Houston blanked Phil- The Crusaders had won 30 games in a row from adelphia 3-0, and California nipped the Chi- 1964 through the first part of this season cago Cubs 2-1. when they ran afoul of the Centerites. The other surprise team this season was the PHILADELPHIA (UPI) GENE MAUCH WAS given a NSD Supplymen who finished in a tie for second new contract with the Philadelphi Phillies place with the Crusaders. through the 1968 season. Much will be start- Below are listed the scores of the final ing his eighth season as manager of the Phils. week's action and the final standings. He took over after the first game df the 1960 Wednesday, March 15: season. CormSta-High School 15-5, 16-18, 15-2 NEW YORK (UPI) OUTFIELDER TOMMY DAVIS of the FMF-Dental 15-11, 15-1 New York Mets ran into some more "hard luck" PWC-NSD 15-6, 17-15 Wednesday. He pulled the achilles tendon in VC-10-FTG 15-0, 16-14 his right heel and will be sidelined four or Thursday, March 16: five days. Two years ago he broke his right PWIC-MarBks 15-7, 13-15, 15-12 ankle while a member of tlets Angeles Dodgers. Dental-High School 15-6, 7-15, 15-6 NSD-VC-10 15-12, 15-9 LOS ANGELES (UPI) SUSPENDED LAKER PLAYER Monday, March 20 Rudy Larusso has sued the NBA, its teams, and PWC-FTG 15-12, 15-8 the President Walter Kennedy for $465,000. The MarBks-NSD 16-14,-15-10 Federal .Court suit in Los Angeles stems from FMF-CommSta 15-5,,15-2 Larusso's suspension in January.