Lianrtetpr VC Grenades Strike Saigon

i. Average Daily Net Ptem Run The Weather For Ih o Week Knded Fair and mild tonltfUt. Ix w AoKoel II, INI fid to 60. Tomorrow njloetjy l i a n r t e t p r sunny, wann. High to W>e. 14,450 Manchester— A City ofyO U tge Charm (OhMMifled AdvertUing on Pnge tS) PRICX TEN CENTS VOL. LXXXVn, NO. 284 (TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES—TWO SECTIONS) MANCHESTER, CONN., TUiJSbAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1968 News of Schools Seven pages of news and Turkey Hit informaUon on schools In VC Grenades Strike Saigon; Manchester and surrounding towns are published today In the Herald’s annual back-to- school supplement beginning on page 7. B y Quake Articles ranceming the out look as the year starts, bus Enemy Raids District Town %utes,' now programs, new ISTANBUL, Turkey la the wesi, 180 miles west of schools and personnel, etc., (AP)—An earthquake rip Istanbul. are featured. SAIGON (AP) — Viet ped across a v ^ e path The radio said there were no Cong terrorists launched casualUes or damage In Ankara two grenade attacks inside uong Turkey’s northwest- and Istanbul where the tremor em Black Sea coast today, Saigon today and enemy was also felt. troops struck a district and at least 10 persons- The temblor followed a devas were reported killed and tating earthquake that struck Political town only 20 miles fronri 200 injured. neighboring Iran Satiuday. the capita], killing civilians Offlolala feaM I the toll of Telephone lines with BarUn Roundup, and burning down homes. dead and injured would mount and the port of Zonguldak were The grenade attacks came aa U.S. and SouUi Vietnamese aa contacts with the area im down. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS proved. > Housing Minister -Haldun forces in Saigon were on full The epicenter of the quake Menteseoidu, State Minister Sa- Vice President Hubert H. alert for such Incidents. was the town of BarUn, accord dik Tekln Muftuoglu a ^ . other Humphrey has called for a blue The first grenade exploded in ing to preliminary reports ^re high officials left Ankara for .the ribbon citizens committee inves- \\ front of the main heaûarters ceived by the Ministry o f pie In scene. —v.., ^ \ tlgaUon into the roles of dem<m- of thb U.S .Agency for Interna terior In Ankara. BarM is 200 The semiofficial AnatoUa tional Development. Witnesses strators, police and news media miles northeast of Istanbul. news agency said the quake was said the grenade was thrown Turkish . armed ,S«x:es were also felt in Sakarya Province, in the bloody protest" disorders from a motorcycle on which two rushed to the Bartih area for re causing panic in the town of in Chicago. ' persons were riding. ’The terror lief work. Thp^ Turkish radio Bolu, 180 miles east of Istanbul. The Democratic presidential ists appeared to have escaped. said many hpines In BarUn had There were no reports of-casual candidate made the proposal in Seven South Vietnamese civil collaps^, Mapping victims un Ues or damage there. New York Monday after march ians, six of them AID, employes, der the jjdbrls. A quake in Adapazari last ing in a Labor Day parade up \were wounded by the exploding ‘Hie tremor was felt at 10:20 year, on the eve of Pope Paul Fifth Avenue. ^tiade. No Americans were a.m^4n a wide arc extending V i’s visit to Turkey, killed about Humphrey said the committee hubti although hundreds of frmn Blvas in the east, 660 mUes 100 persons. The area hit today —^vriiose members could include Amektoans were at work inside southeast of Istanbul, to Edime is near Adapazari. lawyers, eociologists, police and the elj^t story concrete budd media representatives but .not ing. public offlclals—should focus on "die actions of the demonstra Initial V.d. reports had said tors, the conduct of the police two-:South 'Vietnamese were Food, Medicine Arrive and the role of the media.” killed and el^t wounded, but - "I don’t know who’s really in this was revised downward. volved, everybody makes The second giâde attack charges and counterchaig.s,” came about four hodrs later In Humphrey said. "But 1 do think front of a bar In the Saigon dock Iran Quake Toll it was a sad enough picture to ’ area. Four Vletnameeb men, the American public that it two' women and two chUdren . necessitates a very objective were wounded there, pOUce cuialysls.’ ’ ■ said. Now Set at 11,000 He said a group such as the Viet Oong forces attacked Ford Foundation could take the Long ’Thanh, a goveonment dis lead in forming the committee. trict town 20 miles east of the KAKHK, -‘Iran (AP) — attracUve HtUe township that Htunphrey over &e weekend capital, killing 20 ciriUans, Wrapped in bloodstained cloth once had two broad-tfee-lined defended Chicago Mayor Rich wounding another 60 and burn ing, the dazed survivors of this streets with a pool at the cross ard J. Daley’s police m ûres. ing down 86 houses with a heavy shattered viUage wander' aim roads and a mosaic-domed A seriously wounded civilian is carried to an am But he said Monday he did not mortar attack followed by a lessly through 'Uie rubble. mosque overlooking it. condone beating of demonstra bulance by a U.S. Military Policeman, a U.S. Aid ground assault. Only the mosque still stands, At least 6,000 of the 7,000 peo tors with clubs and said he A government spokesman and it is cracked and could col official and a South Vietnamese after being wound ple of this once prosperous vU- didn’t think Daley wanted to said the town was defended by lapse at any moment. lage are dead or missing follow condone it either. Youth, Troops Argue ed by a terrorist grenade' thrown in front of the about 140 mlUUamen and police ing the earthquake Saturday Most of the children are gone, Humphrey’s remarks were in men. Their casualties were put that devastated some 700 square U.S. Aid Headquarters in Saigon, today. 'The body burled in the debris vdiere their interviews on education station at one dead and eight wounded. mUes in northeastern Iran. Offi homes stood. WNDT-’TV and for Barry Gray’s Most of the casualties and dfun- cials esUmate the death toll at of a policemtan and an injured woman lie on the Swollen bodies, arms and program on WMCA, both In age apparently were inflicted by about 11,000. In Center of Prague hands sticking out of the rubble, New York. ground. (AP Photofax by radio Troni Saigon) the hea'vy mortar barrage on cl- In Kakhk, UtUe remains of the Third party presidential can an occasional child crying for PRAGUE (AP) -T-If you want here,” replies a Soviet private — vlUan homes. didate George C. Wallace said its family—these are left. «r grass roots - discussion of the of about the same age. "'We Another 16 ci'vlllans were Only 8;B0O bodies have been meanwhile "the mess in Chlca"-" issues between Soviet commu came to save you from capital killed and 12 wounded when a recovered, and the search for go and the mess both national nism and the more liberal varie ism ." bus triggered a Viet Cong land the missing continues. The feel parties have gotten us into" Abandon Honor Guard' ty, there’s nothing like a debate "Have you seen any counter mine near Phan ’Ihiet, a provin ing among the survivors is qne have boosted his chances for Weekend Toll between a Soviet soldier and a revolutionaries or capitalists cial capital 100 miles northeast of hopelessness. election in November.. Czech student furious at the in around?" We’re all Socialilsts of the capital. ’The Shah and Empress Farah "That crowd o< demonstrators vasion of his country. here. We want our own kind of TTie terrorism came at a time Of Accidents . are to tour the disaster area in Chicago was trying to take socialism. We didn’t €isk you to when South Vietnamese police ^Wednesday. The empress and over the city,” Wallace said in You can hear such a debate Czech Youth Bow any night in Wenceslas Square, come.” were on a special alert in Sai others of the royal family have Darlington, S.C., "and they "You Czechs shoot at us. gon because of the 23rd anniver donated blood for the victims. In the center of Prague. would have if it hadn’t been for There are 40,(XK) coimterrevolu- sary Monday of the proclama Recu^hes 666 Kakhk, which lies almost on The participants: the police.” tionaries in Czechoslovakia.’’ tion of a republic by Ho Chi the edge of the great Dasht Ka- For Moscow—the crew of a By TOE ASSOCIATED PRESS On the Republican side, presi “How do you know?” To Soviet Threat Mlnh, now president of North veer Desert, is filled with Soviet armored car on guard Traffic accidents during the dential candidate Richard M. "It says so in Pravda.” sidium-elected Sunday—met Vietnam. The anniversary is troops. Red Uon and Sun (Red Nixon’s camp rejected Hum outside the office of a newspa PRAGUE' (AP) — The last Labor Day weekend claimed a "Do you believe what you stronghold of Cêchtolovak pub Monday with instructions from being observed by North Viet Cross) personnel and Boy phrey’s proposiU that they joint per aOTrc^rlately called Svo- record number of lives for that read in Pravda or what you see lic protest against Uie Sp'vlet oc the central committee to work nam through midnight ’Thurs Scouts trying to clear the rubble ly support the efforts of Paris bodne ôvo.

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