Terrorist Bomb Kills Three in Downtown Saigon
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HIGH TIOt LOW TIDE 4-2-66 4-2-66 4.9 AT 0306 1.0 AT 0906 5.7 AT 15 18 0.5 AT 2136 VOL. 7 NO. 2968 KWAJALE 1 N, MARSHALL ISLANDS F~IDAY I Ap~IL 1966 PALOMA~ES, SPAIN (UPI)--COMPLETE TERRORIST BOMB KILLS THREE SILENCE FROM U.S. OFFICIALS ENGAGED IN DOWNTOWN SAIGON ATTACKi IN THE MASSIVE SEA ~ECOVERY OPE~ATION FOR A MISSING HYD~OGEN BOMB TODAY BOL VIET CONG ARMS CACHE FOUND STE~ED INDICATIONS IT WOULD BE AT SAIGON (UPI)--U.S. MA~INES SEIZED A COMMUNIST WEAPONS FACTOI'tY NEj~~ SAIGON ONLY HOURS BE LEAST ANOTHER WEEK BEFORE THE WEAPON FORE VIET CONG TERRORISTS STRUCK INTO THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL TODAY AND BLEW UP A U.S. COULD BE SURFACED. INFO~MED SOU~CES SAID A U.S. NAVY ARMY OFFICERS' BILLET, KILLING TH~EE AME~ICANS AND WOUNDING 113 MORE. FOUR VIETNAMESE ALSO DIED IN THE ATTACK ON THE VICTORIA HOTEL BilLET ONLY FIVE DAYS TASK FORCE HAD RUN INTO A SERIES OF' AFTER AMERICAN SECURITY OFFICERS HAD PROTECTIVE BARRICADES REMOVED TO PROVE THEY WERE NOT DIFFICULTIES THAT P~ECLUDED THE ~E AFRAID OF THE VIET CONGo COVE~Y BY THE WEEKEND. THE BOMB HAS BEEN LYlNG IN ABOUT THE MARINE STRIKE, TERMED OPE~ATION JACKSTAY, CAME JUST 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAIGON YESTERDAY. THE LEATHERNECKS SWARMED ASHORE AT THE JUNCTION OF THE Lo REN AND BA GIONG 2,500 FEET OF WATER SINCE THE JAN. RIVERS AND CAPTURED A FORTIFIED VIET CONG VILLAGE. 17 CRASH OF A B-52 NUCLEAR BOMBE~, THE VILLAGE WAS CRISS-CROSSED WITH BUNKERS AND TUNNELS, AND THE MARINES DISCOVERED A ILLEGAL RAILWAY STRIKE ENDED COMMUNIST WEAPONS FACTORY AND VIET CONG TRAINING CAMP AND SEIZED AN ARMS CACHE OF AS EIGHT LINES BEGIN TO ROLL 18 CARBINES AND 1,000 HAND GRENADES. THERE CHICAGO (UPI)--J.E. WOLFE, CHIEF NEGOTIATOR FOR THE NATION'S RAILROADS, SAID TODAY WAS NO REPORT ON CASUALTIES. HE BELIEVED "FOR ~\LL PRACTICAL PURPOSES" THE RAIL~OaD FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN HAVE END- VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE REGULARS CON [0 THEIR STRIKE AGAINST EIGHT MAJOR LINES. TINUED TO AVOID THE CHALLENGE OF U.S. 1ST AIR WOLFE MADE THE SlATEMENT AFTER HE LEARNED THAT H.E. GILBERT, HEAD OF THE BROTHERHOOD CAVALRYMEN SWEEPING NEAR THE CAMBODIAN BOR OF LOCOMOTIVE FIRE~\EN AND ENGINEMEN, HAD SAID THE UNION WAS PREPA~ED TO END THE WALK DER IN THE CHU PONG AREA, ABOUT 210 MILES OUT IF A BACK-TO-WORK AGREEMENT COULD BE ARRANGED WITH MANAGEMENT. NORTHEAST OF SAIGON. "I THINK HE (GILBERT) ACTED WISELY IN TERMINATING THIS UNLAWFUL AND COMPLETELY UN THE CAVALRYMEN REPORTED KILLING FOUR COM JUSTIFIED STRIKE," WOLFE SAID. MUNISTS AND CAPTURING ONE TODAY IN SPORADIC "As TO THE INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES, WE THINK THEY WERE MISLED AND THERE WILL BE NO RE ENCOUNTERS, BUT THE BULK OF THE COMMUNIST PRISALS AGAINST THEM. As TO THE QUESTION FORCE, ESTIMATED AT UP TO 2,000 MEN, WAS BE- OF RECOVERY OF DAM~,GES AND CONTEMPT PRO- CARRIER IN ENDEAVORING TO WORK OUT SOME- LIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN REFUGE IN NOMINALLY CEEDINGS, THAT IS 50METHING THAT MUST BE THLNG IN REGARD TO REP~ISALS." NEUTRAL CAMBODIA. AMERICAN PATROLS FOUND DECIDED BY EACH RAILROAD THAT WAS DAMAGED "HE IS NOT TRYING TO GET AN AGREEMENT WITH COMMUNICATIONS WIRES RUNNING ACROSS "HE BOR- BY THIS UNLAWF'UL ACT." ME," WOLFE SAID. DER, BUT THEY WERE TOLD BY HEADQUARTERS NOT THE RAILROAD SPO~ESMAN SAID, "I THINK GILBERT SAID THE UNION WAS SEEKING ASSUR- TO CROSS IN PURSUIT. FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES IT (THE STRIKE) ANCES THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY REPRISALS THE AMERICANS FOUND A TOTAL OF 61 COMMUNIST IS ENDED." AGAINST STRIKERS OR CONTEMPT CHARGES OR DAM- BODIES AROUND THE SCENE OF WEDNESDAY'S FIERCE "IT'S ONLY A QUESTION NOW OF CLEARING AGE SUITS FILED AGAINST THE UNION. FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE MOUNTAIN. THE COMMUN- UP THIS QUESTION OF DAMAGES,ETC.," HE "IF THEY ARE EAGER TO GET MEN BACK TO WORK 1ST VIETNAMESE HAD ENCIRCLED A COMPANY OF SAID. IT SHOULDN'T TAKE LONG UNDER THIS PROCEDURE" CAVALRYMEN BUT THE OUTNUMBERED TROOPS FOUGHT WOLFE SAID THAT, "As WE UNDERSTAND IT, GILBERT TOLD NEWSMEN. HE SAID THE BROTHER- THEM OF'F WITH HELP OF AIR STRIKES AND AR- THE ORDER HAS GONE OUT FROM GILBERT IN- HOOD SOUGHT ONLY THE USUAL ASSURANCES FROM TILle:ftV SUPPORT. ~ -- ~- - ~-sTW,(fC"'fmJ~"'@lfEkAL ~HAllfMAt4 tOF' "tHt' ...., "I1f"c~ffIER~ 1~rltrA WALKOiiT-S"'Ef"ORE HE (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BLFE) TO CONTACT THE PROPER OFFICER OF EACH WOULD ORDER HIS 8,000 STRIKE-IDLED FIREMEN , BACK TO WORK. GILBERT DECLARED "THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY WILSON ACCEPTS NEW MANDATE DIFFICULTylI IN WINDING UP THE SURPRISE. TO DRIVE BRITAIN LEFTWARD STRIKE IF THE RAILROADS WANTED TO GET THE LONDON (UPI)--JUBILANT PRIME MINISTER HAROLD WILSON SAID TODAY THE OVERWHELMING LABOR TRAINS ROLLING. PARTY ELECTION VICTORY WIL~ GIVE BRITAIN A STRONGER VOICE IN EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE DISARMA TH~MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN THREE MENT AND PEACE IN VIET NAM. HOURS AFTER THE U.S. APPEALS COURT UPHELD THE SMILING 50-YEAR-OLD PARTY LEADER, IN A BRIEF' VICTORY STATEMENT OUTSIDE NUMBER 10 A LOWER COURT'S TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER DOWNING STREET, VOWED TO BUILD A "NEW" BRITAIN WHILE SEEKING TO MOVE THE COUNTRY TO NEW AGAINST THE UNION. ,POWER IN WORLD POLITICS. ARMED WITH A NEW FIVE-YEAR MANDATE, WILSON PLEDGED TO DEAL WITH BRITAIN'S "TREMENDOUS ECONOMY BEG INS AT HOME PROBLEMS ••• BY NOT HESITATING TO TAKE MEASURES NEEDED, POPULAR OR UNPOPULAR." "THIS DECISIVE MANDATE WILL ENABLE THE SAYS JOHNSON TO STAFF GOVERNMENT TO SPEAK WITH GREATER AUTHORITY WASHINGTON (UPI)--P~ESIDENT JOHNSON FRANCE ASSURES ALLIES ABROAD IN ALL WE ARE TRYING TO DO TO ACHIEVE SHIFTED HIS PLEA FOR RESTRAINT IN SPENDING SHE'LL STAY IN BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT ANO INTERNATIONAL TODAY FROM THE NATION'S FAMILIES TO HIS PARIS (UPI)--FRANCE ASSURED THE WEST TODAY PEACE," HE SAID. OWN OFFICIAL "FAMILY." HE CALLED FOR A THAT DESPITE ITS PULLOUT F'ROM NATO COMMAND WITH ONLY THREE RESULTS OF' THE PARLIAMEN BILLION-DOLLAR CUT IN FEDERAL SPENDING IN "THERE IS NO QUESTION OF WITHDRAWING FROM TARY ELECTION STILL OUTSTANDING, LABOR WAS THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. BERLIN." ASSURED OF A FINAL OVERALL MAJORITY OF 95 WHILE JOHNSON MET FOR 70 MINUTES WITH FRENCH OFFICIALS EMPHASIZED THE BERLIN VOTES WITH SOME FORECASTS THAT THE FIGURE HIS CABINET AND WITH FEDERAL AGENCY CHIEFS GARRISON IS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE MATTER AND MIGHT SWELL TO 97. TO EXPLORE GOVERNMENT COST-CUTTING IN THE rRENCH OCCUPATION TROOPS WILL REMAIN IN THE BY EVENING, THE COUNT STOOD AT LABOR REST OF THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, SEN. Ro DIVIDED CITY ALONGSIDE BRITISH AND U.S. 362 SEATS, CONSERVATIVES 252, LIBERALS I I. BERT F. KENNEDY, (DEM.-N.Y.) DENOUNCED AD F'ORCES AS LONG AS THEY ARE NEEDED. THE POPULAR VOTE WAS LABOR 48.52 PERCENT, MINISTRATION-PROPOSED REDUCTIONS IN EDUCA THE ASSURANCES CAME AS PRESIDENT CHA~LES CONSERVATIVES 41.33 PERCENT AND LIBERALS TION FUNDS. DE GAULLE'S DETERMINATION TO DISMANTLE ALL lEO 8.44 PERCENT KENNEDY DECLARED AT A SENATE HEA~ING THAT DEF'ENSES IN tRANCE WAS VIRTUALLY ASSURED OF THE VOTERS ALSO ELECTED A SPEAKER WHO IS SUCH A POLICY WAS SHORTSIGHTED AT A TIME FULL PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL WHEN THE POWERFUL NON-PARTISAN AND HAS NO VOTE AND ONE MEMBER WHEN THE UNITED STATES SPENDS "$12 BILLION COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED THE MOVE. OF THE NORTHERN IREL~ND REPUBLIC LABOR PAR EACH YEAR KILLING PEOPLE IN VIET NAM." LATER, DE GAULLE LE~T PARIS TO SPEND A 12- TY WHO WILL PROBABLY SIDE WITH LABOR IN DESPITE VIET NAM, HE ADDED, THE UNITED DAY EASTER VACATION AT HIS COUNTRY HOME AT VOT ING. STATES CANNOT AFFO~D TO HOLD BACK ON EDUCA COLOMBEY-LES-OEUX-EGLISES, 100 MILES EAST OF (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) TION -- "THE MOST VITAL PROGRAM IN THE THE CAPITAL. UNITED STATES." ETIENNE FAJON, A PROMINENT MEMBER OF' THE WAR BUILDUP EASING THE PRESIDENT'S PLEA TO TOP-LEVEL FEDER AL OFFICIALS TO PUT THE B~AKES ON GOVERN COMMUNIST PARTY POLITICAL BUREAU SERVED NO WASHINGTON (UPI)--THERE WERE STRONG IN MENT SPENDING CAME JUST A DAY AFTER HE URGED TICE IN AN EDITORIAL IN THE PARTY ORGANE DICATIONS TODAY THAT THE MANPOWER BUILDUP BUSINESSMEN, HOUSEWIVES, AND LOCAL AND STATE ~MANITE THAT HIS PA~TY VILL OPPOSE ANV MOVE FOR THE VIET NAM WAR WAS OVER THE HUMP. TO DEFEAT DE GAULLE'S ANTI-NATO O~IVE. OFFICIALS TO SLOW DOWN PURCHASES TO PREVENT DE FENSE SECRETARY I~OBERT S. McNAMARA SA 10 FAJOH BLUNTLY WARNED HIS PARTY WILL NOT YESTERDAY IT WAS INCREASINGLY CLEAR THAT THE ACCELERATION or INFLATIONARY P~ESSU~ES. SUPPORT A CENSU~E MOTION AIMED AT DEFEATING BUILDUP WOULD NOT REQUII'tE ACTIVATION OF THE GUALLIST POLICIES WHICH THE SOCIALIST A~MY TH;A~~~C:~I~E:!A:N~~~GF'~~~:A30D!:~C~!T~~:TED GROUP WILL TABLE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. RESERVE UNITS. AT $6.4 BILLION. WHEN THE FISCAL 1966 BUD- HE SAID THE A~MY WAS NOW TU~NING OUT TRAI~ GET WAS SUBMITTED TO CONG~ESS 15 MONTHS AGO THE SOCIALIST CENSURE MOTION WILL HIGHLIGHT 0 THE END OF A TWO-DAY rOREIGN POLICY DEBATE ED MEN AT A RATE OF 3 ,000 A MONTH AND THE DEFICIT WAS ESTIMATED AT $5.3 BILLION, TO SEND REPLACEMENTS TO VIET BUT MOUNTING COSTS IN V,ET HAM CAUSED OPENING APRIL 13 WITH A ~EPORT BY PREMIER WNOAMUL~_BE ~EADY WA~ F'O~ MEN WHOSE TOURS A~E ENDING -- THE UPWARD REVISION.