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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 5-3-1965 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1965). Winona Daily News. 612. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/612 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fh^ " SAIGON . South Vlel Nam Sixty men were In the ad- U.S. officials said the air- Stationed In "defensive roles rons and several Vietnamese? bomber! suspected Viet Cong po- him has been (AP) abandoned, — The advance unif for :t,r vance unit, U.S. officials de- borne contingent would bring at these installations ," a US'. squadrons. sitions in South Vict Nam, in- Storz took off from DonJR Hi, Sop. American ; paratroopers ar- ¦ clined on security grounds to the total U.S. strength in South spokesman said , the American After being Idled Saturday by cluding a heavy attack on a close to the border with North rived in' Saigon -twlay.. The bal- Vict Nam to around 30,000 men. unfavorable weather, U.S. jets .- Communist-infested zone north Viet Nam , on a flight.of about nny when the main force would paratroopei'fl "will free Viet- ance of the Ihree airborne bat- There already are 8,500 U.S. Sunday resumed air strikes of Saigon. six miles. U.S. officials did not talions was expected within a arrive. But they said they would combat Marines in South Viet namese combat troops for of- against Communist North Vict A U.S. official said there were rule out the possibility that h« ? few days. be. stationed at Bien Hoa ? a big V Nam. fensive operations." V v •Nam: no air raids over North Viet went down in North Viet Nam. The-p/iralrrtopers are ihe find, air base 12 miles northeast of Commanded hy Brig. Gen. U.S. officials announced that U.S. Navy jets blasted a rail- Nam today, presumably be- ' U.S. Marine medium tanki U.S. Army combat ground unit " Saigon , and at Vuntny, a coast - Ellis W. 'Williamson? the air- three hew Army helicopter road siding and three boxcars cause of bad weather went on their first patrol Sun- assigned to Viet Nam. U.S. and al city 40 miles southeast of borne contingent Includes two companies of 2(10 men and 25 IO0 miles doulh of Hanoi. U.S. officials said Air Force day. The 52-ton M48 tanks? with Vietnamese officials said (hey Saigon. infantry battalions ^ one ar- "helicopters ? arrived over the Groundfire was light and all Capt. Ronald E. Story, of Ports- . Marines clinging to their side*, would "increase security at key The new arrivals wwnprise tillery battalion and the equiva- weekend, there are now 12 the planes returned safely to : mouth , NIL , disappeared in a encountered only scattered Viet installations and press the . war'?, most of the 173rd Airborne Bri- lent of one battalion of various Army helicopter companies in . their carrier. light observation plane last Cong fire. There were no casu- ' ¦¦" more ef feci ively. " gade stalioned on Okinawa. support units. Viet Nam , two Marine squad- Other . A m erf c a n aircraft Wednesday and a search for allies. ?¦¦; .. ;. Cloud y Tonight RiyER And Tuesday; Stage Today 14.03 Somewhat Cooler 24-Hour Change—.64 More U.S. Troops SentSANTO DOMINGO , Domin- nist conspiratorsto directed from dayDominicans night, on U.S. troops despite distributed to people who coordinate U.S. emergency rt> ican Republic (AP) — The Unit- abroad. the declared cease-fire. haven't eaten for days. sick and lief and economic efforts here. ed States began rushing another The President's declaration Rebels hurled grenades at wounded must be given medical President Johnson also gent 4 ,500 troops to the Dominican that a military buildup was nec- American positions and ham- attention, and steps must be roving ambassador W? Averell Republic today after President essary for security on the Carib- ered away with fire from auto- taken to avoid an epidemic be- Harrimae on a tour of Latin ' ¦ ¦¦ ' Johnson said the rebel uprising bean island , came as rebel matic -weapons • ¦ . The .- outburst cause hundreds of dead have America as part of a diplomatic had been taken over by Commu- fighters made a new attack Sun- lasted about an hour. lain in the streets for days. ¦ . drive to win support for his ' " ' ' ' ¦ ' ¦ Anthony M. Solomon, assist- move to prevent, the Dominican ' ¦ * ' ;: " ' ' ;? ? • ' . No- new casualties were re- . : . ; - 'V *' . ? x •? :. '•'? ?' . ant . secretary for economic af- Republic from turning into » ported on the American side. It fairs, left Washington Sunday to second Cuba. was uncertain whether answer- Johnson Warns: ing fire by U.S. forces caught any of the rebels. The Defense Department in Washington has reported two Marines and two paratroopers Don t Want killed, and 21 Marines and 21 paratroopers wounded since "? tanks, the tanks, With FIRST U.S. TANK PATROL .? . The toh M48 medium American forces began landing first U.S. armored patrol in South Viet Nam Marines clinging to their sides, encountered last Wednesday. ? ' . moves across the salt flats of Da Nang in a. only , scattered Viet - Cong sniper fire that Addition of the .4,500 fighting futile seven-hour search for Viet Cong guer- missed. (AP Photofax by radio from Saigon) Another Cuba men ordered in by the President rillas. The Marine Corps ¦vehicles are 52- By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER prevent another Communist will bring the total of U.S. state in this hemisphere," , the Marines and Army men to 14,- AP Special Correspondent ¦ ¦' ¦ '¦ President told the nation Sun- 000? . ' . ' .,> ;;;¦?¦ WASHINGTON CAP) - With day night in a historic policy Rebel groups broke the cease- fire after American units took 4,5(X) U.S. troop reinforcements pronouncement, over the front lines from weary Di/ce Un pouring into the Domincan Re- "And we would like to do this troops loyal to the new military Soggy s cfer public, President J oh n so h without bloodshed or wdthout junta. ^ large-scale fighting." pressed a diplomatic drive to- Dominican Gen. Jesus de log day to win Latin-American sup- He declared that Communist leaders, "many of them trained Santos said his forces were port for his newly announced in Cuba," , had captured the reb- pulled back because they were determination to prevent "Com- el movement that began' "as a exhausted after a week of skir- P '" from popular democratic revolution." mishes. ,;? ressu^^ munist conspirators Even as the President spoke, The rebels charged the Amer- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March when snow began to been flooded for about a week turning the embattled Carib- two special envoys were meet** ican troops actually were mov- Soggy dikes held back the' melt and most of the streets are pas- bean island country into a sec- , has taken 14 lives and ing with officials in Latin capi- ing in on them slowly. the swollen caused $150 million damage in sable. powerful thrust of ond Cuba. tals. Other American repre- i River in the Hanni- A broken levee Saturday right A U.S. spokesman said Amer- Nississipp five states: "Our goal, in keeping with the sentatives here and in Santo bal 111., area today five miles south of Quincy, a ican forces were maintaining a Gov. and Mrs. Jam-M F. Byrn«« , Mo.-Quincy, great principles of the inter- Domingo, center of the civil as residents of other communi- In the Hannlbal-Qoincy area , city of 45,000, took some of the strictly impartial attitude. He American system is to help war, were working with the Or- the river is on the rise again pressure off the Hannibal area. ? said they iare safeguarding an ties up and down the river wait- ganization of American States flood in toward a predicted crest Tues- After the levee break, flood- international ?one of refuge and ed'for . the . worst spring ¦ for an end-to bloodshed and a " day. waters ran 15 feet deep across in that sense they are in the history to run its course. Dominican future which would, Only 23 families have been 7 700 acres of farmland. It in- "front line."? "A flood of this magnitude is , in Johnson's words, be free of Byrnes Backs evacuated from low-lying areas amount of land un- U.S. Marines held positions to calculated to occur only once ih creased the Bar on U.S. ''Communist dictatorship." 100 years," the Interior Depart- in Hannibal. About 100 persons der water in Adams County, 111., the west of the rebel stronghold, ment reported? confirming that have fled u.eir homes in Quincy. to 25,000 acres. More than 20,000 No official here would say they moved into the strong- the flood was the biggest on Hannibal has no levee protect- acres were covered upstream in how long U.S. forces would re- points from their original posi- record. ing its population of 20,000. The Henderson County, 70 miles to Travel in main in the Dominican Repub- tions at the seaside Embajador Viet Strikes Hotel and a neighboring polo The flood, which began In water had begun falling in a 15- the north. lic. The United States has told COLUMBIA , S.C. (AP) - Roosevelt. secretary of stato Minnesota and Wisconsin during block industrial area which has Latin-American leaders it would field which has been used for Whcu the levee broke, the riv- Former Secretary of State under Harry S.

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