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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 2-3-1969 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" (1969). Winona Daily News. 825. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/825 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]. Fair to Read By More Partly Cloudy Than 90,000 And Warmer People Every Day Israeli Jets Hit Arab Guerrillas DELTA AMBULANCE . ' . A South Vietnamese soldier, soldier had participated in a routine sweep of the country- wounded during a clash with the Viet Cong, is evacuated by side about 10 miles southeast of the provincial capital of sampan in the Mekong Delta area of South Vietnam. The Sadec. (AP Photofax) SET AMBUSH IN DELTA Inside Jordan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tioned no action. sert Jordanian village of Mansi- Baghdad Radio said one Iraqi THREAT POSED ¦' .? ' . An Iraqi military spokesman ya from which the army said claimed that 14 Israeli jet fight- soldier was slightly wounded in the patrol was fired on. 28 by Gong U.S. officers said Sunday, ers attacked Iraqi forces in Jor- the alleged .-.ttack toda^. Killed Viet that one North Vietnamese dan today. He said the Iraqi Earlier today Israel an- No Israeli casualties were re- SAIGON (AP) - Viet Cong South Vietnamese army. the fighting that ranged from 60 into , an estimated 250 North regiment has moved from troops shot down two planes nounced that two of its jets at- ported. It was the first time Is- troops firing from ambush along The ambush 60 miles south- miles southwest of Saigon to 37 Vietnamese troops and killed 42 Cambodia" to area about 20 which crashed in flames in the tacked a Jordanian village rael has reported a jet attack on th-i banks of a canal cut into two west of Saigon was one of a half miles northwest of the capital. with the aid of fighter-bombers miles southwest of Kontum Syrian Golan heights, now occu- south of the Sea of Galilee from Jordan since Jan. 16. South Vietnamese companies in dozen fights that flared up Sun- Eleven Americans and 31 South from four different bases. Three in South Vietnam's central pied -by Israel . which the Israelis said Arab The Lebanese-Israeli border the Mekong Delta, killed 28 of day to the south and northwest Vietnamese were reported Americans were killed and 18 (arrow). It was the second! Iraqi claim guerrillas fired on an Israeli also flared briefly when small- highlands Another army patrol. the government soldiers, and of the capital. U.S. officers said killed, and 43 Americans and 30 wounded. regiment may be moving in five days of an Israeli air at- arms fire was directed from wounded another 15, military the fighting indicated " a lot of South Vietnamese wounded. Jn the air war, U.S. B52 bomb- tack on Iraq's forces in Jordan. The Israelis said they were into the area from Cam- Lebanon at the Israeli settle- spokesmen reported today. enemy movement" but no real It was one of the heaviest ers dropped more than 1,000 Last Thursday Iraq claimed sent over Jordan shortly after ment of Zar bodia arid Laos, where a 'it, 12 miles east of Viet Cong casualties were not threat to Saigon, days of action since mid-Decem- tons of explosives Sunday and that seven Israeli .planes at- an army patrol was fired on the Mediterranean and a few third unit is in reserve known. U.S. and South Vietnamese ber. today on- what the "U.S. Com- tacked its forces and one was near the border settlement of hundred yards from the border, It was one of the worst set- forces reported killing 160 Viet The worst UJ5. casualties mand said were enemy base (dotted area). (AP Photo- shot down. Israel denied the re- Neve Ur, ninefmHessouth of the the Israeli army said. ¦were fax ) port, and Jordan reported two Sea of Galilee. For backs suffered recently by the Cong and North Vietnamese in inflicted on troops of the camps. , abotf . 15 An Israeli spokesman said ; — : .— Israeli•u.uvu airtaxi incursionslu^uiuuiis butuut men-lucu- i uuuuicaminutes theme jetsJclo QUiucQ Hie lie- 199th Light. Infantry Brigade. strafed the de- that the Lebanese fire was re- They suffered six dead and 20 turned and there were no cas- IN EUROPE wounded while trying to root put Qn MID-EAST PROBLEM ualties in the settlement, enemy forces hidden-in bunkers In the occupied Gaza Strip, along a river bank 22 miles scene of violent rioting Sunday, northwest of Saigon and five headquarters of an explosive charge demolished miles from the nejar the U.S. 25th Infantry Division a small railway bridge Army Leaders Rafiah. at Cu Chi. Nixon Accepts French Initial reports said about 100 About 100 Arab schoolgirls soldiers from the 199th tangled were injured in the Strip Sunday with an enemy squad of perhaps when Israeli police charged Resist Further with nightsticks to break up a a dozen soldiers, but later ac- p Pro three-hour riot involving 4 000 150 enemy osal for , counts said up to Parley troops were committed at the WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- United States he will find Nixon lations. girls. The girls were protesting height of the day-long battle. dent Nixon has decided to ac- responsive. He plans to send to the Senate the jailing of three Gaza women troop Reduction About 300 U.S. infantry rein- cept a French proposal for early While the Middle East crisis, this week a recommendation for convicted by an Israeli court of forcements, an armored col*- talks among great power repre- and the "Vietnam situation have early approval of the treaty to spying and aiding guerrillas._ By HUBERT J. ERB coming troops to use and iimn, dive bombers and helicop- sentatives at the United Nations dominated NixonV foreign poli- Tie girls spat, tussled with what it will take to put that block the spread of nuclear GRAFENWOEHR, Ger- ter gunships battered the enemy on ways to break the deadlock cy concerns during his first 10 weapons. troops and tore down' mud and many wi U.S. Army lead- equipment back in storage. until contact was broken at in Middle East peace efforts. stone walls outside five schools The inference was clear: days in office, he has also set in The United States signed the ers are stiffening their re- nightfall. He hopes particularly for par- motion a plan to visit several to throw pieces of them at the sistance to further cuts in It would take time and Thirty bodies were counted on pact last year, but Senate ap- allel action b. the Soviet Union. Western European capitals tn proval and final soldiers. "While Arab men the combat troops America many men to put any airlift- the battlefield by noon today. A reply to the Paris U.S. ratifica- watched quietly, ed unit into the field in the govern- the next two months and confer tion were delayed after the So- they brand- has stationed in Europe. Dive bombers attacking the ene- ment is due to go out this week. with allied government chiefs. ^ ished pictures of Egyptian Pres. This was made plain here event of any emergency. viet invasion of Czechoslovakia my positions touched off 27 sec- It is expected to make clear Diplomatic soundings for the i ident Gamal Abdel Nasser and this past week by Gen. More than tactical con- ondary explosions, indicating di- in August. siderations are involved in that while the United States trip have been started, and the yelled: "Nasser! Nasser ! Israel Lyman Lemnitzer, the rect hits on ammunition stores. -sees hope in consultations with White House is due to make an Nixon is also actively interest- is black! Palestine !Palestine!" American who is the Su- the Army's resistance to ^ About 17 miles to the north- the Soviet Union, Britain and announcement soon on his ed in starting technical talks preme Allied Commander losing more men. an armored column from Newsweei magazine reported west, France its primary purpose is plans. with Moscow on limiting the de- six-point in Europe. The dual-based concept of 25th Division smashed Nasser has made a keeping troops in the United tie U.S. to move off\ dead cei ter the Nixon expects to visit Paris, ployment of nuclear missiles as proposal for peace with Israel The Army desire to keep States and -flying them to U.N. peace-seeklmg efforts of site of the Vietnam peace talks, soon as he considers that the what it has got at least is " and hinted he might agree to , Europe when needed never Swedish Ambassador Gunnar and meet with President world political climate is fa- talk directly with the "Israelis. perhaps the mosfsignificant has been popular with the EARLOFF DIES... Boris Jarring. Charles de Gaulle. Other capi- vorable. development to come out of Nasser told the magazine the West Germans, who have Karloff, 81, above, the man tals which figure in informed In the view of some Nixon ad- Arab states would agree to a the current military exer- been asked to beef up their US. to Give In a related move, Nixon will visers, however, Soviet policy who created the Franken- send a friendly message to Ga- speculation are London, Bonn five-point program if Israel cise, Carbide Ice, that will own forces.

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