LQ,I TIDE: HIGH tiD[ • 2-8-68 2-8-68' 2.1 AT 2042 3.9 AT 1330 2.4 AT 0554 2 8 AT (0)0 t-tOURGtJ.\SS KWAJAL[IN. ISLANDS U.S. Attention in Asia Special Forces Camp Near Khe Sanh For Next Decade Overrun By North Vietnamese Forces LONDON (UPI) __ ASIA WILL CLAIM INCREAS_ SAIGON (UPI) __ NORTH V'[TN~M[5[ TROOPS SWEEPING DOWN OUT or THE HILLS 8E­ ING AMERICAN ATTENTION AND INVOLVEMENT HIND A SPEARHEAD or TANKS OYERRAN A SPECIAL FORtES CAMP ~UAROING KHC SANM'S rOR THE NEXT DECADE DR LONGER, A STUDY SOUTHERN APPROACHES TODAY AND LAUNCHED HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS AGAINST THE MAIN PUBLISHED BY THE INfLuErnlAL INSTITUTE MARINE STRONGPOINT fOR STRATEGIC STUDIES SAID TODAY THE GIANT NORT" VIETNAMESE FORCE SURROUNDING TN[ MARINE rOFlTR[SS BEGAN TO IT IS LIKELY THAT ASIA WilL PROVIDE A STIR THE COMMUNISTS STRUCK AT DUSK WITH HEAVY ARTILLERY, ROCKET AND MORTAR LARGER PRDP'ORTID" or TOTAL AMERICAN FOR_ BAaRAGES ANOlTNEN SHORTLY AFTCR MIDNIGHT MOVED OUT BEHIND ... PHALANX or TANKS EIG" POLICY PREDCCUP'ATIDNS I ... THE FUTURE AND flAMETHROWERS THAN IN THI: PAST, THE ,TUDY SAID AeOUT 24 u.s SPECIAL fORCES TROOPS AND THEIR MOHTACNARO STRIKE rORCE BAT­ ANY ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A BALANCE Dr TLED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT "'G"IN51 ABOUT 600 NORTH VIETNAMEse THEY KNOCKED POWER IN ASIA TO COUNTER THE GROWING OUT fiVE or THE TANKS ,1,"10 THEN HOLED UP IN THEIR BUNKERS WHILE ARTILLERY fORCE D. COMMUNIST CHINA WOULD REQUIRE ~ROM KHE SANH RAINED DOWN ON THEIR WEDGE-SHAPED BASE CARVEO OUT Of THE AMERICAN BACKING, SINCE "UNAIDED, THE fiVE MILES TO THE SOUTH ---"I As IAN POWERS MUST LOOK LIKE A ROPE or BATTERED TROOPERS HOLED UP IN THE COMMAND CENTER RADIOEo A REPORT THAT ONE KHE SANH-Here is a c\OIIeUp of the Khe Sanh "roo. In SANO IN RELATION TO CHINA FOR THE NEXT South Vietnam where the f(le s next big blo.w Is expected DECADE DR SO Of THE OISABLED TANKS WAS RESTING ATOP THE BUNKER OVER THEIR HEAOS It 18 In the ""y o.f lnfiltratlQn fro.m the Ho. Chi Mlnb Trn.ll THE NORTH YIETNAMESE fORCt SWEPT OVER (CONTINUED ON PAGE NINE) THE STUDY, ENT I TLEO "THE As I "N BALANCE or POWER," WAS DRA;TED BY CORAL BELL, Allied Opl!ortunity Seen READER IN INTERNATION"L RELATIONS AT THE LONOON SCHOOL OF ECOND"ICS A~O " fORMER In Red Push Failure South Korean Source S~JS U.S. MEMBER Of THE AUSTRALIAN fOREIGN SERVICE. SI.IGON (UPI}--A TOP U 5 COMfoIA"IDER CONTINUED AMERIC"N PREOCCUPAYION WITH TOLD "'EIo':;;"'E'" H)OAY HIE CO,..MUNISTS' TET Has Apologized to North Korea As, .... THE STuDr SAID, IS UNLIKELY TO BE OffENSIVE HAS SPENT ITSELf ANO NOW AL_ S~rQON (UPI) __ SOUTH KOREAN SOURCES SAID THE uS AND DIVERTED BY CONPETITIVE 8105 FOR ATTEN­ LIED fORCES HAVE ", UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY NORTH KOREA HELD THEIR fOURTH SECRET NEETING AT PANMUN~OM TION 'RDM EITHER EUROPE OR LATIN AMER- TO SHORTEN THE WAR " TODAY ON THE PUEBLO CRISIS '" MAJ GEN WilLIAM B ROSSON S~OKE T~E SOURCES SAID THE SECRET MEETING PRECEDED AN OPEIol SES­ L"TIN AMERICA, WHILE ALWAYS A POTEN- S~EClrICALLY ABOUT ,THE II CORPS AREA IN SION AND THAT THE U.S HANDED OVER AN APOLOGY TO THE COM_ TIAL CO~PETITOR FOR ANERICAN ATTENTION C[NTRAL YIET NAM, WHERE HE IS THE SEN_ NUN ISTS AND RESOURCES, WilL NOT BE ABLE TO OUT- IOR AMERICAN ADVISfR A U S MILITARY SPOKESMAN IN SEOUL DENIED T"AT ANY APOL­ 81D ASIA WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE OR TWO, "I WOULD ESTIMAT[ THAT OVER ONE HALf OGY W"S MADE, BUT HE DID NOT DENY TriAT A SECRET MEETING (CONTINUED ON PAGE HINE) or THE [NHIY'S MANPOWER CAPABILITY HAS WAS HELD BEEN RENDERED INEffECTIVE," HE SAID MEANWHILE, uS "HIS GUERRILLA STRENCoH< rlAS BEEN DAM­ GREAT IMPORT l~ S Cell TROOPS HAD THE I R Permanently Based Subs in Pacific ~GED SEVERELY, AND AS A RESULT or HEAVY Charle~ Bon~<t,,·1 III ~Gm HANDS rULL WITH m"n<1~l or Untted Natwns SOME 400 SOUTH EXPEND I TURES Of SUPPLY AND "MNUN I T ION, Favored Over ABMs as Counter Bomb Threat MIS LOGISTICS POSTURE" H"S BEEN HURT fo.rce~ ,n KnreR ""Id "' KOREAN STUDENTS S~-,ul th,>t Norli' k:Ot~"" ,till WASHINGTON (UPI) __A SPECIAL rlEET OF POLARIS SU8MARINES PERMANENTLY STATIONED RO~SON ~AID HE WAS NOW MANEUVERING ,s trying to. L'l.ke ov~r So.uth ABOUT FIVE MILES T;;!OOPS TO GO ON THE OffENSIVE IN CENTRA Korea and that ~~12ure 'If SOUTH OF PANMUNJON, IN T~E PACI'IC WOULD NAKE MORE SEN'E THAN AN ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM IN VIET NAM AND THAT "I BELIEVE THIS IS A the AmerIcan <h>p Pu~bl~ U S ARMY TROOPS COUNTERING THE CHINESE H-BONB THREAT, A PROMINENT NUCLEAR SCIENTIST 5"10 TODAY U'IIQUE OPPORT\,NITY TO SHORTEN THE WAR and the recent CommulU'( CLASHED WITH THE DR RALPH E LAPP, W"RTIME MANH"TTAN PROJECT SCIENTIST AND NOW A CONSULTANT HE ACKNOWLEOGEO THE COMMUNISTS HAD attempt to a"'<aSS'Mle South STUDENTS WHO WERE IN WASHINGTON, ALSO CHALLENGED PENTAGON CLAIMS THAT TriE ABM WOULD NOT ENDANGER K" t e" n PreSIdent Park HAD Trlt OFFENSIVE IN THE P"ST WEEK, Chung H~e were m ... Uer5 of TRY I NO TO MARCH THE MONE pOPULATION, ANO THAT THE RUSSI"NS CAN BE CERTAIN ITS CONSTRUCTION IS (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) g-reat Import t(} the c"u.se of ON THE MEET ING NOT OIRECTED AGAINST THEM peace In till. are.. SITE THEY WERE LAPP'S STATEMENTS, CALLING UPON THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE PUBLIC INfOR~ATION ;Wilson to Visit Johnson TRYING TO PROTEST SUPPORTING ITS CLAIMS, WERE MADE IN THE F"ILURE Of TH[ MEETINGS TO OEAL UNIV[RSlty OF WASHINGTON IN SEATTLE With Report from Kremlin WITH RECENT NORTH KORE"N l"fILTRATION TriE TEXT WAS RELEASEO IN WASHINGTON .News~a~er Criticizes LONDON (UPI) __ PRIME MINISTER ~ROLD (CONTINUED ON P"GE SIX~ "IF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT fEELS THAT WILSON rllES TO WAS~INGTDN TODAY TO RED C"INA WILL NOT AE OETERRED BY THE Junketing Politicians REP'ORT TO PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHN,.ON ON Ex·lm Bank Continued PRES[NT STRATEGIC STRIKE FORCES, THEN NEW YORK (UPI)-_TH[ NEW YDR~ POST THE LATEST SOVIET ASSESSMENt OF PEACE I WOULD PROPOSE REORIENTING P"RT OF THE 0,1,'1' CRITlCl2ED JUNKETING POLITICIANS IN YIET NAM With $4.5 Billion Hike uS OETERRENT FORCE TO BE SPECifiC TO WHO "RE SUBJECT TO PRI:SIOENT JOHNSON'S WILSON WILL BE ACCO~P~NIEO BY HIS WASHINGTON (UPI)--AMONG OTHER THINGS, CHINA," HE SAID PROPOSED NEW TRAVEL TAX WifE, '~ARY HE WILL MEET JOHNSON TO­ ACCDROING TO A RE"ORT ACCOMPANYING IT, "I HAVE IN MIND THE IMMEDIATE DEPLOY­ "AT LAST OffiCIAL COUNT, ROUGHLY THREE ~ORROW AND fRIDAY AT THE WHITE HOuSE A SILL PASSED BY T"E HOUSE TODAV "SHORT MENT Of AT LEAST TEN POLARIS SU8~ARINES DD2EN TAX-FREE TOURISTS fROM CAPITOL fOR WIDE-RANGING POLICY TAL~S ENED" THE N"NE Of THE EXPORT-IMPORT TO FORM A PERMANENT CHINESE PATROL FOR HILL HAD RESPONDED TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON' A OETAILED REPORT ON WILSON'S RECENT BANK Of WASHINGTON TO THE ExPORT-IMPORT BETTER VISIBILITY, WHILE U.S CONTROL PLtA rOR RESTRICTION Dr NON_ESSENTIAL TALKS WITH SOVIET PREMIER ALEXEI K{HY­ BANK Of THE UNITED STATES (CONTINueD ON PAGt NINt) TR"VEL 8'1' StTTINQ 3AIL FOR OIST"NT GIN, P"RTY CHIEr LEONID BREIHNEV AID THE BILL, WHICH EXTENDS THE LirE Of LAN!)S," THE POST SAID IN AN EDITORIAL PRESIDENT NIKOLAI POQGORNY HEADS THE THE BANK fOR ANOTHER riVE YEARS AND Canal Reop'ening "CONGRESSMEN ARE tlSh TO SEE I NG EUROPE, AGENDA GIVES IT A $4.5 BILliON INCREASE IN ASIA, AUSTRALIA. AfRICA AND SOUTH AM_ WILSON'S REPORT WILL NOT BE ENCOUR­ LENDING AUTHORITY, PASSED ON A 375 TO Opposed by Israel ERICA 0"1 $50 A 0"'1' _. THE OfFICIAL £X~ AGING, AUTHORIT"TIVE SOURCES S"'D 19 ROLL CALL VOTE. UNITED NATIONS (UPI)--lsR"El TOlD ~EHIE ALLOWANCE THE KREMLIN WANTS JOHNSON TO KNOW A MD~r BY REP. WILLIAM B. WIDN"LL, THE u...ITED N"TIONS TOOAY IT WILL OPPOS& "IN OTHER WORDS, CDNCRESSIONAL JUNKET­ T"AT IT WILL NOT LifT A riNGER TO eRING (REP -N.J.), TO CUT T"[ INCREASE BY THE REOPENING OF THE SUEZ CA~AL UNTIL IN~ AS USUAL VIOL"TES eOTH TH[ PURPOSE HAI'$OI TO THE CONFERENCE TABLE THIS, $1 BILLION WAS DEfEATED A~TER CHAIR­ T"E UHITED ARAB REPUBLIC AGREES TO UN· A!C:I THE SPIRIT or THE TRAVEL-TAX LEGIS­ IN Moscow's VIEW, MUST BE DONE BY THE MAN WRIGHT P"TN"N OF THE HouSE 6oI.NKING IN"EDED NAVIG"TION FOR SHIPS Of ISRAEL LATION ON WHICH CONGRESS IS ABOUT TO UNITED STATES AND HANOI AS THE C~IEr COMMITTEE NOTED TIolAT THE BANK IS ONE AND ALL OTHER NATIONS. PASS." _---:---:c:-----c:-----cc- PARTIES INVOLVED IN T~E WAR OF THE fEW GOVERN~ENT AGENCIES RETURN­ ISRAELI AMBASSADOR JOSEPH TEKOA" SAID HOWEVER, ONCE TALKS HAVE BtEN AGREED ING A PRO.IT TO TNE TREASURY. IN A LETTER TO SECRETARY GENERAL THANT Sanitation Leader BY THE TWO NATIONS, THE RUSSIANS ARE FINAL APPROVAL or THE BILL CAME AFTER THAT ISRAEL "HAS NO RESPONSIBILITy rOR ~LING TO ASSIST IN " SETTLEMENT. TWO DAYS Of DEBATE RANGING OVER THE THE SLOCKING O.