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THE RIVER Read By More Yesterday 6.62 Today . 6.60 Crest Than 90,000 1965 .. ... 5.66 20.75 1952 ... 5.75 17.93 People Every Day 1951 . 7 5.28 17.35 281 Enemy Forces Die Near Saigon SAIGON (AP) - U.S., Thai a series of five clashes over the and South Vietnamese forces weekend in the upper half of the killed 281 enemy troops in heavy Mekong Delta, the U.S. Com- fighting around Saigon and in mand announced. the Mekong Delta and uncov- Two Americans were reported ered 40 graves containing anoth- wounded in the clashes Satur- er 152 bodies south of Da Nang, day and Sunday. U.S. spokes- military spokesmen reported to- men explained that helicopter day. AVIATION'S WORST DISASTER . Rescue workers residential district of Maracaibo Sunday. Authorities said described as aviation's worst disaster. In the photo at right, gunships and artillery account- U.S. infantrymen from the 9th ed for at least a third of the ene- (left) hold water hoses as firemen spray the smoking that all 84 persons aboard the plane were lilled and feared police and army troops stand guard over the bodies of Division killed 131 Viet Cong in exceed 150. The crash was victims killed in the crash. (AP Photofax) my dead, and another 19 were wreckage of a Venezuelan airliner that crashed into the the overall death toll would, ki&ed in an ambush. The fighting occurred near 155 SAID DEAD IN VENEZUELAN AIR DISASTER the provincial capital of Ben Tre and the district capital of Paratroopers Cai Be, 40 to 50 miles southwest of Saigon. U.S. headquarters said the ac- Jump Into Burned-out Wreckage Combed for Bodies tions were part of a multibattal- MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) The The DC9, powered by two tiirbofan en- Fifteen other air crashes have taken more The cause of the crash was not known, but ion operation under way since - last Dec. 1. A spokesman said death toll in aviation's worst disaster reached gines mounted aft, had attained an altitude than 100 lives. The previous worst aviation authorities said they had recovered the plane's accident occurred Dec. 16, 1960, when two "black box more than 4,200 Viet Cong have 155 today as searchers combed through the of only 150 feet when it faltered minutes after " flight recorder and were studying and airliners collided over New York City, killing the last moments of the flight. It was hot been killed in the operation South Korea wreckage of homes destroyed by the crash take off and plunged into a cluster of low more than 2,350 captured. U.S. YOJU, South Korea (AP) • 134 passengers and persons on the ground. known whether the pilot radioed any distress — of a Venezuelan jetliner bound for Miami. cost homes in Maracaibo's La Trinidad and A policeman who was a witness said the signal before he went down. losses have been 148 killed and Led by a two-star general and a 1,366 wounded, he said. Medal of Honor sergeant, 1,320 Five more persons died today from in- Ziruma districts. The area was quickly en- plane lost altitude after taking off, hit a high The 47 North Americans killed included five juries suffered when the big VIASA airline tension pole, spun and fell in pieces on the prize-winning salesmen for the Clark Equip- Thailand's Black Panther Di- U.S. paratroopers leaped into veloped in flames. vision reported 400 of its men South Korea today at the climax DC9 with 84 persons aboard plunged into a residential districts of Zinnia and La Trinidad. ment Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., and their residential area Sunday and exploded min- An airport official said the pilot report- The area on the outskirts of Maracaibo, Vene- wives. Their prizes had been vacations in repulsed an attack early Sunday of an 8,500-mile trans-Pacific as- ed no trouble and his last radio contact with by more than 1,000 Viet Cong cault operation. It began five utes after taking off from Grano de Oro air- zuela's principal oil center, is inhabited by Caracas. port. ' the control tower was a routine request -for about 15,000 Colombians, Venezuelans and Gua- Also killed were three Venezuelan baseball only 18 miles east of Saigon. days of war games called Focus All 74 passengers , permission to take off . The defenders said at least 109 Retina. and ID crew members jiro lndiahs. figures — Nestor Isaias Chavez, a pitcher on at least 47 of them U.S. citizens, were killed The plane lifted off the end of the run- The plane had been in service only 10 days. his way to the San Francisco Giants' training Viet Cong were killed and four The men of the 82nd Airborne in the crash. Authorities captured. Division were flown from Ft estimated that at way, climbed to about 150 feet, then suddenly The flight originated in Caracas, 330 miles to camp in Tucson, Ariz.; Antonio Herrera, own- . least 76 persons have perished on the ground lost altitude and went down. The explosion the east, and picked up more passengers in er of the Venezuelan Cardenales de Lar club, Two Thais were killed and 19 Bragg, N.C, to the muddy and feared the total would wounded, the communique said. reaches of the North Han River increase as the appeared to have occurred when one of the Maracaibo. The airline said there were 74 and Carlos Santeliz, a player with the Carde- , grim search continues. plane's turbines grazed a high tension wire. passengers and a crew of 10 aboard. nales. As the Viet Cong's spring of- 35 miles south of Seoul, in what fensive went into its 23rd day, the U.S. military said was the about 30 rocket and mortar at. longest air operation in history. lacks were reported on allied C141 Starlifter jet transports bases and towns Sunday night. ferried the first batch of 720 sol- Judge Doubts Planes Two were followed by infantry diers into the operations area Israeli Worst Miation Fame Raises assaults on American bases from Okinawa, two and a half northeast of Saigon. hours; away. Delayed 24 hours by a snowstorm here Sunday, Trial Would Again Attack About 70 enemy soldiers hit ft they completed the journey Value of Town Disaster Ever night bivouac of men from the from North Carolina in close to SYLMAH, Calif. Iff) - The up and said he would trade MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) 1st Air Cavalry Division 25 — TheTVIASA airliner with 55 hours. Maj. Gen. John R. nostalgia felt by Hal Mor- me two boxes, the contents which crashed in a resldendal area Sjmd^7a>-Maracaibo miles northeast of Saigon Deane Jr., their commander, Have Helped ris for his old town, Podunk of which I wouldn't,knost^ Guerrillas killing about 150 persons was the worst aviation disaster on machine guns, small arms and and Sgt. 1. C. Charles D. Mor- MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Center, Iowa, is deepened until after the trade, in. re- (AP) - Israeli record. Fifteen other crashes rocket-propelled grenades- TEL AVIV have claimed more than 100 fighting lasted ris, who won ttie Medal of Honor The judge who received James by word that it's up for sale turn for $5 worth of grocer- warplanes attacked Jordan to- lives:: ' close-quarter in Vietnam, were the first to hit for ,000. ies. three hours, and when It ended Earl Ray's guilty plea says a $7 . day for the second straight day, —134 killed when two planes collided over New York the silk as the gray parachutes "I guess fame can sure "I traded and, when I hitting suspected Arab guerrilla 10 Americans had been killed ijumher of questions about City, Dec. 16, 1960. of the dotted the sky. the raise the value of a town," opened the boxes, I found bases in the foothills of the Gil- —133 dead when a Japanese jetliner crashed In Tokyo and 17 wounded. A sweep While the airdrops were tak- Martin Luther King assassina- said Morris, recalling it them full of 1860 little boy ead Mountains southeast of the Bay, Feb. 4, 1966. battlefield produced nine enemy ¦ bodies. ing place, North Korea called a tion were left outstanding. But started for $1,500 and sold it dressup outfits —• ' knickers Sea of Galilee. —130 killed when an Air France jet crashed at Orly special meeting of the Military le doubts that a trial by jury three years later for $1,800. and lace. My wife and I had An army spokesman said four Airport, Paris, June 3, 1962. Twenty-eight miles to the Armistice Commission at Pan- ¦would Morris, 64, was 29 when a good laugh7oyer it and or five planes strafed and —129 dead when a U.S. Army-chartered transport crashed northwest of Saigon, enemy sol- munjom to demand the exercise have cleared the air. he quit his job with a Des hung lip the outfits all over bombed Arab gun positions that diers fired 10 mortar rounds These views In South Vietnam, Dec.