European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday april 22, . Aid to Viets showing results Saigon a for five months the United stale has been beef ing up South Viet Nam s military Muscles and the results Are be ginning to last december when Washington decided to Back the Little Republic to the Hilt in its i struggle against communist guerrillas uj5. Rats advice and sup port have reached nearly every level at which the fight is being . Naval advisers accompany in armed junk protecting Viet Nam coast against Marine infiltrators . Air Force pilots Are in the cockpits of vietnamese fighters instructing native pilots on the learn while you fight principle. Company level . Army advisers Are in a Fuigle forests and marshes work ing with vietnamese contenders Down to company than 80 . Army and Marine helicopters Are carrying out almost Daisy troop carrying missions Landing vietnamese troops practically of top their tar gets somewhere in the South Chuni sea elements of the . 7th Fleetye patrolling ready to strike if outside communist Powers should vet decide on open intervention hereabouts 6,000 americans Are believed to be in Viet Nam. So tar . Casualties have been Light. Three uj5. Servicemen have been killed and three captured bythe communist Viet Cong of nov dec. I . Officials say this is not an americans War but since december South Viet Nam has been Able to sew the initiative largely because of american backing. The number of . Servicemen Here the jobs they Are doing the equipment they Are using anywhere they have been posted Are Alf classified technically As Mill tary secret. But certain general facts about disposition of the .groups Nave been disclosed a n St v is army personnel comprise the main group probably numbering 3,000-4,000. Mow than half Are stationed in Saigon per for Trig administrative and Cleri cat gift los acting an teachers an advisers helping maintain and re equipment Manning radio Cal forces troops Are scattered Over the Countryside teaching vietnamese soldiers rangers an civic action cadres the Subtle arts of guerrilla warfare . Army advisers Are assigned to the Headquarters of each corps division and battalion and som have begun working at the company level. South Viet Nam s two secondary military forces the civil guard and the self defense corps also have been assigned . Army advisers. Air Force South Viet Nam has no Jet aircraft and no bombers heavier than the world War i Vintage two engine b26s. Its Fleet of about 80 -t28 fighter trainers carry the Brunt of the air War against the Viet Cong along witha number of ads fighter bombers. About 500 . Air Force person Nel arc believed to be in Viet Nam teaching the vietnamese to Manana service their planes and Fly ing support missions of their own. Us air Force activities Are kept under tight wraps presumably be cause american pilots often serve in combat roles while instructing vietnamese pilots. Americans Are often at the controls a air strikes Over Viet Cong strongholds. , pilots also Fly transport and leaflet dropping missions. Marine corps the largest Force of . Marines which arrived Here two weeks ago is the helicopter company stationed at soc Trang in the Mekong River Delta the company has about 400 men and 24 h34 troop carrying helicopters. Marine infantry officers and enlisted men Are working with Viet namese marines throughout the country. Probably fewer than 100 . Marine advisers Are in Thefield. Navy Viet Nam s Navy serves not Only As a coast guard against communist infiltration by sea but also As the protecting Force of Meny Inland Waterways. . Navy advisers several Hun dred altogether Are assisting in vietnamese coastal defences Alt the Way from Hue Quoc Island near the cambodian Frontier in the West to the 17th parallel in the North. Viet Nam s largest naval vessels the Lam Landing ship. Most of its Force consists of Light patrol boats River gun boat and armed Junks. The primary role of Jub. Advisers is training vietnamese sailors in navigation naval opera Tion and maintenance. And flying and servicing of -. Helicopters 3 Center companies theri Are about 20 h21 Helicon to and 200 Meti in Erch of the army s three helicopter companies in Soth Viet Nam. The . Army also Fites and maintains two com Psi leh 31 planes and 300 men flight troop ear Yini planes at the coastal town of n a Hundred , army Jpe of mid survives Snow Burlap Senate set for rights filibuster Washington up Senate s decks have been for another civil rights Al it is expected to Start 1,probably slowly then build by into an All out fight such i chamber has t seen in years. The Issue will be the second 1three civil rights proposals a Dent Kennedy sent to Conort action before summer Adjoua the first a constitutional to ment to outlaw poll taxes voting requirement in b elections cleared the Senate an 11-Day Tal Kathon which Wall bleed a Friendly filibuster. But there will be nothing by when the second or lower the literacy re i for voters in Federal ele reaches the floor. Southern senators were spilt strategy for the poli tax some supported it on was a constitutional. Am _ affecting Only five states. In it was sponsored by a sout others figured it was go pass anyway and that the conscious South would be a its ammunition and inviting Rule it the tried to talk amendment to death. Time to spare a Small group insisted Oft Guing against the poll tax for about 11 Days and sum they did t oven use All the tag time they were entitled but the southerners have against the literacy test which p4sd on findings of the its. I rights commission that such test fare used to up negroes from vat ing. The legislation provides the anyone with a sixth Grnde edit Tiff lion or higher would be Remer from Ait literacy to Potts. As the time for debate Roar had. Then seemed to be room for com Promise the Hill is to cowl by the i ualljklowj5r8the chill of the cold War can t keep wring from Bunting oat at the comm Flat erected Wall in Berlin Here a went Berlin police Man contemplate the Pussy Willows that contract with the barbed wire and Concrete Barrier near crossing Point. Tel i photo 5 " Senate leaders Mike Montana for democrats outside South and Everett m direct my i Illinois for the republicans if they want the Hill voted they must find Meun to . If they can t the lat Lon is dead Illin . Plans to expand health Aid to Africa. Washington up the United states is increasing its efforts to help Africa doctor it Public health ills. Several a health officials Are on a one month tour of 10 african nations with orders from health education and welfare Secretary Abraham Rita Jefe to return with Irhe Concrete proposals for help ing those newly emerging officials emphasise that current programs and future plans Are modest compared with the health programs underwritten in Africa by France for example. Requests have come from Libya and Togo for cuban doctors exiled in the United states. The inter National Rescue committee inc.,already has announced Plains to use some of these doctors to help treat angolan refugees to the Congo. 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