European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Weather Cloudy win european edition Erllin cd 31 h cd 5 rant Al 50 4s rank r s m undo p 45 p n 55 ele Loudy Cloudy the stars if 21855 a army Navy air Force unofficial pull Calvin of armed in North Africa and Iho a Eddlo ail stateside Static Pittsburgh was arrested on a charge of writing the District attorneys office listed his occupation As retired numbers number 198 Cunti 10 sunday nov Emter 1964 reds Shell big Vietnam Airport lbs orders lost planes replaced Washington up the White House announced sunday that the United on president John sons has replaced aircraft lost in the Surprise communist attack on the Bien Hoa air base in South word of the presidents action came after he conferred for 75 minutes with Secretary of de sense Robert Secretary of suite Dean Rusk and Mcgeorge his adviser on National Security press Secretary George Reedy said the president and his military and diplomatic advisers also discussed Steps in cooperation with vietnamese authorities in local defense White House officials said further appropriate Steps were being considered in cooperation with vietnamese officials to tighten Security they did not Reedy said the newly assigned aircraft already had reached their destination in he said the president will continue to keep in touch with the Gen eral cables from Saigon Johnson stayed up until Reading diplomatic and military cables from he had just returned from a Campaign rally in new Yorks Madi son Square the chief executive met with his top aides in the Early after noon after he and his wife at tended Church american officials viewed the attack is an obviously serious incident but indicated that the United states would not respond with an attack on North they did not View the Viet Cong one of the boldest and most costly in the civil As meaning a broadening of the conflict Johnson planned to Fly to Texas monday for appearances at two Campaign rallies in the Houston the mood in official washing ton was Calm and at the White House and the de sense and state emphasis was on the word incident to avoid creating a crisis atmosphere about the Viet Cong the president was studying re ports from ambassador Maxwel Taylor in Saigon and other military administration advisers have termed the raid an unhappy in but they consider it some thing that might be exp cute while Vietnam is in the throes o a change in although the attack was a Malor blow to forces in Viet the presidents advisers do not feel it caused any substantial change in the military picture Surprise attack soldiers look at wreckage of a b57 bomber destroyed by a Viet Cong mortar unit which surprised troops at Blen Hoa air press photo lbs says people reject foes ideas Barry hints race quotas in lbs plan up Barry cold seeking Southern votes in his last major Campaign suggested Here that govern men enforced racial quotas Are part of president Johnsons plan for a great Goldwater attacked the civil rights Law to a wild cheering d i x i crowd of and his words were relayed by h7 television stations in 14 Southern and Border in an auditorium bedecked Ullh and Confederate he condemned both compulsory segregation and forced integration in private Goldwater said the moving school children is Only one example of doctrinaire and mis guided if we extend these principles to its Logi Cal we Are compelled to use evacuates 34 from Cambodia Bangkok United states sunday completed evacuation of 34 dependents of Amer ican embassy personnel in phenom in what was described As a precautionary measure in View of deter Truting sixteen women and children arrived aboard a commercial air liner flight from phenom penh sunday on 18 new York up president in a slashing Campaign Suid Barry Goldwater Learned from the people that trim Lam in the Pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable he in completing his parody on his opponents july nomination acceptance that Modera Tion in the affairs of the nation is the highest in one of the hardest hitting declarations of his charged that the Gold jul crates offer a Radical rather than a conservative gop philos Ophy and arc interested in do racial quotas As a substitute Werc flown out to the principle of equal Opp Ortu sources Here said the group on Pine ii i would remain Here straying things they in a speech at Madison Square Garden the president called for i lie nations support like americans in Jeffersons we slant at Hie margin of de the president accused his opponents of mud slinging and on pair 31 4 gis killed 20b57s 5 destroyed Saigon Cong mortar shells crashed into South Vietnam larg est Airport killing four servicemen and two vietnamese wound ing 31 other americans and destroying five planes and damaging the guerrilla mortar unit slipped away apparently unscathed after one of the biggest psychological victories of the officials tightened Security around other air the attack was described by one american As halloween in hell All witches three battalion of vietnamese marines and army troops set out at Dawn in Pursuit of the guerrillas but made no Contact and found no evidence they suffered any casualties in a counterattack from the air in predawn dark the air 15 Miles from is surrounded by thick a fifth american was killed a few hours later in another mor tar about five Miles North of the air base but vietnamese officials doubted this attack was carried out by the same Force that struck the the Days deaths brought to 219 the number of americans killed in combat since the United Stales increased military help to South Vietnam in december Gen William military commander in South said that of 20 b37s parked on the Field five were destroyed two of them reduced to eight were heavily damaged and the remain ing 7 slightly three vietnamese air Force a1ii fighter bombers also were he via a fourth crashed on Takeoff during the at tack but officials quid this was not caused by the mortar vietnamese Pilot four ims air sea Rescue hell on Pibo ii american made ammunition was used by raiders Saigon up the com Mander of forces in Vietnam flourished a torn mortar bomb casing sunday evening and told newsmen that american made ammunition helped kill four americans and Knock out a score of air Force bombers at Bien Hoa air Gen William Westmoreland had an aide bring the Olive drab mortar Shell to a news Confer he said the round had been made in but was of a Type that had not been issued to troops since the supposition is that this round was left Over from the Indochina said Westmore exhibiting the Watermelon sized but he added that it was possible that the ammunition could have been captured in Korea or the chinese civil Westmoreland casualty list included four americans 19 hospitalized and 12 less seriously he confirmed that two Viet namese military men were killed in the attack and five were one was fighting for his life after an operation by a Scuro surgical Westmoreland avoided any harsh comments about the of Security precautions which permitted the communists to set up mortars on inc Edge of the air base Knock out half of the american nuclear capability in South i am under the Circum critical of the base com Mander or the vietnamese armed he he added that an american army major and Captain had been As signed to the base two months ago to Aid in its a question of communications and the location of mine Fields Werc responsible for the 45minulc delay in get Ting ground troops started on a Pursuit Westmoreland said he had no evidence that communist com Mandos had broken into the although american Heli copters Hud strafed Between two of the he said the raiders would have had to Cross a 100yardwide mine Field just to get to the an air Force spokesman who attended the news conference Suid none of the american Jel bombers got Uff the ground during the 20mlnuto he said the bombers have never flown a combat Mission during their 3vi months in Al thou in some of them Are kept ready and waiting with a loud of