European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1965 the stars and Stalpes 1 Tho death of a battalion the Viet Cong just kept moving in on editors note Assoc press correspondent Peter Arnult flew to a rubber Planta Tion War balt Elorn Binl where vietnamese marines were marching for dead and Here he Lelli urn Lory or the death of a Bat by Peter Arnett Binh South Vietnam a a Young Marine lieutenant first Law the Viet Cong through his binoculars about Yard there were hordes of dressed in Khaki meld gear and steel they slowly moved dodging through the rubber Plantation from tree to despite air strikes by the vietnamese air and machine gun fire from these Arent there regular the Marine yelled Over his radio to his command in a helicopter bring in More that was the last it col John senior special zone heard Over that it had been shot from the Back of the though he himself was not All we knew was that there was a hell of a Bailie Down Wadsworth now we know How bad it Ris remark was dead vietnamese marines were scattered Over the Plantation rows of bodies were lying in the Sun beside a helicopter with banana leaves thrown Loos Ely Over other marines trundled bodies on primitive newsmen stumbled Over a wounded Ranger hiding in the Brush with bullets in his he had been there turncoat troubles traced to his wounding 2 gis in Korea Ohio a turn coat Lowell Skinner shot and wounded two american soldiers during the korean War when is commanding officer panicked and ordered him to do a psychiatric report most of the troubles of the sex who spent 10 years in communist can be traced to that the report the shooting incident was one of the findings in a report filed with common pleas judge Lombard by Martin gun Skinner is in Summit county jail awaiting a decision on whether he will be sent to prison for violating a two year Proba lie has been arrested Sev eral Gunter said Skinner shot the soldiers on orders of his com manding Skinner panicked und thought the americans were communist the experience has caused Skinner to suffer guilt and anti and most of his troubles can be traced to according to was Dis honorable discharged after he refused to return to this country at the end of the korean Gunter said Skinner is in need of treatment to build up his ego strength and obviate the resorting to Feldman claims that skin crr problems Stem from service connected emotional the attorney said he will seek an honorable army discharge for the former Cor based on the psychiatrists report judge Lombard has continued the hearing until two other psychiatrists examinations Are Skinner was placed on Proba Tion last february for assault with a deadly weapon in a shoot ing incident in which it was alleged he fired at two he was adjudged a probation violator 10 after admitting he violated the mainly by being Taylor says Victory depends on Viet political stability new York up the ambassador to Maxwell Success against the Viet Cong in 1m9 depends a great Deal on political stability in the old problem of stability of he presents very severe problems in he gave his Outlook for the new year in a television interview with the Columbia broadcasting it was filmed in Taylor said the military Outlook was Stii Anouk says attempted coups new Yorik a Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia Baa accused the United Stales of Gosule plots and attempted coup deals us Sihanouk la a letter charges appeared to the new York Herald Tribune sunday in which the Southeast asian chief of stale replied to an editorial on Siha Nous decision to accept military Aid rom red puerto Rico swears in new governor san puerto Rico a Robert Sanchez Vllella has been inaugurated As succeeding Luis Munoz the Man considered by Many puerto Elcans As the islands Munoz stepped out of office after 16 years As making room or a 81yearold civil hand picked by vice1 Resmen Start Hubert Humphrey represented president new York mayor Robert Wagner and William also attended the Sanchez la the second elected governor of this former Colony acquired from Spain in Munoz was elected to the first of hut four terms in when the United states granted puerto Rico the right to choose its own Congo elections delayed until March Leopold Ville a congolese Interior minister Godefroy general elections originally scheduled lobe Bebetu Satora Congo during a first two weeks f Tebra Pou Hatai been filled to he second Hall o Ille us the Malaysia building up its defences Kuala Bumpur a a British aided defense buildup u under Way in Malazita amid indications of fresh indonesian military a British minesweeper Cap tured four heavily armed indo mulan infiltrators in a boat off the Southern tip of while police reported the sight ing of two other unidentified Vns ids moving toward the Island defense buildup win gain momentum with tha expected arrival of the first m members of a Moman British paratroop part of a reinforcing movement ordered in the Light of reports that indo Nesla to Sumatra massing m and along men in nearby the Borneo lady of Lal new Cabinet wife says she has plenty of work a battalion of gurkhas is to move in from Hong Kong later this in Kuala the malay Slan government met in Emir gency session to consider the mounting threat from indo Nesia and later announced plans for a military buildup and other defense a government announcement said Malaysia u prepared to Lake retaliatory action under the Rule of hot Pursuit when and u forced to by a Mary wife of president Johnsons first canine has a Bone to pick Ullh anyone who thinks Cabinet wives Are ladles of its just not she they work awfully on the weekend after her drug executive John was nominated to succeed Luther Hodges As Secre Ary of the Connors flew to the lbs ranch in Texas with several Cabinet members and their while the menfolk talked Over matters of Connor got an earful from the wives on what to expect when she and her family move to the i used to think that Cabinet wives were ladles of Leisure who went to Tea parties and that was she said in an but i didst realize How wrong 1 office work its not unusual for a Cabinet wife to put in a full Days work at her husbands she found out after her Texas Stewart for frequently takes school children on Tours of the depart ment of the Interior Over which her husband Willard wife of the labor runs washing tons annual mental health a taxing said who already has become a Mem Ber of the planning committee for the of no woman in Washington works As hard As lady Bird she Shes just said i just dont know where she gets All her All of this is not to suggest that the attractive Mother of three has any qualms about her role As the wife of the future Secretary of in this fashionable North Jer sey Shes a member 01 the Junior a director of the United fund and Farmer president of a Community child care an avid she used to perform with an eight handed piano group four pianists at two pianos but gave it up a few years ago when her husbands Mil Ness trips kept her away rom Home for Long in she accompanied him on a Oundle world tour for his Merck of now she plays at her Leisure my commutes frequently to new York City to attend perform ances at philharmonic she Hopes to continue attending con certs at the philharmonic after the moves to one of her favorite pastimes is i weekly gathering of a French i peaking group called fran Glais half half Ive been i Rylent to speak French fluently for the past eight she i cant say made much but its a lot of Connor first entered govern ment service in 1mj and enlisted n the two years he joined Merck pc As Gen eral counsel in 1m7 and was named president of the firm eight years capital ladles Mary pm newly earned Secretary of Commerce Ofca daughter Are attractive Aew faces la a photo since a Ranger battalion was decimated last three Marino lieutenants wer near o Field one of them we got the bodies of the four it was the search for these helicopter crewmen shot Down in flames wednesday that led to the 4th Viet namese Marine battalions trek into we just had to get those americans a officer the collected from Shal Low Graves near the wreckage their had been previously listed As they were to Stephen Morgan of san to Roy Ai Bill of sgt Franklin Porter of Colum and pc Theodore wino watch of the Price was about 190 marines half the vietnamese not Nylon were casualties of led some officers Aid the marines asked for Trou be by waiting 14 hours before hey headed in to Hunt Tor the Wadsworth our advisers old them they might be walking nto a Viet Cong Trao Laid with hat helicopter wreck and the we went n with our eyes not open the Viet Cong sprang two the first was against the and Marine company which in Lolly moved in by itself and rated the they had warily removed the body of one american when the Viet Cong opened up on them with Wither no it was every Man for him a adviser when the disorganized com Lany reassembled later that 0 of its 100 men were Steven wounded had been left ordered in we have to go in and get those 1 our own dead and the american the Viet namese High command told tha late thursday they started Back by Early evening the battalion had moved Back inside the gloomy Forest of rubber he 1st company to the the 3rd in the Center and the Ith to the left survivors of the and company were guarding a helicopter the Viet Cong made their presence known with a blast of these were the men the Marine no tenant called they advanced slowly and Deli they did it the Way it of coup have been a a officer a Marine adviser who was Bat who Doest wish to m said the Viet Cone just kept moving in on rat from tvo sides and then from a then must have been pm of us lug in along those rubber lying pouring Over Thiim they Wen Bobbing and weaving but Stuffl the Viet Cong had reached to within so Yards when i took heavy mortar Ore pinned Down the ird the battalion commander was shot dead beside i was with the 4th company and we decided to attempt a breakout after lighting like hell with no effect and we Mada it slipping out to the West As a were i we could see that the 3rd companies Wei and fighting the Tot Cong i to if you say tar they died like