European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1965 recon flights May Point the Viet War expansion Thi stars and stripes 3 Navy eyes look daily at red installations in Laos by John Wheeler aboard Urs Ranger in the South China sea a a startled woman caught in the Midi of a Hacky urd Bath looked up As the sleek Navy Jet swept Tow Over the in ionian country photographing communist installations along the to Chi Minn the photograph and tens of thousands others taken by Navy reconnaissance jews in Laos and communist controlled portions of South Vietnam Are part of a massive intelligence program that could be a prelude to expanding the vietnamese if such expansion communist Supply bases and key routes in Laos Are Likely to be the first targets for Aerial bombardment a major source of information in the joint Navy air Force pro Gram is the navys ra9c heavy reconnaissance Jet a detach ment of the based Squadron operates an intensive flying schedule from the attack Carrier Ranger off South Viet the vigilantes photo gear is capable of detailed snooping from just above the tree tops to above cmdr Paul skipper of the special reconnaissance and his Crews Are accompanied by Jet Fisher escorts when they Fly Over the Remote mountains and some of the rugged est country in Southeast the twin engine capable of twice the Speed of Cross the coast Over South turn into Laos through the laotian Panhandle Between Thailand and South Viet then head North and North West to their target for us its a strange Side of the Werner so fur none of us have been shot hut we my look up tomorrow and see the red chinese Jet fighters coming in on its hard to believe there is a War on the plane de or in Vietnam for that the Plain and the Countryside in Laos and Vietnam look so peace Ful from the following the loss of several aircraft in the Plaine pcs Jarres the reconnaissance jets Fly above the effective Range of ground fire from Small the vigilantes have powerful Strobe Hunts Mound on their wings and also carry out night trying to catch the movement of communist troops and supplies toward Battle Arcus in and cmdr David fall an other vigilante solid night photography can be the most productive and the most Dun fall until his jul Stephen Lylyan of grand Huvry made repeated trips Over the Antral town of a communist a tipple during the daytime it looks like a quiet town in fall it certainty Doest look like a night is the usual communist time for moving men and materials to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South vigilante Crews admit their reconnaissance ability is less than perfect for Southeast Asia con major roads often wind unseen through the and communist Supply parties move along trails impossible to for this and other mime Navy pilots say privately they believe Aerial strikes communist Supply bases and routes might not be too of Navy jets ready to Fly another photo reconnaissance mis Sion Over u cmdr David fall Russia opens 1st shops for surplus goods Moscow up soviet authorities have opened a number of shops to sell surplus goods at a to to 50 per cent the newspaper evening Moscow Dis advertisements on the news papers Buck Page announced two specialized store 47 where a wide Range of textiles May be bought even on credit and a special Section of the Cen trial Universal store Tor radio and photo equip store 47 appeared to he one of the special stores pre Mier Alexei Kosygin promised a december meeting of the supreme soviet for Selling Stock it was reported tailors were Landing by at the shop to us patterns free As an added incentive to women who want to make their clothes themselves Russia sign pact London a and r u i s i a have signed a five year agreement for cooperation in agricultural left photo hands gear to his photo u Jug Stephen a few minutes later they look off from attack Carrier a duty Jet the ac4 sky is grabbed by arresting line As u lands after escorting the on their photo Mission Over communists instal photo sugar cutting ends Siveret dreams for old cubans up elderly cubans who can lift a Machete Are being ordered out of rocking Chur retirement by the Castro regime for mandatory work in the sugar Cubas new labor Basilio is making it Clear Premier Fidel c a 11 r o want fooling last saturday when be vowed to draft everybody for this years sugar Harvest it indications so far Are that it will be Castro is committed to meet his own announced mandatory goal of harvesting million tons of sugar Cane this year to meet our obligations to the so Viet red China and the communist Cubas communist run sugar plantations have Wen turning out less and less of the islands Basic product since the output dropped so Low last year that Castro imposed a blackout on r reduction but authoritative exile eco nomic and sugar sources report the 1984 production was Mil lion Only half of what the Island was producing in 1h1 when the momentum of Cubas private Enterprise sugar Mills began to after their confiscation in there is a lot of sugar Cane to be Castro said in his sixth anniversary address on the imperialists the United states doubt we can Cut but we have no it our Volunteer workers Are Well mobilize every body u including Stu dents and even the armed the urgency in castros mobilization of  in the Fields prevails despite the reported delivery of 800 newly designed soviet built Cane Cut ters and loaders and russian pledge to Rush 700 More to the Cubas sugar Harvest used to run from january to but since last according to authoritative exile the Cut Ting has had to of put on a ii month basis to try to make up for the Lack of the cuban exile news Agency estimates sugar production has fallen by s million tons Over the past three this represents a toss of us million even at dropping world Market the Agency congolese rebels reported split army near Mutiny Elizabethville up j the congolese rebel leadership is split and elements of the rebel army Are near refusing to resume the fight against the Central government of Premier Misc refugees arriving Here from neighbouring Uganda the refugees said one faction is led by Christophe Ibenye and Gaston the other by Thomas they said rebel soldiers who tied from the Northeast Congo province of Kiba Lituri to were accusing Ibenye of pocketing Money received from the Sale of Gold instead of using it to pay the the soldiers were said to have gone without pay for three months and to be on the verge of Mutiny against their officers who crossed the Uganda Border with one of the Albert quoted Kamas repro Charles who visited As saying the rebel leadership had Cut Oft funds to in Nairobi since the negotiations with United slates representatives about the re lease of while citizens in Stanleyville last was said to depend on the hospitality of the Kenya others who oppose Kanza at lege that he was dropped be cause of his contacts with anti rebel Musenga another Philippe Bat said a sudanese Coffee and Tea trader named Lamina Lasha made a Fortune out of arms deals on behalf of the rebels by receiving exorbitant including Gold from the congolese kilo Molo Gold mine confiscated by the the All were on their Way to Leopold Ville from Uganda