European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday april 13, 19w first evidence of red artillery pieces disclosed communists also escalating Viet War by Ray f. Herndo Saigon up the Viet Cone guerrilla have responded to America s Esca Lauon of the vietnamese War with an Escala Tion project of their own. The communist bid to raise the stake of the fighting in South Viet Nam has been Les spectacular than the first land Ings of american combat marines or the systematic bomb ingot North Viet it is no less real in the minds of american and Viet namese military officials Here. Vietnamese and american intelligence officials have what they consider positive proof that North Viet Nam has laboriously transported significant numbers of Mountain guns into the South Over the Maze of Jungle paths known As the to Oil Munh Titiev also Are studying evidence that limited numbers of regular North vietnamese army urls have accomplished Small scale invasion of the silk. Hie North vietnamese have Long been infiltrating selected North vietnamese regular sol Diers into the South but there is evidence in the testimony of captured communist troops that the Hanoi regime is no longer bothering to select individual soldiers and is sending them in company units of about 100men each. Both developments have Cometo the attention of intelligence officials Here since the United slates launched a Campaign of systematic bombing raid against military and in the last week or two economic targets in North Viet Nam. Bloody French defeat at Drenthe change in the pattern of Bien pin the introduction of infiltration has not caused in communist artillery is a new and dangerous development in the closing Days of the Indochina War the French underestimating of the communists prowess with artillery due alarm among american military men. They figure the infiltrators pose no greater threat As Small units than equal numbers of selected to those who recall the Cost Iheme Battle of Dlen appreciated former president Harry ills pensively with wife Bess Aad Sitter Mary Jaae Tram right at Ike Tram a Library in Independence. To. They were Here or the City s appreciation week which included honors for the former chief re chief new bom arc pals Justice dept. Chill9 has thawed Washington a since Nicholas Katzenbach became head of the Justice depart ment an air of Friendship has been noted in the Long Marble corridor which separates the of ices of the attorney Genera land Fri director j. Edgar Hoover. The chill that arose betwee Hoover and the attorney Gener Al s office when it was headed by Katzenbach s predecessor Robert f. Kennedy is gone. The Fri is a Branch of the Justice department one Day recently Katzenbach,43. Wanted to discuss some aspect of the Bobby Baker Casewitz Hoover. Re donned his coat and marched Down the Hall to the 70-year-old Hoover s office. Asked Why he had summoned Hoover instead he shrugged i some Surprise an said i m rather younger than or. two recent occasions the Fri chief showed up in Karlzen Bach s office for minor social events the swearing in of on assistant Deputy attorney Gen eral and the Farewell party for another. Kennedy now a new Yor senator appeared at each � falange warns Franco of student menace = Karlzen Bambi Hoover for the remarkable Agency that really. Is his Katzenbach said. The of Bias always done everything that i have asked it to do an done it Well the two men from time Totime have shared Kulze Liach s limousine for the ride to the White House for lunch for discussions of crime Legisla Tion or to flank or. Johnson As lie announced the Fri s arrest of some suspects in a civil rights slaying and his War on the Kun flux klan. Together the two men would return to the Justice depart ment and ride to the fifth flooring Katzenbach s private Eleva Tor. Blen thu and eventually to War. The americans Are not under estimating the communist pm Cong and their Possession has Many officers the first hint that the conv my nests had sent in arts Leary. Was noted by an american of
