European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Be spun out Jack Kenya Champion lakes a spectacular Tumble during a race in although he looks As if Hes Well on the Way to breaking his or least a couple of he was not injured and was Able to get Hack on and finish he in Viet Nam to Issue lighter Rifle March 18 a thousands of infantrymen and other troops in South Viet Nam will be relieved of Long Range rifles and Given a Hight weight weapon rated better for Short Range Jungle the defense department said Friday that William commander in Viet had requested this action to improve tactical effectiveness through increased use of have been carrying the m14 which some Vetera Jis of the Jun Gle fighting contend is not As Well suited for the Viet Nam the Pentagon disclosed the replacement move when asked for elaboration of a statement by John Foster director of defense research and Foster told Congress recently that a decision to re equip our firepower at Short combat units in Southeast Asia As a result of Westmoreland with m16 rifles has recently More m16 rifles been made and production is Are being manufactured to Render place m14 rifles in the hands the met fires a Bullet Only Many fighting men in Viet half As heavy As that of the m14 Nam and to Supply South Vieland is effective at a Shorter maximum Range than the namese and South korean troops there As the weighing about four faster pounds less than the m14 when Kives the m18 has j much muzzle velocity which it considerable killing fully has been at relatively shorted to special advocates of the m16 contend forces men and those Servini that there Are few opportunities with the 1st but infantrymen in the 1st at inf div and other ground units i in the Viet Nam War far firing enemies Over extended ripes unofficial twi papir of form in North Africa and ii my dolt it 333 if 21855 a St 101 sunday March 1966 nato partners to resist France March 18 up the United states and 13 other nato nations reiterated Friday their determination to de fend the alliances integrated military organization against French attempts to unravel we Are said a statement issued Here and in other nato that this organization is essential and will be no system of bilateral agreements can offer a con on ninja i substitute for bottled baby heres the world War i tickler Pilot la a space capsule that i never could get that red Baron la my old Sopwith Tim May think in just a smolt Bat i got the Deti from those does of Page the statement was agreed to by chiefs of government of the United ice the Canada and Turkey during u week of Nero Gallons in the although less strongly worded than the United Britain and West Ger Many directly challenged president Charles do Gaul Les rejection of military integration in peacetime As outdated and a threat to Frances National after letter it came ii Days after do Gaulle notified president Johnson in a personal letter that he planned to pull France out of nato and called for removal of american bases and Allied Mill tary Headquarters from France some member countries among them Denmark Norway and Portugal reportedly insisted on watering Down inc draft in order not to include anything that de Gaulle might consider a personal Sharp response even the statement hit Back sharply at de Gaul Les assertions that military integration and nato As an organization no longer Are needed but should be replaced by a series of bilateral the declaration was released after de Gaulle and soviet ambassador Valerian Zorn conferred in Paris at the Elysee French officials Delec de Gaulle plans to sign a non aggression treaty with the bus they said he expects to have important talks when he pays an official visit to Russia at the end of june and Hopes they will re sult in improved relations be the two rumours that a new French so Viet treaty might be in the offing were touched off by a speech by Zorn in it he indicated Russia would be willing to sign a no aggression treaty with France any time de Gaulle wants bomb near recovery March 18 up the operation to re cover a missing nuclear bomb lying in feet of water off Palomares is going smoothly and the weapon should be re covered within the next it an informed source said any abrupt change in the could hamper the operation and cause a delay in bringing up the bomb that was lost in the crash of a b52 two months ago near this although there has been no official announcement that the bomb has been it Wai Learned thursday that the 22 foot woman submarine Alvon had located the weapon and that it was make senior master one Hundred and seventy none Safe Mailer have been selected for promo Tion to senior master the list of names s m Pate
