European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stapes March new jul feb we thu ram mud pm Kun no jetted Wui gel More Mil like the of to replace the my because the former i rated better for Sboril Raige the Mic weight Low pounds it already is being used by special and those of Ibe Bat not available Yel to m Hanoi could Send South by fated Hoffman March u a communist China and North Viet Nam together could lend four or five divisions into South Viet Nam and sustain them in this is the current Intelli gence estimate accepted by the joint chiefs of so there i no evidence of any intention by red China or North Viet Nam to change the character of the Viet Nam War in Tholf but Mili tary chiefs take such a possibility into account in their plan a Force of four to five dial lion would total about to including sup porting intelligence believe also that red China could put some 10 totalling about into Southeast Asia on a wide front from the Viet namese coast to if the chinese should choose such a authorities would be confronted immediately with a decision on whether to use nuclear weapons against indications Are that the use of nuclear weapons would be held Back at least until the enemy objectives and intentions were there is a widely held belief that atomic weapons would be the Only answer to dealing with hordes of chinese but top military authorities do not go All the Way with this believing that heavy air Power using conventional explosives would be an effective a much less risky one from the political stand Point enemy troops would be suit Able target for nuclear weapons Only if they appeared in which would not necessarily be the despite new regime Ben Bella is termed still algerian Hei red China said to expect american nuclear attack by Walter r mear8 March in China now believes Chain reaction of intervention and attack May Widen the Viet namese War and eventually bring Down nuclear weapons upon an Allan affairs sex uld Wollt the chinese Are anxious to avoid nuclear Morton Halperin told the Senate for eign relations they Are determined not to see their cause Retreat in Viet in the Harvard University professor no less than in the desire to avoid another Munich is a major preoccupation of political retired Marine Samuel Griffith n said Chi Nai Arm is potent regional Force but paper Tiger outside the peking regimes neighbor from nationalist chivas Madame Chiang mean came a Call for bombing of red chinese nuclear install she told the National press club conventional bombs should be used against chivas nuclear Halperin told the Senate com Mittee the red chinese drive to develop atomic weapons is re lated to their longstanding fear of an american nuclear the chinese have concluded that there is a substantial probability of an american at but Griffith forecast a Long struggle for the United states i Southeast the chinese Are willing to sit on this Situa Tion until hell freebies he both Halperin and Griffith generally endorsed president Johnsons policy in South Viet were going to be there Long the general but both men also said the United states should drop its opposition to red chinese membership in the United lets get the Monkey off our did tack on China growing out of the Viet Nam Halperin he said China apparently believes it May be forced to intervene to protect the political integrity of North Viet Nam and that this would Lead to an attack on the chinese believe that a attack first would be con fined to conventional Halperin but they expect that nuclear weapons would ultimately be and he said peking believes an american attack might begin with a Surprise nuclear Halperin said the chinese have been forced to concede that military might can turn Back a revolutionary move ment at the Brink of Success and now foresee a Long and difficult struggle in Viet Alexander Eckstein of the University of Michigan testified the Trade embargo aimed at China has Only symbolic for the communist regime has been Able to obtain virtually everything it needs Halperin told the committee i Belleve that if the chinese can become convinced that they do not face imminent threat of an american nuclear that they Are Likely to withdraw even More from the world while continuing to Issue revolutionary and concentrate on their internal difficulties and on the other said he the United states could win concessions from the chinese in return for a Promise to pull out of Southeast committee chairman has called for a vietnamese settlement based on Mutual withdrawal by the United states and would not place any credibility whatsoever on any agreement we would Griffith Griffith said much of chivas antagonism toward the United states stems from american support of the nationalist re Gime on we sided with the losers in the chinese he by Michael March 18 the military regime of Houary Bou Medlene has tried in vain to make express Dent Ahmed Ben Bella an in us inability to remove Ben Bella from the Public mind is part of a More serious failure to win widespread after nine months of Soli tary Ben Bella re Mains the untarnished hero of algerian leftist revolutionaries and a continuing threat to the since he was deposed and arrested in a predawn coup last june be bos been held incommunicado in various Mili tary prisons from Algiers to the heart of the he is allowed no visitors except his 82yearold nor is he permitted to write or receive his guards and his prisons Are changed frequently for Security following one abortive desert Rescue attempt last year by came mounted tuareg no official statement concerning his Fate or whereabouts has been made since his a government spokesmen crush aside All questions except to say Ben Bella is alive and Arab and other Africa leaders who asked Boule Dolenne Bea Bella at Var Loui Summit me Uags were Curtly eld that merely asking such a question was an later Goldsmith Ferince in algerian internal is inside Ben Bellas j name is virtually slate run press and Radl Olgs Nore his speeches by i Bourc Dienno and other top Al class still denounce the called regime of personals Power which existed in Gerla before june but never refer to Ben Bella of 5 in one of the very Gnu open references to military Magazine Al the army told its i Ben Bella was not really an j Gerlan but a it scribed his father As a can landowner who a spy for the French and i formed great services in struggle against it was a transparent i to arouse feeling Agali Bella among Algeria i i whose Only fighting Exi has been against the in the undeclared ims i Der against the proclamation ill tip when the Bou Medlene took Power on june u a Ben Bella of treason and i he would be tried Tot since nothing Tuuri been said of a nor any formal placed against the Dent his friends say the shrinks from the Prosi a show trial for fear of i Ben Bella a against Mui Eul Topian edition a inv naw Frank h1nrv Epstein an Unolt Dally it Apo Bdrm ill Sui