European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes Superb people Friday october 20, 1967 by Marc hurts a Washington Bureau Washington is chances of getting ahead in the army Are better than they have been in Many years according to the experts because of an annual 400,000-Man turnover and the need for trained soldiers in an expand ing , of All the activities in the army aviation holds out the greatest Prospect for advancement. Army aviators can Back up these right prospects with statistics that show a higher percentage of promotions has gone to helicopter and air plane Quebec seeks to win Over French press by Bernard Kapla Paris Nana Quebec has launched a Campaign to per Suade French newspapers they were wrong to condemn presi Dent Charles de Gaulle s intervention in Canadian affairs Dur ing his july visit. The new e f f o r to by Quebe Chouse Here Aims at reversing the French Public s hostility Tode Gaulle s open support of Quebec nationalism. De Gaulle a behaviour in Quebec was heavily criticized by an overwhelming majority of the French press while opinion polls at the Tim reflected widespread popular indignation. Since then the Degaulle government has carried on its own Campaign of Educa Tion and passions at any rate have  the Quebec government s intention is to insure that the intensive new Brand of Franco Quebec collaboration collect enough National support in France to survive the Day Degaulle won t be around to push it. Quebec plans a far reach ing program to acquaint French news Media with the facts of the French Canadian situation. It was stressed in Paris there would be nothing anti Cana Dian about the new  method of accomplishing this will be through a series of Tours of Quebec by teams of european newspapermen paid Forby the government information office. The first of these involving journalists from France Switzerland and Belgium i scheduled for late this month. Striking evidence that what might be termed the de Gaulle analysis of the Quebec problem already has started winning con verts in France appeared this week in be Monde a newspaper which last summer was Amon the loudest in denouncing the French president s  the title can Canada survive be Monde began six part series by Claude Julien its specialist on North Ameri can affairs. Julien generally considered sympathetic to Canada and Ca Nadian Unity sternly criticize the complacency of English canadians toward French Canada handicaps which he adds had not really been dispelled by Ris ing French Canadian agitation since 1960 for greater Power an privileges. According to Julien an unacknowledged pact was concluded Between separatists provincial and Federal officials to put the separatist Issue on ice for the duration of expo 67. Pilots Over the past few years than to ground soldiers. The higher percentage is not the re sult of aviation alone according to col. Edwin l. Powell jr., director of army aviation at the Pentagon but also of having Superb people in aviation to Start with. Statistics covering the last four year show that promotions to major Lieuten ant colonel and colonel and to chief War rant officer 3 and 4where the com petition is keenest favor  year for example the army said 43.9 per cent of the aviators considered in the primary zone were selected for colonel while Only 28.2 percent of non aviators were chosen. Comparable figures for promotion to lieutenant colonel Over the past four years also show 74.8 per cent of the aviators considered were selected but Only 67.8 per cent in the . For those going to major it averaged out to 68.3 per cent As opposed to 63.8 per cent for no flying  Are not kept on promotions within company grades or from warrant officer 1 to chief warrant officer 2 be cause officials say the Competition snot As keen As it is in the higher grades. For warrant officers the selection Pat Tern is much the same As it is for the senior officers. The current selection list shows that 82 per cent of the War rant officers considered to become cw3were aviators and 75 per cent for cw4. The warrant officer Board considered624 cw3s for promotion for the first time including 147 aviators and recommended 489, including 122 aviators. The same thing happened in promotions to cw4, where 370 were consid ered including 169 aviators and 273recommended, including 127 aviators. School selection opportunities Are also High Powell says. Moon maids Gay l. Harris jump through craters of the Moon in a game of hopscotch As Louise Neri watches. The astronauts used photographs from lunar orbiter 4 for their make believe trip at a conference in . A 294 Viet hamlets won this year pacification gains ground by John t. Wheeler Saigon a the South vietnamese government s latest pacification program has won294 hamlets away from the communists so far this year senior american official said. He called the Progress strik ing and said further gains can be expected in the months to come. Teams assigned to the Ham lets now declared pacified have moved into neighbouring areas seeking there also to impose government control and win the peasants  american source said that by february when the lat est program will be a year old from 70 to 80 per cent of the1,100 hamlets in some 47 target areas will be  eight years of pacification efforts South Vietnam has Yetto come up with a viable pro Gram for permanently ridding the Countryside of communist  the government is in control of Only from 4,000 to 5,000 of the country s 13,000hamlets, even if the current Pace is maintained the Job could take nine or 10 years. American planners however believe that once pacification begins to take hold their pro Gram will snowball. . Officials have said that without effective pacification no lasting Victory is possible in Vietnam. One of the most crucial Point Sis the weeding out of the Viet Cong infrastructure the military and political cadres which oper ate underground through terror ism and persuasion. A highly qualified source said we re just getting started on the infrastructure. We Renot going great guns. There was More to the infrastructure Thane originally thought because we knew so Little about  there Are normally two or three Reserve cells ready to go into operation when one i cracked and cleaned up. At midyear the pacification program was sagging a bit particularly in the 1st corps Are South of the demilitarized zone. American officials spoke of slow and spotty  pacification teams Are sup posed to have 59 men. In the 1st corps area the average slipped to 29.5 per team partly due to combat casualties but mostly due to desertions. The country wide average once slipped to about 35 per team. The average has gone up about 10 per team since  Are 597 teams operating Over South Vietnam. They Are generally clustered around Al lied Strong Points. Even so there were 654 attacks and Inci dents involving pacification teams in the first nine months of the year. Some 426 worker were killed 739 wounded and 86 missing in action. The teams said they killed 805 Viet Cong and captured 91. Although the number of at tacks Ai e far higher than last year they Are actually less this year than last per 1,000 men in the  hamlets now being worked under the pacification program Are far easier to Deal with than those even a mile Orso farther out from the centers of Allied strength. And As the teams work out the number of troops needed to protect the pacification perimeter will go up geometrically. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor-in-chief�.?Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett. Managing editor Henry r Epst a product manager. Epstei circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed forces published by the commander in chief . 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