European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday March 23, Gas Rescue 112 reds Saigon up . Tan Sand troops rescued an ambushed patrol and killed at least 112enemy soldiers on South Viet Nam s Northern coast thursday without the loss of an american life military spokesmen said Fri Day. The textbook action raised the number of communists slain in the area in three Days to 248.the three hour fight to save the patrol resulted in injuries to 18americans. Infantrymen of the . Ameri Cal div shielded by heavy Armor smashed into positions 360 mile North of Saigon and four Miles South of the Allied coastal bastion of hoi an after the reconnaissance patrol walked into a Trapani radioed for help. Help came within minutes giant tank crashing through t h e Lowland Jungle. Spokesmen said . Soldiers have killed More than 7,000 communists in their six month Campaign to drive guerrillas from the Northern coastal highways sup plying the Allied forces facing up to 70.000 North vietnamese on South Vietnam s Northern fron american tank troop Force swarmed Over the bunkers nearhos an after blasting them with big guns. After three hours the communist survivors fled Leav ing an unusually High number of weapons 26. Other action the six month coastal Campaign which has Cost 521 Ameri can lives was an earlier smaller version of the 50-Battalionoperation resolved to win anti guerilla drive the largest inthe War being run personally by Gen. William c. Westmore land around Saigon. In other action Viet Cong mor tar and rocket fire hit american and South vietnamese military bases in the Saigon area but spokesmen said the fire did Little damage and caused no casual ties.. Pilots flew 108 missions against North Vietnam thursday striking Mig airfields truck con Voys heading South and rail line from the Hanoi Haiphong area to the red China South Vietnam the communists downed two . Uh1helicopters. One was hit by fire while taking part in a Marine assault near the Leatherneck bastion of Danang just above the hoi an area fighting. Four marines were killed. The other copter was heavily damage and crashed after being struck by fragments of a mine detonated on a Tuy Hoa coastal Landing zone. One Soldier aboard the Craft was wounded spokesmen said. 3 iteroute9 Venezuela flight plane 50 aboard hijacked to Cuba Caracas up three Pas sengers hijacked a Airliner with 50 persons aboard and forced it to Fly 900 Miles to Cuba where it landed with it fuel tanks almost empty officials said Friday. They said that Between five and 10 americans were on the plane. Officials at Caracas Airport said the twin engine Turboprop was on a flight from Caracas to Maracaibo when controllers heard the Pilot Send a radio message to Cuba. I have three passengers who want to go to Havana he said. They said the plane had fun �1 for about four hours and was in the air four hours and 16 minute when it finally touched Down at Santiago de Cuba a City a. The Eastern end the Island. They said the Pilot landed there instead of Havana because his plane was Low on airline spokesman said that almost All of the passengers were non venezuelans and he identified three americana he said were on the plane. There wore total of five to 10" . Citizens aboard he said. A traffic controller in Caracas said the Pilot first radioed Cara Cas that he was flying North due to bad weather. Later however he was hear calling Havana to say he was being forced to Fly there. The hijacking was the third Inas Many weeks and one of dozens which have occurred sin Cernier Fidel Castro came to d two . Jetliners making used runs in Florida have forced to Cuba since the first the year. Cuban authorities normally release the planes within a f Ewh ours but Castro said in speech last week that he May confiscate . Planes. He said he would hold them for cuban boats and aircraft taken to the unite states by refugees and never re turned. Talks with trainees Johnson pledges honorable peace Washington a presi Dent Johnson told 17 Young men on the Way to Vietnam to help inthe pacification program that there will be peace with Honor there built on the victories they no one misread our Pur pose peace is our goal the president said. Let no one mistake our re solve peace will be won. It will be peace with president spoke at a Cere Mony in the White House Rose Garden thursday. The group he met with is completing 48 weeks of training for civilian service in will be helping on such things As agriculture health education and Public works in an advisory capacity to govern ment at various Levels. They come from the state de part ent the Aid program and the . Information Agency and have been schooled As the first graduating class of the foreign service Institute s Viet Nam training Institute operates under the state said that the Young men set out As warriors for peace but you should expect that your efforts will go peace will come the presi Dent said because Brave men and free men Are preventing aggressors from taking a neigh Bor s land by will come because men like you Are willing to Hel the people of South Vietnam forge a free lauded the courage of simple people in Vietnam also largely unreported he said who sacrifice and struggle on farms and schools and Homes unnoticed in the anguish of War. The president said that when the enemy unleashed his Savage tet Holiday attack he thought he would crack the people s will but he was wrong. The enemy attack got the headlines not the citizens of a Saigon District who fought Cheviet Cong with Sticks Johnson said. But in Vietnam he said there were heroes by the hundreds that dark week who were unseen and Unsung. Their will did not As expected break under fire. Neither shall ours break under Zvy. Vietnam invasion necessary Kij claims aboard Tih Kitty Hawk a Yum pics Ideal Nguyen Cao by of South Vietnam said Friday that an invasion of North Vietnam is a military necessity. Lie said however such course is a Wiist the policy of the vietnamese government at lie present by reporter.-, if an inva Sion of North Vietnam was necessary in order to win the War the vice president answered military speaking. That s 1 he replied invasion was i Don t know when asked if an politically possible. By made the statements at a news conference aboard this . Aircraft Carrier cruising 135 Miles East of the North Viet namese City of y ugh 150 Milt a North of the 17th parallel the general dividing line of the two and other vietnamese officials As Well As mrs. By were on Hoard to present medals to . Navy pilots who have been carrying out raids against Nonh Vietnam. Fairy tale life on Range continued from Faye 1 six straight months since fre quent visits by fors meisters German foresters and regu Lar Range patrols would have discovered his presence much sooner the 7th army training Center said in a statement is sued by its information office. Although Friedrich German has been convicted several times for stealing trash fraud falsification of statements and a War rant was out for his arrest for violating Alimony requirements he said he selected the Impact area because he simply wanted to have peace to write poems fairy tales and to paint the statement said. It went on during this unauthorized time he spent on the training Center not Only did he writ poetry but he collected Over 2,500 pounds of scrap Meta which training Center officers said he would have sold in Vio lation of the Laws governing scrap Metal dealings. Over the last six months Range operations personnel have been policing scrap Metal that has Salvage value and brass pickers and junk dealers will have to find a new source of it remains to be seen whether German can write poetry in a quiet place like jail which i where the judge sentenced him to live for the next six month because of trespassing and steal ing Metal or whether he need the artistic stimulation of heavy bombardment from artillery tanks and Small arms. Due in . Churches i traverse City mich., have started a drive to bring Phuo Tran thl 19, to the United states for a College works As an interpreter at the qui Nhon air base in South Vietnam. A photo patients get inferior care Hospital says new York a the head of medical services at metropolitan Hospital said thurs Day that patients there were dying each week because the could not be properly cared for. Or. Samuel h. Rubin also told the state investigation commis Sion that some Canter patient were not treated for at least three months because it too that Long to make up a Ray charts of their cases. Rubin said t h e professional personnel at the Hospital were of the highest Caliper but added there were not enough of the to go around arid equipment was scarce. In 18 months we have lost a average of two patients a week because we could not property care for them he said. Rubin testified after or. Don Ald Dickson associate commissioner for new York City affair sin the state health department said conditions were so bad at several municipal hospitals he would recommend they be closed Down if there any Way to replace testimony came in the course of hearings into the effectiveness of services offered by hospitals participating in special City affiliation program. Ninth i returns from Stockholm Mun wife collapse die , Fla. A Glen , 75, collapsed thursday while working in the backyard of his retirement Home. His 80-year old wife Eleanor rushed to his Side to offer Aid and then she too. Collapsed a medical examiner Bald both tiled of heart attacks. Stockholm a pfc. Edward b. Murray 18-year-old american Soldier of Woodbury,n.j., who came to Sweden to seek a s y 1 u a voluntarily re turned Friday to Frankfurt to re join his unit. Murray was the ninth .Serviceman know n to have changed his mind and returned to his unit. American sources said that Murray known As the baby of at least 37 american Gas who have sought Sanctuary Here be cause of the Vietnam War. Turned himself in at the . Embassy and was Given the usual assistance in the Way of arranging his identity papers and air Pas Sage. He has been absent since Jan. 24 from the 9th Hospital enter s 2m1 Field Hospital at Munchweiler Germany. Nuernberg Germany a pvt. Roy Ray Jones of Pon Tiac mich., who voluntarily re turned from a year s Asylum in last week has Bee charged with being with out leave the army said Friday. The charge against Jones was preferred under the . Code of Mili Ary Justice by his 4.h Arm div unit commander id by the division As 2 i a. Ball Platan Leader of c troop. 2nd so. 4th Cav. Weather . 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