European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday March Thieu predicts a last gasped offensive up Nguyen Van thie predicted a last gasp nist offensive within three months designed to give the reds a substantial Victory and a bargaining position in this . Presidential election said 19 58 was the make or break year for the Viet Cong and Hanoi and their aim is to have sufficient Success by the november election to be Able to enter negotiations from a Posi Tion of strength. Failing that he said the reds might fade away gradually still a threat but no longer Amajor military Force. But some sort of Allied peace keeping guarantee would be needed for three or four More years he said. In an interview the 44-year-old president coupled predictions of a new offensive with criticism of . Senators who oppose the Vietnam policy of the Johnson administration. He cited by name senators Robert Kennedy Edward Ken Nedy and William make the War Effort More difficult for us he said. Thieu said the Tot lunar newyear offensive which began two months ago on Jan. 29 Cost the Viet Cong and North vietnamese50,000 men slain. Furthermore he said they disrupted Only 15 per cent of the Rural pacification program and this balance is be ing restored. Nevertheless the Vietcong and North vietnamese have 300,000 men in South Vietnam nursing their tet wounds Sandhu standing equipment and strength for another onslaught. By John n. Fallon president people Are worried about this he wednesday two or they hear some senators walkabout a coalition government with the Viet Cong and negotiations with the reds and they Are a Little he criticized the . Leader who have advocated any Deal Ings with the Viet Cong. Sometimes i can Tell you that statements of some of the Sena tors Are difficult for who Robert Kennedy Edwar Kennedy and Fulbright he re plied emphatically. He reminded that he has Dis missed 69 provincial chiefs and District chiefs in his anti corrupt Tion drive. More will be Dis missed he said. He said he has closed thebans and nightclubs of Saigon As part of his Campaign against Lack Market ering. He said there would be 135,000more men to supplement his 680,000-Man army by next sep tember a speedup in his Campaign since he originally said he wanted the additional manpower by the end of the stressed repeatedly his opinion that 1968 was the communists year of decision. They Don t believe they can win the War after 1968," he declared. Counting. 1.hold solemn ceremony the . Flag flying Over the Marine corps Monument on it. Suribachi iwo Jirina was lowered forthe last time last week the Marine corps said wednesday. The Island is due to revert to japanese Rule this year. The Monu ment is in Honor of the marines who died in Battle for the Island in 1945. It. Col. J. R. Aichele right represented the Pacific Leet Force at the ceremony. A wire photo major Campaign role Rush team to do Fantl lb9 again he emphasized they will try drive they May try said. Pausing he i am quite when would another come in two or three months Thieu said. Maybe in May or lie gave no specific dates. He said the Viet Cong and North vietnamese wanted to capitalize on american political dissension to win gains based on a display of armed might they have to go All out wit the Hope of winning some Mili tary advantage and from that to gain an advantage at the bargaining table Thieu said. In slightly accented but quite Good English the presi Dent said of the tet offensive we have gained More military and psychologically in f tins of finning National resolve told Iii the Community example he said Ilie by Stewart Hensley Washington up Testate department indicated tuesday it is ready to play Amajor role in the 1968 election Campaign because the Vietnam War has become one of the Mai issues. From Secretary Dean Rusk on Down officials Are expected to defend the president against his at the same time department officials make no secret of their concern that they May get involved in deep controversies. Department spokesmen Rob Ert j. Mccloskey said Carcer officers in the foreign service would be expected to help in the Campaign. I would expect our officers to he out responsive to invitations supporting administration policy he said. State department officials last year made 1,500 speeches throughout the United states on foreign policy with Vietnam the major Issue. The department maintains a Bureau which taps officials to Supply speakers on foreign policy. In addition top foreign sort quake shaky skip California Iii Force army t Els and bit s for a a thing inure Liin Long reach Calif. Up if you re afraid of earthquakes stay away from California. That s the advice of Richter who warned that the general risk of dam age or injury from earthquakes is on tie Rise in tins state. The California Institute of technology seismologist Whon exiled the device for measuring which bears Bis , told a to Man Hall meeting ice officers Are assigned As diplomats in residence at eight universities. They Are available for seminars policy guidance for students in pre paring themes and for . Speeches Are also made by state department officials As signed As policy advisers to Vari Ous military commands in the United states. Rusk and other political top appointees Are free from regu lations prohibiting their participation in politics. Career offi cers who do the bulk of speak ing Are prohibited by the Hatch act from political activities. However defense of the administration s foreign policy i their Job and so Long As they Don t invest it with any blatantly political overtones they cannot be charged with violations of the act. Sneeze by Al ross1ter or Cape Kennedy up future manned spaceflight orations May Call of r such Ielse stability that an Astro-1nauts cough or sneeze could disrupt delicate experiments. Two scientists said in a recent paper that even the slightest pulsating of heart Muscles produce a measurable effect Onla spaceship s equilibrium in orbit. The effects of astronaut motion on the precise control All a spacecraft s Orbital attitude were studied by j. R. Tewell and c. Ii. Johnson of the Marti Marietta corp., under a space Agency contract. Invasion the near future we in a multitude of scientific investigations conducted in space which require precise attitude control systems to remove disturbances a e \ i n q on the spacecraft Tewell said in presenting he report to the fifth space Congress. Satellites always have been affected to some extent in orbit by minute forces such As the drag of thin atmospheric gases found in Low orbits slight variations in the pull of Earth Gravity and solar radiation pres sures. With manned spacecraft a additional disturbance Generator is provided namely the Man himself the paper said Tewell said such innocuous human movements As turning dials flipping switches and eve breathing could cause a lure space station to vibrate and tilt. Research showed that the faint beat of a heart for example would produce an Impact on the spacecraft much like the rip pling effect of a Pebble thrown into a Lake. The study was applied particularly to the manned solar Observatory scheduled to a launched in 1971 in the space Agency s Apollo applications program. The Craft which will be part of a rudimentary station will Wei a about pounds. The Willu a Battery of telescopes to Wall and photograph the Sun an measure its radiation. 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