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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 1, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Lay april 1, 1968 the stars and strikes n. Johnson says enclave strategy Ould help enemy Fader Hington is a Awal to an enclave Strat in the Vietnam War adv by some critics of current policy would simply give enemy main Force units a use to Hunt when and where choose according to army if of staff Gen Harold . Tired it. Gen. James , a world War ii com under of the 82nd airborne Divone time army research i has proposed pulling Amer forces into defensive Posi around the cities and pop areas along the South amese coast instead Ong the enemy in the Jungles the Highlands Inland. This is enclave strategy. Thou naming Gavin the chief of staff said in the official army digest Raga Clear and hold we were to adopt a strategy emphasizes Only Claar and operations enemy base would become reasonably re again. Any change in pm is away from search and of operations would free theto operate with relative y around and Between the theries of our  Only recently former president get d. Eisenhower said much same thing in an article in s digest. Again without ing his former colleague in Eisenhower said those 10 Advance the enclave theory it our troops to sit Down in defensive enclaves and drop offensive action press no until a Tough enemy gets of looking at our military it and goes quietly  e army chief of staff Saide is a widely held Misc on Ilion that present . Strat is limited to Large scale cd and destroy operation exclusively military object  neglected critics of this strategy no Nutly consider that Pacifica and nation building Are no Ted he said. This is ply not True. We Are carrying put a concept cd is a combination of driving organized enemy forces Awayan the populated areas toward Remote areas and concurrent providing improved Security the population. The Emp a varies in different parts of the try because the weight of Ort is determined by these Ity condition that exists inh area. 2 impacts if this strategy has two Impact Sich 1 believe will prove de Ive first it increases the Dis be Between the major threat id the population which that eat is designed to intimidate. Second it requires thee my himself to provide Essen my the full logistic support Reed by those units driven by from the populated areas. Forced away from the More insely inhabited areas these to have difficulty in drawing the population for their my jul support. For even though May still continue to have Success by sending backing parties to impose Levie food and Momy this practice utes additional transport tier id manpower problems form. Moreover it exposes the Ding Partley to detection Bye world forces and consequent destruction or  am con ident that our concept represents a Well conceived and balanced approach toward freeing the South vietnamese Countryside from domination by organized enemy military unit Sand toward creating a climate of Law and order in which the South vietnamese can develop a free society in accordance with their desires and traditions neglect of any one of the elements of our strategy can Only result in a failure to achieve the objectives we have established i assure you none of these elements is being neglected. To the contrary each is receiving a growing and continuing  Prince and pal Elizabeth Blackwell Gelsa Friendly nuzzle from Prince a Deer which roams the pasture on a ranch near Clewiston Fla. Prince is free to go wherever he wants Bathe prefers staying at the ranch and being the Center of attention. A photo teen suggests nationwide cake sales Johnson gets Sweet idea for paying debts Detroit up the United states can afford a guns and butter policy and pay off part of the National debt at the same time with nationwide cake sales according to a High school  Johnson has a letter mailed to him recently by Jane Kraczkowski in Detroit that explains the  d have the women in All the communities around the country bake the cakes. The president could be the head of the committee and the Money would be turned Over to the government to be used to pay off part of our debts miss Kraczkowski , the High school senior said the president has his own ideas about what should be done and would most Likely not take he suggestion for the National cake Sale. In Washington statisticians figured some 351 billion cakes Selling at $1 each would be needed to pay off the entire National debt of roughly $351 billion. That s 1,759 cakes for every Man woman an child in the country. Girl Cpl s twin also faces trial grand Junction Colo a . Marine Cpl. Mary bums is facing a court martial for disobeying orders. And her twin brother Timothy is awaiting trial in Denver for refusing to report for induction into the armed forces. The 20-year-old twins whose Mother lives in grand Junction Are both in Washington. Mary i confined to quarters at the Marine he in and Timothy has gone to Washington to be with her. Miss Burns anti War Stan Drew National attention when she folded her uniform and told he company commander her con science would not allow her to comply with military rules. She said she was protesting what she called president Johnson s War in  Timothy was a sociology Stu Dent at the University of Colo Rado but refused to seek a Stu Dent deferment on the grounds that it was unfair. He was drafted last fall the refused to report for induction. Norad renewal Washington a the United states and Canada agreed saturday to extend their joint defense against a Surprise air attack on North America for another five years. The state department announced the Nohad agree ment due to expire May 12, willbe renewed to run through 1973, subject to cancellation on year s notice by either nation. The North american air de sense command Nora with Headquarters at Colorado Springs Colo., maintains the radar Vigil on the series of Earl warning lines stretching across the Arctic reaches of Canada Jis Well As the seagoing radar systems flanking the continent in the Atlantic Ami Pacific. Writer says some . Officials Wink at pot smoking in Vietnam new York a a Youn College correspondent said mar Ijuana can be purchased Ope Lyall Over Vietnam usually for 10 cents a cigarette and thousands of american soldiers Are smoking it regularly. And Many military officials take a tolerant attitude toward j the widespread use of marijuana said Queens College graduate student Lee , who also teaches night classes in philosophy a Queens College is one of two correspondents in Vietnam fro the College. Writing in the Campus news paper the Phoenix Dembart said he had seen pot Parli Esin almost every major City in Vietnam and had seen Soldier buying marijuana cigarettes at Public cigarette stands Souve Nir shops and even in Beer shops set up around military bases. Written question Dembart said he sought an interview with the Provost mar Shal on the question of marijuana use and arrests but was Al Lowed Only to submit written questions. In the written answers hews told there had been 1.391 arrests in 1967 for Possession and or use of marijuana and that this is a rate of .30 per thousand troops identical to the army wide  the Provost marshal s office said smoking of marijuana is not a major problem and hashed no discernible Impact on morale health welfare efficiency or combat  the Provost marshal whose name was not Given also Veri fied Dembart s finding on the availability of marijuana say ing it is grown throughout Vietnam and can be easily obtained in the major cities or inane area whore there Are Large concentrations of .  said the supplier of marijuana in one provincial ing spot puts out Little plates off a a Tel a m 1 it set Mit Etc of or or of a t m  
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