European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes j health service faces shake up Bon Lookout a South vietnamese sol stands guard on a Saigon rooftop and looks at the rubble below for any signs of Cheviet Cong. Up photo ister detection of rockets Saigon defense improved Tigon a Gen. Creigh a. Abrams jr., the new . Nander in Vietnam  that Saigon is still the Cong s main objective but Are ready to defeat them. Rams said we Are Gringut a Stop to the rocket at on the South Vietnam Seil because we have to them and we have thens to Stop  was reported that new top it electronic devices have installed within the Pas they provide Quick Detec of enemy firing position radar controlled guidance  talked briefly with Smen at a ceremony instal vietnamese maj. Gen. Nguy Van Minh As commander of s a i g o n military District. Ams himself took Over the . Command in Vietnam Only few Days ago from Gen. Wil Liam c. Westmoreland now in route to the United states to be come army chief of . Gen. John h. Hay jr., who was assigned Only the Pas week to head the american Effort in defense of Saigon Tolda newsman we have enough human and electronic Talent now for a successful defense. Hay said we had the first tangible result of the new equipment in countering the rocket attack Early sunday. In this shelling the Viet con fired Only four rockets against the  giving specific details Hay said the time Between detection of enemy firing positions and counter Battery fire had been Cut Down considerably. The counter fire he said resulted in a secondary explosion six Miles from the Point where a incoming rocket landed. Such secondary explosions normally indicate a successful hit on am munition or fuel. Austin Tex. A presi Dent Johnson announced Satur Day a plan for shaking up the Public health service and Mak ing Secretary of welfare Wilbur. Cohen a sort of hesitant Czar Over the $15.6-billion Federal health programs. Effective july 1, there will Bea new consumer Protection and environmental Heath service inthe department of health Edu cation and welfare. It will consolidate in one ranch of the Public health service All departmental activities relating to the safety of food and drugs pollution control radiological health problems Urban and Industrial health an elements of communicable Dis ease control. Arguing for a stronger role for his department in guiding Federal health efforts Cohen took particular aim in his report at the defense department. He said there is no effective Way now for the Secretary of welfare to offer guidance on such things As the drafting of physicians to care for civilian dependents of servicemen in the United states. Cohen told newsmen that no much can be done to solve the health manpower problem be fore 1975 because it takes so Long to produce doctors an nurses. He added that the Way doctors Are drafted and used by the defense department must Bere examined to be sure we Are getting the Best use out of Ever physician. We be discovered Cohen id that a Guy trained 16 weeks As a corpsman in som cases can do better than a Man who has just come out of Midi Al  Mckissick May leave Core soon new York a civil rights Leader Floyd b. Mckissick said Here that he won continue much longer Asna tonal director of the Congress of racial Equality. Mckissick said he has already asked to be relieved of the Job but his resignation was rejected May 30 by the National action Council Core s Board of directors. Another source said tha Mckissick quite possibly will take an indefinite leave of absence after the Core Conven Tion next month to undergo treatment for a slipped disc. Mckissick confirmed that Misback was bothering him. He also said he was writing a Bookend seeking admission to the new York bar. Mckissick prac tired Law in his native North Carolina before taking Over the top Core Post. A. Gunboat sunk a guns in Doz continued from Page v a hit the , . Marines re lied a massive North Viet Reese attack against Khe Sanh Lig 181 troops in the fiercest Ming around the Marine out m two months spokesmen Saigon Viet Cong Guervil slammed four rockets into capital despite a major. $ around Saigon s outskirts j South vietnamese paratroop looking for Viet Cong rocket he South vietnamese report killing 80 of the enemy in a Fen hour Battle in a swamp me Saigon used As a rocket Ching site. He fighting at Khe Sanh was heaviest since Allied troops months ago lifted the Northe namese siege of the area \ in uth of the demilitarized. I he marines suffered 16 Jed and 61  in Sun la e fighting. Seven North Viet m North vietnamese fired mortar and rocket grenades into Marine Hillside fortification then attempted to overrun  the marines held the strategic advantage and pinned Down the North vietnamese while helicopter gunships fighter bombers and artillery battered enemy positions. The Battle broke off nearly four hours later with the marines in Pursuit of the North vietnamese who withdrew and finally disappeared into the Jungle . Spokesmen said. An american spokesman said three persons including two americans were wounded in the Viet Cong rocket attack on Sai gon.. Bombers blasted enemy positions around the capital with some of the heaviest strikes of the War and Allied command ers issued an Alert to counter any enemy thrusts into Saigon. The Viet Cong renewed their shelling of the . Air base at Tan son Nhut on Saigon s North Ern fringe hitting two houses. In the lurch John Hoppy Hopkins sit forlornly on Steps of St. Pancras town Hall London after his Bride to be not identified failed to show up. He said she was sick. Air