European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 24 the stars and stripes Safur Doy september 7,19 68 could . Cut go strength in Vietnam now conf mod from Page 1 troops could begin immediately paring the number to 200,000 by 1972. One of the proponents is John p. Vann an influential and knowledgeable regional director of the .-backed pacification program. Vann would Cut deeply into the elaborate military Structure built by the former commander of . Troops and now chief of staff of the army Gen. Williamc. Westmoreland. The . High command jealously guards its establishment in Vietnam. Vann admits his proposal is provocative it would need a hard headed Secretary of defense to push it  senior . Field commanders Are against pulling out any american troops in the foresee Able future. It. Gen. Richard g. Stilwell commander of the Are that includes the Battle scarred demilitarized zone comments no troop commander will Ever admit he has too Many  american efforts in Vietnam Are based on the Assumption that vietnamese will eventually takeover the defense Burden but critics see the opposite taking Lacoc in some areas. Around Saigon for example the continuous threat of a major enemy attack has tempted the . Com Mand to insist upon a greater voice in Security than is normally the Case. We could nursemaid the vietnamese army forever one civilian official  saved them in 1965, and we built them up. Now they have second Chance and they say they Are nearly ready to do the Job themselves. Maybe they can. God knows we should  the . Commander in Viet Nam Gen. Creighton w. Abrams is showing considerably less patience for High level excuses than did Westy according to one official close to him. Abrams believes that real Progress in Vietnam can be made Only by the vietnamese and has told them so. Viet namese officers know that the honeymoon with the . Is Over they must fish or Cut bait said one official. One other major Factor maybe the attitude of people in the United states to the War. Right now people Don t expect the War to be going on in Vietnam in 1969," declared Vann who recently returned from washing ton. They think the whole thing will be solved this year in Paris. But i Tell you the War will still be going next year and when they find that out they won like i at  to Avert what Mir turn outto be a Complete rejection of the Agnew says gop con end Viet War continued from Page to could furnish the solutions. I think our party can exercise its flexibility and free options and get us out of that miserable mess Over there Agnew said. It s very important that the United states As a world Power not abrogate its responsibility to end the War he added. Agnew chided the doves who Call for withdrawal of . Terrorist int blast rocks Saigon 8 killed continued from Page 1 namese information office build ing and a restaurant next door. It followed a series of terrorist attacks earlier this week and a warning by the National police director col. Tran Van Hai that communist squads were slipping into the City for an inside at tack this  american Soldier said one Man had been thrown bythe blast against the railing of a school on the opposite Side of the Road from the  he said persons walking across the Street were torn and Dis Mem  were thrown several feet by the blast the Soldier  bodies slammed into the schoolyard or against the rail Ings around it. One person i saw was imbedded in the Fence bythe Force of the blast. I saw an other vietnamese policeman lying in the Middle of the Street  one hour after the explosion another terror incident was reported in the Dock area of  said a Young Viet Cong female armed with a pistol shot and wounded critically a Ward chief the City equivalent of a Hamlet chief. The Young woman escaped after the shoot ing. Also during the Day police found in a tax collection office in Cholon a tin containing 50 blocks of int and rigged witha fuse. They disarmed it. V executed blindfolded an bound to a tree 2nd it. Macauley l a m u r d a 23, i photographed at the moment of Bis execution by firing squad for an offence against the nigerian army code of Coo duct he was convicted of shooting an unarmed Biafra prisoner of War. British to cameramen bad filmed the booting of the biafran. Ujj Market rises in brisk Day new York a the Stock Market closed higher Friday in Active  Market advanced from the Start in brisk dealings. Trading slowed toward the end of the ses Sion As pre weekend caution be Gan to develop. A Good showing was made by leading stocks in such groups As department stores steels motor Sand rails. Favourable retail store reports signs that major problems for the steel Industry seemed to be Over for the time being and stepped up Auto assemblies aided senti ment. Turks protest 6th Fleet visit Izmir Turkey up about1,000 students staged a protest demonstration in downtown Izmir Friday against a proposed Courtesy visit by ships of . 6th Fleet. About 800 police kept an Eye on the demonstrators in cumhur yet Square but no incidents were reported. There has been a step up i terrorist activity in the capital in recent weeks in what som authorities believe is part of the communist command s third offensive strategy. On the infiltration routes to Saigon . Soldiers flying into Battle by helicopter killed 114viet Cong guerrillas and Cap tured 134 suspects thursday in two Sharp clashes that emphasized the mounting guerrilla pressure against Saigon. Lbs. Continued from Pugja 1 a. Majority two Nomina Senate showed support for the tons. Therefore he declared the Senate should t allow a Little sectional group through parliamentary tricks to Stop the will of the  both Mansfield and Dirkse openly said thursday that the prospects for Fortas winning confirmation were dim. He has been opposed almost from the time his nomination was submitted by a coalition of republicans and Southern democrats. Johnson said the two Senate leaders told him they would return to Capitol Hill and see what they could do about winning the nomination fight. Johnson also said that reemphasized to the two leaders the need for approving the remainder of his legislative program. He told the two leaders that the administration had made Long strides for Ward and that he did not want to see Progress end now. Forces on grounds Vietnam is a immoral War. If this is an immoral War Agnew said then it s no different than any other  wars Are  the gop vice presidential hopeful also had harsh words for democrats regarding to conduct of their National nominating convention in Chicago Las week noting that the same in fighting was not apparent at the Republican convention. A party that cannot deliberate in peace at its convention can not negotiate a peace i Vietnam Agnew said. Agnew also attacked the philosophy of Young militants who espouse leftists policies but he said these people Are Only a Small minority of Heyoung generation. Most Young people Are going to College to learn not to preach Agnew  said the hippies and the hippies constitute what recalled the unconscious an Archy which is doing a horrible disservice to the . They can t drive a bus or run a lathe in the factory Agnew said. All they can do is Lay Down in the Park and sleep and kick the police with razor  in new York Agnew said there were specific links Between student demonstrators and  particular cases but he added that he did not have any particular references other than watching student  the Maryland governor told news conference at Nixon Headquarters that the student demonstrations in France Ger Many the United states including Chicago revolved around the Type of person who has been willing to identify with communist  said he did not favor wide investigations that might revive events in our recent past an apparent reference tothe Early 1950s when sen. Joseph Mccarthy claimed Mohave discovered Many communists in government. But Agne said i Don t think we should Stop looking at it very  Soldier charged in 3 knife slay Ings Karlsruhe Germany is spec. 5 Marion l. Cook of cob 249th Engineer in was charge with unpremeditated murder in three specifications Friday Fol towing an article 32 investigation of the fourth of july Stab Bing of three men outside a Gast Haus in suburban  Case was referred to trial by general court martial but Iodate for the trial has yet been set according to a com spokesman. Cook whose twin brother spec. 4 Marlon g. Cook was re leased after an earlier investigation is charged with having knifed spec. 5 James e. Bowen,21, pfc. Elijah Witherspoon 24, and pvt. Menrie w. Moore 22,All members of the 249th, after an altercation in a Beer  third unidentified Soldier also was released after initial questioning and Marlon Cook was freed from the stockade on july 23. Initial investigation deter mined that All three of the vie urns died from knife founds near the heart War by the . Public said a planned reduction . Forces would be a neck Ity. We have to show the this thing can end he said he would go about the Redue. Lion by partly dismantling ,.elaborate military Structure erected by Gen. Westmorland the first 100,000 american to leave would be for free1 Vann declared. They Are the clerks the laundry Man the Engineer battalions building offi cers clubs throughout the co a try. So Many extraneous things Are soaking up people not Essen in Vann s View infantry dial Sions should be limited to one base Camp each instead of Sev eral. The 1st division has five base Camps. Each base Cam generally requires one battalion of infantrymen to secure mean ing that As much As one third of the trigger pullers in each of the11 american infantry divisions Are standing guard duty. There Are also critics of the constant b52 raids that rattle cities every night. Those raid Cost half a million dollars apiece,1 " one official commented. I know of at least half a dozen raids where an infantry could have checked out the area at one thousandth of the  critics of the Cost of the War Divide annual expenditures this Way $800,000 . Economic id $1.8 billion military Aid to the vietnamese army $2.6 bilion in direct support of vie. Namese operations such As naval blockades and air support the . Effort costs an additional $25 billion. Those Here who see a unplanned withdrawal As possible say they have no intention Selling out the vietnamese