European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 3, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 a National medical employment Arter Likely to of Viet vet benefits Ash Langton up president car expected to act quickly and favor on a number of recommendations Toast benefits for education and treat of Vietnam veterans a White Houseman said tuesday. Uty press Secretary Rex Granum ring questions about a veterans adoration memorandum outlining Suchi cements said. We anticipate that ii have something very  re consulting with members of Ess about the issues important to ets bombing cambodians port says Shin ton a the vietnamese tree has been bombing and strafing Indian troops on an unprecedented in their Border War according to a intelligence report vietnamese pilots Are believed to be american built planes captured Atid of the Southeast Asia War. Intelligence report circulated . Military and civilian officials he vietnamese Are using much Hea Bir Power to support ground attacks St what was described As fierce Resis inside Cambodia. Ere was no indication of any Cambodia opposition. At Best the cambodians believed to have Only a handful of old Small propeller driven t-28s, which ten converted from training planes tour bombers before the .-backed Indian government was toppled Bynun St forces in 1975. National significance lists wrote that the Border fighting in Cambodia and Vietnam onetime unit allies is no longer a territorial the but has become a matter of far Ling National significance for both order fighting has flared sporadically shortly after the Southeast Asia War i with the fall of Saigon in 197s, but isted to have become especially Seri nce late last  analysts said that the vietnamese a shop is sending troops southward the Hanoi area along with significant ints of equipment and that the Viet be Assembly in Hanoi recently a 1 a big increase in the country s Mill analysts do not suggest that the Are planning a takeover of but say Hanoi s current object Rirs to be to punish cambodian so badly that they will not be Able Toi into Vietnam in the future their report . Intelligence analysts that vietnamese planes have Ted intense and sustained air attacks mid june particularly in a Cambodia Irea opposite Vietnam s Tay Nin Hince. Ell Glence sources did not identify theft involved but Pentagon officials it is believed vietnamese pilots mayling some of the 113 .-built a-37 bombers and 73 f-5 fighter bombers red when South Vietnam collapsed three Yean  Vietnam is unable to get new in of spare parts for the american. Pentagon specialists said it could some of the a-37s and f-5s Hying Byi Baliling parts from grounded planes. Vietnamese also have thousands off american bombs and air to ground my they captured in 1375. It was said urea have said that More than 40 so built Mic Jet fighters were moved North to South Vietnam after the the Vietnam veterans Granum  a related development the House approved and sent to the Senate legislation to designate july 18,1979 As National pow Mia recognition Day to Honor Ameri cans who have been held prisoner of War or listed As missing in  s expected action was outlined after the president s meeting with a group of congressional veterans of the Vietnam War  group s spokesman. Rep. David Bonior. A mice. Told Carter we cannot afford to allow the Vietnam Veteran to reburied in the silence which surrounds the Vietnam  need both sympathetic actions that will finally reunite the Veteran and his country and significant programs with major Dollar commitments that solve  the group representing 14 members of Congress who served As military advisers or soldiers in the Vietnam Era urged car Ter to extend the time for use of i Educa Tion benefits and to increase the sums to meet higher tuition  congressmen who Call themselves the Vietnam  also recommended extending Job tax credits to employers who hire veterans and increase funding for health and psychological care for alcoholism Tum drug  anticipate there will be increased spending for alcohol and drug abuse treat ment employment incentives and Educa Tion initiatives he said. He Carter indicated he believed More should be done for the Vietnam  Brig. Gen. John h. Johns Dod special assistant for drug abuse named the Rose Bette Midler is starring la her first motion picture As the Rose the Story of an explosive Rock Singer in the late 1940s. Up photo by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is defense Secre tary Harold Brown appointed army . John h. Johns As the special assistant for drug abuse to the assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs tuesday. Johns last assignment was As director of the human resources development office of the army Deputy chief of staff for personnel. In his new assignment Johns is charge with successful implementation of de sense department drug abuse prevention and control efforts a Pentagon spokesman  said that Johns would coordinate All drug abuse programs within the depart ment including research Law enforce ment health care and program  these programs Are being Niple House vote clears Way for sex Marine citation Washington up the House cleared the Way tuesday for former Marine Cpl. Anthony Casamento to receive either the medal of Honor or the Navy Cross for holding off a japanese Bayonet charge on Guadalcanal in world War ii. The House left up to president carte the decision on whether Casamento gets the nations or the Navy a highest Honor for gallantry. Members resolved a 10-year controversy Over a medal for Casamento by unanimously passing a private Bill that would waive time restrictions for the awarding of any medal to the  now goes to the Senate where sen. Jacob javits in.  Is pushing the . 57. Of West Islip. . Felt he deserved the medal of Honor which carries a special pension payment. Rep. Thomas Downey in. Y.,  the Navy department has maintained Casamento should receive the Navy Cross ranking just below the medal of  described Casamento s actions on nov. 1. 1942. A battalion of the 5thmarine division advanced on japanese held positions West of Guadalcanal s Mata Nipkau River. A machine gun Crew commanded by Corporal Casamento was charged with guarding the left flank of the  Crew came under heavy Small arms fire which hit most of the 30-Man detachment immediately. The machine gun Ner was killed. Casamento already wounded manned the gun. As the enemy began to surround the Crew. Casamento stopped their Advance with the machine gun and hand grenades. Casamento was hit again and knocked off the gun but he remained it. Without leaving the gun he ordered one of  to fall Back report the debacle and obtain medical help for the wounded. Casamento covered the Man s Retreat. When reinforcements arrived Casa mento was found slumped at his gun. De spite 14 wounds he had single handed held off the enemy. In doing so he had protected his wounded men from a Bayonet Slaughter and kept the japanese from gaining a commanding Ridge position fro which to unleash a murderous fire on the rest of the  As Casamento recuperated the Marine corps conducted an investigation but no eyewitnesses were found and his heroism went undecorated. But in 1964 two witnesses were found and a year later a Navy Board of decorations and medals unanimously recommended that Casamento receive the medal of Honor. The Navy department overruled the Board in part on a recommendation by the commandant of the Marine corps who Felt it would set a precedent and invite other requests which would create Embarrass ing situations for All  a year later a second review Board was convened and recommended the Navy Cross the position the Navy has maintained. Merited the spokesman added that Johns will also serve As the department s Liaison with other Federal agencies on matters of drug and alcohol abuse. Earlier this year the Pentagon came under congressional criticism for not doing enough to combat drug abuse in the armed forces. Last week Deputy Secretary of defens Echarles Duncan told the House select committee on narcotics abuse and control about the Pentagon s new initiative in controlling drug  begun among those new initiatives Are the Fol lowing operations which have just begun or Are planned design and administer a comprehensive personal Survey on drug abuse. Redesign the Dod drug reporting system to allow for More uniform anymore ready Access to trend data. Accelerate testing of portable urinalysis equipment used in testing for drug abuse. Identify ways to get accurate measurement of the extent of drug abuse by de Pendents and to assess How existing programs Are responding. Establish a Dod task Force to review investigative procedures criminal Intelli gence interdiction techniques and staffing Levels to determine whether and where Dod needs More and different types of Law enforcement personnel. Theron do of time aug. 3, 1941 germans Are eating More than at any time since the occupation began and food off coals in Berlin us they were very optimistic that the situation will continue through the Winter. In july the average German in the combined Brit ish and american a Odds received 1,m Cal Orie Dally by far the highest ration since the end of the War. Aug. 3, ims one of the tiniest Perma Ture Baues on record m pounds was Bora la Cambridge Ohio and it mat the baby Bora to or. And or. A njord Bandy was about four month premature. Aug. 3,19u in los Angeles coat or Baa Alshara Siriwat responded to the charge that he murdered sen. Robert , in � firm Clear Voke with a not