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Cong Terrorists Strike In Saigon
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—Viet Cong
terrorists bombed Saigon’s cen
tral marketplace today and
stabbed and shot a government
official in his home. Allied
soldiers threw up the toughest
anti-infiltration security ring
around the capital in four
months.
The mid-morning grenade
Yes... The Mother of
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You may not approve of the age
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Blessed Virgin.
Perhaps you have heard—and
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person equal in power to God.
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the Mother of Jesus Christ. If
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nature like ours in all things ex
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not give Jesus His divine nature,
the Savior was her Son...as
truly as anyone is the son of his
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In view of these truths, how
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just another woman, or just an
other mother? Why should we
hesitate to honor one whom God
so greatly honored... and upon
whom He conferred a surpass
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dom from sin? Why should we
believe that one so close to the
Son of God in His earthly life is
not close and dear to Him in
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It is erroneous, of course, to
think that Catholics worship
Mary as a divine person. But we
do love and venerate her for the
unique place she occupies in
God’s plan for our salvation...
for her intimate association with
the all-holy Son of God...for
her own holiness.
But, you may say—why should
we prey to Mary when we can
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explosion killed a woman and
wounded 13 persons in the
crowded, covered market where
Saigon housewives barter for
everything from live monkeys
to plastic raincoats. The terror
ists escaped In the confusion in
the yard-wide aisles.
It happened a few hours after
a two-man Viet Cong assassin
team invaded the home of a 68-
pray directly to God, as the
Scriptures command? The an
swer is that Catholics do pray
to God for grace and forgive
ness-blessings which only God
can grant. But there is no law
of God which commands us,
when we go to Him in prayer...
that we must go alone.
Like St. Paul, we believe in
praying for others and having
others pray for us. And whose
prayers could find greater favor
with God than those of the
Mother of His Divine Son?
These are the chief reasons
for the world-wide Catholic de
votion to the Blessed Virgin and
why millions in every land and
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"Hail, Mary, full of grace! the
Lord is with thee; blessed art
thou amongst women; and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus...”
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year-old South Vietnamese pre
cinct official, shot and stabbed
him. Officials said the man was
critically wounded. His assai
lants escaped.
Government Casualties Higher
Meanwhile U.S. military
spokesmen reported the number
of South Vietnamese soldiers
killed exceeded the number of
American battle deaths last
week for the 10th successive
week.
South Vietnamee spokesmen
said 473 of their troops died in
battle last week. American
headquarters listed 290 U.S.
servicemen dead in the same
period.
Communist losses were put at
2,867 killed, pushing the guerril-
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Generation Gap—Thorn
In Russian Bear's Paw
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Something not fully appreciated in the United States is the
seriousness of the generation gap in the Soviet Union.
More than half the Soviet population is now under 30 years
of age.
Because so many men who would now be In their 40s and
50s were killed in World War 11, there is a serious shortage of
able leaders in the middle-management levels of the Soviet
hierarchy.
As a consequence, the Moscow ruling group is composed in
great measure of men in their 60s, with a far-too-small leaven
ing of middle-aged and younger men.
Because of this middle leadership gap the “old” rulers have
become intellectually inbred and have grown isolated from
the young men and women now in their 20s and 30s.
Far too often, these old men look to the past and the past
alone. It is said they “cannot forget the lessons learned. 30
years ago (0r)... learn the lessons of the present.”
Worse yet, most of the aging leaders grew to power in the
days of Stalin. In the words of one observer, “The majority
of those 60-year-old members of the governing bodies who now
make policy had their feet firmly on the ladder upwards in
Stalin’s time and were evidently tireless agents of his
system.”
The campaign to expose Stalin kicked off by Nikita Khrush
chev has boomeranged. The rulers are now tarred with the
Stalin brush. These men have, to a degree not fully under
stood in the West, lost the respect of Russia’s youth.
This disillusionment with the “fathers” of their country has
caused numbers of Soviet young people to raise questions
about the whole Soviet-Communist system, an undertaking
which obviously requires an astounding amount of courage
in a totalitarian state.
At least one young member of the intelligentsia has openly
proposed a study which would require an investigation of the
whole Soviet system and of the fundamental presuppositions
on which it rests—including its ideological basis.
Considerable numbers of these young people are petitioning
for free speech, the protection of civil rights, especially the
right of demonstrations and other forms of dissent, open and
speedy trials, the impartial selection of witnesses and the
scrupulous application of law.
These young people say these rights are guaranteed by the
Soviet constitution.
According to reports, Ivan lakhimovich, a collective farm
chairman once hailed by Komsomol’skaia Pravda as “honest
and just” and “more concerned for the welfare of his com
munity than he is for himself,” recently protested:
“I believe that the persecution of young dissenters in a
country where more than 50 per cent of the population is
younger than 30 years of age is an extremely dangerous line
... It is stupid ... to let them rot in prisons and make
mock of them. . . . Too bad for us if we are not capable of
reaching an understanding with these young people. . . .
inevitably they will create a new party. Ideas cannot be
murdered with bullets, prison or exile ....”
la death toll since Jan. 1, 1961,
to 398,723, U.S. spokesmen said.
The weekly U.S. casualty and
manpower report said the
American troop commitment
jumped 3,000 last week to
538,500.
Allied soldiers, acting on
intelligence the Communists
may try to infiltrate Saigon in
three-man terror teams,
clamped the tightest security
ring around the city since the
Communists’ May offensive.
They stopped all cars and
trucks going into the capital and
searched them for contraband.
Fear New Attack
Intelligence indications were
the Communists may use this
week’s 22nd anniversary of their
guerrilla war against the
French as an occasion to launch
the long-expected third Saigon
offensive. U.S. commanders
sent waves of 852 Stratofortress
bombers against Red hideouts
on Saigon’s doorstep.
The closest fighting to the
capital was a small flareup
Wednesday 20 miles to the west.
Government spokesmen said
their troops killed 28 guerrillas,
destroyed five sampans and
seized 265 mortar shells. Allied
losses were not reported.
It was one of four scattered
battles in which spokesmen said
a total of 293 Communists died,
218 of them in a fight with U.S.
Americal Division troopers on
the coast 310 miles north of
Saigon.
U.S. officials in Saigon said a
total of 1,762 American service
men were wounded in action
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last week—making the total
dead and wounded for the week
2,052, the highest in three
weeks.
The losses pushed to 28,211
the number of U.S. servicemen
killed in Vietnam and to 176,456
the number wounded since Jan.
1, 1961, the report- said.
ALERT CONGREGATION
TRYSULL, England (UPD—
Widow Elizabeth Grainger Sun
day marked 20 years in the 246-
year-old post of official “waker
upper” at the local Anglican
Church.
Paid $2.40 a year to wake
dozing churchgoers in the pews
and whip any dogs she finds at
the church door during services,
Mrs. Grainger said, “I’ve never
had to wake anyone yet.”
Thursday, Sept. 26, 1968 Griffin Daily News
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ENGINEER inspects radiation detector on Environmental
Research Satellite (OVS-2), which will collect low-energy
electron and proton data in the synchronous orbit region
oi space. Built by TRW for the Air Force Office of Aero
space Research, it is scheduled for launching with three
other satellites.
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