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Allies Kill 230 Guerrillas In Light Clashes
By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. i
SAIGON (UPD—Allied forces
killed at least 230 guerrillas in ,
light but numerous clashes ■
throughout Sov’h Vietnam, mill- i
tary spokesmen said today. In .
one fight a U.S. Marine Jet ;
accidentally bombed American (
positions, killing six Leather- ,
necks and wounding eight ,
others. j
Military otnciais described 1
the South Vietnamese fighting 1
as generally calm with no large ;
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scale fighting reported.
Saigon's attention centered on
government plans for a 6,000 1
person rally to support Pres- 1
ident Bguyen Van Thieu’s 1
refusal to allow South Viet- 1
nam’s participation in expanded <
peace talks in Paris, despite 1
U.S. urging. American spokes
men said they saw “no trouble” (
from the rally but said the 1
Marine guard at the U.S. 1
Embassy here was “increased 1
slightly” the past few days. ' 1
Concentrate On South
Thj killing of the 230 Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese
came Sunday up and down the
country. Airplanes and war
ships, no longer allowed to
strike North Vietnam, joined 1
the attack in the south. The
battleship New Jersey, fresh (
from hitting North Vietnam, (
sent one ton shells crashing into
a North Vietnamese camp near ,
Da Nang, 360 miles north of (
Saigon. ’ i
About 20 miles southwest of :
Da Nang, a Marine F 4 Phantom
dropped l‘j bombs on Leather
necks charging toward a North
Vietnamese trench nest, causing
the American casualties. The 1
accident was being investigated. ■
Further down the coast, the
destroyer Waller blasted a Viet
Cong camp near Phan Thiet, i
100 miles east of Saigon. Some <
of the dazed guerrillas came so 1
close to an American forward I
spotter on shore that “they left I
muddy footprints on my
poncho,” he later reported.
Small Fights Erupt
American and South Vietna
mese troops killed Communists
in small groups from the
Mekong Delta to near the North
Vietnam border.
Despite a lack of major
combat, American warplanes
continued to search out and
bomb suspected guerrilla posi
tions and supply dumps in the
South.
’ According to U.S. military
sources, the halt in bombing
North Vietnam may result in
the withdrawal from the war
■ zone of two of the three aircraft
1 carriers the 7th Fleet used in
! bombarding North Vietnam.
i
The Viet Cong, although
' shying from major action over
1 the weekend, used terror tactics
' Sunday. Guerrillas killed five
. persons in mortaring a town 30
miles south of Saigon.
Monday, Nov. 4, 1968 Griffin Daily News
RAY CRUMLEY
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Section Day: SDS Maps
'Destroy Society' Clamor
By RAY CROMLEY
A Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Nov. 5, 1968. may be a test of something more than, who
will be president of the United States.
On that day we may have a chance to observe how far
student activists have been able to carry their people
against the system.
This will be the first national post-Chicago confrontation,
attempt. It will thus be a measure of how effective the
militants have been able to capitalize on that exercise.
Significantly, the nationwide protests planned for elec
tion day—high school and college walkouts, teach-ins,
marches and '‘strikes,” mass “militant” confrontation
demonstrations in major cities, soldier protests at military
bases and perhaps a march, on the White House—don’t aim
primarily at Vietnam, race rights, poverty or the draft.
Instead, their theme will be: “We have got to destroy this
society...”
# The dissidents are out to push the thought that all elec
tions under the present system of U.S. government are
fraudulent.
The problem, as seen by some Students for a Democratic
Society leaders, is that “most of our people still believe ...
in the electoral process ... There is not enough disillusion
ment ...”
Activist youth leaders connected with the SDS want to
direct the protests in such away “that people will come to
understand that our country’s problems are a necessary
result of our capitalist system and cannot be solved by a
change in leadership.” They want to show, for example,
that on Vietnam the main split between the parties is over
tactics on “how best to maintain and extend American im
perialism” and how. to make an “imperialist peace which
would mean the continued exploitation of the Vietnamese
people without the overt use of brute force.”
As one group of SDSers put ft, “We must speak to the
fact that this society is controlled by a ruling class, that
the electoral process operates as an arm of that ruling
class and that, consequently, there is no national electoral
solution which can speak to the real needs of the American
people.”
As another group of SDS men see it, “The relationshin
between business and government through such agencies
as the FBI and CIA, the Ford Foundation, the various ad
visory boards, AID, OAS, the Peace Corps . . . makes it
impossible for opposing interests to gain representation or
political power through the electoral process ... and any
attempt to oppose capitalist interests.from within is pre
destined to failure.”
Not many students this reporter has talked to want to
“tear the house down.” Though many see a-great deal in
our society they would like to change, few would go so far
as these militants say they want to go.
It will be interesting, therefore, to see how many of the
demonstrations take the extreme tack the organizers hope
for and how many restrict their protests to specific sore
spots. This will be considerably more significant than
counting numbers.
World Briefs
SPEER TESTIFIES
ESSEN, Germany (UPD—
Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s
production minister, said Wed
nesday he was unaware SS
troops ran a concentration
camp where final touches were
put on the V 2 rockets that
blasted London.
Speer said it was only toward
the last of World War II that he
found out of the high death rate
at such camps.
Speer, 63, testified at the trial
of three former members of the
Gestapo, the Nazi security
police charged with murdering
prisoners at Nordhausen V 2 |
Camp.
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BUS ACCIDENT
SANCHONG, Korea (UPD—A
bus loaded with mourners on
their way to a funeral plunged
off a mountain road and fell 100
feet into a river Wednesday,
killing 44 persons and Injuring
34 in Korea's worst highway
accident.
A witness said one of the
front wheels of the bus slipped
off the edge of the roadway and
the bus fell into the Namkang
River near Sanchong, 155 miles
southeast of Seoul.
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PICARD SENTENCED
PARIS (UPD—Maurice Pi
card, a former chief of the
French civil defense, was
sentenced Wednesday to seven
years in prison for passing
secrets to the Soviets, West
Germany, Britain and the
United States.
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Picard was accused of giving
away secrets in exchange for
supressing information in do
cuments alleging he cooperated
with the Nazi Gestapo in World
War 11.
Picard denied passing secret
information. He admitted “close
contacts” with the Gestapo but
said he gave the Nazis false
information.
ARMS PIPELINE
PARIS (UPD—The rebellious
Eastern Region of Nigeria is
getting enough arms from the
Republic of Gabon to keep the
rebels going for months, a
French mercenary said Wednes
day.
The mercenary, who asked he
not be identified, had just
returned from the Eastern
region. He said the Eastern
Region gets an average of 21
tons of war supplies a day from
Libreville, capital of Gabon. He
said the arms are mostly
French, Czechoslovak, Belgian
and American.
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