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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, Dec. 29,1971
Page 2
American jets bomb North Viet
for fourth consecutive day
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
SAIGON (UPI) — American
jets bombed North Vietnam
again today in the fourth
consecutive day of the most
sustained raids on the north
ever ordered by President
Nixon. The North Vietnamese
fired missiles and antiaircraft
artillery and sent up Soviet
built MIG jets against the U.S.
planes.
Military sources said the
Communist opposition to the
raids was light. Radio Hanoi
said seven American fighter
bombers had been shot down
since the prolonged raids began
Sunday.
Hanoi Radio again denounced
what it termed “the piratical
air attacks by the American
imperialist aggressors.” It said
U.S. planes bombed hospitals,
schools and state farms. The
U.S. command declined to
comment but military sources
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said what Hanoi claimed was
almost impossible.
The chief objective of the
raids appeared to be to
suppress just such antiaircraft
reaction as the North Vietna
mese came up with today. An
increasing number of MIG jets
had scrambled to challenge the
U.S. planes.
On South Vietnamese battle
fronts, a U.S. Army OH6
observation helicopter was shot
down along the Cambodian
border Tuesday. Its two U.S.
crewmen were wounded. Milita
ry sources said the ’copter was
flying in support of South
Vietnamese 23rd Infantry Divi
sion troops.
The broadcast from Hanoi
said another U.S. jet was shot
down over Quang Bing Pro
vince in North Vietnam Tues
day and said it was the seventh
plane downed since Sunday.
The U.S. command had no
comment on the broadcast.
But the Communists held a
news conference Monday in the
provincial capital of Thanh
Hoa, 85 miles south of Hanoi
and displayed what they said
was the wreckage of a downed
U.S. aircraft along with identifi
cation cards of two pilots killed
in the crash.
The broadcast identified the
pilots as Capt. Paul Rosen,
service number 316464799 FR,
date of birth Nov. 24, 1945 ; 2nd
Lt. (first name unintelligible)
Castille, bom Dec. 13, 1946,
service number 275468109FV.
Officially, the U.S. command
has maintained silence on the
raids, citing the need for
security because the raids were
“an ongoing operation.”
UPI correspondent Arthur
Higbee, writing from Saigon,
said the sustained raids by
supersonic Air Force and Navy
jets are for the most part to
make it once again safe for the
much slower but bigger Ameri
can 852 s to keep bombing the
Ho Chi Minh Trail through
Laos.
The 852 s are pounding the
supply trail, as they have been
for years, to make it safe to
continue the American troop
withdrawal from Vietnam as
the Vietnamese take over the
American role in Vietnam.
The latest air strikes are
prolonged partly because the
India-Pakistan clash
believed isolated fight
By United Press International
Indian officials said today
they believed a firefight break
ing the India-Pakistan cease-
weather is bad over North
Vietnam, making difficult both
the bombing and assessing the
damage from the strikes.
Before the new air strikes
were ordered, U.S. flights over
the Ho Chi Minh Trail were
MECHANIZED WARFARE may be the “in” thing, but they still do things the old
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fire along the western front
Tuesday was an isolated
incident and did not indicate an
imminent resumption of war.
getting very hazardous. In the
past three months, Soviet-built
MIG jets have made about 30
passes at the relatively vulnera
ble 8525. On one occasion, the
MIGs flew right through a
three-plane formation of 852 s
Officials said five Indian
soldiers were killed and 29
wounded in the Pakistan attack
on an Indian position in the
Ganganagar area of Rajasthan
state, about 200 miles northwest
of New Delhi. A spokesman
said six Pakistani troops were
captured and one later died
from wounds.
The clash was the first cease
fire violation reported along the
western front since soon after
the truce went into effect Dec.
17, ending the 14-day war.
Indian officials said they sent
reinforcements into the area
even though they believed the
fight an isolated incident.
Second Trip
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
flew today to Kashmir, a
northern state claimed by both
India and Pakistan, her second
trip to the western front in less
than a week.
She told a crowd of about
50,000 persons in Srinagar,
capital of Kashmir, that India’s
aim in the 14-day war had not
been to weaken Pakistan.
“We do not want a weak
neighbor,” Mrs. Gandhi said at
AMA complains
about fee limit
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
American Medical Association,
insisting it wants “to cooperate
with President Nixon’s curb on
inflation,” has complained to
the Cost of Living Council about
a 2.5 per cent ceiling on
increases in physicians’ fees.
In the hierarchy of Phase II
economics, the Cost of Living
Council sits one step higher
than the Price Commission,
which imposed the ceiling Dec.
15.
Donald Rumsfeld, director of
the Cost of Living Council,
suggested that the AMA take
its case directly to the Price
Commission, according to his
spokesman. Rumsfeld heard the
complaint Tuesday from a
contingent headed by Dr. Max
H. Parrott, chairman of the
AMA board of trustees.
In a statement after the
meeting at the White House,
the AMA said, “While stressing
medicine’s desire to cooperate
with President Nixon’s curb on
inflation, Dr. Parrott took
exception to price control
proposals that would deny
treatment equal to that given
other providers of professional
services.”
The 2.5 per cent annual limit
on fee increases was the same
imposed on all other services
and industries at the start of
Phase n Nov. 14. But the
commission gave special atten-
with guns blazing, although to
no effect.
Statistics showed that at least
six American fighter-bombers
have been shot down or forced
down this month —as many as
three by MIGs.
an outdoor rally in the biting
cold, “but we will not tolerate
that Pakistan or her allies try
to weaken us in any way.”
She said she hoped Pakistan’s
new leadership would realize
their best course lay in
friendship with India.
Hospitals Visited Earlier
Earlier she visited hospitals
in the Amritsar area and took
gifts to wounded soldiers.
Her second trip was to an
area farther north about 400
miles from New Delhi.
In Dacca, the capital of the
People’s Republic of Ban
gladesh, formerly East Pakis
tan, Syed Nazrul Islam, the
acting president of the new
country, called again for the
release of the rebel, Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman.
There were indications a
major conflict was brewing
inside the Awami League
without Rahman’s control. Poli
tical sources said the conflicts
among the present leaders have
not yet developed to the point
where they cannot be mended
but unless Rahman is released
political chaos could result.
tion to health services because
the annual rate of inflation in
that sector of the economy was
estimated at 13 per cent.
The commission ruled that
doctors and others in their
category would be required to
maintain for inspection a list of
prices that were being charged
for medical services during the
90-day economic freeze. The 2.5
per cent guidelines require
increases to be justified.
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sponding to a fourth day of
large-scale American bombing
attacks against North Vietnam,
demonstrators sloshed blood in
front of the White House
Tuesday in the largest outbreak
of antiwar activity in the
United States since spring.
As about 150 demonstrators
marched single file past the
White House, five young men
stepped out of line and threw
small plastic bags of blood to
the sidewalk along Pennsylva
nia Avenue, stomping on them
until the bags broke and the
Mood spurted.
One of the demonstrators,
identified as Tom Urgo, 22, of
New Jersey, was arrested for
littering.
The demonstrators, led by
members of Vietnam Veterans
Against the War (WAW) had
marched from the Capitol to
the White House before the
Mood incident.
They then walked to Lincoln
Memorial and sat on the stone
floor around the huge statue of
Abraham Lincoln. Police moved
in and arrested 87 of them on
charges of disorderly conduct
and obstructing a national
historical monument.
Earlier Tuesday, 15 WAW
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members ended their occupa
tion of the Statue of Liberty in
New York, complying with a
court order. They started the
sit-in Sunday to demonstrate
their opposition to the war.
The increased air raids also
prompted verbal blasts at the
Nixon administration.
The front-runner for the
Democratic presidential nomin
ation, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie,
joined another Democratic
presidential hopeful in calling
for an end of the raids. Sen.
George S. McGovern, D-S.D.,
said the bombing was a new
escalation that could lead only
to “bloody reprisals” against
the remaining U.S. forces in
Vietnam.
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