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WASHINGTON (API—President Johnson asked Congress Thursdayfor $3 billion in foreign aid, including a special $100 million in immedi-ate military assistance for South Korea.

Saying threats against South Korea from the North calf for strength-ened defenses of "this sfeadfast ally/' Johnson said the $100 millionwould be used for planes, anti-aircraft equipment, navalradar, patrol craft, ammunition and other supplies.

Seoul has asked the United Stales for added assis-tance since recent Communist incursions across her bord-er.

In his message to Congress Thursday, Johnson didnot mention North Korea's seizure of the U.S. intelligenceship Pueblo and its 83-man crew.

But Paul C. Warnke. assistant secretary of state forinternational security affaire, said the United Statesinitiated the request for additional funds after Communistraids against the presidential palace in Seoul and the

Vol. 24, No. 40

Red GunsPoundKheSanh

SAIGON (AP) — Com-munist North Vietnamesetroops followed up their sei-/.ure of ilie Lang Vei Spe-cial Forces camp Thursdaywith heavy artillery andground attacks on the U.S.Marine Khe .Sanh combatbase. Both sites lie astridet he northwest i n v a s i o nroutes into South Vietnam.

Associated Press Correspond-f-nt John T. Wheeler reportedfrom Khe Sanh that Communistgunners slammed marc lh;ui .100rc-"d.s of ur!iH'.*r%f ••n|4'"t'tf t'^vlmorlars into Marine positions

SAIGON (AP)—The U.S. Mill-lar> Commaml aiumuiU'cd 1'ri-dav a Cummiinisl death dill «f2S.C2I men In 10 days of fightingsince the star! of the enemycountry-wide offensive.

:HH| assaulted a battalion out-post about a mile from Ihe Kiu>Sanh base perimeter.

Wheeler said the North Viet-namese troops foreeil Ihe Ma-rines off half of the top of the.hi!! outpost, but that the Leather-necks counterattacked n e a rdawn with heavy artillery andair support and drove the Com-munist troops hack.

The Marines suffered casual-ties, but the exact ioll was notknown.

The U.S. Command, in apreliminary report en the LangVei Special Forces camp attack,said that ut noon Wednesday anestimated Communist company,perhaps 150 men, controlled thecamp above the ground. At thaitime. Special Farces and civilian(Continued on Buck Page, Col. 4)

The 'Something New*DENVER (AP)—The $:» fee

for a marriage license has notchanged in Denver since 1891.but now officials arc demandingcash on the lino. They say theyliavc been getting too many badchecks.

Saturday, Feb. 10, 1963While U.S. aims aid to South Korea recently haa

(Continued on Buck Page, Col. 2}

U.S. JetLost inKorea

S&S KoitKi Burroif

S E O U L — A U.S.Force RF4C Phantomconnaissanoe jet w i t h acrew of tv.-o xvns reportedmissing T h u r .s d a y overSouth Korea while on aroutine training flight fromOsan AB, Air Force off i -cials here said.

Search operations, coordinat-ed from Ihe Joint Search andRescue t'cnfer «t Osan, beganThursday itf.ern<Min and con-tinued throughout the night w i t hno trace of the plane foundby Friday morning, officialssaid.

Airre-

Britisb Prime Minister Harold Wilson sets ananswer from President Johnson as the two dis-cussed world problems at the White House Thurs-day. Wilson arrived in the U.S. Wednesday for aseries of talks with the President. Thursday's ses-

'Hie p!:me was on »flight over the -Tm-gu area inthe South-Central portion ofSouth Korea.

Air Force officials said theaircraft should have returnedby 1 p.m. Thursday, but noword has been received fromthe pilot and navigator aboardthe plane, Korean national po-lice arc aiding military authori-ties' Jn the .search.

(In Washington, a State DC-pill ( infi l l > (in S\ «• N 111 ti it Miii!Thursday there had been no de-velopment during the last 24hours in l!.S. efforts to arrangefor the re?n:>«<« of the intelli-gence ship Pueblu and i(.s crew,AP reported.)

In Seoul, ROK Defense Minis-ter Sung Kun Kim .•tnnounc-edThursday thai Ihe ROK armedforces will be increased to itsauthori/ed strength of 620,000men by suspending iiulefinitely(Continued im Hack Pace, Col. 3)

sion was to have lasted I hr.ur and a half. Thetwo talked for more than 4 hours. The WhiteHouse made nu iiimounccmcnt of what they dis-cussed. (AP Kadiopholo)

Lang Vei Defenders BattledTanks With Rif/es, Grenades

KHE SANH, Vietnam (AP) —When North Vietnamese tanksrumbled forward to attack theLang Vei Special Forces campWednesday, the U.S. GreenHerd troopers inside decidedthe strange sound came fromthe ramp's erratic generator.

Minutes later the Americans,South Vietnamese and Montag-nard tribesmen were battlingdesperately to keep (he iron

gianls from overwhelmingthem.

They lost the fight but de-stroyed seven of the 10 tankswhich the North Vietnamese

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used for the first time in the\var.

Before the onslaught againstIhe ramp three miles west ofthe U.S. Marine combat base at

Klie Sanh, Ihe Norlh Viet-namese pounded it with a fu-rious artillery and mortar bar-rays.

The tanks smashed throughthe camp's outer defenses withcase. A wounded American Mir-vivor c o m m c n t c d: "Thatbarbed wire just doesn't slowtanks down at all."

The defenders fou&ht the(Continued on Rack Page, Col. 1)

3 Die as JetRams House

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. (AP)-A U.S. Air Force jet pilot andan Indianapolis area couple diedThursday when an 1'IOU j i tfighter crashed into a one-storyhouse in a small residential are:idevelopment .southwest of I n -dianapolis.

The pilot was identified as l.t.Ruel Brown of Bedford, Ohio, :tmember of the Ifif i th TacticalFighter Wing :u I.ockbourneAFB near Columbus, Ohio.

Tb<» bn<1;<"; of th«> couple w*>rain the wrtcl;a;;c.

The jet figh'ior hit the housedirectly. Both house and planewere demolished jind the wreck-age burst into flames.

.By-.RAY BELFORI): „•..•> S*S Vietnam Bureau , • ""

SAIGON — The city of SaigonThursday, appeared to be slowlyreturning to normal despite anestimated 700 to 1,000 Viet Cong,still within the city.

People in the "Blue areas,"parts of the city where there islittle or no apparent Viet Congthreat, began moving.

Children .were playing on thestreets and street peddlers wereback on the job. Mama-sanswith their balance poles andbaskets • were again peddling-whatever it .is they peddle:Everyone seemed to be enjoyingthe extended curfew. People in"Blue areas" are allowed on thestreet until 5 p.m.

, In. other sections, ' the "Red.areas," the streets' remained• deserted. The. Viet Cong are stillin these areas.

As the Viet Cong resistancediminishes, the "Blue areas"spread, and the people are com-ing out of their . homes andplaces of hiding.

Many of the p e o p l e siftthrough the rubble of what usedto be their homes. Others standaround the areas of heavy figlit-ing and gaze in awe at the de-struction. ..- • - . . ": -...

The .food shortage in the,cityhas begun to "ease. Vietnameseofficials . said: 160 tons of. •- rice :•were sold to people in the city-Wednesday. ' • • • ' • '

The people bought straight

from .the trucks 'at .government-controlled prices, 20 piasters,(about 16 cents) a kilogram ofrice. Any one person was re-portedly allowed. to buy a five-day supply at one time. Twenty-five hundred recent graduatesof the Revolutionary Develop-ment Training Center were saidto be manning the trucks.

Many of Saigon's marketswere' open Thursday. Almosteverywhere mama-sans wereseen carrying baskets of greenvegetables, : cucumbers and to-

. matoes.' ; . - . , •/T.'Stili; there are sectipnsl'of -the;Cil.vJ->where people remain- hung-ry; These are the "Red areas"where there are no government

sales and where the marketsremain closed.

Electricity .and water in thecily were termed adequate. E-lectrical power is reported to berunning at about 80 per cent ofnormal. Water pressure is suffi-cient, but clown from normal,according to government offi-cials.

They said, however, that thepressure is sufficient to handleemergencies such as fires.

Telephone Communicationswere reported to be , return-ing to normal.- However, com-munication in* the Cholon areawas spotty.

Garbage ^collection, anotherserious problem was said tohave picked up Thursday with

seventeen trucks working.Vietnamese government offi-

cials have appealed to the regu-lar garbage collectors to. returnto work Friday. U.S. officialssaid 25 new trucks were avail-able to help in the giant cleanup.

The government said hospitalstaffs were adequate, but nursesand doctors- were tired fromaround-the-clock treatment ofcasualties from the nine days offight ing.

The admission rate at the hos-pitals has been tapering off.About 3,000 Vietnamese civilianshave been treated since theCommunist Tet offensive began.About half of this number havebeen released after treatmentand about 200 have died.

Reds Seek toHUE, Vietnam (AP) —The

Communist forces that all butoverran Hue one week agocame wi th complete dossiersand photographs of enemies tobe executed or arrested.

Intelligence sources say theCommunist forces, numberingseveral thousand, planned to oc-cupy the city and attempt to in-cite a popular uprising.

With half the city still in Com-munist hands after eight days,political commissars presuma-bly are still pursuing that goalin areas under Red control.

The troops came wi th politicalcommissars, wearing .gold-col-ored Ho Clii Minh biillmis andspecjal arm bands, who wentfrom house to house w i t h dos-siers on clipboards or in loose-leaf notebooks.

"When they gave an order itwas obeyed immediately," saida refugee who was in Commu-nist hands for four days.

• The troops and fhe commis-.sars in the initial days were ex-ceptionally polite and l ightlydisciplined, many refugees re-ported.

Details of North Vietnameseconduct were pieced togetherfrom refugees and othersources. The refugees, almost

.al l wilh relatives and friends inenemy-occupied areas, wereuniversally fear fu l and reluc-tant to talk.

They said the. troops openlyadmitted they were from NorthVietnam. In any event, theirstrange accents were immedi-ately identified by the regional-ly minded Vielnamese. A lewloosened up to the point of ad-mitting they were from suchplaces as Hanoi and Haiphong.

They would not, however/ad-mit to being members of theregular North Vietnamesearmy. They said they belong tothe "Quan Doi Giai Phong," theLiberation Army.

Among them were many iden-tif iable students from the Uni-versity of Hue acting as guidesor wearing the un i form of VietCong regulars.

Many Americans, both civil-Ian and military, were known tohave been taken prisoner. Sev-eral refugees reported tha t , atleast at first, the Americanswere being treated well.

Uprising in Hue Casualties. • ' l̂̂ r - - • •¥/ • ci iTTM/'*rn/^AT /f o n\ r

Sheltered behind a building, U.S. Marines use Perfume River in early stages of (he battle formortar against Onimnnnkl fnrn-u •\i-fi^u Hm Una ' / I T ¥ > T T, ,. . , *a mortar against Communist forces across the Hue. (UPI Radiophoti*)

Copfer Foils VC ExecutionSAIGON (UPI) — A helicop-

ter interrupted a Viet Cong ex-ecution squad just as a -groupof prisoners was being giventhe coup de grace Wednesday,a Vietnamese ricwsfilm camiM'H-man who escaped the executionsaid Thursday.

Vo Thanh Son, who was tak-ing f i lm for CBS News, re-turned Thursday from VietCong captivity and near deathaf ter e l u d i n g t h e executionsquad in Saigon's Chinatown.

"I showed them all my papersbut they wouldn't believe 1 wa.s

Weather Cuts BombingS&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON—Poor weather over. N o r t h Vietnam Wednesdaylimited U.S. warplanes to 8S mis-sions.'

Air Force pilots, guided byradar, bombed the Iloa Lacairfield 20 miles west of Hanoi,but thick cloud cover preventeda bomb damage report.

Other AF pilots reported hit-

A Pacific Stars & StripesSaturday, Feb. 10, 1%8

ting an Army barracks area 55miles northwest of Hanoi.

Navy pilots reported h i t t i n ga railroad sile 40 miles south-west of Thanh Iloa, a highwayferry 4 miles away, and anotherferry 40 miles northwest ofViuh.

Marine, all-weather Afi Intrud-ers bombed a highway bridge12 miles south of Dong f lo i andnearby gun positions and t rucktraffic.

a newsman," Son said.He said his Viet Cong captors

b: ought him and five other pris-oners—including three Vietnam-ese army officers and twoKoreans — before the executionsquad . Wednesday night. He-Sciid he thought the Koreanswere a member of the KoreanEmbassy and a newsman.

Korean sources confirmedtha t a member of the embassyand a Korean correspondenthad been captured by the VietCong.

"The Viet Cong tied us up,blind-folded us, and ordered usto kneel down in the. middle ofthe street," Son said.

"One of the Viet. Cong fireda burst at us from an AK50.submachinegun and I instinc-tively collapsed on my side,"the cameraman said. "I d idn ' tknow whether I was dead oralive. Then I heard somebodyshouting, 'Give them the coupde grace.'

"I heard footsteps," he said."Then there were the pistolshots. Bang bang bang :it al-most deafened me. And thenI heard the whirling noises ofa helicopter swooping down.

"I hoard some more shots,"he said. "I thought 1 must bedead. I thought I was dream-ing in hell. I was. wonderingif the dead would feel like theliving."- . , :

The.helicopter dived low. TheViet Cong fled. Then everythingwas quiet .

"I became aware that myhead was resting on the as-phalt ," Son said. "My head feltcold. My forehead was sore. Iwa.s breath ing hard. I struggledand the blindfold came loose.It was dark as hell and thesmell of death was all aroundme. I knew I was alive."

Son said he could see thecrumpled bodies of some of theother prisoners.

He dragged himself to a de-serted gas station, kicked thedoor open and jumped inside.He squirmed loose from therope which bound his arms be-hind .him.

Son said he stayed in the gasstation all night. In the morn-ing, he v e n t u r e d out andreached a police station wherehe called the CBS office tonotify his family and friendsthat he was still alive.

WASHINGTON (S&S) — TheDefense Department has an-nounced the following casualtiesin connection with tlie conflict inVietnam.

KILLED IN ACTIONArmy

Pfc. Donald W. Richardson, Scmmes, Ala.SFC.Tuioalele Suiaujiou,.Seaside, Calif. -Sgt. Steven C. Powers, Compton, Calif.Cpl. Phillip E. Gurver, Calimesa, Catif.Pfc. Robert B. England II, Whittier, Colil.Pfc. Richard S. Russell, Santa Ana, Call).Pfc. Alvin J. Wesolowski Jr., Cupertino,

Calif.Sgt. Edgar L. Bolding, Columbus, Ga.Cpl. Edward E. Ccrvanlez, Chicago, III,Pic. Gerald R. Brent, Chicago, III.SPS Dennis B. Kouhns, Ogtlen, Iowa.SPX Raymond H. Pike Jr., Leavenworlh,

Kan.Cpt. Joseph C. Zamiaro, Grand Rapids,

Mich.SSgl. Robert A. Warner, Grand Rapids,

Mich.SPS William J. Steffes, Saint Cloud, Minn.Pfc. Jimmle C. AAarrion, Springfield, MoSP4 Clifford Jones Jr., Hackeltstown,

SP4 Glenn R. Brust, Troy, N.Y.'Pic. Richard E. O'Connor, Stolen Island,

SP4 Richard D. Hovlond, Williston, N D.Cpl. Norbert L. Froehlidi, Belfield, N.D.SFC Morrison L. Pickell, Ulica, Ol;la.Sgt. Ralph fi. Maliry Jr., Lawlon, Okla.SP4 William H. Moore III, Pawtucket,

R.I.SP4 Thomas H. Swinnea, Lancaster

Texas.SP4 David W. Off Priesl, Lynchburo,, Va.SSgl. Howard W. Gulliksen, Anacortes,

Wash.SSgl. Ralph E. Ckirk, Tacoma, Wash. •SP4 James R. Me Clinlock, Port Orchard,

Wash.Pfc. William L. Dazey Jr., Bellevue,

Wash.Pfc. Paul E. Gcrlach, Madison, Wise.SP4 Edwcird Me Ncilly, Cheyenne, Wyo.

NavyHM3 Malcolm G. Mole, Ormond Beach,

Fla.HN Charles W. Miller, Lansing, Mich.- '

Marine CorpsCpl. James C. Marshall, Monroeville, Ala,Pfc. James C. Riles, Fordyce, Ark.Pfc. Kenneth E. Rasco, Los Angeles,

Calif.Cpl. Richard 5. Byars, San Francisco,

Calif.Pic. Silvino F. Barrciros, Hartford, Conn.Pfc. Theodore Cfirystynyci, Chicago, III.LCpl. Robert L. -Slaiey Jr., Princelon,

Ind.Cpl. Christopher J. Toppi, Soulh Portland,

Maine.SSat. Alfred T. Dwyer, Townsend, Mass.LCpl. Patrick J. Me Kinley, Trenton,

Mich.LCpl. Gary D. Scribner, Memphis, Mich.Pfc. Colbcn B. Stokes Jr., Laurel, Miss.Pic. Lorenzo J. loannr, Memphis, N.Y.Pfc. Juan A. Rosa, Bronx, N.Y.Pfc. George VJ. Zcnkewich, Bronx, N.Y.H(c. Richard J. Clementz, Kaliria, Ohio.LCpl. Gregory. F. Popowitz, McKeesport,

Pa.ILL John E. Manning, Pasadena, Texas.

Air ForceSgl. Ralph T. Berry, Escondido, Calif.Capl. Reginald V. Maisey Jr., Aiea,

Hawaii.Sgl. James B. Des Rochers, Elgin, III.Sgl. William J. Cyr, Webster, Mass.A1C Edward C. Muse, Tulwiler, Miss.Airman Louis H. Fischer, Woodhaven,

N.Y.ILL David C. Brown, Waynesville, N.C.Sgt. Charles E. Hebron. Bryan, Texas

MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILEArmy

SFC Charles N. Trcdinnlck, Fayctteville,N.C.

Pfc Roger D. Guillen, Sain) Joseph, Tenn.MISSING IN ACTION

ArmySSol. Gary L. CroneSat. John A. RickclsSPS Michael r. MahoneyPfc. Frank W. AspPfc. Ricky A. Myers

NavyLt. Michael E. Dunn

Marine CorpsCapl. James D. Mills

DIED NOT AS A RESULTOF HOSTILE ACTION

ArmySPS John L. Barnes, Ruxlon, Mrf.Sst. Clyde B. Brciugiilon Jr., Cincinnati,

Ohio.MSgt. William J. Hurst, Blackstohe, Va.

NavyLCdr. Gerald L. Ramsden, Oak Harbor,

Wash.Air Facet

SSgt. William- A. Berry, Savannah, Ga.CORRECTION

SP5 Gary W. Lotze, USA, Delete fromlist, not a Vietnam casualty.

1L A N D I N G ZONE BALDY,

Vietnam (10)—A pair of OH-13scout helicopters, r e t u r n i n gfrom --.i routine1 reconnaissancemission, decided (o look in onan air 'assault and wound up k i l l -ing 31 members of the 2nd NorthVietnamese Army Div, threemiles northwest of here,

Their curiosity was the startof a battle which claimed 128enemy, members of both NVAand Viet Cong units.

At approximately 11 a.m.,tube and aortal rocket artillerywere preparing a landing /onenear the village of Tra KieuNam for an air assault by ele-

Boy Has Buddies in VietnamRichard Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hall of Dowagiae,

Mich., and his dog, Muldoon, go over letters the boy has receivedfrom soldiers in Vietnam. Richard, who lost a leg to cancer lastyear, wrote a letter to "any soldier in Vietnam," asking for mail.The troops responded with a flood of letters. (UPI)

ir Crewurning

QUANG TRL Vietnam (ISO)—An air rescue helicopter crewfound things more than a littlewarm when their aircraft burstinto flames during action nearKhe Sanh.

A CH-4G Sea Knight of MarineMedium Helicopter Sq.-2<52 wasdiverted to pick up woundedMarines near M i l l 881 while on a

Navy Doctor Leads TeamsIn Teaching Public Health

DA NANG, Vietnam (,PAO)—A U.S. Navy captain with 25years of medical experience co-ordinates the American efforttoward belter health in a largeportion of South Vietnam.

Capt. Walter S. Matthews Jr.of Danville, Va. is Chief HealthOfficer for I Corps — the f ivenorthernmost provinces of SouthVietnam.

He is working with the U.S.Agency for International Devel-opment (USAID) and the Officeof Civil Operations and Revolu-tionary Development .Support(CORDS) headquartered in DaNang.

"One of our greatest chal-lenges in Vietnam," said Dr.Matthews, "is to gain the con-fidence of the South Vietnam-ese so we will be allowed toteach w i t h o u t seeming toteach."

The aim of the U.S. Public-Health Department, through Dr.Matthews, is to establish ahea l t h program in which theVietnamese can learn the i m -portance and effect of a goodpublic health program.

Nearly 100 public hea l th work-ers assist the Navy doctor int h i s effor t .

Matthews also works w i t hMili tary Public Health Assis t -ance Program (M1LPI1AP)learns. MILPHAP teams areheal th workers who go in to v i l -lages and hamlets of I Corpspromoting Vielname.se hea l t hefforts . There are three U.S.Navy MILPHAP teams in ICorps, each with three doctorsand 12 Hospi ta l Corpsmen.

Mat thews and the teams alsop r o m o t e t ra in ing p rogramsamong Vietnamese doctors andauxi l ia ry medical personnel ,

His s ta f f consists of a d i n i n i s -t i a to r s who teach and advise ongeneral heal th mat te rs a n dnurses who go into the hospi-ta ls th roughout I Corp.s. u i \ i i ! L :medical assistance. There arealso malaria advisers w o r k i n gw i t h the Vietnajne.se ;md \ v ; u »assist i i i t ak ing m a l a r i a s l ides

matters of

assistancethe health

and advising onmalaria control.

Other Free Worldteams lend a hand in

'program.One team, a Quaker organi/a-

tion at Quang Ngai, "gives in-valuable assistance" in fittingartificial limbs for amputees.They also teach the amputeeshow to rearrange their livesaf ter amputation.

"We've been able to teachand improve' the health andcare given the Vietnamese,However," the doctor added,"the people still have a longway to go."

"Our engineers need to es-tablish effective sewage sys-tems and replace water supplies

to e l i m i n a t e contamination. Ofcourse, this has to be done withus showing the Vietnamese how

these things for them-m order foreffective."

the programto doselvesto be

Matthews also said that im-m u n i z a t i o n against disease isalways needed and serum isusua l ly on hand.

In 10B.'{, "a very energetic"' e f f o r t was started in teachingthe Vietnamese the importanceand effect of clean drinkingwaier , sewage, and disease con-trol by the Public Health Divi-sion of USAfD for all SouthVie tnam, From this effort , to-day, South Vie tnam is reapinggood rewards.

ments of the 1st Bn., 35lh Inf.The elements were planning acordonand search of the villageto look for Viet Cong.

As the ban-age pounded intothe landing /.one, W.O. PhillipFlanagan, of Virginia Beach,Va.. and VV.O. George Fran-eioni, Richmond, Va., decidedto have a closer look.

Flanagan spotted five uni-formed enemy soldiers withweapons running from the scene.Francioni opened up with anMGO machine gun and an M79grenade launcher, killing thefive.

Suddenly, a pi a toon-si ml ele-

resnpply mission in the area.The pilot. Capt. R.A. Ropclew-

ski and co-pilot C a p t. S.R.Siegieh, 25, of Little Falls, N.Y.,found they would have to trylanding on the slope of a hill,

"The slope was so sleep thatwe couldn't land. We. had toback in to the h i l l and hoverabove the ground," said Slcgich.

As the CM-46 was backing intothe h i l l , an engine was struckby an enemy round and the en-tire rear section of the aircraftburst into flames.

The flames and smoke wereso intense that the crew chiefand gunner were forced to jumpout of the helicopter. Meanwhile,Ropelc\\ski tried to land andf inal ly brought the helicopterdown at the base of the hil l .Both pilot and co-pilot jumped tosafely as the copter was en-gulfed in flames and smoke,

Stcgich tel ls what happenedaf ter getting out of the burninghelicopter, "1 ran back into thehelicopter, looking for the gun-ner. I thought he was still intheir. I stayed about a minuteand came back out, Right afterthat we were picked up andtaken back to H i l l 881 by an-other HMM-2C2 chopper."

The crew chief and gunner,who sustained minor in jur ies ,were p eked up by a helicoptero f . MMM-K53 and evacuated toDong Ha.

mem sprang up a couple ofmeters away ift a tightly-knitgroup and began to run towardsa stream bed east of the village.

"It was the most I've everseen in one group in a singlearea since I've been over hero."recalled the 20-year-old Fran-cioni.

Flanagan called for aerialrocket artillery and gunsbips.But everybody seemed to bebusy with other missions, so thetwo scout ships took things intheir own hands.

The enemy broke up intosmall .groups of .10 and scattered*

Five tried to escape by hidingin a clump of bushes where theyproceeded to fire on the scoutships. Flanagan and Francioniand their respective doorgun-ners cut then) down in a matterof seconds. The ship was not h i t ,

"As soon as we spotted themit, Was pure mass confusion,"'Francioni recalled, "I've neverseen anything like it."

While Flanagan and Francioniheaded back to LZ Baldy, Maj.George D. Burrow, commanderof B Troop, 1st Bn., 9th Cav. 1stAir Cav. Div., and his crew ap-peared on the scene.

Afte r receiving fire on a wideswing, Bin-row directed his gun-ship on top of the crowded NVAand gunmd down JO along thestream bed.

"We got an indication of theirposition when we received fireas we made a wide swing. Weworked on them from a distancebefore moving in on top of them.By then I h e y were reallyseared," said the 35-year-oldmajor.

Meanwhile, another companywas I old to stay in nearby ricepaddies as the gnnships poured7,000 rounds in to the enemy."On seveial occasions one NVAwould shoot at us and we woulduncover f ive or six in thebushes," said W.O. Larry Kreps,co-pilot.

When Burrow ran out ofammo, he flew to an adjacentrice paddy and reloaded ammofrom another gunship.

On the th i rd pass over (hestream -bed they killed f ive more;NVA arid • Pfe. Mike Simpson,doorgunncr, shot it out with oneNVA who showed determinationin . a t t e m p t i n g to down the gun-ship. .-Simpson f i n a l l y won o u t , ,but not before the NVA had puta scare i n t o I he crew every timehe aimed his AK47 au tomat icr i f l e at the gunship.

"We th rew everything at t h e m ,expending ail our Mlli ammoand innui i ' i e rab le g r e n a d e s.''.Kreps said a f t e r t h e long f i g h t .

Soldiers FindVC Tempos'

CU OH, V i e t n a m (10)—Dis-covering eneim base camps,rice caches and weapons isp re t t y r o u t i n e s t u f f f u r L ' f > i i i I n f .Div . soldiers, hut a V ie t Con-j;boarding school is a d i f f e r e n tm a t t e r .

Men of the 2nd Bn., 27lh In! . ,were searebin.1.' a wooded area.10 mi les noril ivvs! of Saigonwhen t i u - y ca iue upon an u n d e r -g round b i n i i . e r e o i i l a i n i n , ^ Hicots.

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(Continued FVoiti Page 1)tanks with recoilless riiles andgrenades. Men clambered atopthe tanks, which were firiivjj7fimm rounds into the camp'sbunkers, and tried to toss gre-nades down the vehicles' hatch-

The battle ended quickly, ASpecial Forces radio operatorcalled Khe Sanh: 'Tvc got twotanks sitting on top of my com-mand bunker," Then the radiowent dead. It was feared thatthe entire camp was wiped out.

But a strange siege was underway, The headquarters hunker\vas under three foot of rein-forced concrete and two feet (,f.steel. The tanks tried to breaktUs down. They couldn't.

S. S«l. Emantiel Phillips, S2.of Portland, Ore., said NorthVietnamese demolition men bo-

Dead G8Gets Medal

HonorWASHINGTON (UP1)—Army

Secretary Stanley R. Resorawarded the Modal of Honorposthumously Thursday to aclvaftee who saved the lives ofright other soldiers by jump-ing on a grenade.

The nation's highest mili tarytribute for valor went to Sgt.Donald R. Long of Columbus,Ohio, It was presented to his.sister, Mrs. Marva Y. Cordonof Columbus.

The Army citation said Longwas serving as an assistant pla-toon leader with the 1st Inf. Div.in South Vietnam when his uni twas attacked by a large VietCong force.

"Ho inspired his comrades byrepeatedly exposing himself tomemy fire while assisting the\\ o u n d e d and by fearlesslystanding unprotected lo repelthe attackers with r i f le fire andg.-enades," the ci tat ion said.

When an enemy grenade land-ed on the deck of Long's ar-mored personnel carrier, "Sgt.Long threw himself over (hegrenade to absorb the blast andthereby saved the lives of eightof his comrades at the expenseof his own life."

gnn shoving satchel chargesdown the bunker's ventilatingshafts.

''They entertained themselvesfor several hours this way/'snid Phillips. "They were ve-yi-idtfstrious but not very smart."

Tear gas and incendiary gre-nades followed the satchelcharges. The Special Forcesmen donned gas masks and putout the fires set by the g 'e-nades. Phillips said the eightmen in the bunker played deadfor several hours hoping t'v»North Vietnamese wou'd goaway. Then two large chargescame down the air shaft and de-stroyed part of the bunker.

Six of the eight Americanswere wounded and some were ingreat pain.

All the while heavy U.S. airstrikes pounded the camp as arcMcf force led by other GreenBerc'.s tried to reach the belea-guered defenders. It failed andlock heavy casualties.

Twelve hours after the at-tack had begun, Phillips and hiscomrades decided they had to'gel out. The camp Commanderradioed for all the air cover hecould get. As the planes madedummy runs without droppingbrmbs, the men who could walklif ,cd the seriously wounded andran from the bunker. One of theeight men did not make it to thehelicopters and is listed as miss-ing.

S. Sgt. Peter Tiroch, 25, of In-dianapolis, Ind., said the tankshad spotlights that swept the-camp in search of targets andwere armed with .30-caliber ma-chine guns.

U.S. light antitank rocketsseemed to have no effect on thearmored vehicles, Tiroch said,but a Green Beret crew stoppedtwo outside the camp withblasts from a JOfimm recoillessrifle.

In all, 24 Special Forces menwere reported in the fight. Four-teen of the Americans escaped,wi th at least eight of I hemwounded and some gravely. Theoilier 10 were dead, captured ortrying to make it to Khe Sanh.

Marine and Army helicopterspulled the survivors out plus afew wounded Vietnamese andMontagnards, and some Laotiansoldiers who had taken refuge inthe camp after a recent Nor thVietnamese attack on their postin southern Laos,

NEW YORK (UPD—Cov. Nel-son A. Rockefeller Thursdayn'ght called for the " immedia teconvening ot a f ive-man media-tion panel" to seek a se t t lementof the week-long garbagemen'sstrike.

Rockefeller s a i d he had"thoroughly explored all thefacts pertaining to the labor dis-pute" and that Mayor John V.Lindsay and the union luu.lagreed to his call for immedia temediation.

Rockefeller made the an-

nouncement in his New Yorkoffice shortly af ter (5 p.m.

The governor stepped in to thecity's garbage crisis this morn-ing to "determine the issues."after Lindsay had declared thecity in a "slate of health em-ergency."

Antiwar Clash in ParisPARIS (AP) — Large police

un i t s clashed wi th Communist-led ant i -Vietnam war demon-strators in the Latin quar te rWednesday night, Off ic ia ls said30 police officers and an un-determined number of demon-strators were injured.

24 Pacific Stars £ StripesSaturday, IVb. 10, ISiig

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been between $150 mil l ion and$11)0 million annually, the Seoulgovernment r ep o r I e d I y hascomplained the Uni ted Staleshas done more to recover thePueblo and its crew than it liasto strengthen South Koreandefenses.

The presidential request torforeign aid in the fiscal yearstar t ing next July 1 came to $'2.9billion—$2.5 billion in economicassistance and $420 mil l ion Jorm i l i t a r y aid.

Another $120 mi l l ion in a rmsaid will be sought through sep-arate legislation.

MARINE DEFENDERS OF KHE SANH DIG IN DEEPER AS RAIN FALLSAP RodtophOtO

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the release of enlisted menfrom aelivc duty.

Kim told newsmen that ROKforces have been 2.5 per centshort of their a u t h o r i z e dstrength since the armistice in1 !:">;).

lie also said that the periodof annual active duty for re-servists wil l be extended from15 to 30 days. Under the ROKmili tary service law, reserveofficers and men may be calledto active duly for up to 30 daysa year.

Meanwhile, across town, stu-deius from Seoul National Uni-

TOKYO (UPI)—Premier KimIl-Sung of North Korea Thurs-day night said his country (loosnot want war but warned liispeople that it could break <»»<,ul any time. A North Koreanbroadcast monitored here car-ried the tvxl of the speech.

vers i ty erilicixed the UnitedSiates for privately negotiatingw i t h Nor l l r Korea for the re-lease of the Pueblo and itscrC'.V.

The s i t u a t i o n along the De-mi l i t a r iml Zone remained quietThursday, U.S. Army officialssaid, as it has for the pastweek since the private talks be-tween Nor th Korea and U.S.began at Pammmjom.

(Continued From Page 1)irregulars s t i l l were in control ofthe deep command bunkers.

At 4: HO p.m. the same day, theaccount continued, a relief forcewas sent to the camp. "The re-lief force made contact with theescapees and did not attempt toenter the Lang Vei camp," theU.S. communique said.

The U.S. Command also saidin a "memorandum for thepress" that a Communist soldieridentif ied as being from the 8thBn., (fflth Rest., 304th NorthVietnamese Army Div., haddefected to the Lang Vei camp.Ian. 30.

"The ral l ier source," thememorandum said, "stated thatthe Slh Bn. began infiltration inSeptember, 19(57. During infiltra-tion the battalion was hit by aB52 (air) strike and cost 50 percent in casualties and manymore to desertion. The battalionreturned to North Vietnam forreplacement."

"The Slh Bn., (ilith Rcgt.,

Philip to Visit AustraliaL O N D O N ( U P I ) — Prince

Phi l ip w i l l visit Australia andNew Zealand this spring, Buc-kingham Palace a n n o u n c e dThursday. Philip, Queen Eli/a-beili 's husband, will be in Aus-t r a l i a from May 12 to June 4,breaking the vi.sit for a side tripto Ne\\ Zealand May 20-24.

arrived in the Khe Sanh areaon Jan. 20 and on Jan. 21 at-tacked the district headquartersthere (at Khe Sanh). Again thebattalion lost over 50 per centin casualties and currently hasa strength of about 200 men."

The rallier source, the memor-andum said, stated that the 304thNorth Vietnamese Army is to"help take Khe Sanh combatbase."

Elsewhere across the country,U.S. Marines pushed their drivethrough the streets of Hue, theold imperial capital 400 milesnorth of Saigon, for the 10th day.South Vietnamese troops werestill meeting stiff resistance.

In Saigon, scattered streetfighting was reported in severalsections. One VC group set upits command post in a RomanCatholic church just to the northof the city. U.S. helicopter gun-ships, called in by the southVietnamese government, rakedthe enemy positions.

There was heavy i n f a n t r yfighting up and down thecountry.

WorSd WeatherUSAF Weutfter Central

TOKYO AREAFriday night: Partly cloudy: Low 24Saturday: Mostly fair: Hifth 48

TEMPERATURESFeb. 8

if. Foreign Aid"The programs I proposed to-

day are as important and as es-sent ia l to the security of this na-t i on as our military defenses,".Jo!m-:on said.

But there wore advance indi-cat ions of more trouble for thebig aid b i l l on Capitol Hill.

Congress chopped nearly $1b i l l i o n from the S3,2 billion arms-economic assistance Johnsonsought for the current fiscalyear.

His new request is about $750mil l ion more than what the law-makers were w i l l i n g to handhim last year for the overseasprogram.

Johnson contended the billionsfor helping less developed coun-tries around the world are need-ed because "peace will never besecure'1 amid widespread illiter-acy, m a l n u t r i t i o n and disease.

"If most men can look for-ward to no th ing more than al i f e t i m e of back-breaking toilw h i c h only preserves their mis-ery, violence wi l l always be-ckon, freedom will ever be un-der .siege." he said.

"foreign aid serves our na-t ional in teres t . " he said, "It ex-p'-esscs our basic humanity. Itmay not a l w a y s be popular, butii is r ight / '

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