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Show A. P World News Briefs Buddhist Rebels Halted By Ky's Machine Guns ing in the face of a nationwide maritime strike that has stopped more than 500 ships in British ports. The declaration took effect ef-fect yesterday. Viet Nam Sways Oregon PORTLAND, Oregon The race for the Democratic nomination nomi-nation to the Senate in today's Oregon primary amounts to a referendum on U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Voters will be offered a choice between Howard Morgan, Mor-gan, 52, who is opposed to President Pres-ident Johnson's war policy, and Rep. Robert B. Duncan, 45, who supports it SAIGON The Buddhist collapse col-lapse in Da Nang spurred the Ky government to try and rally popular support, but dissidence persisted elsewhere in South Viet Nam. The armed resistance against the Premier ended when 102 rebel soldiers surrendered in front of the Tien Hoi Pagoda to popular troops holding 50 caliber cali-ber machine guns. Thus far, Ky's army has made no move to crush rebels in the ancient capital city of Hue, 60 miles north of Da Nang, which is still controlled by insurgents. Man Slain, Family Held Hostage SPARTA, Tenn. A Tennessee Tennes-see woman, Mrs. Louise Schmidt, 25, told a horrifying story of her husband being slain and dismembered by a man who held her and her two children captive for 16 days of terror. She related her story to White County Sherrif Joe Commungs that the killer stabbed her husband hus-band to death April 30 then dismembered dis-membered his body and threw it in the basement of their Indiana In-diana home. Emergency State Called LONDON Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson proclaimed pro-claimed a state of emergency to keep essential supplied flgw- |
