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Show The Salt Lake Trlbone, Tuesday, March SO, 1971 Torld Scenes t Enemy Gunners Pound U.S. Base Still Reeling From Sapper Attack on the basis of still Incomplete reports from the U.S. Command. with the Communications base were spotty more than 24 hours after the enemy attack, apparently because of damage to the command bunker. A Pentagon spokesman in Washington said Secretary of Defense Mehin R. Laird was personally concerned about the attack on the artillery base and has requested a full By Lynn Newiand Associated ress Writer Mary Ann SAIGON Enemy gunners leveled a barrage Monday at U.S. artillery base still reeling from a sapper attack that killed at least 33 Americans and. wounded 76 In what may . have been the heaviest death ' toll on a U.S. installation in the war. The casualties wee expected to go still higher from Sun- frays attack on Fire Base . , 1 r report X '' 'I J .S ?? J"' w. k I jr A. 1 A. jS s sk r u$ J Lai. .'U h V " levy ii'eyra -- attack." The artillery base located in the jungle 50 miles south of Da Nang, and manned by a battalion from the Americal Division has reportedly been reinforced, however, and no additional casualties were reported from the moriar attack Monday morning. specially trained infiltrators who are experts with demolitions North Vietnamese gunners also shelled Chu Lai, coastal headquarters of the Arr.e'Lal Division, and hit the Da Kang air base 50 nrler to the north. Field reports said several aircraft were damaged and some Americans wounded at Da Nang. No damage or casualties were reported at Chu ! U' ' . J i registered at the glittering Kremlin Hall where the meeting w ill be held. It is expected to last 10 days. Associated Press correspondent J. T. Wolkerstorfer reported from Quang Tri, that a South VietU.S. supported namese raid on a major North Vietnamese headquarters on the Ko Chi Mmh Trail inside Laos was canceled at the last minute because of heavy antiaircraft fire and fog. The target area was about 30 miles south of the sector which was the focal point of the recently completed South Vietnamese thrust into Laos. The strike was approved by President Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. It was called off when Intensive B52 air strikes and smaller tactical fighter - bombers failed to si- 'liifl lence enemy antiaircraft fire. It. Visibility Hampered mixed with the dust Aaociattd Praw Vlrphot President Tito of Yugoslavia and Pope Paul VI conclude lengthy discussion at Vatican. Fog, v In an audience i ROME Surrounded by Vatican pageantry, President Tito and POpe Paul VI discussed the affairs Middle East, east-weadd other international problems Monday. Churchmen said later that 6 Yjgoslav leader made a of the presentation !$trong Arab case in the Miduie East ,' Clash Again With Guerrillas Repeats Request ' Pope Paul reportedly restated the Vatican's request for in interr tional guaranteed Special status for Jerusalem fld other holy places in Pales. Monday's occasion the Vatican, for the first time in the tts history, displayed an Communist red star emblem of Yugoslavias blue-- y liit flag flown alop Iqildincs and poles m the Small' Papal state. ; Tito was the first Communist chief of state to pay an Official call on the head of the Roman Catholic Church. A bit by Soviet President Nikolai V: Podgomy in 1967 was described as private. Qnlv interpreters were present while Pope Paul and Tito conferred in the Pontiff's private library in the Vaticans Apostolic Palace. Notes Interest , Tito then delivered an address stressing that Yugoslavia had a vital interest in the establishment of lasting peace lit Europe and in the Mediter- ranean area. .It is therefore understand-tbl- e that we devote special attention to the crisis in the IEddIe East and to the grave gangers inherent in it, the president said. Yugoslavia is making the ut Yugoslav Find Roman Ruins ENGLAND (AP) -Areported uncovering near here three large granaries used by Roman traps about the middle of the first cemury A.D. rchaeologists I Press V rerhoto army attacked strongholds of the Bengali ment in Dacca, killing perhaps 7,0G0 persons. move-destroy- ed East Pakistan Rebels Fight On for Separate State gained sufficient control of the interior to turn their attention to the more remote areas. Indian official sources said more than Moselms, already had crossed the alreay had crossed the border into India and that relief supplies were being rushed to them. An Indian military commentator, writing for United News of India, said both sides appe'arrd to be fighting hard for control of a communications center at Akhaura, near Comilla. The center links communications between Dacca, Comilla and Chittagong, the agency said. Airlift Troops to Island The sheik's rebel radio said helicopter-borne troops had landed on the island of Sandwip, just off Chittagong port and that more troops were being ferried by small boats to coastal areas controlled by the Awrami League. United News of India said that according to a reliable report reaching the border town of Krishnagar, Sheik Mujibs Dacca residence was destroyed Monday by Army troops who used machine guns to kill 75 Awaml League volunteers Khan returned from Karachi. Monday to Rawalpindi According to an official announce- ment, the curfew in the eastern provincial capital of Dacca was lifted for 12 hours on Monday and for the first time since Thursday banks in East Pakistan Jet Pirates Head For Red China Appeal for Workers Return The announcement said government workers who did not appear for work on Saturday because they had fled from Dacca were urged at all costs to return to their jobs. In London, British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Hom- e disclosed that West Pakistani troops attacked British consular offices during their operations against the rebels. 9 casualties were sustained but Douglas-Hom- e said Britain already has advised Yahyas government it will claim compensation for the damage. The foreign secretary said Britain Intends maintaining a hands-of- f policy In the crisis thieatenmg the breakup of the No Commonwealth mmm Jiale republic. violence, Everyonetold abhors the House of Com- Douglas-Hom- in Rains RIO DE JANEIRO (UP!) -The Civil Defense Commission reported Monday 34 persons were killed by heavy rains and floods that caused landslides throughout this South American city. The storm Sunday caused seven slides and flooded mam streets with as much as three feet of water. To Claim Compensatiou 1'4-ho- Tnere is eviSAIGON of the profits some dence that from drugs being sold to American servicemen in Vietnam are going to the Communists to bankroll their purSouth chase of supplies sources American Vietnam, said Monday. And hard drugs such as heroin were being sold almost openly by South Vietnamese government soldiers to American troops even during the hard fighting along Route 9, route from the withdrawal Laos. 3 i Die opened. HONG KONG (AP) Five hijackers diverted a jetliner from a Philippine Airlines domestic flight Tuesday, refueled here and took off for Communist China. Hong Kong airport officials said they had confirmation the plane landed at Canton, but had no other details. It was the first hijacking to Communist China. Sixteen of the 44 passengers aboard, including a child, were released during the refueling stop in Hong Kong. Those still aboard were believed to include two children and several women. Hong Kong government officials said the pilot had charts for Canton and Chinese authorities were being alprted that the plane was on its way. One hijacker told airport authorities he wanted to go to Peking. An unconfirmed report at Hong Kcngs Kai Tak Airport said officials in Canton had sent word the BAC 111 would not be allowed to land there. Los Angeles Times Service e mons. The president was faced with a situation, as we understand it, in which his country might be divided into two. We must allow other countries to deal with their affairs without intervention. rn P t umUJImjIoj Jordans Troops conflict Tito, who ended a five-da- y Visit to Italy Monday, conferred with the foreign minister .of the United Arab Republic. Mahmoud Riad, near Pisa 4 Saturday. USX, Buy Red Goods I c, - Associated d , By Paul Hofmann New York Times Writer ev East Pakistanis stand amid ruins of their homes by government a.tillery. Pakistans Oil Middle East Conflict JFor S 9 created by the bambs, hampered visibility. Field officers conceded that the Americal artillery base below Da Nang was taken by guarding it. President Agha Mohammed Yahya surprise by the North Vietnamese attack Sunday, although the perimlter had been patrolled prior to the attack which began about 3:30 a.m. mortar with a 50- - to withcontribute to barrage. most effort The attacking sapper unit, in its possibilities to a peaceful settlement of the crisis so the size of which was not that the consequences of the known, moved in under cover war of aggression in June, of the barrage, taking advan1967 may be eliminated and tage of a moonless night. all peoples and countries in Twelve enemy dead were that region may live in peace found later. and security." Tito also voiced concern about recent developments In Sou least Asia and Africa. He sa.'r the views of f 3 and the Vatican on the major r' international problems wvr. exclose or identical, and ' I pressed the hope that their relations may continue to deBy Associated Pi ess velop favorably. Jordanian troops clashed Voices Esteem with Palestinian guerrillas for In his reply. Pope Paul, the fourth consecutive day Monday but King Hussein's speaking in Italian, professed and affectionate government claimed it had rerespect CHARLES S. EUBANK, C.P.C.U, esteem of Yugoslavia, with stored order and that the 1 Ml fut Eakaak CutE lunraKi guerrillas had ceased o be a its many Roman Catholics. Otn 111 Liu Stanur tuiiliw t Cittifitf lulxiut M S It Intfin that Yugoslavias military problem. Recalling Jordans Prime Minister peoples had often undergone trials and adversities, the Wafsi Tell told Parliament the army could wipe cut the guerPope remarked that their vorillas everywhere in Jordan cation was to be a bridge bewithin a matter of hours but tween different and often consaid the government intended flicting cultures. Pojie Paul noted that under no such thing. At the same time, Egypt Tito's guidance Yugoslavia had extended its international mounted a diplomatic offeninfluence even outside sive in Paris in an effort to Europe, and praised what he pressure Israel to agree to a termed his visitor's efforts peace settlement. in Guerrilla for peace and better interspokesman Cairo and Damascus, Syria, national understanding. claimed The Pope said he too hoped government troops that the collaboration between were continuing an artillery attack on Irbid and said guerthe Vatican and Yugoslavia JAMES DICKSON, JR. may become increasingly rilla and civilian casualties in tat 9$m9efcsw t Mtae Salt Irbid and Amman, the capiclose. He made no direct refleaders Seanaar ttaairfier Cartitiad Applicaat K0 It erence to the Middle East sittal, had risen to 200 killed and 400 wounded in the uation in his public reply. past three :Tiio, Pope Voice Concern tine Pdv'Sv. -N Continued From Page One Allies Cancel Raid v fai1KTIHir t The 24th MOSCOW (LTD Congt ess of the Soviet Umon's Communist Party opers Tuesday to approve the nation' economic course for the next five years and confirm the collective leadership which has been in power since 1964. Between 5,003 and 6,000 delegates have already arrived Moscow and In Sappers are tU l9'$ To Kremlin Spokesman Jerry W. Freid-heisaid the reaction was one of deep regret at the loss of American lives and one of respect for the courage cf those who fought off the The enemy also shelled a Vietnamese resettlement village about 25 miles north of Fire Base Mary Ann and followed up with a sapper attack Monday, killing 13 civilians and wounding 21. One hundred houses were destroyed. tJe V'-.- V'.- Red Bloc Also Shell Village 4 '4 Meet Lures t lt FuH Circle Tito was tom into the Roman Catholic Church. Mondays audience indicated that the relations between his Communist government and the Vatican had come full circle since 1946 when the then archbishop and later cardinal of Zagreb, Aiojsius Stepmac, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of collaboration with the Fascist government of Croatia's wartime dictator, Ante Pavelic. excomXII Pius municated all those vho haa been instrumental in the arrest and trial of the Yugoslav pnmate. The church censure was generaUy interpreted as also affecting Tito. The of blanket excommunication 1946 has never been formally Pope lifted. A (Copyright) r days. gbfr 143 Salt akf gribunr Sculh Mam O Dial Established April 15. 171. Issued avenf e Corporamorning by tion, Salt Lake City, UMh 84110. 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