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- - - k N i :::' '- 1:" ' :'A- - 1 i 1010 k' - t ) ' t ' ALOM0160e11filma:04aLaVg0013100611WA ' 46 off 1 and the one all camp for possible resettlement Already 800000 are In these areas 1 ace as Pessimism Gnaws Old Illusion now exaggerated optimism exaggerated pessimism But one thing is one-ha- Nobody actually says this out loud in e Washington at least nobody in the ministration Officials still pretend that we can do everything everywhere if only the editors will support all the administration's policies at home and abroad but when one official after another talks frankly about his problems end policies as they have here to the editors this week" the elements of ddubt and even pessimism begin to appear The poia not that Washington has lost ground in the last two years in any of these problems has merely moved tom the realm of rhetoric to the realm of reality It is better informed now and therefore less optimistic But in this sense the outlook is not more pessimistic but more optimistic Washington is still trying to do every thing everywhere but it is at least begin- ning to think that it will have to choose between what is primary and what is secondary And that is the decision it has not yet made ad-Th- Du Pont Means 'At the Bridge' tbr r ' - i '' : ':' lt with second-ratweapons compared with the enemy's armament and current priorities in artillery and air support are given to American units The Vietnamese are still fighting in 1962 we are fighting in 1968" one senior US adviser commented The Vietnamese army was trained to invasion across the resist a Korea-likDemilitarized Zone rather than the guerrilla conflict that developed These tactics did not change despite the US advice Vietnamese e Dupont du Pont or Du Pont is a family name of French origin meaning someone who lived "at or near a bridge" the English equiv alent of Bridges or Lus B r iggs Dupont I PIN e Iu VP" t The Vietnamese army still has some proud and flamboyant battalions that are as well motivated as any the United States can put in the field One of these the 42nd Ranger Battalion will charge across an open field and overrun enemy machine guns In the six Vietnamese airborne battat ions most of which trace their lineage to French paratrooper units at Dien Bien Phu officers are expected to stand erect In battle to urge their men forward This bravado resulted In 22 officer casualties in one battalion in one month But this spirit is rare among the 700000-maVietnamese armed forces deployed across the country Many can remember how the North Vietnamese war machine subdued the French They see that the North Vietnamese still take on the best forces the United States t an n fluster Senior American commanders are known to consider the possibility of hay ing as much as a battalion wiped out el ther in the jungles of the Communist war iluolutt sounds more romantic though Next to Lafayis ette Dupont probably the most French name In the Unit- ed States I'll get well-know- n some squawks of out that statement no doubt Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours migrated to the United States in 1799 n d settled in Wilmington Del in 1800 Ile was an and politician in economist France but his son Eieuthere Irenee Du Pont found a quicker way to get things moving lie started a powder mill near Wilmington in 1802 That's a blast pierre's grandson Samuel was a prominent naval officer during the Civil War credited with a successful attack on Port Royal South Carolina in 1861 and an unsuccessful one on Charleston in 1863 Well you can't win 'cm all While there must he a whole bunch of other Duponts around the rountry when you think of Dupont you think of Dela ware For information en the cot of reproduction of this shield or tor tit rosearch on the availability of any other family Coot of Arms wood soft1VOIOP ddressed "LONG" and ll for ouch name risouested which will be applied to any ordor to Jae T Bove North Hollywood Calif PO lox 1111 Not a A Racial Question Economic poverty the editors were told was essentially a racial question The majority of the poor were Negro Prosperity was rising but not spreading The welfare rolls were not decreasing but increasing: at Pearl Harbor 448000 on relief in New York next year 760000 most of them Negro and Puerto Ricans Nobody talked to the editors about the problem in Washington where the majority of the population in the District of Colurqbia is Negro and over 90 per cent of the children in the public schools are also Negro Floyd McKissick the head of CORE talked to the editors about all this End the war in Vietnam he said and pay attention to the real war in the American cities Ile would not say that any progress had been made in race relations in America — none at all He would not even say a good word : for the Negroes fighting in Vietnam t ' '': ' ' s' -- - ' 1 - ' '' : 'A' ' :: ) " 4:4 ise ' ip i i ' 'P " '"': 0er 4' 1 3' i If:'? 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IlitZ71 a7 '21Ario il 11 - i If'- omii-1- tfriTh— tt!ftl'Ill 1 e t :: r t : L 4 a- ostitziga " ' ittlir'0'IiInW ' - 1 ii ' : It 1)ellen 0 N' l' ' ' ' 1 e-- --- T ' 1 lt‘ --' ' ' :i: l'an — - ts'7 ''0 g 'IA- 11‘ 7'4 t 4 1'1' fo tA'i ' ' 'IP i'‘ San-Dieg- "RectitudInt sto" 1't lf 1 L Mr Goren From Louis Safian's paperback "2000 Insults for All Occasions": BIG HEADS: His egotistif is a plain case of mistaken identity BORES: He's so dull he can't even entertain a doubt He found HYPOCHONDRIACS: a feather in his bed last night Now he's sure he has chicken pox Ni Nii -' now By Bennett Cert 't''"I ' - ' " Just Try and Stop Me —4t-'—- i '' - '0 44 ii t 0:--- :- 7 ' Safe ExIt Card ' ' f Both bones and all ''' ' the muscles had been cut through 1 completely 1 rive ! : month A later the 1 )1 i t:-3youth was up and about on crutches with a 98 per cent 44 return of sensation in the limb The cast he is wearing i Ai AL Will be removed in Dr Van Dellen a few months This procedure is not new but expertence is gained each time it is done Limb and replantation requires teamwork quick thinking on the part of those at the scene of the accident In this case the leg was 95 per cent severed just below the knee I assume that bleeding was stopped with a tourniquet and the dangling extremity was handled carefully and perhaps refrigerated When this type of surgery Is anticipated the patient and his limb must be brought to the hospital within six hours Six surgeons divided into two teams performed the operation One inserted a tube into the amputated end of the artery to flush out the entire arterial and veinous passageways Meanwhile the ends of the bones are attached with nails wires or rods The veins followed by the arteries usually are connected It was here that the Harvard teams ran into dif- ficulty because the vessels had to be patched first utilizing grafts As soon as the fresh blood entered the leg the severed part became alive After the remaining muscles and other tissues were joined the leg was put into a plaster cast Skin grafting was needed later to cover the knee Because the nerves and pieces of muscle were intact the lad has good muscular action and minimal loss of sensation Accidents in which part of a limb Is lost are serious and the victim is lucky to survive The life of the individual will not be jeopardized by subjecting him to a operation that may not produce desired results In some instances an artificial extremity is the safest and best solution to the problem The condition of the nerve influences the decision If regeneration does not occur the victim has a useless extremity In these circumstances an artificial limb works better II''''''' ' ' Although West could hardly be expected to anticipate the precise end position his holdings in the side suits should have (Copyright) A '''''' I ' ace-nin- Nobody Says It Out Lound ' i''' end-pla- tions beyond our capacity to perform -- t A HARVARD medical school surgical team worked four and a half hours rejoinij ng- the severed leg of an boy '14 Now a spade was led East put up the ten in an attempt to avert the oncoming but his brave effort was to no avail South covered with the queen of spades and West was in with the king Declarer now held a tenace in the suit e with the Whether West returned a spade away from his jack or shifted to a club—which gives his opponent a ruff and discard he must surrender the game fulfilling trick to South seem to be saying that we have taken on so much in the world in the cities with the races that we have raised expecta ' ':7:' v ton officials rnnae-'- i Severed Limb vi A diamond was led to the ace and South trumped the diamond continuation The North hand was reentered with the queen of hearts and declarer ruffed the remaining diamond with the seven of hearts A heart to the king drew trump and completed South's stripping opera ago: ' 5 s South Trump spokesmen seemed to have swung too far from one extreme to another Two years ' : A 1 ' With followed the clubs s :z t 1 '''''' ' every-- --- - 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'4 3 i ' r'1- ''' ''''N'ii '':4 '0 A t-- n tess - : 11:1 00 or 6532 IPKQ2 -- v PX- - I ' ' - suggested the desirability of retaining a safe exit card Instead of leading a third club it vxould have been better to get out with a trump which is equally safe Had South not been given the benefit of the dub ruff by his opponent he would have had to use up all of dummy's entries in order to complete his 'stripping and in the end game he would have been obliged to play spades from his Own band If South Jeads the nine of spades West can duck permitting his partner to IA in with the ten A spade re- turn will then establish West's king for the setting trick A 6 -- i ? - That Nation Can Do Anything by lea na "I 0- with population involvement US thrusts Atntricans directly into the paciMarines have fication businessIIS heavily in Saigon village The stigma of having once belonged to teamed up with Vietnamese efforts a defeated army has never really been troops to guard pacificiation American Infantrymen along the central erased from the Vietnamese officer mencoast and northern delta are providin tality It becomes manifest at times New York Times Service frig security for Joint curt refusals of offers of American teams WASHING'rON — A great change is N troops to help Vietnamese units under pacification The pacification program envisages coming over the discussion of public duress the placement of 500 Revolutionary De- - affairs in America The old optimistic Circle Battlefield teams in hamlets 'Elusion that we velopment (Rev-Dev- ) is 4''' this It along but not forging year cando anything is i Last month Col James G Shanahan over where the civilian without debate to ft giving Briway commander of a US 25th Division Rev-Deteams should be put The US doubt even to a gade had a company of crack infantryteams should n e w view is that the pessimism men circling in helicopters over a battlework only where maximum security has that Viet‘"r ø e maybe the North a Dinh where field in Binh The Americans rememestablished been of the problems i j namese regular force was chopping up a of the strategic her how nation the cities ' f unit from the Vietnamese 22nd Division hamlets in 1963 eventually destroyed and the races are E i c to Shanahan's offer to help was turned them con- our t beyond ComThe down and his troops flew off 1 The Vietnamese pacification leaders trol munists got the better of the battle "I are contested to areas teams sending newspaper admire that Vietnamese commander's M Reaofl arguing that the value of the highly editor s of the our next he'll take time but maybe spirit cadres will be lost in secure country have been here this weekN-antrained offer" Shanahan commented places they have had a dose of this hew despair The Vietnamese inferiority complex The current pacification efforts are Two year ago in their annual pilgrim- sometimes shows through in divisive the largest and most vigorously prosecut- - age to a national capital ablaze with sun- relationships between American advisers ed since the war began and there is per- - shine and flowering trees they were given and their counterparts The most publiabout them of an air desperation visions of a great society a war on povhaps cized took place at the Vietnamese 25th and a compassionate and a vigorerty Division where the commander criticized Population Gone ous nation fighting for a world of decenof the in Order an his American adviser Failure of the program would not nec- - cy and order Day read to assembled troops was the war lost but mean that Now to are back even an essarily to work been they again The adviser had trying it would mean more destruction In the more beautiful 'city alive with color at the Vietnamese 25th into an effective southern delta the war has virtually every square and circle but the mood is fighting force and lost his battle when US Headquarters in Saigon sent him overrun the whole population Paddy- much more gloomy It is not that the homes fields are destroyed war is going badly — actually it is much overgrown of one the home This division still has dikes broken and the population gone better than it was In the spring of 1965 worst records in the country as meaA man recently in the region stretch- when Vietnam was in danger of being sured in lack of contacts with the enemy overrun by the enemy ing south of Can Tho commented "The Obvimis Reasons only people we saw in the broken vilSense of Depression lages were those deformed by the war VietThere are obvious reasons for the of was the old an air There and very It is not that the life of the American namese Army's weakness its demoralimutual exhaustion over the land Both Negro and the disorder of the American zation its factionalism sides seemed at breaking point The cities ore worse — are obviously Vietnamese dead in the American pewere weary battalions of better — but there is they a startling sense of riod of the Indochina war are reaching enemy depression nonetheless toward 400000 In the French period one If pacification fails and negotiations million Vietnamese died In the first day of their meetings do not eventually end the war this spec- here Coups have exiled or sent into retire' the members of the American Sociter could become the fate of the whole ment many skilled senior military figety of Newspaper Editors were drenched In forboding statistics ures The rapid expansion Of the armed country In 1910 73 per cent of the American forces since 1963 has stretched the thin corps of leaders so that at least Negroes lived on the land most of them World of Herd( ly in the South now over 75 per cent of the officers are probably inadequate educaon Officers are selected purely them live in the North most of them in tional abilities and are often prompted the growing urban regions of the Northeast the Great Lakes belt from Chicago for political loyalties The practice of appointing officers as to Milwaukee end from Flint to Detroit Windsor to Toledo the "steel belts" of province and district chiefs and to bureaucratic jobs in Saigon cuts down the Pittsburgh Youngstown Canton Akron available supply of leaders anctoffers opand Cleveland the "sunny crescent" from Los Angeles Long Beach to o portunities for graft and the new Florida complex Second-Rat-e By Joe T Boyes Arms from Cape Kennedy south to Palm DUPONT — Arms: Azure an Ionic column an sent the bees "eft Crest: A helmet affront's Beach Miami and Key West The United States has equipped the Motto: 6till-fa1l- "At 'of 1 Bridgeth r Both kulnerable South deals NORTH L 4r4 - t ' 4 - --- iii'' r ild-- By C H Goren 4 s t Toda-y- — 1 1 Goren on --r - tA r-q-! - — --:- i' i 1 ance ' I " ' )! -r 1- - i ' " l'e 4 v or t In much of the country US troops have replaced rather than enforced Vietnamese Statistically the Vietnamese army is fighting much less than iNid two years ago when in the months of crisis American ground troops were rushed in to prop up Vietnam against a Communist military victory All the present Vietnamese generals fought on the French side in the Indochina war and the shadow of those days of defeat by the Communist Peasant Army part thle ': The Vietnamese armed forces will not ik -- be increased because the bottom of the - ' l draft barrel is already being scraped --The US High Command preoccupied - '' for two years with hunting down North VieMamese now is IS ' looking regulars more toward the populated valleys and l''':4' 4 e' ' ' N'' lowlands where the enemy wields potent NI political influence and gets his susten- - Replace Troops are t - ' It (1 t : L I The American combat force of eight divisions is fully committed yet there are vast gaps where five more diVisions could easily be absorbed according to American planners ' °5 c Absorb Divisions '- sit 5 battle turned k The huge US commit- rnent 'tp Vietnam Mr Arnett has notNhad the effect of revitalizing the troopers who once fought alongside other foreigners — the French Uniortforces — on the same battlefields that Americans stalk now malitary central highlands Some recent actions brought American units to the brink of disaster before the tide of : -- Tdn zones or the ' -: 's 4 — all What role is the Vietnamese Edit Oft's NOte army now plaving in the Aar cornPared to the US miiitary effort? What Is the outlook for the other war" the program of pacification which is essential for real peace? Peter Arwett oiscussesthese and the asiestene 4 itcfer lost In a series of five — Li 4L 11 A 19 21 ' - s Als it4 IIP - t — 1 -4 r 1 t T :::'17‘ i c! k Friday April The Salt Lake Tribune 4 - a! ri i' - ' J t! |