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Show 2A DESERET NEWS, May 31, 1969 Saturday, Sergeant Flees Red Captivity Fighting WfpWWHMmiiwui - p K' r . Resumes M Jh :, ( 4V ,v j six" aV '.IV , j t &- ,v ' "'jil'4 J . ,,r - ,VW : -- - r Uc ' 'y , . 'Hfr" .V C" 'i4, vr; f ., n, vJyf - t ..".'Jl'X'-'"- " , CJ f. J t , , SAIGON v In Vietnam SAIGON Thousand'; (AP) of Allied troops banked by tanks and bombers resumed operations across South Vietnam today at the end of cease-fire- s proclaimed by both the Allied and the Communist commands for Buddhas birthday. The only significant action in reported mands the evening came at an hour 7 U.S. Com- communique a.m. Saigon time, after the Allied cease-firended. American helicopter gunships spotted 14 enemy soldiers about 7.1 miles south of Da Nang and rakpd them with machine-gufire. Eleven were reported killed. n HALT e dozen American or larger ground operations and U.S. B52 strikes were under way again after halt in offensive the operations. Scores of South Vietnamese ground sweeps and smaller American patrols also were under way aimed at blunting any enemy summer campaign against Allied bases. A ueUMflWHriN UPI Telephoto Moon's far side punoruma lias only been seen by six persons. Each side accused the other of violating the cease-fire158 INCIDENTS The U.S. Command said Allied that during the cease-firthere were 158 incidents reported, of which 85 were considered significant in that they resulted in Allied or Farside Moon Peaks Rival West's Ranges SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON (UPI) Like any tourist savoring the memories of his big vacation, scientists and astronauts today began the task of labeling more than 1,100 photographs of the mcon taken during the flight of Apollo 10. Many of the could pictures e as a pass r commercial for acne medication. The side of the moon facing the earlh, marked although definitely befoie-and-afte- Will Arrest weeks to finish captioning the rest. The bulk of photographs single every represented shot taken by astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan. It would take 100 rolls of standard film for the average black-and-whit- e Mountain ranges, rivaling those in the western United States, loomed on the lunar horizon. The number of craters on the dark side made it seem as though a meteorite monsoon rained on the moons surface regularly. Of the 1,200 pictures released Friday, only 87 were identified by space agency of - ! A L B U QUERQUE. ; ficials who said it would take tourist id duplicate the volume of pictures produced by the astronauts. Yet Stafford, and Young snapped their photos in 61 hours of moor, orbiting. Cernan N.M. New Mexicos (AP) Spanish land grant claimant, Reies Lopez Tijeri-.nsaid Friday he plans to 'rtiake a citizens arrest Fjes-da- y of Warren E. Burger, the I aominee for U.S. chief justice. Tijerina, whose followers .claim ownership of thousands f acres of northern New ilexico. said he would make (he arrest because of Burger's to violate the I conspiracy .ivil rights of the poor while : serving as a U.S. Circuit Court Judge. ! ;; Tijeraina issued a signed statement in Albuquerque in .which he said he will attend Senate confirmation hearings or Burger in Washington rnd Tmake the arrest. am hoping that he will jlot resist, Tijerina said, so that he can be an example to all the public, who is every day subject to arrest. No man is above the law. forTijerina, a 42 vear-olmer cotton picker who came to New Mexico several years "ago from Texas, surprised .law officers when he and a "group of armed followers invaded the sleepy northern New Mexico mountain village of Tierra Amarilla in June 1957. Thev took over the viland the courthouse, lage where several of Tijerina's arfollowers were being raigned on charges from on .earlier incident. flam-.boya- a, I ?! d The first LONDON (AP) four explorers ever to walk across the polar ice cap, a trek over the frozen Arctic Ocean, hitched up their dog sleds again today as drifting ice threatened to sweep them out to sea. 3.620-mil- e ice is very broken here; its not a healthy place said a radio mesto stay, sage from expedition leader Wally Herbert, a bearded surveyor who grew up in the blazing heat of Egypt but made the icy Arctic his lifes work. The Two members of the expedition across giant leaped cracks in the ice Friday and scrambled ashore on Small Blackboard Island, 153 miles north of Pitsbergen. They stayed on the rocky islet for only a few minutes, taking photographs and climbing to its summit. Then they jumped back across the moving ce to rejoin their colleagues on an ice floe. On the floe, which is drifing toward the British warship Endurance off the northwest tip of Soitsbergen, the explorers set up a camp, radioed a message to Queen Elizabeth II. brewed tea and began planning the final leg of their journey. The team set out for Spitsbergen from Point Barrow, 1968. Alaska, in February They still plan to reach Spits- - bergen, but expedition headquarters has already declared the mission a success. They could be picked up by helicopter if floating ice makes the rest of the trip impossible. When the Britons set out from Point Barrow, Eskimos there told the four Herbert, anchorman Allan Gill, glaciologist Roy Koerner and Maj. Ken Hedges they were doomed to fail. The team shunned modern techniques such as motorized sleds and insisted on exploring with husgie dogs and handbuiit wooden sledges. The explorers spent much of the 16 months drifting on ice floes. Royal Canadian Air Force planes dropped supplies to them, and the team radioed reports to an American scientific station on the Arctic ice. Sweden Reports Underground Test UPPSALA. SWEDEN (AP) An underground explosion oecu red this morning in the Si- berian Semipalatinsk area, the Seismological Institute of Uppsala reported. According to the head of the institute. Prof. Marcus Baath, tiie explosion probably originated from a nuclear test blast. The last registration from this area was made May 16. Transplant Restores Sight Of Blind Viet War Orphan ; SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An open letter to Marines -.of Aircraft Group 16, 1st Wing, I Corps, Vietnam; That tiny South Vietnamese war orphan you found wandering blindly in a field near 1928. Nguyen Thi Cong, the girl about 4Vz years old you nick- jiamed Julie, had a successful .corneal trail.-p- a nt th's week et Mount Lull Hospital, doctors Benjamin, 44, is an oil company civil engineer. Parents of two other children, one adopted, the Benjamins live in a ranch type home in Broomall. a Philadelphia suluitb. iaid Fridav. wc'il have to put you in Benjamin's wife, Carol. 28. If we're successful, says; she may still crawl under the Bandages . as far back as Brooinall. Fa., have enlisted the aid of the White House. State Department, South Vietnamese Embassy and the U.S. Immigration Service in efforts to adopt her. Julie apparently is haunted by what happened before you rescued her. Mrs. Smith says the girl occasionally sobs in Vietnamese suen phrases as: Oh mother, dont leave your little child. I'll be alone. Oh mother, you're uetd now. Da Nang now can see. . living with her custodian, Mrs. Goidon Smith, at the Home of Peace in nearby The Smiths had Oakland. been missionaries in Vietnam off. Julie blinked reached for toys around '3er. Eyeglasses will be neeri-ed- , but doctors say one eye "has full vision. Juhe is now an i ground." The information here is that s Julio was abandoned by after her parents were killed. ie!i-tive- The Swift Benjamins of three-bpdroo- bed and cry once in a while, lonsidering all she's gone through, but we'll pull her out of it with good terrier loving care. i mm PiJ WniPirfTw d enemy casualties. U.S. casualties as a result significant incidents the temporary cessation of offensive operations for Buddhas birthday were 13 killed and 62 U.S. headquarters wounded, said. Other friendly casualties were light. A total of 89 enemy soldiers were reported killed. INCLUDES ATTACKS The U.S. Command summary included attacks on South Vietnamese units. An American spokesman said the command logged incidents only for the Allied cease-fire- . losses Vietnamese South Allied during the cease-fir- e were put at three soldiers killed and 30 wounded. one hamlet chief and one civilian killed and four civilians wounded. of the 85 reported during 'WAR IS WON' Bomb Halt Working, Aide Says HARLINGEN. TEX. (UPI) When former President Johnson announced the complete bombing halt over North Vietnam, he took his biggest step towa.ris winning the war, the assistant commandant ot the U.S. Marine Corps said Friday. And the war is won, Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt said in a Memorial Day address to the graduating class of the Marine Military Academy. The bombing halt was not the North Vieteverything namese thought it was going to be, Walt said. When we stopped, we took away something that had cemented them together. If we start the bombing again, we may cement them together again. The problem today is not on the battlefield of Vietnam. Weve won that. Were depleting the guerrilla now and the people are getting out from under the yoke of Communism and back under the security of the South Vietnamese government. Walt, who returned from Vietnam last month before the much discussed fight for Hamburger Hill, described the bottle as a necessary and successful dual purpose engagement. the door. i That lull . way to Hue. We took it for to prrent the two reasons establishment of enemy supply bases in a populated area and to destroy supplies already there. We accomplished both.' . Powell, Bride Plan Honeymoon -NWASHINGTON (AP) Adam Clayton PcweU III and socialite writer Beryl Slocum plan to honeymoon in Euro;ie and visit Moscow, then make a trip to the island ot Bimini. Powell, 22, son ot the Negro congressman from New York, married Miss Slocum in a chapel at Washington Cathe- ewbweds dral Friday. - U.S. A Army sergeant escaped nine months of Communist captivity ar.d flagged down an American helicopter four days later for a ride to safety Friday military spokesmen said today. When they picked me up, I the was actually crying, announcement Sgt. quoted Kenneth R. Gregory, 23, of Altus, Okla. The U.S. Military Command said Gregory was in good condition but had lost 10 pounds since his capture last Aug. 25 in an ambush near Tay Ninh City, 60 miles northwest of Saigon. Nurses at the U.S. 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh north of Saigon fed Gregory fried chicken for his first meal the best food I've had in a long time." he said. The announcement gave no details of Gregory's escape, saying only tnat he broke free Monday and was picked up Friday 12 miles northwest of Tay Ninh City by a helicopter of the U S. 1st Air Cavalry Division. He was the second American to escape the Communists in less than two months. On April 17, Spec. 5 Thomas H. Van Putten, 21. of Caledonia, Mich., was picked up in the 14 same area following months in captivity. His next hosp;tal meal after the chicken was a steak dinner with vegetables, potatoes, Reds Hold Talk Price PARIS (UPI) Communist diplomats today forecast further deadlock in the Vietnam peace talks if President Nixon and his South Vietnamese counterpart decide against making political concessions to the Viet Cong. Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam are scheduled to meet June 8 on Midway Island to discuss the war and apparent differences in their respective peace proposals. WILL HOLD OUT The Communist diplomats, with close ties to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations, said the Communist negotiators would hold out for some guarantee of a part in the political future of South Vietnam, ARGENTINA CORDOBA, (UPI) Argentine army troops silenced the last snipers early Saturday and cleanup crews began removing barricades and other debris from two days of clashes which turned the nations third largest city into a battleground. Elsewhere in the nation, public services and private business returned to normal strike called after a by labor unions in defiance of the military-base- d government of President Juan Car munist candidates. The chief U.S. negotiator. Henry Cabot Lodge, answered in Thursdays session that there would be no political settlement without the full On your mark participation and agreement of Thieus government. Thieu said in Seoul Friday that he stands on his peace plan, calling for the withdrawal of guerrilla troops from South Vietnam and Communist renunciation of violence before they get a spot S stand from the leaders of the two staunchly anticommunist Asian nations. President Nixons eight-poipeace plan calls fer a mutual withdrawal of Allied and North Vietnamese troops, with an international commission to supervise elections, hard-lin- ... - . ANTI-RED- e Ah now, DUBLIN (UPI) was it not great to see a Jewr fighting for Ireland. And he b r ought all that love from America. This simple eulogy, uttered by a Dublin taxi driver, summed up affection the and esteem of the Irish for Robert Bris- Dublins first and only mayor who died early Friday. Mourning for the veteran of the Irish rebellion was led hy President Eamon De Valera who appeared with approximately 1,000 other mourners at the graveside Friday night for the final rites for Briscoe, hurriedly buried before trie start of the Sabbath in keeping with Jewish tradition. coe, Easy Going For Voyage OSLO, NORWAY (AP) -After six days at sea and degales that spite northerly have up whipped waves, Thor Heyerdahl reported Friday that his papyrus boat Ra is floating as easily as when she was launched. Her seaworthiness is indisputable, Heyerdahl said in a radio transmission monitored in Norway. He gave the Ra's position as off the coast of the Spanish enclave of Ifni in West Africa. The expedition had drifted eastwards because of the strong winds. Despite this the crew iiopes to pass north of the Canary Islands. Heyerdahl and his international crew left SaF, an in Morocco, Sunday attempt to sail the papyrus boat to the American conti- I five-truc- k Sgt. Kenneih Gregory . . . flags down 'copter los Ongania. Students also joined in the protest. At least 12 persons were reported killed in sniper battles here and rifle and machine-gu-n fire echoed through the night. But early today, the sound of shooting died away. Argentine army troops, with orders to shoot to kill, used automatic weapons and bazookas to reduce sniper positions. back with fought Snipers weapons ranging from hunting rifles to submachineguns. The snipers used guerrilla by Bil Keane tactics, shooting on patrols and when the tioops closed in cathing them in a crossfire. Spotter planes circled overas troops head, however, began clearing away the debris of fighting here. and workers clashed with police and troops elsewhere in this sprawling South American republic. Scores of prisoners were seized and ordered to stand trial before war crimes tribunals assembled hastily under orders from President Juan Carlos Ongania. Students Dutch Quell Curacao VENEZUELA CARACUS, (UPI) Royal Dutch Marines today were reported to have restored order in downtown Willemstad after a day of looting and burning by striking oil workers which left large sections of the capitol of Curacao in ruins. A U.S. embassy spokesman here said contact was established this morning with the American legation on the island who reported U.S. citizens there "do not appear to be in any danger. liiere are an estimated 800 Americans on the island off the coast of Venezuela which . GO!" get set is a favored American tourist because attraction mainly of its free-dut-y shopping. The embassy spokesman refused to say whether order had been restored on the island, saying only that the has not consul general assistance requested any yet. But other reliable reports man Catholic nun. He was 74. said the Royal Dutch Marines In 1956, urged into the race had brought the situation in by De Valera, Briscoe was downtown Willemstad under elected as lord mayor of this control although there still heavily Catholic city. During was some burning and looting terms he on the outskirts. his two one-yeAll regular communications championed his beloved Ireland and Judaism throughout links between Curacao and the world. Venezuela remained suspended. It was learned the U.S. embassy contacted the consul general in Willemstad by A .. Late Jewish Moyoi Mourned By Irish six-poi- The South Vietnamese president's current tour to South Korea and Taipei has gotten him encouragement on his Gregory was a squad leader of a convoy which the Viet Cong ambushed near Tay Ninh City, leading to his capture. He has been listed as missing in action. In command I are In With Hanois backing, the Viet Cong proposed May 8 that the Saigon regime be replaced by a provisional cabinet, which would organize new elections to include Com- STAUNCH mother fjbZdf JT Rampage u on the ballot. His wife and both in Altus. FAMILY CIRCUS If no concessions come out conferthe Nixon-Thieence, these diplomats said, the Communists most likely will stall in the negotiations, prolonging the current deadlock on how to end the war. of Normal would procedure Gregory shipped home as soon as possible, perhaps Sunday, follow ing debriefing by intelligence officers and physical examinations. The firet thing I'm planning is to spend some time with my family." said Gregory, who entered the Army in May of 1964 and arrived in Vietnam on Nov. 2, 1967. hae Troops Silence Snipers, Argentina Begins Cleanup Firm To e enemy-initiate- Arctic Explorers Face Ice Threat ;Burger, He Vows ri I with craters, Is relatively to the smooth compared scarred lunar surface on the side seen by only six persons. battal-lon-siz- (CPI) six-ma- n nent. De Valera arranged a special salute by a Irish army squad for the ambassador extraordinary. The young soldiers raised their rifles over the grave and fired three vollevs into the skv. Briscoe, who made the Star Irish symbol, died at l..s home, filled with mementos of the Unitpd States, the nation hp called my other country. The death was announced by his family, including the daughter who became a Ro- of David an Rocky Flies To Bolivia military channels." DESERET NEWS SALT LAKI CITY, UTAH QUITO, ECUADOR (UPI) Gov. Nelson A. Roekfeller violence-marre- d ended a visit to Ecuador today and flew to Bolivia, the next stop on his Latin American mission for President Nixon. two-da- y g An informed source said the New York governor left Quito for LaPaz about 7 a.m., and is expected to arrive in the capiBolivia tal of shortly before noon. land-locke- d In Quito Friday, Rockefeller students street protests that resulted in the deaths of seven persons and injuries to 52 more since his arrival on Thursday. urged to n abandon I. Flrit Smith Editorial Office, M Advertising and circulation 141 S. Mam St. Salt Like City Utah $4110 Established Juno 15 1850. Published CwCh evening. Entered at thoSalt Lake City Post Office as second class matter according to Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Deseret News Publishing Company assumes no responsibility for manuscript' and photographs contributed Photographs and artdes may be reprinted only with written permission given in advance. 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