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Show A4 DESERET NEWS, Thursday, August 51, 196? Try To Get Bodies, 8 GIs Die (UPI) to V Time Elunnioig Short On 'Pullout' Pledge ' WASHINGTON (UPI) -The United States must pull a considerable number of troops out of Vietnam within the next 10 days if it is to make good on President Nixons pledge to withdraw 25,000 by the end of this month. made at promise, Nixons Midway Conference in early June with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, car..e at a time when the officially listed American military strength in Vietnam was 437,500 men. This the total of At U.S. servicemen in Vietnam was only about 2,500 less than it was at the time of the Midway Declaration, and this has worried State Department officials. mid-Augu- - FOOD FOR CRITICS They fear failure to accomplish an overall reduction of 25,000 by the end of August may give critics ammunition to charge Nixons pledge was not made in good faith. Pentagon officials explain that the very small reduction, despite withdrawal of a number of units, is due to the fact that at this time of year an unusually high number of rotation replacements are in the pipeline for Vietnam, and it is impossible to dose the flow completely without ' They imparing efficiency. assert that by the end of this month they will cojne close to . meeting Nixons .figure. Secretary of State William P. Rogers has disclosed the United States plans to continue Its withdrawal program beyond the end of August, bat that the rate of replacement will depend on the level of enemy activity. and 12, and there also has been a considerable reduction in infiltration flareups Aug. 11 from the North. The secretary told a news conference Wednesday indicate that the Communists might have difficulty sustained offenlaunching sive action." ; this-woul- SENSIBLE RLSKS He said the United States is willing to take sensible risks for peace in Vietnam and that in addition to the troop withdrawal plan it had altered its military tactics to some extent in re.' ponse to the Communist lull presumably by taking some of the pressure off the enemy forces. Previously, Washington officials had defended the idea of keeping maximum pressure" as a on the Communists means of lowering American casualties. They said keeping SAIGON the enemy off balance was less costly in terms of Allied casualties than sitting and waiting for the enemy to attack. WHOLE PICTURE itself has grave risks, Rogers said. And we are willing to take sensible risks for peace. So, in deciding what to do in terms of troop replacements in the future, the President and all of us are going to keep those in mind. We considerations are prepared to take sensible risks for peace. War The Paris talks, Rogers added, are making very little progress despite Allied concessions. He said the Soviete, who continue to supply most of Hanois military equipment, are not doing as much as they could to lessen hostilities.' U.S. Inf antrymen battling retrieve the bodies of eight Americans from a wrecked helicopter in the jungled area below Da Nang killed 103 Communists in a series of But by late today they were pinned down by guns and unable to move. The battles in the thick jungles and scrub brush inland from the coastal city of Tam Ky brought to 400 the number of Communists fighting in that area this week. The area has long been a Communist infiltration route to Da Nang. . Spokesmen said the latest fighting cost units of the American divisions 196th Light Infantry Brigade at least eight dead and 39 wounded. Even during the lull as termed by the United States . on the battlefield, the Unit-e- d States has not ceased to carry out sweep operations and violent - bombings and shellings everywhere, she said. As we have pointed out many timesi it is obvious that Mr, .'Nixon, since coming into offic, has continued the poli, cy of intensifying arid prolong--: ing the aggressive war hi South Vietnam contrary to his fallacious ... allegation? for about them. Lau said theTJ.S. Air Farce also has stepped up the nun"conraids ber of its bombing of U.S. , trary to the statement R. Melvin Defense Secretary who announced a reduction in the intensity of air strikes several weeks ago.i . , The chief Viet Cong dele--', - peace. gate, Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, ... ? C- y , V. 1 L X TW O 'KF fS) was ;j . . - aw the lull in ground fighting. NUM BERLIN SPORTS! '&M n DOVE HUNTERS! check these low prices! V i Will: s Laus statements and made her first, reference to echoed mum military pressure, said Lau. When some pro traced to an sweep operation comes comU.S. the military end, mand in Saigon never fails to make noisy propaganda about other it, but when scores of orit on are going operations all of reports blackout ders a sons. fM!). mnm He said there has been a lull in enemy activity for nine weeks with the exception of - draw its military forcer, from The ComPARIS (UPI) the south. , munist side accused the UnitBut Col. Ha Van tau, the ed States today of escalating ' senior North Vietnamese delethe air and ground wars in at todays session, said gate official South Vietnam aespito the United States has made no Washington statements to the effort to scale down the war or improve the atmosphere contrary. for peace negotiations. His The Communist statements statement came le-- than 24 31st the session of the staleat hours after Secretary of State mated peace talks came after William Rogers indicated ir the United States asked Hanoi Washington that - the United for better treatment of Ameriin reStates was can prisoners of war in North sponse to a lull in Communist Vietnam and renewed its call ground attacks. for mutual troop withdrawal. tne In South .Vietnam, South Vietnam warned flatUnited States has unceasingly ly that no peace is possible" , intensified its military operamaxi until Hanoi agrees to with tions to exert Most of the casualties were suffered when the infantrymen were attacked .while trying to reach the scene of a helicopter crash Tuesday that apparently killed eight per- Wisi (fliUEOSW ;r:,: , ar--. Reds Hurl 'Escalating7 Charge At U.S. SET YOU! HUNTING LICENSE AT WOLfES i VIIICIIESTER MOD. 1200 111 PACIFIC nitri SATIN-SMOOT- SLIDE-ACTIO- H N 155 -- 2 YEAR WARRANTY! 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