Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition 75 106 Price 1o with inc comics january 1968 Sun rises am Moon rises am Sun sets Moon sets forecast colder 15 and 5 to 7mv suicide squad strikes 380 buses gets million order by Richard Stockell motor coach industries of Winnipeg has been Given a million con tract to Supply its Parent greyhound lines of with 380 inter City buses this Ray mond Grey hound has Dis interviewed by Telephone in his Chicago Shaffer the million is the Purchase Price of the buses and the Money will stay in motor coach industries is a wholly owned subsidiary of two buses a Day Are scheduled to be turned it was Learned the order consists of 180 of the Curren the mc5a 150 of a new the and 50of a second new the mc6 the mc6 is undergoing performance tests prior to production later in the a spokesman motor coach which has been shells to greyhounds Chicago Plant since operates a Plant in Forl Garry and plans a new building there to House the production of Ike new a spokesman guerrillas invade american embassy troops wipe out Viet Cong attackers in six hour Battle communist offensive spreads across South Vietnam from a Reuters Saigon up Saigon became a Battleground under martial Law today As the Viet Cong guerrillas extended their coordinated lunar new year offensive across the country and made their biggest assault on South Vietnam capital since the War the most spectacular attack was an invasion of the embassy compound in Saigon by a Viet Cong suicide squad that held out for six hours before troops wiped them trapped in fire a Young about was believed to have suffered severe Burns and a boy was reported trapped on the top of a three Storey apartment Block at 439 Logan Avenue shortly after noon the two alarm fire was raging in the storeys above Martins the two top storeys of the building were gutted within min utes of the first the Young woman who was led from the building by firemen and taken to Hospital was Able to walk but she had been badly first the Rescue squad was a Man who tried to enter the building to save the boy was re ported to have been driven Back by the heat of the Kasminsky cautions Ottawa hints medicare phase in would help steady Economy Johns up some phasing of desirable developments May have to be done to keep Canadas growth sustained and governor Louis Kasminsky of the Bank of Canada said tuesday he did not specify what he meant by desirable develop but phasing Means introducing new programs such As medical care insurance by or by groups of Benefice instead of Universal application at one Kasminsky told the new As fighting continued at other Points 1 Lover Saigon and in other towns throughout the president Nguyen Van Thieu in a special broadcast declared martial Law throughout South Thieu announcement came Over the army regular Saigon radio was off the the building housing it burned Down after guerrillas fought their Way into it tuesday under Thieu Bis government will Rule by de Cree until further notice rather than under the constitutional parliamentary system inaugurated late last the president ordered All night clubs and other places of entertainment closed throughout the country and banned All gatherings and casualties in the two Days of 1 i g h t in g across the country soared on both artillery and machine gun fire echoed through the streets of dead and wounded were scattered through the capitals please see american Page 5 this photo diagram shows the embassy in Saigon and pinpoints How the Viet Cong attack of tuesday was carried also shown Are the areas where forces entered the embassy grounds to Battle the handful fight to live As blast topples Wall by Peter Arnett fore he could get inside the Saigon a for the m unlike americans fighting m handful of americans inside the the Countryside they did not Glossy White fight that began at today was one of the 19 Viet Cong commandos who blasted their Way through the embassy ornate Concrete outside Wall with explosive charges made it Clear they in tended to stay until they were and to take As Many americans with them As they for the Young soldiers of the 716th military police crawling along exposed gutters and sidewalks the besieged the Mission was to clean out the enemy be repeating strategy by Stanley Karnow to seek uranium in North Denison mines will explore a Section of Northwestern Manitoba for the firm has an the search will also include a Section of Northern Stephen president of Denison said tuesday in Toron to that Survey teams should be on the property by a three month Aerial photographic Survey and subsequent map study will Start More than has been earmarked for the the Manitoba search area Between the 59th and 60th parallel was roughly described by a Denison official wednesday in a Telephone inter View from please see probe Page 5 business report delivery thursday due to the late arrival of a plane from wednesdays report on business will be delivered Sundland Board of Trade that rising costs and High interest rates have Arisen from a failure o recognize that there Are on our capacity to achieve All desirable objectives at the same the Federal governments restrictions on spending in the coming fiscal resulting in smaller borrowings in the Public should tend to moderate the he but wage demands Are still Strong and it is essential that the Public generally should understand that we cannot pay ourselves incomes in excess of our output without prices going the Central Bank governor said there has been a distinct slowing Down of economic expansion in Canada in the past 18 this has meant an in crease in unemployment and lessening of pressure on can Adas physical but there is As yet Little Evi Dence that the upward trend of costs and prices has significantly he please see Kasminsky Page 5 medicare decision pending by Victor Ottawa min ister Pearson after a three hour Cabinet meeting tuesday told the commons the review of medicare was not quite completed and he hoped it would be finished at thursdays he said that he would inform the provinces and the House when a decision was but some liberals were won Dering aloud wednesday Why worry Pearson will resign As prime minister after the Liberal leadership convention selects his successor april please see medicare Page 4 the enemy faced a con unless he Dis Persed his he could not occupy territory on the other if he concentrated units to take the his occupation forces were Mak ing it difficult for him to hold territory we went gradually from autonomous blast rips Home Toronto up an explosion Tore apart the servants quarters at the Home of the president of the Bank of Nova Scotia in the exclusive residential area of Rosedale Early one chauffeur James was badly burned and taken to Hospital where his condition was listed As William owner of the huge and his a maid and the chaff were in the House when the explosion occurred at and Nicks and the maid were the House burst into flames soon after the police and members of the arson squad were the explosion ripped the front off the servants quarters Over a three car garage at one end of the two cars in the garage were the Home next door to the Nicks owned by Ralph was heavily windows were shattered and plaster knocked Down in neigh Boring Homes on both sides of the Telephone service and electrical Power was disrupted in the two Telephone poles were knocked cause of the explosion was a Consumers Gas representative said the part of the House that blew up was serviced by natural Gas but did not know whether this was the cause of the companies to Mobile Bat then to regiments and the initial appearance of our divisions in Battles in Frontier regions marked our first major which increased the enemy thus North vietnamese to Nguyen Hanoi minister of writing in described the strategy he used to defeat the French in the Indochina and that Accord ing to communist sources recently interviewed by this correspondent i n several Southeast asian is currently being repeated by the North vietnamese and Viet Cong against the United states and its allies in the communists version of their not unlike official is naturally coloured by Wishful in the opinion of qualified Saigon there is a certain plausibility in the communist View of the present As Hanoi and the Viet Cong see their forces Are now shifting into Large unit operations for the first time in Vietnam this they began in the Battles of lbs Ninh and Dak to and is now continuing at Khe to some their big operations Are apparently even at the risk of High communist at inflicting heavy casualties on the american forces in order to create a psychological Impact in the please see Hanoi Page 6 have the help of fighter bomb ers and they had to do the Job disciplined troops the Viet Cong planned the embassy attack a Trade Mark of the Cio sapper battalion that Over the years has attacked a number of important Saigon they dressed some of their commandos in the Black pyjamas of the vietnamese others in the White shirts of the Saigon White Collar workers All carried perfectly forged curfew when the attack those in White shirts fastened the top Button As a Mark of ident Ifica those in peasant garb pulled red armbands up their they were believed to have gathered near the embassy in by Sampan Down the near by Saigon and on at the designated Viet Cong mortars and rockets began crashing Down on the capital groggily sleeping off celebrations of the lunar new Viet Cong commandos sprinted Down the wide treeline Bou dodging from trunk to vietnamese guards out Side the embassy were crouched Down to avoid the incoming the Viet Cong Laid the charge in an the loud explosion blew in the Northern Corner of the embassy outer Wall and they were the first Shell fired against Saigon sent window Glass Spray ing Over the bed of the mis Sion George Jacob a Veteran of nine years in Vietnam and a retired army please see handful Page 6 features today clergy makes four 59 today Index classified 46 to 55 comics 64 35 finance 21 to 24 Jumble 48 movies 33 sports 58 o 65 television 32 women 9 to 17 a b City zone total c circulation nearly everyone reads the free press honorable loss for is goal by Murrey Marder Washington special tons no one in Washington tuesday night was minimizing the boldness of the communist thrust As it reached into the embassy itself in the heart of president Johnson met tuesday night with Republican leaders and the Penta gon kept an open line to captured communist documents have labelled what is now taking place in South Vietnam As the most important historical period for they have termed this the Winter Spring Campaign with the object Ive of creating an Honor Able defeat for the United states at a peace Confer the declared tech Nique is the combination of military and political struggle to topple the pre sent government of South Vietnam and form a coalition government that the National liberation front Viet Cong would Domin the end result for the vietnamese communists has been labelled decisive in communist usage it is a term that Means less than Toaty or Complete experts at least one captured document even has 1968 As culminating activity for these and also because of information gleaned from private Diplo Matic plan ners generally regard the please see honorable Page 5 Moscow proposes treaties by Osgood Caruthers special tons Moscow has proposed to Bonn that West Germany enter into a series of treaties with the soviet Union and its East european allies including communist East renouncing the use of Force in settling their it was reported Here Concrete suggestions w Ere handed to the Bonn government by soviet ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin in his meeting with foreign minister Willy Brandt earlier this according to Well informed sources although government officials would make no comment on the the West German news Agency spa quoted authoritative government circles As having expressed interest in the soviet All sources emphasize that Bonn under no circumstances would consider signing any formal treaty with East Germany that would indicate recognition of the Validity of the regime of communist chief Walter us first news of the proposals came from East Berlin monday night when Kurt a member of the East German party ruling re ported that the soviet Union had already drawn up a draft treaty which it hoped Bonn would please see Moscow Page 7 spec Deal halted canal Clearing postponed after shelling Ismail a Egypt Cap Suez canal authority spokesman announced tuesday night that the Clearing of the canal will indefinitely because of israeli of egyptian launches and the announcement came a few hours after a 90minute Exchange of tank and artillery fire across the the israeli egyptian engagement was the heaviest the ship blocked waterway since last the firing began after Egypt sent four into the Northern part of the canal to look for obstacles barring the departure of 15 foreign stranded in canal since the Israel Arab Warin Israel had agreed earlier to a Clearing operation in the South Ern part of the but warned sunday that any work in the Northern part would be the egyptian canal authority spokesman said his country believes both the Southern and Northern sectors of the water Way should be surveyed in order to find the safest and easiest outlet for apparently the israelis do not want us to approach the Northern make our task he he said the Cana Clearing question now is in the hands of the egyptian foreign please see Clearing Page 5 closure bid rejected canadians scare russians sea Victory claimed Ottawa up a highly placed informant said tuesday that a Canadian destroyer chased a russian submarine Halfway across the Atlantic in 19g5 and forced in Desperak to seek Refuge in Harbor at the believed to be the carried out the operation after she made the in he said submarines Are Only i graphic information about can ital Contact to prove Canadian j planes keep part of a regular network of russian intelligence operations off Canadas Atlantic and Pacific most of the soviet intelligence were disguised As fishing though Many of these ships were Able to carry on Reg ular fishing operations As Craf Argus maritime patrol warships can track submarines the source the operation might have served to help keep soviet sub marines from spying frequently on the Atlantic coast of North the informant the russian regular watch on fishing fleets but Adas the incident involving the Ca Nadian destroyer and russian sub has been classified As top it is understood that few Canadian naval personnel apart from the destroyer Crew know anything about the the informant said the cat an mouse game was played out during several he said that at one time the gave up Low level sweeps Over i russian submarine Crew appear the ships several years ago after protests from Russia about russian submarines have Long been known As seekers of Hydro entry became terrified that the destroyer did not know it had a submarine within weapons please see sea Page 5 by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff the progressive conservatives declined to go along tuesday with a lib eral government proposal Tom pose closure and curtail the de Bate on the broadcasting Legisla frustrated by the prolonged discussion of the legislation in the clause by clause study of the Bill in its ninth Day in the the Liberal minority government asked the conservatives to agree to the imposition of modified according to Michael Starr Starr said that Allan government House had approached him As the conservative House and asked if the official opposition would go along with a government move to impose the modified closure Rule under the new provisional rules in effect for this please see closure Page 4 ;