Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 1968 handful fight to survive hearing heavy weapons fire in the embassy grounds he grasped the Only weapon he a and at in the floodlit embassy Honald Harper of the senior Marine was idling away the hours before thumps crashed All around the 20 year old Harper said i figured the pc were coming in continued in guru wic v v Sci c i slammed the heavy wooden working late in the upstairs embassy doors shut and As i did floors were still so a rocket hit the window doors remain Stout and the Side of the wound thai Congo ing my Marine buddy in the searched in darkness for Aneth face and legs and throw ing me to the a few seconds later a Viet Cong sapper dropped a grenade through the smashed embassy soon afterwards another rocket smashed through the i moved Back Harper to the armory to get my Bereta then i helped move my buddy i Fig ured we were in for ambassador hides ambassador Ellsworth Bunker lives five blocks from the minutes after the he was told the Viet Cong had penetrated the embassy he was whisked to a secret spot under maximum at the Harper fired a test burst from his Bereta and Back into the Corner of the looking out through the steel grills in the broken win fired from across the Tore four jagged holes in the Concrete latticework facade of the bullets linked the scalloped one Marine guard in the embassy was killed and seven oth including were two vietnamese Drivers for the embassy were Cut Down by in his two Storey Frame House investors Syndicate limited 50 feet from the Jacobson talked Over the Tele phone to his friends and super phone lines to the guards in the embassy were Cut but he knew that one Marine was badly wounded and needed Eva that one was and that the handful of civilians or Entrance to the the Payne manager of investors Winnipeg 2 is pleased to announce that Paynes sales of Over in 1967 has placed him among the sales leaders of the company in investors Syndicate and investors Trust company arc subsidiaries of the investors the largest company of its kind in three affiliated Mutual funds Are investors Mutual of Canada investors growth fund of Canada and investors International Mutual fund Cherrywood doors of the main although battered by rockets and held one part of the Viet Cong Force was trying to hold off the american Relief troops with Gre Nades and Small arms fire while the other part looked for a Good place to Plant Paul Healey of called from his Mili tary police was crawling up near the outer he lost one buddy then and he was pinned other military police had scaled an apartment House opposite the embassy and their heavy fire into the embassy Garden Cut Down some of the Robert of commander of a fresh Marine guard decided a counterattack in the darkness would be too by he asked those in Side the embassy if they could hold out until they said they would a helicopter attempting to land on the helipad on the embassy roof to evacuate the wounded Marine was driven off by Viet Cong on the move embassy As Dawn broke Heavley and a score of others were quietly Given the order to my Job was to open the front Gate and get Healey he slammed against it with Bis shoulder and he was in sprawled on the two platoons of paratroops roared Over the embassy but again the Viet Cong opened up with heavy fire and the chop pers had to turn As grenades and automatic weapons fire poured out at heal by and his they presumed the Viet Cong had occupied the lower floors of the embassy not Harper said later they tried to get they nearly got but in the end they did not make Healey dived to avoid a Gre and a Soldier beside him shot Down the Viet Cong who threw then Healey started flinging a score of soldiers opened up with bursts from their m16 automatic by the military police men had occupied the 30foot wide Lawn Between the embassy building and the outside Fence and were preparing to enter the they believed some guerrillas might be hiding in the fifteen Viet Cong bodies were on the choppers return with the outside grounds apparently the troop Laden helicopters were called from the first Hillel Schwartz and six other paratroops leaped to the eight seconds later the helicopter was one and another was Hoving it was a perfect As Sault in the most unusual circumstances of the but too late for the moving Down through the six Storey the paratroops found no resist Jacobson had been waiting quietly and his House was the final building in the compound checked out by the Relief Healey entered the ground floor and was nearly killed when a guerrilla in Black pyjamas stepped from a Bath room and fired at the military policemen called for tear Gas to drive the guerrilla and threw a Gas mask and a pistol up to Jacobson on the second As the Diplomat was pulling on his mask the wounded Ger j Rilla staggered upstairs and fired three shots at him with an m Jacobson took aim and killed him with two the Battle for the embassy was 4grotesque 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and is reviewing a proper response to London As far As existing contracts Are the freeze was revealed tuesday by John Byrnes who released a reply to his Telegram to Paul Assis Tant Secretary of defence for International Security but administration sources indicated they did not go along with Byrnes View that the British act was a Complete abrogation of the offset pay ments entitling the to cancel any deals arranged under the was to Channel s425 million in defence purchases to financially strapped Britain through 1966 and Britain was to buy some billion Worth of defence with More than million earmark j de for the on 16 Britain cancelled the full Deal in a sweeping variety of Economy and Byrnes demanded that the cancel its end of the bar nonself in United states life insurance companies do not sell life insurance in the United More the communists their present escalation is based on the conviction that the allies in Vietnam Lack the manpower to respond to Large operations at the same pursue their widespread defensive and pacification pro in the communists now claim to have the bolstering this claim with the Contention that the allies have not launched an important offensive since the Junction City operation a year ago and the penetration of the demilitarized zone last while they hesitate to spell out their eventual goal in so Many sources close to the communists imply that the objective of their military moves is to gain a favourable Battlefield position for the possibility of referring to Dien Bien these sources interpret that decisive defeat of the French less As a simple military Victory than As a blow combined with the mood in Paris at the prompted the French to accept a political Settle ment largely on communist within the current con the communists Evi Dently believe that Ameri can air Power and mobility preclude the likelihood that a facsimile of the Dien Bien Phu Battle could they appear to be hoping for a series of smaller Dien Bien plus that Hanoi repeating strategy continued will cumulatively achieve the same result As the 1954 they think this can happen in Analuz ing the present ratio of Allied forces to their they stress that Only a fraction of the total number of troops in Vietnam Are actually available for by communist estimates which do not differ greatly from fewer than of the More than american soldiers in Vietnam Are in combat the communists that air Power in the South has not grown proportionately to the increase in ground troops the past three the communists the allies in Vietnam Are becoming More and m o re immobilized under the Burden of an overweight military Stab As evidence for this con they emphasize that the originally designated to carry out slow Ink blot tactics designed to Clear and pacify Viet con held areas Are instead pinned Down to protecting positions like con Thien and Khe at the same they their manpower Short age makes it difficult for the allies to react to a major assault without Leav ing parts of the country vulnerable to other communist in order to meet their Challenge at Dak to in Early the Point the command transferred a brigade of the first air cavalry out of coastal Binh Dinh when the brigade returned to Binh Dinh after the it found that a North vietnamese regiment had moved into the communist sources indicate that the real purpose behind their present focus on Khe Sanh is to draw Allied troops away from other thereby exposing them to Viet Cong another Factor inhibiting the the communists Are alleged deals Between South vietnamese and Viet Cong commanders to maintain the status quo in some the former commander of the 25th Phan Trong dismissed by Saigon earlier this month for his is said to have been a party to such an the Coni munits claim to have struck virtual truce bar gains with other com while boasting of their present the communists deny assertions that the morale of their troops has been hard hit by the presence of american Power in Viet on the they submit that their current escalation into Large unit operations is a reflection of i their High in the communists now con cede that they had trouble adapting to the introduction of helicopters in and to tactical american air Power somewhat they obliquely acknowledge As Well that they miscalculated by failing to negotiate a settlement in Early when they had All but decimated the Saigon governments strategic re serves and before troops had entered the country in the Washington Post Boston the first Ameri can newspaper advertisement was believed one published in the Boston news letter in Stern Csc trucks totally moved to 999 King Edward 7863831 no nagging backache she used to be bothered by Bac Kaaba and tired when she Learned that irritation of the bladder and urinary tract can result in backache and tired she took Dodds kidney smart Dodda pills stimulate the kidneys to help relieve the condition backache and tired soon she Felt better rested if you Are bothered by Dodds kidney pills May help you 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