Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Frei press wednesday february 7, 1968 Hanoi repeats offer continued will the United states follow the Light that has glimmered to escape from the dark Tunnel of its adventurous aggressions visibly failing in spite of bitter reality on the. Battlefield the . Imperialists Are still blindly pursuing and push ing ahead their aggressive referring to his feb. 1 news conference in which president Johnson asked for some better sign of communist willingness to negotiate the Hanoi news paper said that the president had used the language of a the newspaper con the . Aggressors have arrogantly set the vietnamese people. They de Mand urging the vietnamese people to pay a Price to show some better sign by stopping or slowing Down their patriotic than Dan then insisted that the unconditionally cease its bombing and other acts of War against North Vietnam in order to pave the Way for ending . Aggression As a whole and for the peaceful settlement of the Vietnam the familiar Hanoi positions initially set Forth vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Duy Trinh on Jan. 28, 1967, appeared to analysts there to Rebuff . Attempts to assay communist interest in talks by de escalating american air strikes. In Washington the . Has disclosed that aircraft avoided bombing near the big cities of Rodeo injuries dubbed Denver at per cent of the animals that appeared in rodeos sustained injuries. Now with the strict humane rules enforced by the Rodeo cowboys association less than one tenth of 1 per cent of the animals Are North Vietnam since Early january to facilitate explorations of s peace proposals. A prevailing View Here is that the Viet Cong offensive in South Vietnam Lias been calculated less to torpedo a settlement than to strengthen the communists for a possible settlement on their own terms. Indeed As one Vietnam expert visiting Hong Kong at the moment put it tuesday i really did t take the communist offer to talk seriously until they began their offensive last it is still unclear from their propaganda whether the communists by appealing to All vietnamese to overthrow the Saigon government Are striving to achieve their doctrine of general uprising. Clandestine Viet Cong radio broadcasts within recent Days have repeatedly called o n Viet namese regardless of age sex political opinion and religious belief to unite and oust the american forces and the Saigon one such exhortation quoted by Hanoi s official Vietnam news Agency in a dispatch tuesday also urged us. Troops and their allies to turn their guns " on their commanding officers. Sources acquainted with Viet Cong f strategy believe that despite1 these appeals for an uprising a More realistic communist objective is to. Mobilize widespread support for the eventuality of advancing the idea of a coalition government in. 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That s some bargain should your tank not be insulated or thermostatically controlled both cover and thermostat May be in stalled at nominal Cost when the elements Are exchanged. Ask your Hydro representative about the free element Exchange plan. Winnipeg Hydro Manitoba Hydro tanks blast Green Beret outpost continued about 800 North vietnamese troops were reported committed to the attack along with the tanks. The Campaign against the Cit ies has died Down at most Points after eight Days but Viet Cong forces still fought stubbornly in Saigon and Hue. Command said the Viet Cong and North Viet namese death toll in the last eight Days reached by Midnight tuesday night. It said combined forces troops have been killed including 614 americans and South Viet namese. Military spokesmen said the North vietnamese began Pound ing the Lang Vei Camp with artillery at dusk tuesday then launched the ground attack about later. The Camp s South vietnamese and Montag Nard irregulars and their Amer in an f cover in their bunkers and North Viet namese sprayed the bunkers with flamethrowers to drive the defenders Back from Rifle and machine gun ports. . artillery at Khe Sanh fired tons of shells almost on top of the Camp after the . Advisers called for close in support. Air Force and Marine fighters bombers raked the area with bombs Cannon and machine guns. A . Spokesman said heavy Contact continued through the night and diminished about 11 ., but some fighting continued . Headquarters said radio Contact was being maintained throughout the Day. South vietnamese Headquarters said the irregulars also were still holding out in the Camp and were in radio communication with an observation plane. The Camp was kept under a rial observation All Day but visibility was poor. A ground patrol in the area also reported radio Contact with men inside the Caine. There was no word on the Fate of laotian refugees including 500 laotian sol Diers who fled to Lang Vei two weeks ago to escape an attack by North vietnamese troops. North vietnamese gunners also Sanh base held by about marines for about five hours tuesday night. Eight Miles South of Danang units moving into positions to Block an expected attack on the Marine Headquarters there ran into communist forces tuesday. At Hue about Halfway be tween Danang and the demilitarized zone a correspondent John Lengel reported that Viet Cong demolition squads blew up a vital Bridge along the main North South Highway 1 that passes through the old Imperial capital. . Vacation in Miami contest Winner or. And mrs. . Olson of drive fort Garry Are shown Here receiving congratulations from or. A Webster pharmacist and co owner of Pembina pharmacy and or. A. T. Shipman divisional manager of the associated retail pharmacists. Over for the presidency of pm n favor of edward1 n. Cole who in turn replaced James Roche now Board chairman. Knudsen son of a former pm president had worked for pm Learly 30 years. He guided the Pontiac division into third place Pontiac division into third place m the Industry behind Chevrolet and Ford. Later As manager of the Chevrolet d i v i s i o a Knudsen resided Over sales that soared o an All time record cars in one year after tuesday s announcement Ford stocks went up half a Point while pm fell a on the new. York Stock Exchange. Automakers will be watching to see if Knudsen s reign at Ford will result in Gams for his new employer. The favorite Knudsen formula is the injection or what he Calls massive doses of the executive found former Ford president Arjay Miller named to a newly created Post if constitutes a fourth regime in Ford s postwar management. The. First three were headed in turn by Ernest r. Breech Rob Ert Mcnamara and. Miller. But Henry Ford has always been the Admiral on the flagship no matter who was the Captain. Ford accepted an appointment from president Johnson to head a special Busi n e s s m e n s program seeking jobs in the next three years for hard Core unemployed. The Ford family still holds 40 per cent of the company s Stock and is proud of its postwar re covery. There appears to the doubt that he will continue to hold grip on Ford motor co. Reins. Leaves pm to become Ford Boss continued Progress at talks scant continued the Pueblo incident was the subject of the first meeting As it was of the second on sunday. That conference was called by North Korea presumably to reply to the first . Proposals and lasted 45 minutes or 20 minutes of actual discussion. The third meeting monday was requested by the . And lasted Only 30 minutes or less than 15 minutes of real talk. The . Brought up for the first time the Jan. 21 North korean attempt to assassinate South korean president Park Chung Hee. No meeting was held tuesday so far As could be determined. . Spokesmen Here Are still refusing to comment on any aspect of the crash kill 2 contested building 200 feet from the Busy main Airport terminal. Passengers and Crew escaped by crawling out emergency exits. A fire on the aircraft was brought under control quickly. The Crew member died in hos Pital. The other person died in the fire wrecked Airport build ing. The aircraft smashed four parked planes and a car before hitting the building used by the department of transport. Pilot of the Jet was identified As capt. Al Burkhalt of Seattle. The plane lost one of its engines which fell to the run Way and continued to Burn for about 15 minutes. As the plane slowed across the runway one of its wings clipped a grounded dc-8 Jet air liner. The aircraft dually came to a halt when it slowed into the building. The nose of the air Craft was planted Wing deep into the building and passengers and Crew made their escape through emergency exits. 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