Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday february 8, 1968 attack noises fool troops at Khe Sarah by John t. Wheeler Khe South Vietnam a when the North Viet namese rumbled out of Laos wednesday to attack the Lang Vei special forces Camp the . Troops inside decided the strange sound came from the Camp s erratic Generator. Minutes the americans South vietnamese arid Montag Nard tribesmen were1, battling desperately to keep the Iron g i a n t s from overwhelming them. They lost the fight but destroyed seven of the 10 North namese tanks. Before tile onslaught against the Camp three Miles West of the . Marine combat base at Khe Sanh the North Viet namese pounded it with a fun. And mortar bar rage. The Tanacs smashed through the Camp s barbed wire outer defences with1 ease. e f e n d e r s fought with recoilless rifles and grenades. Men clambered atop , which were firing 76 a i l 1 i m e t r e rounds into the Camp s and , grenades the vehicles hatches. The Battle ended quickly. A special forces operator called Khe got two tanks sitting on top of my com Mand then the radio went dead. It was feared that the entire Camp was wiped out. But a strange siege was under Headquarters Bunker was under three feet of rein forced two Leet of steel tried to break this Down. They could t. The started pushing Satchel charges Down the air vents of the beads car. Ters Bunker. None got inside. Then they tried Gas. That did t work either. Eight of the Spe Cial forces men were inside the Bunker. The Amix but not the Bunker fell Early wednesday bul not before the special forces men called in air and artillery strikes on their own positions. They counted on the steel and Concrete bucket to protect the eight men inside. The Call for bombing strikes inside the perimeter of the Camp brought a request for con from astonished . Officers. The special forces men radioed Back Roger Roger that s heavy air strikes continued through the Day As a Relief Force led by other special forces troops tried the Camp. They were repulsed three times with heavy casualties. . Pc Leader resigns continued liberals won their third straight provincial election and handed personal defeat to or. Van Home in rest Gouche Riding. The liberals won 32 of 58 seats and the pcs elected 26. The conservatives lost one seat with the death of or. J. F. My Iri Emey of Fredericton two Days after the election. In his letter of resignation or. Van Home said decision was rendered All the More obvious with the loss of the elec Tion in v the letter of resignation was read to a meeting of the party today with or. Van Home in attendance. The caucus elected Richard Hatfield 37, la for Carleton House Leader 0-3 the fifth ballot was a candidate for the party leadership at the november 1966, leadership. Convention Here but lost to or. Van r example la. 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But he for one would not make it unanimous unless his views could somehow be he thought Quebec Waht much More than just language rights and there did t want these imbedded in the cons Titu and he thought that French canadians could be Given these rights without putting the emendations or a charter in the Constitution. Is. Pearson hopped in to suggest that these views could be reflected As Well As constitutional Amend ments if that would make or. Manning Happy. The Alberta Premier still did t like the emphasis on an amendment which he thought was a Back door method of. Getting something done. He thought the premiers might Wake up one Dull morning to find All sorts of things in the Constitution which some of them had not agreed to. Then in what appeared like an almost breathless reversal of form Premier Daniel Johnson intervened to say he. Did t think there was any urgency to have. French language guarantees imbedded in the Constitution. Or. Johnson for. Some time has been urging strenuously canadians outside Quebec be granted the same rights enjoy in Quebec. Now he said so much Progress had been made at the conference that these rights were in less danger than Ever before. He did t want to impose anything on any province. I would rather we take longer and have Public opinion accept our ideas in a spirit of reason if not True or. Johnson said producing Waves of Surprise around the conference table. It was too much for Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau who firmly maintained the need to have guarantees now., if it was going to take awhile to work out agreement on future amendments. He could be excused for his concern As or. John son s attitude disaster for or. Trudeau s Char Ter of human rights. Or. P e a r s on again jumped in to soothe or. Manning by saying he. Was prepared to drop one of his five Points in the interest of unanimity. That was Fine with or. Manning but he then said he thought the Point dealing with a charter of human rights was premature and needed More study. Then British Columbia got into the. Act saying it did t like or. Pearson s first Point a general accept Ance of the principle of equal language rights for French canadians outside Quebec. Or. Pearson with his smile wearing thin said if . Did to agree with that he would be Happy to change the title of his proposal to simulate that British Columbia did not furthermore be smoothly informed .. Deputy Fin Ance minister g. S. Bryson he could Settle the whole thing with a phone Call to Premier Bennett who had left to catch a plane. And that ended that. At this Point every one of or. Pearson s five proposals had been challenged by someone and Premier Man Ning in particular was t giving ground. It looked like quite a Flop. In a matter of minutes or. Pearson condensed three Points into one and the argument was Over. In a few words he settled the objections of British Columbia and Quebec. In a few More he made it possible for or. Manning to go Home saying that his Basic Points had been Satis fied. In the Over All picture it meant that a special com Mittee would study or. Manning s or. Any other Premier s views the charter of human rights and the constitutional amendment. The five Point Plant had shrunk to three. Vancouver Jet crash probed and aviation fuel fed a resulting fire that killed Ned calf. Several cars parked nearby were also burned. The jetliner continued on its mile Long wild arc toward the terminal. It an engine and part of its Landing gear. In route it clipped an air Canada dc-8 waiting to be loaded. Then it picked ii an air Canada ramp vehicle and dragged it along As the big plane buried its nose or bricks of the aviation in electric Pacific Ltd. Building 50 Yards from the terminal. I could t see any Airport All and i remarked to my wife that the Pilot would be doing Well to bring us in with such said passenger Conrad Lamb of the Pas Man. Then bang we Leigh of Van Couver a retired air Shal on the plane said he and his wife were sitting near an emergency exit Over a Wing. He had read All the directions so opened the door and helped Pas sengers out. Guy cousins an air Canada employee working aboard the dc-8 clipped by the 707, said continued people were just pouring out. They could t seem to get the rear escape Hatch open but they streamed out onto the wings and then jumped to the ground about eight feet half an hour later after it was thought everyone had left the plane police and transport department investigators found verhoef s body. Others on Board did not Knoy How he died but Many thought he May have been the Only one not wearing a seat Belt. The wrecked plane was the Only 707 in he spa Fleet. The cockpit Crew were Stancl arc airways employees from. Seattle identified As Pilot Captain Al Burkhalter co Pilot Tom Johnson navigator Curtis i Dahl and Engineer Joe Pacenka. The spa Cabin Crew were identified As verhoef stewards Guido Esoldi and Franco an Tognetti of Stewar Desses Annette Towle of Winni Peg and Elaine jail Rasmussen of Brandon Man. Tom Scanlon Standard s vice president of said the leased Jet is a total loss which he estimated at it was Fuey insured he said the Federal Avia Tion Agency will join the trans port department team today in the crash investigation. Transport minister. Hellyer. Told the commons that his depart ment had sent an investigation team to the crash scene. It was the first crash at the Airport since Jan. 2, 1966, when a . Airlines Grumman Goose twin engine amphibian overshot the runway in heavy fog and crashed on tidal Flats killing three persons. The worst crash was april 27, 1947, when a l pc eed lodestar with 15 persons aboard disappeared Over Georgia Strait after circling the Airport to land. No Trace of the plane was Ever found. No Union defies order continued London ont. A thur r. Emeritus of the London free press was re ported in poor condition in hos Pital wednesday. He was admit Ted dec. 30 after suffering a stroked _ i the organized militia if Neces in plainer language per haps that Means the use of the new York state National the mayor said. F Lindsay said the people of the City of. Were Dis gusted revolted and possibly endangered by the garbage a enough to fill 11 freight trains each 75 cars Long. Trash was being burned on open lots. On one lower East Side Tene ment Block alone a reporter found 10 Hillocks of reeking five feet seven feet Long. A -. There Are "precjedjentsyiri1 the modern Era for National guard1 into a new York probable fire Sajise Winnipeg fire department officials said careless smoking was the probable cause of. Two minor City fires dearly thursday. Fire destroyed a Chesterfield and Burnt the carpet and the door Frame in a House at 433 Parr Street. The Wil Liam Norris was t injured. At 535 Maryland Street suite 6, a Davenport and bedding was Burnt and Norman the tenant was taken to Hospital suffering slight smoke inhalation. Owner of the Block is Raee of 4is Agnes Street. Isles elect deputies Quebec French islands president Charles de Gaulle his Canada Are St Pierre and Miquelon in the Stormy Mouth by the Gulf of the St. A overseas each Island elects a Deputy to the Senate and to the National Assembly in Paris woo Foo i Din n Kitten soft sweaters fully Fash i Ned made of washable acrylic and available in today s loveliest shades choose yours it of afro Rico take advantage of our Money saving prices 1 a. Classic Cardigan ribbed mock Turtle neck. White5, beige Navy Pink Blue Green yellows Orange. .s.m.l. To a b. Matching Shell in beige Navy Pink Blue Jav c. Long sleeved Cardigan. 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