Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free february 1968 Rusk its failure continued the communists Are trying to whip saw said one administration the administration position is that it is now being subjected to a diplomatic propaganda Campaign intended to dovetail with the communist military Offen Sive in South unwarranted Hopes Are being spread by North Vietnam and its communist administration officials that secret diplomatic have brought near a bait in the bomb Inland peace one reason officials want to Spike these reports is to counter suspicion in which communist agents Are said to be that the United states might make a Deal behind Back of the South vietnamese Jat no said has Hanoi indicated publicly or privately that it will refrain from taking military advantage of any cessation of the bombing of North the result of All diplomatic exploration to said therefore is a John san Antonio formula of sep Ftp that formula said the United states would assume that Hanoi would not take advantage of a cessation or limitation of the pointed language language As diplomatic Courtesy virtually dismissed communist overtures for peace talks that Are now being sounded out through United nations Secretary general u and said Busk Are not interested in Uganda gestures whose Pur to mislead an confuse be interested in a move toward peace when Hanoi comes to the conclusion that it is ready to move in that Rusk stressed in knows How to get in with state department press officer Robert who is the Rusk if it encompassed Diplo Matic probing being conducted As a North vie Samese talk feeler that in Rome wednes Vietnam refugees resentful Mccloskey replied that the Rusk statement intakes into acc pint everything we Tjit statement was intended to embrace what the United states knows about u thanks talks in new Delhi with a North vietnamese and u thanks subsequent talks London and tarnishing their already dubious reputation by loot ing Homes they Are sup posed to search for Viet Cong from these and other signs it seems that Confidence in the Saigon regime has been a key question in the towns is whether the govern ment can act fast enough with a welfare program to rebuild or will slip Back to its usual Slothful permitting the Viet Cong to make political the worst hit town visited was ban me capital of Zailac nearly 4000 Homes there were More Viet namese and Mountain tribes men Are refugees in ban me they Are temporarily sheltered i schools and other emergency there Are few americans from All the town owes its survival to South vietnamese yet the Viet Cong attack has left visible people Are still so fearful of a new assault that Many sleep in doorways rather than risk having their roofs fall in on this fear also to some in the reluctance of vietnamese to associate with those americans based in the to defend ban me Thuot against another Viet Cong local authorities reinforcing troop this has meant abandoning pacification programs in the nearby severe blow though they still Lack hard information on Rural officials believe that the red offensive has dealt a severe blow to the pacification program throughout South in contrast to their con duct at ban me South vietnamese troops performed poorly at a 140 Miles North of government units sent to defend a lat failed to pursue the leaving the town still not wholly some a fourth of a lats Are efforts Are being made to raise funds from among the in italian talks Bra Italy foreign ministry issued the following j communique wednesday of two qualified representative of the Hanoi government asked to meet the italian foreign minister Amintore fan fan for talks about the Viet Nam conflict and about possible hypotheses of a Start of negotiations to Settle came to Rome on the afternoon of 4 and left the moving of minister Amintore fan assisted by the former ambassador to Gio Hanifi had the talks that were requested and speedily informed state department about the state department officials Saint the United states was of the talks both before i not czechs arrest ski Canadian Ottawa up external affairs officials have contacted the czechoslovakian govern ment concerning the arrest in Prague of a Canadian citizen for a spokesman said wednesday that external affairs officials working through the Cana Dian embassy in were watching closely the detention of Prant Izek a czech Oslo Varia born Canadian resident it was reported earlier wednesday that Coufal is being held on a charge of acting As an agent of the and trying to recruit czechoslovak citizens for intelligence Coufal emigrated to Canada in 1949 but his occupation or of residence Here were not immediately the spokesman said Pufal had retained a czechoslovak lawyer and Canadian officials have been in close Contact with the Date of his arrest was Ottak Mtoto be in and the two rings which symbolize loves pro Mim and fulfilment Are a brides prize Shoshi Gaduette from our new to eth for tomorrow and beyond 1912 Portage at Hargrave open til continued towns Many affluent Citi but contributions so far have been less than the mood in a until now strongly pro govern seems to be one of fear and a similar mood appears to prevail in Phan a fishing town in bin thua where More than were left about houses there were most of this destruction was caused by armed helicopters and so called c47s spouting 30calibre machine gun these aircraft were largely responsible for driving off the Viet though the communists deployed More than two battalions for their assault on the there was no Advance intelligence of the this failure was matched by an extremely weak police government police at Tuy another coastal also failed to detect a Viet Cong battalion that infiltrated after a North Viet namese unit had been Stop Ped in a frontal american Stock at Tuy Hoa is relatively High at since it was a battalion of the 173rd air borne that stopped the North Twenty americans were killed in that while he wound up with the mayor John Lindsay is getting All the in rejecting the governors mayor Lindsay apparently touched a sensitive nerve among a citizenry which has had More than a Bell Ful of strikes by civil service employees and a Good measure of the criticism of Rockefeller can be attributed to the fact that even in this traditionally Liberal with a Long record of sympathy for organized people have tired of the Public school teachers strike last sept slowdowns and Stop pages by welfare the recent on Day strike of garbage tarnishes image the taxi the shut Down last month of virtually every garage in town All have worked to shorten Ordinary tempers and dim inish the Public the by using the Standard devices of a has to his astonishment found himself the target of ire that is usually reserved for the unions conversations overheard on the streets and i restaurants Here reflect the judgment that Rocke Feller played politics with the sanitation mens walk out while mayor Lindsay stuck to political cowardice is the charge levelled at Rockefeller by the new York choking in the clutch and a Complete Al fold in the face of threats and pressure from City Union is the new York daily news similar sentiments Are being voiced in editorials around the Only among Union men and few political Obser vers does there seem to be support for the whose embarrassment has now extended to legislative leaders there tuesday stymied at least for a Day his plan to have the state take Over the City sanitation department temporarily at a higher pay rate than the Lindsay administration wants to this takeover was Basic to the agreement reached by Rockefeller and the member sanitation mens which got the men Back on the the arrangement was worked by the governor after mayor Lind say had requested state even to the Point of calling out National mayor Lindsay rejected the pay raise that accompanied the Rockefeller plan and has held to this position As Public opinion has formed up in support of new York cows and dogs Are believed 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