Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday March 5, 1968 military Confidence oozing continued but in recent Days Many american observers Here Are beginning to have Sec Ond thoughts about the tactical and strategic advantages of Khe Sanh. Defences damaged the steady enemy Artil Lery barrage has damaged some defensive r positions and the incoming rounds have kept Khe Sanh s mar Ines from working effectively on constructing bunkers and trenches. The enemy artillery directed at the runway has hampered re Supply flights now most of the big four engined trans ports Airdrop their cargoes rather than Landing on the runway. The Low Clouds Mist and fog have seriously affected air operations Over Khe Sanh Valley drastically reducing the number of fighter bomber sorties against enemy positions. The fog also., prevents helicopter operations during parts of the Day and it would be next to impossible to Hel lift Large scale reinforcements on weathered in Days. Because of the heavy enemy presence the mar Ines no longer patrol much from Khe Sanh and their Lack of activity plus the Low lying fog has enabled the enemy to move dangerously close to the Khe Sanh perimeter a s Gen. To Nguyen Giap s Viet Minn troops did at Dien Bien Phu. In recent Days the North vietnamese have built up troop strength in other areas along the demilitarized zone. Thus if a major attack on Khe san were accompanied by thrusts at other bases in the area the reinforcements originally ticketed for Khe Sanh might not then be available. There is still another ominous note . Officials fear that the enemy May make use of a red Eye heat seeking missile. This is a russian made ground to air missile fired by a single Soldier and designed to strike Down Canada blasts Gabon continued he found it strange that when president de Gaulle of France made his c i t y a a 11 Balcony speech in Montreal last sum Mer All he received was a bit of a slap on the or. Pearson tabled Canada s protest note in the commons monday. It was handed to the gabonese embassy in washing ton feb. 19 Over external affairs minister Martin s Signa Ture. Gabon has no embassy Here. Education minister Jean Guy Cardinal of Quebec attended the feb. 5-10 conference in Libre Ville and the Host country flew the Quebec Flag in his Honor. Ottawa informants claimed that France manipulated Gabon during the entire Inci Dent. An external affairs depart ment source said Gabon claimed it was acting in Accord with the Canadian Constitution when it sent the invitation directly to Quebec City. This position was echoed in the statement issued monday night by Premier Johnson which said the Quebec govern ment maintains that it possesses the International extensions of its internal it is therefore Normal that certain foreign governments de siring to maintain relations with Quebec within certain Fields of its internal jurisdiction communicate directly with the govern ment of aircraft. It is now believed to be available to Gen. Giap s forces. . Military men do not like to contemplate the damage that 50 or 100 red eyes deployed around Khe Sanh could wreak on . Air planes and helicopters. Thus the buoyant optimism expressed by some . Generals Over the Khe Sanh situation a few weeks ago is Seldom heard now. But Gen. William c. Westmoreland and his top Marine commanders still believe Khe Sanh is not Only tenable but represents a Opportunity to inflict grievous losses on an elusive enemy. However other observers military and civilian alike Are beginning to question whether the marines now dug in at Khe Sanh could not be More effective elsewhere. And these observers worry that Khe Sanh like Dien Bien Phu has taken on a psychological and political importance that far outweighs its tactical and strategic value. Perhaps Only a major North vietnamese attack will determine whose assessment is Correct Gen. Westmoreland s or those who doubt the imperative for defending Khe Sanh. Greene Stanfield Duel continued Saskatchewan department of highways and transportation special bulletin on Road restrictions effective in the near future and for such periods As May be required Load restrictions will be imposed on the provincial Highway system thereby limiting the maximum Gross weight of vehicles travelling thereon. Notice of restriction or restriction changes will be published in All Saskatchewan newspapers. Detailed information May also be obtained through the office of the maintenance Engineer Regina or District maintenance offices throughout the province. Dated at Regina Saskatchewan March 1, 1968. Dave Boldt minister of highways and transportation. A major Factor was the abject failure of this government to control credit had become increasingly difficult for Farmers to obtain since the government lifted the ceiling on the chartered Bank loan interest rates. Or. Greene said the opposition Leader had not taken time to Check his facts. The real in come of Farmers had increased at the same rate of those in other sectors of the Economy since the liberals took office. The minister said wheat exports in 1968 reached a record bushels bringing to the Farmers. This compared with the conservatives record in bushels brought or. Stanfield said a govern ment Blunder left Canada with out the guarantee of a world wheat agreement. There had been three differ ent National Dairy policies in the last three years thus destroying Confidence. He said threatened trouble at the port of Montreal could fur ther Hurt the movement of Grain which was already lagging. A Basic premise of the government was that the number of Farmers must be reduced and the size of farm units increased. However said or. Stanfield there is evidence that the Besl use of land will require More Farmers in the future than at to the charge that the govern ment is forcing Farmers out of business or. Greene said thai Between 1961 and 1966 about farms went out of eco nomic production. During the same period the number of farms grossing More than a year increased by Mair Teba Telephone system part of trans Canada Telephone system Youh Manitoba Telephone sys a Heater won t forgive Washington special tvs Barry Goldwater said londay that he and his fellow conservatives will have no Art of gov. Nelson Rockefell r of new York As the Republican presidential Nomi be. Or. Goldwater the 1964 gop residential candidate said he would have to Rule out supporting gov. Rockefeller even the new yorkers captures the nomination. It or. Goldwater Aid in a Telephone interview rom his Home in Phoenix Arizona ruin the party in my Tate if i did anything he prefaced his remarks by aying he was confident that Chard Nixon his own Choice would win the 1968 nomination. I Haven t found any support at ill for he said. The new York governor who opposed or. Goldwater in the litter 1964 nomination struggle Aid Friday that he was ready and willing to run again if the arty wants him. A major question overhanging candidacy is whether he Lotilde if nominated bring into Lis Campaign the conservative republicans who blame him for contributing to or. Goldwater s .964 defeat. Or. Goldwater s statement monday indicated that he was not forgiving gov. Rockefeller or anything. He said that he had not altered his thinking about gov. Rockefeller As expressed in an interview in the Arizona Republic last september. At that time or. Goldwater said i can t see How any Republican could support gov. Rockefeller for the presidency Rockefeller dumped Nixon and me so i just frankly can l seen How any Republican can support asked monday what he would do if gov. Rockefeller is nominated or. Goldwater re plied that is the 64 Dollar question. I be never failed to support the Republican nominee. Jut i d sure want to know Rockefeller s position on a lot o he said that among other Jinings he would want to know there gov. Rockefeller stands on the Vietnam War and on Abor in View of his recen Cave in on the garbage strike he referred to gov. Rockefeller s recommendation of a higher settlement for striking new York City garbage workers than the City administration was willing to Grant. When or. Goldwater was asked if his expression o interest in gov. Rockefeller stand on certain issued mean that you Don t automatic Al Rule him he replied i d have to Rule him out. I t have to. It would ruin the party in my state if i did anything or. Goldwater is planning b run this year for the arizon Senate seat now held by demo crat Carl Hayden. Asked Why he could no support gov. Rockefeller if the new yorker is nominated of president or. Goldwater said the republicans out Here will have no part of Rockefeller. It an unfortunate situation Whei you have a Man like that wit his name who left the party twice who did what he did in the garbage strike. But you jus can t convince any Workin Republican that he should b guard shot in Holdup angrily broke relations with off this Hen he diplomatic country. In making this admission col. Asser has made a move Oward what he knows to be the rime . Condition for a sumption of .-. Rela on. We regard it As an encouraging state depart ment spokesman Robert j. Mccloskey said. Col. Nasser s admission a ears in an interview with Villiam Attwood editor in chief f look Magazine in the March 9 Issue published monday. Col. Nasser began by saying e coupled . Plane attacks Vith those from Israel in his Harges because there were so Many planes coming in from sea where your carriers and because Jordan s Ling Hussein had telephoned in to declare radar Indi ates . And British planes vere col. Nasser con inked Johnson ailed soviet Premier Kosygin n the hot line to say Only two f your reconnaissance planes continued shot by one of the adult Mem Bers of the gang. While the youths aimed the weapons at the employees the men took a sack of mail Des tined for Levis que., from Dolly Wagon to which it a been transferred from a Brink truck. Police said the gang did no get a big shipment and in fac had missed a Good they jumped Back into thei car and sped out the Way the had come two minutes after the operation began. The car a found abandoned a few Block away. Mount Batter visits . Vancouver up Eai Mountbatten of Burma Monda began a four Day visit to Britis Columbia accompanied by vice Admiral sir Honald Brockman executive director of the variety club in London. Lord Mountbatten will be the feature guest at a Charity Bavo be held today by the Variet club of Western Canada. It is his first Stop on a Nort american tour that will Tak him to Minneapolis Phil a Delphia Pittsburgh and be York. Nasser admits error Washington special pcs United Arab Republic resident Gamal Abdel Nasser londay conceded he had wrong s accused the United states of sing its planes to Aid Israel in ast june s Middle East War vere flying to investigate the inking of your ship by the israeli Navy. He told Kosygin to form us and he then when or. Attwood asked col. Nasser if his accuse Jon against the United states resulted from a misunderstanding based on suspicion and Aulty col. Nasser answered you could say that until now the. Johnson administration has taken the Posi Ion that since it was col. Vasser who broke off diplomatic relations it would be up to him of take to resume them. The prime step mentioned Vas at least ment if noted Dow chalks up Bis win continued or. Dow won majorities in each of the four communities to offset the narrow victories aimed by or. Rose a 47-year old Farmer from Bun Clody in he Rural areas in spite of the fact that Many areas of the Riding have had As Many As six elections since the All 84 per cent voters in the constituency Cas ballots. Or. Dow won the allegiance of 46.1 per cent a gain of five or cent Over his vote in 1966 or. Rose received 42.3 per Ceni of the vote and or. Sawatsky garnered 11.6 per cent the Liberal win was mos impressive in or. Dow s Hom town of Boissevain where he swept every poll and emerged with a 360-vote Lead Over or Rose. In Hartney Deloraine and Killarney where conservative majorities have been the Rule be also won narrow victories. Killarney fortress of conservative strength in the past surprised most Neutral observers by handing or. Dow a 35 vote plurality. It was generally conceded that the former Boissevain mayor would probably make gains in the town largest in the constituency because Many r e s id e n t s were disgruntled with conservatives of initiating the court action which nullified the june 1966, election that sent or. Dow to the Manitoba legislature. The court ruling resulted in a blot on the name of the returning officer in 1966, Arthu Mcknight because he a accused of corrupt practices even though he was guilty Only of several technical irregularities. Since or. Knight was a Loya conservative and a respect citizen of Killarney it a expected Many conservative would show their irritation a the polls. But no one not even the liberals predicted a Liberal plurality in the Community. A Gleeful Manitoba Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat contacted at his Home monday evening credited the court decision As part of the. Reason for the Liberal win. But it was also a Combina Tion of other added or. Mol Gat. Lack of Confidence in the government As Well As the treatment of the return ing officer and the sitting member or. Weir stated that this election would be a test of the Confidence in his leadership and this is his answer. I Don t have to put any other interpretation on the but or. Weir also contacted monday evening flatly rejected the idea that he had lost the Confidence of the people As a re sult. Although he admitted that he said it would be the first Opportunity some of the people would have to voice an opinion on his leadership the Premier also claimed that local situations entered the picture As Well. He said he was gratified at the increased strength shown in the Rural areas but he regret Ted that More gains had not been made in the towns. It was simply an election and we fought the Good fight and lost. This is just a preliminary. It just Means that Well have to prepare ourselves More adequately for the main bout when it an acknowledge an apology for accusing the United states of complicity in the Middle East War. Another step mentioned Las been . Compensation the .. Consulates general in port said and Alexandria which egyptian mobs Tore into. Before monday s admission col. Nasser s government made another initiative in order to encourage More americans to spend tourist dollars in Egypt t publicly announced that . A Nidrist would be Welcome even if they were jewish and even ii their passports bore visas for neighbouring Israel. Col. Nasser in his look Magazine interview monday also declared we lost 80 per cent of our army in june All our air Force quite an admission from a . Which at first minimized its losses. Yemen was a miscalculation. We never thought it would Lead to what it did. But that s Over a Blunt statement for . Which first denied it had any troops taking part in. The yemeni civil War then indicated there were involved and finally withdrew them. I begged the soviets to Send officers in to help retrain our army after Sinai. I decided to bring them in and i Wil decide to Send them out their the soviets motives Are also political of course. They want to reduce Western influx and domination in the Middle East America ant Britain attached conditions to their arms deliveries. The rus sians do regarding peace with is Rael we insist that withdrawal of israeli troops from our territory must be the firs step before any kind o Sharp Waits on Cabinet air base study by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a. Special consultant study on future de of traffic and use of the Winnipeg International air Ort is now in preparation the commons was told monday. Private firms engaged in lying activities and servicing aircraft at the Winnipeg Airport Lave been seeking to arrange Ong term leasing of premises. The question was raised in the commons by Gordon Churchill Independent conservative Winn Peg South he asked if he Federal government will arrange for such Long term easing arrangements so that he private companies can pro vide suitable accommodation for aircraft repair and other operations. The reply was yes but it was a qualified affirmative reply. The Complete government answer was yes. But within the limits considered feasible in plans for the future use and growth of the Airport and to the extent that facilities can be made available taking into account particularly the fact hat the major purpose of the Airport is support of Commer Cial scheduled services and that use by general aviation and Light aircraft must be supplementary to the answer was Given by James a. Byrne parliamentary s e c ret a r y to transport minister Paul Hellyer. I. Churchill asked if the government would declare its policy in regard to Long term leasing at the Airport at an Early Date so that any construction planned by government or civilian firms May be commenced in june of this year. The minister s reply by or Byrne was that the special consultant study on future development i at the Winnipeg Airport is in preparation. It will be completed this Spring and will assist in the determination of policy so that Public announcement can be made the transport department through or. Explained Fiat it is developing the subsidiary Airport at St. Andrews Northeast of Winnipeg As the Airport to be used for the Winnipeg flying. Club s activities and for the owners of Light aircraft. Or. Churchill then asked if it was the intention of the depart ment to Transfer air Basic flight training for civilian planes to St. Andrews Airport. Or for ther transport minister was True he saudvitis planned to undertake the e paving runways taxiways and apron in the fiscal year St will be capable of accommodating All types of Light aircraft up to except Light jets. Or. Churchill in an interview said that during recent visit to the Winnipeg Airport he had heard complaints voiced by business firms that their activities had 3been greatly Handi capped by the Large construction operations underway this Winter by air Canada. Under construction is a Large freight handling privately owned firms wanted some Assurance that get Long term leasing of premises before they established or expanded their operations Airport. So far they had Nott been Able to get any guaranteed any Long term leasing arrangement by the5 government. Continued eminent proposed spending for 11968-69, it is understood. 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