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MI u mif* , *t i fc* ^P Truce over; air strikes, ground action resti SAIGON, South Vietnam i.\P) ion Mze penetrated the perimtt-1 thcugh Air Force and Navy pi-i The Communisb opened up • A stronc Communist forre pr rf a cauirv unit !in<i ^mm...! i A » e W;« „«~,~ » ~*. ; ...^ !.. ;^ *^_ #*_ .../»!.. i — A strong Communist force er cf a cavalry unit and commu- j lots hit some targets, including j with mortar fire Into the peri- attacked troops of the I s 1st nxation vwth the American unit! storage areas and truck parks a j meter of the cavalry units, then The air war in Scuth Vietnam' sault. At about 2:45 am., the wen on, with B52s striking just j defending troopers reported C^^.AJT?!?^!? Divisi ™ :)G0 ^as^ j25L.Ihfi. jiiu^U^r ^^ f dj-en mil^ nnt^ide Hanoi, nortfi of Saigon on Tues day in the first major ground action since the 43hour : Christ- mas truce ended. The Communist attack fal- lowed IS. air strikes 12 miles from Hanoi only hours after the holiday truce end?d at 7 am Monday. A U.S. spokesman in Saigon side, reported that at one point in the B^d reported restored a short time later but the fighting continued, the spokesman said. The action uas in the battle- scarred Bong Son area, near the Sjut'.i China Sea. Ore hit the camp and that the Americans responded with their own mortars. Spokesmen said as (.U&. casualties and ^damage .t&l. equipment were light Enemy after dawn Tuesday about 65! their perimeter had been peae- miles north-northwest of Cam Rann Bay. The target was said to be an enemy base camp. Spokesmen said they had no word on casualties on either trated and communication then was cut off. • • • Spokesmen said flare ships, armed helicopters and ground •i ii i\ it|i>i>ii'irti weather hampered Red attack on the cavalrymen, attacks over North Vietnam on an enemy force of about battal-' Monday, spokesmen said, al The fightiag by the Calvary troopers near Bong Son was in j reinforcements were rushed to ! an area where they have fought j the scene and the perimeter was air repeated engagements over the restored China increasing threat to Macao MACAO AP) — Macao's Com-1 march across the border into munist-harassed government ] Macao if the Portuguese did not sent a new reply Monday to Red j immediately capitulate to all Chinese demands wh\*e thou- sands of young Communist Red Guards were reported ready for action across the border and j who had crossed the Communist Chinese gunboats j Monday. patrolled offshore. j But ether sources, including In the six-square-mile Portu- j some claiming government con- guese colony, local leftists held • tacts, said the group was carry- more anti-Portuguese meetings! ing new proposals for closing past year in an effort to root out Communist units The cavalry- men have won soma significant victories in the oastal region, bu* thj enemy still is there. The fighting began when a Communist force of perhaps 500 Saigon. U.S. men attacked a cavalry troop ! termed light. casualties were unknown. • • • Southeast of Saigon, South Vietnamese and Australian troops reported killing 27 Met Cong and seizing a store of weapons and equipment in fighting Tuesday. No casualties were reported among Vietnam- ese or Australian forces, spokesmen said. In one of the air strikes over Monday into the field position of j North Vietnam on Monday, Air a unit cf the 196th Light Infan-! Force Thunderchief pilots re- try Brigade in Tay Ninh Prov-j ported thev destroyed the Ban ince about 50 miles northwest of Pa Pan highway bridge on Rt. casualties were j 601 about 64 miles east of Dien Bien Phu. In other ground action, six to 12 mortar rounds were fired late ~wmt 1^1&^y*0*^JWW^^%l $*? &?* ^ Chinese demands. Macao authorities refused to talk about the representatives border and tv*o batteries of artillery at a tending zone site, the spokes- men said The cavalry is con- ducting Operation Thayer II in the area about 11 miles south- east of Bong Son. Another mortar attack was reported late Monday on a base camp of elements of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division about 16 miles north cf Saigon. Spokesmen said U.S. planes attacking North Vietnam encountered heavy- weather. Because of poor visi- bility, the U.S. Command could give no assessment of the dam- 30 to 50 rounds of 81mm mortar; age in the strike near Hanoi Highway death count tapers from last year and demanded the arrest of all Nationalist Chinese ieaders in the colony. Representatives of the coloni- al government crossed the ben- der into Red China for another j from Red China but which Pek- meeting with Communist' ing accuses of being a front for down all Nationalist Chinese activities in Macao — including the Nationalist-sponsored Refu- gee Relief Association which says it seeks to help escapees , By raE ASSOCIATED PRESS It appeared Monday that the The nation's holiday death toll reached 517 at 11 p. m. Monday, the National Safety Council reported. Chinese officials at Kungpeh, about two miles to the north. Militant Macao leftist sources claimed several thousand young Red Guards remained in the Nationalist subversion and sa- botage against the Communist mainland. The government representa- tives also were reported to be Kungpeh area, site of a 4, hate j carrying the draft of a govern- Portuguese\ mass raUy Satur- ment \public apology and ad- day attended by some 15,000 mission of guiit M for using Communist Chinese. These left- troops and police against pro- ist sources said the Red Guards ; Communist rioters eariy this had shouted their readiness to ; month. Soviet Luna 13 «ends more pictures of moon nation might escape a 10th suc- cessive record holiday traffic death toll for this Christmas weekend. The current death count reached 468 with the 78-hour period nearing its final hours. This was about 20 per cent un- der last year's pace. Last year, the three-day Christmas holiday set a record of 720 deaths — the greatest for any holiday up to that time. It effects of a widespread snow- storm which ranged from the Plains to New England during the weekend Heavy snow accu- mulations discouraged driving in some areas and cut over-all high traffic mileage substantial- ly- \Apparently this reduction Fabled Mck the Gambler dies at 80 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The legendary gambler Nick the Greek died Sunday night two weeks after winning a bet on his life. Nicholas Andrea Dandolos. known as 'the highest-rolling professional free-lance gambler in the his ton- of the United has a telling effect in the popu- • States/' succumbed from com- lous states where holiday travel plications that followed a heart has been heavy and deadly.\ a attack Dec. 14 Mt. Sinai hospi- Safety Council spokesman said. , tal recorded his age as 80. Although in poor health in re- The holiday period, counted, cent months as three days, actually covers a 78-hour span — from 6 p.m. Fri- day to midnight Monday. To provide a basis of com- he bet writer Cy Rice that he would finish telling him the storv of his life — \6 to 5 before I die. M THAT SPECIAL GIFT - James Chester Duprey took his first breath on Christmas Day. at 5:45 a. m. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Duprey, AuSabie Forks, he was born in Physicians Hospital. Confused and frightened by the noise and flasUag flgkt of a news photographer, the infant winced and sucked his thumb while his mother held him for his first formal portrait. j \He did,\ Rice said \Two was exceeded, however, by a' parison with the Christmas j days before he was rushed to the hospital/' The gambler's finances had weekend period of equal span, | dwindled to \almost nothing'' in between 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, • recent years, Rice said. But death count of 748 during the ! weekend tally. The Associated four-day Thanksgiving period! Press surveyed a nonholiday j last month. A National Safety Council spokesman attributed the rela- tivelv modest rate of accident MOSCOW (AP) — The tin-»attempt manned Soviet spaceship Luna moon. 13 is sending back more pic- tures of the moon's surface, Tass reported Monday night. Luna 13 soft-landed on the lunar surface Saturday and L r ansmit- ted two pictures Sunday. and midnight Monday, Dec. 12. During this nonholiday period to put men on the ' fatalities this year partly to the ; traffic killed 391 persons. The Soviet news agency said the spaceship also was gather- ing information with its instru- ments about the moon's surface and atmosphere. The Luna spaceships apparently are de - Monday night's annuoncement said the new pictures — the number was not given — show various parts of the panorama visible from the spaceship. It said the pictures, as well as the scientific information obtained, would be published but gave no indication when. Luna 13 is the second Soviet spaceship to soft-land on the moon and seems designed largely to continue the work of 17.8. abstainers outnumber heavy drinkers about 3 to 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The ings of a new study on U.S. heavy drinker in America is drinking habits, reported Mon- likely to be male, young and day. that labels 12 per cent of upper middle class — a kind of the population as heavy drink- social doer — but he is outnum- ers, but not necessarily prob- signed to prepare for a Soviet its predecessor. bered by abstainers three to one. Those are some of the find- 5 more join list of British jailbreaks LONDON (AP) — Five tough, his five confederates headed fori lished last week, highlighted the almost lems to themselves or others. *ad although they are mostly male, there are strong indica- tions that more and more wom- en are joining the group. Nick the Greek always said he gambled for the ihnlls and not the money. By his own count, he went from rags to riches 73 times in 50 years. Once he walked into a New York floating dice game with $1 million in a satchel and walked out 12 days later flat broke, a $ cigar clenched in his teeth. Most of the spectacular anec- dotes came from Nick the Greek himself. Such as: win- ning SI.6 million in a single crap game, losing $605,000 m a single poker pot: offering to bet $550,- 000 on the turn of a card. Anti-Maoists seen periled BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Japanese press accounts from capital Monday accusing lM (AP) — The domment faction in the Red Chinese capital said Liu, and Teng of being * 4 leadem of Red China soon will have Presi- and Teng had been accused of the so-called Black or anti-Mao dent Liu Shao-chi arrested. Tan- stirring up, as late as this Tse-tung iine, and they have to jug news agency predicted Mon- month, the Black Wind\ day in a dispatch from Peking, against party Chairman Mao Also marked for early arrest Tse-tung and Defense Minister is Liu's associate. Teng Hsiao- Lin Piao Lin uas designated pomg. secretary-general of the aid. chairman and Mao's politi- Chmese Communist party Both cal heir at a party meeting in have been denounced m speech- August, these reports said, es and posters as following a Tanjug saidmed trucks withh loud- 7 bourgeois-pro-Soviet i:ne. speakers roa throug the be crushed.\ The agency predicted that Liu and Teng **do not have much time left at liberty.\ Liu. who once was Mao's po- litical heir, has been downgrad- ed from No. 2 to No. 8 in the party hierarchy in the struggle for power. Skiers head for snowclad slopes strong-arm robbers scrambled the Long Plantation, a thick over a 30-foot stone wall at wood about a mile from the rear Dartmoor Monday and vanished of the prison into darkening mists shrouding * * • the old prison. Drizzle and low clouds cut Prison officers scoured the visibility to 100 yards in places, desolate moors in vain. They! making conditions ideal for the were equipped with walkie- talkies, supplied less than a week ago in a general tightening of prison security runaways. Darkness descended about 90 minutes later. Police roadblocks were set up on the moor, a high plateau of diiemma of providing maximum security for dangerous crimi- nals, saying conditions in exist- ing maximum security prisons are such as no country with a record of civilized behavior ought to tolerate any longer than is absolutely essential as a stopgap measure.\ Dr. Ira H. Cisin of George Washington University told of a continuing surveillance on 2,746 Americans and their drinking to provide a better backdrop for the study of alcoholism. The poll showed also: Abstainers, those who either j Pay limited j RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil I (AP)—President Humberto Cas- North Country skiers headed for the slopes this weekend to celebrate the holidays and the seasons first snowfall. Norns Reyell. manager of the Beartown ski area, said the local facility was busy Mondav week and from 7 30 to 10 p.m. ly be in operation Thursday Tuesday through Friday and, if everything goes well, it The Bearftwn ski school is might open Wednesday/' open every evening and Sunday The hill has a 250 foot rise and afternoons. Instructors are Wil- a run of 1.300 feet, ham Day and Paul Garcia, who The lodge is not completely teach the American technique. The lodge is not completely Instruction fees are kept to a operational but a warm-up area -*\** ZW^^TT*? recommended by a government | isolated farms and scrubland in inquiry into the steadWy rising' the extreme west of England number erf escapes from Brit- ; ,„ A . , ^ g All the fugitives come from I Loodon or were convicted there ] for property crimes of the type i for which the London under- ain s porous prisons. • • • The p.m., break when 24 prisoners 2:M were plavmg games in the gymnaa- I* 0 ** ^ notorious All had been K . \** *~ ew convicted witmn the last two urn. A group of six pounced on the physical education instruc- tor and the guard. Tbey tied the two up, took the guard's keys, let themselves out of the gym with break tor the wall carrying a three-foot high table and a 10- foot-k»g bench fnkn the gym to help them scaie it A radfcxcpiipped patrol inside the wail spotted the runaways and aler^d the prison orderly roam at ooce The patrol caught one prisoner just as be was scrambling over the wall, out Weather Fmr end cold years. They are Raymond Charles Hanaey, serving 5 years for; _ storebreaking, larceny and re- ihe keysTand\ madT^I^^^^ 0 &**** *<*? K \> J neth Jotesoa. 15 years for two ooovictions of robbery whh vio-1 lence: Mark Ownes, 10 years for : armed robbery; James Morey,! 4 years for shop breaking and larceny; John Thompson, I years for three sets of coirnc- i tkws for larceny and receiving stoles goods Tter escape brought the total for the vear at Dartmoor to 15 TVprtea wasb^tfei 1M to hoese French prisoners taken in ' the Nap&teooc wars In those days pnsoners spest most ot their days locked SB cefia New* •day* seoBTty a *cfc»wtedged $o be t&Mfequie if nm are to he jet si & tWr ceflfei to go to^ vortshops and recreatioe feci- ( re- but \there was hardly any wait- tello Branco has signed a de- ing at all/' There are four rope minimum and students are j and snack bar will be available, cree limiting pay raises for em- tows (three big ones and a passed from one class to the* When completed the lodge will pioyes of Brazil's 22 states to 25 small one for beginners and next as rapidly as individual: house a Rathskeller with a large per cent a year. The limitation children. progress permits. cafeteria. immediately affects Sao Paulo Beartown has a six-inch Lowenberg ski resort in Lyon At Wilmington, it took saow- state which had recently asked packed basea nd conditions are; Mountain, the North Country's making machines two weeks legislative approval of a X5 per excellent. Reyell said roads newest, is scheduled to open to cover part of the Whiteface cent pay Increase for public em- • leading to the area are also in later this week. Ski Center trails (or a Friday don't drink or who drink only ? pioyes. The president said the good condition. Lawesberg Corp. President opening once a year, totaled 52 per cent \ 25 per cent limit conforms to Beartown will be open from Benjamin Clute of Plattsburgh Eat Satirday Mather Natee of the population. I the level for federal employes, j 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. every day this said the resort would \definite- dumped 14 to 16 inches of mow —— — on a man-made 8-inch base. Friday's opening was one of the latest for Wbiteface, which generally opens by early De- cember. Skiing is rated as good with g to 12 inch base and 14 to IS inches of new powder. John King, Whfteface manag- er, said both the J-bar and the T-bar are open. A new area for novice aa* i intermediate skiers has opened this year on ttm [ mountain with an easier* ea- posure. He said doers can fK to Chi new &i*ee an the and from the T-bcr as by car via a road main parting **. %> _- JF'> .Jt w«***4» 4. _ * Ipe** g , 9- •:\..#: Lord M pcrtoe prt*oe -eesnty tjufc** kft •Iwertovifcy --.%-
