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Pi. RalM Seek to LiffcC ommunist Siege ans VIENTIANE, Laos, Ma and still were fighting. IJars and trying to head off any i The Communists opened a Western military inter members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Council to a meeting to review the situation. Tra-elers from the front said (UP). A Laotian neutralist troop commander the Communists said had defected was reported Tuesday to have rdlied dio propaganda barrage aimed vention in Laos.

at preserving battlefield gains.) In Bangkok, U. S. Ambassa- retaining control of the Plain of dor Graham Martin summoned Testimony Attacks Funeral Peddlers his armored regiment for a Background Gen. Kong Le had retreated to Ban Khong, about six miles southwest of his headquarters it Muong Phan, and that 100 of his troops had formed a defense perimeter. Muong Phan was reported surrounded, its supply lines cut and under heavy artillery attack.

A soldier wounded in the attack and flown to Vientiane said the headquarters had been under heavy bombardment since Foreign Minister, replacing Quinim Pholsena, the leftist-leaning neutral who was assassinated a year ago. He nar.ed Outhong Souvannovong, Laotian ambassador to Japan, as Minister of Public Health, and Sou-kan Vilaysar, former police chief, as Secretary of State for: Veterans' Affairs. Prince Souphanouvong, lead-; er of the Pathet Lao, had demanded his half-brother Sou-vanna leave the cabinet as it was before a right-wing mili-- iioumerauacK on me nam on -'Jars 100 miles north of Vi-! From Our Wire Services WASHINGTON, May 19. Battle-Battered Infant entiane. The commander, Lt.

Col. Sou-lideth, with eight armored cars the rpHE hard-sell tactics of promoters who prey on JL elderly by peddling "pay now-die later" funeral plans Despite the fresh Communist 4 at his disposal, was reportedly trying to lift the Communistic 'siege of Ban Khong on the edgej of the plain where Gen. Kong; 'I Le fled Saturday when the Pathet Lao overran his head- JJ quarters. Vj offensive, Premier coup of April 19. It was Phouma named three new cab- that coup which touched off the inet ministers over Communist Communist offensive.

A i protests that the move was destroying the coalition government which the Communists abandoned earlier. Souvanna said he acted because two leftist in the Cab-inet, inet, Khamshoulk Keola and Heuane Mong Holvilary, had- were described Tuesday before a Senate investigating subcommittee. The spotlight was turned on promoters in Kansas City, Denver and El Paso, by Richard N. Carpenter, special assistant attorney general for New Mexico, and W. Dan Bell, general manager of the Rocky Mountain Better Business Bureau of Denver.

The officials testified at a hearing of the special subcommittee headed by Sen. Harrison A. Williams N. to look into frauds and misrepresentations affecting the elderly. The chief target of both men was Consolidated Industries, a Denver-based corporation headed by Dallas J.

Dhority. Carpenter said the organization operated so-called "pre-need burial plans" for neighboring Texas under such jj JoMtlnf I Communist broadcasts had claimed the defection of Sou-; lideth and other forces, but travelers from the plain said the neutralists had vsncpon Vientiane Souvanna named Interior departed from the capital and-Minister Pheng Phougsavan as refused to return. MAAA regrouped after their initial set By Associated Press EVER since Laos began trying to walk alone as an independent nation in 1954, the little kingdom 88,780 square miles with 1.8 million people has known little except crisis, coup and civil conflict. The flareup now on the Plain of Jars in the north-central highlands of Laos is another chapter in the unhappy history of a landlocked land whose people want only to be let alone. THE BACKGROUND The East-West struggle for control of Laos and the rest of what once was Franch Indochinabegan with the end of the Second World War.

Urged on by the Soviet Union and abetted by Red China, soldiers of Communist North Vietnam overran about half nf Tune hofnro tho Hpnpva pious names as "Our Chapel of Memories Praying Hands Russia Assails U. S. Aid Boost Lawn Division," the "Order of Praying Hands and McNamara and Rusk I Plead for New Funds To Step Up Viet Eff ort Haven Memorial Gardens." Carpenter said the Dhority group sold caskets on the installment clan. leaving the impression that tne price ot also included comDlete funeral services. Actually.

I 1 1 I he said, Dhority had testified during contempt proceedings f'f flTA 161119171 that he paid only $96.50 for the caskets. WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI). Secretary of Defens 1 UNITED NATIONS, N. Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk told 1 4MB0DfA VIETNAM 4iAyJfir PlMav 19 APtTh Snviot TTniftit Congress on Tuesday that more money must be spent if Communist activity! j7.

rr and the United States clashed ini Conference of 1954 brought a the U.N. Security Council onjg cease-fire and split up Indo- Tuesday over U. S. aid to South china of the situation." McNamara said he was encouraged to believe the committee would approve the extra re- t) in southeast Asia is to be stopped. The two officials went before a closed session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to THE ANTAGONISTS The Adm.

Burke Boosts Freedom Academy Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, former Chief of Naval Operations, testified in support of a bill that would create a freedom academy to train Americans and others to understand and fight Communism. Burke told the House Committee on unAmerican activities that there is a need for the academy. At present, he said, "a person can obtain a great deal of Information from the Government about the dangers of insects but little about the dangers of Communism." President's Farm Plan Dealt Blow Vietnam, liii-iuuing leaiueni.

Johnson's request for $125 mil-' Pathet Lao of Prince Sou-vanouvong, backed by North Iniipst in Mr Ml Kil- nun niuie 10 speuu on me waii support President Johnson's pleaj fnrpien air, hi rh Vietnam and Red China, sus a shakv coalition of the there. I for an extra $125 million in mil- Soviet Chief Delegate Nikolai! neutralists of Premier Prince T. Fedorenko said Souvanna Phouma and the rightists of Gen. Phoumi No- already had 16,000 American! Vraelitant i unlrliprs in that rnuntrv and wax! '4 I itary and economic aid for South iVietnam. Committee Chairman Thomas E.

Morgan I' said the special request will be I I the committee's first order of Wednesday. CITES RED PRESSURE House Agriculture Committee dealt ACO.UCUfc sum would include $70 million for economic aid and $55 million for more military assistance. RETAINS OPTIMISM McNamara said after the hearing that he is convinced the war in South Vietnam will be "long, hard and very difficult" Johnson' farm nrocram a blow bv sendine back to sub- deciding the question of as- Inquirer Staff Map Map locates Laos, South Vietnam and their neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. committee a proposal to impose production and marketing signing "an additional $125 mil lion in order to extend the ag controls on potatoes. Rusk told the committee in a three-hour hearing that the Viet gression and bloodshed.

'FIGHTING AGGRESSION U. S. Delegate Charles W. but would end successfully for savan. Last month a coup by the rightist generals seized control of the coalition re-gime at Vientiane.

THE ARMIES Pathet Lao, possibly 20,000 men or more with some North Vietnam battalions, either supply or combat troops; neutralists, about 8000, mostly concentrated in the Plain of Jars; rightists, 50,000, mostly sta- guerillas "have stepped upthe free world. A'committee source said a majority of the committee expressed reservations about extending agricultural controls. The bill was sent to the agriculture committee's domestic marketing subcommittee by a vote of 17 to 11. The President said in his farm message earlier this year that the legislation was needed to stop "extreme price fluctuations resulting from wide variations in production." their efforts to try to take ad- Morgan said he thought the vantage of the events of the last additional $125 million plus the several months" in South Viet-j classified amount already in the-Snam, including the overthrow of.foreign aid bill for Vietnam Yost retorted that the United States was only helping Southjl Vietnam fight off "a large-! scale, aggressive Communist! a rich prize in the Cold War. Control of all Laos would give the Communists convenient roads of infiltration to rice-rich U.

S. ally, Thailand, on the western border, and to increase the flow of men and guns from North Vietnam into South Vietnam, already hard pressed by Communist guerillas despite massive U. S. aid. TACTICAL OBJECTIVE-Control of the Plain of Jars, an area of about 20 square miles surrounded by hills, 110 miles northeast of Vientiane, the administrative capital; a network of roads crossing the Plain leads to key points in Laos.

STRATEGIC IMPORTANCEA poor country, geography alone makes Laos the Diem regime. He said the would be enough to meet the United States must do "what is the country's needs through fiscal year beginning July 1. U.S., Soviet OK New Cultural Pact A new and simpler two-year agreement to exchange tioned around urban centers with a few units the Plain 4 area. The Pathet Lao al- outside and aimed at subversion. In talking about U.

S. spending, Fedorenko did not mention necessary" to protect the security of Southeast Asia. But Rusk would not comment visits of research scientists was announced by the U. s- president Johnson by name but ready controls about two-National Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Academy of he referred to the sum requested I thirds La0S- on whether the subject of "fight Sciences Battalion Airlifted To Aid Viet Troops SAIGON, Vietnam, May 19 by Mr. Johnson on Monday.

Immm i in fire with fire" and sendinz I bating a complaint from Cam- south Vietnamese guerillas into 'boAz of South Vietnamese and north Vietnam was discussed. (UPI). The Government and i.T 1 J.i IjU. S. raids' into her territory U.S.

Vows All But Troop Aid i wouiuni warn 10 comment, miiitarv g0UPCM imtmMd on, anything that came up 1 The new agreement provides for visits by 55 scientists from each country for a total of 180 months in 14 and 1965. The first such agreement, signed in 1959, was limited to 44 scientists and 70 months. The new program, which is part of the general cultural exchange between the countries, is more flexible than in the past. i Instead of the old two-step process wherein the coun-' ti i "uiv-iai sucuiu xursuay uu ujb closed session," he said. exact mission of a battalion ing to broaden it into a general examination of the role of the 'A STRANGE THING flown to a Communist strong.

United States in Vietnam To Saye Laos Neutral Rule Rep. Clement J. Zablocki hold 320 miles northeast of Wis.) chairman of the eign Affairs Far East subcom- Persistent reports said the CAMBODIA EXPLAINS The complaint, filed May 13, charged that South Vietnamese mittee, said the lawmakers werej battalion of 400 to 500 men had told the Communist casualtiesjbeen sent to the assistance bf By SPENCER DAVIS note to Britain and the Soviet major East-West confrontation Union earlier this month Southeast Asia. and U. S.

troops entered Cam bodia on May 7 and 8, atacked, Continued from First Page 1 tries would first agree on a scientific field from which the vistiing scientists should come, and then agree on the spe- I cific scientist to be exchanged, it is now necessary only that the individual scientist be acceptable, I Income Keeps Climbing 1 Personal income continued to climb at a steady rate in 1 April, the Commerce Department said. I It reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $483.1 ueciareu inai uiaiant viuiauuiis a village and killed seven per two other battalions trapped in a narrow valley by guerillas dominating the jungle-covered mountains above the Govern- were running three times as high as the South Vietnamese. "It's a strange thing," Zablocki said. "We are told that the sons-includ nsix farmers Vnd'the State Department spokes- ine eCDl in Paris said that a U. S.

said the United States "newal of military acuvi-1 n(lfl v. .1 mat a. nine u.n. i 'tlZ JE fluence on Peking to cool the Viet Cong are losing battles and'ment positions. me luiai LuiiiiiidiiudUL ui me, Provincial Guard.

aware the deeP concern ex- Cambodian delegate Voeunsai pressed by Thailand at the con- Itrsclll llllllliueui uucav iu uic fighting in Laos would be taken men, but they seem to be win The area is Do Xa in the central mountains where the tinued deterioration of the situa under consideration. ning the war." security of the Kingdom of Thailand which shares a long Sonn also repeated earlier billion, a gain of $2.2 billion over March and about $25 tion in Laos. However, they expressed billion higher than April, 1963. common border with Laos." Thailand's Foreign Minister 1 Rep. William S.

Broomfield Communist Viet Cong set up Mich.) said he thought thejprincipal strongholds during the cabinet officers ha "painted French Indochina war. ij auuuK uuuui mat i ante nuuiu The United States would be ci(i charges that South Vietnamese and U. S. troops had killed five persons in an attac': on Mong village Feb. 4 and 17 in an at- Thanat Khoman sent a formal Personal income includes wages, salaries, rents, dividends, profits from a business, profession, or farm, and other payments to individuals.

Personal income totaled $463 billion in 1963.. willing, ivitviuaivcjr aaiu, vu iiuiu consultations in Laos with on Chantrea village March other signatories of the 14-na- 10 tion Geneva agreement if Prince Souvanna wished to have such a meeting. in 2 awrti''itiiitiiiii'fii'i'i' The Geneva accords provide 1 1 III II MVIH I I 11 ff ti Ml tl II ASKS COMPENSATION The Cambodian delegate asked that the council "condemn the aggressors," send a commission to investigate the case and work for a new Geneva conference to guarantee Cam for such consultations "in the event of violation or the threat 7 vAr Free Rhodesia Set i L. oi vioiauon oi me sovereignly, independence, neutrality, unity FThiTTrrpwJ or territorial integrity oi tne bodia's neutrality and territory I From Our Wire Services I LONDON, May 19. -m mm little kingdom.

In London, Foreign Secerty integrity. He also called for compensation of the victims of Exiles Deny Cuban Raids MIAMI, May 19 (AP). A report of the blowing up of six bridges in Cuba by anti-Castro raiders was confirmed and then denied Tuesday by spokesmen for the same exile group. The original report of the bridge destruction by the Revolutionary Recovery Movement (MRR) was broadcast by Juan Amador Rodriguez on his "Newspaper of the Air," broadcast in Spanish over radio station WMIE of Miami. The broadcast report was confirmed by Marcos Valdes, auxiliary press officer of the MRR, the same group which announced a combined commando guerilla attack on a Richard A.

Butler ordered I the raids. Yost said an American ad dm viser was with a Vietnamese unit that "inadvertently crossed the border into Cambodia at Chantrea on March 19." But he yims charge d'affaires Terence Gar-vey to discuss the deepening crisis with Peking authorities. Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, has been consulting urgently with Soviet officials since Saturday. said no American personnel en terea Lambodian territory in the more recent incursions. The British move in Peking -f and loan Association came as resuu oi an iniuauve by United States Secretary of sugar mill In Pilon, Cuba, last State Dean Rusk.

It was part of Israelis Disavow Bribe Report Special to The Inquirer week. OOMMONWEALTH Secretary Duncan Sandys fmounced Tuesday that Northern Rhodesia will becomo independent on Oct. 24 under a unique constitution that is a compromise between the American and the British forms of government. The country will be known as the Republic of Zambia. The first President of Zambia will be elected by secret ballot of all members of Parliament.

After that he will be elected by a universial adult suffrage vote at the same time that a new parliament is elected. The Government will be responsible to Parliament. If the President dissolves Parliament he also dissolves his Office and must stand for re-election at the parliamentary election. The cabinet will consist of President, Vice President and a maximum of 14 ministers. Parliament will be a single chamber known as the National Assembly, consisting of 75 members elected by universal suffrage.

Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda announced at the plenary meeting that Zambia will apply for membership in the Commonwealth. Makarios Fails to Produce 74 Hostages NICOSIA, Cyprus. President Archbishop Makarios told the United Nations he had been able to trace only 17 of the 91 Turkish Cypriot hostages captured by Greek Cypriot irregulars. Most of the 74 others were feared dead. a concerned diplomatic opera-1 Hon to win Red Chinese cooperation in stopping further military i ventures by Pathet Lao forces After publication of the report, Valdes' chief, Edgar Sopo, said, "we know nothing about it." WASHINGTON, May Israeli Embassy on Tuesday ventures that could bring a denied a report that Dr.

Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first Presi dent, had tried to bribe Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud in an attempt to get the King to acquiesce on the Jewish-Arab fight over forming a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Uri Ra'anan, Israeli Embassy DoirneT YOUR MONEY FlY AWAY! 1 The U.N. Command had given Makarios until Monday to produce the hostages, 46 of whom were seized as reprisal counselor for information and A I il l.i. yi ess, ueiimeu mc jaie isidL'U KEEP IT SAFELY AT HOME UIIITY SAVIIICS President himself had denied the charge 14 years ago in his autobiography, "Trial and Error." for the slaying eight days ago in Famagusta of two Greek Army officers. There was no clear indication of what the United Nations would do if the hostages are not released.

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