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Monday, February 8, 1965 A Cmi Srntmrl 3 Attacks For Eluss Aid mmmmmrmmmmmmmmmmmJ Wj fessure By John M. Hightower AP Special Correspondent Washington UP). U.S. officials are deeply puzzled about the Soviet Union's link if any with the weekend wave of Communist guerrilla attacks on American installations in South Viet Nam. Was the operation encouraged and supported by the Soviet Union as part of its current maneuver to gain influence with North Vietnamese leaders? Did Red China and the men in Hanoi conspire to set a trap of embarrassment for Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin, timed to his arrival in Hanoi Saturday? Or did the North Vietnamese organize tht attacks strictly on their own as a pressure play to squeeze more military aid out of Kosygin than he planned to offer them? At the moment Washington authorities generally believe that the pressure-play theory is correct. They think the North Vietnamese pulled a fast one on Kosygin in the hope of getting a bigger slice of Soviet help. They reason that the timing of the attacks in South Viet Nam early yesterday morning, a few hours after Kosygin's arrival in Hanoi, could not have been accidental. Somebody wanted to prove something. The Soviet Union which has trade and other interests in the West, would probably not see any gain and might see some loss in being identified with the killing of Americans in South Viet Nam.

Kosygin and Soviet Commu- Ft. Ord Gl Dies A Hero In Pleiku Raid Pleiku, South Viet Nam Pi Things were bad at Pleiku, but they probably would have been much worse if Spec. 5 Jesse A. Pyle hadn't been alert. Pyle, a Korean war veteran from Marina, was on duty early yesterday at a listening post a few yards from the American senior officers' quarters at the Pleiku air base.

Pyle heard noises after Viet Cong infiltrators slipped past South Vietnamese guards outside the compound. The sentry surprised the guerrillas as they were planting explosive charges and began firing. The guerrillas immediately detonated their charges, and Pyle caught the full blast of one of the explosions. He died while being taken to the infirmary. The Viet Cong followed up with a mortar attack.

In all, eight Americans were killed and more than 100 wounded. U.S. officers said many more probably would have been killed if Pyle had not surprised the Communists before they had all their explosives in place, Pyle was married to a Korean he met in 1952 while he was fighting the Communists there. They have three daughters, aged 11, 6 and 2. Pyle was transfer I JU SAVE BEST LWED BOWL (oEo rJl15DC3AtD1DC3 WITH BOTTOM ROLL-OUT FROST-FHEIE FESEEZER Jesse A.

Pyle red to Viet Nam last November from Ft. Ord. His family remained at home in Marina, near Ft. Ord. Mrs.

Pyle wept at the news. She said she was "proud he protected" others who might have been killed but for him. In halting English. Mrs. Pyle said, "I think it will be difficult for me and the children But I am proud that he protected so many other persons who might have been killed in the attack." Mrs.

Pyle said the first word she had received of her husband's death enme in a telegram from Washington. SAVINGS IN 122 on the SET III THE U.S.A. LBJ's Counterattack Order Halts GOP Critics Russ Pledge To Back Hanoi Moscow (If) Izvestia said today "it is necessary to put an end to" American air raids on North Viet Nam and published a pledge by Premier Alexi N. Kosygin to back Hanoi against U.S. attacks.

The Soviet government newspaper published Kosygin's pledge after 24 hours of hesitancy. It was made by Kosygin at a public meeting in Hanoi seven hours before the first air raid on Dong Hoi. Though this was reported here yesterday, by the Soviet news agency Tass, it did not appear this morning in Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper. nist party secretary Lenoid I. Brezhnev only a week ago sent word to Washington that the Soviet government was interested in President Johnson's proposal for an exchange of visits.

This was taken here as an encouraging indication of Soviet interests in improving relations with the United States. Dangerously heating up the war in Viet Nam would clearly run contrary to such an interest and, indeed, what happened this weekend could be a blow to the whole project. Soviet policy toward North Viet Nam is presently assumed crisis. GOP members of Congress have complained in the past they were expected to participate in the crash-landings but seldom were consulted before the takeoff. Unlike his predecessor, President John F.

Kennedy, who told senators and representatives what his decision was after he had made it on the Cuban crisis, Johnson asked them to sit in on the discussions that led up to the decision. The President had Dirksen on the telephone Saturday night to tell him 'vhat was brewing. He had Ford, House Speaker John McCormack and Mansfield sit in on a National Security Council meeting. When Dirksen found it impossible to attend, the President kept him abreast of developments by telephone. All of this has put the Republican leaders in the position of having shared in the decision.

Consequently members of their party will encounter some difficulty in criticizing either it or the resultant flow from it. Monterey Crash Kills Three Monterey IM Three persons were killed and another critically injured in a headon crash of two cars on State Route 156 about 14 miles north of Monterey yesterday. The highway patrol said Alfred H. West, 37, of Salinas, and Lts. Leonard Azfonte and Richard Cauzza, both 24 and stationed at Ft.

Ord, were killed. Lt. Roger L. Hatfield, 24, of Santa Ysabel was in critical condition in a Monterey hospital, they said. Youths Attacked Near City Hall Police are investigating an apparent non-provoked attack on two Santa Cruz teenagers early Sunday morning on Center street in front of city hall.

Harry R. Karras, 17, of 234 Cayuga street, and John R. Moreno, 17, of 417 Windham street, told police they had just left a dance at the civic auditorium. They said about 10 teenaged boys, who appeared to have been drinking, accosted them. In the fracas Karras was knocked down and received a broken jaw, police said.

ill PYREX- Brand here to be militarily defensive to discourage the United States from expanding the war into the north. Politically, most officials believe the Soviet Union wants to divide North Viet Nam from Red China. Red China would have reason to embarrass Kosygin, assuming that he is trying to cut into Chinese sphere of influence. But the North Vietnamese who apparently hoped to resume profitable ties with the Soviet Union as well as Red China, might well be suspicious of any Red Chinese urging to try tricks with Kosygin almost at the moment of his arrival in North Viet Nam. On their own, however, the North Vietnamese could have decided that it would be a smart maneuver to carry out the raids on American installations in order to make either of two contradictory points to Kosygin.

If Washington reacted by doing nothing in retaliation, the North Vietnamese could argue to Kosygin that the United States had lost its nerve or will to fight in South Viet Nam and was about ready for a settlement on Communist terms. They could contend the Soviets should have nothing to fear from giving them large-scale help for a drive to victory to the south. If, on the other hand, the United States reacted by counterattacking, the North Vietnamese could argue that they were actually under U.S. attack with the threat of an expanding war against theii own territory and they needed large-scale, aid. Caution Still Marks Action In Vet Nam Washington (IP) President Johnson, even while using the strongest language he has yet applied to the situation in Viet nam, seems to be showing a basic caution that has marked most of his moves in that part of the world.

In his only statement dealing with the weekend crisis, he said yesterday: "We have no choice now but to clear the decks and make absolutely clear our continued determination to back South Viet Nam in its fight to maintain its independence." This assertion was coupled with a presidential announcement that American dependents would be evacuated from South Viet Nam, that an antiaircraft missile battalion would be moved in and that reinforcements might be coming. "Clear the decks," an American slang phrase, seemed to sum up a tough-minded attitude that if the Communists wanted a showdown, the United States was ready. In ways, the new flareup was the Gulf of Tonkin all over again. Last August, after patrol boats based in North Viet Nam twice attacked U.S. destroyers in the China Sea, Johnson ordered bombing strikes against the mainland of North Viet Nam.

A few weeks later, word came in the middle of the night of a similar attack on another American destroyer. Nothing happened. There was no retaliation. American aircraft on a field outside Saigon were hammered in a surprise attack that did great damage last November. Four Americans were killed.

Nothing was done in retaliation. Then came Saturday's attack on Pleiku. Johnson said: "It has become clear that Hanoi has undertaken a more aggressive course of action against both South Vietnamese and American installations, and against Americans who are in South Viet Nam assisting the people of that country to defend their freedom." SC Man Hurts His Back In Fall Dennis B. Ponzio, 25, of 2424 Mission street, received a possible fractured back in a fall early Sunday morning, city police report. Sheila O'Neil, 21, of 211 Woodrow avenue, said Ponzio was at a party at her house, but left about midnight.

Approximately an hour later she found Ponzio at the front door, in pain and gasping that he had fallen over a cliff. Ponzio was taken to Community hospital where he was reported in "good" condition this morning. Sen. Russell Under Surgery Washington (if) Doctors have performed a tracheotomy an opening of the windpipe cn Sen. Richard B.

Russell. His condition was reported satisfactory after the operation to help his breathing. The 67-year-old Georgia Democrat, who heads the Senate armed services committee, was hospitalized last Tuesday for the treatment of bronchitis. 4-pc. BOWL SET $3.95 SPECIAL PRICE OFFER REGULARLY $4.95 EXPIRES FEB.

27, 965 Washington (If) President Johnson apparently has sidetracked a massive Republican attack on his Asian policies by ordering retaliatory forays against North Vietnamese bases. Before the weekend's military actions, congressional Republicans had been waiting ionly for a presidential assessment of an on-the-spot report of the Saigon situation by his special factfinder, McGeorge Bundy, before blasting away at Johnson's course. They suspected Bundy's recommendations would be for, as they put it, "more of the same" in South Viet Nam, with no spectacular acceleration of American effort there. They were poised in this case to demand what House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan called "forcible action." Then came the Viet Cong sneak attack on South Vietnamese installations.

Eight Americans were killed and more than 100 wounded. Johnson provided the "forcible action" by dispatching carrier planes to bomb the southernmost military bases in North Viet Nam. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, who had expressed his "deep concern" recently over the deterioration of the U.S. military position in South Viet Nam, gave full endorsement to the President's action.

Dirksen said that if he had had to make the decision, he would have done exactly what Johnson did. Otherwise, he said, the United States might have been convicted in the eyes of Asians of a fatal immobility that could have wiped out U.S. prestige that part of the world. Dirksen and Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Senate Democratic leader, said in separate interviews they expect Johnson to brief leaders of both parties on developments as soon as he digests Bundy's report.

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