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PAGE 2 BUCKS COUNTY COURIER and BUCKS COUNTY TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1966 New Medal Of Honor Winner Carries Scars Of Battle WASHINGTON (AP) America's newest medal of honor winner is a shy, quiet 32- year-old 1st lieutenant who says he didn't know he was being a hero during that lonfj lasl year in South Viet Nam. "1 had a mission to perform and I did i recalled Charles O. Williams, a wearer of the green beret of the Army Special Forces. "The thought lhai I was beinji a hero didn't occur to me. 1 just wanted to protect my men." Williams took command of his detachment a his commanding officer was wounded during a fierce night-long a while a Viet Cong regiment was attempting to overrun the special forces outpost at Dong Xoai on June 9-10, 19H5.

Despite several wounds, i liams directed defense operations, stabilized his unit's position and encouraged his troops to hold out against the attackers. At the time, he was execu- i officer of the A detachment, 5th Special Forces Group. He was ordered back lo the United Slates lasl February a er a year's service in Viet a In an exclusive interview in advance of being awarded ihe nation's highest honor today by President Johnson at a White House ceremony, Williams said some signs of thai night in Viet Nam are still with him. still have some nerve damage," he said, "and a machine gun bullet caught me here" -he pointed to a neatly sutured eight-inch scar on his right forearm. "I was lucky though," Williams added with a grimace.

"It only grazed my arm. Otherwise 1 might have lost it." There are other signs, too, of that night in Viet Nam. Stocky and fair-skinned, Will i a looks older than his T2 years. He doesn't a to go back to Viet Nam. "I'll probably be going back 1ST.

I.T. WILLIAMS some day," the professional soldier said. "I can't say I want to go I've got a family and a life back here but if I'm told to go I will." Williams said he has no regrets whatsoever about his service in Southeast Asia. "There is a real big job to do and it was my job to do it to the best of my ability. "We're fighting a just cause over there," he said.

"The commies have to be stopped somewhere." Despite antiwar criticism back home, he said, "Things are going real fine over there. Morale is high." Williams, born Sept. 17, 1933 in Charleston, S.C., enlisted in the Army in 1953, two years after finishing high school. Eleven years later he graduated from officer candidate school at Ft. Benning, Ga.

"They called me 'pop' there," Williams recalled, because he was older than his classmates. Now chief of the special forces procurement and re-enlistment division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., he is proud to be a wearer of the green beret. "We're a fine organization -the best," he "These people are professionals. They know their jobs and they did their jobs." But the conversalion, inevila- bly, turns back to that night in Viet Nam.

"Winning the medal of honor is the greatest thing that ever happened to me and ever will," Williams said. "I simply was doing my job to the best of my ability. I just wanted to protect my men." His wife, Anita, and their three sons and daughter came to Washington for the presentation. As for his pretty, excited wife, she said she was happy jusl lo "have him home again. "He's about the same man," she added.

"You can't know how relieved 1 am." U.S. Officials Call Cuban 'Defections' Clever Hoax Genera I Makes Admits Leading Command-Style Raid i Inspection Tour i SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) authorities said today the report thai 12 Cuban girl athletes were seeking asylum here appears to have been "a very clever and well planned hoax." The story spread rapidly throughout this U.S. island came i i i a i a news of the escape. One or the radio report.

headlines ils page 1 story: "17 Welnesday. Inilially, il seemed sufficiently authentic to lake in U.S. immigralion authorilies as well as news media. U.S. immigralion chief William T.

McConarty confirmed at one poinl a the girls were on the way lo his office and that immigralion officers were slanding by to process them. Although, the precise sequence in which the story spread is uncertain, it appears to have been started by bus driver Reinaldo Feliciano, who said the girls, members of Ihe i Cuban team al Ihe Caribbean "Olympics," escaped from his bus when il was waved lo Ihe curb by a member of ils police escort Feliciano's bus was one of a number carrying 144 Cuban alhletes lo Ihe San Juan walerfront, where a tug was waiting to take them to lh.e Cuban freighter Cerro Pelado. lying offshore. Getting on Bus The athletes were parl of the 357-member team representing Cuba at the 10th Central American a a i a games here. They 'finished competing in the games and were being loaded aboard the ship to wait until the entire group sails for Cuba Sunday.

Somehow, Feliciano said, rear door of the bus was opened and several of the girls scrambled out and piled into nearby cars, including a white car Feliciano said had been shadowing the bus. According to 1 i i a o's count, at least 12 girls gol away possibly 17. However, a police caplain riding on Ihe bus laler said no one got A molorcycle policeman escorting the bus said the same thing. These contradilions of Feliciano's story did not emerge until much later. In the meantime, there had been several developments: --Shortly a 9 a.m., a local radio station bulletined a story about the mass escape of Cuban athletes, believed lo be women.

It is not certain which Purex, Union Meet Again Union and management representatives met today with stale and federal mediators in another attempt to end the al the Purex Corpora-1 Bristol. The meeting, held the Bristol Motor Inn, was the since last Thursday. Last week, the union lurned down an offer of an additional iwrt anrl rmp-half rrnls an hour in benefits. The company had previously Offered a two-year salary in-; crease of 14 cents an hour. The union is asking 22 ccnls an hour over a two-year period, plus fringe benefit improvements, including a pension plan.

The strike has kept over 200 members of Local 8-373 of I i ternational Oil, Chemical a Atomic Workers. Union AFL- CIO, out of work since March 31. --An anonymous caller told A Escape." U.S. i i a i officials a Wednesday a al Cuban girls had escaped a immigration officials began to were en route to thp i i a second thoughts-publicly to seek a in --about the escape report. "As far as I'm concerned," said one, "this is just another Cuban rumor.

I will believe it, when I see Ihe girls in of us asking for asylum." "The reports are false, shameless and slanderous," he said. Llanusa, who was aboard tion i the U.S. --Within half an hour, a huge traffic jam formed in the streets around the immigration exiles, and curious onlookers waiting to see the girls arrive. A clutch of FBI agents told by immigralion of the "mass! escape" also was on hand. --Radio stations rushed mobile units to the i i a i office building for "live and direct" coverage.

--Local newspapers 1 Castro regime. Feliciano's the whole bus himself, thing was a said plot fabricated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in an a to embarrass the Fidel WATFKTOWX. A I Ll. Gen.

i i a F. a i i commander of 1st U. S. pj mte SAI-TROX (UPI) A Kn- --Police today Army, made an inspection i held a war hero on charges of Wednesday of the 2Sth I a murdering a rival "pirate" Division of a i a i radio a i operator and is now ai nearby a for its a a two weeks of summer a i i The- general, who loured the 118,000 acre camp by helicopter. watched the guardsmen undergo Army Training Tests.

The tests determine a man's I 0 wnil'e" he" was proficiency simulated combal conditions. Pan of the combat conditions was a mock air strike made bv uncovered a story Of strong- arm tactics in i a i lucra- i extra-legal broadcasting industry. The story involves a midnight, commando-style raid on one of the offshore facilities and the shotgun death of its i to negotiate with his and get his station back on air. i i a 0. Smedley, 54, a elements of the New York A i i World War II National a Jet fighters! decorated several parachutisl times for made several low passes at one a a i he planned and of the battalions the 1st organized the 10-man boarding playing broadcasl oullel silual- cd 12 miles offshore in an old antiaircraft fort in the Thames estuary.

Denies Shooting He denied shooting its owner, P. Reginald H. Calvert, 37. Calveii was felled by a sholgun blast Tuesday night in Smedley's thatched cottage in the village of Wendens Ambo. Squadron, 2234d a a of i a adclphia.

seized which Radio Monday night City. pop Subway Train Kills Student PHIALDELPHIA (AP)-Glen Richards, 16, a lOlh grade slu- dent, was killed by a city subway train Wednesday while en- route lo school, police said. Ten men. "all big fellows," whom occupy Smedley hired still Radio City and are to evict the boarding but they said it was holding its six disc jockeys and technicians captive. The raiders had heaved grappling hooks and cat ladders to Ihe stilted fort 50 leet above Ihe choppy walers lo gain entry and silenced the radio.

Calvert had tried to gel Ihe police parly, outside their jurisdiction and suggested he talk to the Royal Navy. Saw Smedley Directly Police said Calvert was to have gone to Scotland Yard Wednesday, but apparently decided lo go direct to Smedley about the matler. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, Smedley went to a nearby cottage and asked the occupants to call the police because "there has been trouble." When they arrived, police found Calvert's body--a shot- un blast in the chest. Smedley appeared in court Wednesday on the murder charge and pleaded innocent. He was remanded in custody 1.

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