WAR IN BRIEF

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 13

WAR IN BRIEF

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NORMAN (Oklahoma), March 13. Senator Robert Kennedy told a cheering audience of 7000 college students today that the United States should halt the bombing of North Vietnam and invite the Hanoi Government to the conference table.

He told University of Oklahoma students that if the plan failed, America could resume full military operations. “Before we escalate ... I would like to have us make this final effort toward peace,” the Senator said. WASHINGTON, March 14. Americans oppose a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam by a majority of four to one, a newspaper survey reported yesterday. The survey, copyrighted by the “Washington Post,” showed they wanted President Johnson to increase military pressure. CHAPEL HILL (North Carolina), March 14.

The Senate Democratic leader, Mr Mike Mansfield,

last night called on President Johnson to seek a face-to-face confrontation in the United Nations of all countries involved directly or indirectly in the Vietnam war. SAIGON, March 14. South Vietnam’s 20-man National Leadership Committee yesterday decided to discharge the ousted Defence Minister, Lieutenant-General Nguyen Huu Co, from the Army, authoritative sources said. SAIGON, March 14. North Vietnamese unleashed an intense series of mortar attacks on a United States brigade headquarters and on two nearby base camps and wounded 62 American troops, the United States Command reported today. The headquarters also reported two United States helicopters were shot down in South Vietnam while American planes made fresh raids over North Vietnam, including a strike against a radar site on an island 42 mile seast of Haiphong.