U.S. general killed

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32965, 11 July 1972, Page 13

U.S. general killed

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAIGON, July 10.

Brigadier-General Richard Tallman, Commander, United States Advisory Forces, Saigon, was killed by a North Vietnamese shell which landed on a Government position close to An Loc yesterday. Three other American military men were also killed, and two were wounded. General Tallman, who was 48, was the highest-ranking American officer to die in South Vietnam since Mr John Vann, the senior civilian adviser to the Central Military Region, was killed in a helicopter crash near Kontum on June 9.

British entry: poll in U.K. (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—CopyrigM) LONDON, July 11. A public opinion poll shows that the Common Market policy of the British Conservative Party would lose them votes in the next General Election. The survey, of 982 voters in 50 constituencies, was made on behalf of the Conservative Anti-Common Market Information Service, and it shows that 59 per cent of those interviewed thought the policy would lose votes; 11 per cent thought it would gain votes; and 19 per cent thought it would make no difference. Eleven per cent did not know. Asked what country they would choose if they had to work outside Britain, 63 per cent of those questioned chose Australia, New Zealand or Canada. Only 6 per cent chose Common Market countries.