Chaplain Fights to Die With MenHUE, Vietnam (AP) — The

slight, 46-year-old priest with ow-lish eyeglasses really had no busi-ness being there.

But the infantrymen he lovedwere being killed before the bat-tlements of Hue's imperial Citadeland the Rev. Aloysius P. Mc-Gonigal wanted to go.

The chaplain .died, a bullet

wound in his forehead, with a unitthat was not his own in a battle hecould have miseed. He practicallyfought his way to the battlefield.

Most soldiers die almost anon-ymousiyriniu«n-_only to their closecomrades, to the sergeants and tothe company officers. Father Me-Gonigal was known all over the 1stCorps area and elsewhere in South

Vietnam.He roamed with a fierce devo-

tion to "the men in the field." His5 feet 6 almost disappeared insidea flak jacket.

Father McGonigal was a nativeof Philadelphia. He was ordainedin 1953 and taught at GonzagaHigh, Washington, B.C.; Ix)yoiaHigh, Baltimore, Md., and George-

town University before becominga chaplain. He was attached to theMaryland 'Province of the Societyof Jesus and is survived by threebrothers and four sisters.

An Army major, his last assign-ment was the U.S. Advisory Com-pound in Hue. He traveled all overthe northern provinces and had

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The crew of the U.S.TY*M'01 *f»//lllllT/»»l»*rt ekl»* T^tfO,

blo will be punished andany American reprisals willbring immediate war, theNorth Korean embassy inMn«».-ow announced Tues-day.

In Washington, the UnitedStates replied with its thirdwarning in four days that NorthKorea is risking .serious conse-quences by punishing or eventhreatening to punish the 82survivors.

Moscow embassy counsellorKun Cher Gyn (old a news con-ference lhat the crewmen, "hav-ing committed crimes: In onecountry, will get the puiiihlinienlprovided by (he law of this cuiin-try.

"If the American imperialistsdare to take reprisals, tlicn warwil l break out immediately,"Kan said.

Kan, in effect, d a r e d theUnited States to do anythingabout it.

"Recent events indicate that,at any lime, war can blow upagain in Korea because of theU.S. imperialists." he said. "I

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Hand Bacfc,Go/f OufMUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) —

Herbert Miklosovic lost his righthand and. in a miracle of mod-em surgery. got back a clench-ed fist. The only thing he's wor-ried about now is his golf game.

Miklosovic's back-swing willnever be the same and he knowsit. One month ago he had hisright hand completely severedin a factory accident. In a raraand delicate operation, doctorssewed it back on and carefullyrejoined the nerves and tendons.

The 24-year-old factory work-er can wiggle his thumb but thefingers are locked in a closed-fist position. Miklosovic be-jieves this could end his golf-ing days.

Dr. Richard Kislov, a plasticMjrgetiu, said niuie .surgery onshortened tendons and muscleswill open the fingers. He saidMiklosovic should have "pract-ical" use of the hand in a yearor so. Coif or no golf, he's alucky man.

Fighting on 3 FrontsIn Saigon's Outskirts

SAIGON iUPD —Fighting f l a r e d onthrew f r o n t s on Sai-gon's o u t s k i r t s lateTuesday amid indica-tions a second attackon the capital was inthe making.

Communist artillerymenlnhlx>d four more rocketsat the Tan Son Nhut airportcomplex containing the U.S.high command. Only twohnclcd in the base, causingno damage.

The oilier two 122mm missileshit a government Ranger forceoutside the northern perimeter.There was no ini t ial report oncasualties.

(Meanwhile. AP r e p o r t e d .South Vielname.se military head-quarters said aerial observershad spotted several Communistantiaircraft guns ringing a sec-tion of Tan Son Nhut airport.South Vietnamese bombers weresent to crush them.

(The gun positions were sight-ed about 2',2 miles south of thisairbase. A government spokes-man said he had no firm count

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AP RnrllonhotaSECRETARY MCNAMARA AND GEN. WHEELER AFTER TONKIN GULF TESTIMONY

Testimony on Tonkin GulfWASHINGTON (UPI) — De-

fense Secretary Hobert Me-Namara said T u e s d a y theUnited States knew "beyond anydoubt" that North VietnameseFT boats attacked two Ameri-can destroyers in the Gulf ofTonkin in 1964 before retalia-

tory air raids were ordered.McNamara, in testimony be-

fore the Senate Foreign Rela-tions Committee, said PresidentJohnson had sufficient informa-tion to establish the attack onthe destroyers before he or-dered the retaliatory strikes

against North Vietnamese. PTboat bases.

The PT boat attacks on thedestroyers Maddox and TurnerJoy led to the first U.S. bomb-ing raids against North Viet-nam.

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Judge at TrialOf Ruby Dies

DALLAS, Texas (AP)—Dis-trict Judge Joe Drown. fiO, whopresided over the trial of JackRuby in 1%4, died Tuesdayafter a heart attack.

Ruby received the death sen-tence in Brown's court but theconviction was later reversed.He was tried for the murder ofLee Harvey Oswald, accused as-sassin of President Kennedy.Ruby died of cancer J;in. 3,1967.

VC Capture U.S. TeacherIn Hue; 2 Others Missing

CLIO, Mich. (AP) — A Michi-gan woman, who had beenteaching high school in the war-ravaged South Vietnamese cityof Hue, is a prisoner'of the VietCong, her parents said Monday.

Mrs. Paul G. Johnson toldnewsmen she and her husbandreceived a telegram from theU.S; Stale Department inform-ing them that their daughter,Sandra, 24, had been captured.

'• Miss Johnson, a graduate ofthe University of Michigan andHarvard University, had been

listed as one of three Interna-tional Voluntary Services—IVS—workers missing in Vietnamsince the Jan. 31 Communist of-fensive.

Mrs. Johnson said the tele-gram indicated her .daughterwas captured in Hue on Feb..9.The telegram contained no de-tails about the capture, shesaid.

Miss' Johnson taught Englishat a private girls' high school inHue and also at the' Universityof Hue.

The IVS reported two of itspreviously missing workers,Stephen C. Erhart of. San Jose,Calif., and Christopher N. Jen-kins of Godwin, Pa., had beenlocated and returned to duty.

Still missing are Marc 0. Cay-er, 22, a Canadian citizen of St.Raymond, Portn'cuf, Quebec;and Gary L. Daves, 24, of Mes-calero, N.M.

Erhart, 2G, is an Englishteacher at the University ofHue. Jenkins is a youth worker.

Reefs CapturePost in LaosVIENTIANE, Laos (AP) —

Communist troops have overruna Lao Army outpost 50 milesnortheast of Vientiane, the Laogovernment said Tuesday.

A government spokesmansaid a strong Communist forcenumbering a b o u t three bat-talions took the Lao governmentoutpost which was situatedabout 13 miles from the townof Paksane on the MekongRiver.

The position fell early Sun-day morning.

The announcement came justas the International ControlCommission (ICC) in Laos waspreparing to leave for t h esouthern town of Saravane.

Knock OufSAM andRadar Site

SS.S Vietnam Bureau

; SAIGON—U.S. Air Force and'Marine pilots penetrated heavy'cloud cover over North Vietnam'Monday,- knocking out a sur-face-to-air-missile (SAM) s i t eand a radar site northwest of•Hanoi; .. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs.silenced the SAM .site and also:hit the Yen Bai airfield 78 milesnorthwest of . t h e Communist.capital. .Other pilots struck thePliuc Yen airfield, storage and; communications areas in the'panhandle area and the in-'operative Dong Hoi airfield.

In 'South Vietnam, Air Forcepilots were credited with kill.-ing I'll enemy troops Mondayin 420 strikes around the coun-.try. They also destroyed or•damaged 43 s a m p a n s and•numerous bunkers and fortifica-'tions. :

Air Force, Marine and Navy'pilots also flew 265 s o r t i e sagainst Communist troops oper-ating in northern South Viet-.nam, most of them against ene-my concentrations in the Khe.Sanh area.

Martial LawDecree OKd

SAIGON (UPl) — The Senateof South Vietnam Monday ap-.•proved President Nguyen VanThieu's three-week-old martiallaw. decree.

Thieu declared martial law onJail; 31 after the Communistsbegan their lunar new year of-fensive in the country's eitbsand towns. '

Under the decree, Vietnam-ese press censorship wa.s re-established, all public gather-ings were banned and bars andnightclubs were closed.

Forty-one of the 45 senatorspresent at Monday's session ap-proved the decree.

Police Action in SaigonVietnamese combat policemen scramble over a

factory tank while another looks underneath. Thevwere fighting across factory compounds in north-eastern Saigon. • (AP Radiophoto)

S. Viet Premier Proposes'Vigilante'Plan to Stop VC

SAIGON (AP) — PremierNguyen Van Loc said Tuesdaythe South Vietnamese govern-ment was encouraging citizensto defend themselves againstthe Vief Cong on a block-to-block basis.

"If need be. we will armthose g ] - o n ps on a limitedbasis," Loc told foreign news-

men al his Saigon o f f i ce dur-ing a -news conference.

Loc said the local "vigilante"idea might "develop a bettersense of neighborhood, so theywill know who is a strangerand who is not."

In the r e c e n t Coinmitnistlunar new year offensive, theViet Cong i n f i l t r a t e d ' tens of

Vief Police Hold 2 PoliticiansSAIGON (AP)—Police Tues-

day night took two prominentantigovernmcnt politicians fromtheir Saigon homes and placed,them under "protective custody"at National.Police headquarters,relatives said.

Truong Dinh Dm, runner-upin South Vietnam's presidentialelection last year, was arrestedat 7 p.m., his son said.

Twenty minutes earlier, policebroke into the home of former

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Economics Minister An TruongThanh and told him he wouldhave to go to headquarters "forhis own protection," his wifesaid.

During the first round of VietCong attacks earlier this monthpolice asked former Chief ofState Phan Khac Sun to go topolice headquarters for his ownprotection against the Viet Cong.Sim's wife said he went against

.his will. He stayed several daysin a villa at National Policeheadquarters and was at homeTuesday night.

Thanh, an economics minister

when Vice President NguyenCao Ky was premier, sought torun for president last year buthis list of candidates was elimi-nated by the legislature becauseof its peace platform.

Dzu's son said by telephonethat several policemen came tohis home and asked D/u lo comewith them.

Mrs. Thanh said the familywas al dinner when police brokeinto the house and said they hadan order to take him to head-quarters for his own "protec-tion."

thousands of guerrillas and tonsof arms and ammunit ion intothe nation's population centers,yet there was no advance warn-ing of the impending Commu-nist attacks from local resi-dents.

Viet Cong who surrenderedduring the fighting said armshad been smuggled into Saigonand kept in houses scatteredthrough the city.

"The people have to do thisthemselves," Loc said, adding,"If they need some means —weapons, participation of thepolice—they will get the assist-ance of the government."

Loc said arms already hadbeen distributed in some areasof Saigon, and there were re-ports that villages in Bicn Hoaprovince north of Sn.igon hadbeen likewise equipped.

A newsman asked Loc aboutreports that only Roman Catho-lic neighborhoods and parishes—known for their strong anti-communism — vere b e i n garmed. He replied, "There isabsolutely no arming of politicaland religious groups."

DeathFor HueLooters

HUE, Vietnam (AP) —The South Vietnamese mil-itary leader of war-devas-tated Hue Tuesday order-ed that looters be shot onsight and promised publicexecution within two daysof prominent Communistsarrested recently.

Even as the war raged on thenorthern half of this ancient im-perial c a p i t a l , the provincechief and city boss, Lt. Col.Pham Van Khoa, begun to takedecisive actions to restore con-trol in the recaptured portionsof the city.

With a handful of civilian po-lice and military reinforce-ments patrolling the city, Khoaissued orders to. clamp firmcontrol on the civilian popula-tion.

Since the U.S. M a r i n e scleared the southern portion ofthe city about Feb. 10, lootinghas been widespread and vir-tually unopposed..

The province chief also prom-ised he would begin executionswithin two days of Communistagents who had been guilty ofassassinations or had been in-volved in the Viet Cong plotagainst the city.

He also announced the arrestof former Hue police chief,Nguyen Chi Canh, who had de-fected to the Communists afterthe Buddhist uprising of 1905and had returned to Hue. as .aleader of the civil governmentthe Communists hoped to setup.

Canh had planned the assassi-nation of two province chiefsand of senior American mili-'tary officials and civilian advis-ers, Khoa said.

He added that Canh had con-fessed to entering provincialsector headquarters and con-tacting former police friends inan effor l to get them into theplot.

Identify GISlain in Raid

WASHINGTON (UPt) — TheDefense Department Tuesdayidentified the U.S. servicemankilled in a Communist mortarattack on the Saigon airportMonday as Air Force Sgl. Wil-liam L.'McMahon, of Frederick-town, Ohio.

Officials said he was in theairport terminal awaiting trans-portation homo when the mor-tar attack occurred.

The Defense Department list-ed another man as. having beenkilled during an attack on thesame 'airport Sunday. He wasAir Force Sgt. Alan W. Wil-lard, of Franklin, Mass.

Officials said Witlard was ina barrack at the airfield at thetime. He was with !he (>2riOthSupport St[.

Chinese Urged,Turn in Children

SAIGON (UPI) — Chinese inthe Saigon area have beenurged to report to police if theirchildren have sided with theViet Cong.

Brig. Gen. Nguyen NgocLoan, national police chief, saidchildren would be g r a n t e dclemency if their parents re-ported them immediately to thepolice.

Much of the recent fighting inSaigon centered in the pre-dominantly C h i n e s e Cholonarea.

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RedSees Anger at Tet Attack

PositionsCAMP ENARI, Vietnam

(10)—There's a new breedof pilots s c o u t i n g thetreacherous highlands jun-gle. Tagged "Nighthawks"by their commander, Lt.Col. Myles H. Mierswa, ofDumont, N,J«, of the Ivy's4tti Aviation Bn., the pilotsare the skippers of newlydevised searchlight helicop-ters which patrol the high-lands after dark.

Two types of the special air*craft are being employed tosearch for "Charlie." One fea-tures a cluster of seven C123landing lights mounted in thedoor of the helicopter and theother has a huge xenon search-light mounted on the side of theship. The xenon beam providesan infra-red capability allowingthe penetrating light to go un-detected by the naked eye. Bothsets of lights are controlled bythe aircraft commander iviththe use of a remote powerswitch.

The "Nighthawks" have beenoperating primarily a r o u n dCamp Enari but recently werecalled to Kontum and Pleikuduring the war-lorn Tet holidayand proved quite effective.

The "Nighthawk" operationsupplements base camp de-fense. The technique providesa thorough reconnaissance ofravines and gullies which per-sist in the highlands jungle.

In -the event a target is un-covered, the 4th Inf. Div. pilotscarry flares to further l ight upthe position so that the situa-tion may be pursued according-ly.

"101st TryingReal WingsBIEN HOA, Vietnam (UPI)-

Something old may becomesomething new if an experimentbeing conducted by the 101stAirborne Div. is successful.

The study developed by Maj.Fred Kersh of Liberty, Texas,envisions the use of pigeons tosupplement the paratroopers'communications network.

For the job, the army drafted30 birds. They are now under-going basic training at this base.

BunkerWASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S.

Ambassador to Vietnam Ells-worth Bunker has stoutly de-fended the South VietnameseArmy and government.

In a television interview, re-corded in Saigon, Bunker said,"I believe we are stronger to-day than before the Viet CongTet offensive.

"The fact that the govern-ment moved quickly to restorethe damage* to take recoverymeasures, demonstrated to thepeople that the government is

3-PowerUnit OutOf Hue

HUE, Vietnam (AP)—A fieldteam of the International Con-trol Commission (ICC), designedto police the 1954 Geneva agree-ments on Vietnam, is a casualtyof the Communist attack on Hue.

The three-power commission,made up of India, Poland andCanada, now has no team northof Da Nang. Only a South Viet-namese liaison officer and hishelpers remain in the badlydamaged ICC compound in Hue.

The team, which severalmonths ago evacuated stationsat Gio Linh and the Ben liaibridge at the demilitarized /one,pulled out of Hue after its com-pound building was shelledFeb. 6.

All the team members weregone by Feb. 8. They were takento Da Nang by American navallanding craft.

Two Indian noncommissionedofficers were wounded by aCommunist B40 rocket grenadethat fell through the roof of theJCC local headquarters Feb. (5,

The white ICC flag, however,still flies from the local head-quarters building on the southbank of the Perfume River.

The headquarters is in the oldHotel Huong Giang (PerfumeRiver Hotel).

Although none of the i n t e r -national commission membersare present, the ICC buiUlin,1."; ismaintained by a South Viet -namese officer along w i t h Henlisted men.

By CAPT. SALIM J. B A LADYAmerical Div. Legal Assistance

OfficerCHU LAI, South Vie tnam—

Under our federal tax system,the well known maxim, "t\vocan live as cheaply as one,"is more accurately stated: "Twocan live MORE cheaply thanone."

The lax device which createsthis economic oddity is the j o i n tincome tax return.

I f ou are marr ied, you may

Third of four purls.

owe, less tax if you f i l e a join!re turn with your husband orwife than if the two of sou f i l eseparate returns. This result ispossible because f i l i n g a jo in treturn effectively splits the com-bined income of the spouses in ohalves and permits each half tobe taxed at an appropriatelyreduced rate.

Since you may t'Ue a j o i n t re-turn even though you or yourspouse had no income or deduc-

the possibility of a s igni-f icant tax savings is especiallygreat in families where there isbut one breadwinner.

Your eligibility for f i l ing njoint return is determined byyour marital status on the lastday of the tax year. For taxpurposes, you are consideredmarried for the entire year if,on the last day of your tax year,you are:

(1) married and living to-g;Mher as husband and wile; or,

(!?) l iving together in a com-mon law marriage which is rec-o."ni/ied by the state in which it\ \as entered into; or,

(I ! ) married and living apartbut not divorced or legally sepa-rated; or,

(4) Separated under an in t e r -locutory decree of divorce. Youare not legally separated forpurposes of your election to f i l ea joint return by the terms ofan i n t c r I o c u I o r y decree ofdivorce,

I f you are divorced by a f i n a ldecree on or before the last dayof your tax yea.", however, yuu

capable of action . . . theeminent, I think, has probablya wider support today than ithad before the offensive."

Bunker agreed that l a r g enumbers of the rural pacifica-t ion teams and the securitytroops that guarded them hadbeen brought back into thecities because of the Viet CongTet offensive.

He did not agree, however,tha t this would set the ruralpacification program back "along way."

The Viet Cong alsd had tothrow into their offensive someof their local forces from thecountryside, he said.

Bunker ,said he believed therehad been "great resentment,growing resentment at the VietCong, particularly for havingviolated the Tet truce.

"It has not been violated fora thousand years. I think thereaction has been very strongagainst them for this reason,plus the fact they have causeddamage in the cities."

Looking for Guns, Not NeedlesAir America! Div. infantryman searches a haystack for enemy

weapons and supplies during an operation near Vinh Lot* in thenorthern sector of South Vietnam. (USA}

conomicare considered to have beensingle for the entire year andm;;y not f i le a joint return.

In addition, both you and yourspouse must be either U.S.citi/ .ens or resident aliens at allt imes dur ing the tax year andyon must both use the sameaccount ing period.

In computing the tax due on aj d ' H t re turn you must include allincome, exemptions and deduc-tions of both you and your.spouse.

Both husband and wife mustsign the r e tu rn , or it wi l l not beconsidered a joint re turn . Thisgenera! rule is subject to thef o l l o w i n g impor tant exceptions:

(1) H your spouse dies duringthe year and you do not remarrybefore the close of the tax year,you may f i le a joint return foryou and your deceased spouse.Under these circumstances, youand the executor or adminis-t r a to r of the decedent's estatemust sign the return.

11 no executor or administratorl ias been appointed, you maye i t h e r si.yn your own name as

the taxpayer and, in the spaceprovided for the spouse's signa-ture, sign your name again fol-lowed by the term "SurvivingSpouse"; or, sign your nameonly once fol lowed by the term"Taxpayer a n d S u r v i v i n gSpouse."

(2) I f the husband is a service-man in Vie tnam, his signatureis not needed on the joint return.The wi fe need only indicate inthe space provided for her hus-band's signature t ha t he is inthe m i l i t a r y service in Vie tnamand the re tu rn wi l l be processed.

< ; { ) If the husband or wifecannot sign t h e ;jint re turn, thenthe one v\ ho is able may signfor the other if he (or she) lur-1

a va l id power of attorney to do.so.

Yon may f i l e a joint return onForm 1U40A or Form 1040. Thesocial s e c u r i t y numbers of boihyou and your spouse should beentered on a joint return, eventhough one of you had no in-come. The word "none'' shouldbe entered for a spouse w h ohas no social secur i ty number.

ArmyAsked "what kiild of confi-

dence" the South Vietnamesecould have in their governmentwhen "all the evidence is thatthe Communists moved freelythroughout this c o u n t r y 10launch their offensive" withoutbeing betrayed, Bunker replied:

"The fact is most of thosetroops — particularly in Saigon— came in here disguised ascivilians.

"One also has to. realize thatthere was a relaxation becauseof the Tet holidays. And, as amatter of fact, the people inSaigon are informing the gov-ernment where the Viet Congare located, where they cancome and get them. . . .

Bunker disputed that in mostcities the Viet Cong had held"most of the town."

"Our examination, as far aswe have gone in some of thetowns, particularly in the delta,the original reports of heavy de-struction were not, borne out.

"For example, early reportswere that My Tho was 30 percent destroyed. That was nottrue/'

Bunker foresaw good comingout of the destruction wroughtin South Vietnamese cities. Ttwould give "an opportunity todo a much better job for thepeople who had their homesdestroyed, to rebuild in a waythat will give them much bet lei-living conditions."

"The test is in performance."he said. "What the Vietnamesearmed forces have done in thisrecent action is a pretty goodindication that the training istaking effect and that it is im-proving."

Bunker said that South Viet-nam had 770,000 men "underarms, which is a very largearmed force for a country ofthis size."

The PriceWas Right

PHUOC V1NH, Vietnam (10)—A paratrooper from the 101stAirborne Div. paid 16 cents tosave a small boy from dangernear here recently.

SSgt. Richard Dickie, Hop-kinsville, Ky., of D Co., 3rd Bn.(Abn), 187th Inf, was on a roadclearing operation when he triedto move a group of Vietnamesechildren out of the way.

One child refused to cooper-ate. "I told him to go home inthree d i f f e r e n t languages,"Dickie said.

The sergeant stopped shortwhen the small boy happily dis-played his new toy—an M79grenade round.

Dickie reached in to his pocketfor trading material and pulledout 20 piasters (about 16 cents).The child eagerly accepted theexchange and walked away.

Prince, 8, ShowsUncommon Tasfe

LONDON (UPI) — PrinceAndrew, third of Queen Eli/a-belh's four children, blew outeight candles on his bir thdaycake but spared hardly a glancefor the ice cream.

The ice cream and candles:were for his young friends athis Buckingham Palace bir th-day parly because Andrew,with unusual tastes in food,does not like them. However heloves cream cheese w i t h l iversausage on rye bread w i t h jamon top.

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ThmttoTeULBJOf Hanoi's Views

UNITED NATIONS (AP)—U.N. Secretary-GeneralU Thant was reported ready Tuesday to fell PresidentJohnson the North Vietnamese are willing to discussanything the Americans want if the United States willstop bombing their country.

Diplomatic sources said Thant got that word fromNorth Vietnamese he saw on his recent trip abroad and' " ~ " he would pass it along to John-son wnen t|ie tw°moct in wash-

ington Wednesday.They «aid Thant was told spe-

cifically the North Vietnamesewould .start the talks promptly.

s BillStymiedWASHINGTON (AP) —

move to cut off Senate debateand bring civil rights legislationto a vote failed Tuesday.

A two-thirds majority of sena-tors voting was required to putthe Senate's debate-closing da-tum rule into effect.

The vote was 55 for cloture to37 against. The 55 figure wasseven short of the 62 needed for« two-thirds majority.. The vote was a heavy, andpossibly, fatal blow to the ad-ministration-backed measure.

once U.S. military a c t i o n sagainst North Vietnam ended,and that general military de-escalation in South Vietnamcould be one item on the agenda.

But they also said the NorthVietnamese still insisted the ces-sation of bombing be uncondi-tional and turned down the U.S.demand that they not take ad-vantage of any such cessationby stepping up infiltration intoSouth Vietnam.

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A 21-page statement by Me-Namara to the committee wasreleased at the Pentagon.

It said that "Shortly be-fore"the engagement the administra-tion received "an Intelligencereport of a highly classified andunimpeachable nature" stalingthat "North Vietnamese navalforces Intended to attack theMaddox and Turner Joy."

Later, he .said, an intelligencereport was received saying thatwnn Vietnamese naval forces"had reported they were in-volved- in nn cngHgcment." Af-ter the U.S. .ships reported theyhud sunk two and possibly threeof the attacking craft, Me-Namara said Washington re-ceived nn intelligence reportsaying North Vietnamese navalforces had rc|M>rtcd losing twovessels in the engagement.

Son. J.W. Fuibrlght, D-Ark.,chairman of the committee, has

tee before taking ovi-r March1 as president of the WorldBank, said all information es-tablished "beyond a doubt" thatthe destroyers had been at-tacked before Johnson orderedretaliatory air raids againstN o r t h Vietnamese- FT boatbuses.

MeNamara confirmed an car-iii'r report by Sen. Kugciie J.McCarthy, D Minn., that the twodestroyers had been operatingcloser to lh« North Vietnamese*>ttn**r* lit**** K *«* (!***•

But MeNamara said at thelime of the nttnck the NorthVietnamese claimed only athit-u-inilo territorial limit.

He said the U.S. destroyerMaddox, involved in the initialattack, Aug. 2, 1904, was underorders to .stay eight miles fromtht> coast and no closer thanfour miles to any off-shore is-land. He said that on Aug. 4,the day of the second attack,

A ncwsma* looks at a picture distributed byNorth Korean representatives at a Moscow «rws

conference, uid to show UK: captain of the Pueblosigning * coMfcwioN. (AP Rcdiopnoto)

P24S?JES5 Chaplain Killed<CoaUfturd Fr»m Page 1)Washington, called attention toU.S. statements of Saturday amiSunday saying that any move topunish the crewmen would be"a deliberate aggravation of analready serious .situation."

llf> Ihnn ui»nl nn In any thateven Ihe "contemplation of suchaction" by North Korea con-stituted such H-;»i-Hvalion,

Indications that tin; prisonersmight be tried as criminalscame first in a North Koreanbroadcast Friday. It was con-tained in the text of an allegedconfession signed by all crewmembers In which they de-scribed themselves as "crimi-nals caught in the very act ofespionage."

ing mission when the incidentoccurred. Sen. Wayne Morse.P-Ore., has cited Ihe possibi-lity the enemy torpedo boatsmay have connected the Mad-dox with a South Vietnameseraid on an island in the area afew dayi previously.

McNamara. making his finalappearance before the commit-

Turner Joy wore instructed toremain 11 miles from the coast.He said till these instructionswere followed.

MeNamara said it was "mon-strous" for anyone to insinuatethat the U.S. Government some-how "induced" the Aug. 4 inci-dent as an excuse for the airstrikes.

1IIC VtMIICHSIOII • MIIU Hilt 111Korea had the right to try midpunish the men.

McClosfccy wpnrtwl lit1 wasunable to suy whether the UnitedSlates, in Hit; secivl talks it hasheld with North Koreans at Pan-in unjoin, has formally conveyeda similar warning against anyattempt to try or punish thePueblo crewmen.

(CoHtlmed From Pi«e 1)extended his year-long tour InVietnam.

He took his extension leave inhis ancestral homeland of Ire-land, which was practicallywritten on ms smiling lace.

They were expecting him toleave his post at Hue and take adesk job at Da .Nang. His re-placement was actually on theway up the day Father Me-Gonigal headed for Ihe northside of the Perfume River,where the battle for the Citadelwas raging.

"There was no Catholic priestwith the 1st Battalion of the 5thMarines who were assaulting»»*c W»«u.> aitu uu- laitin vtcimcu

to go," said Dr. Stephen Bernie,an Army doctor from Dayton,Ohio, who had traveled fre-quently with the prie«t.

Father McGonigal had beenangrily walking the advisorycompound for three days beforehe joined the battle, o.-dered bythe compound commander tostay put.

The priest finally wangled hisway to join the unit with whichhe had never before served.

"He rarely stayed hi-ro morethan two days In a row." Berniesaid.

• He was stuck up nonh wiicnthe compound was hit on Jan. 31and he came bsek with a Viet-namese virburnc unit and madehis own way across the river.Nobody was getting across theriver at that time but FatherMcGonigal managed. He had away about him."

"He wanted to be in the field,that was all he wanted," said asergeant who knew him well.

"Conducting Mass two or threetlm^s it Wfflr in Ih" hoa/taunr.tcrs wasn't his idea of his job."

The'Jesuit father's previoustrips had taken him to many hotspots—including the Marine for-tress at Con Tliicn.

He was killed Sunday, a coldand misty day, beside the fieldsoldiers he loved.

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on how many guns were spot-ted.)

Elsewhere, government andU.S. soldiers fought fur controlof three key cities — Hue onthe northern coast, Pltan Thieton the Central Coast and SongBe along the Cambodian border.

North Vietnamese gunnersthrew 290 mixed mortar and ar-tillery ruuails into Allied posi-tions along Uie demilitarizedzone Monday, U.S. spokesmenreported, and also hit a civilianvillage near the U.S. Marinebase at Dong Ha. Five civilianswere killed and 33 were wound-ed.

Saigon was tense amid re-ports the Communists were

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gearing for another massivethrust against the capital ciiyin the wake of their Tct offen-sive. So far, the governmentsaid, the offensive has cost theCommunists more than 36.000men dead.

South Vietnam's police andsoldiers went on spsrial alert.An official memorandum toldthem to be "prepared and vigi-lant for another Communistground attack" and said it mostlikely would come late Tuesdayor early Wednesday.

A captured Viet Cong docu-ment boasted the second waveof Communist attacks would"level" Saigon and told Com-munists in a province south ofthe capital to move their rela-tives out of the city.

The Saigon curfew was strict-ly enforced. All civilians wereoff the streets at 7 p.m. A fewfamilies living on the outskirts

of town had moved in with rela-tives in the city, saying theyhad heard the attack was com-ing.

Reports filtered through townthat Viet Cong propagandistswere spreading leaflets whichs a i d the Communists werepoised and ready. U.S. intelli-gence put elements of threeCommunist divisions "withinreach" of Saigon, some of them30 miles away.

Communist soldiers dug into agraveyard on the eastern sub-urbs fought off two battalionsof South Vietnamese Rangersand fired back at diw-hnmbingwarplanes w i t h antiaircraftguns.

Viei Cong guerrillas held offthe advancing Rangers withshoulder-fired rockets and ma-chineguns and killed three anilwounded 12, UPI correspondentMat Gibson said.

In the Go Vap northern sub-urb. Communist snipers andmortarmen launched an after-dark assault on a small militiaoutpost. The government irre-gulars fought off their assailantsunder an umbrella of illumina-tion flares.

For the third day, an estimat-ed two companies of Commu-nists held the little village ofTan Tliui about three milesnorthwest of Tan Son Nhut, thearea from where Communistrocket barrages against thebase have been fired.

Vietnamese Marines reportedeasy going around the Binh Loibridge connecting Saigon withAmerica's biggest war complexat Bien Hoa and Long Binh af-ter two days of fighting thatcost the Communists 142 menkilled and the government 14killed and 34 wounded.

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