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By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON (AP) John- son administration officials say

severe Viet Cong battlefield losses‘ indicate the guerrillas will have to ¢ o.o%e between ‘n- tensifying their war effort. in South Viet Nam or seeking peace

The officials say US. intelli- gence cannot know how debate is-going-in-the inner-councils-at Hanoi and Peking, and therefore they are unwilling to predict which path the Communists will take or just when. They «guess the Communists will pursue their current guerrilla offensive for another couple of months. Howeve., some, things have been happening, the U.S. offi- . @ials say, which indicate that the Communists may want to change their present course The administration sources say:

1 Viet Cong guerrillas suffered very heavy ca ualties two weeks, ago—!,300 dead, six times the} number of South Vietnamese) and Americans ‘killed—and the Communist toll last week will | be even higher after the final count comes in.

2 The Viet Cong losses are not just in large engagements such as the spectacular US

Canada Urged To Join OAS —

BRASILIA ‘CP President Castello Branco of Brazil has urged Canada to join. the. Or- ganization of American States.

Branco said Friday in-an in-_ terview with The Canadian Press

“I do believe Canada should

join the OAS. Through its politi- cal and cultural organization {t could make an important con- tribution.”’ : “He safd his government” (9) particularly interested in at: tracting Canadian investment here and in increasing trade be- tween Canada and Brazil.

Branco recalled the closé Ca- ‘nadian and Brazilian association during the Second World War which “has continued up till the’ present day.” “

_ New Sleeping ~ | Sickness Cases Found In Alta.

EDMONTON (CP)—Two mew suspected cases of a form of slenping sickness in humans m

_ Alberta were .reported Saturday bringing the total to six in the last week.

In Sakatchewan 17 suspected cases were in hospital at. Re-

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Sleepin sickness {s suspected in the d th a week ago of. a two-mont: old baby at Regina. The las to the lisease in Alberta was at Banff two vears ago

Health officials in both prov- inces have. preditted colder weather promises to reduce the mosquito population, thus cut- tik” Chances fof a severe out-_ break of the disease. «

—Negro Shot In Hollywood

LOS ANGELES iff's officers say a 26-year-old

Negro was shot to death early ,

Sunday as he sat on a bus-stop| bench-in-west Hollywood: j

He. was James Elwood Hend- |

erson of Los Angeles.

Lieut. Luther Lanier said: ~. | &

“Whether it was an aftermath or had any connection at all with no way to know at this point.

* Apparently he had got off work and was waiting for a bus. Peo- ple thought they heard a car. backfiring. He fell off the bench, | shot near the heart.” |

Lanier said no witnesses to) the gunfire had been found, ‘‘so | we don't know whether he was ehot at from a car, or what.”

Man On Moon Seen By 1968

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)—James E. Webb, administrator of the United States space program, said Saturday that “very great | success” ‘in ground-testing pro- | grams means the U.S. could | send a man to the moon by late 1968. ~ ;

“But the only sensible thing to say is 1969," Webb told re- | porters at the mission control | centre here. He declined to say | that the U.S. is ahead of sched- | ule but said he has ‘‘great con-. fidence’’ that an American will de on the moon in this decade, |

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marine VictOty us vou sam vous are occurring in hundreds .i small engagements too, For in- stance a South Vietnamese force Aug. 13, following up a B-52 bomber striker, killed 31 Viet the cost of only nine wounded.

3 South Vietnamese morale is clearly on the'rise, and so arr reports of lopsided victories over the” guerrillas in numerous engagements,

4._The Communists _hdéd__been expected to move into a new strategy, employing large units in conventional-type military at- tacks, With the advent of the current monsoon season. But Viet Cong propaganda- is not now talking of victory this year

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SAIGON (AP) The Viet Cong guerrillas struck at Pou Ching, a dozen miles from

Saigon Sunday. They attacked a South’ Vietnamese platoon, flicting heavy casualties.

U'S. “Army airborne troops

completed a road-clearing op-

eration in South Viet Nam's central highlands but made no contact with Viet Cong forces.

On Van Tuong peninsula, U:S. marines killed three more Viet Cong. apparently stragglers from the three-day battle last week that headed off an attack on the marine air base at Chu Lai. :

U.S. air. action against North Viet the bombing of a: hydro dam and other strategic points. All planes were reported to have returned safely. :

The action outside Saigon in- volved about two companies of Viet Cong, perhaps 200 men, who ambushed a government platoon. A U.S. military spokes- man said government casualties were nigh He gave no num.-. hers” Vie known.

AMBUSHED VIET CONG

Closer to Saigon, a popular force; or «civilian Militia, unit

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Greek Premier - Sees:Crisis End

ATHENS (Reuterss) —~ Greek Premier Flia - Tsirir kos ex

'n | pressed confidence Sunday that | meeting both. provinces and killed sev-| Parliament. would give him a'hours- before Parliament meets’ eral. The disease, which’ can be vote of confidence this week and to debate the confidence motion. by_mesquitees.. generally -end-the crisis-which -has—reigned me: i mkos is

since the ouster of Premier, George Papandreou last July 15. Some observers believed th pro - Papandreou riots which swept Athens Friday night,

rested, might influence some members of Parliament to back Tsirimokos as a reaction against mob rule.

Others said, however, Tsirt- mokos _would_not.. gain the -ma- jority -he--needs —to--reniain—in

office. Papandreou predicted Saturday the Tsirimokos gov- ernment would ‘die within 10 days.’ ;

Tsirimokos replied “those who

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sosceeaay) MEE @icaecnn nave &@- tually dropped below the com-. parable 1964 and 1963 raids and! the guerillas instead are resort- | ing to more terrorist attacks! . |

On .the diplomatic front. the. United States is conducting a! substantial effort to brief for- | eign governments on the Viet Nam situation. U.S. officials es-' timate some 6 to 70 countries now support the US. position. Washington plans--to’ brief the governments on Viet Nam-again in advance of the United Na- tions General Assembly session Starting. next month.

So far the Communists have not. signalled an ~ interest in peace negotiation, the adminis- tration officials add.

e Inflicts, vt Losses

ambushed an unknown number of Viet Cong Saturday night, killing one of the guerrillas and seizing ‘one machine - gun. No government lossés were re- ported

In other action, the Viet Cong destroyed a government watch- tower 85 miles south of Saigon in Cai Doi, Phong Dinh. prov- ince. Military spokesmen _re- ported heavy government cas ualties and no Viet Cong losses. |

A task force of the U:S. 10th | Airborne Brigade completed a two-day sweep in the Cam Ranh Bay area, 170 miles north of Saigon. No enemy contact was reported.

On the Van Tuong Peninsula, U.S. marines and. South Vietna- mese troops worked toward the South China Sea. continuing Mopping-up operations in the battle that routed the Viet Cong’s Ist Regiment,

A marine spokesman reported marine “units” had encountered “light to moderate’ Viet Cong resistance on the peninsula Sat- urday in clearing out tunnel

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'rillas. The spokesman said that .in__addition_to—three—guerrillas + killed, three were wounded and . 22 suspected Viet Cong were be jing detained..

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rience deep disappointment,” He ‘has ordered 4. cabinet for Tuesday, a few i the secon mat chosen by 25-year-old King Con- stantine ‘in an attempt to end the crisis which began when Papandreou was ousted after he sought to displace a right-wing defence minister in order to purge right-wing military offi- cers.

The king's first choice to re- place Papandréou, parliamen- tary Speaker Georges Athana- Siadis Novas, failed fo win a majority in Parliament. Papan- dreou, whose Centre Union party won a majority in the

most recent election, demanded tion in the economy the impe-.

rialist doubt that the cabinet will win elections called, but the king re- the class interests and selfish

a vote of confidence will expe-;

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ment which ended Saturday. The fish was caught by Dr. Murray Newman of Vancouv-

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ganda which claims that capi- getting t 1 talism and socialism are vari- .living conditions of the working lags sharply behind the rates of = eties | civilization and that the proc- less

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_CANADA PLACES“THIRD. IN TUNA MATCH

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY,

AUGUST 23, 1965.

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| Gemini 5 Looking Good

To Complete Eight Days

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CHRISTOPHER C. Kraft,

“the flight. Dr. Charles A flight director of Gemini 5, Berny, MSC medical director, right, reports ata press brief- left, and Lt. Gen. Leighton I. ing that all is going well with Davis, chief of recovery, for-

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ces, listen. Kraft told the news- men the astronauts were per- forming experiments just ae originally scheduled.

By ARTHUR EDSON

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) — Gor- don Cooper broke his personal record in outer space Sunday ‘might as America’s Gemini 5 astronauts struggled with a common earthly problem: Wea- riness from lack of sleep.

At 1138 p.m. ADT Cooper and Charles Conrad had com:- ‘pleted 23 orbits. | Each trip around the world takes about 94 minutes and 30 | seconds.

Although the present go-ahead jis only for another 24 hours, |flight director Christopher C. Kraft said confidently:

“I don’t see anything that would stop us from eight days, at this moment.”

During the 22nd orbit, Cooper surpassed his old mark of 34

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set in 1963.

| On this second day of what could be man’s longest venture into outer space one important

change was made in the flight;

Typhoon Lucy |

Kremlin Denies Closing

Of Gap With Capitalism

MOSCOW (AP)—The Kremlin, geoisie which is in power. This|

denied Sunday capitalism and intervention in the economy communism are getting more leads ts the further conceptra- alike. tion of these means of produc- Prayda, which speaks for the tion in the hands of this bour- ruling Soviet Communist party, | geoisie, to the strengthening of the two systems remain | their economic domination. irreconcilably different. “The position of the so-called

Inozemtsev—_re--and__more__unstable,”” bourgeois propa- on. “Their living conditions are increasingly like the

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of the same _ industrial | class.

of—development tends. to) them closer together.” “What, growing -similarity of

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evownership MONTREAT, N.C. (AP)=Dr- n_ capitalist ies?”

He made no menti6it the imited introduction of profits in the

leader,” has defended his right to speak out. on the United States involvement in Viet Nam.

Dr. King, head of the Southern

jmist countries. |Christian Leadership Con- TERMED FALSE jference, told a conference on

Inozemtsev said “Western |Sivil righte aed that = propagandists” for the theory Pi good will must use i

insight to help solve issues of the day.

He said the alternative to a

the two systems are get- similar falsely allege that

annihilation.\’ zs

Two deputy sheriffs were seated on the stage at the Mont- reat Assembly grounds of the Southern Presbyterian Church and others stood at the door of the auditorium duting Dr. King's address. They were part lof a security guard ordered after anti-King literature was distributed in the community Friday.

Other deputies and state pa- trol_cars-escorted Dr. King the 15 miles to the Asheville Air- port where he boarded a pri » | vate plane for his home in At-

has nothing in common the old capitalism.” “In expanding state interven- |

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MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Mews agency Tass has blamed Gemini 5's problems on the | haste of U.S. scientists ordered

to “beat the Soviet Union at any price” in sending up the longest-

“The flight program directors have been given the task to ‘beat the Soviet Union’ at any price with regard to duration of the orbital flight.” the agency said Sunday in a dispatch irom its correspondent in New York, Leonid Ponomariov.

It said the launching involved “haste and definite risk’ be- cause the power-generating sys- tem aboard the U.S. space cap- sule “‘was never tested in ac- tual .space flight conditions.”

The new system was used | amyway because it was Jighier than the conventional power- (CP Wirephote) | supply system, which was too

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The United States won the match with a catch of three tuna.

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J i iddle state is becoming more capitalism or humane consider-— An article by Soviet econo- mi red weat,sti atthe. houtgeoinie, hat| ‘rather by stubborn class strug-

he Martin Luther King Jr., saying. —-he-is—“more-than-a—civil-rights;

negotiated” settlement “could be”

slames Problem On US. Space Haste

Jasting manned orbital mission. |

“Millions of farmers ‘ing bankrupt. Ever-

inside the bourgeoisie itself.

“The growth of wages “in } in no way he improvement of

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increase of labor productivity.”

Dr. King Defends Rights To,Speak Out On Viet Nam _

jlanta, Ga., after his appearance

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“There were no incidents. — In his address, Dr. King said there can be no divorce be- tween civil rights and war. DENIES BEING GAGGED Later at a press conference he was asked: “Has the presi- dent told you to refrain from making statements on _ V iet Nam?”

Dr- King replied that he “ad talked with President Johnson by telephone Friday about the

Los. Angeles.Negro._riots..and_the

war in Viet Nam.

‘He (the president) never asked me not to speak out on Viet Nam; he just explained his position,” the civil rights leader said.

Dr. King, who returned from Los Angeles Friday, said the riots there weré not as racial as some persons feel.

“It was a class revolt of un- derprivileged against priy- ileged,”’ he said.

heavy for the Gemini 5. flight, Tass said

“The present thrust of Ameri- can boosters and the volume of the astronauts’ capsule are ab- solutely inadequate for instal- ling ahd orbiting a dependable, tested power supply system,” the dispatch said.

At the space centre in Howus- ton, Tex. John Hodge, mission contro! flight officer for Gemini 5, said there were no orders to “beat the Russians at any price.”

Asked at a press conference about the Tass report, he said:

“That's not true. I don't be lieve we are doing that. I know very well we weren't told to.

“We were ready to launch. This. kind of thing can happen to ‘any. piece of equipment, no matter how many times you teat it.”

‘S are £9 be moving at 12 miles an hour “increasing ‘and is expected to hit Tokyo stratification is being observed | around 2 a.m. today.

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Slams Japan with a satellite ‘has been the TOKYO (AP) Typhoon Lucy major disappointment so far.

slammed into Japan's Shizuoka CANCEL RENDEZVOUS

prefecture state at the tip of| For a short period Sunday, Izu Peninsula, 80 miles eouth- space officials considered send- |west of-here Sunday with maxi- ing Cooper and Conrad chasing mum winds of 77 miles: an hour. after the now dark and silent | Accompanied by heavy rains, 76-pound satellite which they |Lucy was reported by the Na- ejected into orbit from their tional Meteorological Agency te spacecraft Saturday. Then au- | thorities decided to postpone the ‘attempt for several days. jmally the idea was dropped al-

‘hours-and 20 minutes in ‘space™

inability to rendezvous _

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Pilots Weary _ But No Problem

tagether, on the grounds that # might use up so much power it could cut short the life of the flight.

Instead,~ Kraft told a mid- afternoon press conference, a theoreticalesatellite may be set up, and Cooper and Conrad will have a go at manoeuvring their spacecraft toward this phantom.

“‘It's°very possible that we can do that twice,’’ Kraft said. ‘‘We think that would he extremely good practice for us.”

There were . minor worries about the astronauts not being able to sleep, but Cooper had a simple explanation:

“You guys keep giving something to do.”

Dr. Charles Berry, space cen- tre medical director, said the astronauts’ health was fine, but he wished they had slept more.

“We don’t want them to get really tired this early,” he said.

SNAP PICTURES

There were these develop- ments in the space picture: —The astronauts phote _ graphed ‘land. areas in the | United States and Fast Africa, | took infra-red readings on the | moon and the star Vega, photo | @raphed the moon, tested vi- | ion with a hinocular-type de | vice into which small eve charts were inserted, and took pictures .of cloud ssystems, —Space officials mounted a duplicate satellite on a tower at Cape Kennedy, Fla, and turned on its radar beacon as

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If No Fall Election PM Sees Only 1967

By MICHAEL GILLAN | HM Mr.

OTTAWA (CP)—Prime’ Min- now {is more accurate; a dect- | \ister Pearson’has made it plain | sion not to hold an-election this. ithat when it~comes to a ’geh- fall could push the’ next vote

Pearson's estimate |

-eral -election he sees only two into the fall of 1967. The prime

minister has not mentioned it, sbut most of 1967 is filled with mefiviti hebrati

‘choices—a vote this fall or

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none until 1967. f

Mr. Pearson —says_the® changes “involved” in “revamping centennial. electoral machinery following the proclamation of new ridings,

_under redistribution, expected about mid-April of rule ‘out an ‘election between then; and 1967.

But his contention is being | challenged by political oppon-!

By JOHN BARBOUR HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) —.For the men—who—watch—the—hourly.

ents who say an election would be possible much earlier on the -new_electoral_maps_that_will re-

-flect.. the —-shift---in-—population--fortunes~ofGemini 5,-it was an from rural to urban areas re- unexplainable but pleasant sur- corded in the 1961 ‘census. prise Sunday.

Less than 24 hours before, the spacecraft. was_limping..alang—-on reduced electrical power — its bid -for a world - record eight days in space in danger of an early end. _- 4 ‘

But now the electricity-pro- ducing fuel cell—operating with less than one-tenth the fuel pres- sure it was built- for—was gen- erating at near capacity. No one could guess why.

The fuel cell blends charged atoms of hydrogen and oxygen, forming water and harvesting electrons to produce a current. But, shortly after blast-off Sat- e—fell

urday, the oxygen_pressur and the fuel cell seemed d d

Present maps are based on the 1951census. eee Richard Thrasher, national directér of the Progressive Conservative party, called Mr. . |Pearson’s argument ‘‘a lot of nonsense” pnd said an election would be” possible in June,_ 1966, under the new system. ~“It's just an excuse Mr. Pearson is using to get around ithe argument that he would. be irresponsible to call an_ elec- | tion’ before redistribution is lete,”” Mr. Thrasher said. According to the legislation setting up the redistribution commissions in each province,

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Gemini 5 approached on the 17th orbit. The astronauts re- ported they picked up th satellite with their radar and kept, up with it all the way: in, good news for future flights. Any man on the moon must be able to rendezvous with a mother spaceship # he's to return to earth.

—The power troubles, which threatened .to. ground the

| astronauts Saturday after six

orbits, have. apparently -heen. -- licked. Once falling at a dan- gerous rate, the power now has stabilized, and even gone up alittle. —The—Soeviet—news agency Tass said U:S: spacemen were (Continue? on page 3 Col. 4

Pesky Fuel Cell Proves Pleasant Surprise Finally

neers were frankly puzzled by the tolerance the fuel ceil showed—for—the—wide—range~ in fuel pressures.

With the oxygen pressure ag about a tenth of normal, it was still cooking out about 20 amps -as—much—as~ an average household might draw at. an average time of day, with lights, television, re- frigerator and other small ap pliances running.

It was enough to reinstate most of the normal flight plan and aim for eight days in orbit.

Meanwhile, the great fuel ceil mystery was still under investi- gation; on the ground,. duplicate fuel cells were being run through duplicate conditions toe see why the fuel cell was operat- ing so well on a ‘lean diet of Oxy zen:

the reports on new ridings. must be. handed in by next Jan. 20.

There are provisions for ap- peals by MPs through debates ‘in the Commons and this could prolong redistribution becoming official until mid-April. :

When piloting the legislation through the Commons last year, Transport Minister Pick- ersgill said the political parties would need about six months to reorganize in the new electoral districts. Yi

On this basis. an election in the late fall of 1966 would be

to starve for its vital fuel.

The oxygen, stored at 297 de- gress below zero as a kind of snowy slush, wasn't thawing fast enough to produce enough gas pressufe to feed the fuel cell efficiently.

PRESSURE: DROPS

The pressure had fallen from -Something like 859 pounds a square-inch to a mere 55 pounds a@ square inch. At ~20 pounds a square inch, engineers ‘ would have to write the fuel cell off as a total loss.

But suddenly the pressure

possible. stabilized and through the night began to build slowly. Engineers

reckoned it would warm up on

INSIDE TODAY its own as it was used. The less | super-cold fue! in the tanks, the

less it would be able to support CHEE sescccese, BD DB its own -d fr i BES. isccssvscgionss. Ul tees: ee ee

By Sunday morning, the oxy- gen pressure was back up to just over: 8) pounds’ a square

Women’s ..sessee0esse0s- 7 inch—but more remarkable was MUUOUNEE coe bicccvsveccks 4 that the fuel cell's electrical pro- ine tees a ; duction was way up, too.,

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Hodge «from the overnight shift ;at Gemini control said the engi-

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PM Hangs Out 4‘ ° . °

Fishing Sign’

VANCOUVER /‘CP) Prime Minister Pearson hung up the “gone fishing’’’ sign this week- end.

He paritcipated in a salmon derby Sunday morning, then went {9 a southern Vancouver Island retreat later for a couple more days of fishing

The relaxed Sunday marked the Pearson's 40th wedding an- nhiversary

The prime minister landed a two-pound Pacific salmon and said he would have it mounted and give it to his wife as an anniversary present.

The prime minister and Mra. Pearson are on a nine-day visit to. British Columbia and Alberta, a visit Mr. Pearson described to laughing. Liberals Saturday = “non-partisan and non-politt- cal.” as

He addressed 150 Liberabe during a busy and varied day that ‘saw him open the Pacifie National Exhibition after a brie4 brush with “ demonstratora,

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