May Replace Westmore land
Abrams Says Yiet Cong Capable
WASHINGTON <A>> _ Army
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams left
for Vietnam Wednesday night
saying the enemy “has the capa
bility to conduct offensive opera
tions whenever he feels the time
is right.”
Abrams, top deputy to Gen.
William C. Westmoreland and
rated the most likely to replace
him as war commander in July,
spoke briefly with newsmen as he
completed a two-day secrecy-
cloaked round of talks with
President Johnson and other top
leaders.
Asked whether Johnson indi
cated he would succeed Westr
moreland, the 63-year-old Abrams
replied tersely:
“The White House speaks for
itself.”
EARLIER the White House
press secretary had said there
had been no discussion about
Abrams’ future during several
talks the four-star general had
with Johnson, the National Se
curity Council and senior military
and civilian leaders.
In the planeside intervew,
JOE BUSER
Buser Named
Rudder Aide
Joe Buser was named special
assistant to the president of Tex
as A&M Wednesday.
The 30-year-old journalist has
been assistant executive director
of A&M’s Association of Former
Students since 1966.
A&M President Earl Rudder
said the new staff member would
assist him with university pro
grams involving relations with
high schools and junior colleges
and other special projects.
"Buser has served Texas A&M
with distinction as a student and
a member of the professional
staff,” Rudder said.
A 1959 graduate of A&M, Bu
ser joined the university staff in
1962 as publications editor. He
earned a national prize from the
American College Public Rela
tions Association in 1963.
During his three-year Air Force
tour he was officer-in-charge of
an Armed Forces Radio and Tele
vision station in Newfoundland
and directed base public rela
tions.
Chosen for inclusion in the 1968
edition of “Outstanding Young
Men of America,” Buser has di
rected mail campaigns for the
alumni group, coordinated na
tional programs and edited the
Texas Aggie.
Abrams said that although the
Communists have the ability to
launch new offensives, “I don’t
know about” the magnitude of
such ability.
Military and civilian officials
have been forecasting that the
enemy will attempt another
thrust like the Tet offensive
which rocked American and Viet
namese forces and dealt what
some leaders have acknowledged
were serious psychological and
other setbacks.
HOWEVER, Abrams denied
that the American and allied
troops had lost the initiative in
the war.
Asked what he foresees as the
course of the war in the months
ahead, Abrams rapped out:
“I look for more fighting.”
He refused to comment on the
possibility that there will be any
change of basic U. S. war strate
gy as the result of some high-
level studies which have been
under way since the Tet offen
sive broke in late January.
Critics have been mounting an
increasing attack on U.S. strate
gy, chiefly the “search and de
stroy” sweeps basic to Westmore-
It’s enough to give an old cow
hand a conniption fit.
Not only are there weird crit
ters roaming the Texas ranges,
there’s going to be a new kind of
roundup with radio tracking
equipment, tranquillizer guns —
and even electronic computers.
This Texas-styled Daktari is
being planned by Texas A&M
University’s Wildlife Science De
partment to study the “exotics,”
those African, Indian and Asian
animals which have been import
ed by ranchers.
Dr. James Teer, associate pro
fessor of wildlife science, noted
Texas ranchers have experiment
ed with many different types of
animals here since the 1920’s. He
said some six varieties have
flourished into herds and are be
ing used in sport hunting pro
grams.
“THEY INCLUDE the Nilgai
antelope, Axis deer and Black
Buck antelope from India, the
Sika deer from the Orient, the
Barbary Sheep or Aoudad from
North Africa and the Mouflon
sheep from Mediterranean re
gions,” Teer said.
“There is very little sound bio-
logical information available
about these animals,” he ex
plained. “We know virtually noth
ing about food habits, reproduc
tive capacity, relationships to na
tive game, potential for sport
hunting or value as food.”
Using part of $1.4 million
grant by the Caesar Kleberg
Foundation to the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, Dr.
Teer and Ernest Abies, an assist
ant professor and radio tracking
specialist, have set up projects to
study the Nilgai antelope, Axis
deer and Black Buck antelope.
“WE WILL BE trying to get
the goods on their life and times
—their natural history, yield,
competition with other animals,
impact on the native biota—every
land’s war of attrition against
main force Communist units.
ASKED how many more U.S.
troops are needed in Vietnam
and how many he expected to get,
Abrams responded—not with a
comment on U.S. troop numbers
—but by saying he had been here
to report on the performance of
the South Vietnamese armed
forces and plans to improve their
equipment.
The planeside interview was
the only occasion during Abrams’
brief visit in which a newsman
WAUSAU, Wis. UP) — Richard
M. Nixon said Wednesday he
will issue a statement on Viet
nam Sunday and discuss the
United States engaging in “di
plomacy at the highest level”
with the Soviet Union.
Nixon told newsmen the state
ment, to be prepared for radio
aspect of their ecology and biolo
gy,” Teer said.
The transmitters will beep sig
nals so the animal’s position can
be triangulated. Activity in rela
tion to weather, time of day, sea
son, size of range, vegetation,
water, etc. will be plotted on de
tailed maps, he added.
Much of the work of plotting
the animal movements in time
and space will be done by a com
puter, the assistant professor
noted.
“I’ve done it by hand and, be
lieve me, it takes a while,” he
observed.
Airplanes and helicopters also
will be used for broad surveys of
herd activities.
Ramsey Speaks
To Social Club
The A&M Women’s Social Club
will present “Foods with a Flair,”
featuring Gerald Ramsey, direc
tor of food service at SMU, at
3 p.m. Finday in the MSC ball
room.
Ramsey is the author of “Morn
ing, Noon and Night,” a complete
menu cookbook for all occasions.
The program will feature color
slides of table settings and floral
arrangements he has created for
parties.
In 1966, Ramsey was selected
by the State Department to help
the Jordan government in a feed
ing program for its national
schools, under sponsorship of the
Agency for International Devel
opment, Food for Peace program.
had an opportunity to question
him.
His arrival Monday night was
kept secret and the administra
tion acknowledged he was here
only after word began to circulate
around Washington, and Abrams
was seen briefly.
At the White House talks,
Abrams spoke particularly about
plans for modernizing and ex
panding the manpower and equip
ment of South Vietnam’s army,
presidential press secretary
George Christian reported.
broadcast, “will cover the problem
of military recommendations that
have been made and problems of
pacification of South Vietnam.”
But, the former vice president
added, it will be “primarily di
rected toward the problem of
diplomacy at the highest level
involving the Soviet Union.”
He declined to elaborate.
Nixon made his comment on
the statement in Madison after
a newsman asked him about re
ports he had been “refining his
comments on Vietnam.”
“OVER A PERIOD of time,
I’ve probably been the adminis
tration’s most consistent critic,”
Nixon said. “This speech will be
along those lines. It will also
give direction.”
Nixon huddled privately in
Madison with Gov. Warren P.
Knowles, then launched a final
drive for votes in Wisconsin’s
April 2 presidential primary.
Nixon told Knowles he was
the first of 26 Republican govern
ors he plans to call on prior to
the GOP national convention in
Miami Beach.
BEFORE THE withdrawal of
Michigan Gov. George Romney
from the Republican contest,
Nixon had planned on concentrat
ing heavily on Wisconsin after
the New Hampshire primary.
However, with Only token op
position on the GOP ballot from
California Gov. Ronald Reagan
and former Minnesota Gov. Har
old Stassen, he has made only
three sorties into the state since
March 12.
But with Sen. Eugene J. Mc
Carthy touring the Republican
heartlands in a frank bid for
crossover votes in his confronta
tion with President Johnson on
the Democratic side, GOP leaders
are mounting a drive to keep
Republican totals up.
REPUBLICAN State Chairman
Ody J. Fish sent a letter to all
of his party’s county chairmen
Tuesday, directing them to wage
a telephone campaign “to get out
the Republican vote and to have
it vote Republican next Tuesday.”
Stassen told newsmen Thurs
day that a poll taken in six state
cities the past two days showed
him running ahead of Nixon for
the first time, 51 per cent to 40
per cent.
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USE FLAME THROWER AGAINST VIET CONG
Flames from a flame-thrower atop an American armored personnel carrier spurt toward
a village located some 15 miles west of Saigon. It was suspected of harboring Viet Cong
guerrillas. The American force, part of operation “Quyet Thang,” was on a sweep when
guerrillas were seen entering the village. (AP Wirephoto)
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