THE BATTALION
Thursday, September 3, 1970
College Station, Texas
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to apprehend 4 Wisconsin fugitives
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THERE WAS apparently some mix-up last night when a student drove down Ross
Street into a recently filled ditch used in the chilled water line construction project. The
right side of the car was dug out to chassis level in an attempt to remove it. Steve Laz
zaro, Houston junior, examines the problem.
Two troop units in Vietnam
to be deactivated in weeks
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(iP)—Two American combat
brigades will be disbanded w’ith-
in the next few w'eeks in a major
cutback of U.S. troops in South
Vietnam, authoritative sources
said Tuesday.
The units being deactivated
are the 199th Light Infantry Bri
gade and the Third Brigade of
the Ninth Infantry Division —
about 10,000 men in all. Both
brigades are in the Third mili
tary region.
The reduction will lower Amer
ican troop strength to 392,300.
Another 8,000 men will have to
be withdrawn in the near future
to meet President Nixon’s fourth
phase withdrawal goal of 384,-
000 men by Oct. 15.
The cutback to be announced
officially in the next day or so,
coincided with two developments:
• A large - scale uprising by
enemy prisoners of war on the
big South Vietnamese PW camp
on Phou Quoc Island in the Gulf
of Siam.
• A combined American and
South Vietnamese force reported
killing 56 Viet Cong troops in a
Major engagement 120 miles
northeast of Saigon.
The clash erupted after South
Vietnamese militia spotted
force of 200 Viet Cong
a
near
Highway 1, which runs along
South Vietnam’s coast.
South Vietnamese regulars
along with American infantry
men reinforced the militiamen to
route the Viet Cong with the help
of helicopter gunships and bomb
ers.
One U.S. helicopter was shot
down and U.S. casualties were
one killed and four wounded, the
American command reported.
South Vietnamese casualties
were termed light.
In the revolt on Phu Quoc
Island, 40 PWs escaped from a
work detail Monday after killing
a South Vietnamese guard and
wounding a second. In an ensu
ing gun battle, nine of the es
capees were killed and two
wounded.
A South Vietnamese military
spokesman said 29 were still at
large late Tuesday and military
patrols were scouring the island’s
jungle-covered mountains for
them.
The spokesman could not say
whether the escaped prisoners
were North Vietnamese or Viet
Cong. The PW camp, the largest
operated by the South Vietna
mese, holds about 25,000 of the
total of 36,000 PWs in Allied
hands.
In the Cambodian war, a gov
ernment attempted for a second
day to recapture the key town of
Srang, but it ran into stiff ene
my resistance and sustained seri
ous casualties.
Entrenched enemy forces hit
the Cambodian troops with mor
tars, rockets, recoilless rifle and
machine-gun fire to stop the gov
ernment advance.
Cambodian casualties in two
days of fighting at Srang were
about 25 dead and 50 wounded.
Commenting on the troop with
drawal schedule, some American
field commanders feel that Viet-
namization has made the most
rapid progress in the thiid mili
tary x-egion, they claim that the
enemy is incapable of launching
large-scale ground offensives in
the region because of the Allied
drives into Cambodia last May
and June.
Only those troops in the two
brigades being deactivated who
have served 10 months or more
of their normal 12-month tour
will return to the United States,
sources said.
Others who still have a major
portion of their 12-month tour to
serve will be reassigned to other
units in Vietnam and troops from
these other units who have
served the major portion of their
tour will go home instead.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
ordered a nationwide search
Wednesday for young men
sought in connection with the
Aug. 24 bombing of the Army
Mathematics Research center at
Madison, Wis.
The FBI identified the fugi
tives as Karleton Lewis Arm
strong, 22, Dwight Alan Arm
strong, 19, his brother; David
Sylvan Fine, 18, and Lee Fred
erick Burt, 22, a summer stu
dent at the University of Wis
consin, where the research cen
ter was located.
Fine was described by the FBI
as student night editor of the
university newspaper, the Daily
Cardinal.
The Milwaukee Journal report
ed that two Madison brothers
who admire Cuban Prime Minis
ter Fidel Castro were being
sought in the bombing.
A 33-year-old physicist, Dr.
Robert E. Fassnacht, was killed
and three other persons were in
jured in the early morning blast.
The four were charged with
sabotage, destruction of govern
ment property and conspiracy in
connection with the bombing.
The FBI said the elder Arm
strong brother had formerly at
tended the university and de
scribed his younger brother as a
high school dropout.
Fine was identified by the FBI
as a former staff member of the
“Heterodoxical Voice,” a publi
cation of the radical Students for
a Democratic Society at the Uni
versity of Delaware. Fine was
the only one of the four linked
by the FBI to the SDS.
The FBI announcement said
that Sterling Hall “for several
years has been the target for
demonstration activity by radi
cal groups led by the Students
for a Democratic Society which
protested it as a link of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin with the
federal government.
“The Students for a Demo
cratic Society vowed to use all
means at their disposal to force
the Army Mathematics Research
Center off the campus,” the FBI
said.
Hoover said he has ordered a
nationwide manhunt for the four,
who he said should be considered
armed and dangerous.
The FBI said the older Arm
strong brother was last known
to be living in Madison and had
been employed at a variety of
jobs including some time as a
security guard.
The FBI provided these physi
cal descriptions of the four men
sought:
Karleton Lewis Armstrong —
six feet, two inches tall, 185
pounds, stocky build, brown hair
and brown eyes and receding
hairline.
Dwight Alan Armstrong—five
feet, ten inches tall, 165 pounds,
slender build, long shaggy brown
hair and brown eyes.
David Sylvan Fine—five feet,
five inches tall, 140 pounds, dark
brown hair and brown eyes.
Lee Frederick Burt—five feet,
eleven inches tall, 185 pounds,
muscular build, long brown hair
and hazel eyes; reportedly wears
a beard and mustache.
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White house keeping watch
on Mideast infractions
TP)—The Western White House
kept a careful watch Wednesday
on the touchy issue of Egyptian
infraction of the Middle East
cease-fire pact and there was no
denial that violations have oc
curred.
Washington sources have re
ported that t h e United States
has firm evidence of violations.
Israel has charged repeatedly,
and Egypt denied, that there
nave been violations. Both the
Western White House and the
State Department in Washing
ton have no public comment on
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But Presidential Press Secre
tary Ronald L. Ziegler did say
that “our surveillance is very
complete” and “we have been in
diplomatic contact with all par
ties.”
He repeated previous Admin
istration assurances, based on
guarantees in the cease-fire
agreement, that “we will not al
low in military situation in the
Middle East to tilt or become
unbalanced.”
Nixon’s only announced ap
pointment for the day was with
former astronaut Frank Borman,
who reported to the President
after a round-the-world mission
that took him to 12 nations, in
cluding three Communist nations
Poland, Yugoslavia and the So
viet Union. Borman said he got
sympathetic reactions but no
breakthrough or significant
progress on the question of re
leasing U.S. prisoners of war in
Vietnam.
But Borman said the leaders
of the dozen nations promised to
take new initiatives on behalf of
the POWs held by North Viet
nam. Borman arrived at the
Western White House from Hong
Kong after a 25-day mission.
Nixon spent much of the day
consulting various staff mem
bers and cleaning up some paper
work.
One result was a formal state
ment lauding news media cover
age, national and local, of the
school desegregation process in
the South.
Nixon said hundreds of com
munities have made the transi
tion peacefully and successfully
and he wanted to commend the
nation’s press and its radio and
television media for their cover
age.
The White House said the de
segregating seems to be proceed
ing in an orderly way.
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