The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 March 1966 — Page 4

4 TIm Daily Banner, GreancasHa, Indiana Tuesday, March 1, 1966

By PHIL UPI Foreign News Analyst The latest United States casualty figures should remove any lingering doubts that the chips are down in Viet Nam. As of the last full week of February, American dead in

the Vietnamese war came to 2,200. At the end of the third week in November, 1965, the figure stood at 1,335. And if further comparisons will help, the 240 Americans killed in that week topped the weekly average for

In Korea and Ml only 'Ahnertean people reeUae the

the war

four shprt of the total in the first whole four of the war in Viet Nam. It was with full knowledge of theee tragic figures that President Johnson has had to make his lonely decisions as they concern U. S. vital interests In Southeast Asia. They become the more meaningful when one studies the dispatches from Saigon saying that top U. S. and Vietnamese officials there now estimate the war at anywhere from another three to seven years. And taken together, it becomes especially important that, even though belatedly, the

tent of their commitment and the nature of this war which extends far beyond Viet Nam. Shorn Vientiane, administrative capital of neighboring Laos, eomes a dispatch that government forces have fallen hack to dofsnstva positions near Attopeu under combined assault by the pro-Gommunist forces of the Taction Pathet Lao and fresh battalions of North Viet-

It is only a few paragraphs long. But in it is the last of the hopes held by Laotian neutralist leaders In 1962 that by comprise they could ensure their tiny country integrity.

And what American over heard of Attopeu? Wall, it’s a provincial capital in southern Laos close to the border with Cambodia. It’s-important to the Communists because it neighbors on the Ho Chi Minh Trail which is the communist supply line for manpower trickling down from North Viet Nam through the Mu Gia Pass along the mountainous spine of Laos into South Viet Nam. From Bangkok Thailand comes another short dispatch. It quotes Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman that Communist infiltrators already have

gained foot holds which threat* en Thailand. Khoman says the Thais already have arrested many Chinese-trained spies infiltrating Thailand’s under-developed northeast Thailand, bordering both Communist China and Laos is a natural target for an extension of the war, The Laos have had more experience with Communist aggression than the Thais and through the failure of the Geneva agreement re-establish-ing Laotian neutrality in 1962 they are beginning to understand the nature of the Red Chinese concept of a “people’s war.”

Per eae thing it has meant conscript labor as coolies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail—Just as in South Viet Nam it has meant conscription into the Viet Cong army. For the Red Chinese this so far has been a cheap war, but it will not be * cheap war if they lose. For they will have lost their ambition to control the destinies of 200 million Southeast Asians.

EGGS AND CHOLESTEROL NEW YORK UPI—A maximum of four eggs per week, in-

cluding those used hi ssdringi may-be ingested in diets that seek to lower blood cholesterol levels, report Dr. Helen B. Brown and associates from the Cleveland Clinic. Reporting in "GP," journal of the American Academy of General Practice, the researchers said they investigated how much cholesterol can be consumed without nullifying the cholesterol-lowering effects of a diet high in polyunsaturated fats. Studies were made with 50 healthy persons fed various cholesterol-lowering diets rich in vegetable oils together with differing daily rations cd eggs.

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