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PAE EME oe 9 SNOT Egg Pet 'THE OSHAWA TiMaS, | Wednesday, June 16, 1965 25 South Viets Not Anxious That U.S. In By MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON (AP--The battle of Dong Xoai has brought the Vi- etnamese war to a_ threshold many South Vietnamese commanders are not anxious to cross--the + Py of Ameri- can units in ba It seems inevitable that U.S. sis the verge of that at , and part of the U.S. 173rd_ Airborne Brigade} 7, to within 2 miles of the! 4 ilies i ey did not go in because slate' Vietnamese generals did not want them. The brake was applied by Brig.-Gen. Cao Van| Vien, commander of the Viet-| namese army's 3rd Corps, wh was responsible for the opera tion. "] think the Viet Cong is de- liberately trying to draw Amer- ican units into this fight," Vien said. ' F A number of top American|? officials agreed. It looked as if): a primary objective of the Viet) % Cong at Dong Xoai was to force) j commitment of the U.S. para-| = troopers to battle and perhaps) ; to inflict enough casualties to) %% make the Americans look bad.| The American commanders seemed ready to take the risk but the South Vietnamese fel the gamble was not worth mak-! ing, that it was better to com- mit their own reserves. Two battalions of South Vietnamese) (ag troops were virtually wiped out at Dong Xoai. a SOVEREIGNTY PROBLEM At the root of South Vietnam-| ese reluctance to see the Amer- icans move into the war more! ' actively is an old bugbear of % South Vietnamese-American re- lations--national sovereignty. Once the Americans commit| #F units to open combat, it will be| i an American war. For all prac- tical purposes, the South Viet- namese command will have to to the foreign ally. American officers: argue that! 4 increased American control will) improve inefficiency and inject) 'gay a new fighting spirit into the exhausted forces now facing the Viet Cong. Many South Vietnamese ar-|§ gue that an American army in| 4 Viet Nam will look too much like a French army and wil turn increasing numbers of) South Vietnamese away from) the -- and toward the! They ool feel the South Viet namese army will tend to shrug its shoulders and say: "Why get killed now? The outcome de- pends on what the Americans) 7 do, not on us?" Cuba Imposes High Cate Rate HAVANA (Reuters) -- The': Cuban government is imposing deliberately exorbitant restaur-| ant prices as a dual-purpose luxury tax to subsidize work-| ers' canteens and fight infla- tion. Prices have doubled, and in: some cases more than tripled, | over pre-revolutionary figures. p One of the first things that |) strikes a visitor to Havana is|/4 the astronomical bill he can run | 4 up for a single meal in any of iy the capital's better restaurants With the peso officially peg-| (ge ged at par with the dollar, a pms steak or other meat course|@ costs between six and eight} 4 pesos. Meat, rationed at three-'¥, quarters of a pound a person a week, costs 60 cents a pound | 7 in Havana shops. 4 A fish dish costs between); four and six pesos and an omel- | # ette three or four pesos. Eggs, | rationed at 10 a month, cost, in |4 the shops, one peso per dozen |! for the largest size. : Tomato soup costs one peso) 4 and 25 cents. Orange juice, a\# thin slice of cheese or a cream| caramel costs one peso. Mighty Danube & A Flood Threat je "NOVI SAD (AP)--Swollen by) days of rain, the mighty Dan: |i 4 ube River threatened disaster in); northeastern Yugoslavia today.| 7 Tens of thousands of volun-| force crumbling dikes. Army! units with fleets of heavy equip-| 7 ment also joined the struggle to hold back the raging flood wa- ters. At Novi Sad, capital of Voj- yodina province, the river al- ready has equalled its all-time high which in 1940 caused cata- strophic floods. Improved flood controls have so far kept the river in check. j A Vatican Denies K Pope's UN Visit K VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Au- thorized officials said today the * ' Vatican secretariat of state has K no information that the Pope is 4 planning a trip to the United Nations, They were asked about published "reports outside Italy that the Roman Catholic pontiff might speak at UN headquar-} ters in New York. K K K A pie a has all DACRON TIES A large selection of New Summer patterns from which to choose. 3 for $4 or 1.47 ea. 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