EXTENDED ANOTHER FIVE YEARS
On May 24 South Africa's fascist-like government recognized again in its own way the great honor held. by Albert J, Luthuli, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, It served the distinguished 66-year-old African nationalist leader with another banishment order only the day before the previous ‘Five-year banishment order expired,
The new order is even more stringent than the ‘previous One. Luthuli cannot go ‘into the nearby town of Stanger. He must ask permission from the government to attend church,
A former Zulu chief, Luthuli gained fame as the head of the African Nationalist Congress party, South Africa's oldest black political movement, now banned “Yor its opposition to the segregationist. policy of apartheid,
SOUTH VIETNAMESE GUERRILLAS SCORE VICTORIES
The official view in Washington about the dirty war started by President Kennedy in South Vietnam is at present gloomy. U.S. commentators report that the reason for-this is. the "deteriorating" situation, How much it has "deteriorated" is not easily determined from the guarded reports in the American press...
& ~ More specific information is ‘available from Hanoi. on May 11, for instance, a Hsinhua dispatch from there reported that in April the National Liberation Front shot down or disabled 45 American ‘planes and hit 47 others, sank seven gunboats and two motorboats, attacked 16 military trains and destroyed 63 armored cars, -
Troops of the puppet South Vietnam government suffered more than 300 casualties, including 12 American "advisers,"
In My Tho province, 60 American planes raided two villages of the Chau Thanh district. Six aircraft were shot down. In retaliation the American planes strafed the village. Three more were shot down and two others damaged. This was a record number since the beginning of the year for planes shot down in a single battle.
Among battles in various areas, a notable one occurred when guerrilla forces attacked a contingent of 1,000 government—led, American-advised troops. Four ‘American. jet “helicopters crashed ‘and two military vehicles were damaged,
On April 26, the liberation forces hit a landing ship on the Ham Luong river, in * Ben Tre province, killing nearly 200 troops on board the ship.
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