The Turkish Cypriote who is Vice President of Cyprus urged the United Nations today to take swift action to save the island’s Turkish minority “from complete annihilation.” The appeal of Dr. Fazil Kutchuk came as the Government announced that its forces had overwhelmed Turkish Cypriotes in a day‐long battle in the village of Mallia, in southwest Cyprus. Two Turkish Cypriotes were reported killed and five, including a young girl, were wounded in the Mallia fighting.
Other clashes erupted across Cyprus as a result of the three-day battle in the west coast town of Ktima, a suburb of Paphos, 20 miles from Mallia. There was sporadic shooting in Ktima, where Greek and Turkish Cypriote officials met to strengthen the shaky ceasefire that ended the fighting yesterday. Dr. Kutchuk sent messages to U Thant. Secretary General of the United Nations, and to the foreign ministers of Britain. Greece and Turkey, the three powers that guaranteed the independence of Cyprus under a treaty signed in 1960.
A Government spokesman said Dr. Kutchuk’s annihilation charge was ridiculous. Archbishop Makarios said in a message to Mr. Thant that “every effort is being made to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any act that might worsen the situation in Cyprus.” Archbishop Makarios, a Greek Cypriote, added: “It is regrettable, however, that Turkish extremists are deliberately creating incidents by armed action, endangering public safety and causing friction.”
His message was in reply to one from Mr. Thant appealing for an end to bloodshed on the island. Dr. Kutchuk’s message said: “If an effective United Nations force cannot be dispatched forthwith, we beseech and call upon the guarantor powers to fulfill their treaty obligations and rescue the Turks from the threat of genocide.” That appeared to be an appeal to Turkey to come to the rescue, as the Turks repeatedly have threatened to do unless the bloodshed is ended. Greece has warned that she will oppose any such move by Turkey. A British force is trying to hold back the feuding communities until an international peace force can be organized by Mr. Thant.
For the second day in a row, the Government of Archbishop Makarios accused the British of “protecting the Turkish rebels.” A government statement said British troops were warned to withdraw from Mallia or “an unpleasant situation might arise.” A British Army spokesman in Nicosia emphasized, however, that a platoon rushed to Mallia would continue to try to arrange a cease‐fire. Late in the day came the government’s announcement that Turkish Cypriotes at Mallia had surrendered and turned over their arms.
A Turkish fleet sailed from its base at Iskenderun today and began an exercise in the eastern Mediterranean off the south Turkish coast near Mersin, less than 70 miles from Cyprus. The fleet is composed of 21 warships, including four submarines and one cargo vessel. The ships were not carrying troops, but it was reported from Iskenderun that leave for all army units in the area had been canceled.
A Cambodian military delegation left today for Peking and Moscow. The delegation, led by Lieutenant General Lon NoI, the army commander in chief, has been authorized to purchase arms. Diplomatic sources said the mission had been contemplated for some time but the timing of its departure was meant to underline the dissatisfaction of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia’s chief of state, with the non‐Communist world.
Cambodian demonstrators stoned the United States Embassy in Phnom Penh Wednesday, tore down its flag and set fire to the British Embassy before being dispersed by the police, United Press International reported from the Cambodian capital. Prince Sihanouk accused the United States last night of duplicity in its efforts to arrange a settlement of Cambodia’s border differences with South Vietnam and Thailand. The Cambodian leader rejected the United States’ terms for a four‐power conference that would guarantee the neutrality and territorial integrity of his country. In a broadcast made in the presence of the ruling council the prince accused the United States, South Vietnam, Thailand and also Laos of a plot to partition his nation.
He said he would negotiate guarantees of his frontiers with the North Vietnamese Communists and the pro‐Communist Pathet Lao. He described them as the “future masters of Vietnam and Laos.” The first hint that the Cambodian Prince had taken on Laos as a new adversary was provided Saturday by Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Laotian neutralist Premier. Prince Souvanna Phouma warned upon his return from a five‐day visit to Phnom Penh that Prince Sihanouk was not bluffing when he threatened to ally his nation with the Communist bloc if Cambodia’s borders were not guaranteed on his terms. In his broadcast from Phnom Penh, Prince Sihanouk said the refusal of the Laotian Premier during his visit to recognize the frontiers of Cambodia was final proof of the “hostility of the West.”
The Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, began detailed discussions with senior American officials today on how United States resources can be used to help Premier Nguyễn Khánh achieve political and military security. Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense, said the status of the local militia and the general administrative structure were studied all day by the mission from Washington and American diplomatic and military representatives here. Qualified sources said the Americans discussed the specific aid Premier Khánh will need in his program to construct a stable Government and combat the Communist insurgency. The Premier’s military plan involves a concentration of forces with the base being spread house to house, as each is made secure. This “clear and hold” strategy contrasts with earlier plans for grand sweeps.
Soviet military forces shot down an unarmed American RB-66 reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany. The three crew members parachuted to safety and were arrested by Soviet soldiers near the East German village of Gardelegen. 1st Lieutenant Harold W. Welch, who had fractured an arm and a leg, would be released March 21, and U.S. Army captains David I. Holland and Melvin J. Kessler would be set free on March 27.
A meeting of Premier Khrushchev and other Communist leaders to discuss worsening relations between the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties was forecast tonight by East European sources. The meeting will be held in Budapest, capital of Hungary next month, the sources said. Premier Khrushchev is expected to arrive there about March 30 for anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Hungary from the Nazi armies in 1945. These celebrations are to take place April 4 and the Communist conference is expected to begin soon after. According to both East European and Western sources Mr. Khrushchev has been consulting Communist leaders throughout the Soviet bloc and Western Europe for the last two weeks. The Soviet Communist party he is believed to have told the other leaders, cannot continue to maintain the present tenuous relations with the Chinese Communist party unless Peking shows some willingness to cooperate.
One East European source asserted that Mr. Khrushchev’s patience with the Chinese was near the breaking point and that some “grave aggravation” of the situation was imminent. He hinted that the Soviet leader might be forced to take drastic and perhaps irreparable action. A Rumanian delegation, headed by Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer, is in Peking conferring with the Chinese Communist leaders. Left‐wing sources here and elsewhere in Western Europe do not hold out much hope that a settlement of the Chinese-Soviet differences will result from this mission.
Voters in the United Arab Republic (Egypt) chose from 1,648 candidates for the 350 elective seats of the National Assembly. The unicameral legislature had two deputies for each of its 175 electoral districts and an additional 10 members appointed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Queen Elizabeth II gave birth tonight to her third son and her fourth child at Buckingham Palace. A bulletin signed by five physicians said the Queen was “safely delivered of a son at 8:20 this evening” and that both were well. The weight of the infant was not given. The baby, whose name will probably not be known for several weeks, is the second child born to a reigning British sovereign since 1857. The first was Prince Andrew, the baby’s 4-year‐old brother. The baby is third in line to the throne, coming after Prince Charles, who is 15 years old, and Prince Andrew, but before the Queen’s 13‐year‐old daughter, Princess Anne. The Queen is 37 and has reigned since 1952.
The Soviet Union won the first computer chess game in the first competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Moscow’s ITEP system checkmating Stanford University’s Kotok-McCarthy program on its 19th move. Four games, played simultaneously, had started on November 21, with each side’s move being telegraphed to the other for a programmed response. The Soviets would win a second game, and the other two would end in a draw, giving the USSR a 3 points to 1 victory.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, the first contest in the race for the Party’s nomination for the candidate for President of the United States. Because he had waited until the week before to file his candidacy, Lodge’s name was not on the printed ballots and he won as a write-in candidate, receiving 33,007 written votes, compared to 20,692 for Barry Goldwater and 19,504 for Nelson Rockefeller. Richard M. Nixon, though not on the ballot, got 15,587 write-ins. Lodge, a native of nearby Massachusetts, was believed by political commentators to have the advantage of being a New England politician. Despite the win, Lodge told reporters in Saigon that he had no plans to return to the United States to campaign.
Mr. Lodge, an undeclared candidate in the primary, who is in Saigon, led almost from the start as the returns were counted. He slowly pulled away from the two principal declared candidates in the contest, Governor Rockefeller of New York and Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, also an undeclared candidate and the beneficiary of a write‐in campaign, was running fourth. The three other declared candidates in the Republican race were Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, Harold E. Stassen of Philadelphia, a former Governor of Minnesota, and Norman LePage of Nashua, New Hampshire, an accountant. All three were far out of contention.
In Washington, Senator Goldwater said he had “goofed up somewhere” during the campaign. Governor Rockefeller said in New York that the primary was “a victory for a favorite son.”
President Johnson does not regard Henry Cabot Lodge’s victory in the New Hampshire Presidential primary as having compromised Mr. Lodge’s position as Ambassador to South Vietnam. Mr. Johnson, an interested watcher at the television set tonight, had no comment to make on Mr. Lodge’s big write-in vote or on the sizable Democratic write-in total for Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Informed sources said, however, that the President did not intend to seek Mr. Lodge’s resignation, or to check his political freedom, as a result of today’s primary. A sort of gentlemen’s agreement exists between the two, it was suggested. It would place the burden upon Mr. Lodge to let Mr. Johnson know when he thought he could no longer serve the Administration because of the political situation in the United States.
While early returns of the New Hampshire primary were reaching Saigon today, Henry Cabot Lodge was talking about the war in South Vietnam. The United States Ambassador had no comment on the political news. He was conferring over dinner at his home with Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense. With a sense of order and propriety characteristic of a 61year‐old Bostonian, Mr. Lodge has managed to keep his interests compartmented. In the United States, his son George C. Lodge kept voters aware that the Ambassador would answer a call to the White House. In Vietnam, Mr. Lodge performed his duties as Ambassador and addressed himself with grim tenacity to supporting the war against the Communist Việt Cộng.
Voters in New Hampshire overwhelmingly approved the first legal state lottery in the United States since 1895, with 114,987 in favor and only 31,327 against. The format for the New Hampshire Sweepstakes had already been arranged and printed in advance of the vote, with the first sweepstakes ticket ready to go on sale two days later.
Southern Senators began today to make their constitutional case against the civil rights bill. In a long speech laced with legal citations and devoid of oratorical flourishes, Senator John Stennis of Mississippi argued that the section banning discrimination in public accommodations was unconstitutional because it could not rest on either the 14th Amendment or the Commerce Clause. Under the generalship of Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia, Mr. Stennis is one of the captains of the three platoons into which Mr. Russell has divided his “band of eighteen.” The other captains are Senator Lister Hill of Alabama, who spoke yesterday, on the opening day of debate, and Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana.
At the outset of today’s session, New York’s Republican Senators — Kenneth B. Keating and Jacob K. Javits — first quarreled with the initial battle plans of the Democratic leadership and then tangled with Mr. Russell. The Senate is not debating the bill itself but only the motion of Mike Mansfield; the majority leader, to take it up. Mr. Mansfield predicted that his, opening stage could last “three to ten days.” He and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, floor manager of the bill, have decided to keep the Senate in session this week from noon to 6 or 7 PM, and then to begin lengthening the sessions.
Former Mississippi Gov. Ross R. Barnett charged tonight that the pending civil rights bill would make “all states little more than local government agencies” under control of a central government. “The civil rights bill impairs the property rights as well as the civil rights of all Americans,” he said.
Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges said today that “we are now at the stage where we could go a long way toward “normalizing trade relations” with the Soviet Union. Mr. Hodges told a news conference that the main barrier to such a change was “political feeling” in this country, and that “more education” was required to alter that feeling. He called the present United States policy “schizophrenic.” The occasion for the news conference was the release of details of last week’s agreement in Moscow under which large American ships will be permitted to unload wheat at Odessa. Mr. Hodges praised the “extremely cooperative attitude” of the Soviet authorities, but said he had “no idea” why they had changed their minds about such vessels.
The House Agriculture Committee gave quick approval today to wheat legislation passed by the Senate. The committee voted, 20 to 13, on straight party lines. It acted after House leaders held strategy talks on the measure with President Johnson last night. Republicans denounced the committee action as “railroading and said that four amendments they offered had been defeated on similar party votes.
A petition asking President Johnson to support France’s efforts to negotiate peace in South and North Vietnam will be circulated today by students at Columbia University. The petition, which also opposes any extension of the Vietnamese conflict into North Vietnam,” is sponsored by the Columbia chapter of The Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Peace Union, Barnard Action, Miners in Hazard, Kentucky.
Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of “The Sound of Silence” at Columbia Studios in New York City.
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Scene during a day long operation with two Ranger companies in Gia Định Province of Vietnam on March 10, 1964. Several U.S. advance troops accompanied the operation. The Rangers surrounded a swampy area during the night walking into their positions under the cover of darkness. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
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