THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, April 28,

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South Vietnam Officer Calls
For Land Invasion Of North

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By MALCOLM

MISSISSIPPI RIVER OVERFLOWS INTO
DAVENPORT, IOWA

Mississippi River
Floods Quad Cities

The Associated Press
The relentless Mississippi River pounded weakened dikes in the
Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa today. Downriver communities
braced for the churning floods.
Waters rolled through the
streets of Rock Island, Moline
and East Moline, 111., and Davenport, Iowa the Quad Cities.
Volunteers hundreds of them
children and
battled
to shore up dikes which burst
in spots intermittently.
As the Mississippi headed toward a predicted crest of 22.5
in the Quad Cities area, cities
downstream received the first attack of floodwaters that began
when the snows of Minnesota
You mean to say.
started melting weeks ago.
In Hannibal, Mo., the river
I could
stage today was 24 feet eight
feet above flood stage and still
have bought
rising. Police said 18 to 20 inches
of water covered some streets.
that big,
Police and National Guardsbeautiful,
men patroled the downtown area
against looters. The city of20,000
luxurious
mained in the Quad Cities, with
a population of more than
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SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP)
Air strikes against North Vietnamese roads, bridges and railroads are not choking off aid to
the Vietcong, and a land invasion
of the north should begin immediately, the commander of South
Vietnam's air force says.
"If we are just going to bomb
communication lines , the Vietcong will be able to stand up for
a long time, I'm afraid. So the
next step must be big either a
big escalation of the war or negotiations," Brig. Gen. Nguyen
Cao Ky told the Associated Press
in an exclusive interview today.
While the bulk of the raids
against North Vietnam have been
flown by U.S. Air Force and
Navy planes, Ky's propeller-drive- n
Skyraider bombers also
have been over North Vietnam
nearly every day.
The
general has
flown three of the missions himself and was grazed by enemy
flak on one of them. Three of his

pilots have been shot down.
"The raids against communications are not really effective,"
he said. "The Communists can
always find ways of moving
through the jungle.
"But if we were to set up a
kind of 'national liberation front'
in the north, we could do the
same things to the Communists
that they've been doing to us
here. We have superiority in the
air over North Vietnam's central
area from the 17th to the 20th
parallels, and we could easily

supply guerrillas ot our own there.
"These people in that area are
and
basically
I'm sure they would help us.
Then we could really start cutting
their supply lines and giving
them something to worry about."
Ky is a native of Hanoi.
"For that matter, what's
wrong with sending up regular
troops now? Our intelligence
proves that North Vietnamese
regular units are already in our
highlands, so there can be no
bar to sending troops north.

U.S., Vietnamese Planes

Hammer North In Raids

SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) American and Vietnamese planes
hammered North Vietnamese patrol boats, barracks and roads in
seven raids today, military spokesmen reported.
A U.S. spokesman said Navy jets and Sk raiders left one boat
burning in the water at the Quang Khe naval base, two beached
and a fourth damaged slightly. Quang Khe is 50 miles north of the
border between North and South Vietnam.
All the U. S. and Vietnamese planes reportedly returned safely.

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The Mississippi, rampaging
worst flood in history,
crested at 24.7 feet, nearly 9
feet above flood stage, in the
Clinton, Iowa Fulton, III., area
Tuesday, then surged on to pound
the Quad Cities.
The Red Cross has estimated,
that 3,000 are homeless in Illinois and the same number in
Iowa. Damage estimates ranged
into the millions. Both states
have been designated disaster
areas by President Johnson.
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LBJ, Others
Pay Tribute
To Murrow
PAWLING, N.Y.
President Johnson and
others pured in today for
Edward R. Murrow, the chainsmoking newscaster who became
famous during
internationally
World War II with his blitz
broadcasts from London that began: "This-- is London."
Murrow, who turned 57 last
Sunday, died Tuesday at his farm
after an
battle with
lung cancer. A funeral service will
be held at 2 p.m. Friday at St.
James Protestant Episcopal
church in New York City.
Murrow's voice was deep, resonant. Some compared it to a
voice of doom. His face was
lopsided, worried.
A cigarette dangled from his
mouth.
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His London broadcasts produced for American radio listeners distinct, lifelike images of
the courage and determination of
the British under Hitler's air
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