August 29, 1967

N Vietnamese shell 3 USMC bases near buffer zone and airfield near Danang killing 10 and wounding 116; Vietcong terrorists kill 15 civilians, wound 18, in hamlet 275 mi NE of Saigon; other scattered action reptd; Vietcong guerrillas blowup 9 bridges; Vietnamese truck driver distributing campaign leaflets killed by gunman near Saigon; map

Conv votes to carry into new const existing provisions limiting city powers

Assumes direct responsibility for Brit econ affairs in major Cabinet reshuffle

Ali Musaid al-Babkari repts rebels kidnapped Fed Govt head Sheik Ali Atif al-Kaladi; proclaims self Supreme Council Chmn and broadcasts appeal to Fed army to take power; says nationalists control majority of 16 state; Natl Liberation Front repts 'arresting' Ali Atif al-Kaladi, controlling 10 states; pledges to overthrow Govt; high Fed leaders are in Geneva talk with UN mission; are expected to repudiate appeal to army; army comdrs have not replied to appeal or moved to rescue Sheik; Govt radio, in apparently conciliatory gesture, begins calling nationalists commandos instead of terrorists; Natl Liberation Front sympathizers, Aden, denounce Ali Musaid al-Babkari; whereabouts of Lower Yafa Sultan unknown; Aden relatively quiet; map

conf due, Khartoum; Hussein arrives; Algerian Pres Boumediene and Syrian Pres el-Attassi apparently not to attend, to be represented by Mins Bouteflika and Makhous; Moroccan King Hassan sends Premier Hima, because of coolness between him and leftist leaders