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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes in review edited by Stan Zawadzki International events mass murderer of 6 million jews during world War ,11, was hanged in Tel Aviv last wee the 56-year-old former Gestapo colonel was executed after Josi n g  a p  for clemency from i. The president of Israel. Eichmann body was cremated and the i ashes were scattered on & the. I inti seas. L  hanging marked the end of Eichmann s dramatic Public store which Begali with his Cap Ture by israeli agents in Argen Tina in i960 and his return to Israel. In the course of his four month trial he traced in detail the Sav age organization for carrying out Adolf Hitler r plan to exterminate european jewry Eichmann con tended he1 was Only a cog in the nazi murder apparatus. French president Charles de Gaulle jail week stood firm by his pledges to make Ai _ Gera Independent and to crush the Terr Ohst secret army or  Oas. T Laos flare up rebel forces renewed their drive in Northwest Laos last week and attacked in Force the defense perimeter of Thouei Sai Only Xor Iuie Julles from the Border of  the attacking. Force were reported to include to Orth vietnamese 1 -. Ithe town _ of Thouei Sal is on the the orig liver Border with Thailand rat out,20q Miles North West of Vientiane. The defeat. Of Royal laotian forces there and their flight into Thailand led president Kennedy to dispatch ils troops to Thailand to help defend its Borders t. T the new offensive was. Broken Oft by the rebels after one Day s fighting in which they captured a Royal government outpost near Huei Sal. Two . Military. Advisers were reported missing after theban of Trie outpost but were re covered.1 by helicopters after three Days in the  americans escaped with the Garlson. _ in Thouei Sai itself 350 Royal laotian troops and 16 . Mili tary advisers wailed for an at lick by the rebel forces which were believed to be deployed in semicircle around  of freight rammed a de Gaulle said he was deter mined to maintain his Strong Man regime regardless of tides of. Public opinion. " the president took his stand following a crisis touched off by the failure of a military High tribunal to Send Oas Leader sex Gen Raoul Salan before a firing squad. As a. Result de Gaulle dissolved the High tribunal and the Cabinet approved a decree replacing it with a purely military court to try Oas terrorists. Meanwhile police captured a terrorist alleged to have helped plan the assassination attempt on de Gaulle last sept. 8. The Cap Ture of the suspect 36-year-old Armand Belvisi came after a gun Bailie in the Chic Paris residential area of place Victor Hugo. The bursts of sub machine gun fire and explosion of grenades caused a near panic in the Central Paris area. In Algeria the toll of Oas slay Ings continued. In Algiers and Oran the government Wes drafting european youths into the French army to prevent them from serving with the Oas. Meanwhile the shaken French government was hit by a 32-hour nationwide strike of Gas and electricity workers. The walkout ordered by labor unions to Back demands for an 11 t or cent pay boost and Shorter working hours slowed Down Industry halted commuting trains and made life difficult for Mil Lions of frenchmen. It was the latest in a series of strikes in nationalized industries which have plagued France for Many weeks. A break in the wait five mysterious explosions blew holes in the communist Wall in Berlin last week. Guarded by troops East Man workers quickly repaired the  Rusk soviet envoy met on Berlin Secretary of state Dean Rusk and soviet ambassador Anatoly f. Dobrynin last week held their fourth session since Date april at which they tried to narrow differences Over the fun lure of Berlin and Germany. The meeting in Washington Dis closed no give in the position of either Side. The state department said that the discussions reflected the Welt known positions of each  Dobrynin told reporters that the session went As usual a . Spokesman said the talks will continue but no specific Date was set for the next meeting. There were these other developments the air Force ordered Safe to begin moving air National guard units called to Active duty during the Berlin crisis Back to the United states As soon As possible after july 15.five explosions were set off along the communist Wall in Berlin. One blast blew a Hole in the Wall .5 feet Long and 6 feet High. Both East and West charged i hat the other Side had set off the explosives.  gun. Duel erupted along soviets reneged at Geneva tie it nation disarmament Confer ence in Geneva was plunged into a major crisis last week after Russia reneged on an East West agreement to condemn War propaganda. Soviet Deputy foreign minister Valerian Zorin told the Confer ence the soviet Union docs not accept the declaration condemn ing War propaganda which the conference was supposed to approve even though Zorn himself had helped draft it a week be fore. American ambassador Arthur h. Dean White faced with angor told Zorin the soviets had blown up discussion of the whole mat Ter Zorin read to the stunned con Ference a soviet statement Call ing for far reaching changes in the War propaganda declaration he and. Denn had drafted. He said events in recent Days made the changes necessary and cited West Germany Laos and South Viet Nam As examples of worsening tensions in the world this is an astonishing performance Dean told Zorin. I had thought that this declaration on War propaganda would be a Symbol of our efforts to recon Cile our differences  in Tel. Passenger train near Milan viaising1 \ Italy s train tilt of i48 dead to four major rail disasters since last december Russia Cuba bared economic  crash since the i ii the latest crash at ,63 Holiday vacationers bound for 4he, Yere killed is transport said that despite??" arid1 red step lights s in /dbreight.f1 tilt the 1 passenger Fco Aeh eve at almost 50 Miles an Jour station employees said they heard no sound of the freight applying its brakes. _ it the Reight Engineer,.and his 1 f assistant Yere held for queston i ing by police. 4, ,.4, the soviet government Las week announced a drastic rise1.in Domestic food prices30 per cent for meat and 25 per cent for butter to about $2 a Pound to raise funds for the hard pressed soviet farming Kic a Economy. Into the govern in ment said the Pic measures were a kick being taken to overcome temporary difficulties in supplying the Urban Popula  another communist country reported Domestic difficulties. Cuba s prime minister Fidel Castro admitted that his nationalized housing program was cracking up partly because people were not paying the rents. He said 30 per cent of govern Merit tenants were behind with their rentals and if they did not pay up he would deduct the Money from their wages these were other news develop ments last week the coalition Cabinet of Premier Ismet Inonu collapsed. Leaving Turkey with a serious government crisis. Spain s labor strikes subsided greatly after Generalissimo fran Cisco Franco appealed to his nation to work with him for the common Good against enemies Bent on destroying Confidence in Spain and damaging its relations with the Catholic Church. The . Senate overrode determined Republican opposition to pass president Kennedy s Compromise 51.5-billion Public works Bill. Supporters called the legislation a key part of the drive to wipe out pockets of severe unemployment in distressed areas around the nation. Two Hundred and one memorial Day Accident deaths throughout the United states set a record for a one Day Observance of the Holiday. The total included 107 traffic fatalities. The Wall in the British see torte which the reds fired 100 shots Jit Western police. The a to n Tfir flared As two refugees unsuccessfully tried to flee to the West one was shot to death by tie reds and the second was map tured. Another refugee was shot to death in an escape try on the French sector Border. In Bonn the government aft bounced that count ers Pifei smashed five communist a pfc. Nage networks in the last eight weeks resulting1 in the unmask ing of 304 agents. The most dangerous not was operating fit cob Lenz. Bonn officials sat l East. Be r m a n communists publicly incl i tied for the feet time they Are seeking $68t no lion in credits from West Ger Many. The funds would be used for Coal and Industrial equip ment. By fan american jazzman Benny Goodman and his 2q-Inattband played a swing concert tit Moscow last week and leading the applause was Surprise visitor Nikita s. Khrushchev. Included in the program of oj4 and new jazz and swing music were such Goodman favourites a St. Louis blues Ava Lott Aris others. The soviet Premier said fur the concert i enjoyed itto. Khrushchev and his wife. Until pc Drew up to the big Glass an aluminium red army the step near the j Centero Moscow to this Surprise of spectators who ha4 not expected the soviet Leader. A throng of 4,000 jammed Tiff auditorium with another 1,000 tar ing turned away. \. Jazz has been frowned upon soviet authorities until about tto years ago but Khrushchev Job leaving the concert told news men. I enjoyed it but i Dorit dance so i Cion t understand1 very  Vav the Cream of Moscow s main is t elite made up the ence at the opening performance of Goodman s six week tour wac is under a soviet United states cultural agreement. Si.1i 1 ill a. 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