European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday april 19, 1963 instability in Laos goes deeper than cease fire violation by Arthur 3. Dommen Hong Kong up the significance of the fighting in Laos apparently is in danger of being overlooked amid All the hubbub about arranging a Cense fire. Talk about putting a Stop tothe fighting and a return to the status quo agreed on by 14 nations at Geneva implies that in the past nine months since the conference ended there has been some sort of stability to which a return should be Mode. In fact however there has been nothing in the Way of stability. Consider that the authority of Premier or Law Souvanna Phou a has never yet been extended to the full territory of Laos and that those areas of the country which were under Patchet lao control in july 1962 Are still under Patchet lao control today. Consider the fact that while Souvanna Houma has been in Abu to generate support in the Countryside at Large for Hla Neu Yunnan prove inca info a Fiose within the taut few clays Kongle himself Linn undo Hornc highly interesting about the present predicament. He has sold that Polhert in units arc under the influence of Lorel Knors in effect he Archt of Hanoi and peking and that they Are now with North vietnamese regular troop who look and talk much like the native Patchet no cadre of Mili tary effective. He has talked openly of the Chain of command Between the Patchet lao controlled areas and Hanoi. Kong a said of Pathe lao commander col san Ugapo he s Only a letter Box. He lust asks Mouchak and Nouhak must ask Nouhak is Nouhak Phoum Savan the Patchet lao hard Core Veteran who headed his faction delegation to the 1961 ran Namone cease fire talks. In London it9s no fair pecking London a a can brr Iho Royal on the top mind blood it n window of Buck floor of hip pal nip s Northwest half mlle distance win. A privilege1in his office at a Theoda my is or. John w. Walsh who says he co told m it a privilege to be theophy Saleun attending1 mrs. John f. Kennedy when her third baby is bom in August Walsh delivered lib Kennedy s last child John or. A an instinct blur. This was the Drill performed by the Royal Security of Ned to sell say themselves that London skyscraper Boom was not turn ing que i Elizabeth s Londo resilience into a peekaboo a Nance. They were unable to distinguish one forc from another eve with old of various optical instruments. They tried telescopic Ramiro lenses and were unable to to pc pictures that reached in to Hie Ploce windows. The is blurred the Imago. Thus the latest of London s skyscrapers and the most crucially situated passed the secur. Ity lest it is the 30-Story London Hilton. The building s South Side com minds a Clear View at least from the upper stories into the 40 acres of waited Royal Garden. Security officials were equally Monr Rord at crackpots taking potshots at the Queen hot Dolfl Tarp. Harmed to Rule that outland the the coun Tete confirmed it to the South of Burkingham Palace Only a few Florks War another skyscraper the. Stagg Brawer building also gave pal Ace officials Home anxious Momenta by for it Ipeng in March they discovered that although it is closer its View is far less Patchet lao and the american the culmination of this Ero Sion has been the assassination of foreign minister whether jul Nam Actu ally detected a Long tune previously la assassination u entirely academic he is no longer there for Souvanna Houma Toleu on. While the West and perhaps to russians have been in Favoron implementing the Geneva agreement the Patchet lao Menon he scene obviously have not Ben in favor of this and have instead worked to build up their own strength and organization. An unending series of reports from various sources in la shave All pouted to the following developments which have occurred since july 1961 and which unmistakably have favored the Patchet lao the a that lao organizer have been hard at work in the Countryside recruiting cadres for political indoctrination and raw material Tor lighting forces this recruitment has extended even tothe ranks of neutralise Gen Kong Les soldiers. The North vietnamese have completed a series of highly valuable roads leading across the Jungle covered mountains from a North Viet Nam Industrial heartland to terminal Points Well while still mounting Strong defense trims sought on military the chinese communists hav. Been building roads from by Lewis a Ucb Washington a Long Range Plana Are under Way at de sense department Headquarters Here to trim the proportion of the military Burden on the is. Economy while still mounting a Strong Western defense. A sizable portion of the pro posed savings would come from Leas rapid addition to the Long Range is. Nuclear forces an from a greater sharing of the defense Load both nuclear an conventional by Western allies authoritative sources said. Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara is known to feel that the proportion of the Mill tary budget to total is. Economic activity or Gross National product can be brought below the approximate 9 or 10 cent rate set during the korean War without diminishing the strength of de sense forces or the Rale of development of new weapons. This it not expected to Herald a big change in the Sloe of the fiscal 1968 us. Defense budget now under consideration fro the is billion defense spending currently forecast for fiscal 1964which starts next july x How Ever with the Gross National product increasing yearly the proportion of the military bite would be smaller. It waa also understood that in a recent View of ims plans the . Joint chiefs of staff came up with a figure Only 92 billion bigger than Mcnamara s version. This contrasts with the current budget which Mcnamara Cut come $13 billion from what the military had proposed. Kennedy trip May include Frankfurt Washington up presi Dent Kennedy is giving serious consideration to visiting Frank Furt when he cops to West Ger Many and Italy late in june government sources said. Stops in Heidelberg and Munich were said to be under consideration but doubtful. A Stop in Ireland was also believed under consideration. The while House has neither confirmed nor denied published reports that or. Kennedy will spend two Days visiting Dublin the Kennedy ancestral Home anew Ross and other places. There was no immediate Whitehouse comment on the possibility of expanding or. Kennedy s Ger Man itinerary which so far includes Only Bonn. But the sources said the possibility of the Frankfurt Stop is a Strong one the United states is trying to get its european allies to step up their defense contributions and some of the european in creases could lighten the . Burden. Under the proposal for a nato strategic. It overlooks the Royal kitchens and the apartment Olathe household staff. Like the to ton it also provides Only an oblique View of the West drawing rooms overlooking the Garden. The Queen herself has said she skyscrapers thrusting up around. She recently told one of the rtt Rutop Archit actual planners that a was More perturbed by the three and four Story houses just across Grosvenor place on the South Side. The Queen said their top stories appeared to be Peep no one imagines that the they number 200would be targeted on East european objectives which Are now targeted by Sag to the Public. Walpole la said to have paused considered and replied Only. Crown a Zuiss d. Over but Zermatt hotels stay shut mourn be n Wiwi Sumaj is Zermatt. Switzerland Puju the typhoid fever epidemic Here u Over but hotels jul hav to slay closed till june key Hans Reber. Chief of the medical corps detachment said. The last 99 patients from the emergency Hospital in the school House hav been evacuated in Small groups to ate different Low land hospitals and be 80 officers and men of the motorized medi Cal in 4 have been told that they can go bom. On april 23. It s Only a mop up operation from Here Reber emergency Hospital has to be thoroughly disinfected before can be turned Back to the school children. There Are a few hotel Al Duns still to be declared Safe and a few groups of residents and seasonal hotel employee have to get certificates that they do not Cany when the medical corpsmen leave tuesday they will end 34 Days of military Rule Over this resort they were called in March 90, when the local civil authorities could not Cope with the epidemic any longer. Now that there have been no new Case for More than two weeks the civil authorities can take Over further research into the causes of the epidemic. Only when these causes have been clearly established will Zer Matt go Back to opening the hotels and restaurants. This final clearance can be expected shortly before the Start of the summer season in raid. Losse. Due to the Complete Clos Down have been estimated up to s5 million. The epidemic variously ascribed to a broken water main failure of the water chloral Dnton Plant and contaminated food be Gan in the second week of March when several cases of typhoid Ever were reported in Zermatt three persons died two i Switzerland and one in England. More than 450 persons were hospitalized in Switzerland an abroad. T. Pm on 107, Hux Moo. Us Eathron w disc Uuno Oncu to shall. My. ��.�. M Al ii
