European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Widne Joy october 78, 1964 the stars and stripes Peg 3 . Reviewing facts of cambodian Border incidents Washington api the Slat department is trying to pin Down the facts of several incident which involved firing and fatalities along South Vietnam s Bor Der with neutralise Cambodia. Press officer Robert j. Mcclos key sold that at the moment the government hero is not Able to give a Complete assessment of the did report that the body of capt Herman y. Tower of Georgetown . Had been re covered by a vietnamese patrol which returned to the scene of one of the incidents. Officials gave this summary of the clashes As reported to the de sense and stale departments a week ago tuesday planes of the South vietnamese air Force apparently fired into the Cam Bodian Village of Amlong were striking at a Viet namese site and the shooting into Cambodia was not intended. . Officials assume Here were some casualties among the Cam saturday . And South vietnamese planes carried outa reconnaissance flight at the same site. Antiaircraft tire Rose from the Village and vietnamese planes fired Back. The . Reconnaissance planes were unarmed and did not participate in the thursday at another Bor Der Point Northwest of the Vil Lage of Hong Ngu there was a fire fight on vietnamese Sid of the Border. I was in this Inci Dent that Towery was . He was last seen be ing led by his captors toward the cambodian Border. On saturday and sunday South vietnamese groups attempted to recover the bodies of men slain in thursday s fight. Towery body was found at that time. State department officials say when he had been killed. Officials said that in this Are Northwest of Hong Ngu there have been repeated incidents of cambodian outposts firing at vietnamese patrols. In the Skir Mish which led to the capture of Owery officials said they did not know what hostile forces were involved but presumed they were communist Viet Cong troops. On saturday at by Prang inthe Northern Region of the Bor Der a . Cd aircraft flying supplies to a vietnamese special forces Camp was shot Down by ground fire and crashed in Viet namese territory. An informant said that Testate department does not know where the ground fire came from but news reports from Sai gon quoted american official there As saying it apparently was Saigon reports said . Officials were studying All re ports from the Frontier closely. The Airport at by Prang is just under six Miles from the Cam Bodian Border. Tilt if car spirits 9 to West caught an 10th try debts could Berlin a communist police have smashed an opera that smuggled nine easter liners through the Wall to West Berlin in a pint size car members of the escape organization operation came to an abrupt end several Days ago when red Border guards discovered an East Berlin woman hid Den in the Small car and arrested her plus the car s Alger Ian Driver these sources re told five women and four men were smuggled through the communist built Wall in single rides stretching Over weeks the sources reported. Members of a West Berli escape organization had rebuilt a two seater Bow Isotta into an escape vehicle by cutting its tank to the Barest minimum an altering the rear engine to make room for an adult to squeeze behind the two front seats. Several Point different Drivers crowed at several of the seven Road Cross ing Points open Tor traffic from West to East Berlin to fool there guards according to the Days ago they said an algerian whose name the sour Ces refused to disclose went into East Berlin and while he was Busy attending to his personal business aides in East Berli sneaked a 59-Yonr-old East Ber Lin woman into the hiding place in the car. The informants claimed the algerian did not know what he wat carrying when he drove tothe communist controls at Fried Rich Stresse opposite Allied Check Point Charlie. Car move while he was going through routine passport checks the hid Den women must have moved setting the cur into swinging motion. The red guards noticed the Small vehicle s strange move a cols and look it apart discovering the woman. They immediately arrested her and the Driver the informants the nine that Success fully escaped was a foot Man who in Der Normal conditions would find it difficult to fit into the Small vehicle. He crammed into the hiding place with his fat in Clow to the exhaust pipe that he burned them badly. A 11-year-old an student stage costume maker aged 35. A 7-year-old Mother and a 24-year-old girl student were also among those who made it lowest Berlin. Last to come out was a 21-year-old East Berlin Model who joined her Mother living in West said on one ride through Friedric Strasse crossing a rear wheel came off As the car was moving slowly to thelast communist Concrete slalom that he would rather repair the damage in Westerlin the Driver bumped Aloni on three wheels for some 40yards, barely crossing the Bor Der. Bugged reds an Selu two neater with refugee hidden in space created behind the seats passes communist Wall through Sand Rug Bridge checkpoint. The refugee hidden in the area where the Gas tank was replaced by a Small can was one of nine escapees. A Miami a death Coral Lor As exiles Call the sea Wall let Ween Cuba and the unite states is reported increasingly 11,000 cubans it is Esti mated have crossed it to free Dom since Fidel Castro s take Var nearly six years came in rowboats tiny rafts Lenky fishing boats make shift loggers. Five men paddled a Florida on inner tubes with Bamboo. Some recently arrived refugee estimate that lately one of every tour boats running the Gauntlet of intensified Castro patrols loses he race. There is no Irdy Catlin 11,000 have escaped from Cuba by sea Ponnu. Fire kills boy 3 Sisters Pilkster a. Up a year old boy and his three younger Sisters were killed an their parents and a fifth child were burned when fire broke Outin their two Story Row Home for the second time within nine hours. Suffocated in the Blaze which levelled their Home were Edward Roberts and his Sisters yvctle.7, Cathy 6, and Beverly 4. A fifth child Luther or. 3, suffered critical Burns while the parents Luther or. And Mary sustained Burns carrying two oth or children to second Blaze broke out in a Frame shed in the rear of the House firemen said about 4 at 7 30 the night before firemen were summoned to the residence to put out a Small Blaze in thei basement. Of How Many died a new refugee arrives on he average of every four or Fivel ours in one of modern history s greatest sea Combs the cuban coast with new High Speed Motorboat armed with 30-calil�er machine guns said Eduardo Fernandez a fugitive from Havana who eluded them. Other refugees gave similar accounts. They also reported a far tune radar sys tem along the coast. Even cubans slipping the roughly International Waters Are re ported in danger. The usually Well informed exile news serv be air. Suys soviet fishing trawlers actually radar picket ships fishing for refugees re port any catch by radio to Swift torpedo boats lurking in the cuban keys. The boats race out and l ump pellets into refugee Craft the report added. Still 1,40 escapees won Attis strange russian Roulette during the first nine months this year. The cuban refugee Center reported they came in 155 Center Renolle 7.437 Small bait refugee 1061. Exiles estimate 4.000 Kannan to head disciple a of Christ Windsor ont. Up Campbell Topeka kan., was elected president of the National evangelistic association of the Christian churches disciples of Christ. Campbell executive Secretary of the Kansas Christian Mission Ary society was elected at then a convention Here. Others arrived before 1061, orator without checking in for Aid. While the shortest distance be Wen Cuba and America is 10 Miles refugees must taken Ger course in their Nice with Lunger thirst Sun and sea Haz Ards. Vonc Cnoc mayans now living now York City was the sole survivor in a 17-Day Odyssey rom communist Cuba. One by one. He burled at Seu 16 companions victims of privation. He arrived unconscious clutching he 17th. His dead wife. One refugee group made it to Anguilla Cay in the British owned Bahamas Only to have Astro forces Kidnap 10 men women and children return hem to Cuba and imprison them. Informed exiles Reix irl that Isof them recently were released to House arrest after american ministers including Esami Ells Billy Graham urged the British government to intercede. He s a Wett known political sinner Faroo. . A Gnu surnames can be a mixed Blessing in politics. Take George a. Sinner demo rally candidate for Congress in North Dakota. A woman look
