European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              November 1964 the stars and stripes 3 could hear what a son my fight Birn Hoa air Viet Nam sergeants Arm was nearly blown away by mor tar but he grabbed his Rifle and went charging out the door hollering he was going to get the Viet Cong for sp4 Richard Hafler of Cort said others had to Force the sergeant into a make Algeria would Tshombe Algiers up algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella said his army would be willing to Battle Israel and Afri Cas congolese Prem Ier mols should the need he also warned that his government would be merciless against revolutionaries in a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the bloody guerrilla raids which kicked off the algerian revolution against French ills verbal attacks on Tshombe and Israel were followed by a Parade of newly delivered soviet built t34 tanks and a Fly past of russian made Mig Jet a crowd estimated at More than persons heard Ben Bel Las arabic Lang Ige speech and saw the Parade on the former route renamed the route of the nation no liberation army in Honor of the revolutionary More than of the spectators were members of 80 government delegations sent to Al Geria for the revolutionary anniversary All traitors we Are against All wherever they May and Tshombe is a traitor to Ben Bella he asserted that Israel was a political problem and not a racial problem since Israel has 79 per cent of its Trade with South Africa and Are fighting for Tshombe if it is necessary our army will fight the traitor Tho Mac at the Side of its african Broth ers and it will fight Israel at the of us Arab he Ben Bella warned that the Al Gerian government will be implacable against All the All the instigators of a counter the Leader of the ill fated Kab Bylle uprising against Ben Bellas former National liberation front politburo member Houlne Alt is now in jail Here awaiting another former supporter turned col Mohammed was executed by a fir ing squad after a secret trial last minister de Gaulle Ben whose foreign min ister Abdelaziz bout Flika called on French president Charles de Gaulle last had Only warm Praise for his former col onial relations Between Algeria and France arc better Thart Ever and we firmly believe that Coop shift emergency Hospital in the mess a Flors Story illustrated the Shock and then the anger of servicemen at the mortar attack on b97 Jet bombers at bin Hoa air base by communist Hafler i a member of an american helicopter hut was blasted by communist half the american wounded and All of the four dead were in the hut up Clifford also of suffered a slight wound in the left Arm when a mortar Shell scored a direct hit on his he said four out of the five men in the hut were i was awakened by a Siren and sound of 1 ran out of the door to gel to a but i was Only a few Yards from the door when a Shell most serious casualties were in the hut occupied by the army units witnesses told of two dead and several curiously including one Man with oration will evolve on a solid peking army Banks on reserves and healthy basis with weighty he the algerian Premier hailed algerian Success in dispossess ing All foreign landowners and in getting work started on n third pipeline to its Sahara oilfields he announced the construction to begin in three or four of a fourth pipeline from Sahara to the capital the 4 Nelson left wife of to and recording slur Rick completes a four generation group on the Hollywood set of the adventures of Ozzle and in which Kris plays her real Lite Kris visitors Are left to her daughter 1 Tom Harmon exactness Elyse and Mana legs blown off and another with Hafler said after the fir ing slackened All i could hear was what a it Alan of wich went to the b97 ramp after he was unable to get a two sealer sky Alder to Fly with a vietnamese student to strike til suspected Viet Cozik he Mcl he Siw flin Nunt Jet bombers with Cannon shells go Inq off and grained a fire Hose to i put out the fire Ott one he 1 said he crawled under the Wing i Loucil Al flames in the Landing i gear when he saw the bomber wan fully loaded with 500pmmd he put out the fire and then i directed the Stream of water into i the bomb buy to Cool off the bombs to prevent an 1 shrapnel Hud knocked nut the i windows of the base control 1 but american and Oletna Icso truffle controllers stuck to their directing aircraft while lying on the floor during the height of the we were fully operational Dur ing the attack and Ore fully operational col William Bethe of his wife Ruth lives in it was a Beautiful halloween in hell with All witches of sul Loren Reck of Kansas with other i members of the b97 1 rushed to the Rump to pull the planes away Tram the flaming j ii seemed like there were i tracers i  f i believe it was during the mortar attack i was As close to the ground in my Bunker As i could get and i dont mind saying i was 2 copters take off Sut Billy Vaughan of West said Viet Cong positions were Only about 900 to 800 Yards from the with air Force flares being they could see us too i dont know if the Viet Cong because so much ammunition by Lorfn Cantwell Hong Kong is the military strength of communist China two weeks ago in the desert wastes of Central communist China exploded us first atomic device in an obvious at tempt to impress the but the device was scientifically crude and militarily use the propaganda Impact was largely negated by prior warning from the United so communist China must rely on manpower for defense and at the regular armed according to the latest intelligence number around 3 Mil of this More than men Are in the Peoples liberation in the air Force and the rest in the but there is also the military which is estimated at 2 staggering 200 million Many of whom Are constantly put through indoctrination train ing Camps and military although these numbers Are the communist regime has had trouble feeding such a huge according to St Cret state department lust a near revolt took place in 1961 because of food shortages composed of two to three divisions these separate armies Are the largest operational units in but in time of War they can be grouped together documents made Public by the into what the chinese Canidu lists Call Field each separate army amounts to to the up last year after much proximate equivalent of an the armed forces were put under the direct control of Mao Tzc Mao controls the armed forces american army the in was exploding in burning two american armed Hel one damaged by the opening rounds of the mortar at took off five minutes after the first Shell fell and Wyllo the attack was at its one soldiers said shells were bursting All around when the two chop held on Alert for just such an cleared the ground and flew into the Rainy night in through one of Halo most trusted the army is known to have in the marshal who i two or three tank divisions tire army is believed to be dl1 search of mortar each Vidd into something Between 100 helicopter had a Crew of four and 129 infantry directed the korean War Tor the chinese intelligence sources estimate he works with a budget of u Bil lion a How this Money is divided up Between the services is not but More is known about the organization of the services the Peoples liberation army is divided into 30 to 39 separate equipped with russian tanks of world War ii intelligence sources Here agree that Navy the chinese is designed communist chiefly for coastal patrol work and consists mainly of ships in the destroyer class and the submarine strength is believed to be the total number of ships is thought to be around but these together displace Only men and was armed with rockets and Light machine airmen working to save the b97s on the ramp found several mortar shells which had failed to one was marked United states Marine corps at least its Nice to be shot at with our own sgt James Wells of new York City an american source said the shells May have been seized in Korea or from the French during the Indochina nearly half of families have left Gizmo Washington a half the american women and children living at Guantanamo when Cuba shut off the naval bases water Supply last Winter have returned to the United the Navy has the family population of Guantanamo totalled As of last february it stood at All dependents Are expected to be gone by february Fidel Castro shut off Quanta Uinos fresh water source in retaliation for seizure of some cuban fishermen who had strayed into american Castro has offered to turn the water Back but the United states spurned the to make the base Independent of outside water the government ordered construction of three plants for converting Salt Wulc to with a Dally out put of million two of the three plants have been finished and Are producing million Gallons a the Navy n Gal the third Plant is on schedule and due to be in Busi Ness in As a Navy tankers which had been shuttling Back and Forth Between Florida and the Guantanamo base for seven months have been in they hauled More than 293 million Gallons of fresh water to the families leave the base As their menfolk finish two year tour new men ure sent to Guantanamo on oneyear without their wives and the military population of the base is to keep morale from the Navy said it is expected that married men sent to the base without their families will be Able to return to the states once during their tour fur extensive plans Are in the Mill for Christmas the Navy single men will also be Given leave in the states or in the number of cuban workers coming base each Day Ana onto the returning Home to Castro territory at night has been reduced by about two thirds from the total at the time of the Waler the Navy said that Between 900 and 600 cuban workers come through the Gate on an average work another 600 or so live on the base and never Cross Back into