European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes March 1966 civilian army seen by july March s up a civilian army at War strength and known is the sri selected Reserve Wilt be ready for Coll to Active military duty in Early the National guard Bureau said saturday that two week summer training schedules for the guards men will be completed by july the guard is supplying of the men for the with the rest coming from the organized army completion of summer training will meet Legal requirements for ending the Force overseas As Oon As possible after a for the first the guard is been Given the assets needed to meet our chief of the guard said in an he said the guard units Are at an average of per cent of War strength and will be nudging 100 per cent when they cardinals hold talks in Hungary March 8 Franz Cardinal Koenig archbishop of spent almost five hours sunday with hungarian Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty in the american legation giving Rise to speculation that a new Vatican drive to end the 10year exile of Mindszenty was under we talked about the ecumenical that is All i can Tell Cardinal Koenig told a Small group of legation not represented a legation spokesman said officials did not attend the talks and did not know the subject of the after about an hour of the two cardinals had then they continued their discus Cardinal Koenig said when he departed that he was returning to which he left Early sunday morning for the four hour drive to Airlift to fight uniform needs March 5 a Che defense launched an Airlift of army uniforms to outfit National guardsmen who have had to train in civilian the Pentagon says the Una orm Airlift is a matter of Dis not it was Learned saturday that Secretary of defense Robert Mcnamara issued an order late Friday for air National guard planes to pick up the uniform and distribute All states Aid men rejected by the draft March 5 up programs designed to improve the health of military service draft rejects turned Down for medical reasons Are now operating in All 50 the health education and welfare depart ment hew announced Satur surgeon general William Stewart said approval of a fed Era Grant to Ohio meant the pro Gram has now become nation some 115 million has been awarded to agencies within the so states to conduct health refer ral and counselling programs for hew under the state Agen cies evaluate medical records of those rejected and refer them to health and rehabilitation services in their own i go into summer defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara indicated at a press conference earlier this week hat a Reserve callup will be necessary if the number of troops committed to the Viet Nam now goes much above at an additional Cost which has not been announced but which apparently is under 1100 the sri has been allowed full Manning and equipment and two extra four hour drills per a civilian army at War strength was not heard of since the Days of Andrew Jackson until the 1981 Berlin crisis when two guard divisions and thousands of individual fillers were called to Active most of the Why me com according to de sense came from the the present plan is designed to avoid any need for them by having units at full strength when about half of the surfs strength is in three major combat divisions and six Independent the rest is in smaller support units distributed through 49 of the except which has Only armoured the divisions Are led by the 28th in the 38th in Indiana and the 47th in National guard sources said the move follows submission by the states of lists of their Shor tages in uniform equipment for guard units and that the aim is to give every Man a Gene Louis commanding general of the 3rd recently wrote to the Continental army come saying that there was a problem of clothing shortages for guardsmen in his Southeast United states especially fatigue uniforms which arc used i Truman said some guardsmen would be training in civilian guardsmen receive their uniform allowances upon reporting to Basic training an official because of a Back log at Basic training the National guard is giving pre Basic military training to new enlistees at the local the uniform needs Are to furnish Risey search american Wear ing protective go Over a Field near As the search for the atomic device lost in a b52 crash in attack 011 Erhard Adenauer urges nato Reform March 8 a former Chancellor Kon Rad Adenauer sunday attacked West German foreign policy and called for Reform of the n a t o Adenauer told a Congress of the Christian democratic of which he is that he will discuss problems connected with nato when he meets French president Charles de Gaulle he accused Chancellor Ludwig Erhards government of partially squandering away Good for eign relations attained since the most nations Back Rusk says March 8 up Secretary of state Dean Rusk said sunday three quarters of the worlds Small nations support the position in Viet Nam and have drawn strength from theres no doubt that the attitude of the United states in Viet Nam has Given deep encourage ment to Many Small he in this kind of a Strug every Small country has a Rusk said he knew at least 75 out of 100 Small nations sup port what were doing in Viet Many of them cant come Forward publicly and give us support because they have Simi Lar problems of their if the United states Rusk 100 Small countries around the world will breathe a sigh of Relief and be glad it came out that the Secretary comments came during a discussion with House democratic whip Hale Boggs that was taped for Tele cast Rusk and Boggs agreed that the Viet Cong is a front for Rusk its a and if the South vietnamese people have some peace and can have their own they can choose whatever government they in convinced Given the the people of South Viet Nam Are not going to choose the liberation or asked about suggestions that the Viet Cong should be represented at the bargaining Rusk said North Viet Nam has not changed its position that the Viet Cong be recognized As the sole representatives of the South vietnamese Haven been qualifying this Adenauer said that during his term As Chancellor reconciliation with next to reconciliation with had been his Foremost thought and warned that the government must reach an agreement with he said Reform of the nato pact was especially the article dealing with the member country obligation to assist each soon to retire soon to retire party advised the government to cultivate Friendship with France and not to lose sight of the aim of a United Europe which he said could not develop without franc american Friend even the United states wants to see the unification of Europe he Adenauer has previously made biting criticism of the govern ment and sundays attack also contained veiled criticism of foreign Man later Gerhard Adenauer leaves for Paris tuesday for a fou Day his group with a Basic Una guard authorities said that As the end of january about National guardsmen and about army reservists were unable to get into the army Basic training centers to Ake their 4to 10month Baste this is because the demands of the regular army buildup has clogged the training by the guard sources the backlog of men waiting Lasic training will total about the wait May average As Long As a the Pentagon said an uns Pec fled number of air National guard planes will pick up parts of army uniforms at Salt Lake Utah and to replace National guard Una Brm stocks that have been Tern wearily reduced due to recent increases in the strength of the training flights the air planes will he on Reg ular guard training flights for this the department the uniforms will be Consoli dated at Salt Lake Ity and Olmstead air Force and guard units will draw their requirements from the nearest of these the number of uniforms to be picked up is unknown the Pentagon Green Beret song takes 1 spot March 6 up a song written by a 25yearold Soldier who was fighting in Viet Nam a few months ago has taken Over the top rung in the weekly record a United press International Survey showed sat Barry who also docs the singing on the clicked with his Ballad of the Green which has passed the two million Mark in a member of the crack Green Beret was returned to the United states because of a severe foot dropping into second place after four weeks at the top was Nancy Sinatra these boots Are made for California dreaming by mamas and Papas moved into third Hermans hermits listen people was in and elusive Butterfly was Loyield test conducted in Nevada March 9 a the atomic Energy commission announced saturday it had conducted a Loyield underground nuclear test at Nevada testing it was the sixth announced weapon related test to be con ducted during a Loyield blast is less than the equivalent of an explosion of tons of
