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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I berlins sharpest on Parade see sunday Magazine Navy sticking to duller to eat Margarine March 25 up tin Pentagon ordered the army and air Force Friday to switch from butter to mar sailors will continue to eat the Dis Price spread be cause the Law requires Deputy defense Secretary Cyrus Vance ordered the army and air Force to Stop buying butter immediately and switch completely to the Pentagon said it can get mar Garine for in cents u but Ter costs 70 the Navy will continue to buy butter because the Navy ration Law of March requires that it tuck pounds of butter per the Vance order will reduce total armed forces butter Pur chases to the Navy a drop of 1 million pounds a officials said it will mean a saving of u or a Dairy state congressmen greeted the announcement with cries of but Mendel chairman of the House armed services who frequently attacks Pentagon Economy said he endorsed the butter cutback As of is not Only As Good As butter in every respect but considerably less he unofficial Nim Pipii of form in Nohh Africa and ii a Eddlo Eail 341 if 21855 a i sunday d March 1966 marines attack South of Saigon poor mourning Gorilla at the Pittsburgh zoo lakes a disappointed look at her the 4yearold Gorilla recently lost her mate and a to set was put in her Cage la Proehle hut the animal didst set the vivid details of flight Given Tell of thrills March 26 up astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott said saturday their flight into space was one of the greatest thrills that can Ever to despite a control problem that brought death near on March the pilots of gemini facing newsmen for the first Lime since the voyage that took them from Triumph to wove u fascinating Story of a perfect leap into u Docking with another satellite and then trouble 185 Miles above the flight ended in an emergency Landing after Only 10 42 minutes of a planned three Day Robert director of the space Agency manned spacecraft Center near said the spectacular Success of a linkup with the Agena tends to be a Little bit overshadowed by the the malfunction was a Short circuit that caused a thruster to Slick wide throwing gemini 8 out of i Armstrong und newly awarded exceptional service described in vivid detail the flight from the launching at Cape Kennedy to the emergency Landing in the Western Pacific 500 Miles East of once the Agena had into a near perfect orbit Miles up to set the stage for a Chase through space gemini 8 blasted Olf in what Armstrong described As one of the greatest thrills that can Ever in  by a the vehicle Titan performance was lie there was a slight amount of Durins the Early phases until we became As the first i f the Titan 2 separated High a pc the he we cuu Elered a Small evidently a backlash from tiny Iii of the it some on the triangular windows if the this was just Hie first visual observation of Niani that i wish i i Ful l buddhists protest in capital March 26 up marines landed Satur Day in a driving Thunder storm at the Mouth of the Saigon River in a hold strike aimed at Clearing out Viet Cone guerrilla menacing Supply ships in route to Saigon 25 Miles to the the military action mingled with a tense political atmosphere in Saigon As Buddhist teen agers swarmed through the streets in u demonstration against the military government of pre Mier Nguyen Cao the dam ont ration followed u mass meet i ing of buddhists to express disapproval of the first time it was the first time the Buddhist unrest that swept the North Ern provinces had extended to Saigon the manifestations came barely one Day after by promised to hold constitutional elections within two months As step toward restoring civil Buddhist who played a key role in overthrowing three previous have been demanding the 10man military Junta turn the government Over to civilian in trying to appease moved up his election schedule by nearly a Peninsula assault a Marine battalion of to men stormed ashore in a three pronged amphibious and helicopter assault on Long Thanh Peninsula in the Mekong the first Lime combat troops have struck that far South in Viet a spokesman said the marines Haj made no significant Contact in operation slay Nim Eil at securing a mangrove swamp area bordering the Ger ill Al ii weather Wirtly with county Ullh i Lilli Low lec aided 51 a p 57 61 p 17 u p 10 39 p 30 41 r 36 w p up Italy r am pm 36 61 p 2f 37 p 34 41 r 37 43 p 39 52 p 15 61 p Weilhart Wing  
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