European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse T thursday september 7, 1967 the stars and stripes More i ii Bat troops for Vietnam trigger pullers on orders. Saigon a the 45,000 to50,000 new . Troops ticketed for duty in South Vietnam yearly next Spring will include a larger percentage of front Lin combat men than Ever before. At least 75 per cent of the new troops probably 20 battalions or More will be trigger pull ers it was Learned wednesday. The reason for the increase i combat soldiers is that Over the last two years the United state Shad to build an enormous logistics base As Well As help fight the War. The logistics base is now said to be capable of sup porting the new combat troops with a proportionately much smaller increase in its own strength lower at the same time it also was Learned that the . Command believes the estimated enemy strength in South Vietnam is perhaps much lower than the297,000 carried in weekly . Headquarters reports Over the past several weeks. It is known that some High ranking . Officers feel the figure is meaningless because i includes at least 57,000 men and women who Are political cadres and administrative types. American intelligence lists120,000 North vietnamese and Viet Cong main Force troops i South Vietnam plus another 120,000 local american command it is understood now has a much larger base of solid intelligence including More documents bet Ter interrogators and More in formers. A Broad new Intelli gence analysis of the enemy strength is being made and re sults Are expected to be made Public in a month. The new american forces scheduled for Vietnam will in clude several helicopter units. The . Command wants to get the new troops into South Viet Nam As soon As possible. There is no target Date but by i Footstool i i Toadstool i i Louisville by. Apr Don Chambers of Louis = s Ville says he found a three Pound mushroom that is e s 31 inches in circumference. 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Analysis of available Fig resin Washington in july suggested that about 183,000 of the roughly531,000 military men playing a role in the vietnamese War were assigned to what Are rated by defense department official Sas combat Type units. This works out to a percentage of about 34.4 combat men or roughly one third of the of defense Robert s. Mcnamara indicated on his return from a visit to South Vietnam last july 11 that he hoped to get More combat Power out of the forces already inthe country at the time. Most of the additional 45,000to 50,000 new troops that will arrive in Vietnam will come fro existing Active units of the strategic Reserve Force de sense department officials have said. Art form Yayoi Kusama of new York paints Martha Melnikof Philadelphia at a festival of hippies in Provincetown mass. Miss a Lisama of Greenwich Village s psychedelic set usually does her creative work in Heaters. Up photo stabbed playwright s daughter youth sentenced in killing London a an american youth pleaded guilty wednesday to the manslaughter of the girl of my dreams the 20-year-old daughter of a new York play Wright and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The preceding magistrate atthe old Bailey said this did not mean Richard Henry Geffken,19, of Brooklyn n.y., would spend the rest of his life in Pris on. He said he would recommend to the Home Secretary that the new York youth be deported As soon As he was considered fit to leave jail. The prosecution said Geffke stabbed Shannon Gay love 20, daughter of playwright Edmund love 14 times at a London hotel where they were staying on june8. Her father is author of the play subways Are for met at Library prosecutor Alastair Morton told the court Geffken and miss love met at a new York Public Library where both were employed. Having met her Geffken fell madly or insanely in love with her the prosecutor told him of a trip she was going to make around the world and it was suggested that scientists to discuss rocks from Moon space Center Houston up a group of 110 scientists from throughout the world will gather at the manned spacecraft Center sept. 18-21 to discuss tin first rocks to to brought Back from the Moon. The United states and Canada the United kingdom Finland Germany Japan and Switzerland will provide scientists for the project. They should meet in Greece and go together to London. It seems that she did not love him but he began to keep a diary and in it he put Down his feelings and Morton said Geffken wrote in his diary on May 13 i met the girl of my dreams and fell Madlyin love with another entry said she told me she was dated by other men but did not want to Date me anymore. I slashed my another extract she told meow her lovers her go to bed Lov ers. She told me she had had Romany she really could not re member any More. She was areal slut much worse than the prostitute who does it for a Liv ing. If she hurts me again i will kill also wrote i must marry her. She will leave Europe As my wife or As a said a postmortem examination showed 14 Stab wound sin the girl s Chest and Back. He said the youth told police when arrested i did it my god i did it. Have nobody now not even a police medical officer Testi fied that Geffken was suffering from Early stages of schizophrenia. William Howard the defens attorney told the court the youth s background was girl had a different social background and she was far More sexually mature. He said she had taken the hallucinatory drug Ltd and smoked had undertaken her trip around the world to visit he Mother mrs. Libby George who lives in Manila. Reagan planning tour of 5 states Sacramento Calif. Up gov. Ronald Reagan unveiled plans wednesday for a five tour next month. The Republican governor said he was making the tour to Ken Tucky Iowa Kansas Texas an Illinois with some reluctance. He acknowledged that the newfound of speeches primarily at party fund raising events would raise further questions about his presidential just decided it was ridiculous to let this speculation which is not going to Stop any Way keep me from doing the party chores which i think should be done he said. Reagan repeatedly has denied he is a contender for the Republican presidential nomination next year. But he plans to run As a favorite Sou in California and has said he will not pull his name from the ballots in open primary states such As Oregon Nebraska and Wisconsin. Judge s Laius to in to pot al1uon, Mich. Did sheriff Joseph lie Herr is trying to find the person who i anted 50 Mari Juana Bushes in a Patch of land Here. The land is owned by municipal judge Theodore Van Dellen
