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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes wednesdays pm a 13, 1967 . Pilots stage heaviest attacks against Haiphong from a and up dispatches Saigon . Bombers Mon Day staged their heaviest raids of the War against Haiphong North Vietnam s largest port . Spokesmen announced tues Day in  Dock facilities were spared but jets from the carriers Coral sen and Oriskany hit two of the main Bridges in the City the main rail Yard and a sprawling warehouse  missiles sent against the raiders included two soviet built Sams which evidently went out of control and exploded near three ships including one polish and one italian anchored in the River Mouth 20 Miles from the port. One missile exploded 1,800feet above the ships and the other exploded in the water about egyptians israelis Duel for two hours Jerusalem up israeli Sand egyptians exchanged gun fire across the Suez canal for two hours tuesday. An israeli communique charged that the egyptians started the firing and ignore three . Cease fire orders be for the shooting  communique said the egyptians opened antiaircraft fire from the Western Bank at an israeli air Force plane flying Over the israeli held Eastern Bank. Israelis returned the fire with Light arms. The egyptians opened up wit heavy guns for a few minutes at israeli forces in the Kantar area on the Eastern Bank the communique said. The israeli returned the fire. Three arabs Hel another communique said israeli military authorities on the occupied West Bank of the River Jordan had detained three arabs who had interfered with the opening of schools in Arab popu lated areas. Israel announced monday i would allow the repatriation of 7,000 More refugees from the West Bank. The 7,000 had missed the aug. 31 deadline set for their return. The further repatriation will begin sunday and Israel has not announced a new deadline. No daily maximum has been fixed but it is understood provision shave been made for about 1,500 refugees to Cross  previous repatriation averaged Only about 700 a Day. It misunderstood that All 7,000 of those returning under the Lew arrange ment were permanent residents of the West Bank before the War. 2,000 Yards  spokesmen said the Amer ican planes struck Only four fifths of a mile from the Center of the City the closest  raids were aimed at Seal ing the port and blocking the movement of War supplies stacked on the docks the spokes men said. The sprawling Dock area itself a tempting target is banned to american bombers. But the Navy pilots dive bombed the storehouses the rail lines an the Bridges that move the sup plies imported into Haiphong which handles the majority of War goods flowing by sea int North Vietnam. . Officials said an air forceb57 Canberra was shot Down far South of Haiphong. The listed the two crewmen As miss ing. The Canberra was the 674thu.s. Plane listed As downed Over North Vietnam. . Pilots flew 110 bombing missions Over the North monday. In other action Viet Cong ground fire downed helicopter ambulance and a troop carrying helicopter was shattered when it landed on a guerrilla land mine . Official said. They said two americans were killed and 22 wounded.. Strike planes reported killing at least 68 guerrillas i South Vietnam monday. A South vietnamese army battalion caught a guerrilla Force in the Mekong Delta 60 mile Southwest of Saigon monday killing 23 and seizing two. The government troops suffered no casualties they reported. Lots of Luck Nat Chapman 10, son . Diplomat r. D. Chapman is going to need it when his dad sees this picture. Nat was nailed in the undiplomatic act at Copenhagen Ashe Chapmans headed Home from Moscow on retaliatory orders from the soviets. Up two climbers found dead on it. Rainier it. Rainier. National Park Wash. A two of three climbers trapped overnight in a blizzard High on it. Rainier were found dead monday Dan gling from ropes in a Crevasse into which they had plunged. They were Elmer Post 39, a truck Driver and his Nephew Davis Post 19. Their companion Jimmy Bartrum 19, suffered from exposure but otherwise Vas in Good shape. A nine Man Rescue party which had been turned Back by High winds and Snow sunday night reached the climbers at about 9,000-feet on the 14,410-foot Peakin mid morning. The group reported by radio that the posts apparently died from the cold not their fall. Surveyor s soil tests go smoothly Pasadena Calif. A tiny Black Box suspended from a spindly three legged Moo machine called Surveyor 5is returning signals to Earth that May Tell what the Moon is made of. Scientists at the Jet propulsion Laboratory said tuesday that signals were coming in photo on Page 17 Strong and Clear but that it willbe some time before Concrete results Are  spacecraft returned More than 160 pictures monday after touching Down gently sunday night when a Leaky valve almost late news London up a quarterly business Magazine appeared tuesday on Newsstands with the following front Page notice we apologize for the lateness of this Issue which should have appeared june 2. Our print shop burned june 1." hurts 26 marines Camp Pendleton Calif. A Twenty six marines Here were wounded monday when a grenade exploded in a grass fire the Marine corps said. Two of the men were listed in serious condition. Others were reported in satisfactory Condi Tion at the base s Hospital. A spokesman said the grass on the Rifle Range Yas set afire by marines shooting tracer Bullet from automatic rifles. About 100 marines the spokesman said moved for Ward to extinguish the Blaze. While they were fighting the fire the grenade  he said the grenade apparently hidden in the grass was an m79 fragmentation grenade which had failed to explode when fired at an earlier  names of those injured were not immediately released. Ruined the flight  Experiment to study the lunar crust began Early monday when the Black Box the Detec Tor analyser began bombard ing the soil beneath the space Craft with Alpha particles from radioactive curium 242, and be Gan Reading rays reflected from the surface. Blast kills i. Injures 4o in Alabama Sheffield Ala. Up a explosion ripped through the huge Reynolds metals aluminium casting Plant in muscle Shoals late monday night killing four workers and injuring at least 40  forceful was the blast that it crumbled a 200-foot Section of a Concrete Wall snapped an twisted steel beams and Shook the ground for a radius of similes in the Cluster of the four towns muscle Shoals Tuscumbia Sheffield and Florence around the sprawling install  of the workers died on the spot. The fourth died in Hospital Early tuesday. One of six hospitalized workers was put on the critical  units hunted through debris for several hours for move victims in the shattered building housing part of the Plant s alloys division. Scientists explained that Var ious elements reflect the Alph particles at different specific velocities and sensors in the Experiment relay the information to Earth via  Experiment was devel oped at the University of Chica go. Regarding Surveyor s Posi Tion scientists said it apparently is resting on a slope of almost20 degrees and they speculated the 600-Pound Craft May have landed near the Edge of a Shal Low  s main Mission is to photograph the Landing site As possible exploration area for astronauts. Weather h l 68 37 84 55 89 60 70 64 83 66 85 50 61 4767 39 82 56 63 55 77 49 72 43 85 48 81 60 72 44 70 49 93 66 55 44 87 65 90 70 77 4984 70 85 60 99 73 . Tern Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Atlanta Birmingham Bismarck Boston Buffalo Casper Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth Al Pas Fairbanks fort Worth Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas erasures h l 92 70 los Angeles 76 50 Louisville 83 61 Memphis 85 82 Miami Beach 65 49 Milwaukee 76 48 a lpns St. Paul 86 68 new Orleans 72 49 new York 82 60 okla. 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