European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 1he stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1967 the spirit of 67 to observe the spirit of 76 by Dick West Washington up when president Johnson appointed . Team to observe the Vietnam election there were suggestions that a vietnamese team be sent to observe the next . Election. Faint suspicions were arouse that these proposals were being made in a jocular vein. Within that spirit let us look ahead to october 1968.i take you now to Saigon where president Nguyen Van Thieu is holding a news conference. Thieu please be seated gentlemen. I have a Brief announcement. I have today named a 22-member team to go to America next month to observe the presidential election . Or. President does this imply that you have som reason to believe the american election May not be on the up and up a. Of course not. However would urge the vietnamese people not to judge the american election by our own. We must remember that the americans have had the free ballot for less than 200 years. Before that they were under the thumb of a colonial Power. Q. What Type of comparison do you think would be unfair a. For one thing the vote turnout in the 1964 . Election was Only 62 per cent where sour 1967 turnout was 83 per cent. It would be expecting to much to use our percentage As a Standard for the . What turnout would you consider satisfactory a. The vietnamese govern ment will be delighted if the . Turnout approaches the 65per cent Mark. We would take that As evidence that the democratic process is firmly established in . Do you anticipate that riots and demonstrations which have occurred in some american cities will keep people away from the polls a. It is obvious that outbreaks of violence Are not conducive to orderly elections. However behave Confidence that . Officials will be Able to keep the situation under control. Q. What other factors might contribute to a poor turnout a. As you know an american presidential Campaign last approximately four years. For the first three and a half years All the campaigning is done by non candidates who Are no running for president. Many voters then respond by nonvoting. Q. Which . Candidate Doe the vietnamese government wish to see elected a. Our policy is strict neutrality. Why else would Webe sending Over a team of observers new Lockheed 3-Jet Airliner to carry 300 new York a lock heed aircraft corp. Said Mon Day it is re entering the com Mercial transport aircraft Field with a three Jet Airliner that will carry 300 persons More than 2,000  plane will be the com Pany s first in the Jet passenger eld. But a famous Lockheed product still flies Many world airways it is the shark bodied Constellation. The 4-engine con Nie has Long been a favorite of  produced its last airline transport in 1962 when it turned out its 170th four engine Electra Prophet. Since then it has been producing chiefly military Craft and lost out to Boeing inthe design Competition for the supersonic  think this air plane will 3e a Winner Daniel j. Haugh ton Board chairman told a news conference. 600 Miles per hour the plane designated the l1011, will have a cruise Speed of 600 Miles per hour. Two of its engines will be located beneath the swept Wing and the third in the Tail of the  plane costing $15.6 Mil lion is designed for the 800 to2,000 mile so called Airbus routes such As Chicago Westcoast. In one seating arrange ment two aisles Are provide with four sets of two seats across the almost 20-Fopt-wide  new Airliner will be up against two established . Competitors Boeing s 727 and Doug Las dc9, both medium distance passenger aircraft. Royal treat her name is Stacey King and she Hopes some Day to be crowned As movie Queen and earn a princely sum. But at the moment Sheds Only a Starlet making her de but in the film the  up photo is it Custer s last stand on to new York a the indians took their Battle against Gen. George Custer tothe White Man monday. They asked sponsors to drop a new television program the leg end of Custer on ground that it glorifies Custer s criminal atrocities against american Indian people and presents them in a  the series deals with the legendary exploits of Custer a . Cavalry officer an civil War hero killed with All his men in an 1876 Battle wit the Sioux. The program clearly misidentified As a fictionalized series based on a legend said a spokesman for the american broadcasting com Pany which introduced the television series last  said it had received some  association on Ameri can Indian affairs which claims 30,000 members sent telegrams to sponsors of the program. A Sioux tribe at Pine Ridge,s.d., the Yakimas in Washington state and the red Lakeland of chippewas in Minne Sota have joined the  is no More appropriate for your company to sponsor series glorifying an Ameri can army officer who engaged in the senseless Slaugh Ter of women and children than it would be to sponsor one romanticizing the exploits of nazi War criminals or an american slave trader the telegrams said. Close Call firemen inspect the scorched hell of a Forestville md., Home after a Navy Reserve f8 crusader Jet crashed into it in Juring one person inside. The Pilot from nearby Andrews fab ejected safely. The Jet crashed As it approached the base runway. Up photo coast guard has trouble attracting negroes Washington a . Coast guard is having Trou ble attracting negroes into it ranks particularly at the Cadet and officer  his inaugural Parade Jan. 20, 1961, president John  noted there were no negroes in the coast guar Academy s Cadet corps. He made his observation known to Academy officials who launched a nationwide recruit ing drive at predominantly negro High schools and  the drive was not notably successful. The Academy graduated its first negro Merle j. Smith of Baltimore last june. Guard spokesman said he is now one of five negroes in the service s officer corps of 3,700. Five of the Academy s700-plus cadets Are negroes. Nineteen of the coast guard s1,182 warrant officers and 674 of its 30,000 enlisted men Are negroes. Negro representation is far higher among coast guard civilian employes538 negroes among 3,170 White Collar work ers and 430 among 2,600 other Jobholder. We be made a greater Effort to beat the Bushes to get them to g o to apply to the Academy spokesman said. But when they be got the know How an ability to make the Grade they choose other More  unlike the other military service academies whose Ca dets Are appointed by Congress men the coast guard Academy requires Standard College boar Entrance examinations and a Tough physical test. One Factor that Likely deter negroes from applying the spokesman said is the required five year hitch that follows graduation. The Academy pro Vides a four year course leading to an officer s commission and Bachelor of science degree in engineering. Prior to 1962, Only one negro had been admitted to the new London conn., institution in 76yearsand he withdrew in 1957 with a kidney ailment the spokesman said. Two negroes Are among this year s new Ca dets