European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page tit stars and stripes thursday september 14, 1967 House passes defense Bill imperils . Deal Washington up the House approved a record $70 billion defense Bill tuesday but insisted on an amendment that could jeopardize a Multi billion Britain May cancel order for . Jets London up Britain re acted sharply wednesday to in creasing . Restrictions on Pur chases of British arms and there contract for . Fill planes another equipment Worth nearly $3  was triggered by Congress vote tuesday Tobar a British bid for $60.5 million Worth of orders for minesweeper for the . Navy. The political correspondent of the guardian said the decision was taken by the British govern ment As a shabby return for British support of . Foreign and defense  the times quoted British officials in Washington As saying that the congressional veto was sufficient ground for Britain to cancel its fill contracts. There Are All sorts of troubles with the plane  London government quarters were More reserved in their immediate comment. Authoritative informants however left Little doubt that they Felt the latest congressional decision Fol lowing other recent restrictions imposed by the United states on British arms deals was unfair harmful and humiliating. Dollar arms Deal with the British. The measure swollen by Vietnam War requirements is the largest appropriation Bill Ever brought before  now goes Back to the Senate. A Compromise Between Sepa rate Bills passed earlier by the Senate and House the Legisla Tion would finance the nation armed forces for the 12 months that began last july 1.however, the military Tab confronting the taxpayer is retaliation a youth hurls a tear Gas can Nister Back at police during a negro open hous ing March on Milwaukee s South  tuesday night. Civil rights demonstrators and White mobs stayed away from each other however and no major incidents were reported. A marines push Back red invaders Saigon up guerrilla mor tar teams and assault troops wednesday attacked the string of . Marine and Allied forts on the North South Vietnam Bor Der. But the marines drove Back the invaders and american heavy bombers blasted their bases military spokesmen said. Marines reported six me killed and 99 wounded in the past 24 hours in apparently breaking the Back of one of the North vietnamese army s largest re cent efforts to crack the . South vietnamese defense . The guerrillas mortared  Marine forts. They also lobbed about 200 More shells onto three government outposts inflicting Light losses on troops at bombarded Crossroads just be four jazz shows set for Germany Munich is James Browband his jazz orchestra plus other entertainers will present four shows in Germany during the next two  group of 30 performers will put on two programs at 6 and 9p.m. Saturday in the Jahr Hun de Thalle in  musicians including Bobby Byrd James Crawford Vick Anderson and the .i.e. Dancers will be seen twice More at Zir Kus Krone in Munich sept. 26. Tickets ranging from 8 Marksman be purchased through Spe Cial services. King Constantino Back Home Athens up King Constan Tino and Queen Anne Marie of Greece flew Home wednesday from a visit to the United stat Sand Canada and talks with presi Dent Johnson and other . Officials. Hind the Allied  below the order s demilitarized zone do the spokesman  marines at their key con Thien fort hurled Back a pre Dawn charge by a reinforced North vietnamese company in a45-minute fight . Air Force b52 Strat fortresses streaked Over the Doz and dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on the invasion bases. Striking in wave after wave the biggest . Bombers in the War kept up their High level bar rage into the afternoon. Farther North . Air Force and Navy Jet fighter bombers flew 84 missions against the sup ply lines feeding the estimated three divisions that Hanoi has pushed up against con Thien and its adjacent forts.. Spokesmen reported no losses in the raiding. But the said ground  knocked Down an air Force f4c phantom tuesday. World doubts us claims Nixon new York a former  president Richard m. Nixon charged tuesday that America influence in the world is failing because other nations no longer believe what president Johnson s spokesmen  urged that Washington abandon sanctimonious Sermon izing about the morality of . Foreign policy and stress instead that All that is done is done in the primary National  Vietnam he said at a meeting of the National Indus trial conference Board at the Waldorf Astoria  s not. Enough to moralize about our being there to defend democracy or guarantee Freedom of Choice or to fall Back on the frail legalism about the Seato  Plain fact of the matter is that we Are fighting in Viet Nam for the same reason we fought in world War i and world War ii and Korea because our vital National interest is  unlike Michigan gov. George Romney who spoke about being brainwashed during a visit to Vietnam Nixon said he had no complaint about the briefings he received during his  visit there. Throughout his speech Nixon never mentioned the president by name but aides pointed out that no one else had spokes men whose views on policy Nix on claimed were distrusted. He also said american explanations for the nearly $117 billion spent on foreign Aid since 1945are greeted with scepticism. The world he claimed does t believe it when americans claim the reason was  our Aid programs Are Dis trusted abroad for the same Rea son they re in trouble at Home he said because we have not frankly stressed the simple fac that by helping others we re help ing  he said want a bet Ter reason for spending billion abroad when our own cities Are exploding with poverty at Home. 3 engines on Surveyor fired in test Pasadena Calif. A three rocket engines on the Moon berthed Surveyor 5 were fired on command from Earth tuesday night in a critical Experiment that could have destroyed the $60-million Mechan ism. Later scientists said the maintained Good Contact Indi Cating the spacecraft was no damaged at  the test was ordered to see How the Moon surface would react to the Landing of manned rockets. Scientists at the Jet propulsion Laboratory said results of the Experiment would not be known until photographs of the test Are  three Snall engines were triggered for one half second while cameras photographed the Moon s surface under the engines. It was the first  engines had been fired on the Moon. The Experiment was expected to show what would Hap pen when astronauts land on the Moon in a  said the test was risky because Surveyor had landed on a slope and might easily have been toppled by the Power of the rockets. Earlier scientists studied Pic Tures and signals from Surveyor 5, hoping to identify elements inthe lunar crust. Olav ends visit to Brazil Sao Paulo Brazil a King Olav first norwegian Mon Arch to visit South America ended his eight Day visit to Brazil wednesday. Expected to be even bigger before the fiscal year is of pc. Key members have predicted that president Johnson will ask Congress in january for several billions More to pay for the War in Vietnam. The Bill already contain about $20 billion for Vietnam  revolved almost entirely around a House inserted provision that would require All . Naval vessels to be built i american shipyards. It was specifically aimed at a .-British agreement under which English Yards would be permit Ted to bid on construction of seven wooden hulled minesweepers costing a total of $60.5 million. The Overall agreement Call for great Britain Over a 12-year period to buy $2.6 billion Worth of american military equipment while the United states Purcha ses $325 million of such goods from the British. House vote the House voted 233 to 144,not to Back Down from its previously taken position. The provision was supported by 158 republicans and 75 democrats most of whom Are from East coast shipping Points. Voting against it and with the administration were 131 democrats and 13 republicans. The Deal already has involved$1.7 billion Worth of British purchases from the unite states which has bought $143 million in British military supplies. To come Are $788 million in British purchases . F111a fighter bombers. The House upheld the original prohibition sponsored by Republican John w. Byrnes. His Home District includes Sturgeon Bay wis., one of three .communities with shipyards that build the minesweepers. Democrat s pleas democratic leaders pleaded with the House to reverse itself. They argued that the .government had made a commitment and that the Deal was heavily weighted in favor of american business and Labo interests. Opponents said Congress never authorized defense Secretary Roberts Mcnamara to make the agreement and that if the British built the seven  sweepers before Long they would be building All . Minesweepers. Suicide by water la Roche sur Yon France a Genevieve Fourreau a 37 year old Paris schoolteacher committed suicide Here by drink ing 15 quarts of water medical authorities reported wednesday. She was rushed to the Hospital i excruciating pain doctors said but could not be saved. Weather . Temperatures h u 74 37 87 58 96 66 76 66 61 46 74 46 63 41 68 54 77 53 77 48 82 53 80 59 74 44 70 64 04 64 92 68 88 72 82 54 76 73 82 65 99 73 83 73 77 59 75 70 Albany Albuquerque Murillo Birmingha Boston Buffal Casper chicag Cincinnati Clevelan Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth Elpaso fort Worth Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas Cit Las vegas los Angele Louisville Memphis h l 85 78 71 46 78 57 88 68 74 51 79 55 90 65 102 74 73 42 69 42 76 43 66 56 81 36 71" 42 82 52 90 76 68 44 89 63 80 71 88 65 69 47 88 62 96 70 73 47 Miami Beach Milwaukee plus St. Paul new Orleans new Yor Knorth Platte okla. Cit Phoenix Pittsburg Portland me. Portland Ore. Rapid Cit Yreno Richmonds. 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