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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 19, 1967 floods kill 10 gis on Viet Border Saigon up Monsoon Rains striking earlier than expected triggered unprecedented floods along the demilitarized zone monday isolating and endangering . Marine Frontier posts holding Back a North Viet namese thrust Force. The floodwaters have killed a least 10 marines and scores of civilians it was  far As we can gather there has never been flooding to this extent around Here maj. Gen. Bruno Hockmuth com Mander of the 3rd Marine div said. The big problem is get Ting supplies particularly am munition from support bases to Marine  military officials feared the North vietnamese with an estimated 35,000-Man buildup in the demilitarized zone might try to overrun the Marine outposts in anew Monsoon offensive. Spokesmen said monday the Headquarters town of Dong a had 18 inches of rain in 24  heavy Rains hampered air strikes one of the chief weapon helping hold off the expected communist thrust. But North vietnamese mortars and rockets continued to Hammer the key outposts of con to Linen and Camlo where marines were huddled in Foxholes up to their Waist in water. 22 marines wounded a military spokesman said that several North vietnamese prob ing attacks hit into the barbed wire perimeter during the night. Twenty two marines were wounded most of them by mor tar  cleared Over much of North Vietnam meanwhile . Jets striking closer than Ever before to communist China hit three targets inside the vital port of Haiphong and bracketed Hanoi with bombs. A radio Hanoi report Mon Day said five planes had been shot Down four Over Hanoi an the fifth an unarmed reconnaissance plane a . Spokesman said an air Force f4c phantom reconnaissance Jet was downed by ground fire sunday Northwest of Hanoi. No entry the Vatican does not per Mit women in trousers to enter St. Peter s so this Young tourist in shorts had to Cool her heels while her male companion wearing old jeans and sandals roamed through the Basilica splendours. Up Nixon to run in 4 state primaries new York a former vice president Richard m. Nix on has set up Campaign organizations in four states that will hold presidential primaries to prove to Republican leaders that he can win at the  have to be dramatically effective in the primaries he said in an interview sunday. If i can t demonstrate the Abil Ity to win i be had  Nixon formerly a californian and now a resident of new York has no Home base and no built in Delegate strength in the race for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Despite the National Nixon for president committee and the state organizations Nixon has not formally announced for the  opponents charge that he has not won an election on disown for 17 years but was swept to Victory twice on an Eisen Hower tide. Nixon lost the presi Dency to John f. Kennedy in new soccer fan riots destroy 9 buildings Istanbul a rioting broke out monday in the City of sivas in Central Turkey. Scream ing mobs attacked shops and stores owned by residents of the neighbor City of Kayseri where 44 persons died in a soccer match riot sunday. Police in sivas said seven stores and a hotel were destroyed by fire before Security forces could disperse the mobs. The provincial government called in the local army Gar Rison to help put Down the  were no immediate re ports of dead or injured. Police could not estimate the size of the mob saying rioters kept moving through different parts of the City of 100,000. The rioting broke out after reports from Kayseri 125 Miles away indicated that most of the dead in the sunday tragedy were fans from  estimated 5,000 sivas fans had travelled to Kayseri for the minor league soccer game be tween the two cities. When the Kayseri squad scored the first goal stones flew Between opposing fans. Fighting and a Stampede for the exits followed. 1960 and lost the race for Gover nor of California in 1962. Nixon an d his staff Are warily confident of Victory in three of the states new Hampshire Wisconsin and Nebraska but leery of his chances in  in Case things go wrong there Nixon s staff is strongly considering entering him in the june 4 South Dakota Pri Mary. That would be Protection if we lost Oregon said Nixon organizer John Sears in an inter View. As a matter of fact we probably will enter since we Are very Strong there and got 58 percent of the Republican votes in the last  Early organization in the states with primaries was in tended to demonstrate Nixon s seriousness of purpose when he said in an interview i will enter the primaries and my Fate just a figure of speech Nikita s we will Bury you no threat Harriman claims new York up Nikit Khrushchev s famous prediction we will Bury you. Has Bee widely misinterpreted As a threat when in reality he was speaking metaphorically says w. Averell Harriman the .ambassador-at-Large, writing in the current Issue of look Maga Zine. Harriman said that in 1959the former soviet Premier stoutly maintained that his highly publicized expression was not a threat of physical  he had meant it he told me in the historic sense communism would outlive capitalism just As capitalism had supplanted  the controversial phrase was addressed to Western diplomats at a reception for Poland Wladyslaw Gomulka in novem Ber 1956.Harriman, a former Ambas Sador to Russia visited Moscow sick cancels appointments Moscow up Alexei Kosygin the russian Premier is slightly ill and has been forced to cancel some of his appointments a foreign ministry spokesman said monday. The spokesman did t com ment on How Long the Premier has been ailing what he was suffering from or How Long his doctor expected the i 11 n e s s to  sources said that Kosy Gin s illness was one of the Rea sons Why turkish Premier Suleiman Demirel cancelled his offi Cial visit which was scheduled to begin monday in  has returned to Istanbul directly from Bucharest his Las scheduled Stop before Moscow. Kosygin 63, was last known to be sick in mid january 1966. He then spent five Days in the Kremlin Hospital for treatment of an influenza virus after he re turned from a trip to India to Moscow s 30-degree-below-Zeroweather. Privately in 1959 after his term As new York governor had ended. Summarizing discussions he had with Khrushchev at that time Harriman found him to be Harriman Khrushchev As firm As his predecessors in his belief in the eventual spread of communism throughout  the United states Khrushchev thought would be the last to Suc Cumb. However 1 found that his ideas of How communism would spread were quite different from Stalin s. Stalin had told me that communism would expand through the errors of capitalism or in the aftermath of capitalistic wars Harriman wrote. Khrushchev on the other hand maintained that communism was such a Success in the soviet Union that other nations would want to follow the  and thus the world known cry we will Bury  will be determined  said however that he will not go barnstorming but May make pre Campaign speeches in new Hampshire an Wisconsin in november. Ill be concentrating on the issues he said holding intensive meetings with the Best brains in the country on domes tic issues. I m looking for a new approach. The programs of the Eisenhower Era Are not adequate for the 70s. The times have  the new Hampshire primary March 12 is the first in the nation and traditionally sets the trend. Nixon s soundings Sho him with 63 per cent of the re publican votes Michigan gov. George Romney with 30 and Theresa scattered. The Nixon forces Are polling Wisconsin and they say Early indications Are  have set up an Organiza Tion there which Aims to conciliate both conservatives and liberals who have traditionally been split in that state. George Crook of Lincoln president of the Bankers life insurance co., is organizing the Nixon Campaign in Nebraska. Polls there show that Nixon Al ready has 50 per cent of the re publican vote and Sears claimed Well win very  Nix on carried Nebraska in 1960with 61 per cent of the vote. 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