European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday september 19, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 dilemma Miguel Ruiz an apprentice Matador has been hanging around Bull rings for some time but not usually like skewered his pants though not Miguel this. His opponent got in a Lucky Stab and during a fight in Madrid. A photo 12 15 20 24 17 41 47" 21 38 22 59 17 53 is 29 25 42 48 50 25 45 in 40 19 36 14 16 51 26 30 10 27 ii state department of journalists say lbs cancelled peace bid horizontal1. Marsh grass8. Fishing pole8. Mute 12. The Tunny 14. Cry of bacchanal 15. Clasped16. O casey17. Writing need18. To conceive20. Set in the ground23. Cicatrix 24. A circle25. A deed 28.hopklin Var 29. Young1 hog30. Press for payment32. Having made Awill 34. Sand hill35, heavy weights36. Renovate 37, lament 40. Knock41. Sandaran tree42. Trained 47. Ascend48. To free 49. Headland50. Enemy acout51. Hostess Aid vertical 1. 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Ashmore a pulitzer prize winning former editor of the Arkansas Gazette and no executive vice president at the Center for the study of demo cratic institutions Here said he and William c. Baggs editor of the Miami fla., news were the journalists who visited Hanoi. Talked with to Ashmore reporting in the institution s Magazine said he and Baggs visited for two hour with to Chi Minh and other senior officials of the North Viet namese regime and found them deliberately conciliatory and. To seemed prepared to con Sider a specific proposal base Don a formula of Mutual de  Ashmore said he and Bagg returned from Hanoi last Janu Ary and met soon after wit state department officials who asked them to keep details of the trip confidential. To had understood. Ash More said that we would re port our conversation to Testate department and expected some response since he handmade arrangements to have any further message sent directly  Ashmore said the response consisted of a letter drafted by Ashmore and Baggs in collaboration with William p. Bundy assistant Secretary of state foreast asian and Pacific affairs. Bundy said Ashmore s account was  he also denied Ashmore s charge that a letter from Johnson to to had scuttled peace Man Euver. Bundy said a direct Exchange then going on Between the United states and North Vietnam through Moscow was by far the most important in seeking peace possibilities. Ashmore understandably Felt his own Channel was at the Center of the stage bund added it was  Ashmore said the proposal reduced . Demands to some reciprocal restraint As a Condi Tion for a bombing halt prior to negotiations. However Ashmore declared president Johnson had already dispatched an uncompromising personal message to to Chi Minh dated three Days  set Forth Ashmore said the most stringent demands yet made for Advance Assurance that Hanoi would halt All infiltration of troops to the  the Ashmore Baggs letter approved by the state depart ment he said was sent Las feb. 5 Over Ashmore s Signa Ture throng h a prearranged cambodian Channel. The Johnson letter Ashmor Esaid was dated feb. 2 and transmitted through diplomatic channels via Moscow. The Tim ing Ashmore said made it cer Tain the Tough message reached Hanoi first. Demo Hawk says Thant is a nut by Jack Bel Washington a two Senate Hawks said monday a proposal by . Secretary general u Thant for a bombing Alt without any Hanoi commit ments would Only Cost Morei american lives in the Vietnam War. One called Thant a  Sens. George a. Smathers,d-pla., and Karl e. Mundt. R-s.d., disagreed vigorously with Thant s statement in a United nations news conference saturday that it would be Worth the risk for the United states to Stop air attacks without a North vietnamese pledge to de escalate the fighting. As he has before Thant said he believes meaningful talks would follow within three or four weeks after such a Cessa Tion. A Thant is a nut Smather said. All his proposal Means is that we would lose More american lives. Tried before All the communists would do would be to Rush More men an supplies into the South to kill our boys. We have tried this be fore and it has t  Mundt a member of the sen ate foreign relations commit tee said in a separate interview that Thant has been proved wrong every time up to  accepting his suggestion would Only mean More and More american casualties he said. The North vietnamese would Only use the Lull to tighten their defences move men and supplies to the South and we would pay for it in terms of  Smathers noted that than said he had suspended his own peace initiatives indicating he would not pursue efforts to get talks going until bombing i suspended. His suggesting a Way trend the War All right Smath ers said. If we just turned Thailand pulled out there would t be any need for his peace  Mundt said Thant could con tribute toward peace if he would just induce other unite nations members to quit sup plying arms to North  raised the question whether the United states would permit newly elected South Vietnam officials to order a sus pension of the bombing in their announced efforts to get talk started with Hanoi. President elect Nguyen Van Thieu has promised to offer a bombing pause and foreign minister Tran Van do told a Saigon news conference Las week he thinks the North Viet namese might take advantage of such a suspension to seek  said he doubts that the South vietnamese will be encouraged to ask for a sus pension of the air attacks unless president Johnson is convinced by developments that such action would promote the chances of peace. Ikdn9t answer Mell new iia Vun Conn. Up _ friends of Maxie Rose loom former Light heavyweight boxing Champion culled police flu ii uprated pounding on his hotel door failed Roget a response. An emergency it Unie squad broke into the room and found the former Champ out cold Ash of with his hearing Aid turned Oil