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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, September 25, 1967

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 2 the stars and stripes Russia offers Good site for . Embassy Washington a stat department officials said Satur Day the soviet Union has offered what appears to be a satisfactory site for a new american embassy building in Moscow. The soviet offer May Lead to breakthrough in the Long standing .-russian deadlock Over building new embassy of fice quarters in their respective capitals. Each country has found its existing embassy space too Small for the increasing amount of diplomatic and other operations carried out but neither has been willing to Grant More space to the other without reciprocity. From cent Erthe soviets who now have a modest size embassy in an aging building on Washington s 16th Street downtown have been interested in some larger Sites farther from the City Cen Ter. One is a former veterans hos Pital near Washington s George town Section. Another is an estate in Washington s residential  soviet offer in Moscow was described As a 9.6-Acretract sloping toward the moskva River. It is just behind the pres ent . Embassy a former apartment . Wayne l. Hays a Ohio chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on state department operations was re ported to have made a Brief trip to Moscow to look at the pro posed new site. Taunting youths see death leap Norman okla. Up mental patient at Central state Hospital jumped 12 floors to his death Friday night before a taunting crowd of about 200 University of Oklahoma students. A witness said the students apparently did not think Frank Green 39, of Tulsa intended to jump. Some of them had called to him to do  had been a patient at the Hospital since tuesday. Authorities said he ate dinner at the Hospital about 6 p.m., approximately 45 minutes before he jumped from a 12th-Floorledge at a University dormitory. Norman police said Green smashed a window with a table and crawled onto the ledge. Astle students gathered they be Gan to shout at Green. He occasionally answered their taunts. Bank loan Bill signed Washington up pres ident Johnson Friday signed a Bill authorizing $900 million i Federal funds to the inter american development Bank Over the next three years. Monday september 25, 1967 criticizes red plan to help Hanoi Pope deplores Liis War Aid Vatican City a Pope Paul i deplored the Vietnam War sunday and criticized the so Viet decision to Send armaments to North  Pope spoke during his Usu Al sunday noon Blessing for the crowd in St. Peter s Square. It was his fourth Public appear Ance since a urinary inflammation struck him sept. 4. He looked much improved. To an estimated 40,000 Pil grims standing below his studio window under a hot Bright Sun the Pope voiced thanks for in Terest in his health and said that his recovery in a certain measure has permitted me to re sume my  then he turned to Vietnam saying that there had been re cent signs of Hope for a peace Ful settlement. Instead he added we now have the sad Prospect of new armaments and new  he did not mention Russia by name but his words were taken As unmistakable reference to the soviet announcement that it has signed agreements to Supply Hanoi with planes guns mis Siles and other weapons in 1968."where is Good will the Pope asked. Where is peace the Pope s physical appear Ance and the Strong sound of his voice testified to his recovery from the most painful and debilitating phase of his illness. His doctors announced Las week that he was on the Way to nearly Complete re Covey. Butane operation to remove the cause of the inflammation a enlarged prostate is nonetheless expected in  Pope s own words in a certain measure indicated that though he was much improved he was still not follow ing his Normal hectic work schedule. His statement on Vietnam washes first pronouncement on a International Issue since his ill Ness began. Informants said that eve though ordered by his doctors to rest he has begun again to Fol Low closely news of conflicts in the  was described As concerned both by the soviet arms decision and the intensified . Bomb Ings of North Vietnam. Of Etui. Evacuated an elderly woman resident of Harlingen tex., nursing Home is carried to safety after flood Waters covered South Texas following Hurricane Beulah. A photo Flag mishap hurts 1o at Berlin Tattoo Berlin up Ter. Spectators were injured saturday when a huge Union Jack fell into the stands instead of onto the Field during a British military Tattoo. A . Army helicopter dropped the Union Jack which was 40 Yards by 30 Yards apart of a British military Dis play in West Berlin s olympic stadium. West Berlin police said 10 per sons were taken to a Hospital. One woman was seriously injured police said. Arson attempt fizzles at Mcnamara s chalet Aspen Colo. Up a nationwide bulletin was issued saturday for unknown suspect who boasted they would Burn Down defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara s Mountain chalet Home near Here in revenge . Policy in Vietnam. The suspects who advertised their arson attempt in a letter to United press International in Denver used a device made of cans of lantern fuel Candle and twine in their 46 Camp in czech no mans land Furth in Wald Germany a forty six iranians and pakistanis expelled by Czecho Slovakia and refused entry into West Germany became the Cen Ter of an International tug of War saturday. They Are camping in the no mans land Between the two  entry visas and work permits they Are not allowed Tenter West Germany a police spokesman said  group has made its Home in the narrow strip bordered none Side by barbed wire and on the other by a troop of Czecho slovakian guards armed with machine guns the spokesman said. In the group Are 17 men an women and 29 children. Thirty eight Are from Iran and eight from Pakistan he said. He said the group left their Homes on aug. 9 and travelled in cars Overland through Turkey Romania Yugoslavia and Hun Gary into  they arrived there t h e tires on their vehicles were worn smooth. Because of this the vehicles were confiscated the group was driven to the w e s t German Border and ordered to drive into the no mans land in their returned vehicles the spokesman said. To deter them from returning the czechoslovakian left behind a 15-Man armed guard. A group spokesman said they want to travel through West Ger Many to France. The men he said Are carpet makers. West German soldiers have erected a tent for the group and sent in Straw for them to sleep on. The German red Cross has sent in food supplies. Unsuccessful attempt to Burn Mcnamara s Home sept. 7. The twine had just begun Toburn when workers building the Home put it out before it did severe damage. Mcnamara s Home was slightly damaged bythe fire. A letter postmarked the Day of the fire was sent to up in Denver saying the defense Secretary s House would be burned in retaliation for . Policy i Vietnam. The letter was Post marked at Leadville Colo. The letter contained stencilled letters so it could not be traced. Up turned Over the letter to the Fri which sent it to Washington for tests. Before up told Pitkin count sheriff Carrol Whitmire of the letter he said the fire apparently was aimed at the contracting firm which was building Mcnamara s Home. Saturday s All Points bulletin issued by Deputy sheriff Joseph Day at Aspen requested information on any suspects using the same method of operation used on Mcnamara s Home near the Snowmass ski area about eight Miles West of Aspen. Tunisia ousts Mao diplomats for meddling Tunis Tunisia a the communist chinese charge d affaires and All members of the embassy staff were declared Persona non grata in Tunisia saturday night and told to leave the country. The order took effect at Midnight. The move which amounts Toa temporary break in diplomatic relations came after several months of strained relations and a series of angry notes last  chinese diplomats had been looked on with Disfavour be cause it was alleged that they stirred up tunisian  charges sellout the chinese sent a note to the tunisian government saying in placing itself on the Side of american imperialism the tunisian government is setting outto Divide and break up the anti imperialist front of the Arab peo Ples. It is Selling out the tunisian people and the  the tunisian foreign ministry rejected the note with a warn ing that such behaviour threat ened Normal diplomatic relations Between the two countries. The chinese rejected the rejection. The tunisians also provide that no new chinese diplomats would be accepted unless a not of apology were sent to the tunisian government. Escape to West Berlin stopped by e. Germans Berlin a an apparent escape attempt to West Berlin was stopped Friday night by flare firing East German Border guards police reported  police officials were Able to see someone being led away in the Light of the flares but were unable to determine these of the would be refugee. Schroeder leaves Hospital Hamburg Germany a defense minister Gerhard Schroeder who was stricken witha heart flutter on aug. 29, left Hamburg University clinic sat urday looking fresh and relaxed after being hospitalized for 25days. 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