European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Wednesday september 27, 1967 the stars and stripes _ _ _ _ every time we get dug in they tear it con Thien. Vietnam Tal \ Milne  in a u4ii_. M Page 3vietnam a Charlie s reveille was at 7 15 . Monday. There was the familiar whine coming from across the demilitarized zone but no explosion. I must have been a Dud. Then Charlie s reveille came full blast for 15 minutes in which rockets mortar and Artil Lery shells fell by the hundreds into this . Marine outpost 2l/2 Miles below the Doz. Charlie is the . Soldier nickname for the communist enemy in Vietnam and his reveille is one of the barrages that have been hitting the marines Here daily since sept. 1. The marines estimated that the communists fired Between 300 and 500 rounds in the15-minute reveille monday for the leathernecks on the three japanese bom Beauty in . Little Hills that Are their Conthier position. Before noon two other lighter barrages hit the marines. Day after Day it is the Sam pattern As the big North Viet namese guns in along or North of the Doz Batter con Thien. Marine guns Here and at other nearby outposts Hammer Back at the enemy and air strikes Pound the treeline ridges and mountains to the North. Still the communist shelling Goeson. In monday s first shelling . Casualties were relatively Light. This was because it came Early and most of the Marine were still in their holes on the Muddy Hills. Later in the Day the casualties would be expected to mount As they have since the communist forces to the North again picked up their wife doubts Sukarno will regain Indonesia Helm jew Portt to \ thata vvinnt.r.1. 0.1 _ _ a  ,. Be York a the Jap anese born Beauty who in 1959became the e third wife of indonesian president Sukarno said monday she doubts that he will regain political control of indo Nesia. I Don t think so and i Don twant it Madame Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno said in an inter View. She added it has been a very hard  mme. Sukarno and her 6-month-old daughter Partika Sari Are staying at the fifth venue apartment of entertainer Joey Adams and his wife Cindy who has written several books about  at the Adams apartment mme. Sukarno said she last saw Sukarno on nov. 14, 1966. She has been living in Japan for the past 10 months. She said she came to the United states because of Hostil Ity shown to her by segments of the japanese press and that she Hopes to spend quiet an peaceful Days Here. Concerning her husband who was ousted from Power in an october 1965 coup she said unfortunately we have to live separately but As soon As conditions improve i will return  mme. Sukarno who married the indonesian Leader nov. 3, 1959, posed for news photograph ers with Partika and smiled broadly while saying i would like to show him the baby so  she gave birth four months after leaving Indonesia. But tears formed and her voice broke when she answered questions about a possible return to Power by the 67-year-old Sukar no. She is 26.she said that to her knowledge Sukarno is currently living i Bogor Palace an hour s drive from . Adams who wrote a biography of Sukarno and second volume my Friend the dictator which will be published in november said that mme. Sukarno was unwilling to return to Indonesia because the Suharto regime and student groups there were opposed to her. Sukarno who has two other wives under moslem practice is unwilling to leave Indonesia said mrs. Adams. The Adams couple met Sukarno while Joey and a troupe of 30 entertainers were touring Southeast Asia in 1961 As Good will ambassadors of then presi Dent John f. Kennedy. I Partika mrs. Dewi Sukarno holds 6-month-old daughter Partika Sari who draws most of biographer Cindy Adams attention on arrival in new York. Up photo Campaign of throwing their heavy Metal at the marines on the High ground. Cpl. Nathaniel Brennan a21-year-old squad Leader from Miami fla., and his me worked to deepen their Little Bunker on the northernmost  is really something else Brennan said. Ever time we get dug in they tear it up. This is the Impact area. I do believe this is the worst spot you can possibly be in but i think m going to be Here a lot so like they say never worry his men All of them 19, 20, 21 years old nodded agreements their shovels dug into the clinging mud. A couple of Hundred Yards tothe North of them and near the foot of the Little Hill there were strands of barbed wire. Brennan said that every night Charlie comes in close and tries to Cut the wire or blast it with Bambo Bangalore torpedoes. He gets right in there he said and then we try and Zap him  s. Sgt. W. B. Brown 26, of Losangeles a platoon sergeant made his plans for a night am Bush out beyond the thin Peri meter. Maybe we can catch him Upa Little bit and fix him Brown said. Dive for cover capt. Frank breath 29, of Annandale va., the commander of the company on the Northern slope stood talking with one of his platoon leaders 2nd it. Joe Williams 23, of Atlanta a. Breath caught the sound of a incoming round. They dived for the command Bunker and another Brief barrage rained in on con Thien. Within minutes twas Over and they crawled Back from the mud of the Bunker tothe mud outside and picked up their conversation again. It s the Best place to be said the lieutenant As he looked around at his Hill. It s Bette than fighting  he meant the Viet Cong guerrillas operating farther South. Con Thien is the High ground Here and the marines have committed themselves to holding  the mounting casual ties the command feels it canard must be held. To give it up would give the communists Amajor prestige and propaganda Victory. But strategically Conthier s High ground gives the marines a Vantage Point in their continuing guard against a North vietnamese invasion. Fighting spirit a German Driver s top Talent Bonn up passing another car on a High Speed Road is Chancy anywhere in the world but in Germany there s an additional Hazard the Man you overhaul almost certainly will consider the action an affront and May attack you at the next red Light. Whether they re working Offan inferiority Complex that is a consequence of losing their Las two wars or whether it s be cause germans View the world in a Friend enemy Light the fact is that some of the worst fights in this country take place on the roads and highways. Bloody baffles the news Magazine Der Spie gel in a review of some of the recent bloody Highway conflict described it All As the four wheeled juror germanic us of the20th  items a Frankfurt banker and his chauffeur chased a Man who passed them pulled him from his car when he stopped for alight and beat him. The assail ants were fined $500 and $200,respectively, for Rowdy ism. They appealed. So did their victim on the ground the fines were too Low. The appeals Are  a returning from an italian vacation tried to pass heavy truck in the austrian mountains but went into a Slid and ended up against a guard rail on the opposite Side of the  a heading for Italy barely was Able to Brake to Ahalt in time to avoid a collision. Annoyed Driver b ran to the first car pulled open the door and smashed Driver a in the face. Driver a counterattacked with an open pen knife puncturing his assailant s right lung. Al though bleeding internally Driver b continued the Battle beat ing Driver a Over the head with his wife s furled umbrella. Driver a retaliated by knocking Driver b s wife to the  finally arrived and the Case is to be heard in an Austria court in a few weeks. A group of men in Nuernberg passed a car from Mainz. The Mainz Driver made an obscene gesture. The Nuernberger stopped and one of them spat inthe Mainzer s face. A nearby construction site provided both Side with weapons and the fight was pretty much a Well bloodied draw until one of the Nuernberg men produced a pistol and shot the Mainz Man dead wounding still another Man. The gunman received seven years in prison. Driver fled in Cologne a pedestrian complained to a Driver that his lights were too Bright and blinding to walkers along the Road. The Driver leaped from his car an knocked Down the pedestrian so forcefully that he died the Driver fled. Captured later the Driver claimed he attacked in self defense and drove away Only because the woman with him was t his wife. He awaits trial. All these cases have occurred in the last 20 months and Are Only representative of anymore. Daily there Are traffic pileup because one Driver won give Way to another or because Drivers get out of their cars to argue or Exchange blows. Psychologists have offered variety of explanations for the extreme aggression of German Drivers. Some say they Are aggressive because most of themare new Drivers who Haven t yet Learned to consider their car simply As a Means of transportation. This May explain Why Frankfurt Man recently shot his neighbor when the neighbor scratched the bumper of his car. No american driving in Ger Many has yet been shot for this offence but possibly Only because their German victim had no gun Handy. One thing is certain the habit american Drivers have of backing into a tight Parkin space till they touch the bumper of the car behind has done More damage to German american re lations than the Row about nuclear non proliferation. All americans visiting Germany should be Given a special warning just As Likely is the Friend enemy explanation As any visitor can testify. The average adult in this country considers every foreigner either pro Ger Man or anti German and is incapable of seeing a Middle ground. He views his Domestic environment in much the same Lack White manner. Two lost wars a psychologist writing in the mass circulation newspaper Bild Zeitung suggested the emotional terror that attains on German highways. Result from the general feeling of in Security following two lost  whatever the explanation the federally owned railways a r e turning the Battlefield aspects of the highways to their advantage. Advertisements Point out that fistfights and obscene gestures Are unknown on passenger trains and suggest that peace Loving germans should do their travel ing by rail