European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday october 3, 1967 i atom mines along soviet Border Mcnamara backs Turk plan Washington up de sense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara said monday that turkish proposal to Plant nuclear mines along the turkish russian order could not be considered , arriving at an Drews air Force base after talk with nato members in Ankara said the proposed nuclear Barrier could be used Only for defense. The non nuclear Powers havea voice in determining the num Ber of nuclear weapons the Typ of nuclear weapons and the plans for the use of those nuclear weapons in defense of the Natona tons Mcnamara said. It was specifically in that con text that the turkish defense minister chaired a group study ing the possible use of atomic demolition charges on the East Ern Border of Turkey defending it against potential enemy inva Sion. That cannot be considered provocative because these atomic demolition charges Aree placed in the ground under the ground and along the Norderto be used Only for defense and not for offensive  Mcnamara was asked whether there appeared to be any possibility that russian troops might invade Turkey. Well the russians Are main Taining a very substantial Force in the Southern part of Russia and surely they re not concerned about a potential turkish inva Sion of Russia he said. Mcnamara added that he did not think the turkish plan would hinder a . Bilateral agree ment with the soviet Union on a nuclear non proliferation treaty. Asked whether he found much opposition among the nato Al lies to the . Decision to build an antimissile defense he said no they quite understood it. They were Well informed on the reasons Why we believe we can not protect Pur population against a potential soviet attack and hence Why we Are not proceeding with an anti ballistic missile system for that  understood the increasing chinese threat As we visualized it in the 1970s and the Rea son Why we think it worthwhile to develop a potential defense against that  11 is vets go on trial in wartime massacre Darmstadt Germany is eleven members of an is extermination squad that participate Din the world War ii massacre at Babi Yar went on trial her monday. Babi Yar is a Ravine near Kevin the Ukraine which became the grave of 33,771 jews according to meticulous nazi Statis  were executed sept. 29 and 30, 1941, by two units of the German police regt South and Sonder commando 4a," to which the accused belonged. The Sonder commando special action unit was part of Ein sat Gruppe a one of the fours operational groups whose function was systematic murder of jews soviet commissars and gypsies. Ninety per cent of the victims Are believed to have been  Einset Gruppen followed in the path of the German army through Poland and Russia carrying out a blood Bath that pre Book fair draws 2,830 publishers Frankfurt is the 19th annual Book fair opens at the Fairgrounds Here oct. 12 for a one week run. With 2,830 pub Lishers from 49 countries represented it should be a feast for bibliophiles. . Publishers will be represented by 262 exhibits Accord ing to fair organizers. In Addi Tion 50 collective exhibits will be sponsored by two or . Publishing houses. Although the Book fair is Pri Marily a show for dealers the Public is admitted in the after noon. Baghdad fair opens Baghdad Iraq a pres ident Abdul Aref of Iraq sunday opened the Baghdad International fair in which 10 countries Are participating. Needed the establishment of concentration Camps. The unit to which the men on trial in Darmstadt belonged is charged to have participated in21 mass executions Between june 1941 and May 1942 which claimed80,000 lives. The principal defendant Ikuno Callsen 55, a businessman from Neu Isenburg who had the rank of Captain in the is. The other primary defendants Are August Haefner 55, a liquor Salesman from Schwaebe Schwall Kurt Hans 55, an insurance Salesman from Wuppertal Barmen Adolf Janssen 51, a Bank director from Wehrheim and Alexander Riesle 58, a wies Baden businessman. All were lower ranking is officers. The trial is expected to Lasta year. In a departure from the Man nazi War crime trials that have taken place in Germany in recent years no jewish witnesses Are expected to testify. Few sur Vived to describe the work of the  of the witnesses Are expected to be lower ranking for Mer soldiers and sex members of the is who will testify against their former superiors. Queen of wine where there s wine there s a Queen an for the 1967 Vintage it s Ruth Collet 20, Here being crowned blast year s first lady of the grape in Neustadt Germany. A impressive strength reds gain at French polls Paris up the communists Rode the Crest of wide spread discontent with preside Tcharles de Gaulle s economic policies sunday to an impressive show of strength in French local elections. The party which has been inthe political Doghouse since its dismissal from Power 20 year Sago chalked up 27 per cent of the popular vote and doubled the number of its delegates to local advisory councils. Fresh from their victories the communists along with other lefties decided monday to Intro Duce tuesday in parliament a motion of censure in an attempt to topple the de Gaulle Cabinet. The motion was Given Little Hance of Success. The local elections did not affect the gaullist one vote majority in the National Assembly. The communist gains and the modest performance of the Gaul lists came As Premier George Pompidou braced for nation wide opposition backed farming demonstrations and the recon vening of parliament for a ses Sion that May prove perilous Fortis Cabinet. Interior minister Christia Fouchet whose services com piled the official figures told newsmen the communists As expected scored significant  the Paris suburbs have been Cut up into six new departments to break up the communist red Belt encircling the capital the communists swept 78 of the 192 seats a stake there. The gaullist and their political allies won Only 43of the suburban seats. Scores its biggest Victory Bremen Germany a the rightist National democrats Ned sunday scored their big Gest Victory yet in a German state election and seated Dele Gates in a sixth state parliament. The still Small but growing party won 8.84 per cent of the vote in the Bremen state elec Tion. Big losers Ere the social democrats spa traditionally dominant in this smallest of the 11 West German states which i primarily composed of the City of Bremen and the port of Bremerhaven. The spa got 46 per cent of the vote compared with 54.72 inthe last style election four years  Christian democrats a dts scored 29.5 per Cen against 28.89 in 1963, and the free democrats Ftp 10.53 percent compared with 8.36 in 1963. The 100 Bremen parliament seats were divided As follows spa 50 57 in the outgoing Parlia men cd 32 31ftp 10 8 and Ned 8 none the German party do which had four seats in the old parliament failed to make the minimum 5 per cent needed to seat delegates this time scoring Only 0.89 per cent compared with 5.17 per cent in 1963. A Large number of right Wing German party votes apparently went Overto the National democrats. The Ned whose percentage vote in this election was greater than in any previous election a Federal politics As the main Factor in their  von Thadden acting chairman of the Ned claimed that the vote showed discontent with  party often criticized As being Neo nazi seeks an end to War crimes trials the removal of foreign troops and foreign workers from Germany and the freeing of German armed forces from nato  addition to Bremen the Ned is now represented in state parliaments in Hesse Bavaria Schleswig Holstein Rhineland palatinate and lower Saxony. Judging by the firm showing i Bremen if has overcome the party leadership split of Las Spring when chairman Fritz Thielen resigned claiming extremists had taken Over the party. Raids quiet red guns along Doz Saigon up a . Mili tary spokesman monday claimed the heaviest bombardment of anyway had All but silenced North vietnamese guns . Marine outposts along the demilitarized  communist gunfire fell off to the lowest level in months under continued heavy . Bombardments by air land Andrea. A Marine spokesman at Danang said that Only one round hit Marine bases on sunday but that one wounded two marines. Mortar rocket and artillery fir had averaged 500 rounds daily and sometimes As Many As 1,000hit the con Thien outpost during  spokesman said there appeared to be two reasons for the dramatic drop in shelling other than propaganda leaflet , he said was probably a shortage of ammunition resulting from american bombing raids on highways Bridges rail lines an convoys in North Vietnam. The second reason was the intense bombing and artillery barrages against the guns in and above the demilitarized zone in the past few  a report on the effective Ness of raids by b52s, a .communique said their bombs touched off 66 secondary explosions and nine raging fires on the ground last week. All the raids the communique said were within artillery Range of con Thien. Record firepower Gen. William Westmoreland commander of american Force sin Vietnam said the raids and artillery barrages concentrated More conventional firepower in the area than on any other area in the history of warfare. The report said that shelling had killed 300 marines and wounded More than 3,000 since mid july. Sunday night and Early Mon Day b52s flew three More raids against the gun positions in the Doz and other raids were made on the Mig base at Kep 38miles Northeast of Hanoi. More attendance by masons asked Frankfurt is jes Minton the provincial grand master of american and Cana Dian freemasons in Germany said american freemasons Are not taking full advantage of the 43 English speaking masonic lodges in Germany. About 5,000 american and Ca Nadian freemasons belong to lodges in Germany Minton  is estimated that an additional 2,000 to 3,000 american members of the 250-year-old organization Are living in military or civilian communities in Ger Many but have made no forma Contact with any of the English speaking Blue lodges because of ignorance of their existence Minton  said a list of Blue lodges in Germany can be obtained by writing to the Ameri can Canadian provincial Gran Lodge in Frankfurt. Sweden s population up Stockholm a Sweden population grew by about one per cent in 1966 to reach a total of 7,843,088, the Central Bureau of statistics announced. Immigration of 21,240 persons figured prominently in the growth