European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday october 4, 1967 reds Shell Hospital school jail Saigon up communist gunners shelled civilian targets in the ancient City of Hue tues Day As the Viet Cong ended a Lull in the ground War with six Sharp attacks that took a heavy toll of  attack on Hue a coastal City about 45 Miles below the demilitarized zone was the heaviest of the six. Communist guns and mortars hit a Hospital a school and a jail killing 11 civilians and wounding 16, Many of them women and children. Six were killed in the Hospital and five in the jail. The school was unoccupied during the night at  were that a major Battle is in the making in the Central Highlands near Plesku where the communists Are believed to have massed two Divi Sions just across the Border i Cambodia. One regiment of 1,200 men in uniforms was see from the air and the . 4th inf div flew in reinforcements to strike Back. 35 reds diet least 35 men of the North vietnamese 95b regt were killed in the first hours of fighting in what developed into a two Day running Battle. More . Troops flown in by helicopter were try ing to prevent the regiment s fleeing Back into Cambodia.. B52s returned to the Doz with three More attacks tues Day against North vietnamese artillery batteries that we rethought to have been silenced but which fired 48 More round sat . Marines monday wound ing nine marines. The average before a series of b52 strikes was 500 rounds per  the b52s struck artillery Sites trenches and fortified positions on the Southern Edge of North Vietnam ships of the .7th Fleet aided by the Australi an guided missile destroyer Perth hit targets near the coast and just above the  military sources said a major threat Lay with three or four North vietnamese divisions reported in and just above the Doz Border but blocked from an invasion by marines holding High ground at con Thien two Miles below the  the . Military focused its attention on the con thie Narea North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops swung into action inthe Plesku and Hue areas and carried out a series of other at tacks ranging from Quang Tri just below the Border to the Mekong Delta in the South. Actor Mickey Rooney faints is hospitalized Santa Monica Calif. Up actor Mickey Rooney 45, col lapsed  exhaustion monday night at his Beverly Hills Home and was hospitalized his manager said tuesday. 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Svitlana on to Svetlana Allilu Yeva Dis cusses her memoirs on National educational television network in York. Paul Nive conducts the interview. A photo has t changed much9 Svetlana glum on Russia York up  said monday night that since the death of her father Josef Stalin 15 years ago the soviet Union has no changed despite de Stal Iniza Tion and the present Leader shave even taken Steps Back  daughter of the dictator who ruled Russia for three decades of terror said on the eve of the 50th anniversary of soviet communism that it has t changed much the last 15years." i still believe that the system is wrong she said quietly in her first formal television appearance in the United states. There is 15 years that my father is no More but the same people Rule the country and the same party is there and the same people Rule the party. An exactly the same life in economics in political life inline in the villages. They have not change anything and i Don t think they can change because they were brought up in the time that we know As the Era of  miss Stalin who prefers Touse the Maiden name of her Mother Allilu Yeva turned Down lucrative television commercial network offers to appear monday night for no fee on the National educational television network of 110 stations. She said the russians had Hopes after her father died because Nikita Khrushchev changed Many things and this total system of terror disappeared. And we All expected that some Steps would be taken in that direction. But later we saw that we expected it in vain she continued. After Khrushchev was dismissed there were several Steps done  said that four years ago when she wrote her memoirs winds turn off gaslight Salem Ore. A Salem spectacle theater cancelled rehearsals monday on its final production of the season As Strong winds from a storm sweeping across the Pacific Northwest caused its lights to blink and dim. The play  Twenty letters to a Friend which were published monday i did t feel so pessimistic about political conditions but this year i Felt very pessimistic about life in Russia and this is Why i left and i Felt i  go  her remarks were he strongest words against the Kremlin leaders since arriving in the United states april 21 from India. The dictator s daughter Smi Ledas she said she had very Good impressions of the unite states. She said Che has travelled some on the East coast. I have met Many american families and have made Many friends she said. My first impression that they Are open hearted and kind is still the same. I have received so Man letters from american people unknown to me just welcoming me to their country. So pleasant so moving so Nice to see the people understand me As a human being understands other human beings. "1 feel very grateful an moved by  predict Good wine year by Peter Kuhr staff writer Darmstadt Germany is it will be a very Good year for  s the prediction of Ger Many s experts in regard to the1967 grape crop. The harvesting started this week along the Rhine and the Mosel and in other win districts. However a wet september has dampened Hopes that this year s Vintage will go Down in grape history As a  a wine of the Century. Vineyards reported that Quality of grapes of the Early variety has suffered because of too much rain in the last  official communique from vintners at Neustadt on Tsewei Strasse the 1967 Palati Nate crop will be generous. Qual Ity will vary from Good to very Good especially with grapes harvested late in the  reports were available from the Rhine and  the Quality of this year s wine Germany s 1967wine Queen definitely is the pick of the crop. A fetching Brunette Ruth Collet 20, won the title last week at Neustadt. Buddhist nun kills self in act of protest Saigon a a 27-year-Oldbuddhist nun burned herself to death tuesday in Cam Tho inthe first such suicide by fire in the current protest movement of the Radical Buddhist faction. . Officials in can Tho larg est City in the Mekong Delta said the nun set fire to herself at Dawn tuesday in the Center of the City near the vietnamese information service offices. The nun was attached to theban an Pagoda in can Tho and . Officials said monks at the Pagoda were taken by Surprise by her action. The immolation was the firs since aug. 30 of last year when a Young girl burned herself Oleath in Saigon at the Buddhist Headquarters in the Vien Hoa Dao Pagoda. In All 11 followers of a Mili Tant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang resorted to self immolation last year during the unsuccessful Campaign to topple South Vietnam s Premier Nguyen Cao by and his military regime. Tenor the fiery suicides took place during May and june of 1966 atthe height of the Buddhist uprising which by suppressed wit troops. Thief gives victim two for the Road Nashville Tenn. A Albert Barfield 26, told police a Man jumped into his car whence stopped for a traffic signal pulled a knife and ordered him to take him to a North Nashville address. On arriving the assailant too Barfield s Wallet counted out $75and returned the Wallet and $2. That s for Gas he said an walked off. Weather h l 73 43 84 55 91 58 80 50 83 49 70 54 67 49 7844 72 48 82 60 82 56 82 52 81 47 86 60 84 49 70 50 85 63 35 28 85 60 86 64 85 59 85 60 85 67 93 68 81 65 . 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