European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Buddhist starts hunger strike saturday october 7, 1967 to c if m. Of t%.38 5. Viet civilians die As buses Saigon a -. Thirty eight civilians were killed when two buses in separate incidents struck terrorist mines along the major coastal Road near Danang military authorities reported Friday. All 20 persons aboard one busied when it hit a mine late thursday while crossing the Nar Row Hal  pass about 13 Miles Northwest of Danang. The second explosion too place about the same time 15 Miles South of Hue As a bus was passing a . Marine truck which had been blown to the Sid of the Road by an earlier mine explosion that wounded two marines. As the bus passed a mine on the other Side of the Roa went off and 18 civilians aboard the bus were killed and nine wounded. Hunger strike meanwhile Thich Tri Quang the Leader of South Vietnam s militant Buddhist minority who last year went on a hunger strike for 100 Days has started another one in protest against the govern ment. A spokesman at his Headquarters said he had taken no food or liquid since thursday morn ing and intends to fast until death if  he made the same pledge Las year but finally gave up after 100 Days when it was evident his protest was arousing Little sym Pathy. The Monk is conducting his fast while sitting in front of the presidential Palace. Thich venerable Tri Quan took up his position in front of the Palace sept. 28 in protest against the government s recognition of a moderate Buddhist sect As the official representative of the nation s buddhists. Protests curbed South vietnamese president elect Nguyen  Thieu clamped Down hard Friday on antigovernment demonstrations. He warned that in the future demonstrator would lose civil rights and draft age protesters would be sent tothe front lines of the War. Thieu flexed his Muscles As the government moved ahead with plans for Friday s Kickoff of the official Campaign for the nation s 137-member House of representatives. And at the same time there were signs that the currently ebbing antigovernment protested by Tri Quang May be headed for a  government warnings against future Buddhist led demonstrations were issued in a blast reported at China Jet base Hong Kong up Ahong Kong newspaper said Friday that six communist chinese air Force mig17 Jet fighters were blown up in mysterious explosion at a base in Southeast China. The sing Tao quoting recent arrivals from the Mainland said the planes went up in a Cloud of smoke at the Ping Tan military Airfield in Kiangtung province in late september. Kiangtung has been the scene of some of the most vicious fighting Between forces Loyal an opposed to chinese communist party chairman Mao tse Tung. The travellers said the explosions were heard for two Miles and Black smoke billowed fro the base where Many communist. Chinese mig17s and Migliss Are parked. Nang and Hue scene of disorder sin 1968 verging on civil War As Well As in  of the things prompting the get Tough decree was Leaf lets apparently issued by follow ers of Tri Quang in his former Hue stronghold urging a general strike by shopkeepers and bus taxi and Cycle Drivers. In War action . Plane struck hard at targets in Hai Phong for the second Day Ina Row thursday in an intensified Campaign to isolate the key port millionaire losers or. And mrs. Willis do Pont and son lament 4, were the victims of a gang which entered their mansion held them captive for two hours then made off witha treasured Coin collection valued by Dupont at a million and a half dollars a photo negro loses his bid to be Memphis mayor Memphis Tenn. A . Willis a state legislator who had hoped to become the first negro mayor of a major old South City ran fourth against six White opponents thursday but failed to make the Runoff. Former mayor Henry Loeb Leld a commanding Lead from the time the first returns we recounted and easily made it into the nov. 2 Runoff. Incumbent mayor William  jr., and Shelby county sheriff William n. Morris had been locked in a tight Battle for second place and the other Vun of position. Late returns from heavily negro precincts apparently had tipped the decision to  the final tally on the heavy balloting gave Loeb 47,784 votes to 36,074 for Ingram and 30,979for Morris. Willis had 15,575. Two other candidates Cit commissioners Thomas e. Pete Sisson and Hunter lanejr., conceded within two hours after the polls closed. The seventh candidate mrs. O. E. Of Ley had trailed from the Start. Willis made a Concession statement saying he had gone into the race because i believed every Man should be judged As a Man not on the basis of race color religion or  he said he thought the results had raised questions which will have to be answered  he said his defeat came As disappointment but added after 100 years of brainwash ing it can be  Martha Raye collapses in Viet neat Saigon up actress Martha Raye collapsed on stage Friday while performing for 300american soldiers under a blistering  was taken by ambulance to a . Army Hospital i Saigon and then to her quarters. She sent word to her audience that she was All right. Miss Raye a popular performer in Vietnam likes to go to Remote areas and perform before Small groups of servicemen who May otherwise never see a  several occasions she has put on shows for units As Smalls a half dozen men in Jungle Camps manned by Green berets in the heart of Viet Cong country. She was performing at Cam Davis Friday. A stage had been set up on a basketball c9urt atthe Camp on the outskirts of Saigon. 2 convicted in Rockwell clash Alexandria a. A to members of the american nazi party have been convicted f disorderly conduct As a result f an unsuccessful attempt to Bury George Lincoln Rockwell lain Leader of the party in National cemetery. . Commissioner Alex Aker Mann sentenced Christopher Vidnjevich 23, and Douglas , 23, to 30 Days in jail but suspended the penalty on the ground that they were emotion ally upset and had not intended cause trouble at a cemetery n Culpeper va., aug. 29. The commissioner also re leased a juvenile member of the party in the custody of his guardian. At the trial of the three two Deputy . Marshals described the bedlam at the cemetery when party members tried to break through police  nazi escort party accompanying Rockwell s body from Arlington to Culpeper wore Swastika armbands. Officials backed by military police re fused them entry unless they re moved the insignia. The result was an hours Long confrontation while the hears waited at the cemetery Gate. The party finally drove away an the body was cremated the next  former member of the nazi party has been accused of shoot ing Rockwell to death aug. 24. Burial in a National cemetery was authorized because Rock Well was a retired Navy com Mander. John Patler 29, charged with homicide has been ordered held for a grand 1ury in nearby Arlington. The jury will take up the Cas 3 oct 16. City the american command reported Friday. And for the third Day in arow jets streaked to within a minute s flying time of the re chinese Border to Hammer a Railroad Bridge Only 10 Miles Tway. North Vietnam claimed . Planes were shot Down Dur ing the heavy raids thursday and said several american pilots were captured. . Mum . Headquarters made no mention of any planes lost under its policy of withholding announcement of american losses Over the North when it believe the information May Aid the enemy or jeopardize attempts to Rescue pilots. The intensified air strikes Anda rising number of Allied ground sweeps in South Vietnam reflected the Active Pace of a War in which american. Casualties have now exceeded 100000. Raids Over North Vietnam this week have at times been aimed at targets previously exempt from attack. In thursday s raids .Navy pilots from the carriers Constellation and intrepid hit two targets in Haiphong both of which had been attacked i prior raids. Storage area raided Navy a6 intruder pilots fro the Constellation raked the Hai Phong Petroleum products Stor age area two Miles Northwest of the Center of the City. A4 sky Hawk pilots from the intrepid pounded the Haiphong Highway Ridge eight tenths of a mile from the heart of the  vietnamese Mig fighters Rose to clash with the .planes but there were no losses on either  reported one secondary explosion in the raid on the Stor age area and said that further assessment was hampered by smoke and dust. Pilots hitting the Highway Bridge reported knocking out the Center Span and the Navy said Post strike photos confirmed the damage. The Navy said three antiaircraft Sites in the storage area also were knocked out by sup porting planes indicating the raiding jets ran into heavy communist ground fire. Burden of traffic the Highway Bridge hit for the first time sept. 11, is one of two Bridges spanning the big Ca Nal in Haiphong the Bridge carries the Burden of rail and Road traffic in route West to Hanoi. Navy pilots have made repeated attacks Over the last three weeks on All four key Bridges leading from Haiphong in efforts to Cut off the City an clog North Vietnam s Supply system. Weather h l79 59 82 6480 m 82 m83 01 65 33 mh8173 76 4ft66 57 80 6074 62 67 4267 57 68 61so 61 46 3186 68 89 6874 66 86 6268 60 86 6476 60 82 60 . Tem Alban Albuquerque Amaryll Atlanta Birmingham Bumrok Bosto Buffalo Casper chicag Cincinnati Clevelan Denver dec Molne Detroit Al Pas Fairbanks fort Worth Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas Cit Las vegas los Angele Louisville Pera Tores h l88 60 Memphis 83 74 Miami beach70 64 Milwaukee 1 40 minneapolis88 58 new Orleans 86 66 new york67 50 North Platto 88 66 okla. 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