European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Bolivia says Che Guevara killed weather fair to partly Cloudy with meriting tog and Haze. Continued mild thursday. Frankfurt held Elbert High 66, Low e5.temperatures recorded tuesday get 4 4 am pm 50 81 Madrid o52 70 Munich p i 72 Paris o 4 4 am pm 61 61 Adartha p68 70 Athens p 84 72 Valano cd 69 69 Berlin r b7 66 Frankfurt o69 63 London p a clearer rain. 62 64 61cl-Cloudy 66 Prestwick p 73 Rome p77 wheel i p the and tripes a partly Cloudy 2nd weather Wing unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 26, no. 176 if 21855 a 1967 new coup a threat from the left to Greece s Queen Anne Marie no the gentleman pointing the weapon is about machine gun As she visits a toy show to show the Queen a make believe in Athens. Up photo one of 7 guerrillas shot Down la Paz up Bolivia officially announced tuesday the death of Ernesto Che Guevara former right hand Man of cuban Premier Fidel Castro in a Battle with bolivian rangers. A communique from the Bol Vian armed forces said Guevara was one of seven guerrillas shot and killed in the clash sunday at Higueras Between Alto second Val Legrande in Southeast of the guerrillas were cubans the official statement reported. The statement was the first official confirmation of Guevara s death rumoured since news of the Higueras clash was made communique said the rangers captured Guevara s per Sonal Field diary As Well As arms and equipment. Guevara fall Guevara fell at the head of a group of 20 to 25 guerrillas cutoff from a second band of Simi Lar size and isolated by 184bolivian rangers. The army said four Ranger were killed and four wounded in the clash described As a fierce fight. The bodies of the guerrilla were taken by helicopters to Val Legrande where government medical experts confirmed the identity of Guevara by scientific Means the communique said. Newsmen who saw the Cor seat the Val Legrande morgue said Guevara was shot in the Throat and body and that his legs had been nearly severed by a burs of machine gun fire. The first positive identification was made by col. Joaquin zen Teno Anaya head of the bolivian cont. On Page 24, col i major tactical shift Doz marines reinforced Saigon up the .comd tuesday revealed a Mas Sive military buildup in the Are of the demilitarized zone which separates North and South Viet Nam and called the move a major tactical the latest reinforcements were 3,000 marines. Confirmation of the buildup came amid official denials that american forces plan to invade North Vietnam. It Gen. Robert Cushman . Marine commander in Vietnam said however the reinforcements have Bee made so we can go on the offensive. And i Hope Mcnamara Stichs to Haiphong View Washington a Secre tary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara s insistence that bomb ing or mining the Harbor of Haiphong main Supply port of North Vietnam would not shorten the War or Cut off enemy supplies was underlined in Testi Mony made Public tuesday. He made it Clear he plans to continue restricted bombing of North testified aug. 25 before the Senate preparedness subcommittee and publication of his testimony follows that Ofseyer Al uniformed military chiefs urging the mining or bombing of Haiphong. The subcommittee earlier made Public excerpts of Mcnamara s testimony playing Down the importance of Hai Phong saying supplies could be brought in Over the Beach if it cont. On Paga 84, col. S a . Military spokesman said that the situation in the Northern provinces of South Viet Nam posed the most serious threat of the War despite state ments last week that the 35,000 North vietnamese troops in the Doz had withdrawn under heavy american bombardment. The buildup was described bythe spokesman As preparation for what could be a decisive Bat the in the War. . Intelligence reports were said to indicate that North Viet Nam had moved most of three army divisions into the Border zone for Large attacks on Conthier and other american out posts just below the Border. The allies have about 12 battalions of marines and South Viet namese troops along the Frontier and in View of the intelligence reports the stage is set for a big Battle. Saigon Headquarters also re ported that a new base is being built in the area beyond the cont. On Page #4, col. S lbs again hits spaceman ship m 3washington a president Johnson made a new Appeal to the soviet Union tuesday to abandon competitive spaceman ship and join with the United states in exploring the heavens. Johnson renewed his offer of collaboration after signing a proclamation declaring in effect the International treaty barring nuclear weapons and military bases from of his listeners at the White House ceremony was soviet ambassador Anatoly f. president said the first decade of the space age has witnessed a kind of contest. We have been engaging in competitive spaceman ship. We have accomplished much but we have also wasted much Energy and resources in duplicated or Over lapping the next decade should in font. On Page s4, col. 3 2 saved 40 lost off ship from a and up dispatches Kodiak Alaska the Jap anese merchant ship Iga Hari Maru reported tuesday that Thad picked up two survivors from the 42-Man Crew of the sunken american freighter pan oceanic Faith. The 8,147-ton freighter Wen Down in icy Pacific seas monday night with 10,000 tons of cont. On Page 24, col. So
