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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, October 17, 1967

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Post 2 the stars and stripes october 17, 1h7 b52s bomb Entrance to Supply Trail from a and Dpi dispatches Saigon . B52 strato fortresses ranged deep into North Vietnam sunday and Madea saturation bombing attack on the Mugia pass Entrance tothe to Chi Minh infiltration Trail . Military spokesmen said monday. It was the first time in 10months that the eight Jet bomb ers each carrying 30 tons of bombs had struck the Gateway to the reported infiltration an Supply route to the South. For the second time in three Days american planes aiding the embattled marines of con thie bombed the marines themselves . Spokesmen said  said five marines were filled and 26 wounded in both mishaps. They said a . Bomb at Daw sunday slammed into a 3rd Marine div position near the North South Vietnam Border bastion killing three americans an wounding nine. Seven . Marine bombs hit con Thien Fri Day night killing two men. Wounding 17 and temporarily burying 42 others. American infantrymen in the South searching through a vast Viet Cong Arsenal under the Jungle floor Only 30 Miles from Sai gon sunday discovered a cach of 75mm howitzers stamped made in .a."w.w. Ii weapons the Saigon command said the weapons were the Type supplied to China during world War  Arsenal was seized by Allied forces without any major casualties but new ground action reported sunday near Sai gon and further North killed 12americans and wounded 18. North vietnamese and Viet co glosses were placed at 41 killed. The b52 raids sunday followed saturday s heavy raids on North vietnamese transportation  Force f105 thunderchief pilots working in coordination with the b52s, struck just North of Mugia and damaged a High Way Bridge on one of the routes leading into the pass.. 101st airborne div troop ers meanwhile beat off a mortar and ground attack against a com Mand Post 360 Miles Northeast of Saigon. Six paratroopers were killed and 21 wounded fighting 21 Miles West of Tarn  guerrillas were known to have been  americans were killed and six wounded in a fierce two hour Battle Between elements of the . 25th inf div and Viet con forces late saturday night in the Hobo Woods 22 Miles North West of Saigon. At least 14 Viet Cong were killed. Mrs. Gandhi in Bucharest Vienna up mrs. Indira Gandhi the Indian prime min ister arrived in Bucharest Mon Day on the fifth Stop of her tour of Eastern Europe. One suspect kills herself defecting spy is soviet f continued from Page 11her husband Heinz and three other alleged soviet agents inborn committed suicide before Dawn sunday in Cologne women prison attorney general Ludwig Martin told a news conference i Karlsruhe. Martin said mrs. Suetterlin had managed to hang herself despite constant supervision. He said she had hanged herself from the cell window with a part of her night clothes Between 2 and 5 . Martin said the Suetterlin Anda three agent spy cell operating inside the French embassy com Pound in Bonn were betrayed to Western counterintelligence by their former soviet spy master the russian officer who defected to the americans. He said the arrests were Madea few hours after . Officials in Bonn informed him of the de Fector s revelations. Stuck the . Coast guard icebreaker Northwind lies trapped in Arctic ice where it was caught sept. 23. Later the vessel was freed by two sister ships. A photo nato moves info new Brussels Headquarters Brussels up nato Secretary general m a n 1 i o Brosio formally took Possession of the Alliance s new civilian Headquarters Here monday an predicted nato will continue life Here with a new  Brosio without mentioning France was seeking to allay fears that France will drop membership in nato in 1969, causing the 18-year-old Alli Anceto collapse. Brosio said although human beings states and alliances Are All mortal. There is no fixed term for the Atlantic Alliance. There is therefore no question it will die out in 1969." Brosio accepted the $10-Millioncomplex from belgian Premier Paul Van Den Boey Nants an praised the belgian workers and contractors for a new wonder by constructing the Headquarters from the ground up in six months. He recalled that the same construction team built nato s military Headquarters shape at Mons in an equal period of time. Brosio said each member country will have the Chance to pull out of the Alliance legally in 1969 after 20 years. He said that if All 15 members pullout it will of course cease to exist. But such an Assumption seven More fantastic than theoretical and my Faith in the realism of the statesmen who preside Oyer the destinies of the Allied nations convinces me that the Alliance will continue on the Road basis which gives it its present Efficacy he said. The new location will be the source of improvements Over the old location at the port Dauphine in Paris he said. Although French preside Tcharles de Gaulle forced the military Headquarters to leave France he wanted the civilian Council the Alliance s highest authority to stay. The Council however decided also to move to Belgium. The military committee Osnato also is to move into the Brussels Headquarters from it base in Washington. Minister picked for Lynda s rites Washington a an episcopal Clergyman from Tex As is to perform the marriage ceremony of Lynda Bird John son and Marine capt. Charles Robb at a 4 . Ceremony dec. 9, the White House announced sunday. The Rev. Gerald Mcallister a43-year old native of san Antonio was chosen for the White House wedding of the elder daughter of president and mrs.  was disclosed also that the guest list for the East room ceremony and the following reception will number about500and that because of Lack of space the coverage by the news Media will be on a Pool basis and will be confined to portions of the event. The Rev. Or. Mcallister is attached to Cathedral House in san Antonio but conducts serv ices regularly in St. Barnabas Church in Fredericksburg Tex. The Little Church which has no resident Rector is not far from the lbs ranch and the Johnsons frequently attend services there when staying i Texas. The Rev. Or. Mcallister at tended the University of Texas and was graduated from the Virginia theological Seminary in Alexandria in 1951. Dancer holds her 2 babies Falls to death Paris up Myriam Mich Elsson shapely finnish Ballerina who created the let kiss dance craze which took Paris and then Europe and America by storm three years ago has been found dead with her twin baby Daugh ters it was reported saturday. Police said the 30-year-old for Mer dancer apparently gathered her 15-month-old daughters inner arms then jumped with them from her sixth floor win Dow in suburban Bou Gival Fri Day. Miss Michelsson came to parisian 1958 after breaking her ankle in Finland where she had begun successful dancing career. She became Well known i Paris where she worked As a Model took part in several Tele vision programs and acted in a Short film. She also worked at the crazy horse Saloon strip tease cabaret before appearing at the plus Saint Hilaire club. It was there that she adapted the let Kamenka a dance from Lapland to modern Steps and called the new dance  she and her husband were separated. Recently neighbors had seedless and less of the car of her boy Friend who friends said had put her up in the Swank apart ment and she confided to the caretaker of the building that she had been going to a doctor for nervous depression and that she was beginning to feel a Pinch for Money police said. Since their marriage in i960,mrs. Suetterlin and her 43-year old husband who allegedly used his profession As photo reporter As a cover for spying delivered top secret documents to the russians Martin said. He said mrs. Suetterlin too Home Doc merits kept in foreign ministry safes during her lunch hour for her husband to photo graph and deliver to the spymaster. The attorney general characterized the French embassy spy cell As composed of  he said Leopold Pieschel 44, had been working for the russians since becoming a French embassy messenger in1958. Pieschel his wife Klara and her brother Martin Marg Graf were accused of delivering to the russians virtually Al documents labelled secret or nato secret from the Safe of the French armed forces Liaison office. Bagging suspected Pieschel and his wife were said to have been recruited for the soviet intelligence by Marggraf who is suspected of having planted eavesdropping devices in con Ference rooms of the embassy during temporary employment there. Meanwhile Pieschel took the key to an embassy Safe used for Security sensitive data had his spy master make him a duplicate key and rifled the safes forthe past nine years the attorney general said. In the Suetterlin Home West German counterintelligence found code books for deciphering soviet orders to agents broadcast during regular East German radio programs Martin said. The counterintelligence agent found in the Pieschel Home a Spe Cial camera camouflaged As cigarette Case which could snap a picture of a document with amere pass of the hand Martin said. According to the attorney Gen eral the Suetterlin the pie Schels and Marggraf were extremely Well paid for their espionage work. Mrs. Suetterlin was recruited for soviet intelligence by her husband already working for the soviet Kab intelligence service who was sent to Bonn from East Germany in 1960 with orders to marry a woman with Access to government secrets if she would betray them Martin said. Shots fired at drunk climbing into e. Berlin Berlin up communist order guards fired five shots at a 21-year-old Drunken West Berliner who climbed the Wall into East Berlin sunday Westerlin police reported. 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