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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              24 the stars and stripes Tut iday october 17, in payrolls and research panel urges budget Cut continued from pane to mainly by leaving openings unfilled. Savings were estimate Dat $900 million. The Bill also would require executive departments to absorb without extra appropriations the estimated $625 million Cost of a general pay raise now i process of enactment. The budget for research a to Tal of $17.5 billion would be Cut 10 per cent with exceptions Al Lowed for research directly connected with the Vietnam War or applying to specific weapons systems. The Cut was estimate Dat $1.325 billion. The $2.85 billion total saying estimated by the committee compares with the $5 billion Cut demanded by republicans and the suggestion by rep. Wilburd. Mills d-ark., and others that cuts should match any tax in crease enacted. Johnson is ask ing a $7.4 billion tax boost. Prior Cut the cuts ordered by the com Mittee Bill would absorb some reductions already provided for in separate  committee said for example House passed Bills would require a $340 million reduction in government payrolls which would be counted As part of the 5 per cent  pay raise Bill already re quires executive departments to absorb $78 million the estimated excess Cost above what John son budgeted for a More modest  research the House Al ready has trimmed the defens department s share by $164 Mil lion. The new Bill would Cut deeper for a total of $340 Mil  than $600 million in reductions made in various Bill for research in civilian depart ments also would be counted apart of the 10 per cent Cut. Stop ordering addition to the specific cuts the Bill to provide Emer gency financing through nov. 23 for departments with pending appropriations contains a Gener Al Stop order against most new construction buying or services during the coming  Economy forces in the House seized on the emergency spending Bill As a vehicle Foi budget slashes. They rocked the administration by returning to the committee a measure that did not contain this provision or. A second try the measure was passed with a general understanding that before another Extension was required the committee would work on budget cuts. The committee said in its report it had attempted to carry Al games to be shown Frankfurt special highlights of american f o o t b a 1 league games will be show starting at noon wednesday in the . Trade Center Here. Admission to the 30-minute film i free. Out the will of the House but Didlot feel it could spell out de ailed cuts in Bills yet to be finally acted on. What the committee has done is submit some Economy proposals on a general across the Board basis but limited an pinpointed As to the objects involved the report said. Surtax opposed 5 to 1, new Harris poll shows Washington up like its representatives on Capitol la the american Public would by far prefer a slash in Federal spending to president Johnson s panel to hear Romney on brainwashing Lansing Mich. Up  Romney monday accepted a Challenge to appear be fore a congressional committee and defend his charge that hews brainwashed by . Officials in Vietnam. Romney accepted the request of rep. Wayne l. Hays a Ohio chairman of the House subcommittee on state department organization and foreign operations. Hays asked Romney to Tel the subcommittee what he meant when he said he Wen through brainwashing by . Generals and diplomats during a1965 visit to South Vietnam. Romney wrote Hays he would be pleased to accept the offer to appear before the subcommittee or the Parent foreign affairs  wrote that the briefings he attended in Viet Nam were consistent with the general policy statements made to the Public by president Johnson Secretary of state Dean Rusk and Secretary of defense Robert  accuracy and nature constitute part of the larger Issue of the Candor and honesty of the government with the american people Romney  is important that these official briefings provide Visi tors to Vietnam with information allowing them to make reliable appraisal of the Situa Tion just As it is essential that the administration Tell the truth to the american people enabling them to make up their minds properly about the character and course of . Involvement in the War in  said the accuracy and reliability of statements made by the administration is of deep and abiding concern Toan increasingly Large number 01  proposed 10 per cent surtax to combat inflation. This is the overwhelming conclusion of a Louis Harris poll published in the Washington pos monday. Those polled voted against the surtax by better than 5 to 178 to 15 per cent. The concept of curbing con Sumer spending by raising taxes and thereby controlling inflation a rejected by 59 to 22 per cent Harris reported. Against tight Money the Public also is opposed3 o 1to a return to the presi Dent s alternative policy tight Money. Instead of the administration prescriptions the Public would prefer a course that the presi Dent has fought shy of Price and wage controls. Harris commented there is even a 2-1 tolerance that a Little continuing inflation is a cheap Price to pay to maintain Prosperity and full employment " ceremony Brig. Gen. L. V. Greene left3rd inf div assist ant commander passes the Flag of command to the new division cd maj. Gen. George p. Seneff jr., at Wuerzburg. Sgt.  v. Hunter had carried the Flag to Greene. The division celebrated its 50th anniversary. Is Hunter i m Worth More alive bolivians say Che pleaded la Paz Bolivia up Stop i m Che i m Worth More to you alive than  Che Guevara gasped these words As he fell badly wounded in combat oct. 8 and was surrounded by bolivian rang ers according to official sources. The officials involved were officers who commanded the two Ranger units which first trapped Russ repeat warning Berlin a the soviet Union has again warned the Western allies against allowing West German parliamentary committees and Federal ministers to meet in West Berlin it was disclosed  was no immediate com ment from ., British or French spokesmen in West Berlin or Bonn. The oct. 15 letter fro the soviet ambassador to East Germany Pyotr Abrasimow was addressed to the ambassadors of the three Western allies in Bonn. The soviet protest appeared aimed specifically at a current work week of bundestag commit tee meetings in West Berlin. Man held on kidnapping charge missing boy parents reunited Bingo Tamton . A a 9-year-old boy reported miss ing six months ago returned to his Home Here sunday and a Man with whom he was found during a routine traffic Check saturday night was held on a kid Naping charge. William Layton was reunite with his parents or. And mrs. Burton Layton at the state police Barracks at Athol Springs near Buffalo earlier sunday. The three returned Here during the Day. Troopers said the Driver of the car John c. Wood 25, de scribed As a Friend of the Lay tons could not produce a Driver s License when  was taken to the Barracks they said and the Fri was contacted. Police Here said Wood would be held at the City jail for arraignment monday on a state kidnapping charge. The boy was4th-Grade class taken from april 17 by Wood police said with the explanation that he had a dental . John Affeldt of the Bing Hamton police declined to Dis cuss details of the Case. The boy was reported in goo condition. Wood a College graduate who recently sold real estate once taught swimming classes at the Binghamton boys club then surrounded and routed gue Vara and his band of guerrillas. They said Guevara died of his wounds the following Day in Higueras a Small Village near the Battlefield to which he had been carried by rangers on a litter made of tree limbs. There were no doctors in Higueras the report said and gue Vara s wounds were tended barmy it. Toty Aguilera. Guevara spent the night i agony and died the next morn ing Aguilera  to the Ranger offi cers the first Contact with gue Vara s band was made Early that sunday morning but it was no until 1 30 . That firm Contact was  fell in the first Exchange of automatic weapon firebug a companion subsequently identified As a bolivian Simun Willy Cuba managed to drag him through the Bushes to the top of a Hill. Rangers already were posted on the Hill however and when Cuba was called on to surrender he opened fire. He was killed. Rescue Effort sit was at this moment that Guevara identified himself the rangers said. They said Guevara complained of pains in his Chest and appeared from asthma. To be suffering his wounds included a gaping Hole in the Throat the rangers said. Guevara s followers made futile efforts to Rescue him and it was not until 6 30 . That fighting ceased they reported. A patrol was sent to take Guevara to Higueras for Airlift to Valle Grande but it arrived in Higueras too late to meet the last of the evacuation  Ranger officers confirmed that Guevara had been Anterro  said he had asked them if they were rangers and when they replied in the affirmative lie complained we be run into your troops everywhere we  after Guevara s death the officers said he was strapped into an evacuation helicopter an flown to nearby Val Legrande for final  identification by doctors and fingerprint experts gue Vara s body was put on display briefly and then cremated officers said. Castro. Continued for m Page t Tate. But even if it were easy to imitate his handwriting the style of expressing things in Elcho s manner is impossible to  the bolivian government announced last monday that gue Vara was killed after leading communist guerrilla Force in Bolivia. Castro s speech broadcast Over a powerful Short wave radio station audible throughout the americas was monitored in Miami. Guevara the third Man in the cuban Hierarchy after Fidel and Raul Castro disappeared mysteriously from Public View in March 1965. The cuban prime minister said he was perform ing revolutionary duty in some other part of the world. Widespread speculation Fol Lowed that Guevara had been liquidated by the Castro regime. Occasionally reports popped up from latin America Africa and Asia that the guerrilla chieftain had been seen or that he had been killed. The Argentine foreign office said meanwhile that the Finger prints said to have been made i Bolivia with fingers severed from the body of a guerrilla Are Iden tical with those of Guevara filed by the Argentine police  
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