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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Unofficial news paper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and la my dds East vol. 26, no. 191 if 21855 a thursday october 26, 1967 6 daily 10 sunday q jets clobber big Mig base for 2nd Day Saigon  bombed North Viet Nam s Phuc yen air base wednesday for the second consecutive Day then hit Hanoi s mile Long Paul Doumer Bridge. Hanoi radio re ported air Battles Over the City. Wave after wave of american fighter bombers hit the key tar gets in the most intensive air at tacks of the War in an Effort to Knock out the North vietnamese air Force. Squadrons of f105 Thunder chiefs blasted fresh craters in the 9,170-foot runway and hit maintenance and support facilities that were passed up in the initial raid the most massive of the War. Hanoi radio said North Viet namese ground forces and migs shot Down 10 . Aircraft wednesday eight Over Hanoi and two Northwest of the capital. The communist reports normally exaggerated do indicate major air action. . Says 4 jets lost Hanoi reported nine american planes shot Down Over the North tuesday. A . Air Force spokesman said four planes were shot Down and their pilots  american spokesman had no report of losses in wednesday bombardment. The Doumer Bridge last hit on aug. 11, is a rail and Road Bridge leading from the heart of Hanoi across the red River toward China. It is one of the most Valu Able Means of transport of sup plies from  spokesman said that . Fighter bombers attacked in two Waves and that the bombs were on target. He said the pilots Flewin so Low to escape radar Detec Tion and Sam attacks that the could easily see the Little cot Tage where president to chiming lives. The . Command said 10 of the soviet designed Mig fight ers were destroyed or damage Din the tuesday raid one shot Down and the others wrecked on cont. On Page la col. 5 weather morning fog and Haze with intermittent talk of yellow peril s absurd says lbs afternoon rain. Little change Friday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 62, Low 43. Temperatures recorded wednesday get " 4 4 am pm 50 64 Madrid p 54 63 Munich p 45 57 Parl p 54 55 Prestwick r 61 75 Rome p 70 79 wheelus c a partly Cloudy r 4 4 am pm 63 77 Adana p 61 70 Athens cd 45 64 Aviano cd 48 54 Berlin cd 48 54 Frankfurt p 52 55 London r a Clear cd Cloudy rain. 2nd weather Wing flames Over Mideast Egypt s major refineries and tank farms Burn at port Suez after an attack by Israel forces which knocked out most of Egypt s Oil production. Up photo Retuss ships will visit troubled Egypt area from a and up dispatches Egypt said wednesday three soviet warships will arrive in port said thursday or Friday on a Goodwill visit in the Wake of the israeli retaliation attack tuesday which knocked out the majority of Egypt s Oil production. It was not disclosed How Large the visiting Force would be but official egyptian sources said a least two of the ships would be Large size  at the United nations mean while the Security Council wednesday unanimously adopted Stopgap Resolution that condemns the violations of the cease fire and regrets the casualties and. Loss of property resulting from the  Egypt s major refineries an tank farms at port Suez remained an inferno More than 24hours after the three hour clash across the Suez canal betwee israeli and egyptian artillery tanks and Jet  fighting units from All Over Egypt were working feverishly in an Effort to control fires which still raged in at least 37 Oil storage tanks hit by israeli shells officials said. Twelve tanks at the Suez co. Refinery and 25 to 30 tanks at the Nasr cont. On Page %3, col. 3 Rusk juror prompts him to comment Washington a president Johnson said wednesday that talk of Ai yellow peril in Asia talk that followed a statement by Secretary of state Dean Rusk is absurd. Race has no place in our purpose Johnson said in a Jho Tri use ceremony conferring the medal of Honor on Marine a i Howard v. Lee for Valorin Vietnam. Rusk at a news conference oct. 12, talked about the danger of the great population masses of communist China armed with nuclear weapons a statement that prompted some commentators and columnists to accuse Rusk of raising a yellow peril  said there has been some fur Orin the past week or so about the yellow peril. Let me take Justa moment to Point out the Absurdity of this charge Side by Side we fought Side by Side with asians at Bataan and Correri Clor in Korea and now in Viet Nam. We have utterly repudiate the racist nonsense of an earlier  Johnson said the unite states has made a commitment in Asia because it believes that no men whatever the pig mentation of their skins should be delivered Over to totalitarian ism that Freedom is not a prize reserved for White europeans or americans in our private enclaves of  the president said his thoughts went Back exactly one year to his visit to the american bastion at Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam. He said he talked with cont. On Page 2, col. 1 ate major offence. Says my Boss pot9 a big War problem Saigon a More .servicemen in Vietnam Are arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other single major offence the army s Provost marshal in Vietnam said wednes . Gen. Harley Moore or. Of Honolulu said in an interview there might be several thousand of the 464,000 . Servicemen i Vietnam who smoke marijuana during their tour in the  Steinbeck in 21-year-old son of the novelist who recently served a year in Vietnam has written in articles for a Washington Magazine that three fourths or More of the gis i Vietnam smoke marijuana. Brig. Gen. Winant sidle information chief at . Headquarters in Saigon said Young Stein Beck s allegation was ridiculous and police sources said his figure seems far too High. But the latter say the use of gov. Alrh comes to Ade of satellite Beach Fla a gov. Claude Kirk personally put a freckle face boy s sidewalk refreshment stand Back in business tues Day and managed to plug Orange juice and fret enter prise and Knock he Johnson administration and red Takeall in the same free sip. We cannot declare to great industries across the nation that Florida offers a cooperative climate for business unless be also show that even a Orange drink stand gets a measure of attention and understanding from state government Kirk said As he walked up to the stand. Billy Churchill s business the one that the Brev Artl county health department closed Down because he was operating without a permit i Frozen ice. But Billy who believes the customer is always right dashed into the House and came Back with Orange juice. Kirk drained it. Kirk Cut a ceremonial red cont. On Page 24, col. 1 marijuana undoubtedly is wide spread. Gen. Moore said marijuana has been found on sentries on military policemen and inside the Long Binh stockade where Many convicted marijuana users Are serving sentences. He said the problem was countrywide from the demilitarized zone to the Mekong Delta. Moore who was Susareu Provost marshal from 1964 to 1966, is returning to Europe i november to take Over As us a eur and seventh army pro Vost marshal exchanging posts with Brig. Gen. Karl w. Gus Lawson there have been persistent re ports of marijuana being found in the clothing of dead an wounded americans flown out of battlefields. Asked whether some gis were smoking Mari Juana under combat conditions the general said it would t cont. On col  
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