European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Wednesday March 6, 1968 the stars and stripes fire 4 yanks died Page 3 by Al Changsu Chi Vietnam a the tit id never knew what hit  wounded never had a Chance to fire their weapon the Date was saturday March 2. The time was 9 10a m. Unsuspecting by c h a r 11 e company walked into a Viet ambush. On the Road suspecting nothing9 it was something out of a bad dream said spec. 4 Charlesr. Mcamish 25, of Tulsa okla., speaking from a Hospital be tuesday. I was in the second platoon walking Down the Road. No one was suspecting anything. There were a lot of civilians coming Down the Road. Mines grand it hit i heard Claymore off alongside the Road us from both sides of the Road. Took cover alongside the Road and started to return fire when iwas knocked out by the concus Sion of a grenade. When i came to i saw a . Gunship coming right Over me. I looked at my Arm. The Bone was sticking out. Then got hit by the gunship. I ran Down the Middle of the Road hollering for the medic. I never saw a single Viet  i could hear was machine gun fire and Reg rocket rounds. I got hit in the leg and Arm from the gunship at the same time. Doctors asked to cure not just keep alive Barnard defends right to withdraw therapy san Francisco up South african heart surgeon or. Christian Barnard monday said surgeons must have the right to withdraw therapy from dying patients whose organs Are destined for transplantation. Doctors Are asked to cure not just keep alive the 44-year old South african heart specialist said. They must have the right to withdraw the therapy when there is no Hope for the  Barnard who has performed two of the world s six human heart transplants told 500 Commonwealth club members that he finds moral objections to heart transplants unconvincing. The authority to decide Lehaland ethical implications in car Diac transplants rests with the medical profession alone he no fragile Label on this package san Francisco up live Snake read the lettering on a Box from Vietnam at Rinco Annex Post office. Herpetologists Karl Switac fro Steinhart aquarium was called in to open the Box and the Duffel bag inside. In the bag were i socks i shorts and a five Foo live Python. The Snake was taken to the aquarium while the addressee in Washington d.c., was being contacted to see whether he would accept the package. Faun  is decommissioned Boston a the submarine Orsk credited by the Navy with milking Tho last japanese ship Ping in world War ii was decommissioned monday at the Bosto naval shipyard. On the last two Days of the War torsk Sank a cargo vessel and two coastal defense ships. 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Barnard told the luncheon guests that one of the most dra Matic moments in the historical operation on his second patient Philip Blaiberg came when he saw Blaiberg on the operating table without any heart in his Chest. Later in a question Ancl answer session Barnard was asked about the relationship betwee smoking and heart disease. The Boyish looking doctor paused in his reply to Light a cigarette then said he would advise anyone with coronary artery disease to give up smoking. Fortunately he said with Agrin my arteries Are in pretty Good  Queen enjoys movie with nude scene London a a nude love scene in front of the Queen and a panning from the critics in the morning. This was the monday dusk and tuesday Dawn Fate of the screen s youngest Romeo and Juliet. Queen Elizabeth ii her Hus band Prince Philip and their son Prince Charles attended the 22nd annual Royal film performance italian producer fran co Zeffirelli s Romeo and Juliet monday night. With 2,200 other guests who paid a record $88,000 for movie and television charities they watched 16-year-old Olivia Hus sey and 17-year-old Leonard Whit ing make their starring debuts inthe title roles. Their parts called for them to enact a sultry love scene on Juliet s bed in which Romeo totally nude embraced Juliet naked from the Waist up. Censors approve Britain s censors passed the scene As being in impeccable taste and declared the movie Filto be shown to the Monarch and All her subjects providing Chil Dren under 16 Are accompanied by adults. The Queen said of the show we All enjoyed it very much the critics apparently did  said our royals Don t seem to have much Luck wit their annual  Zeffirelli has done it again Only this time he s mucked up a Shakespeare play that one does care something about declared Richard Roud in the guardian. Zeffirelli produced last year Royal movie the taming of the shrew starring Richurd Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. You simply cannot mix you conventions said Roud. Realistic film making demands realistic dialogue. And certainly in experienced actors cannot Hope to Cope with Shakespeare  John Russell Taylor complained in the times that Zeffirelli tried to overcome difficulties posed by the Shakespeare text by Lay ing on local color with a trowel familiar rioters and reveler laughing their silly Heads off at  18 House demos offer plan to Settle Viet War Washington a eight Een House Democrat monday offered a plan for a negotiate settlement to the Vietnam War that is based on free election sin South Vietnam with the participation of All parties including the National liberation front Elf the House members also urged that following the election Sall foreign troops including North vietnamese be withdraw non a gradual basis. The suggestion did not How Ever include a Means of get Ting negotiations under  the elections the group said there would be a period of a general cease fire super versatile Vuki at 19, Raymond of Sydney Australia owns a boutique design Sand makes her own clothes and Lias played in to series. A Vised by an appropriate International body Banning military operations and terrorist acts. We believe a Long step for Ward would be taken if the United states were to give greater emphasis to our declaration about self determination by Mak ing explicit the kind of Honor Able and just settlement that we would accept consistent with Ouraim the statement said. We have never done this. Behave Only kept repeating a kind of first position which would give the Elf no role whatever in South Vietnam and therefor could not possibly be within the negotiable area for them i seems that some bold and imaginative new moves Are  the statement was issued Ata news conference and then read into the congressional record Byre. Jonathan b. Bingham of new York who acted As spokes Man for the group. Other signers in addition to Bingham other members at the news Confer ence were Donald m. Fraser of Minnesota. Robert l. Legget and Thomas m. Rees of California Richard l. Ottinger and James ii. Scheuer of new York. Henrys. Reuss of Wisconsin and Sid Ney r. Yates of Illinois. John a. Blatnik and Joseph  Karth of Minnesota Edward p. Roland and Thomas p. O Oneilljr. Of Massachusetts Leonard Farbstein and Herbert Tenzer of new York Floyd v. Hicks of Washington Andrew Jacobs  Indiana Robert w. Kaster Meier of Wisconsin and John  of California also signed the statement but were not pres ent at the conference. It was Clear in my mind that it was an ambush. The civilians were already across the Bridgeit the Back when the firing started. They came right through us. They must be known about it. I think the were used As a Decoy action As they walked through us. Som of them were Riding bikes and carrying their personal  maj. Gen. F. K. Mearns com Mander of Charlie company s Parent unit the 25th infantry division said the ambush was skillful and  company had taken the Lead for two other Compa Nies. They were to move out about two thirds of a mile to de ploy troops nine Miles North of Saigon near the Saigon  were conducting a sweep in search of communist rocket positions. The company commander capt. Willie l. Gore of South port n.c., deployed three of his platoons along a Road leading toward their objective. The three platoons spaced about 10 Yards apart ambled casually Down the Road. They had no flank Security or Security up ahead. Gore had reconnoitre a the area from a helicopter. He did not see the reinforced company of Viet Cong lying in wait for his men. But the Viet Cong saw the americans. They killed 48 and wounded 28 in about eight min utes. Every officer in the company was killed or wounded. Gore was wounded and put out of action. Sgt. . Frank j. Hettin Ger of Monterey calif., Gath ered what was left of the com Pany and placed them in fight ing position. As soon As he could he collected the wounded. Hell of a mistake there was a hell of a mis take made Gen. Mearns said. I just could t understand Why the company commander did t have any flank and Point Security. This is the same unit and the same company commander Whin mid january had one of his platoons fight the Best platoon action i be Ever  they had 33 men Cut off Bynorth vietnamese. They killed 72 we could count. We had eight dead and 14  Why did Charlie company walk into an ambush with its eyes closed i think they had a false sense of Security Mearns re  noted that after the initial Contact the men fought Well and prevented themselves from being  credited artillery sup port which began to fall after the first seven minutes of the Battle with saving the Ameri cans. He said the americans killed36 Viet Cong so they did not come out of the ambush empty  after the fight out of the remainder of the company that was still standing 18 of them wanted badly to go backing to kill the people who had killed their buddies he said. Lebanon averts War Hatot Loni Beirut Lebanon a unexpected War baby Boom in Leb anon has failed to materialize nine months after the Middle Eastern War apparently be cause of the  rates in most Beirut maternity wards have remained Normal during the past three weeks and doctors expect no Sharp increase. The june War broke out nine months ago and for one wee there were blackouts and cur fews in Lebanon with no movies cabarets or other places of entertainment  featured Only run Ning newscasts and patriotic  expected a baby Boom just about now one doctor said but it has t  confinement to the Home tors said reproduction always has  owner of one maternity clinic said the use of birth control pills has become so wide spread that practically no one has an unplanned baby any  in Large hospitals catering mostly to the poor echoed in similar times of stress and this observation