European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday March 9, 1968_ weak the stars and stripes Page 3 open a Washington up1 thes Onate thursday weakened the Oen housing provisions of its 48-45 margin its adopted an amendment permit Ting persons who own up to Hryc houses 10 discriminate in he Sale or rental of the ouse Sif the transaction is not handled through a vote was the first setback for the bipartisan civil rights coalition striving to keep the open housing provision intact. In that attempt it has acquiesced to anti riot Amend ments to the Bill. Members of the coalition persuaded sen. Robert c. Byrd,d-w.va., to water Down his amendment. Then they vote against it but lost the vote. Byrd and sen. Spessard , d-fla., used the Case of senators As an example of How the amendment would work. Without the amendment they said senators who rent their Homes to others while they Are in Washington would not bellowed to discriminate should the original tenant move is because the Bill As written permitted a Homeowner to discriminate Only if he or the most recent resident occupied the Home. If the tenant the most recent resident moved out the Home would have to be rented to anyone who wanted it. The Bill before the Senate curb discrimination in the rent or Sale of housing protects negroes and civil rights work ers from racial violence and provides stiff Federal penalties for causing slum riots. The housing provisions go int effect in three Steps. Without the Byrd amendment the Only hous ing not covered by Jan. 1, 1970, would have been owner occupied single family Home not sold or rented through a Byrd Amend ment Holland said Over 500people in Congress Are in that situation where they might have to rent to negroes because we retain our Homes in their Home states. In addition he said there were thousands of people another branches of the govern ment and those in state capital who would be affected. In a memorandum to fellow senators Byrd said the Amend ment was designed to help a owner who goes to Arizona for his health or a foreign service officer who is sent overseas. But sen. Walter f. Mondale,d-minn., said the exemption was not needed. We be made some compromises he said. We Don t want to make any army to run Khe Sanh . Sets up new Viet command Saigon a Gen. Wil Liam c. Westmoreland announced Friday the setting up of a new Headquarters which leaves the . Marines in Overall com Mand of South Vietnam men aced Northern provinces. But an army general was in stalled to direct operations at Khe Sanh and the sector North of Hue. The command change believe unique in . Military organi action and tailored to the Spe Cial situation in Vietnam also resulted in the return to Saigon of Westmoreland Deputy four Star army Gen. Creighton . Abrams had been sent in february to Phu Bai near Hue to set up a Northern command a Extension of Westmoreland Saigon Mac military assist Ance command Vietnam head major assignment now is to assist in training of South vietnamese troops. The new Headquarters also Athu Bai has been designated As provisional corps twill be commanded by army it. Gen. William b. Rosson. The 49-year-old Rosson was until recently commanding Gen eral of the Central area of South Vietnam just below the five Northern provinces which makeup the i corps. One result of the command change will be to inject More army officers into the top eche Lons controlling the fighting in the Northern provinces unti no mostly a Marine Domain. Viet troop need could be millions Candy Candy swedish actress Ewa Aulin who play the title role in the new film Candy tries out some at a new York shop. Miguel Columbani serves As admirer. A Washington a from three million to 15 million .troops could be needed in Viet Nam to gain a military superiority that would enable this coun try to dictate terms of a Settle ment a Princeton University professor told the Senate for eign relations committee. . Gang kidnapped 6 Cosa Nostra Bosses new York a a kid Nap gang with respect for Nei incr the Law nor the underworld was reported thursday to have abducted six Cosa Nostra Lead pipes circulation office phone numbers p Germany Berlin Civ r i to " u".i08-- im7, Mil Offenbach 769 w f117 my Voge Lorti 7060v Al a sul Wiet Iau w8 Irvi n pm 7. I c 77titit7 Italy s., subscribe now government housing a Only ers in the past year and collected $200,000 in Ransom for them. It apparently a pretty Clever gang a police source was quoted As saying. They know the Cosa Nostra is not about to cooperate with us. And As Faras we know the underworld has t been Able to apprehend any of the kidnappers through their own this Point we know that at least six key Cosa Nostra Lead ers have been kidnapped and ransomed. But we have no formal complaint from any of them and we Don t expect any reports described the underworld As paying the ransoms while awaiting an Opportunity to take care of our own news of the alleged Kidnap operation came As two men were arrested for criminal Contemp for refusing to answer questions by a grand jury about a reported kidnapping and a subsequent $40,000 Ransom payment. Third Man was sought. District attorney Frank Hogan said the arrests climaxed a 10-month investigation into the april 24, 1907, kidnapping of Michael Luongo 4ti, one of those arrested. Casualties in Vietnam top Korea Saigon up . Casual ties in the Vietnam War have surpassed the total of Ameri cans killed and wounded in the korean War official reports showed Friday. . Casualties in Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961, reached 136,993 Friday the official reports showed. The figure is 80 above the casualty toll for the entire korean War. The breakdown of dead an wounded showed however a far greater number of .troops were killed in Korea. Week toll the official reports came Only one Day after the .command announced that 542 americans wore killed Las week in Vietnam one fewer than the highest number of death for any previous week. In the week ended feb. 17, record 543 americans died in action in Vietnam. As of the official figure Friday 19,313 american servicemen had been killed inaction in Vietnam. Another 117,080 have been wounded. The totals in Korea were m.ti29 killed and 103,284 wounded. John t. Mcalister jr., who specializes in vietnamese politics and culture said he based his estimate on the French experience in Algeria and the Brit ish experience in Malaya. He testified thursday that the presently authorized . Troop strength in Vietnam is 525,000and that a White House decision on whether to raise that Levelis pending. Mcalister said there were approximately 300,000 communist troops in what he termed revolutionary War in Vietnam. The French had a ratio of 10to one in Algeria and the British 50 to one in Malaya he said also terming those conflicts revolutions. Saigon role Mcalister who served in . Navy in Vietnam said the communists were growing stronger and the Saigon govern ment raises the Prospect he said that the South vietnamese contribution to the War Effort will diminish substantially probably to the vanishing Mcalister said the communist offered the vietnamese peasants an Opportunity to share in Politi Cal life while the Saigon govern ment does not have any effective political Structure with which to gain popular support and bring order to the country leaves the South Vietnam Ese government in the dilemma of having to control the country Side by Force and being unable to mobilize enough forces for such control Mcalister commented. Sen. Frank Church. A Lauho commented you re saying the cause is replied that in re Gard to the cause and the wait has been approached thus far yes it is however Marine corps . Robert e. Cushman retains Overall command of the North. Westmoreland announcement said the provisional corps will be subordinate to Marine it. Gen. Robert e. Cushman command ing general of the third Marine amphibious Force in Danang who has several other senior tactical units reporting to will serve As a tactical Echelon Between Gen. Cush Anand the commanders of the . Army and Marine divisions the Northern area. Gen. Gush Man area responsibilities will remain unchanged. Gen. Rosson will also have coordinating functions with the highly regarded first South vietnamese division which is deployed in the senior . Military spokes Man explained the command set up this Way when the Battle in Northern corps Khe Sanh Hue and just below the demilitarized one is joined. Gen. Rosson will be running the Battle. If Theattle is joined South of this Gen. Cushman will be tactical units the units under tactical com Mand of Rosson Are the 3rd Marine division and Large ele ments of the army 101st air borne division and 1st airmobile cavalry division. The major units under Cushman com Mand Are the 1st Marine Divi Sion and the army America division. Westmoreland announcement said the new provisional corps Headquarters will exercise operational control Over . Mili tary ground units in the North Ern provinces of Quang Tri and thua Thien. The Headquarters staff will consist mainly of army and Marine corps personnel though it also will contain some Navy and air Force officers. Most of the personnel in the new Headquarters will come from the Mac Forward head quarters which was established in the area several weeks ago under command of Creighton w. Abrams. Gen. Abrams who Isgen. Westmoreland Deputy has effected coordination Amon the army Navy Marine and ail Force units in the ins assigned task is virtually Complete he will now re turn to Liis Normal duties in Sai gon Anil the Forward Headquarters will cease to bring on the butter Rutland it. A fou members of the Lions club had a Long wait when they tapped tree for Maple sap to be boiled Down to syrup for heir club annual Pancake breakfast. The tree turned out to be us
