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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday March 12, 1968 the stars and stripes Tabor Leader ends Long fast Delano Calif. A Cesar Chavez farm labor organizer his 25-Day fast sunday Catholic mass broke with a romans Balod at an altar set up on a flatbed truck. About 4,000 farm workers joined Chavez in a symbolic break my aking ceremony Mark ing the end of their Leader s fasting for the principle of non  Robert Kennedy any flew by chartered plane fro los Angeles to take part. I am Here out of respect for one of the heroic figures of our time Cesar Chavez Kennedy told the worker throng. I congratulate All of you whore locked with Cesar in the struggle for Justice for the far worker and the struggle for jus Tice for Spanish speaking americans. There Are those who ques Tion the principle of everything that you have done so far the principle of nonviolence. Let me say to you that Vio Lence is no  a Spanish speaking priest conducted the mass on the trucking the 20-acre Delano Community , 41. Has directed a 2 year strike against Delano Are grape growers in his drive to unionize California farm work  says he is devoted to the nonviolence policies developed by Mahatma  Union movement is Worth the life of a single grower or his child or the life of a single worker and his child Chavez declared. Looking weak and drawn Chavez sat slumped in a chair. His weight had dropped from 175 to 140  tone of the worker Cele bration was religious. But the Union spread banners through out the Park displaying its rally ing Call  the word Means strike i Spanish. During the offertory of the mass Paul Schrade West coast chief of the United automobile workers presented Chavez and his a Floc a $50,000 donation from the Law. The Money will finance construction of an a Floc head quarters on the Union s tract outside Delano. Chavez Hopes eventually to establish a self contained settlement for farm workers on the  Only permanent building there now is an Adobe filling station owned by the Union. It contains a Small Chapel and sparsely furnished room where Chavez stayed in seclusion Dur ing his fast. Chavez to Date has won signed contracts with 11 Large growers in the area. These boosted the wage scale from $1.20 to 1.80 an hour and increased piece workmates. Knoxville cabbie slaying causes Boycott of Campus Knoxville Tenn. Up White owned taxicab companies Cut off service sunday to the predominantly Black Campus of Knoxville College and police reported no leads in the slaying of a White taxi . J. Boruff 28, whose widow expects their third child soon was shot in the Chest after a crowd on the Campus attacked his car. Earlier students had demonstrated against  spokesman for the checker cab co. Boruff drove for said sunday none of the City s White owned cab firms Are serving the Knoxville College Campus at present. He said the no service policy would continue until things Cool Down Over  s just too dangerous now he said. Negro owned taxicab firms continued to serve the  chief Harry Huskisson said the Small Caliper pistol used to kill Boruff had not been found and no leads had developed. We re using Ever available Man in the depart ment and investigating Ever possible Lead regardless of How slim it might be he said. Boruff had gone onto the Campus Early saturday morning to pick up a fare. He reportedly taxi radio that his cab was being stoned. He asked for police Protection. Or. Robert Owens president of the College successfully urged police not to go to the Campus but to let him Settle the incident. I feel a personal guilt for his death the College president said after the  s body was found four hours after the attack on his cab 75 Yards away from it. Firemen called to extinguish the burning taxi set afire by the students were chased away by stones. Four arrested four negro youths arrested at the Campus before the shooting remained in jail sunday one charged with drunkenness another with tres passing a third held for investigation and the fourth for Possession of explosives. Police said Gary keel 20, student from Indianapolis ind., was arrested after a policeman recognized him As one of eight negroes seen with a Bagful of o 1 o t o v cocktails saturday . Police chief Joe Fowler said sunday however that no apparent connection existed Between the arrests of the four and the slaying of Boruff. Jackie sees ruins on mexican visit Palenque Mexico a mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy viewed mayan Temple ruins by Moon Light sunday night As she continued her mexican vacation which began Friday. She and a party of 10 arrive earlier after a 300-mile flight Over the tropical Jungles fro Merlda in the state of Yucatan. Her Host during the visit was Fernando Barbachano a Hotelier and owner of the Aero Maya air line. Penta gone Robert s. Mcnamara and his wife relax at their Colorado ski chalet during what he called a simply magnificent wee since he resigned As Secretary of  gets objector status new Haven Conn. Up Ingman Brewster i a College dropout and son of the president of Yale University has been granted conscientious objector draft status a selective service official said sunday. Airport s neighbors Pray in quiet Miami Fla. A a Church abandoned because buzzing planes at one of the nation busiest airports drowned out the prayers and sermons has become Home base for a preacher s silent  the deaf worship now in the Rev. Walter Busby s 40-Meni-Ber Parish unique in Florida. They Aren t disturbed by noise from landings and takeoffs at suburban opa Locka Airport on of the busiest in the nation with almost 600,000 landings and take offs last year. The planes approach takes them directly Over the weathered Wiite Cross on the roof of the  lutheran pastor has All five senses. He gives his ser Mons and the Liturgy of the serv Tan mass task Bone with abandon in new York a Newcity police returned an medium Tankar Vou sunday. To the  .  said it had t known that the a in had been missing since Fri a nor Why it had been aban Flo Al m the  was found aboard Nuler by mooned at Poneot the throw s neck Bridge Long Island  a i my spokesman said the Fri was  army said the tank had been stripped but photograph showed its Cannon at least was intact., the $360,000 tank h a d been loaned to a company of the 42nddiv, new York National guard at Patchogue on Long  was being returned to the depot the army said when the civilian Drivers apparently abandoned it Friday night. Ice and leads prayer and hymn with the hand language of the  the altar turned so he can face his parishioners As they f. Laduke president of the earlier congregation said our Church body decided in1960 that with the Airfield flight pattern being right Over the roof read his fingers pastor Busby j and our fronting on a Busy ave foods his hands to say let us  lutheran congregation built and used the building i which the Trinity deaf Zion nue the noise sunday after Sun Day was affecting our attend  advertised in local newspapers and the first inquiry Parish now worships but Harry was from a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints mormon. I explained to him the Nois and confusion that caused us to want to sell Laduke said. Lawent away and never Camj , an advertisement led to Purchase of the  More than $40,000 by the National deaf Zion of the lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Cop s feat was special Fairmont Minn. A officer Arthur Meyenberg was cruising the area in a patrol Carand was the first on the scene when two carloads of teenager collided saturday night killing  called for an ambulance and helped Load the two bodies and the six injured youngsters into  when the officer re turned to the Fairmont police station another policeman asked him How s your kid that s the first i knew that my kid was one of those in the Accident Meyenberg about 45, said  daughter Julie 15, was reported in serious  was so Busy calling ambulances and picking up these kid that i never looked at them said Meyenberg. Buy All s. Viet land envoy suggests or or Oxford Ohio up the former acting vietnamese ambassador to the United state said Here that the . Should admit it made a mistake in Viet Nam and withdraw its forces. Tran Van Dinh now washing ton correspondent for the Saigon Post told a Miami University audience sunday that the United states could end the War by buy ing All the land in South Vietnam and giving it to the  said it would Cost about $750 million to buy up land inthe South As opposed to the �3 billion a Moth Cost of the War  United slates cannot win the War in Vietnam because the american military might does not fit into the Type of War being waged said Dinh the sixth speaker to appear on the student sponsored Vietnam forum since it started feb. 18. About  were present. The . Should admit it unmade a mistake and pull out he  said that if the purpose of the . Commitment in Viet Nam is to Stop the spread of Chi Nese communism America making a mistake because it is destroying the very people we know How to contain the Chines j the  added that . Liberation i of South Vietnam villages is m helping the people of South Viet Nam because the villages Are be ing turned Over to former Mem Bers of the French  ruler steal All the Ian t for themselves and have no Prid 3in their country he said. Thu is Why there is so much corruption in the vietnamese govern   
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