European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse I Friday 1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 Castro reveals food shortages that looks Good Princess Paola of Bel Gium makes a menu suggestion to Britain s Prince Philip at an anniversary dinner of the Anglo belgian Union in London. A photo Miami Fla. Up Premier Fidel Castro revealed wednes Day night that Cuba is suffering serious food and production shortages. He chided Russia for failing to help. Castro told a nationwide radio and television audience that Cuba s problems would be fewer if the communist Island could depend on greater foreign of Cuba s new prob lems after nine years of communism is milk production Cas Tro said. Earlier this year he Dis closed that the Island is suffer ing from serious Petroleum shortages. Newsprint shortages forced the cutback of All papers to four pages More than a month Many cities including Havana drinking water often is no available and cubans Are cautioned to boil water before drink ing it. In his address at the univer sity of Havana Castro chided any cubans for their ignorance and overzealous interpretation of communism through abuse of marxist the bearded Premier said that drought was to blame for much of the Island s agricultural production inadequacies. But the cuban people while Able to meet crisis situations like the 1962 missile crisis with heroism still Lack the Vir tue of everyday heroism i tackling Domestic problems Cas Tro said. With or without foreign Aldand foreign resources we have the will to push this country for Ward he said heatedly. It is Russia s alleged inability to meet Cuba s Petroleum needs that has plunged the is land into some serious production difficulties he said. Good Luck Charm Canada Flag lowered at Khe Sanh by Peter Arnett Khe Sanh Vietnam a the Maple Leaf Canadian Flag fluttered bravely Over his Sand bag Bunker for six weeks but now Cpl. Richard Zdunczyk Hasto lower it. They say she s an aiming stake for the comes out there he said pointing to a red Clay Ridge line beyond the nearby air strip where North vietnamese snipers with machine guns bound. Ill take her Down and flyer inside me Hootch. I la pin her up Over me bunk i be go right fond of her and she s a sort of Good Luck Charm for allow the Flag is streaked with dust and has a piece out of one Cor Ner that could have come from flying shrapnel. When Zdunczyk hoisted it Las january he took a lot of ribbing from buddies in Bravo Battery 1st battalion 13th Marine Artil Lery regiment the unit that stands guard at the Eastern endow the Khe Sanh Landing strip. Half of them did t know what it was at first he said. Now they look at her proudly. No one else on the base has got one like Zdunczyk 23, had the Flag circulation office phone numbers Germany Berlin Civ 739368 Mil v x 108 j047, Mil Oku Nabeh 7us 17 a v. I my i l in s -T23. Mil 73w k in 770ti Lam 1v m17 Mun no s7iui- my 7050 018 Greece my Mil 2. Spain dark ,. La n2.js.j90i m Ali United kingdom Lull Civ us Lull 32264, text 127 subscribe now government housing Only sent to him by Richard Drabik a relative who lives in Atikokan ont. I intend to go Back to Canada when i leave Here in 6 More months and i wanted something to remind me of a better life he , a chief Wireman for the Battery is a British subject born in East Africa. He spent a few months at school i British Columbia and lived for a time with his relatives in Atikokan. Later working in the United states he volunteered for . Marines i beat the draft by two he came to Vietnam in december and arrived at the Khe Sanh combat base dec. 13. Not a shot had been fired in anger at Khe Sanh in the pre Vious five months. Five weeks after Zdunczyk arrived the North vietnamese offensive began with a major attack on the Camp and the overrunning of Khe Sanh town three Miles away. Shells have been falling steadily on the base Ever since. Zdunczyk s parents live in Cicero. 111. Thousands Cross Border to join up by Marc ii ets a Washington Bureau chief Washington is Al though a lot of attention has been attracted by a Small num Ber of draft age americans who have gone to Canada to . Military service a much larger number of canadians estimated by some officials As High As 3,000, have gone in the other direction to serve in the . Armed forces. Neither Pentagon nor Canad an embassy officials Here could give an exact figure on the num Ber of canadians who have crossed the Border to Volunteer to serve with americans in Viet Nam. But it is estimated to Beabout 2,000, with another 1,000 canadians elsewhere with .forces. The defense department said a precise figure could Only be Given by canvassing every unit commander worldwide. Britons Volunteer meanwhile press reports fro London say up to 500 britons Volunteer for . Service i Vietnam but few if any actually wind up fighting because volunteers can be accepted Only in the United states and they mus pay their own fares across the Atlantic to join up. Half of the queries come from Young jul vent Mars and half from former servicemen who have left the British armed forces in recent Borders is nothing new for Young men in time of War and in the Case of the United states this goes Back tothe Marquis do Lafayette and his French companions Poland count Pulaski and Germany s Baron von Steuben who joined the american colonists to help them win their Independence. During world War i the most notable group were those americans who enlisted in the French foreign legion so they could fight for France and still . Citizenship. Later some of their number gained Fame a pilots in the Lafayette Esca Drill Squadron of the French air Force. And volunteers of the american Field service were driving ambulances in front line combat during both world wars Long before the United states be came officially involved. Before the United states be came directly involved in world War ii americans crossed the order to join the Royal Cana Dian air Force and the British Royal air Force. These eager Young volunteers included trans port pilots crop dusters washed out aviation cadets an students who wanted to fight the nazis. In october 1940, when Britain stack was to the Wall Many american volunteers were transferred to number 71 Squadron of the Raf to form the original Eagle Squadron. More americans followed an they were assigned to numbers 121 and 133 squadrons. In two years they bagged to enemy aircraft. The three Eagle squad Rons were transferred to . Control in 1942, when americ entered the War and the three squadrons became the 4th fighter group. The group now known As the 4th fighter Wing of the tactical air command is stationed at Seymour Johnson . Some of today s Canadian volunteers intend to make the United states their Home when their enlistments Are up while others plan to return to the Case of those who enlisted the army says they take the regular enlistment oath while those who Are inducted through selective service Chan Nels take a special oath permit Ting them to obey orders with out renouncing their Canadia citizenship. Friendly talk ends in deaths of three men los Angeles up what apparently began As a Friendly discussion among three me wednesday ended in the deaths of All of them in a pistol Shotgun Duel outside the Home of one of the in the shootout were Henry Dailey 22. Los Angeles Don Campbell 26. Los Angeles and Arthur Coltrane 28, believe to be from san Francisco. Sheriff s deputies said Daile was killed by a Bullet from a .32 Caliper automatic pistol while Coltrane and Campbell were felled by a blast from a 12-gauge shot gun. Went outside Dailey s wife. Patricia 16, told detectives the three me talked in a Friendly manner inside the Dailey Home and the went outside to continue the afterwards. Dailey returned to the House and took his Shotgun from a closet then went Back outside. Mrs. Daile said she heard the men say something about $50. She said she assumed her husband was asking that Price for the Shotgun. Detectives said they did no know Why the shootings occurred or who fired the pistol. Put heart in your driving Zurich Switzerland up the Swiss medical review suggested wednesday the latest Road traffic slogan for South Africa might be drive care fully Barnard is i martians. Watch out 1 i sex pug Hollywood a Lou Nova for president yes Virginia the one time heavyweight contender says he s in the m serious the 47-year-old sex pugilist told newsmen wednes Day in making his announce ment this thing will Snow to listen to him talk it sounds More like a Snow Job. First thing i la do is declare War on the planet Mars he said. Everyone knows that the economic history of the world is War and Prosperity or peace and depression unlike the War in Vietnam where to Don t know for sur who we re fighting or Why my War with the martians will Beall out. It will be a Nice clean Little War and no one will be killed or describes himself As an actor writer attorney without License and former car sales Man. In 1941 he fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight boxing championship and Sas knocked s backing him the utopian party which appears about As tangible As those martians
