European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday March 10 Tak r by Washington a the supremo court made negroes Access to Public accommodations easier monday by ruling that proprietors who discriminate have to pay lawyers fees if the negroes take their Case to court and win. An 8-0 unsigned ruling interpreting the 1964 Federal civil rights act said those who Are discriminated against serve the Public interest by going to court. If they had to pay their Law yers fees the decision said few would be in a position to take be Gal action. In fact the High court said Congress established provision for lawyers fees in the 1964 Law to encourage individuals injured by racial discrimination to see judicial Relief. The ruling grew out of a quest for an injunction to prohibit racial discrimination at five drive in restaurants and a Sand wich shop owned and operated by Piggie Park enterprises i South Carolina. The . Circuit court i Richmond va., enjoined discrimination at the establish ments but said counsel fees could be awarded Only to the extent that the operator s defences had been advanced for Pur poses of delay and not in Good  in reversing this position on Legal fees the supreme court noted that when someone brings action under the equal accommodations Section of the 1964 Law he cannot recover damages. If he obtains an injunction the court went on he does so not for himself alone but also As a private attorney general vindicating a High priority policy of Congress. In other actions monday the court dismissed an Appeal by three organizers of the Kentucky poor challenging the right of Senate investigators to Docu ments seized by local officiate under a Kentucky Law that has since been found unconstitutional. The Appeal was made by Alan and Margaret Mcsurely and Joseph Mulloy. However the court continued its order third failure for reds blocking the Senate invest a tors Access to the Locum sinew challenges May be 3 � . Circuit cow granted a new Chance for a merchant Seaman barred the coast guard f rom work on . Merchant vessels to have his application recon Sid. Ered. The coast guard had held that Joseph Clinton Mcbride the Seaman could be barred be cause he was found to be an in Tive member of the communist party. Attack 011 Khe Sanli repulsed Saigon up about 400 North vietnamese charged out of Zigzag trenches monday and drove against the surrounded . Marine fort of Khe Sanh just below the North South Viet Nam Border. South vietnamese rangers smashed the communist drive on barbed wire and hurled them Back. It was the third try and third failure to break into Khe Sanh by a Vanguard of the 16,000 North vietnamese troops reported by american intelligence to have besieged the Post since january. The North vietnamese moved out of their winding trenches just before Dawn and the rangers the fort s first line of defense opened fire from their  battalion of communists lost their momentum at the wire the rangers fire chopped up the charging ranks. The North Viet namese turned and dashed Backoo the trenches. The North vietnamese had unleashed their heaviest barrage in a month on sunday to pre pare the attack. Rockets an mortar shells hit the Khe Sanh area at a rate of one every min Ute More than 500 throughout the Day. But in the predawn darkness monday the charging guerrillas failed to get the breakthrough denied them twice before by Al lied firepower. Marine artillery at nearby Camp Carroll and american strike planes sprayed them with shells bombs and napalm. The North vietnamese Battal Ion fell Back. Allied forces re ported Light  ene my losses were said to have been  in other action . Spokes men said two american jets were shot Down sunday during raids against North Vietnam. The two men aboard an air Force f4c phantom were rescued off the coast. But the two Man Crew of a Navy a6 intruder downed near Haiphong was listed a missing. American spokesmen said 767guerrillas have been killed in the first week of operation certain Victory the record 50-battalion Allied sweep around Saigon.  have been 31 men killed and 263 wounded and South Viet namese units suffered Light casualties. In South Vietnam air Force b52s dropped tons of 750-Pound bombs on a guerrilla truck depot 17 Miles Southwest of Hue the battered City 400 Miles up the coast from Saigon. In other developments a . Marine helicopter with 18 men aboard was shot Down by enemy fire sunday about 13 Miles Southwest of Danang. American spokesmen said no one was killed. Nine men aboard the helicopter were wounded troops being sent to hospitals. In operation Mekong Delta Allied spokesmen said 378 guerrillas had been killed As of Sun Day in the Rice bowl area below Saigon. American losses totalled 25 men killed and 154 wounded. The . Forces reported killing 41 guerrillas sunday in two Bat . 5 gis killed in 100-m.p.h.car crash Germany is five men from the 2nd in 48th inf died late sunday when their car ran off the Road North of Here into a drainage ditch and turned Over 3rd army div revealed. Military police estimated that the vehicle was travelling at a Speed of More than 100 Miles per hour when the Accident occurred. The men were pronounced Deacon arrival at the 17th general dispensary at Gellhausen names Are being withheld until next of Kin Are notified. Bobby on the Alert a Bobby grabs a smoke bomb hurled Over the Heads of a cordon of police standing guard outside embassy and tosses it to a part of Grosvenor Square i London. Police battled for 90 minutes with an estimated 10,000 marchers before Dis Persing them and arresting 220. Many were fined and a few jailed. A ii Ica w1hi were Nonea and a be  Calls for Vietn Atn  f continued from pane l ene o l T,-.TT .1, ,. Continued Page to to deliver a twice postponed lecture at Kansas state univer sity. He urged students to organize yourselves and then go Forth to work for new policies " he devoted his address to scalding criticism of the Johnson administration s course of action in Vietnam. What we must ask ourselves is whether we have the right to bring so much destruction to an other land without Clear and convincing evidence that this i what its people want he said in a prepared lecture. Kennedy said earlier that John son s disastrous course in Viet Nam was the reason for his own entry into the presidential race. He told the students that i negotiations to end the War we can  we have never done insist that the government of South Vietnam broaden its base Institute real reforms and seek an honorable settlement with their fellow  Kennedy said president John son seeks not Compromise but Victory in his offers to negotiate. To seek Victory at the conference table is to ensure that you will never reach it. In Stead the War will go on year after terrible year until those who sit in the seats of High policy Are men who seek an other path am1 that must Bedone this  he said the . Administration under the illusion that military Victory is just ahead plunges deeper into the swam that is our present  the Effort at winning t h hearts and minds of the people in Rural South Vietnam has suffered grave setbacks especially within the past month Kennedy said. The result is that to extend the Power of the Saigon government Over its own coun try we now can see will be in essence equivalent to the re Conquest and occupation of Mostof the entire  t h e Republican presidential Campaign took a Back seat in the writer of developments in the More crowded democratic race for the White House. The democratic Campaign be came More confused As new de tails were disclosed in the sensational Story of an alleged Viet Nam Deal which failed to come off. The proposed Deal which came to Light sunday purportedly would have had Kennedy staying out of the race in Exchange for Johnson s agreement to name Apanel of prominent doves to re assess the administration s War policies. There were conflicting claim from both sides about what transpired but they agreed that such a panel had been  said he and Theodore Sorensen an intimate of the Ken Nedys had met defense Secre tary Clark Clifford last week to discuss the idea which was suggested by a mid Western Politi Cian. He told Clifford that he was concerned about Vietnam but if Johnson appointed such a commission Kennedy s candidacy might be unnecessary. Administration sources claimed Kennedy offered the commission idea As his Price forgot opposing Johnson but John son categorically rejected the proposal. The Kennedy Camp and John son supporters were giving widely differing views on the Inci Dent monday. Sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy who is opposing Kennedy and John son for the nomination said in Massachusetts where he is campaigning in that state s primary he could not see Why the pro in Sal was m a d e or Why the White House even considered it. We Don t need a commission to investigate the War the Minnesota senator said. The idea of a commission is kind of an in sult to the Senate foreign re lations  the rift among the democrats took the spotlight away from new York Cov. Nelson Rocke Feller s meeting with h i s advisers and backers. Rockefeller met sunday with a delegation of Oregon republicans and others who urged him to oppose Richard Nixon in the Oregon primary. The governor indicated he would decide by Friday on whether to enter that race. A Call for an immediate con Gressional review of . War policies in Vietnam is ginning wide support in the House the chief sponsor of Hie proposal said. Rep. Paul Findley k 111., said that 138 House members republicans and 40 democrats have joined him in is Rathe Resolution callus 01 ii1l sweeping policy  \ says clearly More of the same backed by still Nuri troops will not do full " in a statement prepared it i news conference at which he am reps f. Nulford Mol t\,mass., William Hungaye. L and Morris i mall Dan. A 1outline growing Uii a the course of the v "