European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tji jul _.flv5 times More effe?5tlve9 Page 23 i .4�xx�u� i jtijl4t3wutlll i Mil to att a a jail barbed tape May replace Battlefield wire Washington a the has come up with a new barbed steel Spring of that May one Day rep Ace conventional wire barriers now used on the Battle Field. The army Calls it a barbed Bose. One Soldier can tout a string of it in second tests show the experimental device is five times More of Eive. At Only a fraction of the festive weight volume and i place ment Effort reported the army mobility equipment research and development Center at , a. The tape with razor Edge Teeth folded right onto the strip is packaged in a dough nut shaped plastic Container that can be handled As easily Asan automobile tire. Total weight is 40 Lay out the obstacle a sol Dier stakes one end of the tape to the ground then simply walks away with the Container i lure of the Vietnam War an the tape feeding out in two i persistent Viet Cong attempts to coils spirals into an instant bar Rier 76 feet Long and 2 / 2 fee thigh. It can be recovered for barbed tape is the army s latest Effort in figuring out ways of impeding the movement of enemy troops. Like other experimental gear it May eventually be sent to Vietnam for a trial under combat conditions. Because of the guerrilla a infiltrate base areas the use of conventional barbed wire and steel Fence posts in Southe Astasia has been Liberal. A Check of Pentagon contract awards shows the defense sup ply Agency bought nearly 1.3million coils of barbed wire at a Cost of $14.5 million in 1967,along with More than 15 million steel Fence posts for about $13million. And last week the Agency bought another ?3.2 million Worth of barbed wire this con tract involving Over 340,000 spools from Republic steel corp. Of Chicago. Most of these materials go to Vietnam officials say. Some will be used in an anti infiltration Barrier consisting of barbed wire mines and electronic monitors below the Vietnam. Doz in South Jar torn hits Wilson hute9 London a Georg Ebrown former foreign Secretary told the House of commons Mon Day that he resigned in an Effort to maintain democratic Rule in stopped just Short of accusing prime minister Harold Wilson of dictatorial tactics. Brown made it abundantly Clear that his resignation Friday resulted from annoyance that hews not consulted properly by Wilson on the Gold crisis and another issues in the past. The indirect attack on Wilson methods of running the govern ment was virtually certain to provide ammunition for the opposition at a time when Wilson needs All the support he can get for the Tough budget to be presented tuesday. As Brown Rose to speak he was clearly under emotional Strain. His face was Pale his hand trembled and his voice was entered his grievance on the Way the Gold crisis was handled thursday night. Wilson ordered the i Nulon Gold Market closed at t h e request of the United states before consulting Brown and some other Cabinet , who is still Deputy Leader of Wilson s labor party said it was because of the Grav Ity of this situation that he Felt compelled to resign As foreign Secretary. It is in just such a situation that it is essential for Cabinet government to be maintained i democracy is to be assured he said. Equally it is in jus such a situation that temptation to de part from it j s at us greatest he added. Then in what was immediately taken As a reference to Wilsons handling of the Gold crisis Brown said Power can very easily pass not merely from the Cabinet to one or two ministers but effectively to sources quite outside the political control 2 americans Hijack plane go to Cuba Havana a two Ameri cans hijacked a twin engine Pri vate mexican plane and Force the Pilot to Fly to Cuba the mex ican embassy said sunday of the men was said to have his wife and child with from sources varied As to the number aboard. An official at san Julian military air Field in Western Cuba where the plane had landed saturday said the passengers were five adult Sand two children All from the United Merida Mexico where the plane had taken off two men woman and three children were reported to have been on in Mexico said they were the passengers the plane carried the Pilot Barrera and a Stew Ardess. Could cause Bonn crisis Brandt backs Oder Neisse Nuernberg Germany a foreign minister Willy Brandt said monday that West Ger Many should put recognition of or respect for the disputed West Ern Frontier of Poland even be fore unification of Germany an conclusion of a world War ii peace treaty. The German people especially desire and need reconciliation with Poland. Without knowing when their own Politi Cal Unity will be found in a peace treaty Brandt told the nation Al convention of his social democratic party spa. This Means the recognition or respecting of the Oder Neisse line until regulation by peace treaty he added. It Means that the present frontiers of Europe May not be changed and that West Germany is prepare to bind itself to such an arrange Brandt said also that it would Willy Brandt pole purge begins following riots h l 45 39 2 36 67 48 10 19 7 43 84 33 32 42 32 4 40 m 33 z9 26 m 3 61 44 37 3b m i8 63 m � 34 41 w u 61 31 w 4a 10 -i1 73 43 71 a 47 30 8 m 60 it 64 3 7t 30 i to m bus. Temperatures Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Birmingham Bli Macck Bone Botton Buffalo Calgary Clu Lotts Chicano Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Denver uhf my Illus Detroit Duluth 1 Habo it. Worth great Kallof Hon Lulu Houston Jackson Jacksonville City h a 44 Laa vegas 43 Little Hock 4b lot Angele 34 you Livelle 43 Memphis 69 Miami Beach 24 Milwaukee 41 melt 8t. Paul &1 new or can 45 new York 39 North Plait 50 okla. City w Omaha 48 Philadelphia by shoe Nix 3 Hitt Burgh 37 Portland me. 37 Portland Ore. A Haleigh 38 rapid City Hano 36 St. Lout 33 Salt Lake t 1 san Antonio of san Diego 49 san Francsico 1u Sault be Man a Seattle 6 Phiev Coit Stock Markov Makos gain new York a the Stock Market closed with a Sain Mon Day but Cut Back much of nearly surge based on enthusiasm about Steps taken to meet the Gold crisis. Trading was Active. As the major part of the Lis advanced Gold and Silver mining issues fell losses were taken by Home stake american South african Mclntyre Porcupine Campbell red Lake Sunshine mining and dome Good gains were held m late trading by ism data Eastman Kodak. Penn Central magma motors and Chrysler. W 1uc�on 4/ 4a wic Lnu Bonnie and a. Was declared tin Best picture at the ninth Inu a National film res rival production Prie was awarded to a verb la Arm a Best director Prue was Given to Hun Karian it orgy Rice for i picture three nights of 1 � a Warsaw up the government said monday it had Al ready begun a purge of alleged zionists liberals and old Stal Inist politicians from the communist party As Well of the gov Warsaw University Stu dents got no answer to grievances against the police and press born in student riots Las week. A communist party official they invited to a Mas rally monday failed to appear. It was also disclosed that roman Zambrowski 59, accused m the government press of inspiring the riots was fired monday from his Job in the All powerful supreme chamber of state control after being thrown out of the party last week. Tribuna Ludu the official party newspaper announced his expulsion in an account of a speech by Kazimierz Kakol Magazine editor and television commen Tator made at the Congress of journalists last was the first official known to have been ejected from the party although four government officials Are known to have lost their jobs. Tlu1 other four All j e w a were fired last week after then i a Ildren were accused of being invoked in the student riots. The polish press monday continued its Campaign for expulsion of those responsible for the unrest and there Strong indications that it could involve newsmen foreign Trade officials and foreign affairs personnel. But Wladyslaw Gomulka. The party first Secretary has n o t commented about the current troubles. There Are reports that he will Issue a statement some time tuesday but these have not been officially sources said it was announced during the Warsaw University student meeting Mon Day that Gomulka s answer Toa polytechnic University student Resolution sent to the first Secretary might also be published Krakow despite threats of expulsion students were reported to be continuing their Boycott of classes. Western sources said police were still in tight control of the situation. Be in West Germany s interests to sign the proposed treaty against the spread of atomic weapons. We Are not receiving them nuclear weapons. We Don t want them. We Don t Nee 1 them he told cheering delegates in the spoke As party Leader rather than As foreign minister but his statements about the polish Border and the nuclear treaty could cause a foreign policy crisis within the 15-month-old coalition government of Brandt s social democrats an Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger s Christian want to emphasize our interests As a modern Industrial state. Representing those inter ests must be voiced not with a no but rather with a yes to the non proliferation of Brandt said. Franz Josef Strauss finance minister of the coalition govern ment and head of the bavarian Wing of Kiesinger s party does not speak in this matter for the Federal Republic of Germany Brandt said alluding to Strauss frequent statements against the proposed spokesman for Strauss parliamentary group promptly is sued a statement accusing Brandt of falsifying history by suggesting that Strauss favors spreading nuclear arms Amon More nations. All postwar West German governments backed by the United states and Britain have insisted that recognition of the Oder Neisse Boundary with Poland must await the signing of a world War ii peace treaty. Al West German maps show former German lands East of the disputed Border As being temporarily under polish administration and indicate the 1937 fron tiers of the German Reich. Cur kills airman Gorman girl to to visit i Sakkal k 11k1dklbkrg special adm. Llor Acio Rivero or. Com Mander a Clinef of Allied Yoi Southern Al som i. Ill vim Headquarters of the Europe and seventh Anns m Heidelberg tuesday. I ramstk1n, Germany Wiesbaden airman and a 20 year old German girl died Zitur Ita a lit in a one car Accident we div hid May 40 is under construct a Between and on Arr Al at the 2nd general Hospital was sgt. Buster Junior major of the 7101st maintenance so. Gertrul Bruch of leis , died water at the Hospital. The cause of Ilie Accident is unknown. School site of Bonith scare London is a b o m scare at London Central High school delayed its opening Mon Day while police searched the police at Watford re ported the bomb threat to school authorities after receiving an Anonymous Telephone Call. I school was opened a i minutes j late after British and . Air Force Security police checked the building ail in Pond no Evi Dence of London Central principal. Or. Ralph c. Rails aul police1 attributed the threat to a Crank. Do Saulle to visit Kun Liuia 1 a r 1 s up president Charles de Gaulle and his wife i ill amt Romania May 14-19
