European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Mondoy March 35 Kin Saul area Llam cml of Steps up a strains 196 from a and up . Air Force b52 bombers stepped up their raid son North vietnamese positions menacing Khe Sanh sunday with four More missions to counter with another 600-round plus bar the enemy s intensified shelling of the Marine vietnamese gunners hammered Marine fortress soup Chat mrs. Nguyen Cao by wife of South Vietnam vice president talks with vice adm. W. F. Bringle commander of the . 7th Fleet As the keys visit the Carrier Kitty Hawk 135miles East of Vietnam. A photo rage of artillery rockets an mortars for the second consecutive Day saturday. . Casual ties were reported As Light. The eight engined b52s countered with two missions saturday night and the four sunday i their pounding of the communist gun positions and other fortifications threatening the base. I the latest raids by the b52sraised the number of missions around Khe Sanh to 13 in thelast 48 hours and to 354 since last Jan 21 when the strato fortresses launched the biggest single Aerial Campaign of the War aimed at taking enemy pressure off the outpost. Latest intelligence reports say there Are 16,000 North vietnamese troop Sand hundreds of guns encircling the base. Elsewhere fighting slipped tits lowest ebb since the Viet Cong s lunar new year offensive two months ago. Gen. William c. Westmore land s Headquarters said enemy forces Are continuing to avoid decisive in one engagement sunday however South vietnamese forces pushing through the heavily threatened Mekong Delta clashed with a battalion of Vietcong about 55 Miles South of vietnamese operation aimed at choking off the flow of guns and ammunition through the Lac work of Delta Waterways resulted in 20 Viet Cong killed. To. Stroll in the Sun former president Harry s. Truma takes a walk with his grandchildren Clifton 11, left and William 8, on the Ian of a key West hotel. The Truman along with their daughter Margaret and her family Are spending a i two week vacation in key West. Up photo War defended in wis. Talk students hear Humphrey Tevens Point wis. Up system before you were born doubt that i will be raising Clinice president Hubert hum Humphrey said in remarks when you Are running things Steven ,. Vice t t prey defended the administration s Vietnam policy in Wisconsin s heartland saturday an told the critical College Genera Tion Welcome to the was raising Cain with the syst Humphre prepared for the opening of question answer session with students at Stevens Point stat University. As i am just beginning Roget started he said i Don t be boxers Mccarthy warns Milwaukee wis. A sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy obviously worried that demonstrations against administration officials could result in a political backlash warned his Young sup porters saturday against being provoked into demonstrations by those who want to discredit our cause by being shouted nor added the Minnesota Democrat should they be provoked by others who feel the can achieve the same results by doing the Mccarthy issued the state ment through his Milwaukee Headquarters one Day after acknowledging some irritation that Secretary of agriculture Orville l. Freeman had implied that it was y o u 11 g Mccarthy supporters who were responsible for booing him Clown during speech in Madison. An official apology was sent to Freeman saturday by University of Wisconsin chancello William Sewell who told lie specialist Flics to Nepal Katmandu u Varch 15. Cabinet member the vigor of your reception was in the wis Consin tradition but the unfair Ness of it was not. I am genuinely sorry for what occurred arid know i speak for the whole University Community in express ing sincere apology and Mccarthy is challenging pres ident Johnson in the Wisconsin primary april 2 on the Issue of the War in Vietnam and Leader ship at Home. As evidence of administration concern with the results of the voting in Wisconsin president Johnson sent in vice president Hubert h. Humphrey and free Man last week. Doubt he too. In fact i predict that inthe next Century s history books your parents and i May relisted As some of the greatest radicals in modern the vice president s Stop her ended a Day and a half of campaigning i n Wisconsin where president Johnson faces sen. Eugene Mccarthy of Minnesota april 2 in the state democratic primary. It will be the first primary test in which both men s names Are on the ballot. At a television taping Satur Day morning Humphrey said i think we can win the Wisconsin primary. At a news conference upon his arrival Friday Humphrey had described the contest As nip and tuck and an Uphill fight for the president. He stressed the difficulty of Reading any meaning into the Wisconsin election because of the possibility of a in this state registration snot required according to party and voters can decide in the voting Booth which party race they will vote in. Helicopter crash us 2 children St. Louis a two Chil Dren were killed saturday after noon when a sightseeing Heli copter crashed into the missis Sippi River at St. Louis while at tempting to land. The Pilot Frederick j. Haw Kins 25, of East St. Louis 111., was missing and two other Pas sengers were injured. Killed were Peter Maune 8,and Jay p Neil 12. Injured but not seriously Ere Peter smother mrs. Judith Maune. And another son. Grant Maune 12.the o Neil boy was a Friend of the Muncs in Clayton mo., ast. Louis suburb. A witness said the helicopter crashed while attempting to land on a moored Barge that Naples bombs damage nato officers cars Naples up _ Home mad bombs went off underneath cars belonging to several nato officers Here sunday destroying one and damaging several bombing coincided with a communist sponsored weekend of Solidarity with Vietnam but it was not known if there was an direct connection. Kennedy woos Calif. Poor Young Sacramento Calif. A i the death of n Iilva vmm., i.-., Calif. A e deat o a Brave Vount sen. Robert f. Kennedy sought Man in the swamps of Southeast support saturday from the poor and the Young in his first Clay of campaigning in California june democratic presidential primary. It is indecent for a Man to work with his hands in the Fields of California without Hope of Send Iru his children to College he told crowds in the centra1 Valley communities of Stockton and Sacramento. Asia that is of the Young men killed in Vietnam the new York senator asked which of them might Duve cured cancer which of Hern might have built a Bridge or a University which of them might have taught a Small child and that is Why i am run Nung for president of the crowds of youths cheered Kennedy Asho sport in the mall of a Sacramento shopping Cen Ter. Many of them Are not yet old enough Ito vote but Man face the possibility of fighting in Vietnam. In Stockton to directed his Appeal to the mexican Ameri can labourers of the Vallur. Rather than to thu Powers who employ them. Was being used for a heliport. The copter bounced and spun in the air Bill Cook said. One Pontoon struck the Side of thebarge and the Pilot flew out Landing in the water. The copter then plunged into the River turned Over and started Drifting another witness said the Pilot attempted to swim toward the floating helicopter but Digap survivors were holding on to one of the Craft s pontoons when it was pulled ashore Sev eral Hundred Yards Down Stream South of tin Gateway Arch. The victims wore trapped in the tangled , a Vietnam Veteran made a forced Landing a 42 i 2 / u8 68 Fco 45 t. 3? Albany 2 Atlanta 36 Woiton 29 uhf lilo i"6 Chicago 2i can iiiti4u i Cleveland i i Denver t2 Detroit or Koi i w38 Houi Tun to i h i
