European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I camouflaged a swing Wing f-111a Jet blends with the terrain during a flight in Southeast Asia. Up photo onslaught Starsiak unofficial newspaper of .  in Europe Norih Africa and the. Middle a vol. 26, no. 342 if 21 855 a5 daily wednesday,10 sunday March 27, 1968 overrun unit kills 135 in 4-hour fight Sau of up a Force of a to i americans threw Back an onslaught by 1,000 to 1, in North vietnamese Arnu in with flamethrowers in a four hour Battle in the Central Highlands tuesday. The americans killed 135 enemy troops and lost in dead and 51 wounded. Troops of the . 4th inf div it re awakened by enemy sol Diers overrunning their " Peri meter but fought Back with rifles nil grenades and supported by us. Air Power drove the communists Hack. The onslaught against the ulv outpost if Miles West of Komi Triin City and 12 Miles from lie cambodian Border began be i n Claun. In the initial attack i North vietnamese captured to n a to it rather than travel tax Mansfield asks go cutback Washington up Senate democratic Leader Mike mans Field tuesday suggested the administration bring Home troops from Europe rather than impose a travel tax if it wants to Cut the balance of payments deficit. The Montana Democrat joined sen James u. Pearson a Kan. A member of the Senate armed services committee in again ask ing president Johnson for a sub Stantial withdrawal of american troops see Story on Page 5. Noting that the Cost of main Taining troops in Europe is about$800 million a year Mansfield asked Pearson in a floor Exchange will the senator agree that rather than have a travel stabber kills fruent an Garvs maid of Honor Moss p o i n to miss i i d when Oscar i Mills got out of a Barber s i liar monday the haircut is so i a d he thought Llu � s h o u i d be a Law a Udensi it. Liere was. Kvasis complained to it he detective 1. A v e r u e i nip Hal Almut it and the ulcer hooked b a i b e Horace Pope on a charge i Pohlie  had one Consola i him u did t get a  m 1ss Voung schoolteacher who was to be maid of Honor at the Jun wedding of a daughter of . Secretary of agriculture Ollea. Freeman was stabbed to death tuesday. Linda Marshall 25, was slam apparently after surprising an in Truder in her first floor room of a Rooming House in a quiet residential area near Central Square police said. Miss Marshall who taught Sec Ond Grade at the Fairbanks elementary school in nearby Siul Bury formerly lived next door to the Freeman family Chevy Chase my. She Aslo have been maid of Honor to Susan Freeman. Friends told police she Sta erred up the stairs Bill collapsed before she was Able to talk shews dead on arrival at i am badge l "  College students in e in the be High Hmood. I glue said miss Marshall lived  had taught underprivileged and Blind children in Washington for five Summers and last sum Mer had taught in puerto Rico. Tax it would be better to bring about the withdrawal of six Divi Sions at an Early  promptly agreed. Mansfield said he wanted the troops returned not on a basis of balance of payments or the Vietnam War but As a matter of i  he added that the nato allies have never lived up to their troop commitments. 1 he also complained that the 1 administration for administrative reasons backed off on its announcement that 35.000 soldiers 1 and airmen would return in Jan  by Pearson that those sol Diers Are due to return this Spring Mansfield said "1 Hope so. I Hope it is Only the first  also said no additional . Troops should Besent 10 Vietnam beyond the current 525.000  said this country Oal should be to hold a s Trout. Saigon Cap America s newest warplane the swing Wing f-111a, has flown its first combat Mission againstn7orth Vietnam military spokesmen announced tues  Mission involved night bombing strikes against bivouac and storage areas in the Southern end of North Vietnam. Because of darkness and Over cast skies the strikes were made wholly under radar controls. Pilots said their bombs were on target but they Souid not get a assessment of damage. The super sophisticated of Allcan Fly automatically onto a pre set radar deter nine  Falls flew in against tar gets in North Vietnam s Southern Panhandle from Takli air base in Thailand North of  number of planes on the initial combat Mission was no announced but air Force flights normally consist of four planes. There was no report that the North vietnamese used any migs or surface to air missiles to Challenge the speedy Falls. It. Col. Edwin d. Palmgren,41, who flew one of the jets said i think the Only time they knew we were there was when the bombs went  the first contingent of six Falls arrived at the Thailand base March 17 and since the the Crews have undergone train ing for the vietnamese  Short announcement on the monday Mission said the of ill from the 4th tactical fighter Wing struck bivouac and storage areas 10 and 28 Miles Northwest of Dong hoi. A coastal City 35miles North of the demilitarized  found just the socked in heavily overcast skies their designers had in mind for the radar guided fighter bombers i col. Ivan h. Dethman. 48. Said the computers of the full clicked Over the communist army Barracks and Supply depots. Crosshair on target and bombs  i Aid the i Seattle wash., Pilot. The full a bomb Bays can hold 25 tons of exp  six full As flew to the base m Thailand on March it fir com Bat testing. How to be a maoist it takes sonic Keelung Moscow a a Needle inserted into the head at just the right place Vuth the inspiration of Mao tse Tung s thoughts to snide it can turn u deaf mute into a Singer of Mao s  s what a chinese report said the out rial soviet news Agency Tass said in an other of its straight laced articles that est Ern observers read As a soviet Effort to Ridi Cule the chinese. Chinese army medical orderly  Jun Hua was greatly aggrieved that 15-year-Olddeaf mute Chiang Tao Chang did not sing songs with Mao tse lung s word i i began acupuncture the ancient chinese medical treatment of inserting Needles into the body. Inspired by a stud of Mao s thoughts he made go test punctures i disown head while probing Chiang s head Ami Reading passages from Mao s writings  then once Tass said the chinese account reported Chiang 1 to Chuang cried out rather distinctly pointing la a l ust Olmaro tse Tung Long live chairman Mao the chinese account called Uii a great leap in the development of no Dicine made possible by the use of Mao s great ideas Tass reported