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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pago 24 the stars and stripes Friday March 29, allies kill 131 n. Viets near Hue Saigon i it . Planes and government rangers at tacked and routed North Viet namese troops trying to infiltrate near Hue and killed us of themis a , Battle military spokesmen said thursday. The spokesmen also reported that i a Battle deaths last week totalled m9. They also said . Troop strength in Vietnam reached 511, 100 during the week the highest level of the War and 2,000 More than during the previous week. The Battle near Hue brought american helicopters Jet fight ers and artillery to the support of the government rangers who intercepted the North Vietnam Ese wednesday South of the for Mer Imperial capital. The communists fled under the heavy pounding the spokes men said and the troops and planes pursued. There were no . Casualties in the action and the rangers reported Only five men wounded. Infantrymen flown in by Heli copters meanwhile fought a 30 hour Battle with North Vietnam Ese regulars on a rubber Planta Tion near Saigon tuesday and wednesday . Officials said. The weekly casualty report of 349 . Dead was an increase of 13 Over the previous week. The number of . Wounded was put at 1,965, and 1,000 of those were Hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized. The South vietnamese govern ment earlier this week said 270 government troops were killed,670 wounded and 49 captured or missing last week. Savings. . Rar sales  a military helps Stem Gold flow by John Lukks staff writer How successful were the . Military efforts to Stem the Gold flow in Europe during 19g7. Nobody really knows because there is no record of what All dollars Are spent for in Europe. Still there Are a couple of Good indicators which show that Many millions which might have gone into foreign pockets stayed in .  there is the uniformed services overseas savings de posits by far the most popular inducement to participate in the . Struggle against Gold flow. It yields 10 per cent compound  Usak Kuh comptroller s office showed that at the end of january $25.4 million was in the deposits program for the army in Europe. In Wiesbaden Safe head quarters said that Between july 1, 1967 and Jan. 31, 1988, $9.7 million had Ono into the de posits. This brought Usak participation since the program started in september 196fi to $30.5 million it was reported. In Nuernberg the european Exchange system which has been pushing sales of american cars to offset foreign car buying sae prices of totalled $17.5 reported that cars in 19g7lion. Mutual fund participation As also been available through of $ outlets. A spokesman said that nearly $20 million had been into investment plans or tracked to be put in. No i were available to show How much More had Rune Nito to investments tin on h other channels. I . Put con riot ends Memphis rights March Fin reported missing in combat zone Laws Ciu Das threat to medical integrity Houston Tex. A anthropologist Margaret Mead says strict Laws governing Abor Tion Organ transplants and euthanasia Are unnecessary. Such Laws Only serve to threaten the integrity of the medical profession and that integrity she said is one of our most precious   spoke at a news Confer ence prior to a conference on ethics in Medicine and technology at Rice University. Continual from Page i Diatel sprinted Down a Side Street leaped into an old Model car and roared away. Spokesman said King had gone to a hotel and would announce later whether he would make a scheduled speech at a rally thursday  said King is an a violent person and it was obvious there were people in the March who were violent. This thing has been building up All these kids have been becoming More and More impatient with the minis  Turquoise helmeted offi cers beat Back the rampaging youths with clubs and tear Gas the main body of marchers struggled Back to their starting Point the fortress like Clayborn Temple ame  skirmishing continued around the Church. Hot ties and rocks flew through the air at officers who replied by lobbing tear Gas  Young negro jumped out of a Telephone Booth near the Church with what appeared to be a Rifle. Officers pounced on him and beat him unconscious. A Young negro girl tried to claw the police but they Knocke Nightstick her. 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In a country which raises huge signs saying i raise work across its main streets which plays Down Romance and con Ceals most details of the private lives of its leaders movie stars and singers Gagarin was every Man s hero. Most muscovites who heard of Gagarin s death on their radios thursday morning remembered that Clear sunny april morning seven years ago when the same radio told the russian people they had beaten America in put Ting the first Man into space. The reaction seven years Agoras spontaneous. Thousands of soviet Citi ens converged on red Square in one of the few demonstrations since the russian revolution which was not orchestrated by the government. Gagarin and Sery Ogin will be Given a state funeral in r e d  ashes will be put into niches in the Kremlin Wall them o s t honoured soviet resting place. They will be placed close to the ashes of soviet col. Vladimir  Komarov who was killed last april a in the first Orbital Accident of a spacecraft. Gagarin left a widow Valen Tina 33, and two daughter.-., be Lena Sand Galya 7. . Dockers mud my Vii Day in Alkol new York i l i an 11 Day Wildcat strike by 21.0do longshoremen that paralysed the port of new York ended wednes Day when arbitrator Burton Turkus announced  the men would return to work thursday  walkout begun to protest a move by the wavefront com Mission to add 7t u jobs on new Jersey piers to the hiring in roster had idled 110 i cargo ships Shu e March 1h c  i in i has been termed too expensive and too heavy for use on carriers. The Navy wished that the engines had More thrust. The flight control system which affects Carrier approaches had problems the acting committee chair Man sen. John c. Stennis d mi.ss., Saul tin vote on the action was 11 to 2. J Stennis said the action excluded kill la funds and at the same time directed the Navy to advise of the funds and items needed to Speed development of an alternative plane for the Leet. The Pentagon s earlier announcement said it was impossible at this time to make a decision Between the Fllch and an alternate aircraft but that a decision mkt be made in the next eight to 12 months i sen. John Mcclellan i lark., Long a critic of the plane had urged a cutoff of Fllch \ funds shortly before the com Mittee acted. Since the Pentagon in the past has failed to heed the advice of contractors engineers and admirals and has not yet cancelled the full program. 1 believe it is the duty of the Congress to refuse to Authon a funds for a Continua Tion of this ill fated plane and we should refuse now to appropriate any More funds for research and development or for production of the Fllch Mcclellan said in a Senate speech. The Navy and the defense department requested Congress to provide Only eight full los in the budget for the fiscal Yea beginning next Only. Previously the request had been for 30 full los for a total Cost of $ i 0million a joint statement issued by Navy Secretary Paul r. Igna Tius and adm. Thomas 11. Moorer said the Compromise request to Congress was made on the basis of a Navy study Winch reported that no Clear Cut derision on what kind of air plane to buy could be made now because of "insufficientinloi,nation." unable to take aftereffects. The to the Panhandle no details of communist tar North Viet siii.piie-, into the to Chi it in Saigon on in Wash plane had or Ferdnit to for i lie two  it had. A t Contin i / planes were pictures of the fills returned tuesday and v there were strikes against gets in Laos when Nam has funnelled South Vietnam Oei Minh Trail. The announced and by the Penta in ton did not a t been shot Down but Rescue operations crewmen indicated Many pilots who Chute safely have up in enemy ten copters. Hanoi and Hail i.1most heavily def Nui a the North and Are r Mig bases sin far Sile Sites and he \ guns. Hut in Rei communists have moving bigger a to South toward the i the loss of an i mean More than. Of highly expeilm1. E the enemy could viable knowledge of i . Aircraft Capa of the plane were r Para picked arc to areas of cd Vuithi the fills which allow statically Tow can them Reget at weather night new Yor Stock Market alter thursday in Tive trading. The Market upward push o Silas at the is. Vance ground to Dow Jones Yulii Gan to  reversing Ever and the move up and minimum gains held a u losers at the Sun was whittled. I continued to Lead volume u As s compared is Ith  Day. The Dow Lorn age was off 1 Moscow pc Vox Washington ambassador to Lyn Thompson Washington this Tine  i my Riih Souci Andrei groins a part Nijiu  Lull i -.ti  
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