European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday 1968 revocation off passports disallowed . Relaxes off limits travel sanctions Washington a the stale department has decide to quit revoking passports of people who travel to off limit countries officials said wednes Day night. The decision apparently removes the last penalty still sought by the government against who flout state department rules against visit ing certain parts of the world. Previous court decisions have knocked Down various Federal attempts to curtail the number of places an american can go on his passport. No offender has Ever been sent to jail As far As the officials can recall. The latest state department relaxation of the travel sanctions Means that the official off limits declaration will be Only advisory the official stated. The countries now off limits to americans by state department edict unless special travel authorization is granted include communist China. North Korea North Vietnam and Cuba. The state department Deci Sion not to seek revocation of passports followed another government judicial setback recently in a Case involving former Yale University professor Staughton state department had revoked Lynd s passport because he went to North Vietnam with out authorization and refused to give it Back unless he promised not to flout the department restrictions again. Lynd took the Case to a Feder Al court Here which ruled that the state department could control the movement of the pass port but had no Power to penal ize the person himself if he went to a banned country without it since it is hard to prove that a traveler actually took his pass port with him when he went Toan off limits area the officials said the stale prided passports. A in keeping the area Oiw in effect without ties threat officials Shope a listing of Pla the government Dors not wan citizens to go will hip Persuad them not to go there Irshad the administration has Aske Congress for a Law with tooth i it to control . To a Tran aboard but the l.-. I it0rs h not acted yet. A run in j i flu i -., underwater go cart a torpedo shaped swimmer sled is tested off the coast of Souther California. The two Man underwater go cart built by North american Rockwell corporation is capable of carrying divers on inspection search or Rescue missions. A photo soviet by Hubert j. Erb Berlin a concentrated soviet forces in East Germany potentially Are a Ham Mer suspended above Restiv Czechoslovakia to the South. These forces also form a Wal against Poland on the East. By Western accounts there Are no soviet troops in Czecho Slovakia which has an army of 200,000. There Are about 50,000red army soldiers in Hungary and about 25,000 in Poland. In East Germany however there Are about 20 red army divisions some 300.000 men plus is Able air Force Contin gents. Tins deployment would make the so Iet troops in East Ger Many the nearest lid with which to close a troublesome can of Worms if such a decision we retaken. There is no indication How Ever that the russians a r contemplating military moves. Hungary has announced a Nevers and East Germany has announced East German West of Berlin near West Germany. The latter Are not unusual especially in Spring when swollen streams Are use for crossing exercises. According to an informed source however an unusual feature of the troop activity near Magdeburg East g e r Nany is formations of helicopters. Of new draftees Washington up More than half the men to be drafted into the armed services during the coining year probably Viil be College graduates the de sense. Department estimates. These estimates assume that the great majority of the More than 225,000 potential graduate students recently made Inelus. Ble for further draft deferments will prefer induction to enlist ment i his coi ild bring the number of College i drafted to is Many As of a draft 01 in mid Jiniv Lich in for fiscal a i i in j n1, 1. the proportion of draftees whore College graduates would jump from 5 to 00 per cent defense department . The usual reason for prefer ring the draft Over enlistment is that the term of service is two years compared to three or four for those who sign on. The higher proportion of sol Diers with College educations is Likely to have Adverse effects on the military discipline sys tem and observers predicted pm Ealer about . In \ of Hunt in v n main. The liberalization drive i Czechoslovakia coupled with memories of soviet intervention in the hungarian revolt of 1956, make the situation one of Prim interest to All concerned. Czechoslovakia h o w Ever presents a different set of circumstances than did Hun Gary at least so far. Most significantly it is the communist party that has moved into the Vanguard of Reform in , too a Echo Slovakia is the East bloc country most exposed to the West. Slamming the lid there would be difficult in any Case and certainly in terms of world opinion. Czechoslovakia presents by far the More acute situation in the cracking once monolithic lineup. Student unrest in Poland does not seem to have the Sam deeply penetrating effect at All Levels of society. What the russians plan i anything is a matter of speculation. The primary indication of concern from the communist Side was the soviet bloc meeting in Dresden East Germany near the czech Larder last sat inlay. A communique made two main Points Czechoslovakia s communists declared t h e y would keep developments i their own hands and the War saw pact would undertake Concrete measures in tin near future to strengthen the part and its armed the a eels were riven any warning is not Clear. Of those Wate Liin develop ments the germans Are Amon the most interested. German of heal Lealion rehash factory or think tank Washington up her Man Kahn. The author of thinking about the unthinkable has run into the highly unlikely. He or at least the Institute he Heads has been publicly criticized by the Pentagon. But Kahn a nuclear Strate Gist who has counselled the de sense department for years has stormed Back. He dismisses the charges As the outrage cries of bureaucrats whose particular oxen have been gored. The run in was about 11 civil defense studies done for the department by the Hudson Institute a nonprofit research corporation formed by Kahn in1981 after he left Rand corp., another nonprofit group set up has been subdued but television accounts have been almost Gleeful with speculation that the czechs would take up Diplo Matic relations with Bonn that they would broaden their West Ern Trade and that they even might let their people travel to the West. If the West germans Hope to gain from the Prague develop ments the East German communists stand to lose. West German penetration of Czechoslovakia in multiple Fields would flank East Ger Many. In addition no one can fore see what effect student unrest in the bloc will have on East German youth. There can be no doubt that Walter Ulbricht s hard line East Berlin regime will be in the forefront of those who might want to see such dangerous precedents As those in Prague put aside. To do specialized i0 � illl0 a Lief Iise. Lots who i. 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