European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes major shuffle predicted in Saigon regime Saigon a reports Cir dilated widely in Saigon Sun Day predicted a major South vietnamese government shuffle within two weeks. Informed government source said High level changes Are in the works but that nothing was definite. The reports and government sources indicated that president Nguyen Van Thieu is contemplating the removal of among others the Premier four or five ministers the chief of the National police the commander of the 3rd corps area and the mayor of Saigon. Caught in Middle Premier Nguyen Van  has been reported caught in the Middle of the struggle Between Thieu and vice president Nguyen Cao by. Most of the speculation about his possible replacement centers on Tran Van Huong an aging former Premier who ran against Thieu for the presidency last per strike As Utah is agree Lake City Utphall 1.9 Union locals in 0tt Copper corporation mining division officially lied contract agreement with the company late saturday night. A acc spokesman said workers would return to work after 260 Days of strike an negotiation. The majority of the worker were scheduled to resume work sunday but officials said homeworkers were recalled saturday night to prepare the giant fur Naces and machinery. The nationwide strike longest in . History ended when the last United steelworkers local no. 485, Bingham Canyon pit miners ratified the company contract. The other 18 locals in the Utah division ratified their contracts throughout the Day. Woman sols so on ire Munich up an elderly woman turned herself into a human Torch in a Meadow on Munich s Southern outskirts Early sunday police reported. Firemen alarmed by passers by who saw flumes in the Mea Dow arrived a find Only he still burning Corpse two empty gasoline cans and a woman Cardigan sweater neatly folded Over a nearby  tentatively identified the woman As Elisabeth a. A68-year-old tax consultant but refused to disclose further de tails. H 76 33 bit 69 66 7 74 74 69 76 76 7� . Temperature l 43 Albany 16 Anchor aug 47 do ton 33 Buffalo 46 Chicago 50 Cincinnati 30 Cleveland 36 Denver 311 do Ruil 63 foil Worth m Houston 68 Kantat City i h i act /4 to 7b to 76 m i 82 of Miami ii  t 7 new Orleans i new York it i do 4 j b.,it &5  F ru34 Seattle 52 by. To oui 68 Wellington c y september. Sources close Tohuong said he would not refuse if Thieu offered him the  planned changes reportedly Are disturbing by and his supporters since Many of the men Thieu reportedly wants tout in Are Thieu s men rather than by  h new province chiefs recently named by Thieu Are also considered closer to Thieu than to  s followers Are understood to feel that Thieu is moving to fast but . Embassy sources report they Are Happy with Thieu s approach. Lynda Bird sees Robb off to Norton fab Calif. Up Merino corps capt. Charles s. Hobb embraced and kissed his wife Lynda Bird while secret service met held off n Crow saturday then headed for Viet Nam with 164 other  Johnson s daughter handed her husband an unwrapped tin can contents unknown As they made their fare Wells before a Large turnout of newsmen and several Hundred other persons Here. They smiled and Hobb Clad i Green fatigues with shirt Collar open strode onto a chartered707 Jet for the first leg of his flight to 1st Marine div he at Phi Bui. Lynda Bird wearing a Blu sleeveless dress dark Blue Hose and White Patent leather Low heeled shoes left about four min utes before the Jet was  said she was going Back to Washington. Mondoy Phi 1, Goodby Charles Robb and be wife Lynda Byrd have final embrace before the a Uptown boards a a Tate for Vietnam. California poll shows ill k gain san Francisco a to California poll shows sen. Bob Ert Kennedy gaining in popular Ity for the democratic presiden tial nomination results showed sunday. Researcher Mervin Field Las week reported the results of interviews March 15 and 10, when the new York Democrat announced his candidacy. Kennedy polled 42 per cent of the democratic vote at that time against 32 per cent for presi Dent Johnson and 18 per cent Forsen. Eugene Mccarthy a Minn. Field said sunday that inter views in the week of March 17 turned up these preferences Kennedy 47 per cent president Johnson 29 per cent and Mccarthy 1? per cent. The rest were  a two Man race Between the president and Kennedy the poll puts the senator ahead 60 to 30 per cent with the rest undecided. If there were a two Man Rac Between president Johnson and Mccarthy 48 per cent said the would be for the president and 40 per cent for Mccarthy with12 per cent undecided. Field said much of the decline of president Johnson s popularity in California could be Trace to the Vietnam War. The California poll showed that in March one fourth of All voters approved of Johnson Shandling of the Vietnam War while 61 per cent disapproved and 14 per cent gave qualified answers or had no opinions. I february of 1967, the figure was 40 per cent approval 35 per cent disapproval and 25 per cent with mixed views or no opinions. Probed Prague a Iuo Tant party meeting at the Justice and feet chained blinded by attention a also focused on the countless cases of children barred from higher education Trade the stalinist regime the Voriest details yet published on stalinist crimes wer outlined by writer Filip Jan Sueyin the latest Issue of the cultural weekly Uter Arny Losli Jansky said he interviewed vhf of it visors of stalinist jails and Wenton " " i have the Well founded suspicion that bestial ties were committed in our country during the50s. People were brought to interrogation like Cate a bag Over their Heads their hands insurance costs up gis unaffected in or Nile Pisila Eri 1  has not been heard from and his wife and two sons said they had not been informed by him of any plans for a trip the paper reported. Brestanski described by the anti stalinist paper As one of the most outstanding jurists in Light chased by the whip beaten until they fainted. Their Teeth were knocked out their skin was burned with red hot Irons. They were Given smoked fish to eat and then placed in a hot room where they were Given no water to drink. Their sleep was forcibly interrupted. They were the country/1 was interviewed All Given electrical shocks length by Prace Only last tues Detent Loit if Washington. Is Cost of handling the servicemen in group life insurance Soli pro Grans i going up because of the ,. Higher than estimated casual1.rate in the vietnamese War a thin premiums for service main remain As they Are $2 month for $10.000 of insurance the defense department and veterans administration Reed Friday. Rates for military person will remain unchanged Beca the government will make the difference. In the past the Serviceman the government each p a monthly Premium of n each j 10.000 insurance policy $1 for each $5,000 policy. A Day the government s rate we. Up to $4.50 and 3.25 respectively since the Viet Jainese Wate begun 20,455 american servicemen have lost their lives combat and another 3.590 died.",As a result of accidents and other1 non hostile reasons in Vietnam most of  casualties wer covered by Sou. 1 Ihm to to t . Firm bombed in Milan Milan Italy up a crude bomb exploded outside the office of a . Office machine company saturday night smashing win Dows. There were no casualties. Day about correction of  demands for undoing the wrongs of the stalinist Era meanwhile gained  included demands to Trace those responsible for Send ing thousands of intellectuals into factory work in the early1950s. Spanish University clone Valencia Spain a the University of Valencia Spain third largest Wax closed saturday following illegal assemblies of students and other incidents during the past few Days. The shutdown follows the closing of the University of Madrid Spain largest with 35.000 students. Labor Secretary raps tactic of lbs s men in . Printer Washington up Secretary of Guibor Willard Wirtz criticised saturday the tactic used by president Johnson s sup porters in opposing Eugene  in the new Hampshire presidential primary election. Wirtz. A supporter of the pres ident said there was no room in the democratic party for loyalty pledges or confusion be tween disagreement a n d Dis loyalty or putting to Chi Minn East germans fret about czechs Berlin a East Ger Many sunday showed new signs of worry about the liberalization drive in neigh hiring czech Oslo  Willi Stop used the communist party newspaper Neues deutschland to reiterate that the Bonds Between the government und the communist party in East Berlin were Indis soluble. He also underscored East Germany s adherence to government planning Stop obviously was voicing misgivings about two aspects of the czechoslovak anti stalinist liberalization program the Sepa ration of the communist party leadership from the presidency and the announcement of plans to Bast production on Supply an demand rather than the old system of centrally imposed quotas. Stop wrote we will not Dis avow one bit the indissoluble Bond Between party and state nor will we give up Central state planning one of the principal advantages of the socialist  in East Germany Walter 171-Bricht, a carry Over from Tho Stalin Era is both president of the Council of state and first Secretary of the communist party. Stop made no direct reference to Czechoslovakia. East German criticism of Prague s socialist democratization programs has chilled relations Between the countries and brought an official czech protest. Aton the ballot in new  this appeared to b a dire reference to radio a n d news paper advertisements paid by Johnson s Campaign commit tee in the new Hampshire a Mary. The and  s a i Hanoi would be watching selection results. Johnson s committee led gov. John w. King a n d is Thomas j. Mclntyre also Ditri fitted numbered cards democrats pledging n write i vote for the president. One or of the card was to be mailed of the White House and Anodic impart to the democratic party ii pm new Hampshire. They wer culled pledge  c a Wirtz in an address at a Matt ing of the Young Democrat Here discussed the Challenge within the party to Johnson leadership. In my View of it. To democratic party will stronger in november for Havi thrashed out openly within it ranks the Issue which occupy every american mind  h said. I on