European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the Start and stripes Thun Doy april 4, 1968 last Nate delayed Washington up president Johnson said tuesday he had planned to announce his no candidacy at the end of his state of the Union message in january but that at the last minute had misplaced the slip of paper on which the announcement was leaders who breakfasted with the president on tuesday said behold them he and lady Bird decided last fall he would not seek another term. When the state of the Union met Sage was drafted they said Johnson related he wrote out on a separate piece of paper an announcement to this effect. Me planned to drop it int the end of his prepared remark. He put the paper on his desk besides copy of he message we Beli Feu it was picked up by an aide to lie handed to him at the Capitol. But when he later reached in he pocket for it it was t there. Hupf pm. A tailed Over. Chioti not to new lie concluded he com Wir but that to could not of Al the Dot tetons now tearing Tow nation. I did t want to win the argument and then lose the Sale he said. S. Vietnamese to get latest . Weapons Washington up the United states will equip major South vietnamese ground Force with the newest . Weapons to permit them to assume greater share of the War the defense department disclose tuesday. In addition to the latest infantry and artillery equip ment the Pentagon will furnish the South vietnamese with modern Jet aircraft helicopters River patrol Craft and tanks officials said. Step up program president Johnson said Sun Day the United states would accelerate the re equipment of South Vietnam s armed forces to meet the enemy s increased firepower. This will enable the progressively to undertake a larger share of combat opera Pentagon said that As additional modern equipment becomes available from monthly . Production allocations will continue to provide for the equipping of All vietnamese combat Man Euver included in the resupply operation will be m16 rifles m79 grenade launchers m60machine guns 81mm mortars. 105mm howitzers m113 armore personnel carriers and Quarter ton and 2&-ton trucks. In addition the announcement said excellent modern Jet aircraft helicopters River patrol Craft tanks vehicles and weapons will be furnished to equip vietnamese forces with the Best weapons that can remade available with due consideration of the require ments of . Forces and the essential needs of other free world forces in most South vietnamese ground forces Are now armed with . World War i weapons my rifles carbines Browning machine guns an mortars. Thus they Are out gunned by the Viet Cong an North vietnamese regulars who have recently been supplied with modern weapons by red China and other communist coun tries. The South vietnamese air Force now consists of several Hundred Short Range Jet fighter Sand propeller driven dive bomb ers. Sign of Spring a grotesque figure on the Wail of City flailing Copenhagen spits out a tourist bus which fas a sure sign of Spring is parked opposite City Hall. A photo North Korea warned not to try Crew Washington up Testate department warned tues Day that any move by North Korea toward executing crewmen of the Pueblo would be a deliberate aggravation of an already serious e. Bartch a state department spokesman declined to spell out what action the United states might take i North Korea moved toward putting the 82 crewmen on trial on espionage charges. The latest execution threat was made in a North korean broadcast earlier tuesday. The official government radio Broad cast a letter allegedly written by Stephen r. Harris a research officer aboard the Pueblo stating that crewmen Ben faced a miserable Fate and might be executed if the United states did not apologize for allegedly entering North korean state department spokes Man said the espionage charge could not be justified under any principle of International Law. 50th tac fighter Wing open House la sunday Hahn Germany is the50th tactical fighter Wing Here will Host an open House sunday in conjunction with the begin Ning of final training for the 1968afcent air defense Competition scheduled for the following will open to the Public at 10 30 . Through an error the stars and stripes reported that the air defense of Europe open House would be held sat urday. Mccarthy Victor in Wisconsin vote continued from Page t Reagan 51,574 or 11 per cent Stassen 28,448 or 6 per cent. The mounting total for Nixon indicated that few republicans took advantage of the Opportunity offered Wisconsin voters to Cross party lines. George c. Wallace the forme Alabama governor campaigning for president As an Independent Drew scant support. He did not Campaign in Wisconsin and his name was not on the ballot. He had a scattering of vote sin both races. He received 3,250 democratic votes and 1,309 of the Republican total. Four years ago Wallace collected 34 per cent of the demo cratic vote running against then gov. John w. Reynolds a stand in for president Minnesota senator said he was sorry that Johnson did not stay in Down the Home he said he thinks he would have benefited from Agop crossover if the president whose name remained on the ballot had not said he would not be a new York Nixon said that the size of his vote is a cer Tain sign the state will go re publican in november. He car ried it in 1960. The tide that began to flowing new Hampshire continues to Thali Domicle trial bet Aachen Germany a the trial of criminal charges against the German makers of thalidomide the drug blamed for crippling thousands of Chil Dren has been scheduled to open May 27. Flow tonight he said. If cur rent trends hold up we will receive the same 80 per cent of the vote we won in new Hamp both Mccarthy and Kennedy have been highly critical of the president s asian poli cies they stopped Short of advocating any abrupt american referendum on the ballot in Madison where War criticism has been hottest called for an immediate cease fire and a american withdrawal. It was de the final Days of Campaign ing Mccarthy bore Down on the civil rights Issue particularly with proposals for open Milwaukee mayor Henry Maier who called in the nation Al guard to choke off a riot last August was reelected to a third four year term with a margin of nearly 90 per cent of the Hung onto two congressional districts in Mil Waukee and thus seemed Likely to collect eight convention Dele Gates from those. Mccarthy claimed All of the remainder of the 59-vote delegation except for the two National committee members who will be Unin . Nelson a. Rockefeller of new York who has declined to become an Active candidate but who has said he would accept draft got a write in vote of about 1 per Johnson a dropout. Mccarthy said it s As though you were in a horse race and you made the final turn for Homeland the other horse jumps Over the rail and starts to eat grass.1 poles shuffle 4 generals Warsaw a the office polish press Agency reported tuesday a major army re shuffle involving four generals. According to three of the generals have lost troop com report said that defense minister Marian Spychalsky Ata meeting of the Warsaw Mili tary District made the follow ing appointments inspector of the ministry of National defense for bases and depots of War equipment Jaryszak hitherto com Mander of the Warsaw military District. Warsaw military District commander Gen. Zygmunt Huszcza previously Deputy chief in Spector of training. Deputy chief inspector of training Brig. Gen. Jozef Stebelski formerly chief of staff of the pomeranian military Dis chief of the training inspectorate for airborne forces Brig Gen. Edwin previously commander of the 6thairborne division. The report said that Jaryszak was thanked for his great contribution to the de sense of our country and for his sacrificing and fruitful initial reaction of observers was that Jaryszak a senior major general about 50 years old had apparently been shunted to a Post of questionable in expressed Surprise at the move of Roz Luberski said Tobe in his Early 40s, who is regarded As a top Soldier and com Mander of Poland s elite and Only airborne division. Trio captured in slaying of Ami Cadet Slippery Rock a. Up state troopers and Fri agents converged on an abandoned farmhouse monday night and captured three men charge with abducting two couples raping the girls and shooting to death one of their escorts a Virginia military Institute Cayetand Star athlete. One of the suspects was shot and wounded when he refused to surrender after six troopers and four Fri agents surrounded the farmhouse at Plain Grove township in adjacent Lawrence were Arthur Mccon Nell 45, Donald r. Hosack 27,and Kenneth Perrine 21, All of the Mercer pa., area. Also arrested was Harry Barnes sr., 35, of Volant Lawrence county who was charged with being an accessory after the fact of said he aided and abetted the said Hosack resisted and was shot in the Back by state trooper. He was in serious condition tuesday at Basilin memorial Hospital in Grove City where he underwent fou hours of surgery. Kenneth m. Frick 21, of Ford City pa., a High Honor student and an All around athlete atvm1, a Friend Richard dragon 21, and two Slippery hoc College coeds were abducted thursday night from an Auto Mobile parked at a closed restaurant near Here. Stat police said they were kidnapped because they had unwittingly witnessed a burglary at the restaurant shortly afterwards Frick was shot and buried. Dragan and the girls were hold captive in a deserted farmhouse where the girls were raped. Dragan and the coeds escaped curly Friday. 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