European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday april 7, 196 Viet reds maintain War Pace Washington u Battlefield reports from Vietnam so far fail to show any setup i communist activity that would indicate a decision to de escalate the War. Since president Johnson or dered a partial bombing halt of North Vietnam sunday night the eyes and the ears and the computers of the vast machinery have been looking for any change i enemy military operations. Military experts privately said Friday that they saw no evidence that the North vietnamese or the Viet Cong had slowed the War in response tothe president s bombing de escalation which he said he hoped would Lead to a general reduction in the level there has been some melting away of communist troops around the once besieged at Khe Sanh. But this began More than a month ago apparently As a move to gain military advantage. Enemy shift in Early March there we resigns that some elements of the four North vietnamese division surrounding Khe Sanh had shifted slightly eastward an that enemy logistics had also shifted its emphasis moves were interpreted at the time As a possible tip of of enemy intent to attack somewhere farther East per haps at Hue. More recently a North vietnamese artillery division reportedly moved from the Khe Sanh area Westward into Laos. But this would have been above of perhaps Only 10 Miles and did not necessarily mean twas significant. Navies to sweep for we ii mines London a european navies will sweep 390 Square Miles of the North sea to rid the area of world War ii mines and make it Safe for shipping the British ministry of defense an ships from Belgium the Netherlands Norway France and Britain will take part in operation new Broom May 1-29. Acting on plans drawn up bythe intergovernmental maritime consultative organization the will Widen shipping lanes 20 Miles off the friesian islands be tween Ter Schelling Holland and borkum Germany. Heidelberg Hospital reports two deaths Heidelberg special a. Gregg 48, wife of David w. Gregg a department of the army civilian with the office of the Deputy chief of staff for operations at Usa eur and seventh army he died Earl Friday at the army Hospital in had been admitted tues Day following an attack of . Sgt. Halbert .1. Burns of the seventh army communication command Headquarters at Mann Heim died Friday in the Sam Hospital. Cause of death was attributed to a heart attack. Head been admitted to the hoi Petal on monday. He was 49. Fires flare smoke pours from barn ing buildings in the nation s capital As arson and looting caused president John son to Call in troops. Under the american Flag a the Emblem of the machinists Union. Associated press photo newsman feared As hell9 looters in . Attack by John Burnett Washington up negroes Young old male and female carted away anything they could get their hands on and seventh Street Between m and o streets three blocks from downtown Don fulsom of up and i watched the looters artwork Friday. They ran laughing an screaming anti White slogans Black Power Black hey Whitey get out of Here several yelled at us As they struggled by Laden with Tele vision sets armload of clothing bottles of liquor and suitcases House denies More Cash to fight poverty Washington a the House has refused to approve an additional $100 million in Senate voted funds for two anti poverty programs opera Tion head Start and summer jobs for needy it Cut from $90.9 million to $20.8 million new funds the Senate had approved for Aid to schools in areas with a heavy school population of children of military then sent Back to the Senate a Compromise $1.2 billion Emer gency appropriation Bill first passed by the House last Gebru Senate voted an extra $75 million for the summer Job pro Gram and $25 million for the head Start program for pre school children. Neither allot ment had received any Money in Tho original House Bill and none had been requested by the administration. Some empty and some apparently filled with stolen goods. Not a policeman was in Don t know about fulsom but i was scared As a sidewalk a smiling 3 or 4-year-old boy Knelt Over two new transistor radios. He was pulling the wires out of tiebacks. We went to a Telephone Boot to phone in our stories and two Tough looking negroes approached. Make a phone Call for me Whitey. Put a dime in fulsom explained he was wait ing for a return Call. R what Are you White boys doing round Here anyway on asked. We said we were reporter covering the Story. One of the looters they were both carrying stolen leather Coats looked at fulsom s tape re Corder. What is this a radio Philly group buys liner Elizabeth London a Britain s83,873-ton Queen Elizabeth the biggest passenger liner in the world has been sold to a group of americans businessmen i Philadelphia. The Price was $7,750,000, the Cunard steamship company announced Friday. The contract is signed at Lon Don s Savoy hotel by Cunard managing director John Whit Worth and representatives of the Philadelphia Marina corp., the Delaware River port authority and the Central Penn National Bank. Hie mighty liner launched in1038, Wili be used As a hotel restaurant convention cent Erand tourist attraction it will be moored in the Delaware River near Philadelphia International Airport. No it s a tape recorder Ful som replied. What would happen if i Toolkit i Don t know. I guess there nothing much we could do about i said. They grabbed the tape re Corder. The bigger of the two dripping blood from several deep gashes on his right hand demanded our handed Over my Cash All of it some $22. W. German court voids nazi Law Karlsruhe Germany up the West German constitutional court has declared illegal a War time nazi Law under which thou Sands of jews and other person were stripped of German citizen ship. The decision m cans jew Sand others deprived of Citi Reship by the nazis still Are germans or can become germans again if they court said the nazi Legisla Tion of nov. 25, 1941, contradicted fundamental principles of it handed Down its ruling i connection with an inheritance Case in which the descendant of a racially persecuted German was refused Legal papers he needed to claim reparations be cause Tho deceased had been stripped of citizenship. Fewer germans jobless Nuernberg. Germany a West Gorman unemployment declined during March to459,900 Job seekers 116.200 fewer than a year ago and 130,000 be Low the count at Start of the month the Federal labor office reported Friday. Fulsom said he did t have an Money. It was payday the looter jumped into the phone Booth and started frisking fulsom and feeling the bulge of his Wallet said yeah what s that Whitey fulsom said something 1 think. He was punched in the face. I tried to drag the negro away from fulsom and took a solid right in the stomach. They ran away with fulsom Stape recorder and a total of $102. Fulsom and i started walking toward the main downtown area. We passed several burning build Ings looted stores. Glass littered the streets. When we reached the More fashionable area there were dozens of police cars marked and unmarked carrying a meted riot police. It was like emerging from a Nightmare. Weather h l 62 s3 70 is m so 82 m 5 s3 it m47 m b1 41 0 47 37 so63 his si41 38 34 m 69 to 48 80 43 to 37 12 77 4s 44 1439 it 110 m m 70m 48 40 we 86 60 m7 h 6f m . 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