European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sweep through Northwest Vietnam Friday. April a 19j . Forces recapture Green Beret Camp from a and up dispatches Saigon . Forces thurs Day swept past the Northern Border Lang Sci Green Beret amp that they lost two months ago in their first Battle against communist tanks and regained wednesday in their second fight against enemy Armor. The americans killed at least15 of the North vietnamese troops who tried to prevent re capture of the Camp that sits astride a main communist infiltration route from Laos. Jet planes destroyed one of the two russian made pt76 tanks that rumbled toward the advancing americans and then headed for Laos. The second tank apparently crossed into the neighbouring nation military spokesmen pausing to Mark Recap Ture of Lang Vei the american pressed on with their drive against North vietnamese Force sin South Vietnam s Northwest Corner. The North vietnamese Cap tured Lang Vei with a tank spearhead in setting up their 11 week attempt to overrun the Large . Marine fort of Khe Sanh just to the North. 1st a Cav div troops who lifted the siege of Khe san last weekend swept on to Lang Vei wednesday. In the War s largest Campaign the five nation Allied operation Complete Victory in the-11provinces around Saigon . And Allied troops clashed twice with the guerrillas they Are trying to eliminate. Military spokesmen said at least 24 of the enemy were killed in wednes Day s far the 100,000 Allied sol Diers thrown into the new Campaign failed to flush out any i _. _ Sizamme enemy Force from among the 18,000 to 20,000 Viet con estimated to be in the operation area. In the Only other action re ported wednesday . Army helicopter gunship supporting25th div infantrymen were credited with killing 15 Viet con near an Loc 65 Miles North 01 Saigon. Taking part in the huge sweep were in addition to vietnamese american. Troops Rallan new Zeal forces. % the absence of any major tact suggested the Viet com faded into their Jungle hide pulled Back to cambodian so Quarles or melted into the son us Atlin or any combination these. In any. Case the Lack of Acton since the coordinated Simm started monday showed the a unwilling to tangle with 5 f forces. A Russ Luna 14 goes in orbit around Moon Moscow up Russia Sauna 14 spaceship went into lunar orbit wednesday to collect data necessary for Landing rus Sia s first cosmonaut on the Moon Tass reported thursday. The soviet news Agency broken four Day silence on the first russian Moo ship flight in 17months to announce that Luna. 14 went into an orbit close tothe calculated one wednesday night. The Craft s Aims Are the collection of detailed data on the Moon s orbit a Pri Mary Factor in any calculation of a return trip to Earth by a human lunar study of the relation be tween the masses and gravitational Fields of the Moon and the Earth necessary both for Moon Earth navigation and in calculating the Power any future lunar exploration ship will need to overcome the Moon s Gravity and return to the Mother planet. Radio tests tests of the ease of Moon Earth radio communication. Measurement of the Sun cosmic radiation. The initial Tass dispatch on Luna 14 s entry into orbit made no mention of photographs of the Moon s surface in a search for possible future Landing Sites for maned Moon Craft. Western observers speculate when Luna 14 was launched Sun Day that it would take up where soviet spaceship Luna 12 left off in 1966 with photographic sur Veys of the Moon. The United states has com piled detailed maps of huge areas of the Moon with thou Sands of photographs taken by its lunar orbiter series omoo ships. Weather h l 64 40 71 38 72 38 so 64 68 53 r 8 66 73 31 80 42 63 44 m 3fi 68 48 67 46 60 39 71 30 67 32 61 42 49 24 69 47 71 32 76 68 81 66 74 2 t 3 42 119 70 73 40 81 44 m ii temperatures Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Atlanta Atlantic City Birmingham Bismarck Bogie Boston Caiper Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Dei Moines Detroit Duluth Elpa of Fargo fort Worth Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City la Vega los angelas h l 70 48 Louisville 74 50 Memphis 79 73 Miami Beach 68 32 Milwaukee 64 30 mils St. Paul 68 65 new Orleans 75 26 North Platte 73 46 okla. City 72 38 Omaha 66 49 Philadelphia 89 57 Phoenix 62 32 Pittsburgh 60 40 Portland me. 66 42 Portland Ore. 63 60 Raleigh 74 33 rapid City 78 26 Reno 66 66 Richmond 71 49 St. Louis 84 68 Tampa 76 58 san Antonio 86 58 san Diego 68 62 san Francisco 59 42 Seattle 73 40 Spokane 81 �1 Tucson 63 Washington pen Power five warriors dream up signals to fair Maidens across wide Blue wafer. They Are from left spec. 4 Jac Miksch sgt. Ray Roberts spec. 5 Jack Hedrick spec. 4 Troy Bradbury and Estep. Is Schucht Tler these gis used continued from Page v the Guys All laughed at How funny it was patted each other on the Back for being so Clever the sent the letter off to the Delta Zeta sorority House at Pennsyl Vania College which one Indian knew was a Happy Hunting ground. The whole thing was so much fun they typed the Sam letter up a couple More times and sent those copies off to couple More Dee Zee chapters. Then came the letters in Pas Tel coloured envelopes addressed with the cutest handwriting stacked up on their desks. Al the letters promised a picture to come a fervent desire to Corre Spond with a Brave Indian and who knows what else. Extra name or two the five gis of the he Btry 6th in 10th arty encouraged by their Success sent More let ters to More colleges and began ending off the growing number of buddies they had around the Post who wanted to congratulate the five Guys on their Good for tune and casually ask if just maybe they might have an extra name or two sort of lying around which they could t use. A couple weeks passed an the stars and stripes went out to see How the wind was blow ing those air mail smoke Sig nals. Business was brisk. Three girls from Munich s University of Maryland Campus also Handwritten in and the five had More buddies than be Given out a few names said spec. 4 Troy i la probably give out a few More when i the Fellows spec. 5 Jack Hedrick spec. 4 Jack Miksch sgt. Ray Roberts pfc. Tom Estep and Bradbury admitted they were writing regularly to several coeds at the same of the girls seem pretty intelligent and Are easy to write to said one of them. And there s always time to write they All admitted though they try harder with some pen pals than with others. Hedrick a Pitcher for two years with a Baltimore farm club before his army Days be Gan has received two pictures already. Asked if he planned to meet either of the girls when he got Back to the states this said i d definitely like to see this one. She puts Brigitt Bardot a Little bit to for proof he pulled out the picture. He was right. The five letter writing entrepreneurs plan to Contact More Delta Zeta chapters and have fixed up a Large notebook full of letters and notes on the response they have had from Var ious colleges. Three of us Are leaving within 6g Days and we would like to set up some housing measure sent to Johnson Washington up an unprecedented civil rights Bill for bidding discrimination in Mostof the nation s housing Given virtually no Chance just a few months ago was on president Johnson s desk thursday await ing his signature to become Law. In an emotional session the House wednesday sent the Bill to the White House on a 250-171vote in a Quick response to the violence that has wracked the nation in the past week. A cheer Wenit up As the Bill passed. Despite the approval on Capi Tol Hill and among administration officials the House action Drew a frigid reaction from several of the country s most important negro leaders. This is a great stride toward Freedom of White America but it is barely a step Forward Forback America said the Rev. Ralph d. Abernathy heir to Luther King s leadership of the Southern Christian Leader ship conference. New York has had this Typ of Bill for 10 Yeara and we still have the Young jr., executive director of the National Urban league said those Whites who feel they have been purged of the National guilt and shame caused by or. King s assassination Are dead wrong. This Law is Only one step Tow arc a National Resur gency of Johnson called the Bill a Vic tory for every opponents of the Bill accuse Congress of buckling to the pres sure of rioters in passing it. I this Bill passes i suggest that the american Flag be flown at half staff in mourning for this once great House of representatives rep. H. Gross a Iowa said in the final hour of Bill will outlaw racial discrimination in the Sale or rent Tal of 80 per cent of the nation s housing by 1970, for this year it will mainly cover federally owned or financed housing Al ready covered by an executive order issued by president Ken Nedy in 1962. The real effect will come in1969, when the Bill extends to other apartment housing Andreal estate developments and in 1970 when it covers private Homes sold through brokers. Thing a Little More permanent said Estep. We wrote to get the National address of Delta Zeta added Roberts. The hardest part i getting specific addresses of the chapters. We be had a few four letters returned already be cause we did t have we All want to stick wit the Dos though. They Are the greatest a buddy ought to ask for an honorary membership. That d Bechool chimed in another. But everything in t so a Success can have us drawbacks too. When the firs Story appeared Miksch sent the clipping Back Home to Pennsyl Vania and three Days later the Pittsburgh press made it a frontage Story. A few Days after that Miksch got a letter from his girl Friend in Pennsylvania. She was pretty angry Miksch grinned. I tried to explain it to her but i guess she could t take a school episode then there was the girl school with Success the five decided to write to a Gir school. They whipped out we College directory opened it random and Lucky Finger Roberts picked out in Wilmette 111. When the reply came there were pictures inside and ii Rick eagerly Tore open the let Ter. His face fell. The girls � the pictures All wore Black dresses. The letter began most Brave braves hot. Most sincere thanks for nusa smoke signal. As a Rule we never smoke much less stem1-.think great spirit play trick g you. We Hope this won t maw you take to firewater but of sent letter to reservation Catholic
