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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Johnson to meet Park in Honolulu  from Page 1 saw As the place for first contacts with the United states. In the laotian capital of Vien Tiane informed sources said Fri Day that North vietnamese Diplo Mats met twice with american diplomats at the . Embassy Here thursday to discuss site for talks. . Embassy officials declined Fri impounds car after secret Hunt Atlanta up the feb thursday impounded a birding Ham ala., Man s 1966 White Mustang automobile which had been the object of a secret Hun since the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. On april4 in Memphis. The car was traced through License tags to Eric starve gait a 36-year-old, Brown haired Man who gave his address As a South Birmingham Rooming  in Birmingham found the Rooming House Lis Tedas gait s address dark and locked. Although one Rooming House resident said a Man answering gait s description had lived there three months earlier the owner refused total to reporters and kept the door locked. The car which had been parked for several Days in an Atlanta subdivision was towed to Fri Headquarters Here. The car bore Alabam License tag 1-38993 and had two 1967 mexican tourist stickers units windows. To comment on the a birth Viet farnese visit to5 the embassy. $ meanwhile . " Secretary general u Thant left Paris Fri Day for new York possibly carrying an answer from Hanoi s chief Western spokesman on How to solve the site deadlock. Thant limited his comments to saying he held useful talks with Mai Van to the North Viet Nam general Delegate in Paris. He said nothing to dispel speculation that Paris May be suggested As a site of preliminary  s meeting with Park had been planned for last Weeke end when Johnson was scheduled to Fly to Honolulu w meet also with his advisers from Viet Nam. But that trip was cancelled after violence erupted in the nation s capital and other  cities following the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. Instead Gen. William c. West More land . Military com Mander in Vietnam and Ells Worth Bunker ambassador to South Vietnam flew to washing ton for conferences. South korean ambassador Kim Dong to who said thurs Day night the Johnson Par meeting would be rescheduled said the conferences would in clude an informal discussion of the Vietnam War korean affairs and other Southeast Asia  Korea has nearly 50,000 combat troops in South Vietnam and has asked for a voice in any peace  discussions also would presumably include South Ko-Rean-. Tensions Over signs of increased aggression Bynorth Korea and Over the Cap tured . Intelligence ship Pueblo and its 82 crewmen now held in North Korea. Tyi. Agreement thus youngster seems to go along with the injunction on the License plate and since it s Spring the sentiment is sweeping the country. The ear is owned by maj. Shannon. Stevenson stationed at High Wycombe ene land. The child did t give a , Gates 6.9% go raise expected in july continued from Page 1 Cost of improvements at a time when the government is trying to hold the line on budget in creases. For More than two years 30 to 35 officers and top level civilians headed by  Lester e. Hubbell worked of a detailed study of the pay system to bring about improvements for about10 million Active and retired servicemen and among other things put military personnel of a simplified salary system like that of civilians. The report was ready for shooting of Dutschke Sparks rioting Berlin a police use horses nightsticks and armoured water Cannon to disperse some2,000 Youthful leftists demonstrating in the heart of West Berli Friday against the shooting of student Leader Rudi  violence was feared Over the four Day easter Holiday. Dutschke the moving spirit be Hind West Germany s and Wes Berlin s student protesters was shot and critically wounded thursday on the Kur Fuersten Damm West Berlin s main Street As he was leaving theoffice of his socialistic student federation ads. After a five hour operation Fri Day doctors gave him a Chance to survive although he is Stilton the critical list. Two of the three bullets in his body were removed. Police chased t h e demonstrators from the Berlin City Hall to the nearby building of radio in the american sector Ria where the youths hoisted a re Flag Over the main Entrance. Some threw stones breaking score of windows. They then  Lochner director of Rias said he believed it waste first time that demonstrators had moved against the  Radical leftist students Are demanding that Rias be re moved from american control. Meanwhile police announce that the Man they identified As Dutschke s assailant told theme got the idea to shoot Dutschke from Reading about the assassination of american civil right Leader or. Martin Luther King  read about it and i thought you too must do something like this a police spokesman quoted the suspect Josef Bachmann assaying. Bachmann told interrogator she could not stand Dutschke because the student Leader Wasa communist the spokesman  s Mother who lives in Peine West Germany told police her son is a somewhat Peculiar Lone Wolf who travel around much and does t belong to any political party. She said he is a House Painter. He was born in Reichenbach now communist East Germany and came West in 1965.much of the Berlin student demonstrators anger cent Redon buildings belonging to the wreck Novice had a smasher Rouen France up mar Tine Savoy might have had the Best driving record in France but after 66 years at the wheel the Odds were running against her. Friday the Odds caught up with miss Savoye 93, who had not had a wreck since she Gother first License in 1902. Her car crashed into a Wall was destroyed and miss Savoye suffered a broken leg. She too police said. It philosophically Axel Springer publishing  publishes some of West Germany s largest newspapers including the 4.5-million-Circula Tion Bild Zeitung picture newspaper and the influential die Welt world of Hamburg. The leftist students claim that Springer has too much influence on Public opinion in West Ger Many and West Berlin. Radicals among them say his firm should be nationalized. Springer owns four of West Berlin s eight news papers. Springer has rejected the Stu Dent charges. His newspapers have taken a hard line against the leftist demonstrators. March ers protesting Dutschke s shoot ing claimed in placards that Springer s Campaign against Dutschke was responsible for the attack. Police sealed off the Springer building with barbed wire Fri Day and allowed Only Small groups of pedestrians near it. In Munich police fought about2,000 youths who tried to halt distribution of the Bild  youths fought with rocks and Iron bars and stood up against police water Cannon. Thursday Munich demonstrator ransacked the offices of bilt  police used water Cannon and clubs to disperse3,000 Young people who barricaded entrances to a Springer Plant. In Hamburg about 1,000 demonstrated in front of the America House. Presentation to Congress i november and Pentagon officials agreed with the recommendations and conclusions. At that Point top administration official began to have second thoughts about putting them into effect because they would hav a first year Cost of 1.3 to $1.5  a Price tag on top of a $77 billion defense budget for fiscal year 1969 or 1970 was too much officials said particularly when the government is facing a Large  a result the Hubbell report reached the White House month Slater where it is awaiting trans Mission to  House officials discussed the pay situation and the Hubbel recommendations with representatives of an Economy Minde Congress last week. Defense officials believe the study s recommendations will be adopted eventually but not before next year at the earliest. Officials held Hope recently when it appeared that there was some doubt that the administration would acce tall the recommendations defense officials held out Hope for selective differential increase instead of an across the Boa Draise in base pay. This would have resulted in the request to Congress this year to give some grades a higher increase than others. Some increases would have been As High As 12 per Cen More than the july 1 average of 6.9 per cent to make up for som of the inequities in the present pay  officials say officers in grades 01 second lieutenant 05 lieutenant colonel and 06 col one chief warrant officers w3and w4 and enlisted men and women in grades e4 army Cor poral air Force sergeant and e5 army sergeant air Force staff sergeant have been lag Njg As much As 12 per cent be Hind what they should receive in a new pay system linked to the pay of government civilians and Klesinger to pay visits Bonn a Wost Derma Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger will make official visits to Portu Gal May 27-28 and Spain May 29-31, the government has announced. Recommended by the hubbellgroup.,to change would have called for new legislation and accept i Ance of All the Hubbell recommendations. For this reason even this initial adjustment which Oxild not Cost More than the july 1 across the Board pay raise is not being recommended to Congress. Details of the Hubbell recommendations Are officially being kept under wraps at the Penta gon and the White House but Many of the suggested improve ments have been known for some time. They include putting the military on a salary system in Stead of today s confusing pay and allowance method eliminating some fringe benefits Suchias the reenlistment Bonus and the military income tax Advant age preparing a new and less confusing pay table to Reward military personnel More for pro motions than for longevity eliminating the pay compression in some grades and in general making service life More attract live through higher and easily understood salaries. Pay study officials say the advantages tothe servicemen would in time i More than outweigh the fringe benefits that would be lost. The upcoming raise will be to health increase in pay and allow ances since the end of world War has follows 1916, 18.8 per cent 1949, 19.2 per cent1952, 8.9 per cent 1955, 7.1 per cent 1958, 6.4 per cent 1963,13.5 per cent 1964, 1.9 por cent 1965, 8.3 per cent 1966, 2.8 percent and 1967, 4.5 per cent. These Are average figures an include the changes fur pay quarters and subsistence. To 000? i Washington up s the army digest Rop to 3 that James Bond serial = no. 04071198, is on the i Urb rent list of those promoted 3 to majors ills Branch 3 military intelligence of5 course the unofficial dial Gest said  
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