European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Sutt tray april 14, Call up will fill most of holes in Washington is the National guard and Reserve Call up announced thursday will go a Long Way toward filling the holes in the strategic a r m Force strap left by recur ring demands for More men i Vietnam. Since the 1965 Vietnam troop buildup the army has been forced to draw on the Divi Sions and brigades that were assigned to strategic missions inthe United states. Straf was stretched very thin. Now with the Call up of 24,550army, air and naval reserves 20,034 of whom Are from the army National guard and reserves Straf will be in much stronger position. Half of the army s citizen soldiers about to go on duly can expect to go to Vietnam in the near future while the two major units the 29th and the 69th Bri Gades will augment Stra with other smaller units. The 69th inf brigade with it aviation cavalry Engineer Artil Lery support and infantry units of the Kansas National guard is going to it. Campbell ky.,former Home of the 101st air borne div which is now in Viet Nam. An infantry battalion of the 69th is also coming from the Iowa National guard. The smaller 29th inf brigades made up of National guards men from Hawaii plus an Avia Tion company from the Cali fornia National guard. The 29this being assigned to Schofield Barracks Hawaii. The 69th is built around three infantry battalions and has an author  strength of 4,580,while the 29th has Only two battalions of infantry now and strength of 3,710. These units As Well As others being called up Are not necessarily at Peak strength at present army officials explained but once they go on duty they will be brought up to their full complement. Although the brigades willbe located at the same installations As the new 6th inf div another element of the Straf army officials said they will not become a part of the 6th. The new division has Only on brigade now but it is being filled out at it. Campbell an Schofield Barracks by officers and men from the regular forces and those being drafted. Besides the tinder-strength6th div and the two brigades the strategic reserves include the 1st and 2nd army div at it. Hood tex., two brigades of the 82nd airborne div at it. Bragg . The third brigades in Vietnam and the 5tl� mechanized inf div at it car son Colo. A unit of undetermined size from the 5th to go ing to Vietnam during the sum Mer to replace a Marine regi mental Landing team. The 6th army Cav regt att. Meade my. Completes to Day s Straf. Lin time the army will have two brigades of the 24th in div at it. Riley kan., when their movement from German is completed As l Well As the 3rd army Cav regt at it Wash but these units i specific nato commitment the largest army listed in thursday s Call the 1st so 18th army Cav of the California a guard. The Squadron has authorized strength of 1,00 cers and enlisted men equipped with armoured veer carriers and the m4jf-T. Of tanks. It is going to the Call up involves88 units from 34 states lows i army National guard 13 army Reserve 6,401. Naval Reserve 1,028. Air National guard 2,20air Reserve 1,287. Smugness on can happen Here shocks h. Germany news to him an elder of a Village near Hue South Vietnam shows astonishment As he listens to an interpreter Tell of the heavy fighting in Hue during the tet offensive by the  villagers could not travel freely and had received Little news. Behind the elder is a paratrooper of the 82nd airborne div. A by Otto Doelling Frankfurt a the shooting of leftist student Leader Rudi Dutschke in West Ber Lin thursday was the first direct assassination attempt on prominent West German Politi Cal figure since the end of world War h. The shooting appeared to Shock Many West germans out of the smug belief that such acts could happen in the United states but not in what the considered the More mature political climate of West Ger Many. Only a few Days ago West German newspapers were editorially expressing dismay about violence in the United states using As their main example the slaying of or. Mar tin Luther King or. The 4.5-million circulation Bild Zeitung which now is the target of demonstrations parked by the Dutschke shoot ing commented that the slay ing of King demonstrated that although the United states was technically far advanced it lives in the past , who so very much like to go to the psychiatrist would now like to Send the entire country to the doctor if there was one for this. But he does not exist. Neither does a Patent  Bild said in a front Page editorial on april 6. The stunned realization that it could also happen in West Germany was reflected in the first editorial comments on the Dutschke  left of Center Frankfurter Mundschau said hardly had the shots i Memphis faded when the news reached us of a political assassination attempt in Berlin Rudi Dutschke the most Promin ent member of the German socialistic student federation ads was shot in front of ads Headquarters on the Kur Fuersten Dunn. All that we know at this Point is that now amongst us political Dis Putes also Are carried out wit weapons. This horrifies us be cause there is nothing worse than the use of  the influential  raised the question . Changes rules for opening talks with Hanoi by Stewart Hensley Washington up pres ident Johnson has changed his ground rules for opening talks with Hanoi. Six months ago he said he would Send a representative to any spot on this Earth to meet with a representative of North Vietnam. Thursday the Whitehouse declared that initial contacts should take place at an appropriate site in Neutral territory with adequate communications  the president s top aides see to justify this change in part at least by asserting that the communists Are trying to make propaganda out of the exchanges about selection of a place to hold lie preliminary talks. What effect All this will Haven the outcome of negotiations if and when the Lake place is not predictable. But administration official recognize that the qualifications tacked onto Johnson s original offer certainly will be seized upon by critics Here and abroad who cast doubt on the sincerity of his peace efforts. The president said in Sanantonio last sept. 29, i am ready to Send a trusted representative of America to any spot on this Earth to talk i Public or private with a spokesman for  this came As the Climax Toa number of statements Johnson and Secretary of state Dean Husk had made in recent years about being willing to Niet t at any time anywhere to seek peace in Vietnam. Then thursday with preliminary talks getting closer the White  said that it found Hanoi s suggestion to meet in Warsaw unsuitable because it was not truly Neutral territory. The president previously had told Hanoi that its initial Choice phenom penh Cambodia was unacceptable because the United states lacked diplomatic relations with that country an could not be assured of secure communications. The objection to Warsaw appeared to Stem primarily from its failure to provide a Neutral atmosphere fair to both  this is the first time that . Government has mentioned the necessity of finding a place for secret talks where the Public atmosphere would be unimportant consideration. Although it certainly was no the decisive Factor in causing the United Stales to look with Disfavour of Warsaw administration officials were noticeably irritated because Hanoi s latest proposal was disclosed to uie world by the official soviet news Agency before it came through diplomatic channels. Of whether violence now would follow violence in West Ger Many. The first Echo bodes no Good it commented on the front Page of an edition that devoted much of the first seven pages to the Putschi shooting. Even a political murder at tempt Isno longer a Distant threat but rather the alarm ing reality of this Good Fri Day. A sickness has broken outfit is called radicalism. It is High time for a Turna Outback to the path of intensive but rational and Liberal discus Sion away from All violence and for a return to the rules of democracy. But the first reactions bsds chapters and other Stu dents completely ignored Al appeals for restraint. In Al most every City where paper published by the Axel Springe publishing House Are printed mobs of students set up Barri Cades to Block trucks from distributing editions. Students among them 1good number of coeds used torches on Springer trucks and rocks against Springe buildings in Berlin Frankfurt Hamburg and Munich. Left Radical students hav threatened More attempts to harass Springer s publishing Empire and will probably com Bine their efforts with support ers of the annual easter ban the bomb marches. Which will reach their High Point on easter sunday and monday which is a German Holiday. Germans Are beginning to re Alize that the phrase a Long. Hot summer is not strictly made in .a." european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in Chw to col1.  jr., aft of Deputy editor Lnch i Mart Proctor managing iwo Elmer o. 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