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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Mph Day april 15, marines kill 106 reds in Battle near Khe Sanh continual from Pablo t ported killed in the continuing five week sweep announced Only sunday while the . Airborne Force lost 57  from the Khe Sanh area in the Northwestern Cornero South Vietnam said the marines ran into an estimated Bat Talion of 400 North vietnamese troops on the slopes of Hill 881,which commands a Clear View of the Marine base where a siege was lifted recently. The communists also open Dup on a . Helicopter bringing in 6,000 Pink and Green Caster eggs to the marines at Khe  helicopter was not hit but three marines waiting on the ground to unload the eggs were  Hill 881 Battle broke out even As the Campaign that lifted the siege of Khe Sanh formally ended. Maj. Gen. John Tolson commander of the . 1st air Cav div. Announced his troop were pulling out of Khe Sanh after linking up with the Marine Garrison there and killing 1,192 North vietnamese troop sin the area. To the Southeast . Marines ought communist troops for nine hours outside the old Imperial City of Hue the scene of the bitterest fighting in the communist tet offensive. Marine spokesmen said 62north vietnamese were killed in the fighting while 20 Marine were killed and 27 others seriously  . Military spokesman in Saigon also announced that Large scale paratroop operation had been launched to ease the communist threat to Hue. The spokesman said the new airborne sweep named opera Tion care Tan involved about10,000 men from the . 82nd and 101st airborne dive about2,000 More troops than the total involved in the just ended Pegasus sweep into Khe Sanh. American intelligence office Snow believe the main North Viet namese threat has shifted from he Sanh to Hue the battered coastal City where the bitterest fighting of the War took place in february after the communists overran it in their tet offensive. An estimated 12,000 North Viet namese troops Are believed ringed around Hue within easy striking distance of the City and another 10,000 Are reported in Thea Shau Valley Supply funnel Lead ing from Laos into the Hue area. In the air War b52s made four raids in South Vietnam sunday hitting enemy positions in the Central Highlands and the Mekong Delta. Thailand based fill swing win fighter bombers were Back in action for the second straight Day saturday flying strikes at truck Parks in North Vietnam s South Ern Panhandle. Other fighter bombers flew 96missions saturday but again remained South of the 19th paralleling keeping with the current bomb ing restriction tied in with the moves to get Vietnam peace talks going. A � solitary spokesman said the northernmost turfs struck saturday was a High abridge about 22 Miles Northwest of Vonh. Which is 169 Miles Sof the demilitarized zone and s mile South of the 19th Paras Hanoi s official news Agency Vna said . Planes 3 Over Nghe an a Tinh an Quang Plenh provinces and flu Vinh Linh area just North of to demarcation line. Vna also said . Aircraft repeatedly violated air space near the capital City of Hanoi and other provinces above the 21st parallel sunday. Fri Busy More than one in King slaying by Gaylord Shaw Memphis term. A investigators appeared saturday to be re examining the possibility that More than one person was involved in the assassination of or. Martin Luther King  seemed puzzled about conflicting reports on the num Ber of getaway cars involved kentuckian questioned cleared and freed Jacksonville Fla. A a Man questioned Here Satur Day night about the slaying of or. Martin Luther King has been cleared of any connection with it police said  Man Clyde Courtney 33, of Louisville ky., was questioned by local and Federal officers who said he resemble the sketch of a Man wanted in connection with the assassination. Police said there is no connection except the physical  and about police radio transmissions detailing a High Speed Chase which apparently never took place through Northeast Memphis 30 minutes after a sni per killed King with a single Rifle  Fri conducting the most massive manhunt in its history maintained silence on All aspects of the investigation. But late sports Augusta a. Up Roberto de Vicenzo of Argentina and Bob Goalby of Belleville,111., tied for the 72-Hole Lead in the masters Golf tournament sunday at 277 and will meet in an 18-Hole playoff for the championship monday. Baseball scores sunday s major league line scoresby the associated press american league Oakland 100 000 0001 8 0 Washington 000 304 olx8 0na.sh, 1 Iero 5i, Surgui 161, Lindblum 8 and j Pagliaromi Moore Hig Glnn 5 and Bryan. W Hig Iriri 1-1. L -na.sh, 0-1. Us Washington Bryan it Howard 2. Minnesota 004 000 000 4 2ni-w York 000 000 0033 5 0 Chance 1 erran Uski Worthington 9i and Rosu Horo Talbot ver Hanic 3 Hamilton 0,  8 arid tub hts. A Chance u-0. A Talbot 0-1. National league Cincinnati at Atlanta postponed rain. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark issued new statement that dropped his earlier reference to Oneman on the  sixteen hours after King was slain april 4. Clark said Evi Dence indicates a single individual was involved. There is no evidence of a widespread plot he said. In a seven line statement is sued in Washington Friday Niht. Clark said the Fri was devoting All its resources to the investigation working Aro Nathe clock pursuing every  one member of Congress has criticized the Fri s probe. Noting what he called discrepancies throughout the investigation rep. Charles w. Whelanjr., a Ohio said the Fri should set the record straight the handling of the investigation and the efforts to apprehend the guilty person or per sons hardly had been Rea Surington a tense and troubled nation Whelan said in Washington. Top teen Janette Mcleod of Sydney Australia left look overwhelmed after being named miss teen International in a Hollywood contest. Miss teen Italy Elena Ped Monte 16, bravely offers congratulations. Runners up to the 17-year-old Beauty were teen Queens from Canada and the . A photo 200,000 hear pontiff urge Vietnam truce f continued from Page n wish that these first Steps May Lead soon to a Happy  in his Appeal for an end to racism the Pope did not men Tion or. Martin Luther King a directly As he had in his address on Palm sunday. He referred to the inauspicious and warning episode of the murder which stirred the whole world and said it would be most admirable if the great collective egoism of racism nationalism and class hatred could be supplanted by univer at the end of his address the Pope gave his Blessing urbi it j Orbi to the City and the world and expressed Brief easter greetings in English italian French German Spanish Portu Guese latin and  under a Large canopy i raised to protect him from therain the Pope gave communion to 14 korean girls and six  boys. 1 after the mass he chatted briefly with exiled greek King Constantino and Queen Annemmarie As Well As with Prince Juan Carlos son of the pretend Ler to the Spanish throne and his wife Princess  throughout Western Europe watched the ceremony live on television. Spanish City in state of siege thousands of police prevent Basque protest san Sebastion Spain up thousands of armed police imposed a state of siege on this sea resort City on the French Border to prevent Basque nationalists from staging an anti government demonstration to Mark Yberri Equina the Basque National  aborted demonstration which had received some Back ing from other opposition groups was the first of a series expected this Spring from ele ments increasingly dissatisfied with the regime of Generalis Simo Francisco  demonstrations underline a crisis in Franco s government brought about by growing Stu Dent and labor unrest an jockeying for Power by elements seeking to dominate the govern ment when the 75-year-old ruler Steps  Franco fished in his native Galicia last week thou Sands of police converged on san Sebastion in special bus Sand trains to deter the celebrations which for the first time coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the Sec Ond Spanish Republic in 1931. As easter dawned under Gray skies san Sebastian was sur rounded by police who Cut it Offin an operation which was almost military. Roadblocks kept any body from entering the City while patrol boats cruised the  Public transportation halted and the old part of the City was closed to vehicular and Pedes Trian  police guarded All strategic locations while foot patrols jeeps and water Cannon trucks cruised the City All Day inthe biggest show of police Secu Rity Here since the civil War 30years ago. Despite the massive police presence scattered bands of demonstrators usually no bigger than two dozen staged Short lived demonstrations before being neutralized. At least 19 people were detained and there were reports of As Many As 100 having been hauled in saturday. Berlin violence continue continued from Page 1 they carried flying across the  Battle followed a meeting in the Wittenber Platz a Square about 500 Yards from the Kur Fuerste Damm called by the Campaign for nuclear disarmament and As an Ordinary easter peace rally. As the rally dispersed How Ever about 3,500 persons marched to the Kur Fuersten Damm shouting slogans apparently directed against the Springer publishing group whose conservative newspapers Are blamed by the students for Dutschke s shooting. The marchers included Many members of the socialist Ger Man students federation ads which Dutschke Heads. Dutschke was shot thursday by Josef Bachmann a 23-year-old House Painter and admirer of Adolf Hitler and left critically wounded. The students blame Springer owned newspapers for creating a climate of Hute against left wingers which led to the at tempt on Dutschke s life. West Berlin police still hem199 demonstrators under arro saturday night after a Stref Battle protesting the Dutsch shooting. Another 277 were re leased among those detained Peter Brandt 19-year-old son West Gorman foreign mini Willy  ads said stepped a Meas ures would be taken Mon night against Springer ing plants to Block deliveries. No West g e r. Newspapers were Day night because of the Holiday  
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