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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 16, 1968

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Les Day 16, i960 the stars and stripes Page 23 in Kansas City s Khe sans go rolling along after army units relieved marines at Khe Sanh base two members of the it Ajr Cav div pfc. Pat Nard Lef Middletown calif., and pfc. Roger Lutz Lemoore  the world know of the change of command. Associated press photo mobile9 defense Plain for smaller Khe Santa base Saigon up . Tro spare being pulled out of the once threatened Marine base at Khe Sanh to assume a More Mobile defense of the area military sources said monday. Khe Sanh is being reduced Toa Supply base for operations in the surrounding Hills the source said. In the siege of Khe Sanh an the subsequent operation to re Lieve it 257 americans were killed and 2,066 wounded. I the sources said that to avoid having Khe Sanh again become a fortress under siege a much smaller base will be defended by a Mobile Force ranging around the heavily Jungle Hills and Val fleas. A . Spokesman denied re ports that defense of Khe Sanh would be turned Over to  forces. However military leaders including Gen. William c. Westmoreland have said in recent months that More and More outposts along the de j militarized zone would Bej manned by government forces. In the air War . Fighter bombers flew a record 143 mis Sions against North Vietnam Southern Panhandle sunday Mili tary spokesmen said  radio said the planes re turned monday and bombed North of the 20th-parallel . Bombing  Hanoi broadcast said one America plane was shot Downin raids monday afternoon on Ninh Binh province which i above the 20th parallel on the son of to shot to death j Rieder Germany a Theolu year old son of a 3rd army div Soldier was accidentally shot Ito death saturday by an 8-year old German boy police  said the victim Ralph Angler had come with his parents from Gellhausen to visit Erman friends in this Alpine Village. The Host was showing Ralph s. Mer sgt. . Henry a. Teng Ier a revolver and a pistol when an o n Uhlemeyer grabbed the of f rom his father s hands lice said. It discharged strik -8 Ralph in the  said they were invest atm the Case  is assigned to the 3rd red s marksmanship detach Pein at Gellhausen a division m Kesman said. 1 11 1 div Chutis Dies in free fall Mainz Germany is the body of an 8th inf div parachutist killed in free fall training has been returned to the United states for burial in Arlington National cemetery a spokesman announced at division Headquarters in bad Kreuz Nach. The victim was identified ass sgt. William e. Meyers jr., 32, from co a 1st in 509th inf. Investigation disclosed that neither the main nor the Reserve Parachute was activated in the jump from 8,000 feet at the Boemer army Airfield Hoo Staden on april 11, the spokesman said. Meyers from Baltimore was training with the seventh army Parachute team. He was Veteran of 183 free fall jumps the spokesman pointed out. The no arrived Here in Jan uary from Vietnam. He is sur Vived by his wife and three children who were living with him Here. Coastal area facing the Tonkin  was the second time Hanoi has charged violation of the limit. Last week it said Ameri can planes bombed a Village Infra Northwestern North Vietnam 10 Miles from the Border of  United states denied these charges. The sunday raids were the heaviest against the North since president Johnson ordered limit on bombing to Aid the expected peace talk preliminaries with North Vietnam. In other action . Marine captured Hill 881 North Over looking the base at Khe Sanh for the second time in a year. The sunday fighting killed 106enemy troops who had used the Peak to bombard the Marine Fortin the Valley below. Kansas City to. Up authorities announced sunday that order had been restored and about 2,600 of the 3,500 National guardsmen rushed Here last week to Stop racial violence were being sent Home mayor Hub Davis police \ chief Clarence m. Kelley an police commissioner Joseph j. Kelley jr., in a joint statement said a careful Survey of the events of the past 24 hour indicates that order has been restored in Kansas City Wei Eresil persons were killed in flare  Early last . Col. Eric Durham Public information officer for the Missouri National guard said troops were being released Assoon As they re packed and ready to  announcement the joint announcement also said that about one half of the state patrolmen on duty throughout the City would return to their regular , bans on the Sale of firearms were lifted in two other cities Baltimore and Nashville Tenn. The Maryland National guard was relieved of riot duty in Baltimore where 11,000 Federal and guard troops were deployed at one time. Nashville s mayor cancelled the City s curfew and said the civil emergency had ended. Nearly 4,000 guardsmen had been called  Kansas City the three officials said the number of arrests and incidents of Crimi Nal nature Are below average and it appears that tensions have been sharply  troops remain the Kansas City officials said that one battalion of military Davis had lifted the ban on sales of gasoline in containers. Left in effect however waste ban on Sale of weapons and ammunition. Police and about 100 state troop ers will remain in the City. Earlier in the Day mayor . Hospital protected Tokyo up riot police sunday beat Back an attempt by 1,000 members of the  student organization to March on the new . Army Hospital at Oji. The Hospital treats american soldiers wounded in Vietnam. . Mob storms Springer offices Barnard plans new surgery Rio de Janeiro up  Barnard said sunday his next heart transplant opera Tion is scheduled about six weeks after his return to Capetown from his world tour de pending on the availability of patient and donor. London a More than two thousand demonstrators act ing in sympathy with students Iberlin tried to storm the Axel Springer offices Here  battled with police. At least 500 unarmed British police sealed off the Springer offices located in the daily Mirror building a few blocks from Lon Don s Fleet Street. The Street outside the Mirror was sealed off by a Row of police buses keep ing the demonstrators 50 Yards  crowd of several Hundred had demonstrated earlier outside the West German embassy about three Miles across town. On the March to the Mirror building they picked up hundreds More from a huge and uneventful peace demonstration in Trafalgar Square which had been the Cli Max of the four Day annual easter March from the nuclear weapons research Center at Aldermaston outside London. As the demonstrators Marche eastward toward the Springer offices they chanted hoho Hochi Minn and Rudi  they smashed through police lines outside the Mirror build ing. Police helmets went flying into the air As fights broke out with fists Sticks and shoes a weapons. The crowd was held at Bay but sporadic fights still broke out along the police lines. The crowd dispersed after 45minutes. A delegation was allowed into the Springer offices to present a petition. It was led by Tariq Ali pakistani journalist and Leader of the anti Vietnam demonstration at the . Embassy Here last month. Ali a former presi Dent of the Oxford Union Debat ing society travelled to Berli earlier this year to make con tact with Dutschke s group. Eric Golf is a Man of mystery continued from Page i sold to gait. The getaway car after King s april 4 slaying i Memphis was described by wit Nesses As a White Mustang withered and White License tags like Alabama  starve gait s name appeared in official state record when he bought a White Mustang last aug.30 from a car Salesman William p. Paisley of birding Ham. Paisley would not walkabout it. Sources said the Man called gait paid $2,000 Cash forthe car. When he applied for a Driver License gait put Down Mer chant Seaman  application gave his birth Date As july 20, 1931, and his description As 5-11, 175 pounds Blue eyes and Brown hair the same general description As a Man seen fleeing a Memphis Rooming House after the slaying. Piecing bits of information to Gether and assessing the huge gaps the phantom like Quality of the Man results in a sketchy picture of a neatly dressed  has been speculation in the Birmingham news that false Trail was Laid by the killer or  what of Eric starve gait memory dim my memory of him is so dim said Charles Jack Davis,26, a tile company employee who has a Small second floor Rooming the boarding House where gait lived at some time in the past year. I Don t guess there s an such thing As a typical person Davis went on. The Best he could recall was that gait s Gen eral description was Brown hair and Blue eyes about 5-11. Another Boarder 29-year-Oldhill Hardy who works the 3 . To 11 30 . Shift at a paper Plant said he had lived at the stucco House since it opened Las september. But he did t re member Ever seeing  boarders were unable to remember much if anything atall about the Man who had occupied room 14 on the ground floor but was Gene apparently for weeks or months at a  probably knew gait better than any other person who has been found in birding Ham. Cherpes accompanied Ait for his Driver s License examination last sept. 6, record Snow. Otherwise gait seemed to be almost a phantom. 22 hindus feared Drowne Calcutta India up a Small boat carrying merry makers celebrating the hindu new year s Day capsized Sun Day in the Middle of the Hooghly River 15 Miles from  said 22 of the 35 persons aboard were feared drowned  
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