European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes fighting flares around Saigon from a and Saigon fighting flare around Saigon late tuesday and Early wednesday As Allied Force probed the Jungles and Rice pad Dies in an operation culled com plete Victory described As the biggest offensive of the Vietnam War. And near Khe Sanh a  big nuclear blast planned in Nevada paiute Mesa Nev. Up the largest underground blast in history will be detonated i Nevada next week. The atomic Energy commission tuesday said an under ground test of Low megaton yield was scheduled for april 24. The age has never before announced a Low megaton nuclear explosion during its underground testing program. Low Mega ton Means one megaton or More. One megaton is equivalent to one million tons of int. Scientists said persons within 250-mile radius probably would feel an Earth  United states touched off one megaton devices during it atmospheric testing program in the  scientists conducted an atmospheric test during the early1960s which was 50 Megatons or  spokesman for the commis Sion said that the nuclear test would be triggered at the Bottom of a 3,800-fo9t Shaft which would be sealed with Sand and gravel. The paiute Mesa area is mostly composed of volcanic Rock. The dec spokesman said the test would be a weapons related  the nuclear device will be lowered to the Bottom of the drilled Shaft which has an inside diameter of four feet. Munich riot claims life of newsman Munich a a new photographer Klaus Frings 32, died wednesday from a head injury he received monday night while covering violent Stu Dent demonstrations against a newspaper printing Plant  was hit by a cobble Stone when demonstrators an police clashed. Doctors at the neurosurgical clinic of Munich University performed an opera Tion tuesday but Frings Condi Tion worsened during the night. Frings who was married Isth first to die in the wave of riots which broke out in West Germany after the attempted assassination of leftist student Leader Rudi Dutschke april 11 in  dispatches Marine patrol was mauled Bynorth vietnamese hidden in bunkers. At test 17 Marine were killed and 35 wounded in the four hour  spokesmen said nearly every Man in the patrol was killed or wounded it was the heaviest setback for the marines since 21 men on patrol were killed while the77-Day siege of Khe Sanh was  inside Khe Sanh s barbed wire perimeter reported they received More than 300 rounds of artillery rocket an mortar fire during a 24-hour period ending at 6 .  spokesmen said that the americans suffered 19 killed and 56 wounded and that 14 marines were missing in the action in and around Khe Sanh. Twenty North vietnamese were reported dead. Early wednesday enemy gun ners fired More than 100 mortar rounds on two government installations Only five and six Miles North of Saigon. First re ports said four vietnamese were killed and 30 wounded. In the Mekong Delta 15 mile Southwest of the capital a Viet namese company ran into Strong enemy Force and two companies from the . 199thlight infantry brigade were rushed in to reinforce the Viet namese. Fighting lasted almost an hour before the enemy Brok Contact leaving behind 11 dead. Headquarters reported three americans and 14 vietnamese soldiers were  Complete Victory involves about 100,000 Allied troop working mainly in their own areas of responsibility in 11provinces around Saigon. Thirty one Miles East of Saigon an element of the . 9th inf div engaged an enemy Force Ina 10-minute fight that left 12 enemy dead spokesmen said.. Casualties were two killed and two  action in the curtailed bombing Campaign Over North Vietnam . Pilots stayed below the 19thparallel for the 13th consecutive Day in raids tuesday Mili tary sources said. The heaviest action around Saigon tuesday came when South vietnamese army troops came under mortar and Auto Matic weapons fire As the swept through an area 16 Miles from the capital.. Helicopters and tactical fighter bombers were called to support the government Force and the enemy broke Conta Tafter about an hour of fighting. Twenty six enemy bodies were reported left behind while the government Force lost Only Oneman wounded. A Short time later another clash broke out 26 Miles North West of Saigon where South vietnamese forces ran into an estimated two enemy  was broken after about five hours with five South Viet namese soldiers killed and 36 wounded. Easier term the com manding officer of Marine Mary Boras. 21. Tuesday lifted 45-Day restriction to Barracks for the woman who was convicted last week of refusal to Wear her uniform and for ignoring orders. A $20. Fine and reduction from Corporal to Pri vate were left standing a sketch of Atlanta up an atlant taxicab Driver identified for tote Fri tuesday a sketch of the elusive Eric starve gait and said the mystery figure in the search for1 or. Martin Luther King or s Assassin Rode in Biscay the Day after the slaying. A second taxicab drive working for the same company said he too gave the Man aride the Day after King was shot by a sniper in Memphis,tenn., april 4. Both Drivers said the trip were in Atlanta s i i Cpl neighbourhood around  and 14th Street tie area is about seven Miles from the Public housing project where a White Ford Mustang registered to gait was located by Fri agents last  Fri has pored Over mistake in . Cop9 not sniper. Killed negro Kansas City a police confirmed tuesday that one of six negroes slain in last week racial disturbances was shot by an officer and not by a sniper a previously thought. Meanwhile about 650 Mem Bers of the Missouri National guard remained on Standb Alert in the City. Police Captain Sidney Harlow announced an investigation showed Julius Hamilton 38, was killed by patrolman Steve bar Field the night of april 10 when Barfield mistook Hamilton for a  reported another policeman was behind a building where a fire was burning and there was sniper fire. He called to policemen in front that he was coming out into the Street an not to mistake him for a sniper. Barfield and others Harlow said called to him to come on  Hamilton inside the building Williams to be envoy to Manila Honolulu a presi Dent Johnson announced tues Day he will nominate g. Mennen Williams former democratic governor of Michigan and stat department official As Ambas Sador to the , 57, would succeed William Mccormick Blair jr.,who resigned. Elected governor of Michigan six times Williams served As chief executive of his native state from 1949 until 1960. President John of. Kenned named Williams assistant Secre tary of state for african affair sin 1961 a Post he held until March 1, 1966. Apparently believed the police were calling him and ran from the door just As a shot rang  said he saw the Man s head thought he was the snipe they were Hunting fired a riot gun and killed him. No action is planned against Barfield. Harlow said. Elsewhere in Kansas Cit tuesday pupils returned quietly to predominantly negro school son the East Side where violence was triggered april 9. Somebody threw a firebomb through a window at Sumner High school in Kansas City,kan., Early tuesday but a custodian extinguished the Blazewitz Only minor damage. Jackson county prosecutor Joseph p. Teasdale said he was starting to Weed out cases of persons arrested wrongfully or without sufficient evidence Dur ing the disorders. Teasdale cited several in stances where police arrested persons later found to be inno cent but in the confusion it was difficult to determine it at the time. Magistrates were reducing Bonds which reached As High As $100,000 for some accused of taking part in the disturbance. Oregon flags to Honor its fighting in Asia Salem Ore. A the flags at the Oregon Capitol will Fly at half staff one Day each month for Oregon servicemen killed in  our flags in front of the Capitol one Day a months a Small thing to do but it May serve to remind oregonians of the great sacrifices our boys Are making in Southe Astasia said Secretary of state Clay  British Bridge the Export Gap London a London Bridge this one built in 1831, will soon make a transatlantic journey to the United states with an american picking up the Tab. The Bridge is the victim of London s increased flow of traffic. It is too narrow and it has to be replaced. The City of London corp. Declined to name the buyer but said tuesday night the 10,000tons of Granite Over the River thames would be pulled Dowland shipped to the United states. Britons who Are getting use to the idea of Well loved heaps joining the National Monument rain quipped How much for Buckingham Palace the 136-year-old Bridge joined the liner Queen Mary her sister ship Queen Elizabeth and sundry churches and castles on the one Way transatlantic journey. If it keeps up this Way we Ulsoon have to go Over there to look up our heritage said an other briton. A London corp. Spokesman said the buyer and Price an estimated 2.4 million would be revealed in a joint London new York announcement. A London Bridge has spanned the thames in one form or an other since roman times 2,000years ago. The records of taxicab fee Der in an attempt gait Iron the apparently abandoned the Mustang which was found  Fromes housing project the first Driver told the Bihe picked up the Man at the intersection of peach tree and14th streets he drove his i Only two blocks a fact that made him remember the Trio. And then the Man demanded Tobe let out immediately f the Driver said he had Zetwo blocks South on peach tree to 12th Street and there � i01 mfg paid his toe and Waw quickly Down 12th its toward the West. T the second taxicab Driver told the Fri he recognized the Man in the sketch As the same Man who Rode in his cab to the address of a modern two Story apartment building. The second Driver did no recall if the Man entered the apartments or walked off i another direction. The location is at the intersection of 13thstreet and Crescent Avenue one Block West of the 14th Andre Ashtree streets intersection where the first Driver said he picked up the same Man. Sheriff comment sin Birmingham where gait once lived Jefferson count sheriff Mel Bailey said he thinks the Assassin May have originally planned to kill King in the Alabama steel , who threw a tight Security net around King whence was in the City last october to serve five Days in jail said he thinks a conspiracy existed to murder the civil right Leader. The sheriff said his theory is Only conjecture but that it is based1 on the evidence uncovered so far in the  Bailey noted that gait who has been identified by fellow boarders in a Rooming House i Birmingham As being the same Man shown in Fri sketches of the suspected Assassin lived in the City when King was serving his jail term. He could have Laid in Wail with that sniper Rifle on Many occasions waiting for a shot taking the sheriff said. Japan Auto record Tokyo up Japan diced a record 3,406,265 four wheeled cars during 1967, the automobile manufacturers association said tuesday. 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