European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes b52s make 10 strikes yanks South vietnamese Saigon up Allied Force skilled 117 enemy troops in South Vietnam s Northern province Sand in the Mekong Delta wednes Day american spokesmen said thursday. The fighting Cost the lives of20 americans and five South vietnamese troops. Another 87u.s. Troops were wounded and nine government troops were injured. The . Airmy 9th inf div bore the Brunt of the action killing 78 Viet Cong in a Day Long fight inthe Delta 45 Miles Southwest of .130 guerrillas had at gop leaders urge Rocky to enter race Washington up Twenty three leading republicans meeting Here agreed thurs Day that gov. Nelson Rockefeller of new York should formally de Clare himself a presidential candidate meeting called by sen. Jacob javits n.y., attracted key republicans from across the i country including Michigan Romney former defense Secretary Thomas Gates an financier John Hay made no imme Diate comment on the meeting. He was delivering a speech be fore the american society of newspaper editors . Thruston Morton of Ken Tucky a Leader of the drive Roget Rockefeller into the presidential race said the meeting of key republicans had produced Gratifying reports of nation wide backing for him. I have talked to him and i convinced Nelson is in the mood to go right now Morton there Are some Fence Sitters around the country who want to hear him through say i la see it French official in Moscow Moscow a French de sense minister Pierre Messmer thursday flew into Moscow for Anine Day official visit to the soviet Union. A Goff i is Yfe few sip k looking it Over Gen. Maurice a. Preston right com Mander in chief Safe and German Gen. Juergen Bennecke new accent cd Check out the cockpit of an rf4c phantom Jet at Ramstein air base Home of the 4th Nataf which Preston also commands. 4th Nataf photo Munich student riot claims second life Munich a a 21-year-Oldmunich student has died of a fractured Skull suffered in a easter weekend demonstration police announced thursday. It was the second death result ing from the Street turmoil set off by a student protest Marc against the Springer newspaper printing Plant Here. A photographer Klaus Frings died wednesday from a head injury after being struck by a Stone during the demonstration. The second victim was identified As Ruediger Schreek who told police after his injury that he had been a bystander. I just wanted to see for once what a demonstration was like he was quoted As , it was Learned that the West German government i considering preventive arrests of leftist student leaders to try Tob lock a threatened renewal Street minister Ernst Benda said the government is studying the possibility of introducing temporary preventive arrest for known leaders of demonstrations that threaten to erupt into Vio Lence. Under present Law a Demon-1 Days of Street fighting in 26 Ger Strator who is detained but not Man cities Over the easter week charged with a Misdemeanour end on the socialist German Stu must be released after his Ridenti dents federation ads the most to has been established. Then heis free to resume demonstrating. Federal authorities according to Benda Are trying to make it possible for judges to Issue arrest warrants for demonstration leaders if it appears they intend to return immediately tothe demonstration. The development emerge from a meeting of the West German Cabinet that heard Benda place the blame for five left Wing of the student ads led its followers into the streets thursday night after a Munich House Painter whose hot by was painting Pic Tures of Adolf Hitler shot and seriously wounded the student group s chief ideologists Rudi spokesman for Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger said the head of the government was unwilling to meet with representatives of the ads. Tacked a unit of the division ply roads and in of near the they mortared the , Post As the americans hit Back Shell ing and sweeping through the enemy positions. Pour Ameri Cana were killed and 15 wounded nearby South vietnamese troops battled a Viet Cong Force killing 16 and suffering five me killed and nine wounded. The Delta is the most heavily populated area of South Vietnam and the Home of the Viet con movement. Allied forces had be gun major anti guerrilla drive there just before the communist Urban offensive in february. The american troops now Are concentrating on Clearing suppl lines and mounting growing anti guerrilla South Vietnam s Northern area a series of Battles erupted Between Small enemy and Allied units wednesday reds attack near Hue communists attacked . Positions guarding Hue. Six Ameri cans were killed and 55 wounded in the wednesday night fighting. The enemy left behind 14 the second Day in a Row . B52s bombarded the a Sha Valley infiltration route with 10 strikes thursday american spokesmen said. Military observers said the saturation bombing could be the softening up for an american ground thrust into the Jungle Val Ley that stretches like a Dagger from the laotian Border to with in 15 Miles of eight engined jets struck in wave upon wave As . Intelligence sources reported Large numbers of communist troop Sand trucks rumbling through the Valley toward Hue. Intelligence officers said about 10,000 enemy troops Are Strung out through Thea Shau Valley. In Saigon american spokes men said 363 . Troops were killed in action last week. It waste highest death toll in five weeks. Another 2,694 american were wounded. Allied troops last week killed3,071 enemy troops. This raised to 327,993 the number of communist troops killed since 1961. American losses in the Sam period now total 21,417 men killed and 133,752 wounded. Witnesses sought in hit and run Heidelberg is Mili tary police Here Are cooperating with German authorities in the search for witnesses to the hit and run death of a pedestrian i downtown Heidelberg at 12 15 . Sunday. Killed in the Accident at plock Strasse and Narl Strasse was a German Ludwig Ihrig 49. Americans who witnessed the Accident were requested to Call the Hei Delberg my det at Heidelberg military 8800. Poverty March is May 2 austrian Leader in Japan Tokyo up Austria Premier Joseph Klaus arrived thursday for a week Long visitant talks with japanese govern ment leaders. Atlanta up the Rev Ralph Abernathy successor to or. Martin Luther King announced thursday that King s planned poor people s March on Washington would begin May 2with a prelude on april 29.Abernathy said thousands would converge on the capita from Memphis Boston Chicago and said he would Lead a contingent of 100 persons int Washington on april 29 As a prelude and after talking with officials would return to Memphis where King was killed to begin the main March May 2.he said the groups would March for two Days in each state they pass through travel ing by car the remainder of the Way. The first contingent of 100, he said would Contact lawmakers and the president in Hopes of winning further concessions to their demands for social Legisla Tion. Mules will pull wagons in the March Abernathy said similar to the mule team that pulled King s coffin through the streets of Atlanta in his funeral Las week. The new president of the South Ern Christian leadership con Ference Sulc said that before beginning the March from Memphis he would place a memorial Star in the Cement on the Motel Balcony where King was slain by a White sniper on april 4. Abernathy said a City of Hope will be built in Washington for the demonstrators to occupy for As Long As necessary and later in the summer there would be massive demonstration for those who could not stay on in the Cit of we will carry this message to Washington from a City of death in quest of a nation of life he said. Mimi april 19t.-1ttih ill 1m?\ r by Perry staff writer Hoechst Germany is still Long on music at age Short on words count oa81fi,wound up the German leg of a tour Here wednesday night an headed for London. And i m writing a Book the ambassador of jazz and blues explained in fending questions 5 4ucs the bandleader and pianist now m his 34th year of show 3 Ness will do a British Broad casting corp. Television special in. London and then take on in and the Netherland lotto round out his european tour. Appearing with him is Georgie Fame 2year-old English vocalist and recording Star of Ballad of Bon me and Clyde Fame. Old appeals turned on audience at the i Here wednes Day night showed that the smooth walloping Fertile Basie sound still has its old Appeal. Billed As America s most explosive Force in jazz the count socked his audience with wealth of numbers from his atomic Basie album and the soothed them with the old favor ites such As april in Paris and two o clock the count s characteristically skeletal piano style opened the evening then suddenly and unexpectedly he detonated his brass and rhythm sections for another stunning exhibit of old pro Fame helped Light up 1 the night not Only with his Bonnieann Clyde hit but with such Dit ties As sunny ask me Nice and keep your big Mouth body found in Isar River Munich is the body of an american student who drowned in the Isar River March 25 was recovered r. Hutto 18, was one of two students who disappeared in the Isar following an attempt to recover a football that had gone into the s body was discovered by a German at the Herzon Hein Rich Bridge Here two Miles Down Stream from where to was last seen. The same incident took the life of Richard c. 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