European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 2 d the stars and stripes Umotoy . Jets step up Panhandle raids from a and Saigon american warplane flew 160 missions Over the Southern Panhandle of North Vietnam Friday in the heaviest single Day of bombing in six months a military spokesman said  Force Navy and Marine jets bombed a wide Range of targets that had been obscured by bad weather the spokesman said. The 160 missions were the most since oct. 14 and the heaviest one Day attack of the War on the Panhandle Region. The previous High on oct. 14,was 163 missions and the 1968 High was on thursday when 145missions were flown. Meanwhile in the biggest ground Campaign of the War some 100,000 Allied soldiers con ducting operation Complete Vic tory in provinces around Saigon reported killing 58 Viet Cong in three clashes . Losses were five killed and 28 wounded. Near the once besieged Khe Sanh combat base in Northwest Ern South Vietnam enemy troops ambushed a 122-truck Allied con Voy while pinning Down a uni of . Marines nearby. The fight along Dusty route 9only eight Miles West of Khe Sanh left four marines killed and 22 wounded. There was mod Saigon talks of Allied Cut Saigon a South Viet namese defense minister Nguyen Van by said saturday that general mobilization of South Vietnam s manpower would Al Low Allied nations to begin gradual withdrawal of troops atthe beginning of next year. Lie said such a general mobilization would have to be much More far reaching than the on Enow proposed. Earlier this month president Nguyen Van Thieu said that if the United states request withdrawal of its troops we can agree to a gradual withdrawal beginning by the end of 1968." program pushed since that time Thieu has asked the legislature for the Power to Call a general Mobili nation and the government has launched a program to set up self defense units around the country. Thieu also has announced an immediate 135,000 Man increase in the a r m e forces. By has spoken of a need to increase the forces by 268,000 men. At saturday s news Confer ence he said if we increase our troop by Only 135,000 men As originally scheduled or by the proposed268,000. Then there is a ques Tion of whether or not we can partially replace the Allied  the general mobilization Law takes effect it will gives not Only hundreds of thousands of troops but millions including the self defense groups that will take Ovir from Static regular army units guarding the towns arid cities and Public installations. So the regular army can carry out full time front Lin duty. Only by this Means can our regular army replace a number of Allied units and hopefully Al Low them to begin gradual withdrawal at the beginning of 1969." up dispatches crate damage to vehicles in the Convoy a . Sex Kesim said. In the a Shau Valley South West of Hue b52 bombers added three More strikes late Friday and Early saturday to the in Tensive air Campaign  were described As enemy troop concentrations weapons positions fortifications and storage areas. Teen Ager lends to 4 mutilated bodies Baltimore Mel. A police found the mutilated Bod ies of four children in a wooded West Baltimore Park Friday. An 18-year-old former janitor who had parts of three bodies in a Lunchbox led officers to the bodies. He was arrested but no charges have been  said the area of Stokes drive had been searched forthe last two Days after parents of five boys reported they Hadnot returned Home. Three Bod ies were identified Friday night As those of three missing  were identified As Mack Jefferson 5, his brother Larry Jefferson 0, and their Cousin Lester Watson 10.the fourth body was not immediately identified because of its mutilations police said. The other missing boys Are an8-year-old and a 10-year-old. The suspect is a negro. The dead and missing boys were also  bodies were found in Lea Kin Park near Edmondson Vil Lage in the 3800 Block Prive. Police said the victim had their throats Cutone of the bodies had its parts of the other bodies also gone. No attempt was Mado Tobt Irethe bodies. T police said the is year Oid the Stokes Prive area Autris Omyotte Telepko fed police that hollowed out tree apparently being used for sleeping to wed in May British Liberal peer lord Moynihan 32,shares a joke with his Fiancee Lut Gurda de la Rossa Fernandez in Dymchurch Kent. He met the 23-year-old Niece of the Philip Pine ambassador to Cambodia during a visit to Thailand. They will be married in London May 1. Lord Moynihan s marriage to belly dancer Princess Amina was dissolved last year up Nixon urges enl in Viet Cirii Elisii from a and up dispatches Washington former Vic president Richard m. Nixon called Friday for a moratorium on criticism of president John son s vietnamese policies to per Mit uninterrupted efforts to Start peace negotiations. In an appearance before the american society of newspaper editors Nixon the leading Candi Date for the Republican presidential nomination condemned criticisms such As those levelled at the president by sen. Robertf. Kennedy of new York and sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy of Minnesota who arc seeking the democratic nomination. Nixon said he does not believe that Secretary of state Dean Rusk should resign As Mccarthy has suggested. It was highly irresponsible Nixon said to suggest As Ken Nedy and Mccarthy have that the Viet Cong should be brought into the negotiations. If that were done Nixon said a coalition government would be Likely to result in Saigon. Nixon did not mention either of his potential democratic  response to a question Nixon said there should be moratorium on critic ism of policy to permit the president 2nd surface expedition makes it to North pole Chicago a a team of Amateur explorers reached the North pole Friday to become the first party to accomplish the feat by surface travel since the Trail blazing 1909 Peary expedition a Chicago Public relations firm re ported. The Chicago organisation employed by the expedition reported the american Canadian team arrived at the pole after a 474 mile 44-Day trek across the Icecap. A spokesman said Ralph Plai sted the St. Paul minn., insurance Man who led the expedition spaceman Rescue pact to be signed monday Moscow a an inter National agreement for t h e Rescue of spacemen lost Onearth will be signed monday in Moscow London and washing ton. The soviet foreign ministry announced Friday that the agree ment worked out through the United nations will be signed Here by the soviet Union Brit Ain and the United states. Other countries will then be Able cosign. Reported by radio that he an three other members of the six Man expedition reached the pol after a final Lap of 10 Miles. Plaisted identified those wit him at the pole As Walter h. Pederson 40, a mechanical Engineer Gerald r. Pitzel 34, an instructor at the University of Minnesota and Jean Luc bom Bardier 29, Montreal a technician. The other members of the party Donald e. Powellek 40, an electronics Engineer and  c. Aufderheide 43, a pathologist were behind the others Plaisted reported. The successful trip across the top of the world was made in gasoline powered vehicles haul ing sleds. It was the first time that mechanized equipment was used to reach the pole by sur face  air drops of supplies enabled the expedition to Over come 60-degree-Belovv-Zero temperatures Gale winds that Kep them huddled in tents for seven Days 40-foot-High pressure ridges and open water that threatened to abort the expedition before it froze. Powellek and Aufderheide had planned to join the party at a before they leg to the  Cam walked the Las but their air plane was grounded by blowing  via radio Plaisted told the associated press we re very tired and Happy. We re camped on a Largo bloc of ice and the temperature is 23 degrees  said the explorers would remain on the North pol for a Day. It is very important that we stay Here at least 24 hours Plaisted said air Force flyers will Chart our position and a number of pictures must retaken before we  scores of cars pile up on Florida expressway Miami a about 70 to 75motorists, blinded by fog and smoke on an expressway piled up their cars Early Friday on the Way to work. Four Florida Highway patrol cars were involved in the 1 mile snarl on the Palmetto expressway. Several Persona were reported Hurt. To negotiate peace As soon  meanwhile in Philadelphia Mccarthy pledged to stay in the race until the end. Mccarthy told a crowd of 400young people he had no intention of making any concessions to anyone along the Way i am making no  Kennedy stumping California predicted that if he wins Cali fornia s 174 convention Delegate sin the june primary he will Cap Ture the democratic nomination Roger Miller shot in hand Woodland Hills Calif up Roger Miller whose song King of the Road Rock eted him to stardom As a Singer and songwriter accidentally was shot in the left hand by a Friend with an air pistol a spokesman for the Singer disclosed Friday. Roger and his Friend were looking at the air pistol thursday said the spokesman they thought it was t loaded. The Friend pulled the trigger and the Pellet hit Roger in the  doctors were summoned tothe Home of Miller 31, in this los Angeles suburb in the Sanfernando Valley and spent about v/2 hours removing the Pellet. The Accident forced Miller to postpone a trip to London to promote his latest song Littlegreen apples but was a expected to delay his scheduled opening May 14 at the Sahara hotel in Las vegas nev., to spokesman said. The name of Miller s Friend was not disclosed. Weather . Temperatures h l 74 30 Albany 34 Albuquerque 67 42 Amarillo 84 60 Atlanta 58 62 Atlantic City 16 60 Birmingham 46 37 Bismarck it 36 Boston 64 44 Buffalo 50 22 Caspar 44 39 Chicano 70 49 Cincinnati 0 48 Cleveland 50 28 denver52 49 de Molnes 9 49 Detroit 46 31 Duluth b8 48 Elpaso 34 18 Fairbanks 59 32 Fargo 76 68 fort Worth 82 72 Honolulu 82 71 Houston 69 47 Indianapolis 92 63 Jacksonville 68 69 Kansas City 35 Las Vega 60 los Angeles h l72 61 Louisville 83 67 me pm 70 70 Miami b Aea 40 38 Milwaukee 63 45  a 80 60 new Orlean 70 45 new York ci7 49 41 North Platte 73 56 Oklahoma 59 51 Omaha 78 4s Philadelphia 75 37 i Lio enix 68 48 Pitu burble 65 44 Portland. 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