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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              It " �.,� v summer school with Days like these who would study inside these Heidelberg students have the answer. Is Cole Frankfurt s from a and up dispatches Germany s april cent irined in its Midsummer like role monday with the Mercury reaching 82 in the Frankfurt area. On sunday the High was 84 in Frankfurt the hottest april Day there in nine years. The 84 degree Reading was re corded at 3 . At Rhein main air base and the associate press reported one nearby read ing of 88 degrees. Air Weathe Central at Rhein main said. The temperature reached 87 degree son april 18, 1959. More of same tiie forecast Calls for More fair weather tuesday and slightly cooler wednesday. In Paris an All night rain lowered temperatures from the Micl-80s sunday to 74  at Rhein main said that a High pressure area fro the Mediterranean has Stab cont. On Pago 84, col. 3 of to boost 5,072 pm Washington is the ail Force enlisted promotion quota for May will total 5,072, the Sec Ond lowest figure since the monthly system went into effect almost a year ago. A breakdown shows that 4,828promotions to e4 Are authorized "1 to e8 and 63 to e9. Quotas or other grades have previously a exhausted. Weather fair to partly Cloudy with slight temperature decline. Cooler wednesday. Frankfurt held Elbert High 77, Low 65. Temperature recorded monday get 444 am pm63 Adana p 55 68 Atheni p75 Aviano p 80 Berlin c82 Frankfurt p 48 57 London re Cloar cd Cloudy rain. Am pm64 65 Madrid r 64 79 Munich c 67 72 pad p 48 57 Prei Tolck cl50 72 Rome c 55 68 wheelus up partly Cloudy r 2nd weather Wing Anck stripes unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 6 if 21855 a 5t daily 10 sunday tuesday april 23, 1968clifford hopeful of Cut. Forces in Vietnam i 1 j 1i r d i c0 1 supreme court curbs 01 for you Washington up the supreme court ruled for the first time monday that state an local governments have the right to protect minors from obscenity in movies books and other questionable materials. It did so even while striking Down a Dallas tex., ordinance which sought to classify movies As unsuitable for children under 18 and limit Access of minors touch films. It smut Ith okd the 8-1 decision by justic Thurgood Marshall went on to say that a state is entitled to regulate in the juvenile area because of its Strong an abiding interest in  the Dallas Law was found unconstitutional solely on grounds it did not set up narrowly drawn reasonable and definite Stan Dards for its administration. Then in a 6-3 ruling the font. On Page 8 col 1 says Saigon takes on More of new York a Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford said monday South Vietnam s in creased fighting effectiveness will permit a leveling off of .efforts in the War and in due time permit gradual troop reduction. Clifford made that assessment in a speech at the annual membership meeting of the associate press. It was his first Public address since he became defense chief seven weeks  said his assessment was based on results of a comprehensive review of american policies and programs in Viet Nam ordered by president John son after the setbacks of the communists tet  results were Clear and the results were encouraging Clifford declared. They Dis cont. On Page 24, col. 5 defector s information brings Alert communists attack Saigon outposts a dispatches Saigon the Viet Cong Mon amt hed be attacks in s Acos ? outskirts. South Vietnam Sis a too m and pc on rent a Frt in the capt a amid other n � �nc1uy p1T8 for an Sty itself01 assault inst the Allied spokesmen said .Bouth vietnamese forces killed at least 123 Viet Cong who were assaulting capital outposts sunday and monday. Intelligence reports said a colonel defected to the South vietnamese govern ment and surrendered plans for a Large scale enemy follow up tothe Jan. 30 tet offensive drive into Saigon. The Alert order Fol  also flared in the Khe Sanh area where . Marine again spotted enemy tanks and along the coast where South korean troops killed 255 North vietnamese in a series of week end fire fights. The air War also intensified. . Spokesman said american fighter bombers flew 141 Mission against the Panhandle Region of North Vietnam sunday another in a series of heavy attacks on communications and Supply routes leading into the Khe san area. Inside Saigon still scarred from the tet fighting National police found three truckloads Oviet Cong arms and ammunition wrapped in Nylon bags an hidden under vegetables Early cont. On a Cit 2$, col. I buoy of buoy girls aboard Oslo a it s enough to make an old sea dog shiver his timbers women  boys Are getting reluctant to go to sea so the merchant Fleet is recruiting girls not Only As Cooks and stewardesses but As deckhand. The first girl believed to Signon As a deckhand Olaug Braa 22, will join the 85,000-ton Tanker Astrid at Rotterdam May 6\ the vessel operates Between the persian Gulf and Europe. There have been women Skippers of norwegian coastal vessels and fishing boats. Capt. Sverre Aamodt of the line which owns the Astrid said there was no reason Why girls could not handle the work aboard modern push Buou ships  
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