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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 25, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Thursday april 25 the stars and stripes Page 3  9jfjfjot Haven in a hut Luc Vietnam to at the Edge of the  in White pyjamas and White Sun helmet an wearing a Long White Beard sped out of a Little hut  and beckoned to the Ameri Ca at wounded Soldier is Over there in my House " he told  w. Dorr of Inman neb., through an interpreter. The ordeal of spec 4 vans App was Over. It began monday when shrapnel bit into his leg. The old Man his wife and the hut they shared wit three pigs brought him through. Snapp s armoured cavalry company had gone to the Rescue of a platoon trapped by about500 communists in a Field just off Highway 14, about 14 mile Southwest of Saigon and a mile from his 9th division Headquarters. At first the reinforcements could t break through Viet icon machine guns and mortar shells shredded the Brush around Snapp a hot Sliver Tore into his leg As his company was falling Back to let artillery and air strikes break the communist  one heard Snapp s Call for help above the Din of Battle. The Knoxville tenn., Soldier said he began crawling. His stomach and arms show the bruises and cuts of the Effort. He made 300 Yards before he saw the one room hut of Huynh Van Giac 53. Giac spotted the61, just in front of the communist  vietnamese and his wife lifted Snapp into the  to War in the backyard they had dug Bunker inside the hut and covered it with Board and sacks of Rice. They placed snap inside. They put a sack of Rice under his  refused their offer of food he could t eat. He accepted water. Giac s wife served him Tea. Through the night yellow tracers from the Viet Cong Crews kept zapping i Over the thatched  s men smashed through at Dawn. The besieged  suffered six men killed and 12 wounded before helicopters could reach and Rescue them. Dorr s men counted 49guerrilla bodies. The lieutenant also listed Snapp As missing. Then Giac came out. The vietnamese led a medic spec. 4 Gary Birchfield 23, of Roan Mountain tenn., to Snapp s Side. Snapp had used his Belfor a Tourniquet to Stop his leg s bleeding. He was not seriously injured. A helicopter landed beside Giae s hut and took snap away. Birchfield inspected an infected Cut on Giac s leg an cleaned the wound and bandaged  walked Back to his door. He waved Goodby to the  vehicles rumbling away across the Rice  urges welfare cutoffs As morality step Washington a Ala Bama appealed to the supreme court tuesday to discourage unmarried sex by approving Cut offs of Aid to some needy Chil Dren. If welfare payments to the children continue while the Mother is having an affair said asst. Atty. Gen. Mary Lee Stapp government is financing illegitimacy. The theory Over the country for years is that a child does not get Aid if there Are two Able bodied persons in the House  Stapp  Mother living with a Man who is not her husband do snot reflect the Way we do things in this country and should be discouraged she added firmly. Alabama is one of 18 state that have Laws providing for Cut offs of welfare payments to fatherless children if the Mother is having illicit relations wit another Man. Last november a Federal court in Montgomery stamped it makes a break need a conversational subject there Are Many pinstripes. A Complete Roundup of world events is professionally capsules within its 24 pages. Have Stripe delivered to your Home it certainly makes a Coffee break More interesting circulation office phone numbers or Cathena Civ w5189qormany Burn Civ 739368s�m re Aven. Civ 45341. Mil 766 Taly it Civ wj108-2047, Mil Offenbach 765 w. Ftnat Stern Civ 87wt my Vogel Weh 7050 leghorn Civ m001 Civ 8tl403 Mil Rhelna 018 Spain to Fuxa Madrow old 2328290 ext 30ustuttgart, Civ 854226. My 7230 u"1 kingdom Wiesbaden Civ 420779, Mil 28685 London old Riu Toup 32264, ext 12t subscribe now government housing Only Alabama s regulation unconstitutional. The state appealed. An american civil liberties Union attorney Martin Garbus told the court nearly half a Mil lion children Are denied Aid in the 18 states. Though the Federal govern ment puts up a big share of the Money for the Aid to dependent children program Garbus said All it can do to combat such regulations is to halt Aid. He asked  to prohibit states from using the Mother s conduct As a Factor in deciding which children can get welfare  justices received Ala Bama s argument coolly. Chief Justice Earl Warren unable to get a yes or no answer to several questions Cut mrs. Stapp off with never  Justice Thurgood marshal told the state attorney flatly you re discriminating against some children. I can t see Why the child i denied milk because of what the Mother is doing Marshall re marked. And Justice William j. Bren Nan or. Observed you give More milk to some children by giving none to  mrs. Stapp had contended that the state was compelled for financial reasons to distribute welfare Money carefully. She rejected Marshall suggestion picked up by other justices also that the regulation deprives children of milk. Subcommittee abolition is opposed High stepper French singing Star Mireille Mathieu boards a taxi in London birth place of the miniskirt. A Washington a re publicans on the House govern ment operations committee voted unanimously tuesday to oppose the proposed abolition Ofa watchdog subcommittee that has been critical of Vietnam Ai programs. Rep. Florence p. Dwyer r-n.j., speaking for the group after a meeting said in a state ment any attempt to abolish the subcommittee responsible for foreign operations and free Dom of information would be disservice to the  the vital functions of provid ing Independent information and evaluation must be protected she said. It was reported last week that rep. William l. Dawson d-iu., chairman of the full committee would abolish the subcommittee which has sharply . Aid programs in Vietnam. Dawson s move was ascribe to cuts in the committee s budget but it came in the Wake of the group s Vietnam Aid criticism and a verbal Battle Between it chairman rep. John e. Moss d-calif., and draft director Lewis b. Hershey. Moss said he discussed the matter with Dawson monday and was told the decision would be reviewed. The subcommittee is counting on support from All 15 republicans and at least 3 of the 20democrats if a showdown is necessary. Most believed jewish polish red party expels 13 Warsaw up the expulsion of another 13 persons most of them believed to be jewish from the party was disclosed wednesday by the communist party paper Tribuna Ludu. They include a former censor an Deputy directors in Industrial ministries. The paper listed most of the expelled people As former holders of positions indicating they had also been fired from their jobs. Those expelled included Ozjasz Szechter father of Adam Mich Nik one of the students whose expulsion from Warsaw University last month set off three Days of clashes Between police and Stu dents. He was accused of taking an anti party anti socialist political  he is jewish. Adam Bromberg fired As director of the scientific publishing House was expelled for Lack of political supervision and Lack of ideological control of the pub Lishing House. The publishing House came under fire several weeks ago. In formed sources said about 140 of the staff were fired because of an article on concentration amps which claimed that most of those who were killed in the were jewish. A recent article in the Trad Union paper Glos Pracy said that of 5.4 million poles killed in concentration Camps 2.7 million were jewish. However it said about 4.7 Mil lion soviet prisoners of War also died in the Camps a tragic track trick tops 9cm All Kansas City Kan. A the car of Jack p. Pyle a Chi Cago magician stalled on rail Road tracks and three patrolmen tried to help. They failed to Flag a freight train in time and the car was knocked end Over end scatter ing trick cards and other magi Cian s props. Pyle pulled an unharmed White Rabbit out of a Black Case in the wreckage. Fact it said is ignored  also hit by the expulsions was Wilhelm Strasser a former stalinist fired As a censor recently and accused of allowing the concentration Camp article to appear. He is jewish and a former pre-1956 director of the polish news Agency Pap. In the Industrial Field the Fol lowing also were expelled the director of the Institute of build Ings technique a departmental director in the ministry of Light Industry a director and Deputy director in the committee for problems of Small Industry a Deputy departmental director inthe ministry of building Materi als and a former Deputy director in the electronics Institute. A former departmental director in the ministry of health a director in the prosecutor general office the former chief of the chancellery of parliament an state Council and the head of the Asiatic Section of Institute for International affairs also were expelled Tribuna Ludu said  
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