European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday april 25, so Premier to flames Fui faction9 Chou reveals chaos sabotage during 1967 Tokyo a Premier Chou Enlal has revealed that because of chaos and sabotage stirred up by backers of president Liu Shao Chi communist China failed to achieve its Industrial and communications goals last  69-year-old chinese Leader made this candid admission in a feb. 2 speech before 10,000 person from Industry communications finance Trade agriculture and forestry sectors in peking. A account of the rally carried in a Canton Publica Tion was seen in translation Here  the Field of Industry and communications Chou said after outlining the disruptive activities of the Liu faction the above mentioned influence was Felt. A summing up of last year s results show that the planned targets had not been realized and output figures for Many products were lower than those of 1966. In the whole of last year the chaos created bythe enemy could not but affect our Industrial and communications sectors. Armed fights occurred factory and mining equipment was damaged and stoppages of work or slowdowns were  he said this was the Price of carrying the maoist great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end a Price he compared to the Cost of defeat ing the nationalists in the chinese civil War and to fighting the korean War. As usual he gave no Concrete figures. Chou said the failure in Industry and communications occurred despite bumper harvests in 21 provinces cities and autonomous regions. Last year at a key moment during our struggle Between the two lines Liu versus Mao tse Tung a struggle against the capitalist readers the capitalist renders were not reconciled to in,., and refused to withdraw from the Slu 2 history he said. Tkv w bad people utilized and enemy spies and agents created  this resulted in factionalism he continued and a hesitancy of the cadres the Straw Bosses of communism to com Over to Mao s Side. In such a Detour and twists and turns product an Adverse effect on production at the Lime Chou s statement was the first disclosure by atop Leader that All did not go according to plan in 1307. Chou also said that the cultural revolution Mao Spurge of his opponents wih perhaps last three years but that it wiil Cost less than the civil War or the korean War. He added the further ability that it might end in 1969. Rusk bearing Brunt of criticism is playing of Vietnam War during campaigns deadly game los Angeles a John Jones had trouble getting to sleep on thursday night. He knew Friday would be a Long Day so he took one of his wife sleeping pills. He woke up on Friday witha cold and used nose drops. On the Way to work he started coughing and bought some Throat  mid afternoon Jones still Felt under the weather. He tried fellow worker s multipurpose flu  night before dinner he popped a diet Pill in his  dinner he chewed a Tab Jet to feed his  Jones and his wife went to a party. They h a d a few drinks and Jones started feeling better. He readily agreed when Friend suggested an Early morning fishing  water was Choppy but Jones foresighted Host had motion sickness pills Handy. By mid morning on saturday Jones was exhausted. He had a few Beers with lunch to perk him up for the drive Home. On the drive Home Jones went to sleep on the freeway.  postmortem showed Jones was not drunk. Instead he had taken an overdose of drugs. Jones death was an Accident not suicide. Like most accidents it could have been  people died need Lessly in drug related accidents in los Angeles county in a re cent two year period 1965-66,the latest years for which Fig ures Are available from the Coroner. Or. Edward s. Brady associate Dean of the University of German Levy Southern California s school of pharmacy who outlined John Jones fictional Case history Inan interview says the same thing could happen to anyone not aware of the increasing sophistication and Potency of modern drugs. People assign a single effect to a drug he said. They Don t realize that sleeping pills Tran Quiliz ers ulcer tablets colds and flu remedies motion sick Ness pills and alcohol All con Tain drugs that can be danger Ous in combinations. Taken singly none of thesis harmful. But it is easy in a single Day to take a Combina Tion of readily available drugs that can add up to an  Are trying to learn what drugs interact with others an what the effect will be in differ ent types of  s a slow process and it is complicated by the fact that new drugs Are coming out All the time and today s drus Are not Pressante or stimulants. He added that we have known for some time that Alco hol and barbiturates Are a dangerous combination. The effect of alcohol and sleeping pills to Gether is More than twice that of either taken singly. But you can get illness or even death from mixing liquor with a number of Over the coun Ter non prescription drugs or even from mixing them  Brady said he was citing Alco hol Only because it is so commonly used and thus More Likely to be taken with other drugs not generally known to be depressants or stimulants. By Elizabeth Wharton Washington up Dean Rusk who is not a candidate for anything except eventual retire ment to a Job which pays More for doing less is emerging As dominant figure in the Early stages of the . Presidential Campaign. With president Johnson withdrawal from the race it is the phlegmatic Secretary of state who is bearing the Brunt of oratorical criticism of administration foreign policies particularly in Vietnam. Democratic candidate  Mccarthy has called for his replacement on the ground that the sincerity of . Peace efforts will be doubted so Long Ashe hawkish Rusk remains in control of the state department. He suggested appointing Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield but the idea horrified Mansfield who said he would t take the Job under any Circum stances seen unseen or Munfor  another democratic candidate sen. Robert f. Kennedy has re fused to endorse the Call for Ucac Rusk and soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Secretary of state on the spot Rusk s resignation with a lofty i Don t Deal in personalities statement. But he too has been sharply if indirectly critical of the Secretary s handling of the cur rent bickering Over a site for preliminary talks with Hanoi. Undeclared candidate Huber Humphrey the vice president has not entered the discussion about Rusk. Presumably he would support the Secretary in his role As advocate of administration policy. And Republican front runner Richard m. Nixon has called for a moratorium on debate about Vietnam while negotiations Are underway. Some of Nixon s critics Are unkind enough to suggest the proposal was made primarily be cause he is still undecided about what position to take on Vietnam and a moratorium would delay the necessity for doing so. What Ever the reason it has removed Nixon from the present argue  almost disappeared As a Campaign Issue in the Days after the president s new peace offer and Hanoi s acceptance of preliminary talks. But the intervening three weeks of haggling Over where the talks should be held has not Only brought it again to the fore of political conversation wit indicates that unless genuine Progress is mule it cannot counted out As an Issue in me presidential  Long As it is an Issue Rusk will be an Issue. Tax hire bites retirees Darmstadt Germany is a Side effect of the 1968 German added value t a x Mehrwerth Steuer has further dented the pocketbook of . Military retirees shopping in yes and commissary stores in  German customs office Here confirmed that West Ger Many has increased the tax from 15 to 19 per cent to be paid by american military retired persons purchasing in Exchange Sand commissaries. The in creased tax according to Ger Man officials took effect the first of the year at the same time the West German added value tax replaced the old turn Over  the turnover tax a 4 per cent Levy was collected on every transaction which could add up to 15 per cent by the time a product reached he con  new system figures the tax Load would always be exactly 10 per cent on the increased value. But some merchants have been adding the new tax without first deducting the old. Utilities Bills also went up for americans living on the Economy. Tax on electricity Gas and water was formerly Between 1.5 and 2.5 per cent. Now it is the full 10 per cent. Common Market goods sold by the yes Are exempt from the added value tax under Tariff agreements and need not be declared by retirees. Deputy european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col. R. 8. Michael jr., a of. Mert Proctor. To. Elmer d. Frank. Product Ion Henry 8, by skin. 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