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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes lbs says he won t be Campaign bystander Washington up pres ident Johnson thursday ruled out being an uninterested bystander in the coming election Campaign because the record of this administration must be  to those present at a closed meeting of aides to democratic congressmen John son also said that he planned to teach at the University of Texas when he leaves the White  paid a nostalgic visit eludes try at assassination continue cd from Page statement that the gunman and his accomplices had been neutralized there were indications that someone May have gotten  were set up at All exits from the capital and every Cai leaving the City was thoroughly searched by heavily armed police. Identities of a 11 Drivers and passengers we retaken Down and verified. Unofficial sources said the would be Assassin or assassins had been dressed in police uni forms. An official version of the Mur Der attempt gave the following account of the incident Boum Dienne was in the presidential car and was leaving the government Palace Early in the afternoon after a Cabinet meet ing. After driving several Hun dred Yards the car was hailed by a child recognized by Bou Jedienne to be the son of a revolutionary  the car stopped for a moment while the president spoke to the child then continued Down the Street. The slow moving vehicle was approached a few moment Slater by an individual armed with a machine pistol. He opened fire on the  the car accelerated while members of the Security service opened fire to neutralize the gun Man and his accomplices. An investigation is in Progress the statement concluded. U was not immediately know who was behind the attempt to murder the algerian president or How Many persons took part in it. A heavy guard was immediately thrown up around the Palace. This was the second attempt inless than three months to remove Boum Dienne by Force. Last Jan uary a military coup aimed at Boum Dienne s overthrow was crushed in violent fighting South of the capital City. Sources said the machine gunfire was believed to have come from a Tunnel near the University of Algiers a few Hundred Yards from the government Palace. An other source said shots came from the forum a traditional meeting place in Central Algiers near the Palace. Witnesses told newsmen the heard what sounded like pistol shots just before the machine gunfire rang out. The area around the forum now called the place d Frique was filled with lunch hour Strol lers and women with children. Police blocked off some streets but did not Stop Auto or Pedes Trian traffic on the main avenues below the Hillside Palace. Boum Dienne 43, came to Power june 19, 1965, when he overthrew his predecessor in of fice Ahmed Ben Bella Algeria s first president after gaining in dependence from France in 1962. To the Cannon House office building on Capitol Hill for a meeting of the aides who Are members of a so called  it was 35 years ago that Johnson then Secretary to Texas congressman was elected head of a similar organization of aides who called their group the Little  have a crucial election ahead of us this year Johnson told the group thursday. Yoxall know about my announce ment not to run again but this does not mean that i am going to be an uninterested  when Johnson announced March 31 that he would not to a candidate for reelection he said he Felt the president should not become involved in personal partisan politics. White House staff members have since said this did no mean Johnson would remove himself entirely from the political Arena but his state ment thursday was the first indication by the president he would become involved in the election Campaign. It s the record of this administration that is to be defended Johnson said. Then he listed the legislative achieve ments of his administration in the past four years in civil rights poverty and education. Johnson alluded almost Ca exas where i will Short. To did will Beon the University o Campus. U.s., Hanoi fail to agree on continued from Page 1 sent to North Vietnam through the . Embassy in Laos earlier this week went beyond the Mere request for some for Mal reply to the american proposals of 15 possible Sites for the talks. Hanoi thus far has rejected the american proposals Only in propaganda broadcasts and no through diplomatic channels. The new american note Accord ing to these officials suggested a mechanism for breaking the deadlock Over selection of place for the talks. It would involve use of third party service sin arriving at a place agreeable to both adversaries. Meanwhile the state depart ment offered no immediate com ment on reports from Warsaw that Poland has asked several countries to urge the unite states to meet with Hanoi representatives in Warsaw on the Vietnam War. The Warsaw reports said that the polish foreign ministry had called on the ambassadors of Switzerland Japan Britain Bel Guim Italy France and possibly those of other countries to urge their governments to bring pres sure on Washington to agree on Warsaw As the place for the Hanoi Washington ,polish argument in the in formal talks with the ambassadors informed sources in War saw said was that if the unite states can talk to China in War saw Why not with North Viet Nam american chinese contacts in Warsaw have been going on for nearly 10 years. The american suggestion thai third party should help n 7hchoice of the site for the Billera Washington Hanoi talks led immediately to speculation that  Secretary general u Thant s repeated suggestions concerning pans As the place for the talks May be connected with the latest american move. Thant said Only wednesday that he thought either Warsaw or Paris a Good place for the initial contacts Between the two parties in the Vietnam War. Mart higher trading brisk new York a the Stock Market closed higher thursday in Active trading. Prices were buoyed from the Start by Hopes of Progress toward agreement on a site for peace talks with North Vietnam. The Early strength waned some Hatas nothing Concrete developed but the list still remained wellhead. Brokers were pleased that the Market was Able to remain Well on the upside on a thursday normally a Day of precautionary Selling in Advance of the week end. Among specially situated is sues which showed strength were Mcdonnell Douglas Crucible steel and Newport news ship building. Schenley and Lockheed were weak. The Dow Jones Industrial aver age gained 7.11 at 905.57. Volume was 14.43 million shares compared with 14.81 Mil lion wednesday. Goldberg resigns Washington up presi Dent Johnson announced thurs Day the resignation of Arthu Goldberg As the . Representative to the United nations. Goldberg will be succeeded by George Ball former under Secretary of state. The president made the announcement at an informal news conference in his office. He said he accepted the Resig nation with regret after Goldberg expressed a desire to leave his Ostion for personal  Goldberg a 59-year-old native of Chicago was the first Secre tary of labor under president John f. Kennedy and an associate Justice of the supreme court from 1962 to 1965. He left the court to take the . Position. Prince  Confer Washington a Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands conferred with Secretary of state Dean Rusk wednesday during a private visit to Washington. March on Bonn German left promises More violence Force by John Krueger staff writer Frankfurt is More violence was promised Germany thursday by two local leaders of the Radical German socialist Stu Dent league ads of Rud Dutschke. Violence gains us enormous support avowed 31-year-old Frankfurt University sociology student Dietrich Wetzel address ing the Frankfurt press club along with Guenter Amendt 28, also studying sociology. A critical audience of .army, air Force and consular representatives attending a press luncheon at the Terrace club Here with German and american newsmen heard Wetzel confidently predict that the ads will become a political  weak voice the to dishy groomed pair declared that violence is Neces sary to make the league is still rather weak and ineffective voice heard. They announced March on the West German parliament in Bonn May 11. They admitted however that the Only political Chance to eventually win a majority would be by enlightenment once they had their own newspapers. We can t win Amendt said while there is still the fascist mentality of our parents. But Pecan still win Over the youth. They Are truly democratic. The older ones Only want a  Wetzel accused the publications of publisher Axel Springer target of easter rioting of conducting a pogrom against minority late sports Monza Italy a Paul Hawkins and David Hobbs of Britain in a Ford gt40, won the 1,000 Kilometre m o n z Auto race Here thursday. Sec Ond was a porsche prototype driven by the German team of tolf Stemmelen and Jochen Neerbasch. Third was an Alpine Renault driven by Frenchman Patrick de Puller. Groups such As the ads. We want to be pacifists claimed Amendt during the sometimes heated question and answer period and have a society where violence is not important but we will actively sup port All who fight against  according to the two student league spokesmen this Means supplying weapons to the Vietcong. Their anti american Atti tude also extends they said to rejecting american military help under any circumstances. Asked if they would favor an East Ger Man takeover of West Germany Wetzel and Amendt said they would fight any attempt of the East germans to occupy the West without the consensus of the West  erase defeats Nasser urges Cairo a president Gamal Abdel Nasser called upon egyptians thursday night to mobilize for decisive Battle against Israel to erase and avenge the defeats of last summer. In a hard hitting sometimes rambling speech to a picked audience of students the egyptian president Drew a wave of applause when he demanded Are we ready to stand up and fight the. President said people will give their answer in the May 2 referendum on his proposed constitutional changes and he added to continued applause i know that the people Are  Nasser declared that Egypt will not negotiate with Israel for a solution of the Middle Eastern i crisis As israelis have been de manding. He said this would be i tantamount to surrender to is-1raeli ambitions for an eventual Empire stretching from the euphrates to the Nile. Closing . 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