European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 2, 1968 gis wipe out n. Viet battalion Saigon up . Para troopers wednesday wiped out a North vietnamese battalion an american officers said they May have saved the City of Hue froma second invasion. The americans counted 277enemy bodies in the ruins of Phuoc yen. A Village five mile Northwest of Hue and captured 95 North vietnamese. Man were caught hiding in a River and breathing through hollow  Victory at Phuoc yen and another paratrooper fight near by were credited by american officers with probably blocking North vietnamese May Day drive against Hue the former Imperial capital. The fighting began monday and ended wednesday on the fringes of a 12-Day-old Allied sweep into the a Shau Valley the key base for enemy drive sin South Vietnam s Northern provinces. Village flattened Phuoc yen was virtually flattened. About 100 North Viet namese made an escape charge from the ruins at Dawn wednes Day and about a dozen got  dozen died in the charge and the rest stumbled Back into the soldering Village where the americans went in forthe kill. In other action. . Air cavalrymen engaged North Vietnam Ese forces in three Battle tuesday in Quang Tri province killing 203. The fighting raged while 2.000south vietnamese troops Cut off North Vietnam s key Supply Linein the a Shau Valley and with stood an enemy ambush on Jungle sheathed Road. The South vietnamese had been flown by helicopter into the enemy Strong hold. In the air War . B52bombers flew five missions tuesday night and wednesday morning against enemy positions in the Central Highlands Region near Korntum. . Planes also flew several strikes against the North vietnamese seaport area around Vinh. In another development Mili tary sources in Saigon said wednesday that the . Air Force has restricted its super sonic f111a to training flight sin Thailand. They said the five controversial $6-million swing Wing Jet planes had remained in the area of their base for the past five Days. Since the loss of the thirdf111a on april 22, the planes have been sent Over North Viet Nam on Only one Day april 25, according to a . Spokesman. The spokesman told newsmen that at that time the f111a had flown no combat missions and no reconnaissance missions since april 25, but he insisted the Columbia police students clash plane is not  sources said wednesday however that fill a pilots had been making proficiency flights and practising takeoffs an landings at Takli air base. Spokesmen reported that the third fill a believed to have crashed Over Thailand is still missing along with its Crew. Fighter so roars out of Denver base Devyver up f100 Jet fighters and Chi Jet transport planes their pilots and immedi ate support ground Crews roared out of Buckley Field near Den ver tuesday for an unannounced destination. Officials of the 120th tactical fighter so refused to give the destination of the planes or the number of men involved. But it was believed to be about half of the 900-Man Colorado air National guard unit called up jan.27 during the Pueblo crisis. For Security reasons the air Force does not discuss details of Large aircraft movements but Pentagon spokesman said no air additions for Korea Are planned at this time. As the planes screamed of the runways More than 100 wives and children issued generally dry eyed goodbye to the men. But mrs. Maria  alone on a red re straining line near the Row of jets wiped away several tears As she watched her husband capt. Thomas Emmett prepare his plane for Takeoff. Support Cornel i collapses Dies land Stuffl Germany is a seventh army support come Soldier who arrived in German sunday died Here of head in juries after he collapsed while standing a morning formation monday at the 21st replacement ten in Frankfurt. Staff sgt. Lee r. Miller 41.being assigned to the 62nd my det at f u e r t a was being processed at the Usa eur re placement depot when he col lapsed and struck his head. When it was discovered a Frankfurt s general Hospital that Miller had suffered brain damage and required neurosurgery he was flown to the 2ndgeneral Hospital Here where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Miller s widow Ellen lives i Indianapolis. New York up night stick wielding police clashed with students hurling rocks Stcolumbia University wednesday As student faculty strike Leader opened Independent liberated classes to compensate for the unprecedented total shutdown of the University. The clash took place when crowd of 150 students who had been attending Columbia s main toward the Gate militant h. Rap a rally i Plaza surged to hear Blac Brown Jesse Gray negro rent strike Leader and Charles Kenyatta chief of Harlem s Mau Mau militants speak in the Street outside to 300 strike sympathizers from Harlem. Police moved in apparently ouster two new York policewomen Are assisted in re moving u Columbia cold from one of the five University build Ings that were cleared of rebels tuesday. Up photo House panel oks in spending Washington up the House appropriations committee wednesday approved a $22-Bil-lion Economy plan recommended by the White House and designed to free president Johnson s Long stalled tax boost. Under the plan Johnson year Yould be Cut $4 billion. New spending plans for the new fiscal appropriations would be Cut $10 hour s labor buys most work pays off Best in . New York up the Amer ican labor Magazine reported tuesday that the rewards of working in the United states Are by far the highest of any econ omy in the  Magazine said the conclusion was based on a study of the United states Russia Japan Britain France West Germany Argentina South Africa Canada and Australia. The study was based on the number of hours worker must work to buy a Given item it  United states leads the world with an average hourly wage of $2.74. It takes 18 minutes of work to earn a Pound of but Ter for the worker with this hourly wage compared to 20 minute sin Britain 57 minutes in West Germany 70 minutes in France,84 minutes in Japan and 163 minutes in the soviet  Magazine said the average soviet family still subsists largely on cabbage soup Black bread and Tea less than the diet serve Din american prisons. Soviet Law allows a maximum living space per person of 93 Square feet whereas in the average american Home the individual has 420 Square feet of living space it said. Billion and $5 billion in previous appropriations would be re  package was Laid before the committee by top administration officials at a closed ses Sion. It was put together at White House meeting tuesday night. Republicans denounced the plan As inadequate and offered a proposal to Cut spending by 6billion and appropriations by $14 billion and to rescind $8 billion in earlier appropriations. The Republican plan was rejected. The committee s action was move to break the logjam Over taxes and  George ii. Mahon d-tex., told newsmen i believes a result of this expression our action will tend to break the deadlock and Tho spending cuts will become part of the pending tax Bill. The plan will be submitted tothe conference considering pres ident Johnson s $10 billion income tax increase proposal. To open a path and fist ,.,t1j broke out. Heads of Bot students and police were bloodied and there were several arrests. Eyewitnesses said violence erupted when a student hit a patrolman rapidly three time sin the face knocking him in his Knees. The officer caught the student by the Throat and the fighting became general the demonstrators chanted fascist cops must go hut Mark Rudd 20 year old pres ident of the leftist students for a democratic society ads shouted through a megaphone Stop we do not have the strength or Power to Challenge the cops Rudd s organi/ation1 has spearheaded the student protest of Columbia s alleged racial and pro War policies which began april 23. Ask resignations the students allowed Only professors who sympathies with the rebellion to teach liberated classes at nearby Riverside Church and on the Cam pus lawns. They continued to Call for the resignation of University president Grayson Kirk and other administration officials. Speaker after speaker at rally in the Campus theater denounced Kirk for calling in More than 1,000 police Early tuesday to Clear sit ins out of five build Ings they had occupied since last week. Some 720 students an sympathizers were arrested on criminal trespass charges and148 persons were injured. Student body solid j. Michael Nichols. Vic president of the University s student Council said that the students involved in a Campus wide strike called tuesday in flit Are not necessarily the same ones who were striking  he said the use of police to break up the sit ins had solidified the student body. Nichols displayed a petition signed by 80 elected student leaders calling for Kirk resignation dropping of charges against arrested students am Nesty for the sit ins and the turning Over to the students of the names of trustees who rave permission for i olice intervention. The University closed Dow completely wednesday As a Day of reflection so that Al parties concerned could reason together about the future of the 27,500-Studenl institution. We can t say whether or no the University will reopen Ruht now a spokesman said wednesday afternoon. Weather . Temperatures m l 66 38 Albany 74 43 Albuquerque 79 44 Amarillo 75 48 Atlanta 67 64 Atlantic City 79 46 Bluml Norham St 43 Dimarck 83 60 Bolia 60 40 Doit on 64 44 Buffalo 76 41 Cap a 68 60 Cal Ciao 71 49 Cincinnati 68 46 Cleveland 75 37 Denver 62 4-4 Dos Monnet 66 47 Detroit 46 Duluth 80 46 Elpa of 48 25 Fairbank 83 60 Fargo 77 46 fort Worth 66 72 Honolulu 82 58 Houston 71 61  81 66 Jacksonville 83 64  City 71 5 lot Angl to h l 74 60 Loul Tville 80 53 Mumphu 87 74 Miami  61 41 Milwaukee 86 42 .  78 62 new or Caiu 63 44 new York 85 36 North Puu 81 44 Oklahoma c 57 4 Philadelphia h 69 Phoenix 60 43 plot Turah 38 Portland. M 61 50 Portland. 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