European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi stars and stripes saturday Moy 4, first terrorist act since v Saigon up Viet Cong terrorists parked a taxi full of Plosives next to the television station Fri Day and ripped the multimillion Dollar Complex in a blast that killed three vietnamese an wounded about 30 people including five was the first major communist terrorist act in the capital since the Viet Cong tet invasion of the cities in february. The explosion destroyed a near by Saigon University building housing offices of the world University services National com Mittee. The blast heavily dam aged several television buildings and collapsed the roof of a studio where an american woman was interviewing a Uso woman. both women escaped but three vietnamese civilians. Cau flit in the blast were wiled. Bleeding and bruised people rushed from the two year old television com plex while smoke shot 200 feet above the . Armed forces Viet Nam Avn television network which had just aired the 1 , returned to the air 15 min utes after the blast .,-., up Btty blasted Blue and yellow taxi a ambulance a few carry to away the wounded. ,.ji Pat Krause an Avn perform or said she was interviewing Indus of official when the roof just fell in on Bernice Alexander Uso director at Chu Lai said the roof just started Fulling sub Rescue data offered by the . Washington up . Navy is willing to make a submarine Rescue service Avail Able to any country that asks for it including communist nations officials said Friday. In a move toward International cooperation which so far has gone almost unnoticed the United states has offered the world s navies technical data on How they could modify their sub Marine hatches to fit a . Res Cue system now being developed. This would enable . Under sea Rescue vessels the first of which is to begin trials in 1969 to recover Crews of foreign As we As american submarine which become disabled on the Ocean Bottom. The offer was a last minute in Sert in a speech by Navy Secre tary Paul r. Ignatius in Hono Lulu april 26. Ignatius said inter ested countries could pick up through diplomatic channels a . Technical document on modifications they would have to make on their subs. At last report no inquiries had been received. Ignatius said nothing about which countries would be Eligi ble. . Officials have since con firmed that the offer is open to All including the soviet Union and communist China. But no one has much expectation the russians or chinese will request . Assistance. Hyhus courier knows value of charmed seat9 by John Reese staff writer Frankfurt is Thom As w. Taylor who does a great Deal of commercial flying will be a perennial candidate for the right front window seat of every plane he rides in from now , a 36-year-old Diplo Matic courier was one of six survivors of a Jet crash near Windhoek South West Africa april 20, which took the lives of 122 is stopping Here for two Days in route to the unite states from Johannesburg. On his flight from South Africa reoccupied the right front window his 10 years with the state department Taylor has flow about 2 million mile s and will Fly Many More. He plans to take the charmed seat whenever it is available or one close to said the passengers had no warning of the crash which came shortly after Takeoff from Windhoek in route to Luanda Angola. There was a very hard bump said Taylor. Then there was a roaring ripping sound and brightly flashing lights. I remember thinking that i believe we had crashed. The plane broke into several parts and the Small part in which i and the other five survivors were was the Only part that did not Burn As far As could Tell. We were about 200 Yards away from the nearest other Section of the wrecked plane. I was still buckled into my seat which had pulled Loose from the floor like most of theother seats. Another Man also still strapped into his seat Wason top of me. I asked him if he could move a Little so t could get out. I could hear people moaning All around me. "1 managed to get out of the wreckage but i had lost one shoe and the area where we crashed was strewn with thorns making it very painful to walkabout. Thomas w. Taylor is Man Best go photographer Columbia to. Up spec. 5 Victor a. Damon of european stars and stripes an four other cameramen were Hon ored Here thursday at the 59thannual awards presentation by the University of Missouri school of journalism. Damon who covers assign ments for stars and stripes at Darmstadt Germany was named military photographer of the year in the journalism school s 1968 Competition. Hiromichi mine a japanese born photographer for up who was killed last March in a land mine explosion placed second in Competition for the 25th annual spot news picture of the year category. Accepting the award for mine was Harold Blumenfeld the new York up executive picture editor. Mine s award winning photo graph showed a . Cargo plane breaking up in midair after twas struck by an american artillery Shell in honoured were Rick Mer Ron associated press spot new picture of the year Thomas r. Smith National geographic Pic Ture editor of the year Gary Settle Chicago daily news newspaper photographer of the year. I did what i could to comfor the living. I think All but us six were dead in the first fire was terrible. The first help to arrive was two Farmers in a jeep. They had no first Aid equipment and did not want to move the injured but they did what they could tomake them comfortable until the ambulances and doctor arrived from Windhoek a Little Taylor suffered a Chest injury a dislocated thumb a broken front tooth and numerous Small cuts and bruises. During his press interview Here Friday reappeared fresh and in no pain. He was discharged from wind Hoek Hospital april 25. Shortly after leaving the hos Pital he flew to Johannesburg occupying the right front win Dow seat. Taylor testified before a Boardo inquiry but said he had no idea what caused the crash an had been asked not to discuss his testimony. Taylor also said he had no knowledge of a number of snakes some still alive founding the charred wreckage of the plane. The associated press re ported officials theorized that the reptiles had been brought aboard the plane by one of the victims prof. Radovanovic Asnake fancier who had been Given the snakes by local said that Only one other passenger an englishman named Derbyshire had escaped serious injury. He suffered sprained Back Muscles. Taylor who is unmarried plans to Fly to Washington Sun Day where he will see his parents. They Are coming from Tahlequah okla., their Home town to meet him. He will take the right front window seat. Opera director honoured London a Georg Solti,55, hungarian born director of the Convent Garden opera com Pany for the past seven years has been made an honorary com Mander of the order of the Brit ish Empire for his services to British music. I can no longer Bear this Larkspur Calif. Up Elizabeth r. Blodgett is a teacher of physical education. She weighs 212 pounds and there by hangs a tragedy. Miss Blodgett 41, was fired by her school Superior at red w o o d High school Donald reps who said her excess weight made her a living hypocrisy of the subject she is miss Blodgett who said her weight was due to a thyroid condition and not he fault appealed the decision fihe demanded a hearing by state officials. It was Blodgett was due to testify thursday. Instead she d i a appeared and left a despondent note behind. I can no longer Bear this constant Strain it said. I am a very Ordinary human just in t sufficient to order a person to lose weight an voila it is Marin county sheriff s d e p duties immediately initiated a statewide search for the woman. A Check of her Home in the sea coast town of Marshall turned up the note to her attorney a. Leonard Bjorklund. Bjorklund said he became very concerned and notified sheriff s deputies who discovered her car missing along with one of her said he consulted miss Blodgett s doctor about the note and they agreed it was despondent in tone but no necessarily suggestive of suicide. The sheriff s All Points bulletin had mentioned possible suicidal miss Blodgett s note also said it becomes Clear that there is to be Little or no consideration Given to the thyroid problem of such indefinite she contended that a thyroid condition was the cause of her being overweight. She had been under the care of or. Wendell ii. Butler who prescribed daily doses of thyroid extract. She had dropped in weight from 253 to 212pounds since beginning the treat ment. Miss Blodgett s note added "1am a human being with consider Able skill and a rapport in my teaching ability with Young people but i do not round us. 1 was Sodin t know what to do the Complex houses the in Reese talc Ujj tation and he main outlet he . Military network built in 1m6"by the government. The blast did not destroy fun studios but Appan hit hardest at the uni building next to the fenced station Complex. An attractive Vic Lauese actress Cam Thuy ran fro. A blasted building her left covered with blood. I know what happened " seethe station is near Maat f South vietnamese government f ministry buildings and was f american project no one . It became the key Stow $ of a nationwide television system that made Batman fans of Viet namese and for the first know time allowed soldiers virtually on the Battlefield to watch Tele vision. A favorite of the Arneri ican troops Here is combat series about gis in Europe la world War n. In the air War . Navy pilots reported the Downing 4 a soviet built m1g21 Jet fight Erin a dogfight the pilots reported a Navy a phantom Jet protecting Amer can ships and planes in the Gull of Tonkin shot Down tin Delta winged Mig thursday. Twas the first enemy Jet downed by american pilots since feb h. ,.the f4 was flying from the Carrier Ranger. The Mig Pil parachuted into the Gulf and . Ships and helicopters launched 1an immediate search and resaw \ Dong a on South Viet Nam s Northern Frontier us marries beat Back a Savage North vietnamese attack that Cost the marines a heavy toll in casualties . Spokesmen re ported. V the marines reported 24 killed and 146 wounded in defending As outpost one of the key Baskin the Allied string of defences along the demilitarized zone. Car fatally injures spec. 4 at Neu him Neu Ulm Germany Sis a 19-year-old s e v e n i h army troops Soldier was killed lat wednesday when he was struck by an automobile near the Mai Gate of Wiley Barracks Here. Spec. 4 Robert c. Moreaux of co a 1st signal in was taken to the 2nd medical Dot dispensary and was pronounced dead 20 minutes after the Soldier is survived by Nis father Theodore Moreaux of Hayes la weather . 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