European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the sta3s and stripes wednesday May a. Paris now the of idleness and continued from Page Tipasa Banks office buildings and shops produces depressing repetition. Almost every window and doorway bears the same rough scrawled sign Greve illimitee1 unlimited  usual hypnotic odor o waffles pancakes and Flower offered by Street vendors is polluted by the exhaust fumes fro cars and trucks jamming the roads and by the  cacophony of honking Horn drowns out Competition from the Birds. The grand old Dame of the Paris department stores Galer ies Lafayette is lit up but empty and silent. The latest ladies Spring hats suspended from the ceiling and seen Only through the huge windows look More like foes Zero in on de Gaulle in Assembly continued from Page ii sideling a move to enlist the backing of the French people for a wide and deep Reform oif Rench political and social institutions. The sources said he was thinking of consulting the nation possibly As Early As next month by Means of a referee  general May announce this move during a television broadcast to the countr that he has scheduled for Friday even ing. He held an emergency ses Sion of his Cabinet on  said he May reshuffle the government soon to eliminate some of the ministers who have come most directly underwire because of their handling of the recent student riots and the spreading wave of strikes. Throughout France tuesday City after City slowed toward a halt. In Bordeaux Brest Cler Mont Ferrand Lille Lyon Marseille Poitiers Rennes an Toulouse the situation was the same or similar to that in Paris. Ports shut Dow most of the country s ports Bordeaux Brest Dunkirk Lori ent be Havre Marseille were shut tight by strikes of Dock workers seamen and their offi  few planes flew into Lebourget the last All port operating but at noon it shut Down. Even France s big nuclear plants Marcoules and Pierre Latte were touched. The strike was total at Marcoules partial at  guards along the italian Border were on strike and travellers crossed freely Back and  Short the authoritative evening newspaper be Monde said editorially France had again become the sick Man  the newspaper in an article by its political editor called for Early National elections because it said the people Are now the sole remaining arbiter of the crisis. Museum pieces than the objector pushing and shoving shoppers. Outside striking workers an those who could not find the Means to get to their jobs Taveon Street Corners. They gaze at ominous thick Black newspaper headlines and mumble insults about president Charles Degaulle. Housewives desert their traditional neighbourhood shops for the Long walk to scattered super markets and fill their baskets with packaged food they May not be Able to use up for months. In one fashionable District manager reports. He sold 250 pounds of sugar in a Day an another offers the astounding statistic that a ton of Rice Dis appeared from the shelves in half an hour. Motorists wait for hours Tostock their tanks and extra cans with gasoline but some Are caught unprepared in the traffic jams. An elderly woman in the Middle of a grand Boulevard Abandons her stalled car an moans to another Driver making no Progress i am completely dry. 1 Don t know How i can get  through the traffic Are unlikely riders of bicycles White Collar workers secretaries and executives who can find soother Way to get around. In the Early morning and a dinnertime the pedestrian traffic is almost As congested As peo ple Brush by each other Glanc ing at the closed Iron Gates of subway stations. Bank managers Man the Cashiers windows themselves. Hav ing Long since turned away their Normal customers they life up dwindling Bank reserves to Cash the checks of their own striking employees whom they let in one or two at a time. While they wait the Bank Mes sengers and clerks on strike argue about just what they want Power for the unions a part in the life of the  tourists in fashionable hotels Wash their own shirts and under Wear in the sink because the laundry service is suspended. At the american express of fice they line up for precious stats on sightseeing buses converted into evacuation coaches to Brussels Geneva or Barcelona a Carefree euro hns the exits from Pari jammed with Art photographs of beachfront of strike Gans instead of meals. But the sidewalk cafes arc Stin full and the red wine 8 2 Par s is still Paris even i i week you would t want a s or live there. In French crisis boosts Gold Price London a the French political crisis helped boost the Price of Gold to a new Peak on the London free Market tuesday further undermining Confidence in the world s paper Money. After setting the record the Price of Gold fell Back for the first time in a week s wave of Gold buying. But dealers said that by itself the drop was unlikely to halt the recent Steep climb. Speculators also sent the Price of Silver to record Levels Here and in Paris again reflecting alack of Confidence in paper currencies. The shaky British p o u dropped to a new Low on the for eign Exchange Market before staging a slight recovery. London s five major Bullion dealers meet twice a Day to bal Ance Supply against demand an fix a Gold Price for the free mar Ket. At the morning fixing it was$42.60 an ounce the highest since the free Market was set up after the world monetary crisis in  the afternoon fixing it was Down to $42.40 an ounce As some speculators took profits. This Price was still up 20 cents on the handful few awol troopers seek political Asylum Washington up the defense department told con Gress tuesday More than 190,000servicemen have gone awol in the last two years but Only 282sought Refuge in foreign coun tries for political reasons. The figures were Given to Senate armed services subcommittee by Alfred b. Fitt assistant Secretary of defense for manpower. It is important. That we Allae aware of the overwhelming loyalty and steadfast Devotion to duty of All but a handful of our military men Fitt said. Absent Only hours most military personnel going awol were absent for Only a few hours or Days and their offences were considered minor Fitt said. Only about 60,000were gone More than 30 Days and initially classified a deserters and fewer than 500 of these were eventually convicted of desertion. Of the total number of 282reported to us As suspected of political motivation our info nation reveals Only 49 who Lave Given any positive Inclima Ion of such motivation. Of the 82, there were 101 who were aliens returning for the mos part to their country of  Fitt said a profile drawn froma Sample of All awol servicemen indicated 80 percent were in the lowest pay Grade 83 per cent in lower mental groups and 82 per cent had prior disciplinary  of those deserting to foreign countries 59 per cent were inthe lower two pay grades 58 per cent were in lower mental groups and 49 per cent had prior disciplinary records. Haiti. Continued from Page i along its Frontier with Haiti Fol lowing reports of the assault on its neighbor. Haiti said in a letter to than that foreign mercenaries sup porting former president Paul , were behind the at tack. Haitian exiles in Washington meanwhile said their comrades had captured Cap haitian the second largest City in the nation. They said they were broadcast ing radio appeals to the people to overthrow president Francoi Duvalier. Army reassignment s Gen will go to Vietnam Washington is the defense department tuesday announced the Transfer of three senior overseas army command ers it Gen. Frank t. Mildren cd of Vii corps in Stuttgart Germany it Gen William , cd of i Field Force in Vietnam kind it Gen. Harry h. Critz cd of i corps group i South Korea. Mildren will become Deputy cd , army Vietnam on aug. 1 to replace it.  Palmer. Rosson will become Directorj-5 in the office of the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon replacing vice adm. Nels c. Johnson no Date was Given forthe Transfer. Critz will replace it.  j. Lincoln cd for the 4th army when Lincoln retires. Neither replacements for Mil Dren Rosson and Critz nor the new assignments for Palmer and Johnson were announced. Day 90 cents on the week and?2.50 since last wednesday. Dealers said the key question was whether More supplies of Gold would be attracted to the Market. If not demand could again outstrip Supply and quickly Send Price up again. South Africa which produce some 70 per cent of the free world s Gold continues to keep its Supply off the Market in Hopes of a better Price. Speculators were understood Tobe holding their Gold on the the Ory that a series of political problems May weaken dollars and other currencies in terms of Gold. The French turmoil was the latest of these As the French looked for safety in Gold on the London and Zurich markets. Other factors include the american balance of payments difficulties the Strain on the Dol Lar from the Vietnam War that continues despite Paris peace talks and the delay in Congress on the . Tax Bill. Preston. Continued from Page l ent Post on the air Force Staffin Washington to vice commander in chief Safe effective on Senate confirmation. The Transfer of Gen. Brucek. Holloway from air Force vice chief of staff to commander in chief strategic air com Mand. It. Gen. Fred m. Dean from Deputy commander in chief . Strike come and Deputy com Mander in chief Middle East Southern Asia and Africa a Macdill air base fla., to com Mander Allied air forces South Ern Europe. It. Gen. Benjamin o. Davisjr., from commander 13th air Force Pacific air forces to Deputy commander in chief ,. Strike command and Deputy commander in chief Middle East Southern Asia and Africa. It Gen. John s. Hardy from commander Allied air forces Southern Europe to become com mandant of the armed forces Industrial College at it. Mcnair. With the exception of the trans Fer of Smith All the others will take place aug. 1. The Whitehouse nominations arc subject to Senate confirmation. French Viet role rejected by Harriman Paris up _ . Ambassador at Large Averell Harril Man conferred for half an hour with French president Charles de Gaulle  then rejected sue a Gest ions that France might Playa role in helping Washington and Hanoi reach Accord on Scal ing Down the Vietnam War. He told newsmen on his re-1turn to the . Embassy that he did not believe it would be proper for any other country to try to intervene to influence the present Paris talks. He said that they concerns matters Between the . And North Vietnam at the  talks were to resume wednesday morning. Reds see do Gau Lenorth Vietnam s chief envoy i Xuan Thuy like Harriman spent half hour with de Gaulle. He was accompanied by Hanoi s permanent Paris representative Mai Van  Harriman met with the i president the Hanoi delegation s chief spokesman Nguyen Thanh la told a news Confer ence that North Vietnam will give humanitarian treatment to captured . Pilots. He re iterated Hanoi s often repeated demand for unconditional ending of . Bombing and other acts of War against the North. But he refused to say whether the captured pilots would be re leased if the . Halts the bombing. ,. We know the principal Crimi nals Are those directing . Policy he said. Therefore Asfar As the pilots Are concerned we will give them humanitarian treatment. We have freed a cer Tain number so they could re join their  weather partly Cloudy to Cloudy with oct atonal ight rain. Little change thur Day. Frank Furt Heidelberg Hloch 63, Low 45. Temperature recorded tuesday get 4 am pin 69 84 Adana p 63 79 Atheni p m 63 Valano p 41 69 Berlin p 41 fit Frankfurt r 4 4 a pm 46 62 London p 45 01 Madrid p 43 69 Munich p 45 62 Prei Tolck p 61 60 Rome p 84 76 wheelus up partly Cloudy a rain. 2nd weather Wing ship continued to a. Arrived on the scene quickly a took 65 passengers aboard. A dutch Supply ship t in Llloyd picked up More. Helicopters carried eight per sons 17 Miles to a British of drilling Rig. Choppers also 1 tue women out of lifeboats to tuns i Fer them to Rescue vessel the Smith Lloyd threw aboard and linked up with in tugs to Tow the Blenheim. A noon the fire was under co the Blenheim Winch Uji nates with its sister ship Braemar on a 48-hour med sen line cruise Between of and Norway was " 1j British passengers and big a weians. It also was Ca i168 tons of freight Indus it new automobiles