European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday May 23, Viet Parley and Challenge to be Caulle two crises in Paris dan9t overlap a i Iiah Mau a an the in Fri of the Dele to act As if the strikers and they have a lot in common. Minh forced them out. Moby Carl Hartman Paris a the two crises coming to a head in Paris this Chilly month of May the Viet namese War and the Challenge to president Charles de Gaulle Are being kept far apart. Strikers unruly students an conferees Don t seem to r e c Cognize one another s worst student riots took place Only about three quarters of a mile from the hotel la Letia where the North Vietnam Ese peacemaking delegation was staying. But demonstrators gave it a wide berth and there was no sign that any of the Dele Gates saw them. Xua Thuy head of the Dele gation has now moved his party to a suburban stronghold of the French communist party. They spend most of their time mile from the latin Quarter behind Stone Walls topped with wooden fences and broken Glass. Averell Harriman and h i . Negotiators live at the hotel Crillon. This is on the other Side of the Seine River from the student District and the Bridges Are heavily guarded. It is near de Gaulle s Elysee Palace Thebes protected place in town. The conference site is on the same Side of the River. Both delegations do their Best the student revolt never existed. To do otherwise would be impolite to their Host de Gaulle already embarrassed by All the trouble while his distinguished guests Are in the few links Between the French Domestic Situa Tion and the conference Are the hundreds of foreign shuttle from one Story to the other As the news Vietnam conference meets Only at intervals of Udo or three Days and there is Little to re port about it Between the Lack of physical links Between the two crises they have a lot in Are deeply concerned in the conflict Between Genera Lions. Harriman 78, and Xuan Thuy 55, Are working on a warbling fought largely by soldiers who were not born when i started. American University students in actions admired and imitated by French youngsters helped put on the pressure that 1e d president Johnson to Delesca Labethe War and brought North Viet Nam to the conference has Long been involved with Vietnam. French men held Indochina until 1954, when the communist led Viet Minh forced out educated French As a secondhand look to France Vlf Bridge to the Western world de Gaulle and most of he challengers agree in . Policy in Vietnam. Thar what made Paris acceptable inthe North vietnamese is Ference site. Until a few weeks ago meetings and Demontra. Lions in France seemed to be devoted largely to Vietnam now the youngsters the Trade Union Sand the politicians have turned to Domestic affairs and have Little time for Southeast Asia communists keep gaining in Italy an a news analysis by Gerald Miller Rome a Italy s parliamentary election continued the one consistent trend in the country s postwar history an unbroken Rise in communist strength from the Start of the Republic two decades parties have gained and lost at various times. But the communists through five Post War National elections have no wavered. Their goal is to achieve enough strength to Force their Way into the government. The big unknown is How far the italian people Are willing to let the trend continue. There is no doubt that a significant portion of the electorate wants the communists to continue gaining. In 1948 the communists running w i t to the socialists accounted for 20 per cent of the total vote for the first postwar parliament. In 1953 the communist share Rose to22.6, in 1958 to 22.7, in 1963 to 25.3 and now to 26.9.this has occurred As Italy moved from the ruinous after math of fascism wartime destruction and postwar Depres Sion toward an evolving society of increasing wealth More social mobility and improved demo cratic methods. A great Many people in this country thank the communists for All these gains. In their View without the menacing presence of the biggest communist party in the West to keep the establishment in fear ital would not have made the spectacular Progress it has. For most who vote communist the party Means protest. It is the stick with which to beat the business Community and make the Christian democrats More amenable to demands for social and economic reforms. It May seem an irony that the reds should gain directly As the country gets Richer and More comfortable. But the prosperous Industrial working classes of the North regard their benefits As being directly due to the agita Tion and pressure the communist party exerts. These workers Are not the Only ones who think so. Some intellectuals students White Collar employees and Many others give their allegiance to the communists at the pole for the same reasons. This happens year after year in a consistent pattern even As membership in the party de Clines. The party won 8.5 million votes for the new chamber of deputies an increase of approximately 800,000 since the last election when their increase was a million. Party membership is Down to fewer than 1.6 million. The Post War Peak was 2.5 million. This election was touted in and Vance by the non communist press As the big test for the reds. The party lacked its colourful and persuasive Leader of the past the late Palmiro Togli Atti. It was torn by internal dissensions Between Moscow liners and maoists. The Center left government had provided a remark Able degree of communist newspapers proclaimed that the Chance had finally come to give the communists a resounding defeat an reduce them to a minor role in parliament. Conditions it Wassail would never be better. Dodging buddies not bullets now play football on the same Khe Sanh Airstrip where two months Nyo the North vietnamese Laid Down barrages. A trips still popular Johnson s pleas fail to curb overseas travel new York a presi Dent Johnson s proposals to cur Tail travel outside the Western hemisphere and his urging that americans see their own coun try first apparently Are not keeping Many people Home. A Survey of major airline Sand travel agencies shows that the Sale of tickets has taken up the Slack caused by initial announcement of the proposal three months ago and that sales Are now As Good As or Bette than last year. Asked How business was on travel Agency _. Executive an swered i m looking for help right now that s How Good it the executive Josephine a Ria said it s far Superior to last year. This being an election year i would t worry too much about the possibility of a travel tax " a key feature of the proposal Sis a tax on All travel expenditures above $7 a Day outside the Western hemisphere. The measure passed the House april4 and is now before the Senate finance airline spokesman what the proposed restrictions did was decrease the projected step up in overseas travel preparations under Way before the president s announcement i february. One effect which has continued to the present he said has been the appreciable Cancella Tion of group flights by Ameri can business firms. It is believed that Industry executives who use such trips in their incentive programs reacted both patriotically and with an Eye on a possible govern ment Check of promotional and entertainment items on income tax returns. These cancellations made adent in travel figure projections. Trans world airline reported that it has increased bookings for overseas flights and anticipates a further upswing this air France said its business during the first four months of 1968 is about 25 per cent ahead of last British overseas airways corp. Said it had a 10 per cent increase in bookings Over Las year and looked for a Good american world airways reported that overseas flight re Agency said his gravel bookings Serrations seem to be holding Are slightly Uncer j.,t but it has t made too Muin a Japan air lines on the other , said travel was off but if the promoting trave that it was from Japan to this country. Miriam Khan in charge of charter booking for a tourist Agency said overseas travel dropped a Little in the Spring but summer has sort of miss Khan said she knew the proposed tax was responsible for the drop because people told us Gunder manager of the travel Section of another tax does go through. Gunder said lie in How it would affect tra i w cause there Are so Many w people Couhig i .njijjj5 83rfc�?South America the amines Braniff International airways which serves South am a said its travel has picked upper cent Over last Yeai. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Cou f. S. Michael ., a of Elmer d. 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