European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse May 26, 1w8 the stars and stripes editor s note How is activity of a housewife of. The strikes in parts of associated press or Stephen boo Enung de the problems of Man household in the strike. Capital a by Christine Broen incl Aris a the w b r s to thing about this strike is the uncertainty the possibility of or revolution aside there remain the minor worries and irritations of every Day there be a garbage col Lection soon All the garbage a housewife looks at the Paris strikes the Price just tripled n Frt re n4n�4lm- a & cans Are full and starting to smell. There is the problem of the moment the stores in my neighbourhood Are still Well stocked with everything but fresh fruit and vegetables. They Are wholly dependent on the truckers however and one does t know if they will suddenly decide to join the strike. Our greengrocer explained the tripled Price of new potatoes by saying that his supplier had had to throw away half a truck Load because of spoilage due to delays. It was All the harder to pay for them having just hear Don the radio that the Farmers were giving them away because they could t get them to mar Ket. The Market Man told a Bonnet come who was complaining about the greenness of the Bana Nas wait till they Ripen lady. These Are the last bananas you Lalsee for a while. They came off the last boat unloaded in mar Seille before the dockers went on schools Are closed and there Isno television except news shows which Means the Chil Dren Are constantly underfoot and keep asking what a strike is and Are always dissatisfied with the answer that the work ers want More Money from Why does t the government just give them More Money so we can go Back to school the say. There Are no telegrams no mail no Long distance Telephone Calls no air planes trains buses or subway leading to a feeling of Claustrophobia and isolation which grows Day by Day. The Gas and electricity Are still functioning but the workers have occupied the plants an May Cut the Power if their de mands Are not have had several one Day electricity strikes before and the thought of having an extended one is rather hard to even the car can be relied on because it is getting increasingly difficult to find a Gas Sta Tion open and the ones that reopen ration the amount of Gas they will sell to each have asked Doc tors to allow them leeway in fill ing prescriptions because they have run out of certain brands of Medicine. One would like to prepare Fornall eventualities by stocking up on food and other necessities Butis helpless because one does t know what to prepare you listen compulsively to the radio All Day and wait an Hope. De Gaulle s plan for referendum draws some hostility and violence French president Charles de Gaulle. Will the nation buy his cures by William l. Ryan Paris a Swift and pre dominantly hostile reaction from opposition Union and political leaders greeted president Charlesze Gaulle s Challenge to this tur Moil tormented nation to accept his Road to stability or see him leave the stage he dominated fora decade. De Gaulle in a dramatic seven minute address to the nation by radio and television offered june referendum on his Reform program As a cure for the plague of unrest and strikes strangling the nation. He said that if the vote were negative he would not be Able to continue As the chief of state. The address did Little to Cal the nation. Within an hour after he spoke new violence broke out among rebellious students in Paris an there were outbreaks elsewhere. The student reaction was instantaneous. It took the form of anew upsurge of violence in the Don t give a Damn for the general chanted swarms of Stu dents while they battled police threw up barricades hurled tones and defied barrages of police tear Gas grenades. Student leaders were too Busy participating in the general chaos to make individual comments but their actions spoke louder than an words. To the de Gaulle Challenge Georges Seguy Secretary Gener Al of the communist led general confederation of workers Cut retorted that the workers Don twant a referendum but better working French democratic federation of labor cad moderately left declared in a state ment the speech of the presi Dent of the Republic confirms the necessity to reinforce the strike siberian train incident Russ beat Canadian attache wife Ottawa a a Canadia military attache has been expelled from Russia after he and his wife were beaten by soviet officials who broke into their train compartment in Eastern Siberia the external affairs department has announced. Soviet ambassador Ivan shaped of was called to the department at noon Friday handed a Strong protest from the Canadian government Over the incident an was ordered to Send one of his military aides it. Col. V. S. I circulation office phone numbers Germany Civ 739388 Civ 53. Mil 7664mll�-Aht. 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An external affairs spokesman described the train incident As claim was made without any foundation in fact that the attache had photographed a Mil itary Airfield which the train had passed shortly before the forced entry the announce ment in accordance with standing instructions intended to prevent subsequent tampering with Blank film the attach sought to spoil both films by exposure to Light but was Success Ful with Only one. The cameras were later returned but not the films or the russian colonel who has been ordered out of Canada in retaliation was expected to Leav Ottawa in about a the Canadian official said the Watsons were on a trip to Tokyo from Moscow on travel arrange ments approved by the soviet authorities. The russians had insisted that the siberian leg of the trip be done by train. Clash of interests Junction City Kan. A mrs. Doris Caldwell offered to have her husband report for jury duty As ordered by the court if Geary county would make arrangements and pay the usual transportation allowance. But the District court clerk refused. Mrs. Caldwell s husband Howard , is serving with the army in Vietnam. Pentagon makes non sense out of non dollars by Marc hurts a Washington Bureau chief Washington is any one handling Money from a pay Check on up to this year s near-$80-billion defense budget knows the subject can get complicated but last week s White House briefing on the budget hit a High of sorts. Deputy defense Secretary Paul h. Nitze explained to news men a Tricky part of the supplementary military budget this Way one billion of the-$1.7 billion minuses in the Zero supplemental fall into the same account sin which we need increases. Therefore we can use $1 billion of the savings which were in the minus part of the Zero supple mental As offsets to the aggregate requirement that we this led one newsman to com ment you can t possibly explain that in a newspaper of general circulation the Union plays unimportant role in the strike democratic Center party headed by Jean Leca Nuet who gained prominence in the 1965 presidential elections by helping Force de Gaulle into a second round of voting said a referendum does not imply a Dia referendum Leca Nuet said would push aside the Dia Logue it underscores the authoritarian tendency of the regime he added. Certainly the great majority of the French appreciate stability but it puts up Les Sand less with the paternalism of those who govern us. The speech of the president of the re Public does not respond to in favo the gaullist themselves seemed to find reason to key head of the gaullist group of deputies in the nation Al Assembly said the president had made a penetrating anal Ysis of the profound causes of the economic and social Situa Tion of our country of the crisis that it is undergoing now and it consequences for the future of Premier Pierre Mendes France a moderate leftist who retains considerable prestige said it is a plebiscite which is be ing asked the French peo tvs week s a Dilly in Nieft. Lansing Mich. A pushing Pickle packers and the precious right and privilege of voting gov. George Romney has proclaimed the period from Friday through june 1 As Pickle week in Harvest More cucumbers for pickling than any other state the governor said in his , therefore should take a proud and prominent place beside the Pickle packers International who Hope to keep people in pickles and keep America out of a Pickle vote " the Pickle packers Romney said Are promulgating this slogan to encourage everyone i America to Register and vote in this year s this manner Romney said Pickle packers Are re minding All of us that casting the ballot is a precious right pie who came into the Street shave already responded. The people will have the last political Leader found the de Gaulle speech historic. Hews Robert Poujade Secretary general of the gaullist Organiza Tion who said the president s declaration would Mark a turning Point in our political history be cause the people would soon express itself at the Call of the one who has already done so much for France s grandeur and we reject Francois Mitterrand Long a vocal representative of the leftist opposition to de Gaulle issued statement in the name of Polit Juro of the federation of the left which he Heads saying we reject the a moment when the coun try workers and students farm ers and teachers demand Dia Logue general de Gaulle imposes a Mitterrand assailed de Gaulle As having failed after 10 years to find any other Way out of France s crisis than the reinforcement of his federation of the left says no to the plebiscite and no to general de Gaulle the statement said
