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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 29, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday May j9 dry duds a change of dry clothing is Given to poor people s campaigners after drenching Rains turned Washington s resurrection City into a quagmire. A Large number of campers evacuated the temporary City Bill Are expected to return. See Story Page 3. I up photo exodus of dependents described As unlikely Madrid special a Penta gon official said Here that it is his View that any Gold flow step affecting the military would take the form of a general thinning out of t r o of s and dependents stationed abroad rather than sending All families Home. The government has not formulated a Clear and comprehensive response to Gold flow an budgetary restrictions he said. The official under Secretary of the air Force Townsend Hoopes made his comment on the balance of payments problem during an interview Over the armed forces radio service s big board9 won t leave new York new York a the Board of governors of the new York Stock Exchange said Mon Day it had decided that the Exchange would remain in Newyork. Studies of pos Sib e Sites for anew Headquarters building in downtown Manhattan will be expedited the Board said. The Board s decision followed the new York state Legisla Ture s approval of a graduate reduction in the new York Stock Transfer tax. The Bill has Bee sent to gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller for signature. Burglar arrested in Taurus office Frankfurt is a 26-year-old German is in the Cus Tody of Frankfurt police after being caught burglar izing the Hansa a 11 e e quarters of Theta Nus District civilian person Nel office Here monday  to a Taurus District spokesman a neighbor noticed Man forcing the bars on a window of the office just before11 . And notified German police. When the police along wit american Cip agents arrived they found Hans Juergen Kamp inside the office. Two packs of american cigarettes were found on Kamps. Spain Morocco  this problem should have an Impact on military personnel he said the effect would Likely take the form of a thinning out of deployments overseas generally including dependents rather than focus on dependents  Hoopes was visiting Torrejon air base Here As part of his first official visit to overseas instal lations. Talks included discus Sion of the 15-year-old agreement with Spain under which . Bases Are operated. The pact sup for renewal in september. The under Secretary defended the controversial fill pointing out that despite recent losses improved less vulnerable than the f100 or f104 during their initial operating periods. He said that one unusual problem with the fill is its High political Visi  Hoopes stressed however that according to the pilots who Fly the aircraft and the ground Crews who maintain it the fill is a first class plane. He added that the bomber ver Sion of the fill the of Bill is part of a very firm new program and that the first planes vill be available next year. By 1971, he said 210 of balls Are scheduled to be operational. 239th i Ign he emptied by bomb threat Baum older Germany is an anonymously Tele phoned bomb threat caused the Headquarters building of the 239th Engineer in Here to be evacuated tuesday. A one and one half hour search of the building by military police and bomb disposal experts failed to turn up the alleged bomb a 24th Engineer group spokesman said. The unkown caller s message was taken by spec. 5 Douglas s. Filker a Legal assistance specialist with the 239th, at 11 . A second Call was made to the military police the spokesman said. Military police telephoned the unit and ordered t h e building emptied. Elected by James Gunters a Munich Bureau chief Berchtesgaden Germany is mrs. Gilbert Olivarez wife of the chaplain at the 97thgeneral Hospital in Frankfurt was elected president of the protestant women of the Cha Pel monday night to succeed mrs. Gerard Akkerhuis of wies Baden. Election of officers came atthe opening session of the organization s annual training Confer ence. Mrs. George Lindbeck of new Haven conn., told about 450 delegates this is the Century of the common woman whereas the 19th Century was the Century of the Comman  is an age of multiple revolution and structures of Al types Are being called into ques Tion said mrs. Lindbeck athe Logist whose husband is a professor of theology at Yale dignity school. Today s problems Are poverty prejudice and peace. We Are boldly seeking to read the signs of the  delegates from As far Wayas the Middle East came to the meeting which runs through e a a the general Walker hotel. The new officers who will be installed at the thursday session include mrs. James l. Boley wife of an air Force lieutenant colonel at Ruislip England As first vice presi Dent mrs. A. E. Carey wife of a Junior High school teacher Anrhein main Germany As Sec Ond vice president and  search wife of the superintendent of schools for districts 0 and 11 at Karlsruhe Germany As Secretary. Into riot of Louisville by. National guardsmen wielding Bayonet upped rifles dispersed a crowd of Rock arid bottle throwing negroes tuesday when violence flared anew in the predominantly negro West  guardsmen arrived in two groups to support police from and up dispatches Saigon a the Vietcong pumped at least 11 rockets into Saigon and its Northern suburb of Gia Dinh tuesday and Street fighting on the capital  into a fourth Day. The rocket attack scattered insight different places in the Early morning Darchess killed at least 14 South vietnamese civilians wounded 46 More an burned several houses military spokesmen  heaviest casualties were in Gia Dinh a mile from the enter of the capital where two of the 100-Pound russian mad rockets hit in a populated area near a Buddhist Pagoda. The Etwo rounds alone killed 11 civil ians and wounded 17.the ground fighting which be Gan saturday when Viet con elements began new attempts to infiltrate the City was Cente Redin Gia Dinh and West of the Ca Pital near the big . Satellite communications Center. Field reports said South vietnamese marines and ran Gers were trying tuesday morning to push elements of a Viet Cong battalion to the  fighting and air and Artil Lery strikes touched off big fire sin a residential area abandoned by civilians. Initial reports said two rangers were killed. Red positions raked on the Southern outskirts of Saigon fighter bombers raked suspected enemy positions but no ground fighting was reported. Elsewhere no major n e fighting was reported by either the . Or South vietnamese military commands but action continued in the Central High lands near Korntum and Dak to. Opposite the Border of laos.. Infantrymen at a fire base 19 Miles West of Kontu City reported finding bodies of 150 North vietnamese Soldier around the barbed wire of their ase perimeter in the Wake of two Days of artillery and rocket dueling. After about 100 streets a where an violence monday night and Benaning passing vehicles. A a Evanglia Resmen "umberinga1 it 100, formed a flying wedge Wuh bayonets at the ready so moved Down Greenwood negroes split into smaller group and fled. Mayor Kenneth Schmiedt am a outsiders for violence which followed a Street  by a self proclaimed aide of Stokely Carmichae monday night. The violence began among crowd estimated at Between 6m to 700 persons who had gathered at a. Rally to protest the rein statement of a patrolmen who had been dismissed for allegedly using excessive Force while arresting a negro. The officer s dismissal was overturned by the City s civil service Board which ordered the patrolman reinstated after a 15 Day  Clark the Only negro on the four member Board re signed tuesday. He said he did so after receiving Anonymous Tele phone Calls. He said the callers told him i did t stand up for my race when the Board reinstate Clifford. Clark said he opposed the reinstatement. Death of go accidental probes say Giessen. Germany is the weekend shooting outside an enlisted club Here that resulted in the death of a support come Soldier was accidental Accord ing to Gid investigators a v corps spokesman said . Vody j. Howard 21, co a 398th Supply and service in was shot accidentally with not own pistol by pfc. David , he Btry 42nd arty up during an altercation at to Alpine club. Buckarma was not charged army officials , who died at the it general dispensary was wounded with a .38-caliber pistol which support come and corps spokesmen said was leg estered with maps. 66 Hurt in bus wreck Morioka Japan a a fas a waft jetsam a reported. _ murderous boast almost fulfilled Reading England a for two Days the Telephone rarely stopped ringing at the read ing police station. Always it was the same voice with the same taunting message there s going to be a  monday the caller became More and More specific. First be said the murder would take place that night. Then he named his victim Andrew Hill. Finally he told the police where to look Mcelroy Park. Detectives sped to the Parkland in the Bushes they found an Drew Hill 8, battered nearly to death Andrew who had been repeatedly struck with something like an Iron bar Lay i us j Jared in a Loca Hospital tuesday every available awas drafted into he g search for the boastful Atu parents were advised to r handicapped children  
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