European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 29 the stars and stripes Page 3 Bravo Provo italian Singer Patty Provo Here arriving Home in Rome is one of the stars whose records will be played on Vatican radio s new weekly pop program. A photo Tokyo experts suspect a sub caused radiation Tokyo a a govern ment appointed team of five nuclear scientists reported Mon Day it was proper to suspect that the abnormally High radio Active count registered in Sase to Harbor May 6 was caused bythe . Nuclear powered sub Marine swordfish which visited Casebo May 2-12. ,. The team said it checked other possible causes such Asra Dar radioactive isotopes an welding equipment in the base do port area but ruled them suspicion therefore has deepened that there had been discharge of some kind of radioactive matter from the us swordfish when the abnormal Reading occurred the team report said. The group however said i regretted that the japanese a had failed to gather sufficient scientific data to counter be Complete denial of a Dirac be discharge made by an american nuclear in . American team comprising three nuclear experts from atomic Energy commission was sent Here to cooperate wit the japanese in probing the cause of the radioactive group s report also complained that the american Tea had refused to present the Japa Nese Side with All the data Avail Able on the swordfish. It said the refusal was made on grounds the data involved were military secrets. The american team left sat urday after announcing the swordfish was not responsible for the incident. The High count 20 to 30 time above Normal was still far be Low the level considered danger Ous japanese scientists said. Many japanese however fear further visits by . Nuclear powered vessels would in crease the radioactive contamination of the japanese ports visited and Are demanding a halt to Katsumata chairman of the Japan socialist party said his party would resort to All available Means including Force to Block further port Calls by nuclear vessels. Johnson promises asians . Won t sell them out Washington up pres ident Johnson monday night sought to reassure the nations Orasia that the United states is not planning to sell them out in it quest for peace in Vietnam. Speaking for himself he said the answer is the president issued his prom ise in a Toast welcoming Austral Ian prime minister John Gorton at a White House dinner. I know he said that there Are some in Asia and elsewhere who Are wondering tonight whether the United states will maintain its commitment in Asia whether the strains of this struggle will Lead us to withdraw and leave two thirds of humanity to its Fate without american Assis Tance or you so Well know or. Prime minister with your years of political life i cannot speak for my successor. But i can highest for . Cities Lindsay offers billion budget new York a mayor John v. Lindsay predicting that one out of every eight new yorkers will be on welfare with in a year proposed monday record $6.1-billion operating budget. The new budget exceeded inside Only by the $100-billion-plus Federal budget provides for $840million More than current spending. Lindsay said he had to earmark almost half of that increase to the $1.3 billion i welfare payments the City will have to make during the fiscal year beginning july 1. He said that with a continuance of current trends More than one million City resident would be on welfare Rolls by mid-1969. About 873,000 currently Are on welfare Here. The next biggest chunk of Lindsay s budget proposal $1.4 billion would go to finance the City s troubled 1.1-million-Stu Dent school system. That s a increase of $185 million Over current spending and still Short of what the Board of education says it needs. Lindsay a Republican helped Patch a $620 million deficit in his spending program by pro Lodge presents papers As envoy Bonn up Veteran Diplo mat Henry Cabot Lodge 66, Mon Day presented his credentials to president Heinrich Luebke to be come . Ambassador to West Germany. He replaced George Mcghee who became a roving ambassador. Lodge said America s 200,000troops in Germany were living evidence of the . Commit ment to defend the Freedom and viability of freely recognize our role in bringing about an equitable solution of the German problem and we can look Forward to the Day when Germany can be re United in peace Lodge has served As . Ambassador to the United nation Sand twice As the envoy to South Vietnam. . Negotiators seek Paris housing Paris a top . Negotiator at the Paris peace talks Hon been looking around Forl uses or apartments into which e can Settle for months of vietnam10" talks with norths
