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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 30, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                , Moy 30, the stars and stripes Page f Frankie and Jackie British actress Jacqueline Bisset stands with Frank Sinatra at the premiere showing of their new film in new York City. Miss Bisset replaced Sinatra estranged wife Mia Farrow in the  plays the leading role. A photo astronauts Moon Craft pass test space Center Houston up tired but successful two crewmen Early tuesday ended the first in a series of tests designed to qualify  Craft to carry men in space. James Irwin and Gerald Gibbons skipped a rest period and postponed use of a portable breathing unit to shave 50 minutes off the 12-hour  entered an Airlock to the huge vacuum chamber contain ing their spacecraft before noon monday remaining in the space like vacuum until 12 25 . Tuesday. The test proceeded satisfactorily after minor holds de lays to Correct biomedical instrumentation on the crewmen prior to Manning the Craft said vacuum chamber manager James  in the newest White Apollo spacesuits their double covered faces encased in the two layer helmet the crewmen were taken away from the Black lined chamber for a Quick medical examination. Preliminary indications Are that the major test objectives were met Mclane said. Romney kill birth control teaching Bill Mich. Up Lansing Fri George Romney de i org unwholesome Preo Ccu Nevith be in modern so Lues Clay vetoed a Bill Toby one ? an on teaching of schools0 in Michigan Publ a Jep r to  said he would not of n j0 Ming the ban sometime in vhf Only w the Ltd Down for team con 01 techniques Inin to Mora responsibility. Liberty incident Israel pays $3 million to . Navy Washington a Israel has paid $3,323,500 in compensation to families of 34 Navy offi cers and men who died when the . Intelligence ship Liberty was torpedoed on june 8, 1967, during the Arab israeli War authoritative sources re ported  amount figuring out at almost $100,000 per family re presents claims submitted by the . Government to Israel on behalf of the 34 families on Jan. 5.other claims including medi Cal treatment of 171 men who were injured when israeli Jet fighters and torpedo boats at tacked the Liberty and costs of repairs of the ship Are still Tobe submitted to Israel. The Liberty was attacked by israeli planes and torpedo boats in International Waters about 15miles North of the Sinai Penin Sula. The ship had been Dis patched to the Eastern Mediterranean when the War broke outto provide communications facilities during the evacuation Oia Merican citizens from the War zones Washington  . Government immediately protested the attack an Israel expressed deep regrets. It also declared it is prepare to make amends for the tragic loss of life and material  $5 million waste by Navy claimed Washington a the Navy wasted $5.9 million by manufacturing vast excess quantities of nonstandard aeronautical repair parts at four naval air stations says the general accounting  for the Gao auditing  of Congress found bins filled with five times As Many parts As the Navy s own directives said were required. The newly released Gao re port also said that $2.2 million of the excess parts had been Dis posed of for a Penny on the Dollar. In its reply to the report the Navy cited difficulties in trying to predict How Many part would be required. But it prom ised revamped procedures Suchias standardization of parts num Bers and keeping track of How Many parts have been used in the past. Restricted usage the excess parts were manufactured at naval air station sat quonset Point . Jackson Ville Fla. North Island Calif.,and Alameda Calif.  aeronautic Cal parts Are items that have restricted usage Peculiar to a particular aircraft or engine and can be easily manufactured bythe Navy. Demand for such parts is expected to be Low. The whole operation is but one tiny fraction of Over All defense sup ply and procurement. Among 33,700 types of part Worth $4.8 million covered in the Gao Survey were such items a brackets screws Hose Assem Blies Patch plates Springs an Cable assemblies. The Gao found 21,000 Type Sand Stock Worth $3.7 million to be in excess  these figures were conservative since Gao counted a excess Only parts not expected to be used within 270 Days. Navy directives consider parts for More than 180 Days to be excess. Investigators checking one group of orders for 12 types of parts dated from 1962 through 1964 found that 545 separate parts Worth $3,053.75 had been manufactured and Only 21 Worth$126 Ever were used. The Gao concluded that the bulk of the excess was due to the use of unrealistic criteria for determining what quantities of nonstandard parts should be initially manufactured for anticipated needs and failure to Fol Low prescribed criteria when manufacturing parts for  it observed that when the Navy decided $2.2 million Worth were excess it sold them for$23,000. Valued at $12 Calif. Agents seize heroin Long Beach Calif a narcotics agents said tuesday heroin valued at $12 million was seized with the arrest of six Chi Nese four of whom carried the drug taped to their waists and upper thighs. Four of the men agents said were from Canton in communist China and two from Hong  were arrested monday at a downtown intersection. John Warner Field supervisor for the California Bureau of narcotic enforcement said his cats Lap up spilled milk Siracusa Sicily a More than a Hundred cats blocked traffic in downtown Siracusa while they lapped up spilled milk. Several Cartons of milk fell of the Back of a passing truck and broke on the main Street. Until then there had t been a cat in  smell of the milk brought them out of cellars and nearby ancient ruins in a Flash. Attempts to drive them of failed until All the milk was gone. Then they linked Back out of sight and let the cars and trucks move on. Men Are investigating the possibility that communist China sought to Trade the heroin . Dollars. Pouches of the narcotic thieves make briton a believer in Banks Crewkerne England up William Hooper 60, opened his first Bank account Here after thieves broke into his Home tied him up and took Atin Box from under his bed con Taining $14,000."i never trusted Banks but weighed 27 pounds and officer said that when properly Cut for resale this amount would growth about 200 pounds. The men booked on suspicion of possessing narcotics for Sale arrived sunday aboard the dutch freighter Zeeland agents reported. There is no evidence at this Cost of living still climbing at fast clip Washington a Liv ing costs continued climbing in april at an annual rate of 4 percent fastest clip in 17 years and the government blame Strong Market demand and Ris ing  some 45 million workers lost 13 cents a week in Purchas ing Power because prices out paced record High pay averaging s2.79 an hour and $104.63 a week. The labor department s re port tuesday on april prices said the consumer Price Index Rose to 119.9, up three tenths of one per cent for the month and 4per cent above a year earlier. The figure based on 1957-59prices, Means it Cost $11.99 in april for every $10 Worth of goods and services 10 years ago. The value of the Dollar Over the decade has dropped to 83.4  prices up three tenths of one per cent and clothing up seven tenths led the april Rise and a two tenths Rise in Industrial raw materials indicated further retail hikes to come the report said. The report followed monday warning by Arthur Okun chief White House economist of growing inflationary tendencies throughout the Economy. Oku said the factors of heavy de Mand and costs including wages have joined in an unholy Alliance to raise  temporary decline preliminary figures for May indicated a drop of two tenths of time to indicate any involve one per cent in wholesale prices ment on the part of the red Chi j of Industrial raw materials Burnese government said Warner. Arnold Chase assistant com however this possibility can the discounted at this time. The investigation is  said investigation May now i have Learned my lesson j Lead to the arrest of others Hethe expensive Way he said As he deposited several thousand dollars hidden elsewhere which the thieves missed. Called More important the cargo ship began its Voy age in Hong Kong and stopped last in Manila. Missioner of the Bureau of la Bor statistics said the decline is probably Only  Are Likely to have a re sumption of increases in prices of Industrial products Over the next several months primarily because of a Rise in unit labor costs Chase said. Gas fells 60 children in Baltimore Baltimore a about60 children were carried out of a Junior High school in Balti More tuesday after they were overcome by Gas in the  than 40 of the youngsters at the Booker t. Washington Phool were taken to five Hospi tals for treatment the affected children screamed hysterically clutched their throats and kicked another youngsters and teachers while being led from the build no. Most of them were  complained of smarting eyes aching Heads and burning throats. About 250 to 300 pupils had entered the cafeteria to begin the first lunch period when some of them were  than 90 per cent of the 1,747 pupils in the school Are negro. Police were seeking the source of the Gas. One police lieutenant radioed from the scene that agas bomb of some sort had been hurled into the school. But an other officer said no Container was found  
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