European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse a Hobby Unser member of an Auto racing family gunned his Turbo charged Offenham Iser to record breaking Victory As a heralded Trio of turbines failed to finish the 52nd Indianapolis 500-mile race , 34, National Champion Iship Leader scored a first in Indianapolis Victory in six starts 1 after Joe Leonard s Turbine broke own with 22 Miles to go. Unser from Albuquerque n.m., drove a masterful race outlast ing the challenges of Leonard land Lloyd Ruby in a a memorial Day throng i estimated at 300,000.record Speed setting a scorching Pace Al the Way Unser was clocked at the record Speed of 152.882 Miles per hour. Dan Gurney Veteran from Santa Ana calif., was second. " third was Mel Kenyon of Leb anon ind., and fourth went to new zealand s Denis of Wichita Falls Tex., was former record for the 200 Lap grind around the Speedway s2-mile Oval was 151.207 m.p.h., set last year by a. J. trying for Art unprecedented fourth Indianapolis Vic tory had to quit on the 87th Lap because of engine it was a plucky As Well As a skillful performance by Unser who knew his brother Al 29, lost a wheel and hit a Wall on the 41st Lap. He was t Hurt. Weather fair to partly Cloudy. Partly Cloudy saturday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66, Low 50. Temperatures recorded thursday get 44 am pm 65 81 Madrid c 57 52 Munich cd 62 68 Paris c 46 66 pretty Lack cd 57 67 Rome r the unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol.27, no. 44 if 21855 a 5 daily 10 sunday Friday May 31, 1968de Gaulle stays in elections 4 4 am pm h 81 Adana p m 73 Athens p 63 73 Valano cd 52 66 Berlin p 69 61 Frankfurt p 62 66 London c Celear cd Cloudy a rain. 68 72 Wheelu up partly cacti try 2nd weather Wing Back in Paris French president Charles Degaulle and his wife return to Paris after a mysterious trip to his country Home in the Vil Lage of Colombey Les Deus Eulises. A photo declares Defiance of reds Paris a president Charles de Gaulle declared thursday his Defiance of totalitarian communism which he said was menacing a convulsed France. He dissolved parliament an called National elections. I shall not withdraw he announced. France is indeed threatened with dictatorship the 77-year old general told his countrymen his voice at times harsh with Republic will not Abdi said he was maintaining Premier Georges Pompidou i Power and had authorized him to make any changes needed to cont. On Page 2$, col. 2 Hunt Onti Ivues sub signal Likely hoax Washington a a patrol plane and six ship s wednesday night picked up a very Clear radio signal 110 Jmes off the Virginia capes in which the sender identified i Seit m code As the missing atomic submarine scorpion. However a Navy spokesman at Norfolk va., said thes1 Gnal was of a Type that could Only have been sent Toi the surface. He said Ine message could have been related tory on Page 4, a hoax ring from some. Where ashore. Pentagon also said the a uld be the we a president agrees to accept $6 billion slash in spending Johnson City Tex. A president Johnson said thursday for the first time that he will accept a $6 billion Cut in spending in return for congressional approval of his proposal for a 10 per cent income tax surcharge. The president s announce-1 in another message from his ment Given to reporters and the nation at a televised and Broad cast news conference Here will probably assure congressional action in the next few weeks on the Long stalled measure. To order on Page 84, col Bonn ignores protesters enacts emergency laws9 from a and up dispatches Bonn the West German parliament protected by thou Sands of police thursday ignore student protests and enacted the so called emergency Laws the bundestag vote climaxed a decade of controversy Over pro Viding the Bonn government with the emergency Powers that since world War ii have been reserved to the Western allies America Britain and France. The allies declared last monday they accept the new Laws and will give up their own rights As soon As the German Powers go into effect. The measures will allow the government to wiretap and to de Clare a state of emergency in which it could draft labor ratio food and supplies commandeer transport and use troops domestically. About 2,000 police blocked of streets leading to the parliament cont. On Page 8col v Texas ranch the president told Hanoi that the United states is ready to go far and fast to Ward a peace in Vietnam if the communists will do said that he cannot report to the american people any sub Stantial Progress in the . North vietnamese talks no underway in Paris. The surcharge pushed by John son will mean higher taxes for most noted that the House refused wednesday to limit an spending reduction to the $4 Bil lion figure he had previously said he would accept. So the Only Choice remaining is whether the need for a tax in crease is so urgent that we mus accept the $6 billion he said adding i believe that cont. On Page 3j, col. I
