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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, June 4, 1968

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tuesday Jan. Here they come californians Geta look at the democratic primary candidates. At left sen. Eugene Mccarthy makes Contact with backers at Long Beach while sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy seems about to give the shirt off his Back to a crowd in Oakland. Staron Page 6. A Dpi 4-Bloek combat zone Saigon strolls and rattles Saigon up in just a few blocks Saigon changes from a City of strollers and bustling traffic to a Battleground. It s just a Quick jeep ride through barbed wire roadblocks and past heavily armed sentries. The curious the homeless an those who have to fight gather on the Edge of the blackened four Block Battle zone to watch the slow process of Clearing Rutan estimated two dozen Viet Cong infiltrators from the Cholon Sec Tion of the City. In the process onlookers see four and five Story buildings crumble and Burn under the tremendous firepower of bazookas helicopter gunships and machine guns. Through the smoke a few of the civilian holdouts those who stayed behind when their neighbors left come in. Young men help moaning old women. Oldmen carry As much As their arms can Bear. Young women in tears carry babies. They were forced from their  another Cholon Street is left to stray dogs hulks of Auto Mobile wrecks and the stench of death from the decomposing bodies within View 100 Yard  rubble in which the Viet Cong were hiding is surrounded Ain t no Way in hell those Guys Are going to get out of there says sgt. Paul Clayton 24, a .  thing we can do is wait and try to starve them out or maybe Force them out with this,1 he adds patting his m90 recoil less  government sound truck passes and a scratchy piercing voice in vietnamese echoes Down a debris strewn  re trying to talk the . Out says sgt. Fred hill23, sitting shirtless in a jeep parked on a sidewalk about Block from the sniper zone. Yeah this i gotta see mutters his companion who says he had two Days left in the army but had hitch hiked to Cholon to see the fighting. I should t be Here but i wanted to see wha was  was easy to see what Wai happening but difficult to understand what was happening. Right now we re blowing Down these Walls to flush the . With the 90-millimeter, Clayton says. We re trying to blow pm out of there but they re reluctant to come  i d rather be out in the Field says pfc. Randy Kubina 20 look at All these buildings. Out Here there s no buildings or nothing. When you re fired on of fire  his buddy Kenneth Craver,20, adds out there when you it hit you be got some  Here you re in the Street All he  spite of their words the soldiers and the South Vietnam Ese troops alongside them see to be adjusting to Street fight ing blasting away at building Sand watching entire City blocks turn into  Viet Cong too Are adapt ing to their new tactic infiltrating a Small number of men into a neighbourhood forcing the allies to destroy the buildings then moving on. In a sense the entire Cit seems to be adjusting to the fighting within its  was announced sunday that during the past four weeks a least 386 civilians have been killed and 3,498 wounded in fight ing in and around Saigon. At the same time it was also announced 16,242 houses were destroyed in the Saigon area. Paul leads rites catholics mourn at John s Tomb by Ray Moseley Vatican City up bythe thousands they came the Rich and the poor from All Over the world monday to Pray at the Tomb of Pope John Xxiii. He died five years ago Mon Day one of the most beloved Popes of All time and already heis on his Way to being pro claimed a Saint. Pope Paul i who proposed his predecessor for sainthood in 1965, led the Catholic world i renewed mourning for the peas ant Pope who started the proc Ess of renewal in the Catholic Church through the Vatican ecumenical Council. Pope Paul wearing the re vestments of papal mourning went into the Grottoes below  s Basilica Early monday morning to celebrate mass for Pope John whose body lies there in an unadorned White Marble Tomb Zaverio Roncalli Pope John s85-year-old brother stood near by As Pope Paul sprinkled holy water on the Tomb and then placed a bouquet of red roses i front of it. Roncalli travelled All the Way from Sotto in Monte the Village in Northern Italy where John was born for the commemorative service. With him was msgr. Giovanni Battista Ron Calli a Nephew of the lat Pope. Three cardinals amleto Cicognani Antonio Samore r. N d. Angelo Dellacqua celebrate masses for John at altars near the  did msgr. Loris Capovilla archbishop of Chieti Italy who served As John s Secretary msgr. Mario Casariego Arch Bishop of Guatemala and msgr. Pasquale Macchi Secretary to Pope Paul. Papal Chapel rite later the Pope attended a papal Chapel funeral rite in  s Basilica at which Gio Vanni Cardinal Urbani Patri Arch of Venice celebrated mass. Urbani was Given the Honor because John was Patri Arch of Venice before his elec Tion As Pope in 1958. That ended the formal mourn ing but throughout the Day the pilgrims and tourists came pausing before the Tomb to Pray leaving Flowers or just stopping for a Quick look on a tour of the great Basilica. Buss seize 5 japanese boats Tokyo a five japanese fishing boats with a total of 32 crewmen aboard were seize sunday by the russians in the Northern sea of Japan the maritime safety Agency reported. Outside world found too Tough for Happy con East Lansing Mich. A Paul spinner 40, who served 14 years of a life sentence on a murder conviction is Back happily behind bars after a weekend when he was free to roam about Michigan. Spinner walked away fro Southern Michigan prison in Jackson saturday. He turned himself in at the state police Post in East Lansing sunday. After hitch hiking through Testate spinner told police he could not Cope with the outside world and the changes in it and he preferred being behind bars. Guard lifted at Louisville Louisville by. Up the last remaining National guard units were withdraw sunday from the City s negro a St end where civil disorder last week resulted in 401 arrests two deaths and injury to More than 50 persons. Police said Only the Norm number of trouble runs were reported in the area during the weekend. The guard pullout which began at noon Edt saturday was completed sunday when 851troops were withdrawn to an armory about two Miles fro the West end District. Bullet from nowhere kills golfer Dallas a a Bullet his wife described As coming out of nowhere killed William , 55, As the couple played Golf , a sales representative for toy companies was shot atthe Las Colinas country club in suburban Irving As he and his wife Edith reached the fourth tee. He died two hours later of Bullet wound in the Chest. Police it. J. W. Johnson Sai  
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