European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday reds Shell Saigon As fighting flares Saigon a sporadic fighting broke out anew Satur Day in the chinese Section of Saigon on top of another rocket and mortar attack on the vietnamese combat police said they killed the Deputy commander of the Tough Viet Cong 6th local in which has been causing havoc for the last eight Days in Cholon the chinese Quarter. Assassins at work the battalion commander was reported killed in fighting earlier in the week. In the Central part of the Capi Tal two gunmen on a Motorbike believed to be Viet Cong assassins killed a South Vietnam Ese army lieutenant a half a lock away from the House of . Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. They escaped on the from Cholon said about 30 Viet Cong possibly fresh troops were fighting police in the residential area two blocks from a roman Catholic Church. Government tanks were trying to crush the guerrillas who Are holed up in buildings. That has been the pattern of the fighting All week. Infested with cells military spokesmen conceded it was difficult to say How Many guerrillas were still in this week they had re ported that the enemy had been crushed there and apparently was the new fighting suggested that the Viet Cong May be sur facing fresh troops. The Cholon area is reported to be infested with Viet Cong cells being held in Reserve. Reports Eai Lier in the week said the enemy was infiltrating fresh troops disguised i civilian clothes into Cholon to give a breather to the embattled ammo Plant blast kills 5 Burlington Iowa a five workers were killed Friday when mine ammunition exploded in a warehouse at the Iowa army ammunition explosion of the conventional mines blew Down the building s tile Walls and part of its roof and Plant officials said the five men in the storage facility were killed of the victims bodies were found in the rubble said the assistant Plant manager Georg Mathes. Site sealed off the 20,000-acre Plant site located seven Miles West of Bur Lington in Southeast Iowa was immediately sealed o f f by a of the explosion was under investigation. Mathes said relatively few of the concussion Type mines in the warehouse onstage Magazine had exploded. Adjacent buildings were n o damaged. Soldiers fighting there for More than a week and to replace the 146 guerrillas reported slain Dur ing the last three Days. In the latest shelling the Vietcong sent 21 rounds of russian made 100-Pound rockets and mor tars into the capital s riverfront Dock area and the first precinct in the Central part just As the City was waking , incomplete reports listed two vietnamese civilian skilled including the wife of a Navy lieutenant. Texas woman new heart recipient Dies Dallas up doctors a Parkland Hospital Friday per formed the world s 21st hear transplant operation but the recipient the first woman and the first negro to receive a heart died four hours and 45 minute Slater. Mrs. Esther Matthews a 41-year-old Dallas housewife received the heart of a 26-year-Oldauto Accident victim in an opera Tion by a team of doctors fro the University of Texas South Western medical school at Park land memorial Hospital. The operation began at 5 45p.m. Edt and surgeons said her new heart started beating at 8 10p.m. Without electrical Shock operation was the fifth transplant in Texas and the Firstin Dallas. Only six of the 20 pre Vious heart recipients Are still alive. Two Are in Houston one in Paris one in London one i Cape town South Africa and one in Sao Paulo Hospital said mrs. Mat thews new heart stopped beat ing at 10 30 . Edt. Mrs. Matthews was admitted to the Hospital May 6 suffering from cardiomyopathy a heart in sufficiency of unknown origin. She had been in critical co for several Days and to led to undergo a to monday which w As when the previous donor i would not permit the Mccarthy to Campaign this week Washington a close advisers said Friday sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy will resume his Campaign this week hoping to convince democratic leadership chances of winning the presidency Are greater than those office president Hubert h. Hum and Mccarthy the two remaining rivals for the party s nomination now that Robert f. Kennedy is dead met for nearly an hour late Friday j and discussed How Best to con duct the remainder of the Cam Humphrey aide said the vice president told Mccarthy heis suspending his Campaign activities for the next several Bidaut ends \ year exile m Paris a former Prem Ier Georges Bidault who broke with president Charles de Gau Leover the Issue of algerian Independence returned to franc saturday after six years of sex prosecutor indicated that Long standing charges of subversive activity against him would be s return was apparently preceded by secret Neotia weeks. Plans called off a Humphrey strategist Hac previously disclosed that the vice president had called of plans to begin campaigning in new aide said Friday there would be no Humphrey campaigning in any states through at least june 18, which is the Date of the new York primary. The two former allies fro Minnesota now political Adver Saries held what aides de scribed As a Friendly and cordial talk in Humphrey s downtown office next to the White House. Mccarthy advisers concede the senator still faces an Uphill fight to wrest the nomination from Humphrey. But they feel last week s trag Edy has sharpened the Issue be tween Mccarthy and Humphrey Over the course of the Johnson administration especially i Vietnam. With 11 weeks to go before the democratic National Conven Tion in Chicago aug. 26, the Mccarthy advisers say time is on their s Senate office said he will resume his Campaign with a speech in new York next thursday at the annual banquet of the Fellowship for reconciliation a Quaker group. But aides indicated they Hope he will make some speeches earlier. Loan fired As Vietnam s Security chief Saigon a maj. Ngoc loan was fired saturday As head of South Viet Nam s 70,000-Man National police Force the government radio announced. The top Security Job was Given to a Ranger commander col. Tran Van Ilia the announce ment said. At the same time government sources reported that the mayor of Saigon was replaced by an other army colonel. Loan is in a Hospital recover ing from wounds sustained while directing Street fighting on May 5, the Clay the communists opened a new attack on the Cap ital. Only a week ago loan 37, was promoted from brigadier general to major general. Loan often criticized for harsh police methods is Best known outside Vietnam for his on the spot Street execution of a Viet Cong captured during the t e offensive last february. No reason was announced forlorn s replacement but it was expected that his wounds would keep him hospitalized for a Long time. Brandt s son sentenced Berlin up a juvenile court Here has sentenced Peter Brandt 19-year-old son of West German foreign minister Willy Brandt to two weeks detention in a Home for juvenile delinquents for taking part in illegal student demonstrations. St. Paul Minn. A Painter Iris hands caught in an of c Eric Winch atop an 85-1 oot All Chimney dangled for nearly three hours before he freed him self and was helped Clown to tie ground. I feel All right Leon four Nier said. Les 3 hours 85 feet up a private contractor in h i s60s, Fourier was at the top of the smoke stack at the Kopp Ersco. Gas and Coke division Plant when lie gut into trouble at7 30 a.11. Friday lie was in a bos n s hollered Down that he was caught by both hands said jus lice Hammond a Plant employee. About 9 . Fournier free done hand. A screwdriver was sent Upland Fournier used it to free his other hand. Two men went up in another lift and helped Fournier d o w n the Chimney. He touched roundabout 10 10 . And walked away. Tons with judicial authorities he passed into France from Belgium accompanied by three lawyers and was met at the Frontier by police. Bidault 68, was accused of be ing the head of the National Council of resistance politic sarm of the algerian based secret army organization Oas the two organizations Fough against relaxing French control Over the North african Terri tory. The return of Bidault could signal that the Way is Clear for the return to France of Jacque Soustelle a former information minister under de Gaulle an former governor general of Al Geria. Soustelle has been living in Switzerland. Running in a sentia he was an unsuccessful candidate for Deputy from the Lynn Region in last year s legislative elections. Reports have circulated i France that de Gaulle is getting ready to free former Gen. Raou Salan who was head of the Oas. Salan. Is serving a life sentence in a prison at tulle. He was visited by his wife Friday. She said she had no knowledge of any plan to free served two terms As Premier of France in 1949 and1950. Four times he was vice Premier twice defense minister and four times foreign minister in the often changing cabinets of the fourth Republic. His parliamentary immunity was lifted in 1962 so he could be charged with participation Ina Clandestine movement with in sur sectional but Bidault had left the country be fore a charge was spent most of the six years abroad in Brazil and Belgium. Soldier Dies after Accident Heidelberg is spec. 4charles Orien Light of the 115th Supply and service in die thursday of injuries sustained May 29 when he was pinned be tween trailer depot. Light died at 8 . At the 130thstation Hospital Here according to an army spokesman. His Bod was to be sent to Little Rock ark., wife Susan reportedly left the command Friday. A five ton tractor Anat the Sermersheim the quake shakes Strait Washington a National earthquake Center re ported a Strong earthquake Fri Day in the Makassar Strait East of Borneo. Were both at the Hosp Al the surgery. Blocker suffered head Wand a crushed Chest when car j-4u is driving i a ditch in suburban wednesday night while police. Rustin quits poor March after dispute Washington a Yard Rustin negro civil i. Leader bowed out Friday coordinator of the june 19 i March of the poor people Campaign. Announcing Rustin s Resig Tion the Rev. Ralph David Bernathy head of the Cam said he had chosen Sterling _. Or the executive director of Urban league in Washington the new coordinator. The june 19 demonstration considered critical to efforts to Ward pumping momentum Jacinto the Campaign which been torn by disagreement disorganization. Rustin who shaped the 19civil rights March on Washin. Ton by 200,000 persons quit i dispute Over goals of the Cam a pain. Leaders had assailed him after he issued his own state a ment of goals that they said was less demanding than that of the Campaign. Abernathy told a news Confer ence he considered the Cam Laign so crucial in combating violence poverty and oppression in America that it must proceed with the june 19 rally without Rustin. Reinsdorf to Honor memory of Kennedy Frankfurt is Erich Reinsdorf conductor of Boston symphony orchestra dedicate his sunday evening Perl Mormance at the head of to Frankfurt opera orchestra to we memory of son. Robert dedicatory work is beet a Hoven s symphony no. Eroica ,. The 56-year-old Reinsdorf on Ai guest tour in Europe has re signed As musical director o Boston orchestra effective at the end of the 1968-69 season. . 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