European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes support diplomatic struggle Hanoi documents link fighting peace to Washington a along with the continuing enemy offensives in South Vietnam documents recently captured by the allies Are piling up evidence of Hanoi determination to a c9mpany the Paris talks with vigorous military actions. Unless a major military Vic tory is achieved nothing can be expected from diplomatic Strug Gles says one enemy directive issued to red forces in South Vietnam. Diplomatic debates should be regarded As a Means to con firm the enemy defeat and our Victory the captured Docu ment says. We must respond to and support our diplomatic struggle by fighting harder in order to achieve More striking and More decisive this and other intelligence relayed to Washington plus the enemy assaults ranging fro the demilitarized zone to Sai gon have helped convince officials Here that As president Johnson puts it Hanoi is Tell Saigon shelled again reds lose part of City from a and up dispatches Saigon Viet Cong rained deadly rockets on Saigon for the 10th straight Day monday. South vietnamese troops broke the guerrillas nine Day hold on Parton the Cholon District and 34 guerrillas surrendered in Masse military spokesmen said. As the War continued c. Westmoreland de parting . Commander said military Victory in Vietnam was impossible in a classic said trends Are favourable in the War but he cautioned against expecting an Early communist defeat. At a news conference West Moreland said it was almost an impossibility to prevent the shelling because of the difficult terrain around Saigon. He said the rockets and mortar rounds were indiscriminately fired and that the damage they caused was of really no military he said that when he was inthe United states he was rather shocked to see the Way that afew rounds had been ballooned in the Public Eye through 8 killed enemy rocket attacks killed eight people and wounded 33 overnight the spokesmen of the casualties were Viet namese toll raised to 59 the num Ber of civilians killed and 184the number wounded since the nightly shelling of Saigon began May 31. Fourteen 122mm rockets Fellon Saigon Early monday destroy ing six houses in the heavily populated Northwest Section. While the rockets fell on the capital government rangers and police continued their sweep through a six Block Section of Cholon the big chinese District and spokesmen said communist resistance had collapsed. The spokesmen said the 34viet Cong surrendered sunday and another five were capture Din sweeps monday. More than 1,000 refugees were allowed backing the battered area to recover what goods were salvageable from the rubble of their Homes. American troops fought major Battles sunday near the North vietnamese Border and in the Mekong Delta. . Spokesmen said the americans killed a least 85 enemy soldiers. The fighting Cost 19 . Lives and 50americans were wounded. . Headquarters reported the ambushing by North vietnamese troops of a . Marine military Supply Convoy. The Convoy was hit sunday morning by an enemy Force of undetermined size four Miles East of the once besieged . Combat base at Khe Sahn in the North West Corner of the country. In the fight Headquarters said the marines killed 12 enemy sol Diers but lost 12 killed themselves and nine wounded. Pigeons get birth control Geneva up Geneva pigeons Are to receive birth control pills it was Learned monday. City authorities said Pigeon food will be laced wit drugs which have the same effect As anti baby pills on humans. Ing its forces in the South that they must continue their Offen Sive to support their negotiators in the picture drawn from som of the captured material contrasts sharply with the .analysis in that it portrays the North vietnamese Viet con forces As undiminished in strength after their february tet offensive. But the enemy version Doe agree with Washington s in seeing a wide Gap Between the negotiators at Paris and hard fighting ahead. One document puts it this Way the peace negotiations advocated by the . Are merely de signed to placate world opinion and the american people. Hence the . Will be trying to make some concessions on unimportant issues hoping to achieve their objectives which is to maintain the puppet army and government . To maintain Neo colonialism. However our objective is the toppling of Hement and the the puppet army in with a . Withdraw thus Between Ourthe enemy plan there Strong and Sharp especially since the enem 3force and is subjective and born. Such a situation can settled by extremely violent a frees 2 gis out of respect for Frk phenom penh up Cam Bodia monday released two american soldiers held since May 20 and handed them Over to the australian diplomatic Mission As a gesture to the Mem Ory of sen. Robert f. Kennedy. The two men Joel Saint Clai Deschamps and Jerry tester were handed Over by ing Judeth Secretary general of t h e Cam Bodian foreign s chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk or dered the release of the men who were taken prisoner aboard the philippine tug beam for the ship s alleged violation of cambodian territory. The government the people of Cambodia and myself would like to express our admiration and respect for the Kennedy fam ily whose sacrifices to the Caus of peace Justice and Freedom for the oppressed must not be Sihanouk said. In Honor of the american people and the future of Mankind in homage to the memory of the most regretted lost senator Cam Bodia has decided to liberate without condition the two Amer ii can soldiers interned for violation of its Cambodia he said had been shocked at the senator s assassination. Slain to avenge Frk Chicago up a negro service station attendant was arrested and charged with murder monday in the fatal shooting of a jordanian grocer believed slain by avengers of the death of sen. Lobert f. Mayers 19, one of two suspects in the saturday night pistol slaying of Abder Rayyan 55, was arrested before Dawn atthe South Side station where he worked police said. He was charged put in jail and was to appear at a felony court hearing later monday. Police said it was Rumore that Rayyan said after Kennedy s slaying in los Angeles last wee that he should have been dead Long police however could not con firm the Rumor and friends and relatives of the victim said it was not True. Faces press Sirhan Sirhan s father talks to newsmen i Jerusalem telling them he is certain his son acted alone in the shooting of sen. Robert f. Kennedy. Up photo father says Sirhan acted on his own Jerusalem up the father of the Man who is charged with assassinating sen. Robert said sunday night he was sure the attack was carried out entirely on my son s Initia Tive and for 52-year-old Bishara Sirhan the statement was a Complete about face. He has maintained until now that his sen had been put up to the assassination. It s Kennedy who was to blame for what happened the elder Sirhan told newsmen. Twas his Tongue which led to his the senator he said insulted the arabs 517th arty i killed in car crash Kaiserslautern Germany is a 32nd Aad com Soldier was pronounced dead on arrival at the Fulda dispensary saturday morning after a car Accident near Hemmen Germany Accord ing to a command spokesman Here. Spec. 5 Joseph r. Hester was Riding in a car driven by spec. 5 James w. Williams that missed turn and rolled Oyer. Hester was killed and Williams is uncritical condition at the 97th Gen eral Hospital in Frankfurt. Hester assigned to the 6th ,517th arty is survived by his father t. J. Hester of Carlisle Ohio. Substitution no solution Levelland Tex. Up Rebecca Mckinley had a Auto Accident and the policeman gave her a ticket for not having a Driver s License. She did not want to get another ticket so she had Linda Longoria drive her Auto for her. A half hour later in the same area Linda had an Accident. According to witnesses in the store including Rayyan s Daugh Ter Zuhde a 22, two negroes walked into the store went past the Cash registers to the vegetable bin where Rayyan was stand ing and shot him twice once inthe head behind the ear simulating the fatal wound to assailants then ran out of the store and Halfway Down the Street to a car with other youths in it. The car sped away. Leave politics friends Urgil Ted Kennedy new Orleans apm friends of the Kennedy a Are urging the last living Ber sen. Edward m. Henri. D-mass., to withdraw from Tive political life the Archac of new Orleans says. Archbishop Philip m. Hannau who presided at graveside sen ices for assassinated sen. Robert of. Kennedy at Arlington National cemetery saturday night said sunday the natural reaction Oil the family and friends has been to discourage Ted Kennedy front pursuing his career. I to be considered said the pro Date is that the Massachusetts senator is the Only adult son Ina Large family which now has Many fatherless children. But he added we must ear in mind that Teddy is. Final Legatee of a great american political i archbishop Hannan who also played an important role in the funeral of assassinated president John f. Kennedy in 1963, said he could not predict what the Mkennedy brother s decision to be. 1"teddy now has an assured Ness and a sense of Mission that he could not have had before Tow Tizen s foggy notion sends firemen flying Weston. Mass. A a ladder truck and three engine practically the town s entire in department were called w when someone reported a cd Woof Sioke in a wooded residential area. T. The smoke turned out to Neil chemical fog being used i Mosquito control. Weather . 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