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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes wednesday Jun rioting Atlanta convicts seize 23 hostage. J 11  1 a Var if inf Rufo Lia urn if in of pm i a continued from pane immediately Learned How they got the  officials kept in touch with the convicts by Means fan intercom Telephone. Warden Olin g. Blackwell warned reporter Williams that he too might be taken hostage if he went ahead with the  said he would. I m scared Williams admitted but i have no  Williams recently wrote Sev eral articles concerning a suit racketeer Mickey Cohen brought against the Federal prison system after he had been maimed for life during beating he received at the hands of other convicts while in the Atlanta Penitentiary. It was apparently because of these and other such articles that the prisoners demanded Tosee Williams. I be always aired their grievances Wil Liams said before he went  before Williams arrived at the prison the convict threatened to open fire at the crowd outside the prison unless they were served Coffee and  convicts had a Good View of the outside world from their violence boils up again in France continued from Page 1 ahead of the students to occupy the Square in front of the station. Numerous arrests were mad but the police kept the students from massing until they had moved part Way across Paris to the place Pialle scuffling wit police All along the Way. Other fights were going on be tween police and students closer Down toward the Seine River and on the other Side of it along the Boulevard St.  the latin Quarter helmeted riot police fought their Way Al the Way up the Boulevard St. Michel launching volleys of tear Gas and concussion grenades and receiving barrages of paving stones and other missiles in re  finally cleared the Boule Vard and forced the students in to Side streets where they tried to build barricades of burning automobiles garbage cans and anything else that was  the River at the St. Laz Are station other student group numbering from two to three thousand fought Brief Bat Leswith riot police trying to Channel them Back across the  were a number of injured demonstrators and  extremist groups called for a March on the Elysee pal Ace residence of president Charles de Gaulle but police blocked the Way. The latin Quarter was a Sham Bles after the night of rioting the first since May 24 and 25.windows in dozens of stores and cafes were smashed by terrifying police concussion grenades that make a huge noise and spread rebounding sound Waves. Signs were ripped Down news paper stands burned and roofs torn up by students who hurled the roofing tiles at parked police buses. The students also Hurle Molotov cocktails at the buses. The communist led Genera workers confederation the nation s biggest Union called Foran hour Long general walkout in France wednesday starting at3 . To Honor the memory of the dead striker in  eight hours of violence in the latin Quarter were touched off by the death of a student who drowned in the Seine after a pro chinese demonstration was broken up by police. Police said the youth jumped into the River while fleeing from them. Students charged he was either thrown into the River or was clubbed by police while try ing to climb ashore. Despite the new violence the strike movement that has Para lazed France for More than three weeks continues to Wilt. The key Sud aviation aircraft company which is making the supersonic jetliner concorde went Back int production tuesday. Some smaller companies also resumed work and High schools opened again. But strikes continued in the metals Industry at the state run radio and television network the Nord aviation company and the French National air plane engine  few Auto plants were Back at work including the Renault factory at flips. However in a communique tuesday night the Renault management announced they were closing Down the works until further notice after 3,500 worker returning to work were turned Back by strikers still occupying the premises. The strikers Are apparently members of a trotskyite group calling themselves proletarian unionists of the general workers  similar group is held to be responsible for the continue attacks against the Peugeot factory. Plans to teach lbs repeats lie s leaving Berlin continued from Pafe to berliners have needed Only their identity  was no mention of any restrictions affecting official Allied traffic to and from West Berlin through East  traffic is handled by russian soldiers not East German Bor Der guards. The official East German news Agency reported the in tended measure quoting speech by Interior minister Friedrich Dickel before theol Skammer East Berlin. Parliament in the government of the East German democratic Republic in tends Dickel was reported As saying to initiate in the travel and transit traffic to and from the West German Federal re Public and the Independent Politi Cal entity West Berlin passport and visa  first excerpts of the speech did not make Clear How or when those requirements would be put into effect. Dickel told the Voluska Merthe measure was justified be cause of West Germany s enact ment of the so called Emer gency Laws which Grant thebon government special Powers in time of War or  observers saw the Rove As the most serious Viola Tion of four Power agreements on Berlin since the communist blockade 20 years ago. It followed East German Banson travel by members of West Germany s right Wing National democratic party Ned and most recently on travel by West German Cabinet ministers and their  Western allies angrily protested the earlier restrictions to the russians to no Avail. Washington up pres ident Johnson tuesday Reaf firmed his decision to leave the White House at the end of his term in january and to return to teaching. There has been widespread speculation that despite John son s withdrawal statement during his broadcast address to the nation March 31, he might be persuaded to accept a draft at the democratic National convention in August. But the president made Clear at a White House ceremony for 20 graduates of the congressional pages school that he meant what he had said March 31."you have completed your studies at a unique institution of education and next january so shall i he told the  37 years of Public service next january i will graduate and hopefully go Back to the  Johnson plans tentatively to lecture part time on govern ment and contemporary history at the University of Texas in Austin while working on development of the Johnson presidential Library on the  another Point in his remarks he spoke of the Nee for Young people to assume leadership in Public life an said i m going Back Home weather partly Cloudy and Cool. Little change thursday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66, Low 48. Temperatures recorded tuesday get 4 4 am pm84 Adana p 70 75 Athens p 54 66 Aviano p 48 61 Berlin p 48 66 Frankfurt p 57 68 London p a partly Cloudy. 4 4 am pm 59 81 Madrid p 43 61 Munich p 50 68 Paris p 54 73 Prestwick p 57 68 Rome p 75 84 wheelus p 2nd weather Wing and i am going to try to produce some of  before meeting with the National Security Council at the White House the president Rode eight Miles to Walter Reed army medical Center to visit three old friends and to tour an enlisted Ward filled with amputees from the Vietnam War. On the dignitaries Ward on the third floor of the Hospital he chatted briefly with former president and mrs. Dwight d. Eisenhower Justice William  and sen. Richard b. Russell a a. All he reported later seem to be getting along  mild heart attack Eisenhower whom the pres ident found walking in his suite is recuperating from a Mil heart attack he suffered in april at his Palm desert calif.,Winter Home. Douglas had an electric pacemaker implanted in his Chest a week ago to stimulate his heart to beat at Normal rate. His heart had been beating slower than Normal. Seepage 2. Russell chairman of the Senate armed services commit tee is suffering a Chest  of the danger of complications caused by his chronic emphysema Russell is spending nights at Walter  Ward 35, the president Shook hands with 49 male patients nearly All of whom Are victims of mortar fire grenades and other explosives in Viet Nam. Some had lost an Arm or a leg or both and eight of then had lost both legs. Smiling encouragingly John son passed Down the Row of Beds shaking hands and saying we re proud of you we All appreciate what you re doing and i m grateful to you Fellows thank  were in such pain they could barely manage a  one Vietnam returnee s request Johnson scrawled the letters lbs on his leg cast and handed him a presidential May be another first Antwerp Belgium a baby Mountain Gorilla has been born in the Antwerp zoo. A zoo spokesman said it was believed to be the first time a Mountain Gorilla has Given birth while in Captivity. Pen. The Thein his remarks before pages school graduates president said they should realize the United states is not sick despite the social turmoil of recent years. He said there was a need to distinguish Between the twisted logic of apolitical Assassin and the inherent decency of  cautioning against any actions that might deepen divisiveness in the country the president said he hoped that second Story Post at Entrance of their she Warden Bla cull l original intent of the 1 was to  Lynnial in addition to landkfass1"- Patricia Cul Godfrey miss and mrs. Barbars Hajj also Donald d Lam we. Hahs Troy l of Crutchfield c. A Moore Johnson jr., David Satte Paul Abrams t. D. Joe Jackson Richard r b. V. Wolfe will Dallas flu Efrazier Sam Mcallister g Brand and m. R. Jacob s guards armed with crouched behind parked car front of the enormous is i Long administration build they urged passersby to quickly because you re 1down the barrel of a Rifle shortly before 1  guard ran out of administration building an police the convicts had ened to Start shooting Mcdonough Boulevard crowd of Spectator someone brought them and  quickly dispersed onlookers but Many of returned quickly. No shots fired. Where s my boy Friend?1 j Arlene Granito told re she was in the building to visit her Fiance inmate at the prison. She i was sitting in the vis room for two hours and kept saying where s my boy Frie where s my boy Friend " they said Well find sooner or later " then she said she heard shots from the direction of Warden s office. Guards Moj into the visitor s waiting n she said and ordered eve out saying Only it s an  and catcalls heard coming from i administration building forms part of the front Wall of in building. The 27-acre prison Sun de by gloomy Walls of or 50 feet High has housed some the most notorious peso America including Al Ca and russian master spy Dolph Abel. Brown. Our people Willand have the most of understand Wisdom and the durability to work with not against those who want to Progress and to move  baseball tuesday 8 major league Len scores by the associated press National league Cincinnati 023102010918 1 Chicago. 100303000710 2culver, Mccool 4abernathy 6 and Bench Niekro Lamabe 2hartenstein 3hernandez 5nye 7regan 9 and Hundley. A Mccool 2-3, or a Veltro 5-5.hrscincinnati, Perez 7may 6. American league Boston at California twi night double header postponed rain. Continued from of a negro father caucasian Mother. A who is eurasian in up she had hoped to get movies  for me Leone lid. Agency w resents miss Botarf Tan Asel said her Moth and her father Amat. 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