European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes blast ammo base in Saigon up the Viet con blew up a Saigon ammunition dump thursday with explosion that rocked the capital and spread their Urban terror Campaign to Danang with the bombing of a . Navy office building. Twenty five 82mm mortal shells fired before Dawn set off the dump in blasts that lasted three hours and lighted Saigon s sky. A guerrilla platoon tried to overrun the dump but South vietnamese guards stopped the mat the barbed wire Fence and drove them away. The Viet Cong passed the Wordy leaflets that the almost daily shelling of Saigon which is Tak ing a rising toll of lives will be intensified within a week vietnamese sources said thurs Day. The leaflets warned of anew terror Campaign of 100 rockets a night for 100 Danang the key Allied base City 360 Miles up the coast from Saigon a Lone terrorist planted a suitcase time bomb inthe Navy building. The explosion roared at the stroke of noon throwing men into the air and mangling Metal . Servicemen and vietnamese civilian employee suffered injury. It was the first terror act of 1968 in Danang. Buildings shake in Saigon buildings Shook Ashe storage bunkers crammed with South vietnamese munitions blew up. Despite the explosions government troops stayed by their posts withstood a b40 rocket attack and then chased the charging guerrillas Back into sur rounding Bamboo and Palm South vietnamese troops suffered other developments a . Marine f4 phantom Jet accidentally bombed an american position wednesday near the . Fort of Khe Sanh just below the North Vietnam order. One Marine was killed and nine wounded.. Military Headquarters in Saigon reported that 380 Amer cans were killed in combat in Vietnam last week the lowest toll in five weeks. The number of american wounded in action was 2,739. No s daughter Dies choked on big Marble in Olstadt Germany is a 2-year-old american dependent child died her wednesday when a Large Marble she was playing with caught inner Throat. Terry Lynn Watson daughter of staff sgt. And mrs. Kenneth Watson 36th army missile det was pronounced dead by a Ger Man doctor who was called to the Watson Home in in Olstadt. Hridoy. June she saved a City exit. Ends Ang by de Freakley staff writer Mannheim Germany is it took 23 years for Elmer p. Robinette to realize his one de sire since world War ii ended. The 50-year-old Miami Busi Nessman came to Germany this week in the Hope of finding the Angel of Mannheim the woman who saved this City Robinet Esaid Here wednesday. With the help of City official who made hundreds of phone Calls Robinette met mrs. Gretje Ahlrichs the 56-year-old Tele phone operator who was responsible for saying Mannheim from being destroyed by the Allie during the War. On March 28, 1945, 1st it. Rob Inette assistant communications officer of the 933rd Field Artil Lery set up a command Post in a water Plant just outside the City. His unit was providing support for the 44th div of the seventh army his artillery battalion was laying heavy fire on Mannheim. A phone rang in the water Plant. It was the mayor of the City and he wanted to talk wit the allies about surrendering the there were still forces in the City that were opposed to surrender the negotiations went on through the night Robinett recalled. It was mrs. Atli who volunteered to open that night going on All around stayed Nghi there is As agreement was reach next morning and the f stopped. It was a Heby a woman and it Sav lives. It saved a City � pm said. All these years i have want to come and find her. To make sure that her Flowers for heroine mrs. Gretje Ahlrich Sers Given to her As a tribute of thanks from Elmer flow Robinette. When Robinette arrived Hail he had never met the Mot he did not even know her ambut a Story about his Seartis a German newspaper pita Man at the Mannheim bin to look through the archives the City. He found a report of the fall Dent written in 1955. 1 wednesday Robinette nil mrs. Ahlrichs. He talked it a her for an hour and present Lher with Flowers. She is just the person i a been thinking she would be lot i these 23 years Robinette a she certainly is the Angel of Kaiserslautern my killed As gun goes off Kaiserslautern Germany special a military policeman was accidentally shot and killed in the orderly room of the 69th military police det Here wednes Day evening the army said thursday. While exact details of the Accident Are not yet known it is believed that the dead Man and another my pfc. Daniel d. Bartoszewski were handling their weapons when one a .45-caliber automatic went off. Gun on floor the discharged weapon found on the floor after the shooting was signed out to Bartoszewski who is under heavy sedation for severe Shock and has not yet been questioned. The Only other person in the room at the time of the shooting was the desk sergeant spec. 4stephen r. Wagner who was sitting behind the desk and did not see the Accident. A Board of officers has Bee appointed to investigate the incident. Name of the dead soldiers being withheld pending notification of relatives. Staying response inadequate mrs. King charges official apathy Cambridge mass. Up mrs. Martin Luther King or. Said wednesday official reactions to the assassination of her husband and sen. Robert have been invade widow of the civil rights Leader said with All due respect to the president even intense prayer and a new commission of notables will not ease the violence in our . King said official responses to the frightful and tothe personally painful Assassin Bennett takes Post june 24 Stuttgart is . Donald v. Bennett incoming commander of Vii corps will assume his Post in an Honor guard ceremony at 4 . June24 at Jayhawk Field Kelley bar Racks in , 53, who has been nominated for a third Star succeed set. Gen. Frank t. Mildren. Mil Dren has departed Europe an will take Over aug. 1 As Deputy commander . Army Viet Nam. Bennett formerly was superintendent of the . Military Aca Demy at West Point . Hippies think this is the living end continued from Page l Ami. We think California will slide into the sea there will be violent earthquakes there willbe a violent change in All of society and maybe even atlant swill Rise he said. For a month word has been Raveling from Mouth to Mouth in hippie circles that the catastrophe is imminent. By car and by t h u m a members of the love generation have been coming Here to bewitch persons of their kind on he Black Day saturday. When the first hippies arrived they predicted 5,000 of their number would be in an around this City of 50,000 by disaster Day. But residents of the area have reacted strongly and several incidents have Cuttle estimate Down by As much As 90 per cent to about 500. Cabin owners reported break ins land owners reported hippies camped on their land without permission and residents of Boulder began protest ing. Hippies reported to the sheriff that two of them had been shot at by vigilantes. Citizens meetings for an against the hippies have been called. A group of concerned citizens met tuesday to discuss alleged police harassment. An other meeting was held thurs Day by town merchants who Hope to close Down some hippie hang outs. Boulder county sheriff mar Vin Nelson issued a statement to county residents stating vigilante actions would not be tolerated. Tons of these past months have been addressing approximately3,000 Harvard seniors their friends and relatives mrs. Kin said acting forthrightly on the recommendations of the Kerne commission report might president Johnson last Yea appointed the commission headed by then Illinois Kerner to study the causes of racial violence i american cities. The commis Sion found White racism to Bethe principal cause. Now that two of America leaders have been murdered he has appointed another commis Sion mrs. King noted. Mrs. King who was forced to give her speech indoors because of rain told the Large gathering spread through three rooms some listening Over loudspeakers that this is no time for business As usual and strength paper drops annle9 Tracy Greensboro . A the Greensboro daily news has cancelled its Dick Tracy an Little orphan Annie comic strips because of what the paper described As their constant exploitation and advocacy of in a note to readers on the front Page of thursday s editions Tho newspaper said it was cancelling the two comic strips with reluctance but in order to bring our practices in line with our editorial policy of criticizing other communications Media for exploiting violence. Referring to the two comic features the newspaper said we feel that their constant exploitation and advocacy of violence by Law enforcement officers and the Good Guys out weigh any value the strips might have in promoting the theory crime does not ening the police is business a usual a tried and false an . King substituted for her husband who had accepted a invitation to address the graduating class not Long before hews killed by a sniper s Bullet in Memphis slowly and deliberately mrs. 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