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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tou l d e a Colo. Up is of hippies to the Movnu. 1 Here appear hardly  tract that the world did t end in Acca Lytic bang saturday. Viii bar of them have famed to la fee for the. To Isch me for living off the land instead 1 society. A hippie identifying himself As Chuck said the Flower children Hope to ask the government to live on some of their land in an experimental  have been streaming into Boulder for the past two weeks for meeting of the tribes and to escape an expected cosmological cataclysm when the asteroid icarus was supposed to smash into the Earth  number of hippies thought Boulder area and Tibet would be the Only two places to survive the collision. Scientists said the mile wide Hulk of interplanetary debris made its closest approach to Earth Friday afternoon and was roughly four million Miles off target. The fact Imit life seems to be Gong 5on has not stemmed the flow of Flower 5 children into the mountains. One hip to Camp on Sugarloaf Mountain s about it Millet West of Boulder has tripled in size since last wednesday s it now Ham about 100 persons living in it. A fire marshal in the area said he s cent. On Page 2, col 1 &  a i a troop slash move growing in Senate unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol.27, no. 61 if 21855 a monday june 17, 5 daily 10 sunday 1968 guns in Doz to Eye four year old Ronnie Crum of Mentor Ohio Jacuses on  Frog that leaped into his Yard. A photo Saigon up Shore batteries believed entrenched in the demilitarized zone Sank a . Navy gunboat and fired on an american Cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin sunday military spokesmen said. Five crewmen on the gunboat Are missing. Two wounded crewmen including the officer in charge were rescued after the 50-foot-Long vessel went Ussia still a peril envoy Boston u. Graduates by join Krueger staff writer Heidelberg is thei of Coj uhf Raj j.11uu.s. Ambassador to nato Harn Cleveland warned sunday Russia still poses the main y Issue for the United and that Europe remains Arena of their most danger hence their most discreet i we rotation with the  described Berlin As that Erest of the world s sore times Cleveland Dent. In a commencement and Truere at Pat cd Henry Vil-3_uuii i for Boston univer a i weather artly Cloudy with Chance Odelberg High 78, Low so i recorded sunday get a 3 Athens Avino Berlin am 55 59 6150 66 pm a Madrid p 72 Munich p 59 Paris r 70 Prestwick p 73 Rome p 86 wheelus p2nd weather Wing sity s overseas graduate pro Gram soviet threats to choke off Berlin almost boiled Over into War. And the latest restrictions this week on Access to Berlin show again How near we always Areto crisis and confrontation in that tenderest of the world s sore spots. As things stand now the bes soviet Hope is still that Western europeans will get bored with de fending themselves and that the United states will Busy itself else where and retire from Europe and the  Cleveland reminded his Audi ence that the soviet Union instill the Only nation which has the physical capacity to destroy the United states even though indecent months americans have been so drenched with publicity about War and peace with Hanoi that we Are in some danger of mistaking the Vietnam War for the main Security Issue facing the government and people of the United  he added however that to judge from the performance of the North Atlantic Alliance these past two years we in the West do not propose to give the soviets a political Victory where the could not achieve a military ," he continued we Coin on Page 2- to co Down less than a mile off Shore and four Miles South of the Doz. Shortly after the gunboat was sunk another Craft of the same Type was fired on just North Olathe 17th parallel but sustained no hits. The boat a 50-foot Long Alu Minum Craft was taking part in operation Market time when it was hit. Market time is a round the clock operation de signed to Cut off the infiltration of men and supplies into South Vietnam by sea. In the same area an hour earlier the Cruiser Boston five Miles offshore was fired  rounds were fired b u t cont. On Page 23, col. 1 some ask Europe Cut to 50,000 by John Hall Washington up the Johnson administration May soon have its hands full to stifle a growing Senate move for major cutbacks in . Forces stationed in Europe. The test May come in a few weeks when the defense appropriations Bill comes to the . Stuart Symington d-mo., is expected to offer an amendment to Cut off funds for support for All but 50,000 of the 340,000troops still assigned to West Ger Many and other nations of West Ern Europe. It has a better than even Chance of  offered the Amend ment once before when a de sense department authorization Bill was brought to the floor Las month. But he withdrew it be fore there was a vote after hurried Call from defense Secre tary Clark Clifford to his horror one Senate aide said the Mai reason Symington decided not to go through wit then was that the showdown he suddenly discovered to his horror that i would have  if it had the defense department Wouldhave had to find some Way to bring 290,000 troops Home fro Europe in one year on its overtaxed transportation facile  Symington is expected to redraft the amendment to take the practical considerations into  happens it is Clear icon. Pm up fac /. Col. 1 comfortable night Ike has new heart attack Washington a for Mer president Dwight d. Eisen Hower suffered another Coro nary heart attack saturday night at about 9 p.m., Edt Wal Ter Reed Hospital authorities Dis closed sunday. The general spent a comfortable night and his present condition is stable the announcement said. The 77-year-old five Star Gen eral was transferred to Walter Reed May 14 from March air Force base Hospital in califor Nia where he was rushed after a heart seizure april 29 at the Eisenhower Winter Home in Palm  Reed officials said the new attack postponed Eisenhower s plan to leave the Hospital june 24 to continue his recovery at the family Home in Gettys Burg . Eisenhower is to continue to live in the  Hospital spokesman said there will be no further news re lease on Eisenhower s condition until 10 . Edt  Hospital refused to give any details of the latest attack  
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