European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse June 18, i960 the stars and strips Liei iian deadlocked fog 7 mail from Pueblo Crew drops to trickle Washington a report the volume of from captured crewmen offus. Intelligence ship Pue dwindled considerably Over the past few weeks. But they decline to relate this development to prospects for release of the 82 men. Rather they suggest that North Korea May have decided its attempts to mount propaganda and diplomatic pressure through prisoner letters were not paying off. The ship and its Crews we resized last Jan. 25. The . Effort at winning re turn of the captives is focused on diplomatic negotiations at of. A a am a meet the class Nineteen year old san Blackbourn is in a class by herself. Is the president vice president Sec by and sergeant at arms of her graduating class at the Edmonds Community College Edmonds Wash. She is also the top student and the valedictorian being the Only one to graduate this year from the new school. Others were in the class but did not accumulate enough credits for graduation. Susan Hopes to continue her schooling at Oregon state. Dpi Leagan Calls . Anti incumbent Washington up Cali Nia gov. Ronald Reagan said nday that Public Dissat Isaac n is so vast in this country at the National mood is to of incumbents out of office at Ever their political philos is. Contrary to the tendency Inich a Man holding office neurally has the advantage re his challenger there is cd dissatisfaction on the Par the people today with what has been going on that there is a tendency against the incumbent Reagan said. Appearing on television face the nation lbs on a program taped saturday at the Republican governors conference in Tulsa okla., Reagan mad these other Points he would be hard put to know where anyone got the idea that he was a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination. I cer guaranteed Job for All Ian wins in a Gallup in Princeton . A Jority of americans Don t like e idea of a wordless Guaran tee annual income program but Era Hellingly support a Plant would guarantee every to Al worker a Job paying at ?60 a week the Gallup pol sunday. A recent Survey of 1,570nulls across the nation the poll ram nation found that the lower person s income the More like was to support a Guaran minimum income. Jut the Survey added that fact reported was that overwhelming majority Oarsons m All income Levels and All races supported a plan Oney egg w0rk rather than imm of guaranteed work plan was feed a 78 per get of those ent p. And up Secl by 18 Petrrna ,1 per cent balance Fca no opinion. Comparison the Guaran plan was opposed by 58 per cent of those surveyed and supported by 36 per cent. The remaining 6 percent had no opinion. The guaranteed income plan proposed by some economists would provide a four member family with a minimum $3,200 a year whether or not family members Are working. Mainly am not now More than technically a candidate he said this comes by virtue of his statuses California s favorite son Candi Date to the gop convention he said. Ideologically he is closer to Richard m. Nixon than new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller but he did not want to give the impression that this mean that i was supposed to be favouring one Over the on Vietnam it has Bee my impression that perhaps Nelson Rockefeller is placing Little More Faith in the negotiations or in some kind of Compromise settlement than i find myself Able he could Welcome former gov. George Wallace into the gop under the circumstance that he subscribe to our philosophy but the record shows that on Domestic issues he has been right in line wit the present democratic philosophy of government control an subsidy and regulation and so Forth which would be contrary to the Republican asked if he had any Faith inthe Prospect that the Paris talks could Lead to peace in Vietnam Reagan said of i can Hope for peace but i Don t Hope for the kind of peace that would result in say Concession that would allow the Viet Cong to be a part of the South vietnamese government. I think this would be about the same As the United states government taking the cos Nostra in As on another topic he said rethought president Johnson was wrong in permitting the poor Peoples Campaign to use a site near the Lincoln memorial for their Encampment in washing ton. Frankly i am in disagree ment with this particular Marchand i am in disagreement with the government s acceptance fit he said because it leads to the delusion that the March can win new legislation from Congress. No lie too much sweat Madison wis. Up Joh Wilimovsky the Wisconsin crime Laboratory s lie Detector expert quit. He said he was overworked. Panmunjom. So far there have been 17 .-North Korea ses Sions at the korean War truce site the latest one on May 28. The Panmunjom talks still Are in deadlock and washing ton officials will not predict when the prisoners May be freed although they expect the meetings to continue. Nearly 300 letters from the Pueblo Crew Are reported to have arrived in this country since the communists captured the 906-ton . Navy electronic Survey vessel off the port of won san. The letters have been sent to family members and to Public officials including a March 4open letter to president Johnson purportedly signed by All of the captured shipmates. The Gist of the letters generally has been in line with North korean propaganda and de mands at Panmunjom to win return of the prisoners the United states must apologize and confess that the Pueblo was spying inside korean Waters. The . Government says the Pueblo was illegally seized by gunboats in International water several Miles outside the 12 mile offshore limit claimed Bynorth Korea. Flow dwindled the flow of letters has dwindled to a trickle since april though some Are still coming in. Personal details in Many of the letters indicate they were in fact written by the their substance conforming so closely to the North Korea propaganda line appears to have been Pyongyang broadcasts about the Pueblo affair Are dwindling too. However . Officials report the North Korea shave been giving wide circulation abroad to movies of the Pueblo prisoners allegedly confessing to espionage and to pamphlets expounding the communist the reds apparently Are keeping the captives incommunicado at some unrevealed place. The ship itself has been moved to a port North of . Officials said they have no evidence that mail an packages sent to the prisoners have been delivered and no out Side parties have been allowed to see the men. Good health judging from the photographs of the captives which the North koreans have put out official believe the men Are in relatively Good Johnson at his May 3 news conference said there was nothing new to report. He added we will carefully examine All of the evidence following their release and if there is any indication that we have acted improperly or have violated their boundaries we will Lake appropriate 5 amateurs Trace Vikings route across Atlantic Marblehead mass. Up a Crew of modern Day Vikings set sail sunday for Scotland tracing a route supposedly used by scandinavian explorers in Longship that criss crossed the Atlantic from 800 to 1200 a. Morrisson of West Hartford daughter. Conn.,Philip took Riggs his of Yorktown Heights n. Y., and Riggs two sons made up the rest of the Crew of Amateur sailors who set off in the 45-foot Sailboat owned by Briggs. Brief stops in Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Greenland Are scheduled before the Long sweep across the North Atlantic to Scotland is to be to historians Vik ing explorers travelled the Sam route stopping in Greenland and Newfoundland to Hunt and trap animals and found Colo Nies. Some believe the Vikings came As far South As what is Supply of canned and dried now Cape said this is basically a fun trip although we re retracing a historical route we Aren t making an scientific or cultural studies. It s not a dangerous trip however we have to be foods something the Vikings did t have on hand. Also this voyage will be made easier by sophisticated modern maps and navigational instruments unheard of in Viking and Morrisson began planning the trip last dec Eta careful. We be sailed before and j Ber. Once in Scotland Morris son and his daughter will return we think we know what we redoing. Home while the others remain the Crew will carry a Large in Europe for the summer
