European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 24 the stars and stripes wed Venice police halt St. Mark s siege talks with soviet ambassador Venice Italy up Mili Tant left Wing Art students battled police in St. Mark s Square tues Day night after narrowly failing in an attempt to occupy Fame Cost. Mark s Cathedral and its Bell  students managed to raise a red Flag in front of the Cathe dral before Truncheon wielding police sent them fleeing Over canal Bridges into the narrow streets surrounding the great Square. The March on St. Mark s came after 4,000 police repulsed Stu Dent attempts to occupy the Venice Bien Nale International Art exhibition the world famous Gal Lery of the Fine arts Academy and a museum on the grand canal containing 18th Century venetian paintings. Doors slammed shut it was the first time in Italy month Long wave of student Agi tation that any attempt has Bee made to occupy one of the coun try s historic  of the Lith Century byzantine style Cathedral which houses the Bones of the apostle St. Mark saw the students com ing and slammed shut its great Bronze doors. Custodians at the 324-foot Belltower a landmark of Venice that stands a Short Way across the Square did the same. At least seven students we rearrested. The student agitation turned Venice into a City under siege. Even though they failed to occupy the Bien Nale which does not open officially until saturday the students seemed Likely to millionaire Ataman on dead at 61 Beverly Hills Calif. A Howard f. Ahmanson,61, who fashioned a financial Empire and ran it from within secluded Tudor mansion died monday while vacationing i Belgium. A spokesman for Ahmanson s Home savings and loan association the nation s largest said he died of a heart attack while on an extended tour of Europe. Ahmanson a noted philanthropist and Patron of the arts was travelling with his wife of three years the former Carolin Leonetti a Well known Beauty consultant and his son howardjr., 18. He had suffered a severe heart attack in the 1950s, after which he retreated from his bustling offices to the seclusion of the Tudor Home in los an Geles Hancock Park. Published estimates of his for tune ranged up to a half billion dollars. Fortune Magazine. Succeed in making a fiasco of  threat to occupy  Nale came from students who have been occupying the Fine arts Academy for three month sin a protest against the capita list  they charged the Bien Nale was part of the system an said Art has become a costly plaything pleasures  for of the the intellectual dominating Brandt visits East her Bonn a West German foreign minister Willy Brandt crossed into communist Easterlin tuesday and talked with Pyotr Abrasimow the soviet ambassador to East Germany the foreign ministry said. Earlier a West Berlin police spokesman confirmed that Brandt had crossed through the communist Wall via checkpoint Charlie at 3 45 . A source at the City govern ment guest House said Brandt left there tuesday afternoon an that he would not be Back until late tuesday night before flying Back to Bonn Early in the morn ing. East German Leader Walter Ulbricht indicated recognition of his country by West Germany is the Price for relaxing the communist squeeze on West Berlin. Ulbricht chief of state an communist party first Secre tary in a speech to a Farmers Congress in Leipzig said at Long last West Germany will have to accept the reality of the German democratic  he spoke saturday and t h speech was published in the Eastern press tuesday. The 1m announced lathe said so Rescue Craft seek French Sailor in the Atlantic after distress Call Wii is to revise Poste Pean Borders. A he called the measures s son to those who div German Federal rep Fol Only Legal German Ste London a ships an aircraft mounted a full scale Rescue operation in the Atlantic tuesday night for French yachts Man Joan de Kat a competitor in the transatlantic yacht  Kat 27, sent a mayday Mes Sage that his 50-foot trimaran Yaksha was breaking up in heavy seas 900 Miles West of  distress Call picked up by an airline Captain said lost no rudder one float this is my last Mes Mast Only.  five British and . Aircraft were on their Way to the scene and the . Weather ship Charlie sailed for the search area. There still has been no sight ing of the Yaksha or de Kat a Royal air Force spokesman said tuesday night. But if he is in his inflatable Dinghy with the Hood up he stands a very Good Chance of surviving the bearded Yachtsman de signed the trimaran himself. Before the race started he said i will  the 3,006-mile race began june1 from Plymouth England with 35 boats setting out for Newport,. Ascot. Continued from Page 1 allowed men to Wear lounge its if they did not care for top hat and Tail coat. But girls still cannot get away with trousers its though minis Are let through. If men Are allowed to Wear lounge suits i think women should be allowed to Wear culottes miss Harris said. Prince Charles 19-year-Oldheir to the throne watched Only two horses run in a race newly named after his chief title $12, 000 Prince of Wales  Queen a great racing fan allowed his name to be used Asa Way of marking his entry into Public life. The Field for the race seconding the card of six May have been Small because the Winner was almost a certainty. Royal Palace Winner of the 1967derby, easily galloped away from the twice raced Irish Colt Jehad. Ascot is an occasion for Thezan Iest fashions for Vintage Champagne at $9.60 a bottle for lunches of smoked Salmon and cold cuts and Strawberry  Jane Bough a 25-year old actress Model chose to Weara White lace hat shaped like a Birdcage with a stuffed Green lovebird inside the 10-Inch dome. Actress Tandy Cronyn collected 1,000 chrysanthemums roses carnations and daisies for a Coata Bikini underneath which must have been the Only outfit on the course that needed water no. New cars rolling again As French strike ends Paris a More than100,000 striking metalworkers re turned to their jobs tuesday an cars began rolling off the state owed Renault Assembly  French government readied subsidies for a major Export drive to ease the economic Strain of the month Long wave of strikes. Renault with 68,000 workers reported its Day shift Back artwork normally and said cars were already coming off the As Sembly line at the Flins Plant Northwest of Paris. Renault exports 39 per cent of its production and is a big earner of for eign currency for France. Workers vote workers were voting tuesday on a strike settlement at the Ber Liet truck factory another big exporter in Lyon. Another 30,000 strikers Westback to work in the St. Nazaire Bordeaux and la Seine ship Yards but those at Nantes and in Brittany were still  informants mean sports in Brief new York a the Houston astros tired manager rally Hatton tuesday and immediately replaced him with batting coach Harry Walker details Page 20. Enate panel oks Long gun curbs continued from Puttre l week on other gun control legislation including measures to require registration of Al firearms and permits to own them. Although no subcommittee members voted against the administration measure several senators pointed out it did not mean All favored the Bill. Sen. Strom Thurmond  said he was opposed to it. At a closed two hour session. An attempt by sen. Roman , r-neb., to soften the Impact of the Bill. By a 6-3 vote the group refused to simply Amend a ban on mail order sales of handgun that is included in the omnibus ant crime Bill by adding a Banon such sales of rifles and shotguns. After the subcommittee vote Din favor of the Bill Hruska promptly announced he would support it. Hruska in the past has Bee the subcommittee first rejected i the chief Senate foe of legislation to ban mail order sales of any guns. Hruska s move appeared virtually to assure that some Type of strengthened gun control legislation will pass the Senate this year. Hruska is Republican member of judiciary committee. Key the if the majority of the Senate feels it is necessary to pass gun control legislation such As the president suggests i will not object prepared Hruska Senate deed i will support  in speech. In while said finance minister Maurice Couve de Murville has prepared a Long list of conces Sions to Export firms for approval by the Cabinet which is to meet wednesday with president Charles de Gaulle. The concessions Are designed to persuade More firms to Export instead of Selling at Homeland to invest More Money in Plant improvement and enlarge ment of production facilities. Surrender. Continued from Page to series of extremely heavy .air Force Navy and Marine air strikes against targets in the Southern Panhandle of North Vietnam below the 19th  spokesman said the planes flew 142 missions monday a n a tuesday. The soviet news Agency Tass reported an air Alert Over Hanoi tuesday and said antiaircraft guns went into action. The americans have been sending recon Naissance planes Over the Hanoi Haiphong area to Check on communist troop movements and buildups. Changes statement the . Command changed its earlier statement that a .Navy Swift boat had been sunk by enemy artillery sunday night off the coast near the Doz. Spokesman said tuesday the 50 foot Craft May have been Sun by unidentified aircraft and we re investigating  questioned about the aircraft he said they could have been either american or North vietnamese. The australian Navy and .command announced tuesday that an air to air Sparrow mis Sile from a . Warplane apparently hit the australian de Stroyer Hobart Early monday. Two crewmen were killed an seven were injured. Like the Swift boat that was sunk the Hobart also was cruising off the Doz of fsr enemy helicopters reportedly had been attacked. Gore Beds challenges my 6 Conti Washington a ,1general accounting Offil ejected tuesday challenges to legality of two new Arm tracts for production of rifles. In a report to a special subcommittee the a army could legally Ign deciding which of should receive the Contrael last april 19, the awarded two year contra240,000 rifles each to Matic division of generators Ypsilanti mich., and Harrington and Richardson of Worcester mass. The pm contract had a Price of $56 million i Price on the Harrington Richardson contract million. The army s action was Ilen ged after it was lean other firms that sought tracts Maremont co. Of Maine and Cadillac Warren  p to Supply the rifles for prices of about $37 million object changed the Gao said the array i the four firms that As a iof increased urgency to a the maximum number of iat the earliest possible Date i minimum risks of product eruption the objector procurement is changed Lect those two sources will afford to the Goven the highest degree of Copin their ability in meeting exceeding the schedule no rep. 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