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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, June 22, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 22, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 l a _ the com command is reshuffling i a Structure in a High male for major assault son in july informed gov it sources said  w wave of attacks will be designed to strengthen Hanoi Shand in the foundation laying stages of the Paris peace talks the sources say. The goal of the reorganizations to increase the number of divisions composed of local Ger regroup for july offensive Rillas and North vietnamese regulars. To gain the manpower the sources say the communist command is disbanding its local Hamlet Village guerrilla Struc Tures and putting the men into the Standard military regiments and divisions being  doing this to Chi min s strategists Are violating the car Dinal Rule that guerrillas must be like fish in the Ocean Ming Ling with the masses. If the intelligence reports Are to to orbit lie relay elite net p Kennedy Fla. A both Atlantic treaty or on plans to establish its military communication system late next Yearin 1970, it was Learned  sources said a $7.9-Mil tract has already been calling for delivery of to spacecraft in the fall network using an and radio relay spacecraft to ced in a stationary orbit Miles above the Atlantic i would provide instant communications Between i military units in Europe rth America. 2 satellites spacecraft a prime the and a Back up Craft been purchased for Nabob . Air Force s space fissile systems Organiza a Sams sources said. Contractor is Philco Ford of Palo Alto calif., they presently planned nato be a drum shaped satellite to one already purchased United kingdom. The plans a program called it to link military units i . And Australia oper in conjunction with the 1 states 25-satellite Mili communications network Fly in operation.. Switchboard space is to be launched next into a stationary orbit Miles Over the India both sky net and the spacecraft Are to blast torn Cape Kennedy aboard Spelta rockets with the Craft to be launched in 69 or Early 1970. Seeks Rusk visit Shin ton a the German government has posted that Secretary of state Rusk visit Bonn after the .24-28 nato conference in Avik Iceland to discuss Berlin situation with foreign i Willy Brandt. Heart valve a 14-year-old polish girl identified Only As z. M., receives her first visit in a Poznan Hospital after doctors gave her a new heart valve transplanted from a calf. The valve was preserved for weeks before the operation the first in Poland. A photo audience yells Moscow rabbi hooted off . Stage new York a the chief rabbi of Moscow was booed and hooted off the platform in his first Public appearance in the United  Yehuda Leib Levin was forced to end his speech about three fourths of the Way through when outcries of liar fro the audience made it impossible for him to be  1,700 persons in the nation office Lone numbers Germany r Civ 739368 Praven Civ 45341, Mil 7661 Purt Civ 06108-2047, Mil Offenbach 820 a lantern Civ 57617, Mil Vogel Weh 7050. Civ 5165323, Mil 7356 Perg. Civ 776647, Mil 6513 an Civ 854225, Mil 7230 Tilen Civ 420779, Mil 28595greece i Civ 985189italy n. Civ 03001spain. Civ 2228290, ext 3011 United kingdom. Civ Tulalip 32264, ext 127 inscribe now government housing Only Hunter College auditorium wednesday night at first greeted the spiritual Leader of 500,000 orthodox jews in the soviet Union with a mixture of warmth an hostility. The hostility seemed to be directed at the american Council for Judaism an anti zionist organization which is serving As Host for the rabbi s two wee visit to the United states. Pro zionists it was Clear from the begin Ning of the meeting that Manyin the audience were strongly pro zionist. Richard Korn pres ident of the Council was booed when he appeared onstage to introduce the  when the rabbi appeared onstage he was greeted by standing ovation and chants of am Yisroel Chai the jew ish people shall live. The White bearded rabbi wearing a Long Lack coat and Black hat seemed touched As the audience Sang loudly hat Mikvah the Hope the israeli Anthem. Ing Between the United stat Sand the soviet Union was Well received. But As rabbi Levi began to give a favourable description of jewish life in his country the audience became noisier and the dozen uniformed Security guards were hard pressed to maintain  first the audience was comparatively quiet saving hisses and Boos for the English trans lation read by an employee of the the beginning of speech Given in the rabbi yiddish a nil Ccuin give ii plea for peace and Uncle stand Council. But denied the when rabbi existence of anti semitism in the soviet Union loud laughter and hooting were increasingly audible. In aged men and women jumped from their seats shouting it a lie. How can you say that the loudest outburst came when the rabbi said in Pur country there is no discrimination or racial distinction Amon people. There is no Differentia Tion Between a skin that is Blackland a skin that is White. In our country there is no differentiation whatsoever Between Large and Small Peoples. The jewish people also receive in the soviet land their rightful place to live and to contribute to the advancement of our country and to the happiness of the jewish people As a  Correct the move should be welcomed by Allied commanders Al though not by the people of Sai gon. For the commanders it would mean the local guerrillas the men who farm by Day fight by night and control much of the Countryside would be pressed into conventional military units for conventional warfare. , with their massive fire Power Are much better equipped to engage in heavy combat with line units than in Shadow com Bat with guerrillas in their own  the people of Saigon it could mean a ring of enemy divisions with As Many As 34,000 soldiers around the  existing 5th, 7th and 9th Viet Cong North vietnamese divisions Are now generally deployed East Northeast an Northwest of Saigon. The two divisions being formed would take positions West and South of the  would be under the direct control of the communists Cen trial office South Vietnam Cosyn communist strategists made the move the sources say for two reasons 1 enemy units suffered Stag Gering losses during february in the nationwide lunar new year tet offensive and there Aren t enough North vietnamese re placements to fill All the gaps. . Officials say As Many as50,000 enemy soldiers were killed in that offensive .2 a siege of Saigon and its three million inhabitants would influence the Paris negotiations this summer and the american voters this fall indicating the allies should quit if they can Teven keep the capital secure. Harassing moves although there have been re ports the enemy plans another string of attacks against Saigon later this month the government sources say these would be Only harassing moves. They say that because of the huge reshuffle the communists will not be Able to mount another major assault similar to the Jan. 31 tet offensive and the May 5 second wave before july. According to the sources this Mother Deea at fireworks display Sandusky Ohio up a sesquicentennial Celebration at a High school football Field ended in tragedy when a piece of flying Metal from a fireworks display ripped into the crowd decapitating a Young Mother and in Juring two other persons one seriously. Police said the Accident occurred wednesday night when simulated atomic blast part of the fireworks display went awry and ripped into the crowd of 700 persons seated in the  dead woman was identified As mrs. Ruth Arm Hamer,29 of Sandusky. Police said she was in the 12th Row of the stadium. They said she was the Mother of one child and was pregnant with her second. Seriously injured was mrs. Sara Jane Seitz 42, also of san Dusky. She was taken to Elyria memorial Hospital for Emer 1s the second grass roots reorganization by Cosyn since Jan  said that before the tet offensive the enemy command disbanded its military Region four mr4which encompassed Saigon and broke the area into six sub regions with Saigon the sixth. Primarily designed to Cut red tape the units were give larger tactical Man Euver areas to increase their mobility during the offensive. Second wave crushed now with the second wave attack crushed and Only a few stragglers hanging on in Gia Dinh the sub regions Are be ing abandoned. Mr4 has not been re established the sources say and the july offensive will be under the direct control of Cosyn which . Officials say. Is under the direct control of North Vietnam s military command. Gency  dearth 51, of san Dusky suffered minor cuts. Police Captain Floyd Church Well said Charles tenge 21, of Columbus Ohio an employee of the Ohio fireworks and display co., Bellaire Ohio was i charge of the display that caused the fatal  was not held. Russia May resume Ghana work projects Accra Ghana up talk were under Way Here Between ghanaian government official Sand 12 russian experts aimed at resuming work on three rus Sian development projects abandoned after the 1966 military  talks began monday on the future of the projects fish Canning factory a prefab of Mclory and Concrete Gold refinery  
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