European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday july 1,1968 the stars and stripes fog i Parthenon May come Tim thai 11 Down Paris a the Parthenon in Athens is in serious danger of falling Down the Man i charge of its Upkeep warned Here saturday a team of experts is going Outin october from Paris to Sec what can be done in cooperation with the greek government. The Parthenon is in danger said Georges Dontas director of the acropolis on which the Par thenon stands. The world famous greek Temple is slowly disintegrating and is threatened with collapse unless urgent measures Are taken to save Dontas a former director of the Athens National museum is a Veteran 2,400-year-old Parthenon built As a Temple to the Godde Sathena has survived being turned into a Palace a Church a mosque and a powder Maga Zine. In 1687 a Shell fired by the venetian army fell into the mag Azine. The powder exploded splitting the Structure in two. Despite All these trials the Parthenon looks More nearly in tact than Many other ancient buildings. Now Dontas said it May fall victim to thousands upon thousands of shuffling feet air pollution and vibrations from the engines of j e t planes and dangers Are still there and growing worse. Some Waters i la seeps under the flagstones and threatens the original Iron clamps in the column have rusted expanded and split the Marble. Water gets into these fissures and other caused by the 1687 explosion. Athens is sunny and hot Attis time of the year but on cold Winter nights the water freeze Sand splits the Stone wider. On the morning after such freezing spells Dontas explained our people go around picking up fragments of Marble. Later they Are stuck the shuffling tourist feet Don tas said could eventually Wear Down the curves of the Parthe non s base. The Middle Point on each Side is never More than 4.30 inches higher than the ends but these curves were carefully planned by the architect. If they Wear Down each facade will give the illusion of sagging inthe Middle. Serious thought is being Given to barring visitors from the Interior of the building. Wind and weather have Long beset the Parthenon but now Many new factories Are going up around Athens and their fumes make the situation much worse. One proposal has been to Spray the whole Structure with a plastic film but that could change the color of the Marble or even eat into the surface. The right mixture has i not been found. J according to Dontas Vibra tons from planes Are so Strong j that they May loosen f r a g l ments of Marble and shift the big Stone blocks. Efforts Are be ing made to get aviation author i ties to Stop the overflights. Temple in trouble too Man tourists Are to blame for some of the Parthenon s pains claims the resident archaeologist who says that the 24-Cen Tury old Temple on the acropolis Hill Nathens needs better Protection. Sis knife Carrier arrested near Japan Leader Tokyo a police Dis closed sunday they have been questioning since Friday a 26-year-old japanese who was re ported to have told officers he wanted to assassinate prime minister Eisaku said Toshi Sugano a former factory worker in near by Kawaguchi had a Butcher s knife when he was stopped by guards near Sato and other politicians on a Campaign tour for the july 7 upper House elec , police said explained he wanted to kill the 66-year-Oldsato because he was disappointed with publicized an official of the metropolitan police Board maps said the incident was not publicized be cause police regularly invest Gate a number of persons mostly deranged persons who claim they want to assassinate politicians. A mass circulation daily the Asahi Shimun broke the Story in its Early editions other dailies reported la Ter they did not consider the arrest important. Police said they were investigating Sugano s background. They said they could not s a when the investigation would be completed. Book Calls pacification dead kaput7 Hope ready for work following Eye ailment 1 Hollywood up corned i an Bob Hope s aides reported 1 Friday he had recovered sufficiently from an Eye ailment to Start work monday on his new film. I Hope underwent treatment june 15 on his left Eye and then returned to his North Hollywood Home to recuperate. Retiring colonel assails Viet policy new York a a corps officer who is a combat Veteran of the Vietnam Ese War says the american pacification Effort in South Vietnam a dead Issue dead finished he made h i Scharges in a Book to be pub shed charge about the other War is included in criticism of . Policy and action in Vietnam and charges of corruption and ineptitude on the part of the South vietnamese Mili tary and civilians. The Book entitled the be trayal is by it. Col. William r. Corson 42, who retired Sun Day after 25 years in the a Fine corps. He is joining the economics department of How Ard University. Drew reprimand the Veteran of combat i world War ii Korea and Viet Nam was reprimanded by t h Emarine corps for publication of the Book on a charge that he failed to submit the manuscript for s request for retire ment after being approved was delayed until a study of the Case was finished. The corps said the Content of the Book was not in says the pacification program called revolutionary development in the latest phase was shown by the Viet Congett offensive to be just o n e More swindle in a Long line of Short lived pacification p r o not leveling no matter what the Reasoner combination of reasons for not facing the facts openly an leveling with the american pub Lic he says the Blunt an inescapable conclusion is thai revolutionary development or pacification is dead finished a advocates cessation 01 bombing of North Vietnam or Guing that it does no Good. He suggests several Steps to avoid corruption and to reach the peasant. He says there should e a reduction in troop strength to 250,000 from the current 535, 000."if we Are to remain in Viet Nam he says we can no longer tolerate the ineptness corruption and rot of the govern ment of South Vietnam or the non performance of the Arvn army of the Republic of Viet Nam the Arvn he says is a Rotten corrupt institution wit Little or no real popular support even with the false front of would withdraw advisers Orson also suggests withdrawal of All american military advisers from the South Viet namese army and allowing coalition government among other author has some of his harshest criticism for Robert , head of the pacification Effort and Gen. William , who has left As head of the military forces in s evaluation of Safe hamlets. Corson says must be unmasked for the fraud it really giving a false picture of Progress Corson says it grossly deceives the american people Mcconnell to stay Asaf chief of staff Washington a presi Dent Johnson has announced that he plans to appoint p. Mcconnell for an extra year s service As air Force chief of staff effective aug. 1. This will make it possible for Mcconnell to end his tour of duty As chief of staff at a time when other changes in various High military positions will be taking effect. Concerning actual conditions Corson argues that the evaluation is based on the grossest of measurements and is use to trumpet Hosanna paper Prog Ress for political reasons. Komer s claim that two thirds of the population is secure he said is a glaring the Marine Veteran says Omer announced most dramatically that 150,000 More tons of fertilizer was distributed in 1967 than in 1%6. Rice output Down what Komer chose to omit from his glowing report Cor son says was the fact that Rice production had declined by just about 150,000 tons in the same the . Agency for inter National development Corson writes is especially culpable for failures in the other All the fancy footwork of the administration to mitigate or explain the scandal Corso writes misses the Basic Point we have no control Over the expenditures of the millions of . Dollars authorized to help the people of South raps strategy Orson says Westmoreland s belief that the Central a i m of american military strategy must be to defeat the enemy Offen Sive is a grievous and Funda mental it. Den. Victor h. Kru Lak and it. Den. Lewis w. Walton the Marine corps were aware. Corson says that search an destroy was the gospel Accord Westmoreland e v e nit was clearly invade stood too Well. He has an Abras Ive personality and it rubbed the keepers of the conventional Wisdon the wrong Way. He is \ the Fane hero of the other the Vietnam presidential elec Tion of 1967. Corson says was an example of the american legend of James Curley s bos ton where one could vote Early and the election was unmanageable for the voters without police telling them How to vote Corson says a fact obviously lost to the 22-Man team of observers sent by president John son. The team he notes called the election a heartening expression of democratic desires. Corson also charged that the Agency for International devel bought 18,000 tons of Gal the firm eight used ing to though Den. Krulak understood bet Ter than any military officer in connection with the Vietnam War that civic action could be a strategic tool in military of rations associated with an insurgency conflict. Unfortunately Koruluk under steel plate in 1967. I Arthur d. Little consulting said this was at least times More than could Beto satisfy the demand. Further Corson says sub Stantial quantities of the steel Are missing and he says the Little report still not Public suggests it has been diverted tothe Viet Cong. Corson places the value at $10 million. Pennsylvania acts on Viet War bonuses Harrisburg. A. Up the Pennsylvania House has unanimously adopted and re turned to the Senate legislation setting up a $28 million Bon usand death Benefit program for Pennsylvania veterans of the Vietnam War. Under the plan Bonus p a a moms of $25 would be made for each month of service in Viet Nam up to a maximum of $750. A Flat $1,000 payment would remade to beneficiaries of pennsylvanians killed in the line of duty
