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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, July 2, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tut Idoy july 2,1968 the stars and stripes West Berlin freight taxed by e. Germans Berlin a East Ger Many began levying freight transit taxes monday on Good shipped to and from West Ber Lin by Road or water the taxes went into effect a Midnight and represented the enacting of a third phase of Tran sit restrictions announced last month. The measures also include passport and visa regulations and fees for West germans an the increase of minimum per diem currency exchanges for visits to East Germany. Russians held responsible the United states Britain and France have protested to the soviet Union since they hold the russians responsible for Access to Berlin. The protests have been ignored with the russians Mak ing it Clear they support the East German actions. Spokesmen at West Berlin an West German crossing Points re ported the freight taxes were levied As trucks or barges crossed into East  were added to existing transit fees. About 1,400 trucks Roll in handout of West Berlin daily. Trucks and barges haul about 10 million tons of goods a year or about 80 per cent of what is brought in and out of West Berlin. Choat Jelits police retrieve 140 live bombs int is strewn in Arkansas int bombs we relate saturday and russellv1lle, Ark. Up about 140 Small but deadly discovered sunday scattered Over a 20-mile radius along county roads beside two churches and in residential areas in two North Central Arkansas counties. The bombs about the size Ofa softball were believed to be explosives used in drilling operations to blast away shale and Rock. Pope county sheriff Ott Brinkman said a Wildcat Gas drilling company in Northwest Pope county told him the bombs were similar to one they use in their operations. None of the bombs has Bee reported exploded and no one has been injured Brinkma said. He said each bomb contains about five ounces of font. It would take a pretty Good Jar to set it off but they Are truely live and in Good shape Brinkman said. The first of the bombs was found saturday night in the Ausburg Pless Community i Northwest Pope county. Others were found in Pope and Johnson counties sunday. It seemed As though one was thrown in everybody s driveway As a prank Brinkman  be picked up practically every one reported in the  Hope we have gotten All of  theorized the bombs had been stolen in the area. We found one Box the bombs came in and it had Houston tex., on it but enough of headdress was torn off so we Don t know what company i Houston makes the bombs Brinkman  police in Clarksville Ark., said they picked up two bombs during the Day. A detonation expert at the Pine Bluff Ark., Arsenal was t agent in Little Rock said the called in to Check the bombs. The detonation expert m.  Woolery said each contained enough int to kill a per son. Woolery said he was almost Fri had called and asked i Brinkman needed help and had been told he did not. Hoxie said the Fri had no plans to enter the  described the bombs positive the bombs Are of a com As being Pear shaped Abou Mercial Brand. Possibly they Are used in some Type of Oil drilling to blast through Rock. I do not think they Are  Hoxie special Fri horizontal 47. Being 1. Expectant 48. French satirist 49. Never poetic 50. Summer in Cannes 51. Serpenti Juvrud desire6. Source of heat 8. Zone12. Rate 14. Scope 15. Feign illness 16. Row 17. Government Agency 18. Bal Loters so. Lower23. Clock face 24. Leave out 25. Make believe28. Wire measure29. Coarse 80. Lubricate 32. Agony 84. French River 35. Comfort 88. Clara 37. Moans 40. A fuel 41. Placed42. The Cosmos vertical1. Garment 4. Reduce 5. Icelandic tale6. Shoshone an indian7. Boldest 8. A conflict 9. Great Lake port10. Ogle 11. Sailors 20. Cathedra Church 21. Discharge22. Venus de answer to yesterday s Puzzle. 23. Low hum25. Force 28. Port of speech.27. Muck 13. Distinct part 29. Federal 2. Eggs 19. Cereal agent3. Chum grains 31. Meadow ,33. Primer 34. Artist stands 36. Rescue 37. Secluded Valley 38. Level to the ground 39. French river40. Fleer 43. Burmese demon44. Scottish Arctic explorer45. Slight taste average time of Glndon s3 Munici. 48. A worm a 4t 4? 21. F so pc 40 44 45 i 4b phooey to Maddox James h. Moore head of a phooey Gram committee to express dissatisfaction with Georgia gov. Lester Maddox displays a Telegram like those that have been flooding the state Capitol Rotunda. Moore launched his attack in Atlanta. Up photo 3 to 4 inches in diameter and 4to 4 i inches Long. The bombs Are being taken tothe Pine Bluff Arsenal where Woolery said they will be disposed of. Pope county Deputy sheriff Herb Williams said persons living in the two county Are have been warned about the bombs and told to Call the sheriff s office if they find one. We have been receiving More Calls than we can handle Williams said. Times says Castro ran Bolivia reds new York a Cuba Premier Fidel Castro closely supervised the guerrilla move ment in Bolivia which was led i by Ernesto Che Guevara i and which Cost Guevara his life the new York times said monday. The times said this was shown by secret papers found in Gueva a s Knapsack when he was Cap i tured by the bolivian army last oct. 8. He was executed the Fol i lowing Day. The times report written by correspondent Juan de onis i after investigations in Bolivia and Cuba said Guevara and i Castro exchanged frequent coded messages by radio that Dis cussed military and political strategy recruitment arms procurement and dispatch of couriers to and from Havana. The messages decoded were recorded by Guevara in a Blue covered notebook now in the Possession of the bolivian gov eminent de onis wrote. Also found were some of the Mes j sages in their coded  _ \ Lindsay no candidate new York a mayor John v. Lindsay said sunday that he had no intention of ask ing gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller to appoint him to the Senate sea of the late Robert f. Kennedy. Curfew lifted in Calif. City Richmond  a police lifted a four night City wide curfew sunday night but maintained a heavy patrol of the downtown area scene of racial disorders last week. The violence was triggered last tuesday night when police shot and wounded a 15-year-Oldnegro boy As he fled from a car which officers said was , Rock throwing and fire bombing occurred in the downtown District and predominantly negro areas in the Cit Yand adjacent unincorporated North  said 335 persons were arrested most of them for Vio lating the 9 . To 6 . Cur few. Wee pals the  16 closed for repairs 1-1 i Sia aide appointed Washington u11 Leonard 11. Marks us. Information Agency Ditroi Lor announced Sun Day the appointment of Wallace Littell As assistant for soviet and Justern european  succeeds Hohard t. Davis who has been assigned to Calcutta India As Consul general. Mow Are we comma1 have a Cool summer ? that was a silly thing for me to ask a  
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