European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thi Stam and St my 3 East bloc plans naval Maneu vers in North Atlantic closing in armed officers Hove in on crouched Rudolph Jordan after hews flushed jut of his Colerain n.c., Home tear a following a 90-minute gun Battle with police. Jordan a former mental patient is accused of slaying Bertie county. Deputy sheriff Dewey Swain earlier in the Day with a Shotgun blast inthe Chest. Associated press photo copter shot Westmoreland in Low killed in War Saigon a i Frederick Van Deusen Broth Ier in Law of . Army chief of staff Gen. William c. West Foreland was killed wednes Day when his helicopter. Was i shot Down in the Mekong  Deusen 37, was shot Down just a few hours after Westmoreland was sworn in As chief of staff in  had i commanded . Forces in Vietnam the last four  Deusen was the brother of Westmoreland s wife Kathe Rine. He leaves a widow and three children who make their Home in Fayetteville  was one of 10 men aboard a uh1e command and., control helicopter hit by Viet Cong gun fire do Riig a infantry sweep inthe Northern part of the Delta. It crashed into the Vai co River 18miles Southwest of Saigon. Three survived the crash. Vandeusen and two others have been confirmed dead and four Are missing and presumed dead of newsman at the scene said other officers reported that Van Deusen shouted into his radio just before the crash x we re being shot at from the River Bank. He s using a ak47 ene my assault Rifle seconds later the helicopter plunged into the River. Van Deusen took command three weeks ago of the 2nd Bat Talion 47th regiment 1st Bri Gade . Army 9th division. His battalion had made con tact earlier in the Day with an estimated Viet Cong platoon in Moscow a the soviet Union and other Warsaw pact countries will carry out join naval exercises in the North at lactic this month it was announced Here Friday. Western military experts said it was the first time that the Warsaw fact has undertake naval Titan buyers outside the Baltic sea. The announcement made by the official soviet news Agency ass from the Headquarters of the Warsaw treaty organization said the exercises will be code named sever the Russia word for North. Their purpose it said will Beto polish off questions concerning the defense of the East bloc from sea attack. In the past the East bloc has relied primarily on its massed land forces which have frequently carried out joint a ? seemed meant to demonstrate growing soviet sea Power and to match naval exercises held in the same area forbears by the North Atlantic treaty organization nato taking part will be ships of different classes As Well Asna Val aviation and Marine forces from the soviet Union Poland and East Germany. Fleet adm. S. G. Gorshkow commander in chief of the so seven Day service Home delivery is a convenient service for families in government housing. So Why not use it or Ashtion office phone numbers Greece Athens Civ 985184 Italy Germany Berlin Civ 739368 Bremerhaven Civ 45341. Mil 76& ital Frankfurt Civ 06108-2047, Mil Offenbach 820 leghorn Civ p3001 Kaiserslautern Civ 57617, Mil to Jelweh 7050  i Munich Civ 6185923, Mil 7368 a Ria old 2228mo fit so Nuernberg old 776847, Mil 6513 Madrid old 82282w, ext Stu Stuttgart Civ 854325. Mil 7230 United kingdom l enl Wiesbaden Civ 420779, Mil 28595 London Civ a Zullp 32204, ext 187 the swamps and paddies along the Border of go Cong and Long an  americans reported kill ing 24 Viet Cong in the morn ing s fighting with no . Losses. Van Deutseh s helicopter was passing Over for a last look at the Battle scene a newsman re ported. _ Queen Grants Knighthood to Alee Rose London up Queen Eli Zabeth ii Friday granted Knighthood to Alec Rose Les than 24 hours after the Lone Yachtsman s return Home from his 28,500-mile, Globe circling voyage. Its announcement revealed a secret Rose had kept to himself from the moment his 36-foot Ketch Lively lady dropped an Chor thursday off Portsmouth. The 59-year-old grocer adventurer was approached As soon As he stepped ashore. Would he accept a Knighthood he was  nodded yes. The Queen said an official announcement Friday from no. 10 Downing Street has been graciously pleased to approve that the Honor of Knighthood be conferred upon or. Alec Rose. This recognized the tenacity skill and courage which he Dis played in his single handed Voy age round the  Viet Navy will be in  Headquarters of the three fleets will participate and the exercises will cover the Northern part of the Atlantic As Well a the Baltic norwegian and Barents seas according to the an  said the fleets will perfect combat coordination through carrying out joint tasks. No exact starting time or duration for the exercises were Given. The soviet Union has greatly built up its naval strength since world War ii after a Long his tory of being essentially a land  has become a serious rival to the United states on the High seas moving a Large Fleet into the Mediterranean and penetrating the Pacific and Indian oceans. Soviet exports to n. Vietnam doubled in 67 Moscow a while soviet military and economic Aid to North Vietnam continued Torise soviet commercial ship ments to Hanoi More than Dou bled last year. Trade figures available Friday showed that the shipments were old glory desecration Bill signed san Antonio Tex. A president Johnson signed Fri Day a Bill providing maximum penalties of up to $1,000 and one year in prison for burning Orother deliberate mutilation of the american Flag. The new Federal Law applies Only to persons who knowingly desecrate the Flag. It was Only after Senate insistence that the word burning was kept in alone of the specific banned forms of  penalties can be imposed where a person is convicted of casting contempt upon the Flag by burning defacing defiling mutilating or trampling upon it or any representation of  Laws in All 50 states would continue to  legislation which grew out of a Flag burning incident inner York s Central Park cleared Congress last week. Plight of old Soldier Saigon a a 61-year-Oldsouth vietnamese Soldier was acquitted of a charge of desertion by a Field court Friday. He told them he had left his unit because he Felt very  Worth $148 million in 1967, com pared with $68.2 million in 1966. North vietnamese exports tothe soviet Union dropped presumably because of the War from 25.3 million in 1966 to $20.9 million in 1967.these figures Are believed to show Only Trade for Cash or credit. Soviet Aid Grants Are not reflected in the figures and the volume of soviet Aid to North Vietnam stays a secret. Aid both in economic supplies and military equipment has been increasing steadily As the Viet namese War has progressed according to Western estimates.. Estimates put the volume now at Over a billion dollars a  soviet press did not report the signing thursday of another soviet vietnamese military and economic Aid agreement Al though it had been announced officially Here. The announcement indicated that it was a supple mental agreement to the basic1968 pact signed last september and involved an increase of Aid. The new Trade figures showed that soviet Trade with communist China plummeted during1967, when relations became openly hostile because of the cultural  some so Viet merchant ships were Hin dered in chinese harbours. Soviet exports to China which had been Worth $175.3 million in 1966, dropped to $50.2 million in1967. Chinese exports to the so Viet Union fell from $143.1 Mil lion to $56.8 million. Subscribe now government homing Only Frk mystery figure found dead Juarez Mexico up police paid Friday Crispin Curiel Gonzalez 17, a mexican Ameri can who said he was involved in the assassination of sen. Robertf. Kennedy was found hanged in his Hospital psychiatric  had said they did not believe Gonzalez s Story about the Kennedy murder and Felt he did it for publicity. Buthe had been put under observation in the psychiatric Wing of Liberty Hospital in Juarez jus across the Border from Elpaso  was arrested last month after a passerby picked up a letter he had dropped and found it said he claimed to be an accomplice to the Kennedy shooting in los Angeles by sir Han b. Sirhan last month. T police said Gonzalez tried to escape thursday climbing to the roof of the Hospital before guards captured him and put him Back in his Hospital  said he began sing ing and shouting and saying he wanted to be famous and get newspaper  thursday guards Cesa Rio Frescas and Antonio Apodaca looked into the cell and saw gon Zalez hanged by strips of mat Tress covering from the bars 01 a cell window