European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes p00t marines adopting army tactics for Vietnam fighting Landing zone Gates Viet-1 Rine div commander. Maj. a the . Marines Raymond o. Davis. Underlined mobility As the reason for abandoning Khe Sanh and Landing zone Gates represent the new thinking for leather necks fighting . Army style. We re paying careful Atten Tion to things we should have said been doing All along senior Marine officer. A Marine company com Mander Long accustomed to walking recently made nine Heli copter assaults in a 10-Day stretch. The morale of my troops sky rocketed he said. It s the Only Way to the Khe Sanh base was the Premier fixed position of t h e War absorbing 5,200 marines Liv ing under enemy Shell fire. A map of the Northwest Border Sec Tor at the time represented a if an enemy battalion show up Well pounce on it and a stroy 3rd div area along the demilitarized zone is generally conceded to be the toughest Battlefield in Vietnam. For the moment it is relatively quiet and Looka i the leathernecks new awaits further testing. B escape fifty tenants of this four apartment bunding in Saskatoon Saskatchewan were evacuated before the Walls crumbled daring a two alarm Blaze. A t to show he can t win huh foes plan National primary Russ envision heating up Arctic area Ottawa a russian scientists have produced Engineer. _. Ing designs for a new dam across Rine influence in the area As j the Bering Strait that they claim about the same As a single bub ble in a Bathtub full of soup. Gates is a Hilltop artillery Posi Tion new for the marines but identical to the army s Gates commands a View of Khe Sanh from six Miles tothe East. It has six 155-mm howitzers new York a democrats opposed to the presidential aspirations of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey Are con eng staging what they Cana National primary prior to thl aug. 25 democratic National convention Allard k. Lowen Stein said , a Backer of sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy was prime mover Here of the dump Johnson Campaign against the president last Winter and an organizer of the coalition for an open convention that met two weekends ago in Chicago. He said the primary would be conducted by mail or at poll ing Booths set up around the country and would be designed to demonstrate that a Humphrey candidacy could not win the is nothing inevitable w Kiwi Lejk a � a about the nomination of Hubert Humphrey unless we opt out and decide we Don t want to fight and that we will not do Lowenstein told a group of Stu dents at City Chicago conference was attended by More than 1,100backers of Mccarthy the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy and Chelate or. Martin Luther King. Vintage Mariner Newport . A Ertrand Decas Telba Atlantic Stogie hande Jacht race but he timed trip just , a Vine Jard owner from Bor. O France put 80 he left Plymouth a june 1, sailed the 55-Footmaxiae into Newport a monday evening which he co after reaching port. Was the Lmh person race with is stud unaccounted Lor. They went on record As say ing Humphrey could not bring about needed change in Ameri can policy but walked at a pub Lic pledge that they would not Reagan hints hell go after nomination Washington up Nel son Rockefeller made a bid Mon Day for the 86-vote Californi delegation to the Republican presidential nominating Conven Tion. But favorite son gov. Ron Ald Reagan said he May Hanson to it himself and become a serious candidate for the Nomi nation. Reagan told reporters at Sac Ramento that if he can get a sizeable bloc of votes from other states at the Republican convention opening aug. 5 in Miami each he will become an Active candidate for the presidential nomination. Right now Reagan says he is Only a favorite son candidate from California and the califor Nia Republican delegation i pledged to him for at least the first ballot. He did not give an detail on How much support from other states would be needed for him to abandon his non candidate status and go after the Nomina commented after Rockefeller trailing far behind Richard m. Nixon among Active candidates for the nomination campaigned in san Francisco and wooed the California delegation second in size Only to the92 from new York. Rockefeller said he was no soliciting first ballot votes but wanted to demonstrate h i strength so the calf Orlans would turn to him on later bal lots after supporting Reagan on support the vice president if heis nominated. Lowenstein said that if the voters were presented with a Choice among Humphrey re publican Richard m. Nixon and Independent George Wallace it could produce the unravelling of the whole democratic processing this trouble among draftees he predicted trouble in slums and among military will result he said. There will be arrests an trials and the country could end up in its direst condition said he believed a dark horse democratic Candi Date was a possibility at a dead locked convention but did t name is a democratic candidate for Congress in Nas Sau county. Doing the same Type of Job Ashe old Khe Sanh Battery with 5,000 fewer marines protecting the gunners. There Are other Marine firebase too and three battalions for helicopter s now pretty much like it will be said the new 3rd a Golda Meir quits israeli party Post Jerusalem a Goldamer former Israel foreign min ister and one of the most Power Ful personalities in israeli poli tics resigned monday As Secre tary general of the majority United labor . Meir a widow with two children tendered her Resigna Tion formally in a letter to prime minister Levi said that after the 1965 general election she agreed to become Secretary general of the party Only temporarily. Soviets give yank 5 years in smuggling Moscow up an Ameri can was sentenced monday to five years imprisonment for smuggling hashish and currency into the soviet Reed Warren 32, of Oak land calif., was found guilty an sentenced by a court in Tash Kent capital of the Uzbekistan Republic an american embassy spokesman was expected to a court found Warren guilty of smuggling 5 /4 pounds of hash ish into the soviet Union As Well As bringing in 100 rubles $110 in soviet currency without de Claring officials testified War Ren had admitted the hashish smuggling charge. American Consul Samuel Fry flew to Tashkent from Moscow to act As an observer at the soviet lawyer hired by Fry represented embassy spokesman said the court specified Warren s imprisonment was to be served in a penal Colony for foreigners. Would radically change the Cli mate of the Northern Hemi sphere. In fact they said the project would return the Earth to its Cli Matic conditions of 4,000 to 6,000years ago when the Arctic Basin was ice free the year round an Cooling first began. Such a dam some 50 mile across would allow pumping of cold Arctic water into the Pacific permitting warmer at lactic water to flow across the Arctic Basin. The proposals Are contained Inan article by scientists . Borisov in the soviet publication Prihoda nature. Change in desert Borisov says it would take Only three years to warm up the arc tic Basin with Atlantic water to the extent that Arctic sea ice would disappear. Temperatures in Polar latitudes would Rise 30 to 35 degrees. Permafrost would vanish. Tundra would be transformed into cattle raising regions. Dry Steppe would reappear in present Day deserts including the Winters would be warmer. But the level of the world s oceans would Rise Only some four inches in 50 runoffs would increase production to Hydro electric Power. Egypt plans two new tourist attractions Cairo a German Fiel marshal Erwin Rommel s Bunker Headquarters and Cleopatra sideway Bath in Egypt s Western desert " Are to be turned int tourist attractions for egyptians and foreign visitors it was announced Here monday. The City Council of Mersa mat Rouh has decided to equip the two locations with floodlights Marble seats and other amenities to enhance tourism the announcement said. 7 latin allies joining Navy exercise the initial a Jorun Slot. He rejected a Mew a suggestion that Nixon already had enough convention votes fora first ballot Victory. Washington up ships and planes of the United stat Sand seven latin american countries will participate in the9th annual Maneu vers known As Unitas the defense depart ment said monday the exercises will begin monday and continue for three and one half months. A . Task Force led by three destroyers and a submarine is scheduled to circumnavigate the continent of South America starting at san Juan puerto Rico Headquarters for the Maneu vers Pentagon said that in the ships and aircraft from Rajdl an Colombia will join . Navy for the first Tim history of the event units uncombined san task Juan forces the will conduct four Days of operation sen route to Cartagena Colombia. Other participating countries were listed As Argentina Chile Ecuador Uruguay and Venezuela. The . Destroyers will be the Josephus Daniel the Dama to and the Mccloy accompanied by the submarine chopper and supporting vessels and units including a detachment from Norfolk a. T to release target drones. Unitas will be under the command of rear Adrus Frede Rick j. Harlfinger a sout Atlantic commander for Tat Atlantic Fleet
