European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday july 14 hero bats grenades like baseballs mauled marines win 7-Day Battle for i Saigon up a . Marine Force saturday claimed Victory in the Battle for Hill 689, a seven Day fight in which a Cook led a Maule platoon and another Marine batted away North vietnamese grenades with his Rifle. It was Tough going All the Way. My troops were getting hit and we had no replacements said it. Col. Archie Van Winkle medal of Honor Winner and com Mander of about 1,000 marines who defied night and Day North vietnamese attacks on the Rocky Hill two Miles West of the abandoned Northern Frontier fort of Khe correspondent Raymond Wilkinson who witnessed the fighting reported from Landing zone stud that when the North vietnamese gave up the attack then and Only then did Van win Kle s marines leave Hill 689. The were supposed to have gone on june 5 when Khe Sanh was abandoned. But when the North vietnamese attacked the marines were too proud to go without fighting. We Are going to move off this Hill but not until we have Defeated the North vietnamese maj. Gen. Raymond Davis. Mar Ine 3rd div commander had said. Van Winkle s men made the vow Good. But it was said the marines suffered 40 men killed and 150wounded. The number of North vietnamese bodies sprawled own the slopes of Hill 689 were put at 140.a lot of heroes were plucked by helicopter off the 2,000-Footpeak after the Battle Wilkinson said but the marines Are proud est of a six foot three 200-Pound youngster . Huey Winkle said a Marine patrol moved Down the Hill on night and the North vietnamese began to throw in mortars like they were going out of everyone hit the deck but 1saw Huey standing up firing his m15 Rifle and tossing grenades atthe communists in their spider holes said 1st it. Joe Fulginiti of Pennsauken . Huey fixed his Bayonet an charged Over the Small Hill. I heard a scream and when Roar came Back he tossed a North vietnamese ak47 Rifle to Little later Roark used the Stock of his Rifle to Bat away baseball style Chi com chinese communist grenades which had been tossed at him. Huey saved the whole com Mand but Roark was not swatting away the Grer Ades he charged an enemy mor tar pit. He knocked it out said sgt. Joe suffered two wounds. A helicopter evacuated him to Hospital ship off the Northern coast As leaders continued fall ing. One of my companies a diced to one officer one no and 50 men. Why Only the size of a Latonn Winkle told Wilkinson a accompany usually is 205 Ira gunnery sgt. Kon David Cook for 12 years was one we took up the Slack. We the grouped together c or Supply men and other Cooks As led them in fight ing s an air service. On verge of inaugural c Moscow up the run Way is cleared for the first flight linking the world s two leading air Powers Russia and the United pan american world air ways Boeing 707 is scheduled Toland at Moscow s Sherem Stievo Airport tuesday afternoon to open the first regularly scheduled new York to Moscow a i route. A group of vip passengers will be on Board to help Cele brate the . Invasion of the soviet air Market a Market pioneered years ago by the air lines of just about every other major nation. A second pan am flight the first of the regularly scheduled runs to Moscow will also arrive tuesday. This flight carrying paying customers will return Tonew York the same Day while the inaugural plane will carry it passengers to Leningrad then Home on big Day has been 10 years coming. In 1958, the soviet Union expressed interest in an air link. In 1961, a formal soviet Ameri can agreement was held up by the Berlin Wall the Cuba crisis the Vietnam War. But in late 1966. President Johnson suggested that the time was Ripe to sign the agreement. The russians quickly agreed and it was signed in november 1966. Two months later pan assigned a commercial agreement with Aeroflot the soviet stat airline. But Aeroflot was not ready tomake the trip until its new Ilyushin 62, which can carry 186 Pas sengers was ready to go the inaugural flights were grounded for 14,months, until the 1162 was proven in flights to go ahead was Given last week to open the route on the inaugural flight however will get their Money s Worth if any pay Lor their tickets. Aeroflot plans Towine and Dine them show them around Moscow and take the to a circus. They will Fly Back to the United states on the special inaugural plane. The regularly scheduled pan am return flight to new York will have left tues Day afternoon almost empty. After 10 years of delay Ameri can tourists and residents in Moscow were so sceptical that the route really would open that they booked other flights to the West leaving barely 10 Passen Gers to ride in splendid isolation on the first . Flight from rus Sia to America. Puddle pedal Meta Hurk a 9, rides Bew Avei of a puddle near her borne after the Tampa fla., area bad a Cycle of several Days of Rainy weather. A photo Navy sets up promotion policy change Washington a the Navy announced Friday a major promotion policy change which makes 4,500 regular and Reserve ensigns on Active duty eligible for quicker Elevation to Lieuten ant Junior Grade. The change ordered july 1,makes ensigns eligible for pro motion to lieutenant Junior Grad after one year. Previously it took 18 months. Officers viewed the switch Asa significant step in the Navy s Effort to retain More of its officers. 2nd victim of sniper in Central Park Dies new York a German born Joseph Bach the 80-year old Man who was shot by the Central Park sniper on july 3, died sniper Angel Angelof killed a 24-year-old woman an wounded Bach and two police men before he was shot to death by police. Pooled blood plasma linked to hepatitis Washington a the government has asked processors of whole pooled human blood plasma to halt its inter. State shipment because the sub stance has been causing hepatitis an infection of the liver of patients receiving transfusions a spokesman for the divil Woof x Bio Logies standards of Thi National institutes of health said action is As Falfas the government s authority the move is expected to halt use of most such plasma of which about 300,000 pints Art Given annually to about in the United states. The Agency acted on a report issued in april by the National research Council saying use Oiw Hole pooled plasma should be discouraged and even Visconti irked because of the hepatitis danger. The Council found that one patient out of 10 receiving transfusions of lie plasma go hepatitis. Whole blood plasma is the liquid left after blood Colls Are taken out of blood. It is pooled of reasons of Economy and for neutralizing antibodies which occurs when various blood donations Are put . Sam Gibson assistant director of the division said the main substitute for whole plasma is blood albumin which i extracted from whole blood. He said it is costlier to prepare Butis generally considered better. Gibson explained that the Dan Ger of hepatitis is especially acute in pooled plasma because one infected blood unit will infect the entire division initiated action against plasma shipments May after discussions with we 10 licensed producers whose a census now Are in the process w being revoked. 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