European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes log 3 Nigeria Biafra begin talks nicer a Nigeria and the secessionist began preliminary talks saturday aimed at resum 2la tons to end the yearlong nigerian civil met across a conference table in the Palace ent Haman Lori of niger who is chairman for the Dis designed to bring the fighting parties to another con table in Addis Ababa As soon As negotiations failed when Biafra insisted on an immediate Al fire before taking up other questions. Nigeria on the oth Riff demanded that Biafra renounce its secession before agreeing l a cease fire. I hindu Temple besieged Colombo Ceylon Appo. Lice have been rushed to Jaffna North Ceylon where untouchables outcast hindus and other depressed groups Are squatting outside a Temple to which they have been denied soviet ships head for Suez Istanbul a four soviet Flat boats weighing 300 to 400 tons apiece have passed through the bosporus Straits reportedly head no for dredging in the sue canal. It Vanport authorities said the boats were on their Way to join a 10,000 ton soviet Dredger that passed through the Straits earlier this the r sources said it was reliably Learned that the Dredger would be used in Clearing the canal which has been clogged with sunken debris since last year s War. Malaysia Philippines break entry by High caste hindus. Police sources say the untouchables some armed with weapons supplied by pro peking communists Are planning to storm the Temple when the festival there reaches its Climax. Manila a president Ferdinand Marcos saturday re coed the philippine ambassador and most of his staff from Malaysia in what one official source described As the next step to severing diplomatic re president said the action resulted from Malaysia s rejection of the Philippines claim to Sabah the former territory of North Borneo and the virulent formosan fashions a sextet of Youn chinese models displays the latest in Taipei swimsuits. A fashion Magazine editor designed the costumes from local fabrics. A language used by the Malaysia delegation at recently collapsed discussions in Bangkok. Sabah has flown the Malaysia Flag since 1963, when Britain withdrew and the malaysian federation was formed. The Philippines claims to the Terri tory Are based on 19th-Century treaties signed by the Sultan of Sulu whose heirs Are philippine citizens. Dec approves France seeks to French halt to Driver indifference acc elects new Leader Uppsala Sweden a the world Council of churches saturday elected an Indian Layman m. M. Thomas of the mar Tacoma syrian Church of Malabar to succeed a late american or. Franklin Clark Fry As its chairman for the next year. Bolivian official asks Asylum Santiago Chile up bolivian Interior minister Antonioa Eudas showed up at the chilean bolivian Frontier Friday night and asked for political Asylum the chilean Interior ministry announced saturday. Arguedas was identified earlier Friday in la Paz As the Man who made cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara s diary of his bolivian Campaign available to Fidel Castro the cuban pre Mier. In la ?., Bolivia s army High command notified president Rene Barrientos that Arguedas had been Given Access to the diary for 24 hours in which time he presumably mad a photostatic copy fit on orders from Barrientos. The president admitted his responsibility. South Korea nabs spy ring Seoul a _ South Korea s Central intelligence Agency announced saturday the arrest of 27 men who it said were spies for North Korea. Headed by a business firm executive named As cling Tao Idiong 45, the underground group had received from North Korea plus . Envoy ends Mideast tour k Home Ull George Boll . Ambassador to the unite nations left Home saturday for new York after a fact aiming our of Europe and the Middle East. Bull declined to comment a his trip which included stops in Paris London Rome Amman Jerusalem and Jeddah saudi Arabia. He said Only his trip my on Brussels up european common Market nations agreed saturday to give economic Aid to France hard hit by strikes but severely criticized protectionist measures taken without consult ing its ministers of the dec nations in a vote of Solidarity agreed to help France by open ing up their capital markets fori Loans to French Industry. They criticized French import quotas on steel automobiles Tex tiles and household electrical dec s executive commis Sion will meet monday to give Legal approval to the measures that France unilaterally enforced july 1.the italians Are hardest hit by the measures Henri de Koster dutch Secre tary of state for foreign affairs. Said millions of guilders Worth of dutch textiles wore held up at the French Frontier because of the and Luxembourg steel shipments Are being curbed. Ger Man automobiles sales affected and some italian household electrical goods almost stopped. Monks and nuns in Italy ordered to Stop begging equipment for their espionage work the Agency spy network was based on the Island of Imja do 30 mile Northwest of Mokpo on the South Western tip of the korean Penin Sula and had organized communist cells in three counties i Cholla Nam do province in South Western Korea it said. Russia to free 35 japanese a Kyo up the government has announced that 85 Japan fishermen detained by the soviet Union since May 15 when heir two boats were seized by patrol vessels will � e release july a a foreign ministry spokesman said the men would be turned jl�pane8o authorities at Korea on the Eastern coast of Kam h up Rome a italian monks and nuns have been ordered to Stop begging in the streets. The order came from the ital Ian Bishops conference and the Heads of the various religious orders. It states that monks and nuns can no longer beg in any Public place. The order listed hotels ports railway stations resorts beaches stadiums Cinema Halls Ca fes trains shops especially in rom Juu other sex West Point Star leads bombing raid Saigon up col. Felix Blanchard All America football Star at West Point the 1940s, led a flight of Moa Plum kerchief pilots who bombed communist Supply route in North Vietnam on Friday . Military spokesman said saturday. Burchard of Sumter s.c., is assistant Deputy commander of operations for the 388th tactical fighter Wing. Boun Aid for Israel Bonn up West German is giving Israel $35 million to finance expansion of its Telephone system and Road construction a foreign ministry spokesman announced. Southern italian cities monks an nuns have been a common sight in some of the busiest Street Sand in municipal offices court buildings and even on trains. They usually sat on a Stool an stretched out a Small bag with the picture of some Saint stuck on it. At times they were accompanied by a child from a orphanage. Find another Way the Bishops said that if Mon Sand nuns think they can t do without the Money collected by Talos begging they must think of some other Way to get it. This presumably would in clude appeals to parishioners and fund raising through letter subscription. Paris up appalled bythe indifference of motorists to the carnage on French roads the government saturday Drew up plans to make it a criminal of sense for Drivers to ignore motorists in distress. The ministry of the Interior which controls police forces in France said Many of themore than 12.000 people who die each year in traffic accidents could be saved if help were Given in time. The ministry said it wanted Tosee the end of incidents like the one this week in which an injured Motorist waited by the Side of a Road for eight hours before someone stopped. J a ministry spokesman said growing trend by French motor i its to avoid getting involved by helping others had incited Interior minister Raymond Marcel Lin to take action. Studying code the spokesman said the minis try was studying article 63 of the French penal code to adapt it to an envisaged motorists res Cue code. The penal code article makes it a crime for persons knowingly to refuse help to other sin danger As Long As it Dot s not imperil their own lives or those of others. Sentences and or fines for running afoul of the pro posed code have not been worked traffic death toll on an average weekend in this nation of 50 million ranges Between 70 and 100. Dot Blanc Oviet City Moscow up darkness fell at noon on the soviet City of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula the news Agency Tass reported said the far Eastern town of 120,000 disappeared in darkness late Friday morning. Only an occasional beam of soft Brown ish Pink Light filtered weirdly through dense smog enveloping the went on in the houses and truck Drivers switched on Ihetu headlights. The smog lifted at dusk an saturday dawned Clear and said the blackout was probably caused by charred articles from a big Forest fire rising into the upper atmosphere and collecting water vapor As the ashes drifted Over the Peninsula toward the sea. A similar phenomenon several years ago left Petropavlovsk blanketed with soot from the erupting Krymsky Volcano
