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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes widow wins pension Italy accuses general of planning arrests and concentration Camps lawyers Tot Ruchele Mussolini widow of Itali Nenito Mussolini said monday she should get $48,000 for her husband pension plus a monthly payment cited these figures after Italy s top administrative tribunal saturday that she was eligible for a pension based on the. Than 20 years Mussolini had served As  decision and the Amott Rit May Well cause political Contro no other italian from the fascist Era is known to be pension payments town the Post War italian Republic ing the pension mrs. Mussolini said she wanted Italy Tomi Wiedre that her husband had served his country and that i widow therefore had a Legal right to a pension. Brake put on new greek Laws att tens a the greek he said there is no  monday that timetable adding a series of he Haw Constitution would take Laws has to be formed first Storta stages after the sept. Especially an electoral Law and in Etc. O a is Jor Yoe forma Uon of the constitutional court and the National Council. The Constitution would reduce the Powers of the King establish a constitutional court set up powerful National Council and give special status to the armed forces. Foreign minister Panayiotis Pipi Nelis told a news conference that the Constitution would not take immediate effect after the expected approval be cause a firm groundwork is Nec Essary first before the Constitution goes into  Rome a a general was accused by the government Mon Day of using Italy s top Intelli gence Agency to plan concentration Camps and mass Roundup during a political crisis four years  accusation came in a hitherto secret report on the sensational sitar scandal. Left Wing parties have claimed that a military coup d eat was planned in 1984 by Gen. Giovanni de Lorenzo who then headed the National police. He previously had headed the country s Mai intelligence Agency sitar for nine  government report on the scandal drawn up Over More than a year by Gen. Enzo Lom Bard contended that no coup was planned. But it accused de Lorenzo of having bypassed his superiors in the military and the government in drawing up a emergency plan to keep Public order that included concentration amps and mass arrests across the country. De Lorenzo was fired As com Mander in chief of the National police when the scandal was at its height but was elected to parliament. The government report accused him of misusing the funds of the intelligence Agency and of the National police infiltrating his followers into top military ranks and maintaining contacts not always justified by reasons of his office with various Politi Cal  tenant s reaction was purple Pelsall England up mrs. Alice Painter broke Down and wept when she saw her House it had been painted red White and Blue. Why she asked her landlord. She had requested paint Job but not this. We want to discourage other tenants from this sort of request came the Stony reply. Early biafran cease fire the Airlift of Relief supplies to Biafra s famine stricken refugees would be intensified starting immediately. Ojukwu held a news Confer ence in markedly relaxed and cheerful spirits following his re turn from Niamey niger where a committee of the organization of african Unity discussed prospects for ending the year old War. Oterri Biafra a biafran Leader it. Col. Odimegwu Ojukwu has predicted an Early cease fire in the nigerian civil War and said peace talks could begin in a week. He expressed optimism about chances for at least a partial truce Between the armies of breakaway Biafra and the niger Ian federalists and said eve this would be enough to get talks started. Also he announced that British traffic most congested London a the open Road is closing around the British Motorist an official report showed monday. Britain has only11.8 Yards of Road for every motor vehicle double the number per mile in the United states or  to the British Road federation report Britain is the most traffic congested country. With 14,097,000 vehicles registered Britain has 55.3 cars or trucks for every mile of Road it said and one car for every 5% people. Cathedral goes Rock London a St. Paul s Cathedral went Rock with twanging guitars and the voice of american Singer Long John Baldrey echoing through its ancient galleries. It was standing room Only sunday night for most of 3,000 Young people attending a service of dedication to the cause of racial  singers and groups shared a platform with leading clergy men of the anglican Church including it. Rev. Robert Stopford Bishop of London. This is certainly the most unusual service Ever held in St. Paul a said an official but i Don t think i be Ever seen the Cathedral so  cancer vaccine in Japan Tokyo a a japanese neurosurgeon claimed Success monday in treating two cancer patients by using what he said was a cancer vaccine redeveloped. Or. Ili Roshi Hata Naka of Tokyo University hos Pital said the vaccine was a deliberately modified Atoch testing stage and must be studied further Hatanaka said. But i can say this much. Two patients have got  both cases represented the terminal stage of a can Cerous growth and both patients recovered within a month after a series of injections Hatanaka said. State of siege is declared in Bolivia la Paz a the Bolivia government declared a state of siege monday following blood disorders set off by the flight last week of a Cabinet minister who is charged with passing to Cuba a copy of Che Guevara diary. President Rene Barrientos was bitterly attacked by the opposition when the flight of Interior minister Antonio Arguedas be came known soon after the army had accused Arguedas and Barrientos by implication of Shayma Nevers with the diary. The government also arrested nine More people to add to the 32 jailed late saturday and Earl sunday after the riots. All 41 Are members of opposition  those jailed Are two senators. Several others escaped arrest by fleeing their Homes. The government charged the with rebellion. One of those held is Alfred Franco Gua Challa who was min ister of labor in a previous regime. The others Are minor political or labor leaders. Censure try fails in India new Delhi a prime minister Indira Gandhi easily survived an attempt monday Bynon communist opposition parties to censure her govern ment. But she saw her foreign policy come under scathing at tack As a result of the soviet Union s apparent decision to sell arms to Pakistan. Her Congress party which enjoys a comfortable majority in parliament Defeated a censure motion 206-61, with about 250 members  vote came after a five hour debate touched off by  s statement criticizing the soviet Union s willingness to Supply weapons to Pakistan but defending indo soviet Friendship. Camillo creator italia author Giovanni Guareschi who wrote the humorous books about red baiting cleric Don Camillo died monday Incorvia Italy of a heart attack. He was 60. Apr a a ii Micu thu Wavu Nonous tumor  the vaccine is still in a War Cost Israel $1 billion Jerusalem a the six Day Middle East War last Yea Cost Israel $1 billion finance minister Pinhas Sapir disclosed. We told a jewish fund Campaign Mission from Montreal that this Ngure included the Cost of replacing destroyed equipment. Sapir who did not go into details said Israel is forced to spend tremendous percentage of us Gross National product on de sense. Once peace came he added Israel easily could become financially self sufficient. Italians Call off rail strike Cambodia asks Ransom for 12 gis Bangkok up Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk is de manding 12 bulldozers in return for release of 12 american sol Diers captured on a . River cargo Barge that strayed into cambodian Waters on the me Kong River on july 17. Sihanouk in a speech the Day after the soldiers were captured threatened to Send them to jail for six months if he does t get the machinery. He said the Barge now belongs to Cambodia. Excerpts from the speech monitored Here were made available monday through Diplo Matic channels. The Mekong Barge took wrong turn july 17 into Cam Bodian territory As did the philippine tug Bream six weeks ago. The Bream carried two americans and a dozen filipinos. Sihanouk demanded Bulldozer for those americans As Well but released them As a Mark of re Spect after the assassination of sen. Robert f. Kennedy. Rome to try parking ban once again Rome a Rome again will try to put into effect a dras tic plan to Force thousands of romans to walk or use Public transportation. The purpose isto relieve the monumental chaos in downtown traffic. City officials announced that starting aug. 1, parking will be banned in downtown Rome from 7 to 10 . And from 3 to 5  two periods cover the Start of working time in the morning and afternoon for Virtu ally All employees in the  will be the third trial of such a  it never got beyond the planning stage As opposition by organized groups of citizens blocked  allowed this time however there seemed no doubt that the plan would go into effect. It is scheduled to run on an experimental basis until january 1969.the ban area covers More than 40 Miles of streets and Square inside a perimeter running along the tiber River edging Piazza Del Popolo and continuing along City Walls past the railway Sta Tion along via Nazionale through Piazza Venezia then skirting Piazza Navona up to the tiber  area includes via Veneto the Trevi Fountain and All the main hotels in the heart of the  will be allowed for hotel guests diplomats doctors journalists photographers tourist buses and other  officials said there Are 1 320,000 cars trucks and motor cycles in Rome 130,000 More than a year ago. Simply astounding Tokyo a police said 63,444 tickets for minor traffic violations were issued in Japan during a 10-Day period after july1, when a new ticket system aimed at simplifying police procedures went into effect. 111 old curse three italian ral Waymen s unions have called off a nationwide strike scheduled for wednesday. They pressed satisfaction at pay and hour terms worked out line minister of transport Oscar Scalfaro. Alresford England a the death of baronet sir an Thony Doughty Tichborne re ported monday fulfilled an 800 year old curse that the family would die out if the lord of the Manor Ever stopped giving Foo to the poor. Sir Anthony 54, died Las thursday the 14th and last baronet of his line. The cause of death was not Given. The curse was pronounced in1150, when lady Mabel Tieh borne begged her husband fro her deathbed to give the produce from part of his Hampshire estate to the tenants every year. If the donations which came Tobe known As the Tichborne Dole Ever stopped she warned seven sons would be born Fol Lowed by seven daughters the Manor House would collapse and the family name would cease for Lack of male heirs. Her husband agreed to give the value of the land she could walk around with a Torch in her hand. She Rose from her bed and managed to crawl around 23acres. The Dole was Given for 644years, before District magistrates ordered it stopped. The family later resumed the donation. Sir Anthony kept it up through world War ii and until 1947,despite food shortages and opposition from the wartime ministry of food but the curse went into  sons were born the fam ily mansion fell Down and seven daughters were born. Sir an Thony an army major Chevalier of the French legion of Honor and privy Chamberlain to the Pope was the last male heir. He left two daughters and Sev eral grandchildren. His wife died two years ago after falling froma seventh floor window  
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