European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stapes Cleveland negro charged in riots Cleveland Ohio a police charged Black nationalist Leader Fred Ahmed Evan thursday with shooting with in tent to kill Possession of narcotics and Possession of a car Bine in connection with tuesday night s violence Here. Fred Ahmed Evans Mardi gras parades into West Berlin by Marc Wilson staff writer berlins a Berliner got a taste of this year s new Orleans German  thursday As a Mardi gras style Parade wound it Sway through the Center of the City and Down the famed Kur Fuerste Damm. Rex King of the carnival and lord of misrule in the per son of spec. 5 Robert Barr led the column with it. Col. Ernest a. Van Netta and four Bikini Clad beauties on a Genu Ine Mardi gras  the King was an old fashioned Schultheiss Beer wag on with a matched four horse team a bandwagon with Heberlin s brigade s 298th army band playing Dixieland jazz and a historical German Post office  Volk fest itself will have its opening ceremony at the american sport Field in Dahlem at 2 . Friday to begin the17-Day gala. A replica of new Orleans French Quarter has been constructed As the setting for this year s festival. Evans was quoted by Detec Tives As saying he organized the sniper attack against Clevelan notice which triggered the wide spread shooting looting and arson. Negro leaders said Evans was quite capable of claiming credit for 10 slayings he May have had nothing to do with. Evans was quoted by police wednesday As saying a Black nationalist group was Well organized Between Cleveland Pittsburgh Akron Detroit an new York and that funds from a Federal Grant were use to buy a station Wagon in which nationalists travelled Between cd tags the $10,000 Grant was said Mohave come from the Hough area development corp., which was set up to lend Money to Small businesses. The develop ment corporation recently received a $1.6 million Federal Grant. Detectives said Evans told them tuesday night s attack was Only a  was Only a preliminary to what is going to happen Evans was quoted. Asked Why he surrendered to police wednesday Evans was quoted As replying because my Damn carbine jammed or i d still be shooting at  33-year-old self pro claimed astrologer and Blac nationalist has said he believes in retribution for injustice Tob lacks suffered at the hands of Whites. Prediction fails his prediction of major racial rises across the nation on May 9, 1967, failed to materialize. Heater told an interviewer the fact of a pending catastrophe had been revealed to him by stars and his study of astrology had started the night he saw a flying Saucer while out driving with a Friend. Mayor Carl b. Stokes said Evans is suspected of being one of the ringleaders in the trouble started by a Small and deter mined  had a bitter feeling toward the police and he Wasi Itter Over an eviction proceed ing against him " Stokes  mayor described Evans As a recognized Black nationalist Leader in the City and a very vocal  Evans said in a recent inter View that part of his philosophy is that All the injustices of the White world must be avenged. He has a scar on his head which he said is the result of a police  is a Universal Law of Justice he  is convinced people who live in the ghetto should run things. They should mete out Justice. The police Don t live Here with the rats and Roaches and Little  Preston honoured West German presi Dent Heinrich Luebke presents the grand Cross of Merit with Star of the order of Merit Token. Maurice a. Preston Safe commander in chief. The award was made thursday on the occasion of Preston s Farewell visit to president s official residence in Bonn. It Honor �af�?ei2r.for two years of service Ahsa Foch is contribution to the Wor of nato. He will retire aug. 1. Air Forca Pentagon pins harassment to Cranks Washington is har Assing Telephone Calls visits telegrams and letters to the wives and families of service men in the United states appears to be the work of individual Cranks and not of organize groups according to air Force col. William a. Temple of the defense department s office of manpower and Reserve affairs. Temple in testimony to a House Post office and civil service subcommittee wednes Day said that in the past 3 years the Pentagon received re ports of Only 300 such incidents. They Are Temple added individual efforts by the same sort of warped and diseased minds that Are capable of Mak ing obscene Telephone Calls to victims in the Middle of the night or of sending false Tele graphic casualty messages to families of  in the Case of Crank mail Only 34 incidents have been re ported since May 1965. One of them to the bereaved family of a Serviceman killed in action in Southeast Asia said in part you must be rejoicing in anticipation of receiving $10, 000 Nesli As a gesture of thanks. We suggest that you Send $1,000 to the Viet Cong sympathizers arms  Temple called this sort of mail  investigating Board rules flawed rocket killed Viet off Saigon a a malfunction ing rocket from a . Helicopter gunship was to blame for the deaths of six High ranking South vietnamese officers in Saigon last june a joint vietnamese . Investigation thursday. Board said the results of the investigation were made Public at a news con Ference following accusations last officers that their husbands Al friends of vice president Nguyen Cao by May have been purposely killed for political reasons. Our conclusion is that the incident was caused by the technical failure of a 2.75-Inch rocket fired from an american helicopter said maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Mann inspector general of the  by widows of the six dead the 16-member Board three of whose members Are american officers reported that the gun ship had been requested to strafe a building in Cholon held by Cheviet Cong. The building was about 100 Yards from the temporary government command Bunker in school where the six officers were killed and several other wounded. May act ways studied to get Jel released by algerian the algerian government was reported under heavy diplomatic pressure thursday to release the hijacked israeli Airliner its 10 Crew members and 11 Israel passengers. Two senior officials of the International federation of airline pilots were expected in Algier Friday with a warning that pilots operating flights into Algeri would be instructed to withdraw their services. . Under Secretary general Ralph bundle met twice with the algerian ambassador to the United nations and was in formed Algeria was still investigating the matter and had not decided what action to  foreign minister Abdelaziz bout Flika said in Paris from a and up dispatches French Trade unbalanced Paris a riots an strikes which occurred in the Spring will result in France spending abroad this year $1.1 billion More than it takes in French experts told their main Rading partners thursday. In1967, French International pay ments were roughly in  this year s deficit about j800 million will be attributable Trade. The rest will be caused by More capital being taken out of the country than flows in. The figures were Given to the economic policy committee of he organization for economic cooperation and development. . Shows increase in foreign tourists Washington up . Travel service has announced that 631,084 foreign vis tors spent about $250 million in this country during the first six months of 1968. The number of business an measure visitors represents a 6.4 per cent increase Over the first half of 1967, uses said. That the affair will end i context of International moral  non israeli passengers Abathe Al Al Jet were flown out Algeria after tuesday s Hija cof the Tel Aviv bound plane. Rome. The israelis were kept hostages for captured Arab t a wrists according to the or galation which claims to have gingered the hijacking self styled Palestine liberation  spokesman for the Isra foreign ministry said in a broadcast Over the state radio at this stage Israel is St trying not to take any Ste measures or reach a confrontation on matters of prestige will the algerian  Hope Algeria will unde stand its International of Sions and will fulfil them.1 an Authora Tive source close the government explained succinctly we have to give to algerians a Chance. How Jon we Are prepared to wait no is Able to  added the government Learned through italian so rein Algeria that the Crew and Pai sengers had been Transfer from the plane to a place of Tention far from the Airport weather . 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