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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 26, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Leader rebuffed the executive of Britain s governing Labo Rebuff to prime minister Harold Wilson minister Anthony Greenwood 56, for the 83, a Veteran Trade Union two Man in the 1,500,000-Strong transport g Union. The nomination is considered surely the labor party s annual conference at Blackpool dirt servers interpreted Nicholas nomination As Victory for the labor unions which provide much of the party s and voting support. They oppose the government s Mon keeping a lid on wages and prices for another year. Id acadian Coo d eat Titiwa. Alta. Appi editor a pit postmen went to work in Smas the first week of editor of the Calgary Herald used another Pigeon to de liver copy to his office. Postal strike ended. Art Poile owner of Theta mine Neeon delivered a Birds said he would provide Al of a document from be pigeons to deliver notes in the2i ill Miles West of this province during the strike by to Mark the opening of a 24,000 postal  elevator. He said his Birds can cover Jita Schmidt agriculture 160 Miles in about three hours. I Panama election confirmed Panama up the electoral tribunal has confirmed Arnulf Arias As Winner of the disputed May 12 presidential election and moved the final Barrier in Arias path to the National Palace or the third time. The 66-year-old Harvard trained surgeon was waste from office on both previous occasions. I Nasser going to Russia for cure Cairo a Egypt s presi Dent Gamal Abdel Nasser suf luring from an unspecified ail ment has announced he will Fly of the soviet Union for medical treatment. It was the first of announcement Ever that Nasser who is 50, was ailing. Nasser revealed he was sic during a meeting with the newly 1 National Congress but he specify the nature of his ailment. He Only said thank Goethe problem is not serious but it causes  he has previously been reported As having  did not exclude the likelihood Nasser will carry on his talks with soviet leaders which he started Early this month in Moscow on the political and military aspects of the mid East crisis. Franco Church rift widens Madrid up Spanish roman Catholic Bishops have endorsed the right of workers to organize unions free of govern ment control and to go out on non political strikes. It was an unprecedented step which underlined the widening rut Between the Spanish Church and Generalissimo Francisco Franco s regime. Political circles in Madrid regarded the Bishops stand a especially significant in View of the new Union Law the Franco we is gradually hammering out. Strikes Are virtually illegal Tyain. The word itself Seldom appears in the Spanish press were the accepted expression is work  Bonn loosens on War claims Karlsruhe Germany Apt Germany s supreme courts struck Down a 1964 Federal w that retroactively blocked won payments to a b o u Tom. Victims of nazism. The Law which was ruled Lonal because of its ret Active claims i quire that after 1957, itemize losses suffered under the nazis. Those who stood to lose be cause of the Law had indicated on applications that they had suffered material losses but were unable to provide detailed documentation of their claims. No details were available immediately on the sum of reparation Money involved. Elite passes Mooth orbit in vent Irli the first european space see Masonn ? nth Ort it of the Earth the european space z 10n Esro announced thursday. Iris also witted i satellite Harch on Nas Ero t 10base. Calif maw Ift was Launcie from Vandenberg air Force May 16 on an american scout rocket. I tribes offer troops in a _ cd Atli to All i. Yem chiefs meeting in the yemeni prove an Arillo have agreed to ? five ��?.sol army. Cited to Call on islamic Andara countries to exert efforts to Stop saudi Arabia s involve ment in yemeni affairs. Observers viewed the Movsas a blow to royalist Hopes and to saudi Arabia s pres Tige since several representatives were previously considered royalist supporters. . And Britain begin Field test on detecting arms control cheating smoke the Royal Navy has apologized v Ere that s of an8port that the spots they saw were was rehearse in a Vasai a that the Fleet a Arm s aerobatic Machiyo hot display using Blue smoke but that the  Naa one wrong. The Dye fell Over the City As London a an Anglo american exercise in arms control began thursday with 30,000british troops setting out to break the terms of a hypothetical International pact limiting land and air forces. The Field test in the Salisbury Plain area code named exercise first look provide that joint american British inspection teams should try to detect How and where the cheating takes place. Aim of the unique International operation is to build up prac tical experience in procedure for checking arms control and thereby to help Progress in cur rent and future disarmament negotiations. Russia and four other communist european countries have ignored invitations to Send along observer teams to watch the exercise. Frederick Mulley the British foreign office minister in charge of disarmament attended the Start of the operations along with senior aides. Mulley is chief British representative at the 17-Power disarmament con Ference in  the countries participating in the Geneva meeting and Allnatt members have been invited to Send  . Military and Politi Cal authorities have undertake several programs to test Check ing  first look is being confined to conventional non nuclear forces. It deliberately has not been related to an project in arms control or Dis armament under negotiation i Geneva. But various inspection methods and ways of organizing inspecting teams will be tried out. These aim at keeping watch on the military capacity of the inspected forces rather than registering All of their component units. Allies forbid latvian meet in w. Berlin Bonn a the Allie thursday banned an exile latvian youth Congress scheduled Totake place in West Berlin this weekend. A statement issued by the embassies of the United states Brit Ain and France jointly responsible for West Berlin said the step has been taken because the Congress would clash with their own interests and those of Ber Lin. The allies said the Bonn government and the Berlin Senate share this View and Welcome the ban. Wednesday night the association of exiled latvian youth announced that in spite of offi Cial German opposition it would go ahead and stage its Congressi the Congress Hall close to the Wall which divides the for Mer capital. Could Worsen situation West German and Allied officials consider such a meeting incompatible with efforts to avoid worsening of the situation Cre ated by recent communist pres sure on Berlin and Western retaliatory  West Berlin University Stu Dent miss Rasma Silde spokes Man for the organizers rejected the official West German an West Berlin View that the rus sians As the fourth Power responsible for Berlin would feel provoked by the  480 people of latvian origin including 130 each fro the United states and West Ger Many 50 from , 70 each from Sweden and Britain and 10 from Australia planned to at tend and about 50 had arrived from North America miss Sil Esaid wednesday. Strike halts . Dailies Washington up Washington s three daily news papers suspended publication thursday As a result of a strike of Union stereotypes. Members of some other unions at the papers such As printers refuse to Cross stereotypes picket lines. Poised Ruth her strikes pose perhaps to show that she will Star in a film about Well balanced marriage. The movie is the perfect marriage based on a Book by a dutch women s doctor the.  de Velde. Up photo nigerian agreement reported Niamey niger up nigerian and biafran representatives at the preliminary Nigeria peace talks Here agreed thurs Day that Relief supplies be sen through a demilitarized mercy corridor to starving  93-mile corridor would link Federal held Enugu former capital of the Eastern Region with Bogoja in  would be supervised by civilian observers from Ethiopia Liberia Cameroon niger Ghana and the Congo Kinshasa a Federal government spokes Man in Lagos however called the reported agreement so ridiculous it is out of the ques Tion according to the associated press. Six girls say Virgin Mary appeared Montreal a six girl ranging in age from 7 to 13, say the Virgin Mary appeared totem in the sky Over suburban St. Bruno at an hour when meteorologists say unusual storm Cloud formations were visible Over the area. The Canadian girls Are Manon Lucie and France Saint Jean aged 13, 10 and 7, respectively Danielle Vincent 11, and Louis and line Grise 12 and 9. Manon and line told newsmen wednesday they spoke with the Virgin and she replied to themis a soft slow voice advising them to Pray and promising to return monday oct. 7, at the same time the setting of the Sun. The four other girls said they had not heard the Virgin. Mrs. Saint Jean Mother of three of the girls said that at about the time the children claim to have seen the vision some thing appeared in the sky in front of her Home which caused her to lose her strength and drop to he Knees. She said she could not say it was the Virgin. Abbe Louis Paul vote curate in the roman Catholic Parish to which the girls belong too the matter calmly and was inclined to ascribe it to a natural phenomenon. He said he had Learned that the same night in the neighbouring suburb of St. Basile a boy had said to his father look daddy there is a Man walking in  weather office meteorologists in Montreal said that rare and unusual Cloud formations were visible in the area preceding a series of thunderstorms. Chesty Nottingham England up craftsman William Sharpe who joined the British army Reserve five years ago still is waiting for his Parade uniform. His problem and the army s is that though he stands Only 4 feet 11 inches tall he has a Man sized 44-Inch Chest. God anti metric to Philip London a Prince Philip husband of Queen Elizabeth ii has suggested Here that god i against the metric system. Speaking Tongue in Cheek at London banquet the Prince noted that Britain s government plans to abandon its ancient system of weights measures and Money and go metric Over the next five  Stop at liners and kilo meters asked the  would like to suggest that we take it a stage further an introduce a 10-hour working Day for instance with 100 minutes tothe hour and 100 seconds to the  might even go for a 10 Day week cries of shame which would of course mean a five Day weekend cheers he added the trouble is i m not quite sure How this would Fitin with the clays weeks and months of the year. I m Force to conclude that the almighty was not entirely convinced of the Merit of the Decimal  the Prince was addressing the worshipful company of Carmen and association of transport tycoons which originated As a 16th Century Guild of Carters witha charter from King Henry Viii  
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