European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 8 the stars and stripes Prague students remember Hungary s Fate Prague up the Stu dents of Prague remember that in 1956 soviet tanks crushed the life out of a Brief bid for free Dom in was a lesson for them and few today Are willing to s a they would risk using their fists and a few Molotov cocktail against the overwhelming might of the red threat of soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia hangs Over the country As so Viet troops Man Euver to the East and the party leaders of both nations engage in negotiations on Czechoslovakia s future. What would be the use tonight them said a 21-year-old philosophy student standing i Wenceslas Square waiting for a bus. We have no arms we could do nothing against what is Hugary now he asked. What have they got to show for it it s All just the same now As he said he would expect the students of Prague to oppose the soviet troops if they came Buthe did not think they would use Don t know what we would do he student a 20-year-old freshman at a local technological Institute would not admit to the possibility that the soviet would come. If they interfere Here i would be a greater violation of peace than the Vietnam War he said. I Don t feel there is any Chance of that because the must worry about world Opin fingered the plastic of an imitation leather briefcase Bulg ing with books and paper and recalled the grim Days under deposed party chief Antonin Novotny when Small business and political opposition were swept Grandfather owned a Small factory in Moravia he said. Because of things like that Many of us came under such pressure under the Novotny re Gime that it aws impossible to get to the said nobody wanted to re turn to those Days but he doubted the students would take Yugo bite Josef you re dead9 Abate get yugoslav dig at Russia Politika a Yugo slav daily paper sympathetic to Czechoslovakia in its dispute with Russia took this slap at the russians under the title Twenty car Toon caption says Josef Josef when will you understand that you re really dead a after those Jet flights How to reset your biological clock Siat Nesses of the Jet age circadian eyed passengers Settine off my my _ m or Stanley r. Mohler of the hijacking of Airliner infuriates israelis salts pm Mif lights Back in 1931 and 1933. The cure in its simplest terms is bed rest. But the prescription is almost As complicated As the illness. According to Mohler the International civil aviation organization prescribes a Manda tory rest period determined by dividing travel time in hours by two adding time zones in excess of four plus departure an arrival time coefficients which Are based on tenths of a Day. Under this system a Newyork London flight requires a Day of rest new York to Beirut two Days. It s All rather complicated the Faa says. Don t try to Fig ure it out for yourself. Take our word for Tel Aviv a the Hijack ing of an israeli Airliner has sent Shock Waves of anger and frustration throughout the jew ish state. Not since Arab commando blew up a bus carrying school childen last March have the israelis been so bitter against the Arab world. Before that it waste sinking of an israeli destroyer by egyptian missiles Las october. Retaliation followed within Days of both incidents. While prime minister Levi Eshkol and foreign minister Abba Eban have been relatively moderate in their demands for return of the plane its Crew and israeli passengers the Man on the Street and the National press have been loss restrained. Many israeli citizens and the press Are saying that Arab air liners Are not immune to hijacking either. The Al Al Boeing 707 was hijacked tuesday morning Over the Mediterranean shortly after it took off from Rome bound for Tel Aviv. Three armed arabs forced the plane to land in Al Giers. A palestinian guerrilla organization has claimed credit for the hijacking. The israeli newspapers wednesday morning splashed the Story and photos Over Page on while inside editorial writers said the algerian government must take full responsibility for the incident. Stars and stripes to the Street to oppose soviet today than it was before what do we use for Wea a Fri Pons he said. We Are no lets. A army and we can t even bother but who knows1?"them. We can Only depend on you always Artim i Sai i the new government to take a a situation like tha ively infirm it in one of the dark arcades that honeycomb downtown Prague a pretty girl wearing dungarees held the hand of her boy Friend a portuguese Exchange student and said she was a student from Bratislava the capital of the slovakian Region of Czechoslovakia. She spoke warmly of Alexander Dubcek the new party Leader. He is a slovak one of us she said. It is much different informal Survey troops in Vietnam favor some method of gun control in . By John t. Saigon a an informal Survey among american com Bat troops whose lives depend on their weapons shows senti ment for moderate to Strong gun control Laws in the United states. But at the same time most of the gis interviewed on Saigon s outer defense perimeter said they thought that Short of confiscation controls would do Littleto Cut Down on gun deaths. Spec. 5 Jerry Ballard of Kansas City mo., said i m a member of the National Rifle association Era and i m against confiscation. But i think mandatory registration of weapons is Okay. A gun is no different from a car As far As that goes. And stopping mail order sales is a Good it. Alfred pick of Dallas said proposed gun Laws seemed ridiculous. Crooks an assassins can always get a gun whether it is registered or said he was not opposed to reasonable gun Laws. Spec. 4 Paul Young of Bur Bank calif., said As a devoted Hunter he would not mind gun registration Laws but added no matter what gun Laws the pass if someone really wants a gun hell find a Way to get Don t forget it s the people who do the killing not the gun weapons Are not bad by them a lot of Guys worry about registration because they think it May eventually violate their right to Bear arms said spec. 4 John Krumpus of Des Plaines Wheeler but i think it s a great idea to Register and License weapons in the United states. I be see what these things can do to peo pie and there ought to be some sort of control. But if a Guy is crazy enough to kill in the United state Shell find a Way to get a weapon if there s no pistol or Rifle i around hell use a baseball sgt. Kenneth Bethel of Dumas tex., said i guess you be got to have some control. But it would wind up with the Good people registering their weapons and the bad would sgt. Glen Boulware of Dallas tex., said stopping mail order sales won t mean anything to people who really know about weapons. With me they Are jus like a car. I want to see and handle any weapon first before 11buy a few gis said that when the returned Home they planned to get rid of the weapons they Hadin the states particularly hand guns. In the past a few have said Vietnam had even soured them on Hunting and that they would never take another life even that of an animal once they got out of Vietnam. Several gis deplored what has been called the arms race in some . Cities with racial unrest. A common remark was that those who had not see what guns can do to another human could t fully realize the consequences of pulling a Trig Ger in anger until it was too late. S. European edition. .h,.jcol. James w. Campbell Usa. Editor a cult. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor. In Nagano editor Elmer d. Frank. Production manager henrys. Epstein. Circulation this new paper it an authorized publication of the department of . Armed Force overseas. The Start and Stripe it by the a , . European command in support of the command Stern i information pro8ram of the department of defence. Content of the Star Stripe do not Nencet warily reflect the official Vleig of the . Government the department of defence. Tha appearance of . In Thi. New papf1r pfc Erneno commercial publication Doe not constitute an endowment by to � apartment of defence or any of it component. Military Andreo the surf Stripe., Apo 09175. 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