European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              August 2, 196i the stars and stripes Page 23 Steep Rise in prices urges Saigon to let reds seek office huh criticizes s. Viets for jailing a a o Utah flav at to tit t7l,� Tiu a. 4u._ j _ a -. 1 i. Is Washington us the Cost of living took its biggest Ard jump in More than twin june the government reported wednesday. The in Seise was mainly the result of an upsurge in housing costs. The labor department reported that the consumer Price in Dex Rose half a per cent overlay Levels to 120.9 per cent of the 1957-50 base period 4.2 percent higher than a year ago. This Means the same Marke Basket of goods and services which $10 could have Purchase during the base period now costs j12 90based on 1939 terms $10 Worth of goods would Cost $24.97  department economists blamed most of the Overall in crease on mortgage interest costs. They added however that Price increases for cloth ing gasoline and cigarettes also exerted Strong upward pressure. The increase in the consume Price Index is the largest since the one half of one per cent risen february 1966. The Only in crease which has been larger indecent times was a seven tenths of a per cent increase in sep tember 1962. Washington up Vic president Hubert h. Humphrey thursday criticized the South vietnamese government for imprisoning the peace candidate who finished second in last year s election. He called again for free elections and said communists should be allowed to run  Humphrey broke the Johnson administration s official silence on the sentencing last week of Truong Dinh Dzu the peace candidate who finished second in Las fall s presidential election to five years at hard labor. I think they arc wrong in do ing what they have done Humphrey said in an interview on television. The Johnson administration has gone out of its Way not to criticize the elected government of president Nguyen Van Thieu and . Officials had been under orders not to make any Public statements on the imprisonment of Dzu. Humphrey also expanded on his earlier Call for free elections in South Vietnam in which every group could take part by explicitly including the communists in such  would permit individuals regardless of their political per suasion to take part in an elec Tion in South Vietnam just a they do Here Humphrey said. Communists Are allowed Torun for office in the United states he said. I see no Rea son Why they should not be Al Lowed to run for office  the vice president continuing his new Effort to carve out a Vietnam policy distinct from that of president Lyndon Johnson said he did not believe in imposing a communist group in a  he added i have always believed in the free processes Ofa free election and a free Choice. Many countries today Havethe right to elect their deputies and the government from All political parties. Communists Are elected to parliament in France they Are elected to parliament in scandinavian countries they Are elected to parliament in Italy these Are free elections in which they Are allowed to  they do not control the gov  no estonian circus traffic ban of Market rally fails to hold new York a the Stock Market closed lower thursday. The Market started off with a bang rallying in heavy trading after news of the steel labor set i element steel Price increases and Price boosts for other Industrial products. The Best of the rally was Overin an hour however and from that Point it was All  outnumbered gains by a wide margin at the final  Factor in the Market performance was a statement by Treasury Secretary Henry h. Fowler that there Are signs thei . Economy is getting a Cooling i off As a result of the income sur tax but he warned against passing on the higher taxes by business raising prices and by labor winning inflationary wage increases. Rome up a revolution came to the streets of Rome thursday. Some called it comedy. Whatever it was it seemed Tobe effective at least in the first  was the City of Rome s latest scheme to unravel the traffic in one of the world s most clogged and chaotic cities. Heart of City parking was banned from 7 to10 . And again from 3 to 5 . On 422 streets a total of46.8 Miles in the very heart of the City embracing the fashion Able via Veneto the Busy Span ish Steps area the Trevi foun Tain and other spots known to tourists around the  predicted a catastrophe with scores of thousands of angry motorists fighting for the 3,000 Legal parking spaces  it did t happen that Way at least in the first three  were noticeably fewer cars in the City Center an traffic whizzed along As it has t done in  laxity in the past parking bans have collapsed because of opposition from merchants and because policemen were 9ften lax about giving out parking  thursday White tickets appeared to be fluttering from the windshields of almost every Ille gaily parked car and police were moving about the cite Center with rare  newsman asked an office it s going much better. I be Iven out 15 tickets  the press in this City of 2.5million people and 1.3 million registered vehicles was almost uniformly hostile. Absurd cried ii  in Rome the first act of the new traffic comedy be gins written by City Hall and edited by the citizens Sai Paese Sera. The  of the plan was to orce motorists to use Public transportation move traffic faster and allow delivery trucks to unload merchandise at store without timing up the streets. Test basis the City said the scheme would remain in effect on an experimental basis until january when the authorities will decide whether to scrap it or make impermanent. Ii Messaggiero warned that the scheme might work for a month but was certain to produce chaos when thousands of romans now away on vacation All com driving Back into town. How things were going. He said Glassy stare a transparently baneful Little drama unfolds at orly Airport in Paris As Czechoslovakia student Jana Dvorakova 19, and her French Fiance Guy Legoueix 23, look longingly at each other through a Glass partition. Trouble was that Jaikia had no entry visa. Kind hearted Airport officials let them Converse silently and Exchange a make believe kiss through the Glass. Jana got her visa 24 hours later. A photo training centers misused Chicago youth gang funds Cut off Washington a anti poverty officials quietly abandoned wednesday a Stormy pro Gram for two youth gangs which Senate witnesses said siphoned off Federal funds to buy firearms and marijuana. The office of economic Opportunity shut off Money for the Skeleton staff left on the Chica go program. The decision made virtually certain the eventual refusal of a pending application for $1 million to continue the project. The $927,000 experimental Grant for the Blackstone rang ers and the Devil s disciple last year has been assailed at Senate hearings which led to contempt charges against one gang  witnesses testified that pro Gram training centers we reused As gang arsenals and Sites for sex and narcotics  told the Senate investigations subcommittee that Gan leaders collected kickbacks from Federal paychecks Given to enrollees in the training pro Gram and used the Money for guns drugs and police bail. The Senate voted 80 to 0, to cite gang Leader Jeff fort vice president of the Blackstone rangers for contempt after it refused to answer subcommittee questions and walked out of the hearings Han $1 million to renew the Job raining Effort. The program involved fou Rob training centers set up to try o teach skills to gang member Sand make them productive Citi Zens. Gang leaders Many wit criminal records were named As instructors because Leo offi Jials Felt they could hold the re Spect of the  officials noted hat the gang leaders  streets of the Woodlawn area of Chicago after the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. And kept the area quiet while other cities burned. Vio Lence flared on Chicago s Westside but not on the South Side. Leo sources said constant police surveillance of the program interrupted training efforts an undercut the effectiveness of the project. They said a similar pro Gram might be tried in some other City with a More promis ing climate next summer. Ford earnings Rise new y 0 r k up theford motor co. Has reported sharply higher sales and earn in a for the second Quarter an first half of 1968. Ford earned million in t h o Secondis Llull of. 1o7 the program was halted in a. -. Mav but three staff members Quarter on sales Tola 1ms 3.7 i 1remained on the project and 1 spared w i h the a. Hovering to France Princess and her husband lord Sno seat passengers for the first ima0T a. The world s largest hovercraft. Wednesday s the Woodlawn organization two South Side neighbor Hood body in Chicago sponsor ing the program had applied to Antipoverty officials for More million earned in the Sam period in 1967 on sales totalling $3.16 billion. Sales were up 17per cent and per share profits 28 per cent