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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday August 2 28 injured in fuel truck blast in Texas Kennedale Tex. Up gasoline tank truck and the storage tank it was filling ignited and exploded wednesday night shooting a fireball hundreds of feet into the air and engulfing firemen in flames that withered Trees 60 Yards away. No one was reported killed but at least 28 persons were injured six of them  of the injured was Dallas to newsman Steve Pieringer of Keld to who was standing in front of a House adjoining the service station filming the fire. He was right in front of the House when it exploded said Tommy Lowery Kennedale fire chief of the department. He walked about 60 or 70yards Down the Highway and then collapsed. He was just White Ash from head to  the House was not damage although the grass on the front Lawn was burned off and tree sin the front Yard reduced to skeletons covered with Whiteash. Another of the injured was Mansfield Tex., fire chief Harry blizzard. Both blizzard and Pieringer were transferred to Parkland memorial Hospital in Dallas. The Kennedale fire depart ment said the fire started about 8 . Edt and was extinguished at 9 45 . Edt. Z. G. Burcham 58, Driver of the truck said he had across the Highway when blast rocked the ground. Run the troop continued from Page 11face of a growing North Viet namese  brigade from the 5th mechanized div will beef up Allied strength in South Viet Nam s Northern provinces where the United states says North Vietnam has the equivalent of eight divisions either in or threatening the Northern prov inces. 25 years As ambassador Washington up Ambas Sador Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa of Nicaragua has celebrated the 25th year of his service in Washington for his country. Pope May Issue new birth ene helical Vatican City a Pope Paul i May Issue another Docu ment possibly a new encyclical in the Wake of the world wide uproar caused by his Banon birth control Vatican sources said  sources referred to the Pope s comment wednesday that his birth control encyclical was not the definitive word on family life. They said it could be taken to mean that another document was in Prospect. The Pope made the comment at his weekly general audience at Castel Gandolfo. He defended his ban on artificial contraception and pleaded for Roma Catholic couples to understand it and obey  of his encyclical and the storm of protest it has aroused throughout the world the pontiff said this is not the Complete treatment of the role of the human being in the Fields marriage family and honesty of  he added that the Church can and perhaps must return to the subject in a  that part of his comment has created speculation in Vatican circles that in a future document relating to the problem he might attempt to open the door even wider to the possibility that the final word has not been said on the birth control Pill. In his encyclical he urged scientists to keep up their search for a Means that the Church could accept As complementing nature in regulating the monthly female Fertility Cycle. In the juror that greeted the Pope s no to contraceptive de vices Little general att tinn paid to this aspect of h was l l of to cyclical. But theologians Export i contraception controversy raging inside the Churrot tinted that the Pope s Cal could be considered a be designed to keep the ban contraception in effect while Church continues through and modern theology Tofor a birth control system the rhythm method the to find acceptable. Eyon might 2 gis sentenced for killing cabby continued from Page Vage. At the time of the crime the army said both men were awol Overko from i troop,3rd so at Amberg Miller from h troop 2nd so at Bamberg. If West Germany which has no capital punishment had not assumed jurisdiction in the Case the two soldiers could have received the death penalty upon conviction in a . Court mar tial the court Here found the both guilty of murder and Rob Bery although it was Overk who shot 32-year-old Datzko twice through the Back of the head. According to the prosecutor the pair took 40 Marks $10 from the dead Driver s Bill fold. The soldiers had hailed Datzko s cab on the night of dec. 17 in Amberg and told him to take them to Grafe Woehr. Near the Post Overko complained of stomach cramps and told Datzko to Stop. When the cab pulled to a halt Overko blasted two bullets into the Backof the Driver s head testimony revealed. Datzko apparently saw what was coming and called desperately Inte his radio for help. He shouted Hilife Hilife help help. Seconds later he was dead. Alarmed by Datzko s cry Mil Ler shoved the dead Driver to one Side and took the wheel of the cab in a macabre dash for Freedom according to testimony. Startled villagers scramble for their lives As the car raced through several communities Horn blaring and lights blazing. The soldiers abandoned the taxi outside the Village of Huet ten after taking the Money fro Datzko. Miller was caught shortly after wards by German police and Overko turned himself in to Mili tary authorities at Graf the next  told the court he had not intended to shoot the  was an Accident he claimed. Datzko made a sudden move and forced him to pull his gun and fire he said. Miller who handed the weapon to Overko on the morning of the crime also denied they planned to kill Datzko. It was the big Gest mistake of my life he  told the court they deeply regretted the shooting. Miller expressed widow. Sorrow she is for Datzko lonely now. Know what it Means to be lonely he said. Closing . 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The czechoslovak delegation did not abandon the principles of its internal and foreign policy which the party and state leadership intended to consistently implement and for which the soviet party expressed under standing the president went on. He added that anyone who at tempted to use the reforms introduced by the new regime to turn Czechoslovakia against its Alliance with the soviet Union would remain isolated and will not win support of the  official final communique thursday said the talks had been held in an atmosphere of an full frankness sincerity Mutual  it said there had been Road comradery Exchange of opinions on questions interesting to both  Czechoslovakia s agreement to meet with its Warsaw pact Fel lows in a multilateral session was a surprising Concession. Reform czech had brought the arty Leader soviets to an unprecedented confrontation on czech soil by refusing to meet except singly with other ruling communist parties. The communique thursday said the soviet politburo and the czechoslovak presidium met to search for ways of further de weather fair to partly Cloudy with isolated afternoon thundershowers. Little change sat urday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 80, Low 66, temperatures recorded thursday get 4 4 am pm 78 84 Adana c 72 79 Athens p 68 79 Valano p 57 81 Berlin p 61 72 Frankfurt p 69 63 London p 4 4 am pm 67 88 Madrid p 67 81 Munich p 69 72 Paris p 48 68 or Ostwick p 68 86 Rome p 77 99 wheelus a Cleart a partly Cloudy. 2nd weather Wing eloping and strengthening the traditional Friendly relations be tween our parties and Peoples resting on the principles of Marx ism leninism and proletarian  it said the czechoslovak agreed with the soviets to pro pose a multilateral comrades meeting at Bratislava Czecho  communique added the ruling communist bodies of East Germany Bulgaria Hungary and Poland had already accepted the meeting. Dubcek dropped his objections to a multilateral meeting with the remaining hardliners of the East Europe bloc but he gained the lesser Concession of having i held on czechoslovak soil in his own Home constituency of Bratis lava. The final communique gave no hint of the disagreement Over wording that czech sources said forced an Extension of the sum Mit into the fourth Day. Johnson continued from Page 1 namese representatives in Paris would soon join with the Ameri can delegation in serious consideration of meaningful measures to bring the fighting in Vietnam to an  Jorden reviewed for Johnson the current state of the Paris talks and also described the consistent refusal of the North vietnamese delegation to enter into serious discussions of any proposals except their demand that All bombing of the North be  3 e. Germans flee Brunswick Germany up three East germans aged 17,22 and 25, fled unharmed to Gether through communist a trolled Border defences and mine Fields into West Germany s lower Saxony state Frontier officials in Brunswick said. Searched the ground under theory Airport traffic pattern thursday night for the body Ofa woman who reportedly climbed into the wheel Well of an air liner before it took off. Airport police theorize that the woman trying to get a free ride was crushed by the nose wheel retraction Assembly and dropped out before the plane was 20 kilo meters from the runway. A purse containing identification papers of a Young yugoslav woman was found on the run Way. Portuguese Airliner the Airliner was a portuguese airline tap Boeing 727 that was awaiting the go ahead Totake off. An off duty air France Pilot in a parking lot saw the woman climb Over the Fence run to the plane and climb into the wheel Well. The plane took off a couple of seconds later. Airport police said by the time the control Tower was notified the transport had flown Over the Lush chevre use Valley Southwest of  portuguese Pilot reported he had trouble retracting the nose wheel. He said he had to try four times before the gear locked into position and the double doors closed he decided to continue the flight at Lisbon the doors opened and the Landing gear came out but Lisbon Airport officials said the operation was Normal. Officials declined to comment further but unofficial source said a blood spot was found in the wheel  questioned police at orly said  purse were those of Dpi Ria Pantic born feb. 18 1939bijegina, Yugoslavia. They a a woman of that description had been questioned four Days agony air police after being found wan Dering in a restricted zone of the terminal building. Thursday the woman went o the Paris police prefecture get official Long Tern visitor spa pers. Personnel at the Pickre said she had an absent about her but she did no Plain her  Boeing 727 Pilo jaw a Small person could Cocci vary Stow away in the the but with flight temporaries m around 120 below Zero it was most certain suicide. Crop dusting Pilot wife killed in crash the  Calif. Up Robert Nichols flew the crop dusting plane zooming at rooftop level to Spray growing crops with insecticides. His wife Ann 36, stood on the ground at the endow the Field to guide him by Mark ing the Edge of rows of plants. On wednesday Nicho. Ca a of Hie Nelll lit a h1ltoo Low. His plane hit Teleg wire flipped Oski skidded 20 Yards am to Nichols. Both were killed  
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