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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes 101 ssh world marshal Rokos Sovsky Dies up marshal Konstantin k. Rokos Sovsky 72, in huh born Soldier who was released from a Stalin Era con trat Ion Camp on the eve of world War ii to take up the pm info of forces which saved Moscow from German occupation is furday it was officially announced  several years Rokos Sovsky had suffered from cancer and a had been hospitalized in the past few months but he remained n Active duty As inspector general of the armed forces. After the successful Battle of Moscow Rokos Sovsky participated l most of the key engagements of the War and his armies were najor factors in the soviet victories at Stalingrad Warsaw East Prussia and  in the complicated soviet polish relations that developed after ithe War Rokos Sovsky was returned to his native Poland and became a polish citizen minister of defense a marshal of Poland and for practical purposes the country s  Stalin s death and the revolt against stalinism polish party Reader Wladyslaw Gomulka insisted on the dismissal of Iro Kossovsky a demand the then soviet Leader Nikita s. Krush Chev reluctantly accepted to avoid the bloodshed which Gomulka threatened. Doctor transplants Kneecap. Quebec a an operation that maybe the first of us kind was performed Here when or. Andre Gilbert car ried out a successful Kneecap transplant. A surgeon attached to St. Francois d Assise hos Pital Gilbert implanted the Kneecap in a 65-year-old woman in a six hour operation Friday night. The donor was a 49-year-old Man who die thursday night. The surgeon told reporters that the woman had an incur Able Bone disease in one of her Knees requiring amputation. The operation was a Suc Cess and the patient was Venable to move and Bend her new knee before being returned to her Hospital bed he said. Out one Day Back the next Brazzaville Republic of Congo a the army that overthrew president Alphonse Massamba Debat brought him Back sunday 28 hours later and liar mediately sat Down with him to form a new government for the former French Congo. The army s continued backing Lof Massamba Debat was attrib muted by informed observers Here mostly to his Power among the Bak ongo and other Southern tribes. Instigators of the coup were characterized As mainly p r o peking but they apparently could not pull it off alone observers said. The army Leader ship is apparently trying to find a Compromise and later disarm the warring factions of the National revolutionary movement mar youth corps. Search for Paradise leads to jail port moresby Papua up a papuan who spent two years digging a Hole in search of Paradise and then murdered a woman who jeered his efforts was jailed Here for nine  Faraho 24, pleaded guilty to the wilful killing of Sipa Nodi 45. The supreme court at Popp Endetta Northern District was told that a spirit made him return to his Village of Novoj Shambo from another area and dig a Hole in which he would find a Snake to Lead him to Paradise or a treasure  two years he dug beside his hut. By june the Hole was 25 feet deep and five feet wide. The last six feet was full of water but Evoro dived to the Bottom and continued excavations. His follow villagers at first respectful became derisive including Sipa. In mid june Evoro speared her in the Back and hacked her with an a. 4noii-politician hanging on j London up former foreign Secretary George Brown declaring that he is not How and never was a politician said sunday night he intends to hang onto his Job As Deputy loader of the labor party. Brown said in a television interview that he does sometime wonder whether and for How Long to should hold the party Post m View of his resignation trom the government of prime i minister Harold Wilson it gives me a position in the controversial remains the charred body purportedly that of Adolf Hitler shown above is the subject of sex soviet intelligence officer lev Bezy Menski s newly published Book the death of Adolf Hitler in which the author claims that Hitler died of cyanide poisoning. The Teeth in the Jawbone below allegedly match up with the records kept by Hitler s dentist. Other historians have contended Hitler shot himself. Up photos party it gives me a position on the National executive but of course it is in parliamentary terms exceedingly anomalous to hold the Deputy Leader s Job Brown  was discussing the prob lems he has faced since Resigna Tion As foreign Secretary last  m a politician by Accident. I am a Trade unionist an industrialist by background Andy training. I never became a politician. I am not a politician he said. Pope Paul again defends controversial encyclical Skeleton clutching pieces of eight is. Mary a Isles of Scilly a a Skeleton with five Pucis of eight clutched in it Snail has been recovered by divers searching for $2 million treasure off the Scilly islands Milt s from England s West Ern tip. Tie find was believed to have come from the wreck of the British warship association flagship of adm. Sir Clouds Ley Shovell which Sank in a storm off the islands 260 years  have already raised Gold and Sliver coins Worth an estimated $100,000 from the spot were the association sunk. 3 nations to build air bus Paris up _ the French German British project to build � a medium haul 260 to 800 passenger air bus got a new ase on life when the three nations declared their intention to so ahead with it. It had been speculated that the program Mig Htut m i Ani i rapped. Castel Gandolfo Italy up Pope Paul i defended his encyclical on birth control again sunday while tacitly acknowledging it As the most controversial document of his pontificate. The 70-year-old Pope told thousands of visitors to the summer Vatican outside rom that he knew the encyclical s uncompromising language caused worldwide concern. We can in a certain sense understand this incomprehension and this opposition he said. The size and scope of reaction to the encyclical which condemned without qualification All forms of artificial birth control wore unparalleled he  have never received so Many spontaneous expressions of gratitude and consent he said. The messages had come from around the world from every class. Pope Paul said the encyclical was not opposed to a responsible limitation on children nordic it oppose scientific research into the matter nor did it of gunmen prove Holdup s no joke Roggi Italy a thro masked men armed with shot guns held up a bar in this Cen trial italian Village sunday and shot dead a c u s t o m e r who quipped Stop the joking. It s lasting too  gunmen forced the bar owner and the 10 customers Rostand up with their arms in the air. Luigi Tagliaferri 67, apparently thinking it was a gag delivered his  died in a blast of Shotgun fire. Then the gunmen turned their fire on the bar s phone Booth and fled without taking any Money. Pose truly responsible Parent , he emphasized it did oppose the use of All forms of birth control devices As degrading to the purity of conjugal love. The encyclical was issued he said out of papal duty and pastoral  want to recall once again this is not ours but the Law of  he  was the second time in five Days that the Pope had defended the document which tone lied off a storm of controversy when it was issued a week  time the Pope spoke Only in italian. On wednesday he had i spoken in English. S p a n i s a. French and German As Well. 1 after speaking to tourists and the faithful in a courtyard reappeared at a window to give his sunday Blessing to the crowd. It was Multi Lingual and Drew especially loud c h e e r s Fromi Spanish speaking visitors  
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