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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday August 8, i r by the associated press sen. Edward v. Long was Defeated tuesday in a hotly con tested race for Missouri s demo cratic senatorial nomination by it gov. Thomas f.  maintained nearly a 20000-vote Lead Over Long witha scattering of Rural precincts uncounted. True Davis of St. Joseph a former ambassador to Switzerland ran  Magazine said in May 1967 Long misused his Senate judiciary subcommittee probe of eavesdropping and wiretap Ping in an Effort to help James r. Hoffa teamsters Union president who is now in prison the Senate ethics committee after a four month investigation into that and other charge ruled there was no wrongdoing on Long s part. The committee later reopened its inquiry Anc has issued no new  called the charge a dead Issue and a political smear. The Missouri upset highlighted four primaries around the country in which rep. Bob Dole on tie gop senatorial Nomina Tion in Kansas sen. Fran Church was unopposed in Idaho and All 19 Michigan Congress men won renomination. Eagleton in a Victory state ment praised both his opponents. To both sen. Long and ," Eagleton said i express my recognition for the thorough and forthright Way in which they campaigned. The were indeed most formidable and worthy  rep. Thomas b. Curtis won the gop senatorial nomination. Either party and was assured Ore election. Three of Michigan s 18 other congressmen had Token opposition for denominations and the rest were unopposed. Smash top Fer Tommme old actor eve pours to on  it was the first joke emanate from this year s Nodi urn. Theater critics allegedly democrats predicted it  be the last. By Saul Pett Miami Beach a Johnwayne the elder statesman gave Way to Everett Mckinle Dirksen the old actor and the Republican National convention came alive tuesday  up from the Tundra of tedium and the threat of rigor mortis it was Dirksen unite states senator Senate Republican Leader convention platform committee chairman recording Star Peerless apostle of the new politics of the age of Queen Elte Beth i who gave the Delegate their first incisive lesson in the arts of elocution execution an electrification Rural. They began by giving him a roaring hand and he began by saying i accept the Nomina new fighting Breaks out 15 Miles South of Saigon the delegates laughed and continued to make noise. Dirksen 4alternately imperious cajoling Bargai Nim turned menacing bargaining. From a and up dispatches Saigon new fighting flared wednesday about 15 Miles Southof Saigon in an area known As the rocket  spokesmen said sketchy reports of the clash indicated up to 50 Viet Cong had been  clash erupted As units of the . Ninth inf div swept through the wet Paddy land from which Viet Cong move into Posi Tion around Saigon to launch mortar and rocket attacks on the  another development . Special forces troops rescued118 starving montagnard a tribes men from a Viet Cong Jungle prison in a bloodless helicopter  said the Mountain men women and children were emaciated and covered with body sores after two years of forced labor at the hands of the Viet Cong. Vanguard of new teachers arrives democratic  and  Warren  county supervisor Law rence k. Roos a Republican had Only Token opposition for the state chief executive Nomi nations. In Kansas Dole Defeated for Mer gov. William h. Avery for the Republican nomination forthe seat being vacated by retiring sen. Frank Carlson a re  i. Robinson a Wichita attorney and businessman was the apparent democratic senatorial  gov. Robert Docking was unopposed for re  Idaho both Church a Lead ing Senate critic of . Yet Nam policy and Republican rep. George Hansen were unopposed for nominations to face each other in the Senate  legislator Orval Hansen won the gop nomination to Karlsruhe Germany Spe Cial the Vanguard of an expected 678 new classroom teach ers for the . Dependent schools european area use sea began arriving at Rhein main air base this week. A 16-Man team of teachers and administrators has been assigned to Greet and process the incoming teachers at the Rhein main and Frankfurt american High school reception centers. More than 350 of the new teachers a us Desea spokes Man said wednesday have been recruited from the United states and an estimated 320 Are transferees from dependent schools in the Pacific far East and at lactic areas. The new arrivals will bring the total of classroom teachers in Europe to 4,400, the spokesman lands with 17 students. Laken Heath England High school is expected to have the largest enrolment with More than 1,850. Classes for All grades will Operon sept. 3. Kindergarten classes will begin on sept. 9, the Karls Ruhe official said. Said. Enrolment drops compete for congressional George Hansen seat in the Pri Mary s contested race. The two Are not  a Michigan primary that Drew Little interest for Lack of contests democratic rep. John Conyers or. Had no opposition in nearly 100,000 students Are expected by us Desea to begin the 1968-69 school year next month at approximately 224 schools located in 14 countries of Europe North Africa and the Middle East. Usa eur schools enrolment is expected to reach 51,500 Stu dents a drop of some 2,500 from last year. Enrolment in Safe schools has been forecast at Al most 43,000. Navy schools within Desea will have approximately 4,300  smallest dependent school will be at Zwolle the nether Dollar equals four Marks once More Frankfurt is Foi the first time since last March your $1 will Purchase four German Marks at . Forces finance offices and military Bank ing facilities in West Germany and Berlin. The West German finance ministry in Bonn announced tues Day that the new Dollar Deutsch Mark Exchange rate through sept. 6, will be 4.01 for resale to . Forces purchasers at 4.0. The old rate was 3.99 Marks to $1 to buy and 3.98 Marks to sell. An american express  official at Frankfurt explained that the Bonn govern ment sets the new Exchange rate on the 6th of each month base Don the Middle figure that is the mid rate Between the High est and lowest commercial Exchange rate Between the two currencies during the previous 30 Days. The Green Beret troops told the Camp s location by relatives of the prisoners swarmed i sunday on helicopters and fright ened off the platoon of Viet con guarding the captives they said. Meanwhile Viet Cong Force destroyed with mines Saigon s major link with the Mekong Delta to the South. Allied forces killed 75 Viet Cong in a guerrilla buildup South of Danang in the Northern War zone. Using darkness As a cover Cheviet Cong slipped two rafts Laden with explosives past South Viet namese guards on the Oriental River and blew up eight pontoons of the floating Ben Luc Bridge 15 Miles Southwest of the capital. The Rescue of the 118 Montag cards had its beginning last sat urday spokesmen said when three tribesmen carrying . Propaganda leaflets showed up a forces Camp at said the three asked the Green berets to Hel save their starving friends and relatives from the Viet  americans located the Camp and swooped in against no re the special rung dung. Spokesmen distance. Fourteen quiet he thundered jowl quivering Silver rivulets of hair flailing like an aroused zeus. And still there was no quiet he held up nine pounds of speech texts. If you la be quiet for 45 min utes said Everett Mckinley Dirksen the be Jilin negotiator ill throw these speeches anywhere you want me to  and then he did nine pounds of speeches right Over the speaker s platform. While it was not precisely Clear whose speeches had been jettisoned it was obvious that Dirksen still had his. Delegates quiet now the delegates wore quiet and rising slowly from the armageddon tones of his Basso pro Fundo he began. In Philadel phia 181 years ago far seeing men fashioned us a revolutionary new government he dared Russia to Knock the hip off his shoulder. A soviet Leader reclaims that ours is a Rotten decadent society. God forbid our having tomake the Point but should lie try us hell quickly find out what americans really arc the delegates  e m b r a n e by membrane Dirksen peeled off the skin of the great society stretching out each syllable of the phrase in a mockery of , How cynical How mock ing that political slogan. Never has an undeclared War embroiled America so  who had willingly worked for the guerrillas turned themselves never our prestige so Low our alliances so weakened our image so impaired. Never has the mired in debt. Inem Seivew bin s my Refl in  Over to the government. The rest a p a Ruck the i to is were c o n s i cd c r e d refugees Caj outer spa spokesmen said. R., it Mifty indeed. I american pilots flying into North Vietnam s Panhandle tuesday reported cutting Road Supply lines in 83 places. No . Plane were reported lost. Aroused Buffalo cores intruder ti1ermopolis, Wyo. A a Man was gored by a Buffa o enraged when an attempt Wasnae to Rouse a resting Herd for cobblestones on left Bank Paris paves Over ammo Paris up the French government has decided not to get clobbered again by uprooted paving  the government was nearly toppled in May by rioting students and Young workers using paving stones As both am munition and barricade building material the government i quietly and systematically going about seeing happen again. That it does t the picturesque Cobblestone streets of the French latin Quarter on the left Bank heart of the May riots and Home of the sorbonne Are slowly being Cov ered by a heavy coat of Asphalt guaranteed to prevent anyone again digging up the centuries old stones or paves As the French Call  Rue St. Jacques and Rue Des Ecoles have already been asphalted Over and workers Are now starting on the famed Boule Vard Saint Germain. By the time students return to the University in october the whole area will have been buried under layers of tar. The staid be Monde lamented the change in an article entitled epitaph for a paving Stone and said in the change from paving Stone to Asphalt Repass from the age of Artisan re pair to Industrial  photographs. William s. Fife Bri Hamity Utah was reported in Seri Ous condition from the attack which left him with a broken Back broken Arm fractured Riband a six Inch Gash in the Abdomen. Friends said when Fife tried to gel a Herd of the huge shaggy animals to their feet in hot Springs state Park he succeeded too Well with one Buffalo which came charging at him. Jeep overturns kills 4th army div Soldier Fuertis Germany is an 18-year-old 4th army div Soldier was killed late sunday when the jeep he was driving overturned and crushed . John r. Clay of co a Lut in 51st inf was pronounce dead at the scene on route 14 near Mariach. A passenger inthe jeep was not injured a 4th army div spokesman  Accident is being investigated. Cal outer space great society indeed is not a new Deal or a fair Deal it s just a straight out Misheal. Humor it longer and it will de stroy what the founding fathers  body swaying body swaying fingor pointing out and Down As if he wore an pointing the delegates m water Everett Mckinley Kirk sen Lay preacher quoted a Elincoln Oliver Cromwel Ben Franklin got the debates upon their feet and repeating of him one nation under , in divisible with Liberty and i he for All and with of y Tolo Ance. Finally allowed the o subside Back into then soap fully sated with then first meat although they Nevei learn which speeches thrown away if any. 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