European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August s. Vietnamese kill 107 reds along Doz from a and up dispatches Saigon South vietnamese military Headquarters reported 107 communists were killed thursday near the demilitarized zone after government forces came under heavy artillery at to the South in the Mekong Delta South vietnamese Force swept an area that had been hit by intensive air strikes and found35 bodies. They also freed 44 prisoners including seven worn another matter 16 South vietnamese civilians and soldiers were killed accidentally and 120 were wounded thursday by automatic weapons fire from an american Mobile riverine Force trying to fight its Way out of a Viet Cong ambush inthe Mekong Delta the . Command reported Friday. The command said As a re sult of the automatic weapons fire which passed Over the enemy positions and entered the Village of Cai rang 15 South vietnamese civilians and one government Soldier were Hundred and five civilians and 15 government soldiers were a founded. The fighting reported near the demilitarized zone was East of Gio Linh toward the South Chinakea and was the heaviest re ported in several weeks. Air strikes called vietnamese spokesmen said the communists opened up on the positions of two government in Fantry battalions and an armore unit and fired 148 rounds of 105 millimetre howitzer shells. Airstrikes were called in on communist positions and the fighting went on for five hours. It was believed to have Bee the first time the communists had used 105-millimeter Howit Zers in that area. The action began when the in Fantry battalions and the newly formed vietnamese Lith a Mored cavalry troop were on what they called a saturation patrol East of the Gio Linh out Post. Exchange officials Oneatha Salatic exch by Marc 1iuets&s Washington Bureau chief Washington is army air Force and Navy Post an base exchanges in Europe May test a charge plate system of shopping us a result of pressure from Pentagon Gold flow experts but Exchange officials Here arc decidedly unenthusiastic about the idea and doubt if it will meet with congressional of credit buying proposed however say it will and their families to spend More in exchanges instead of on the open Market and thus curb the . Dollar officials Hope to have the tests conducted possibly Early next year at three army and three air Force exchanges Anda Navy Exchange. Locations have not been this is done however the defense department will seek the approval of the House armed services committee. The committee turned Down a similar idea in 1957. An yes spokesman in Nuernberg said Friday that Exchange Headquarters officials there have received no guidelines on any contemplated charge account test in Europe Exchange officials cite a num Ber of reasons or their Lack of enthusiasm. They sales would actually Encura people to spend More mos s be a. they would have Money at their disposal also see Many , including collect bad debts keeping track of the Mobile military population an the question of How much credit to extend to men varying incomes. And women try Dubcek meets Tito in Prague Prague up preside Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia arrived Here Friday for a three Day official visit to give moral support to the czechoslovak re form regime of Alexander dub cd Tito arrived to a 20-gun Salutt and the cheers of several thousand persons who shouted Viva Tito and waved czech an yugoslav flags. A the top leaders including president Ludvik Svoboda ant party Leader Dubcek Welcome the yugoslav president. Happy family Richard m. Nixon Waves to the Republican National convention which chose him to be the presidential Standard bearer. With him on the podium at convention Hall i Miami Beach Are his wife and his daughters Patricia and Julie right. A photo no one injured bomb rocks . Ship cuban exiles admit act Miami a a 311-foot i late thursday a cuban Power British freighter the Caribbean venture was rocked by an explosion below the waterline thursday As it Lay at Anchor in Biscayne Bay. Several hour Slater a militant exile group called cuban Power said it had touched off the blast the vessel settled five fee deeper in the water after the blast As its engine room filled with Oil and water. There we Reno reports of injuries. Despite the claim by Cuba Power an investigation was launched by the coast guard and Dade county officials. Capt. C. Anderson of Hull England said the Caribbean venture had no cargo aboard. The ship arrived in Miami july 30 from Venezuela he said. Spokesman known Only Aser Nesto said a mine planted aboard the ship had exploded prematurely. We planted a mine on aug. 4, timed to explode aug. 10, two Days after the vessel was scheduled to sail Ernesto said. We ask the . Government to excuse us for having this occur in . Waters. We had planned it for the High seas but it went off too soon by Acci cuban Power with an avowed record of bombings of ships from countries trading with Cuba said we warn the British government that if it continues to Trade with Fidel Castro none of its ships will be Safe in any port in the Reward offered in Bamberg slaying Bamberg Germany is american military authorities Are offering a $1,000 Reward for information pertaining to the murder Here aug. 2 of 16-year old Angelika Stark a German National. Military police said the Reward Money would be paid to anyone providing information directly leading to the identification apprehension and prosecution of the killer of miss Stark if the killer is a member of the United miss Stark was stabbed in the Chest face Ami Buck 24 times with a knife on Platte Gasse pedestrian Walkway Between Nuernberger Strasse and Egel see Strasse opposite the cafe Trautmann commonly called the Iloie in the Viall cafe about 11 45 p.m., military police autopsy showed the girl had not been raped the police said. Police said every Effort willbe made to conceal the identity of any person reporting information in connection with the Mur Der investigation. Information pertaining to the murder should be immediately reported to the 13th Cid office at Warner Barracks at Bamberg military 8826 or 7776 during duty hours and at 8700 or �8 after duty hours. Basque rebel arrested 10 priests exiled Madrid up police have arrested a Liberal Lay Catholic Leader in s p a i n s norther Basque country and exiled at least 10 Young Basque priests Toa prison far removed from the Region informed sources said thursday. The sources said Miguel Cas Tell president of san Sebastian chapter of the accion Catolica Catholic action was arrested in the Basque province of vis Caya following government or Ders to crush the Basque separatist movement. The sources said Castell apparently fled to Viscaya from his native Basque province of Lipuzcoa where the govern ment has declared a state of Alert and suspended civil rights following the assassination of the province s secret police chief. Driving Force Castell has been one of the driving forces in accion Catolica a Liberal Church group of clergy and laymen which has led the fight for social and political re form in Spain. The sources said police have arrested at least 70 persons in the Basque country since Testate of Alert was declared Mon Day. At least 600 members of the Gurdia civil and secret police Are said to be engaged in the crackdown on the Basque move ment. . To stage Multi warhead missile tests Washington a affirmed thursday thai the United states will go ahead testing multiple warheads for land and sea based nuclear mis Siles in Advance of strategic arms limitations negotiations with the soviet Union. Although there was no explanation the defense department announcement appeared de signed to scotch published suggestions that multiple War head tests be postponed to avoid carrying the United states into a new phase of weaponry before the talks. Restraint urged the idea put Forth in some quarters has been that the United states should display restraint in the strategic arms Field to set the stage for a Possi ble successful round of arms limitations talks with the so Pentagon said however. This country has now reached the Point where test launches can begin and the test series will Start this month at Cap Kennedy Are the Mir sys tems multiple independently targe table reentry vehicles which will go atop air Force minuteman 111 and Navy Poseidon Pentagon said a series of launches will be conducted Over the next two years to test both systems. ,.the Pentagon settled on the Mir concept in recent years As a Means of launching More nuclear warheads or Decoy War Heads than an enemy anti Balte tic missile defense namely the soviet unions would be Capa ble of stopping. The minuteman Iii s Mark reentry vehicle is carry Arate chaff Flag believed to As Many As three sep warheads plus metallic designed to help Camou them. Weather . 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