European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi stars and strips monday August 1j Mimi pc. eight yanks die 1 in accidental i vie strafing Saigon up an Amer ican fighter bomber accidentally strafed a unit of he 101st air Cav div saturday in the a Shau Valley with rocket and canno fire killing eight americans and wounding 50 another Accident Friday night . Artillerymen newly arrived in South Vietnam fired 50 rounds of artillery fire into the Marine base Camp at Dong a wounding four marines. . Military spokesmen announced the two accidents Sun Day and said investigations into the incidents were already under Headquarters mean while reported 62 enemy troops slain in a Sharp intensification of action near Saigon that included seizure of a Viet Cong stronghold containing enough food to sustain a battalion of 500 men for a War reports said enemy gunners shot Down a . Heli copter near Hue 400 Miles North of Saigon and an american fighter bomber Over North Viet Nam s Panhandle. Bunkers found one american aboard the downed helicopter was wounded and the Pilot of the Jet lost Over the North was listed As missing in action. Both losses occurred Friday. In a sweep Friday through the Small farm Village of Trum Thap 25 Miles North of Saigon .and South vietnamese infantry men found a network of bunkers and tunnels and a Cache of two tons of Rice a ton of Salt 250gallons of salted fish and 100 pounds of . Command reported 27 enemy killed in fighting around rum Thap that wounded two South vietnamese prisoners and 47 suspected Viet Cong were round Dup. In other action . Marin Sand infantry units in action South of Danang killed at least 40enemy troops and suffered Only Light casualties themselves american military spokesmen said the air War . B52 bomb ers sunday made their first raids Over North Vietnam in three weeks and also struck inside the enemy sector of the demilitarized zone. . Pilots flew 119 missions Over the North vietnamese pan handle saturday in Rainy weather and through anti aircraft fire As moderate to 3 emerge As possible re new i Folk Cap three men have emerged As leading contenders to succeed the late . Sen. Robert f. Kennedy spokesman for gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller lays. They Are John w. Gardner former tech fairy of health Edu cation and welfare and now presi Dent of the Urban coalition and reps. Charles Goodell .,and Ogden Reid Leslie s1 o t a Rockefeller Elk Ess Secretary said however at the new York governor has not narrowed the Field of Possi ble successors to the three. Oth ers a being considered Wile Aid. Rockefeller returned to Westchester county Eta today after his unsuccessful for the Republican preside nomination. He his wife and their two Young sons Are to spend Rokl the next few weeks affront place at Seal Maine. Some Rockefeller sources a ithe governor will announce 21 decision after the Maine up a suit now before a three judge Federal tends that tinman to serve out the through 1970. Court a u aun hmm Diate leg should be held to pick to rpm 2 gis seized in killing of German at a std 3 servicemen die in crash near Izmir Washington a three american servicemen and two turks died and two american officers were injured seriously in a helicopter crash Friday near Izmir Turkey. Two of the american dead were identified by the Pentagon As air Force capt. James from Marquette mich., and air Force staff j. Evans of Albany Minn. Their wives Are in tur key. The other american casual ties were not immediately identified but were reported to . Army men. Turkish police said a Nort Atlantic treaty organization helicopter carrying the Ameri cans and an injured turkish mayor to a Hospital in Izmir crashed and burned after devel Oping engine trouble about 150miles from Izmir. The injured mayor and an accompanying turkish army cer both died in the crash. Offi Turnau Germany up american military police Are holding two army privates i connection with the fatal repeated stabbing of an elderly Ger Man labourer in the restroom of a Gasthaus Here saturday Ger Man police said sunday. German notice found Maximil Ian Poelt 61, bleeding from 25 or More Stab wounds in the Chest Abdomen Back Alii sides. He died at 5 30 . Sunday with out regaining consciousness. German police said there Wasno apparent motive. They arrested pvt. Andy 0 Donnell 23, of Al Dorado calif., in the restroom As he held knife police said. To few hours later american Mil iry police arrested pvt. Joseph Heginbotham 17, of Charlotte,, who they said was seen earlier with o Donnell i the restaurant German police said Higgunbotham had a blood smeared Poelt had stumbled to the rest room door As another Patron was entering and collapsed without o Donnell was stationed with m66th maintenance in a unit the seventh army support omd. Higginbotham was St toned with the 703rd mail trance in. All a glitter Princess Grace of Monaco is seated by or. Christian Barnard Honor guest of the annual red Cross Benefit gala at Monte Carlo. United press International photo saying a Kiln a word ant Rah out but Humphrey pledges to serve As the nation s educator Washington a Vic president Hubert h. Humphrey said saturday that if american education is no better by 1976 there in t any Hope for those kids in the ghettos to have meaningful lives. He picked the Date 1976, he said because that is when he would end two terms in the White House assuming he wins the presidency this year and isre elected in 1972. I am going to be if i am president the nation s Educa Tor Humphrey said at an in formal staff meeting on his Campaign purposes and beliefs. That s the Only reason i want to be president. I want to be Able to lift the Quality of life Inthis in televised excerpts from the statement made Public by United democrats for Humphrey the aspirant for the democratic White House nomination said american education must be restructured. Trons held o Conneu Fere summoned. . Military authorities said sunday that both men were on temporary duty at the army school at Oberammergau. Bos wreck in Austria kills 5innsbruck, Austria a five persons were killed when Wallace hails his redneck supporters Winston Salem . Us thousands of textile worker cheered George Wallace in Burlington ., saturday when he i defended his redneck Suppon lers and thousands More cheered him in Winston Salem saturday night when he attacked the a publican platform. Wallace winding up a tour ithe state told a packed Audi a of 8,000 in Winston Salem t Hal the Republican platform does t say anything. You can run on i if you Are a left Winger or can run on it if you Are the former Alabama gov Ewas cheered wildly by the an ence and another 1,000 per crammed around the entry to the City coliseum unable a Buju with 26 passengers ran Offan Alpine Road Here saturday. Police said All of the dead except the Driver a Rebr Itutti. Weather . Temperatures h l. 80 67 Albany t1 70 Atlanta 71 97 Baton 77 4 buffal71 68 Chicago 84 72 Cincinnati 72 org Tovalin 67 m do tvs 77 m Darolt 101 m it. Worth m in hointoft71 4 Kan City h l 87 72 lot an0lm86 73 Miami 79 m mpu.4n. Paul 93 72 new Ortlam 93 75 Philadelphia 101 80 Pho Anlo 88 62 Salt uaka4 u it. Fra Eluo 87 60 of Attl 81 79 m. 92 74 get in. Loud cheers winding up a two Day Toul weather satellite in wrong orbit Cape Kennedy fla., up a new daddy Lon legs Satel Lite carrying Hurricane tracking equipment apparently was stranded in the wrong orbit saturday when its upper stage rocket spacecraft soared into a preliminary egg shaped orbit an then coasted for an hour with everything looking Normal the space Agency said but the Satel Lite s $10 million upper stage Centaur rocket failed to kick it into its planned 22,000-mile-Highpermanent orbit preliminary information Indi Cates that we have not achieved the second ignition a launch control official said Tow spacecraft fourth of five applications technology satellites at appeared to be heading for a perfect Mission when it roared off in a blast of Orange flame and Grey smoke at 6 31 . Put 74 minutes later the trouble occurred. The space Agency said it received a further ominous Indi cation when the tracking station on Hawaii did not receive radio signals from the satellite a planned. The satellite designated ats 4.was launched in an Effort to put space science to work for iceman in the Street by trying out new techniques and equipment for advanced weather and communications had a new by and night television camera designed to maintain a constant watch for hurricanes and was to test anew mini Jet engine. Through North Carolina Walldrew loud cheers when defended what he called redneck backers. Some Large newspapers a referred to my supporters rednecks we Are rednecks we got that Way from doing Good honest Day s work in Tsun 1 Wallace said. Speaking in sweltering degree heat at Bur Lii Airport Wallace got Hischer of the Day by Atta the department of education and welfare Ai supreme court for desegregation. There Are a Bunch of harassers visiting every Ujj in North Carolina said. They be been j everything Down our the but they re not going o anything Down our anymore. We re going to Ujj our throats on november he said. 25-cent Tea Fried Chicken dinners $5 each and iced Tea went Airport Ray i lift the cents at the proceeds for Campaign. Another Man a Lac the crowd handing out i Register communists Cates of Ai appreciate your and other police state
