European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1968 the stars and stripes Page 3 \\okl1 Oil Tanker blast kills 8 off Sicily Sicily a the death toll front an explosion aboard Annil Tanker Rose to eight sunday. Seven other persons in the wife of the ship s Engineer were seriously injured a. Other members of the 17-Man Crew were hurled free of the toil Tanker Ugo Floreth when it was rocked by a thunderous saturday night five Miles from this port in Southern Sicily. Are rescued Safe and  crewmen who was mown off the ship by the blast was found and was listed among the dead. Sisi is smile smile smile Mexico City up forty million mexicans tried to smile there were soft Amulet Broad smiles knowing smiles and  some persons could t help tittering or giggling it was All part of a Campaign called operation smile pro a fed by social research and development of tourism a Semi finial Agency. It urged All mexicans to smile As a part of there come to be Given to olympic Dames visitors. The Campaign is liable to Start another trend the buying of dentures for those smiles who have lost their Teeth. Nasser reported improved Cairo a president Gamal Abdel Nasser s health continues to improve As a result of radioactive Mineral water treat ment undertaken in the soviet Republic of Georgia the authoritative newspaper Al ashram re sorted Here. Soviet doctors will examine Nasser thursday to determine when he would be Able to return to Cairo the newspaper added. Nasser left Here july 26 to undergo treatment of what was de scribed As inflammation of the  t ice Cave saves 2 climbers Sandrio Italy up two yugoslav mountaineers trapped in the italian Alps by a violent snowstorm dug a Cave in the ice and sat the storm oat for week. Peter Sce Tenin 32, and his wife Barbara 27, were found Safe and ii Good health sunday by a res Cue squad of italian and Swiss Mountain guides. They had set out a week ago to climb the Northeast Wall of the b a d i 1 e Peak. The snowstorm overtook them when they were 1,906 feet from the top. When a Swiss helicopter spot Ted them saturday they waved and shouted. They were pulled up to the top of the Mountain Early sunday but needed no other help and hiked Down the other Side of the Mountain. Lbs Argentine visit predicted Buenos Aires a car Ter l. Burgess the new . Ambassador arrived Here an said president Johnson will visit Argentina soon. The ambassador told news men at the Airport he knew of Johnson s plan to visit South american but no Date had yet been  Post of ambassador had been vacant for nearly two years since Edwin Martin re signed. George is her Type of mail Caracas up a former miss Venezuela Mariela Perez Branger attempted Here to squelch mors of a budding Romance with . Actor Geprge Hamilton. He s my Type of Man she said in an inter View but he is neither my Fiance nor even by  Hamilton has been dating miss Branger Thurmer up in the 1967 miss universe contest. While visit i Venezuela for a series of appear ances. I Hamilton said he and miss Branger Are just pod  run ships near nato base Reykjavik. Iceland a two russian weather ships were inn de in Hval Fiordor Only 6 Miles from the nato naval Camp. A ships the Oceo graph from Leningrad and the iceberg from Murmansk said they were painting and restoring and chose  because of a storm. The skipper of the Ocean graph i i Dkl not know of the nato facilities in Hval Fiordor Awu known Convoy base during world War ii. Batlle Wagon sold for scrap  e proud vessel which bus just be quiet us Ionel be a Cri a Fenland resident urho a. Confirmed a new effect to the served As a training ship forthe past 12 years brought $2  Richelieu was launched Jan. 17, 1939, at Brest from where she will be towed to Genoa later this month for dismantlement. It will still be a crime to be have in a disorderly manner in a Public place but it won t Matte whether you Are drunk or not. The present Law makes a Crim of being drunk in Public. Regatta Royalty Britain s Princess Ann wears a beatle Cap As a member of the Crew of the sea wraith in the Cowes regatta off the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. Up Spain reportedly asks $ 1 billion from . New York a Spain has asked the United states for approximately $1 billion in m i 1 i tary Aid Over the next five years in return for renewing for five years the american military base rights which expire sept. 30, the new York times said sunday from Washington. The times dispatch said Spain has recently asked for Large quantities of equipment to help modernize its army Navy and air Force. Although no specific value was placed by Madrid these billion estimate was figured by Pentagon sources. The United states already has invested at least 500 million in joint naval and air bases in j Spain since the first 20-year de Jense pact was agreed upon in j 1953. Two five year renewals the were agreed on. The United states also furnished the Franco government with $2 billion in economic Aid but this has ended since the Spanish Economy  sources predicted con Gress would resist any Large arms deliveries to Spain while the vietnamese War continues. Flowers denies extortion charge Birmingham Ala. Up former Alabama atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers and three other men indicted a week ago on charges of extortion have pleaded innocent in Federal District court then hurried off through a basement door. The indictments were against Flowers Joe Breck Gantt his assistant when Flowers was at Torney general from 1963 to 1967 Oscar Hyde Birmingham banker and businessman and James Kelley Laurel miss., business Man. The grand jury charged flow ers with attempting to extort from firms wishing to sell or Issue Stock in Alabama an exacting Money from Small loan companies by threatening the with investigations under Ala Bama usury Laws. S. Koreans kill 4 infiltrators Seoul up South Korea patrols reports killing four North j korean infiltrators before Dawn sunday in two clashes along the i armistic line. One South Korea was wounded. " terrorist blast jolts area in South Tirol Bolzano Italy a powerful explosion was touched off sunday just a Little Over 200yards from a military ammunition dump in the troubled Alt adige Region South Tirol. It was the first act of terrorism in the area in nearly a year. The explosion did not touch offa reaction in the ammunition de pot. The blast ripped Down Telephone pole on the Brenner Bolzano circuit but service on the line was not interrupted. No one was injured by the blast which police attributed to terrorists who want More Auton omy for the German speaking Alto adige or its return to aus Tria. It was ceded to Italy after world War i. 2 held in bombing try at Izmir Isis Ankara a turkish prime minister Suleyman Demi Rel announced sunday that women had been arrested after at tempted bombing incidents a several locations in the Aegean coast City of Izmir including the United states information serv ice Usis  in Izmir said one bomb went off outside a mosque slightly injuring two turks Early Sun  said two men were apprehended attempting to place fire bombs at Usis Headquarters and the Headquarters of the Izmir anti communism struggle  said the men Sukru Kurt and Osmun Dasdemir Hud previous convictions for c o m Monist activity which is outlawed in Turkey. The incidents followed sporadic outbreaks of anti americanism last month in Ankara Izmir an Istanbul during a visit to Istanbul by a unit of the . 6th  h i s statement Demirel asked All turks to stay Calm avoid provocation and cause no incidents