European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Johnson gets billion Dollar budget Jolt Austin Tex. Up the White House revealed tuesday that Good weather has helped give president Johnson a billion Dollar budget a result of the weather last Spring the White House announced the Federal govern ment s commodity credit corporation will be forced to come up with an extra $700 million i Price support payments for the nations , combined with an extra $300 million to meet the welfare needs of the states adds up to a $1 billion spending a result the White House now estimates that Johnson will have to Cut $4 billion from his fiscal 1969 budget to meet congressional order to hold spending this year to the $180.1billion budget level in fiscal 1968. Price for approval Congress ordered the spend the Price for million offered for riot ing Cut approving Ashe administration s10 per cent tax increase Bill. The latest budget figure were announced by the White House tuesday after a four hour meeting at the lbs ranch monday night Between Johnson Washington up . Ramsey Clark announced tuesday that $4.35 million will remade available to the states this month to help control detect and prevent civil dior Money represents half the $8.7 million maximum authorized under the 1968 Safe streets and crime control actor Federal Law enforcement Grants relating to riot control for the entire 1969 fiscal year. Clark said he had sent a Telegram to the governors of also states inviting their urgent attention to the special Gran program. He said funds recently appropriated under the act will become available to the Justice department by aug. 19 for trans Knittal to the Grants Are figured on a population basis ranging from$5,873 for Alaska to $414,989 for advised the governors that applications for the Grants would be accepted through aug.21, the Federal funds can be used to pay up to three quarters of the Cost of riot control programs and projects. Seventy five per cent of a state allotment must in turn be allocated to local units of government. Clark said each application must consider needs of both state and he told the governors there should be maximum local greek Premier unhurt in bomb try and budget Wick. Director Charles Zwick told Johnson that so far Congress has Cut $3 billion from the administration s original request for fiscal 1969 of $186.1 billion.1 he said that As far As he could determine Congress did t plan to Cut any More from the budget. This leaves Johnson with $4billiob. To Cut by himself$3 billion left Over from the original $6 billion difference Between the budget request an the congressional ceiling on spending plus the extra $1billion revealed tuesday. The White House said that although Johnson has been studying the problem of Whereto Cut the budget he has yet to make any final decision on the matter. There Are still four appropriations Bills pending in Congress defense the Aid program the combined Bill for the depart ments of labor and health education and welfare and the Bill covering Independent Feder Al offices. Algeria continued from Page / was hijacked last month by Ara terrorists on a flight from Rome to Tel action Means that Al Geria s main air link with Europe will be Cut off at Midnight Jackson is not just a retaliatory measure. We Are trying to establish a principle in civil aviation. These hijackings Are a menace to the Public at after that was not is not a c o m Monist the government was a fascist acting on be half of fascist circles who have lost Hope of turning the people against the april 21 other two bombs that blew up in Athens were described ashore made devices filled with gasoline. After Daylong talks continued from Page army backed regime which seized Power in the country on april 21, 1967. The outbreaks showed signs of being Well coordinated and planned by resistance before the assassination attempt was announced by the government in a hastily summoned press conference a com Munique from a greek resist Ance movement was issued i Paris declaring that terrorist operations would break out tues Day in Athens. The Paris announcement said Many mines and bombs Are being exploded in military an police installations government buildings main streets and Cen trial places. The flames smoke and explosions have created warlike nothing like the violence de scribed in the communique occurred in Athens which appeared peaceful for the most part. But the government made it Clear that Papadopoulos had escaped death by a matter of seconds. Lonely Road the attempt occurred at 7 40a.m. On a Rocky lonely stretch of the Highway leading from these to Athens. The government said that Panagoulias dressed in bathing trunks buried the bomb atthe Edge of the Highway about 19 Miles outside the capital. The explosive device was connected by wire to a Point about 150 feet away but the govern ment said Panagoulias apparently misjudged the Speed of Papadopoulos s car. The bomb went off when the Premier s car was about 50 feet past. Ran toward sea within minutes Security me had captured Panagoulias Rac ing frantically toward the Motorboat waiting off Shore tried to pick him up but get through a swarm of Bath ers near the Shore and sped off into the sardonic Gulf. Panagoulias was described Asa commando officer who deserted the army last year an fled to Israel where he was arrested and put on a ship Backoo Greece. But the government said he jumped ship betwee Tel Aviv and the greek port of _ Piraeus. What happened to him the events came weeks before scheduled nationwide referendum on the Constitution drawn up by the regime. The vote set for sept. 29, Wilbe on a Constitution that strips the Monarch of All his meaningful Powers permits a weakened parliament and gives the armed forces a special ruling status in this nato nation. Consultation i applications. Projects for which Are sought he Saidi a � direct and substantial to.,prevention we Staj can include a so variety k Ese delude Traini Gning cooperative. _ special units personnel Accident reduction Elj czech reforms win grudging Ulbricht of Prague up East Ger Man Leader Walter Ulbricht tuesday gave grudging approval to Czechoslovakia s reforms which he said were Ulbricht speaking at a new conference that came after the end of Daylong talks at the czech resort City of Karloy vary also reiterated his conditions for establishing Normal relations be tween East and West Germany and attacked West Germany s policies toward the communist bloc As a "fraud.1 Only czech and East German newsmen were allowed at the morning news conference which was reported eight hours later by the czech news Agency returned to East Ger Many about noon. Ulbricht told the newsmen that the czechs have embarked on a historically important path to Ward the construction of social ism and have achieved Sig stamp it Mare mail s mile route. Ills pay $122.10 a a month. = the killed 3, phone voice tells cops continued from Page phone rang again and the same Man said you la find one body in the water and one alongside the police said the car in which mrs. Clark was found bore a sticker identifying her As a stuff employee at Emory University in playing tapes of the conversations from the suspect we feel he is potentially dangerous to this Community the sheriff s department said in a Public statement broadcast throughout the county. Do not pick up hitchhikers report anything suspicious to your local police immediately and Donot open your doors for anyone the statement added. Police said the Man appears emotionally disturbed. He has indicated he May attempt Totake More an unidentified Sandy haired Young Man was arrested at the fort Lauderdale i Hollywood International Airport shortly after the bodies were found but police indicated he was not connected with the Case. The Young Man police said carried several watches that had been Stolon from an Airport gift shop. He was charged with vagrancy and Petty larceny. Police said he had approached two airline counters and asked for tickets to the first suspicious airline personnel telephoned authorities. The youth bought a ticket for Florida Atlantic airlines 8 20 . Flight to Nassau but the company delayed the flight until police arrived because of the youth s behaviour. If cant successes in the eco nomic development of their coun he added that during such change it is Normal for difficulties to exist. But we do not consider it Tobe too tragic in your Case he said. Also at the news conference were the czechoslovak communist party first Secretary Alex Ander Dubcek and Premier of Drici Cernik. Dubcek tersely remarked that there was no need for any co ordination and cooperation wit East Germany in defending czech Borders with West Ger Many. The Wall. Continued from Page u German labor Berlin police approved the Ned March because it is recognized political party b u t the police appeared reluctant to protect the marchers from the anti nazis. The Ned carried banners read ing Germany for the Ger mans and Bonn has failed our Hope is the the Union denounced the Nodas the successor party to the nazis and its 7 30 . March tothe Wall As pure if there had been no nazi party there would be no Wall the Union said. The nazis too said they accepted democratic ways and promised Only to us Elegal the Union asked its members to oppose the Ned plans to March to the Wall and place Wreath on a Monument erected to Peter Fechter one of the 150refugees killed trying to escape since the Wall was built aug. 13, West Berlin officials place wreaths at monuments to Refu gees to Mark the anniversary. East germans observed the Day with a Call for West Germany to recognize the existence of the German democratic the official communist part newspaper Neues deutschland said in an editorial that the build ing of the Wall buried forever the West German claim to be the Only Legal German state. Race violence flares up in three cities from a and up dispatch police and firemen in the cities fought outbreaks o is violence monday night and Day. The trouble spots were the Watts District of log a Geles where firemen were to Busy. I Little Rock ark., where crude firebombs were Terwil into six buildings there was scattered shooting and 11 Persona were arrested in the City s fourth straight Day of rioting. Chicago Heights 111., whew an explosion triggered fire swept a business District. In the los Angeles , a woman suffered critical Burns in an apartment Blaze but the South Central District remained generally Calm under saturation policing and fire men quickly extinguished the minor fires in Between answer ing false alarms. Woman injured the woman who suffered critical Burns was identified As Velma Williams 25. Firemen founder on the sidewalk when they responded to a Blaze believe started by a flaming Molow cocktail at a two Story apart ment building. The victim suffered Burns ova70-80 per cent of her body and was taken to co Tinty us med local Center. I fire officials said about 21"suspicious" fires were quelled monday night and Early tuesday broken bottles and Wicks were i found at five of them. Firment Elsaid they believed most of the others were purposely ignited. In Little Rock nobody Hurt and damage was slight firebombs were so poorly mad they failed to go off police sat gunfire was reported within few blocks of police head qua ters but police said they Cornot find anything to subs Tanti the reports. Police said patrol car fired upon but none was hit. Of the 11 persons arrested wich arged with curfew violation one person was arrested for r trying a weapon. The Chicago Heights fir died a standoff Between sew dozen Young people audit soldered past Dawn the youths drifted away. Two men were injured explosion which Shook a Derette then erupted int that spread to a nearby Gnu and a clothing store. Wont her partly Cloudy to Cloudy with rain. Little thursday Heidelberg High 60. Low w. Recorded tuesday ice. 44 4 a pm 00 Adana p 74 84 ath inv p 67 73 Valano p u 70 Berlin p 66 70 Frankfurt cd 61 68 London r a Clear Al Cloudy a rain. 64 91 55 72 59 73 57 67pr 61 79 Bob we vhf in
