European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              196i the Star and stripes Page 3 \\okl1 . I i Aid staff Cut on a the . Agency for International development aim has reduced its staff of americans in Vietnam by 19 per tin the past few  s Vietnam director Donald d. Mcdonald said in a speech tire the Saigon Lions club this in no Way is an indication of support for Vietnam. Rather it is evidence of the ability f the vietnamese government to carry on with less american 8 f inc most overblown bureaucracies i have Ever Hanoi Leader returns to Paris Paris up North Viet namese politburo member Lei due Tho considered president 1 to Chi Minh s personal representative at the Paris peace j talks returned tuesday from seven weeks in Hanoi. The seventh ranked member of the Hanoi ruling Council flew to Paris after stopovers in peking and Moscow. His return hashed increasing speculation the deadlocked Washington Hanoi talks May get moving. Colombia expels . Newsman Bogota a the colom Bian government tuesday or dered the expulsion of new York Mes correspondent Paul Mont Gomery As a reprisal for a Story in monday s editions of the a a government spokesman  Story by Montgomery de scribed the reasons Why presi tent Carlos Lleras had dismissed foreign minister German z e Al Ernandez last week. Montgomery had reported that a had been forced to resign by Lleras because of Public statements made by Zea against the papal encyclical on birth control earlier this month. The report said that Zea s position had become untenable on Thieve of the visit to Colombia by Pope Paul i next week. The correspondent also wrote that the wives of Lleras and Zea had publicly clashed during a recent social gathering and that according to local papers this was the main reason for the expulsion order. Madrid reaches 3 million Mark Madrid a a week old girl Maria Del Carmen Fernandez daughter of a 32-year-old truck Driver became the three Millionth resident of Madrid tuesday. The infant and her parents will receive Many gifts in Honor of Madrid reaching a population of three million. Peking allows Brit Oil to depart London up communist Cei Ved no reply until monday. China in a Surprise Concilia ution gesture has granted per Mission to Britain s Mission chief in peking. Sir Donald hop a to leave the country. A spokesman said he was granted an exit visa suddenly without explanation after his re quests to a ave had been ignored for More than seven weeks. He applied june 22 for permission to Fly Home july 1, the spokesman said but re Hopson who has been in Pek ing since 1965, arrived in can ton tuesday on his Way out of China. I can t say anything from Here Hopson said in a Tele phone interview from the Ai Chun hotel in Canton where he was to spend the night before leaving for Hong Kong by train. Hopson was expected to Fly Tolondo from Hong Kong after a few Days stay in the Britis Colony. Papal resignation forecast Rome air _ an italian weekly Magazine quoted a priest tuesday As saying Pope Paul i has already written a letter of is Tenalio to be announced when he is 75. " report was carried by the weekly l europeo in a series Xvi. S with italian priests concerning the Pope s ban on is a s or Iii a name a mn\as2 u. Was that the 7�-Ym a about a Pisons. Including 16 police were injured during  Street riots monday a inv tells violence torn uruguayan capital rebellious University students a a been riot i in " Miu Rait s uncovered hashing daily Llu e Kri , wit when. The Cache of arms and incendiary bombs. The raids were part of search for Ulises Pereira Uever Bel a High government official who was released sunday by  said they were members of a pro peking communist group of terrorists. Pereira he Verbel 48, Heads the state monopoly of electricity and telephones and is a close adviser of president Jorge Pacheco  Large Canada s heart patient has Outing a i l i Guetens Paris Canada s Only surviving heart patient made his first Public Outing Here since his own. Montreal mayor Jeaa Drapeau and then sent Eon telegrams to the nine other living transplant patient Sid. Trans Hii 1 to car a Canada s Only survival operate i Hunt made nos first Public Outing Here s Parli iu\28"alld did s0 Weline walked on Husref Eivis i m � rat Ved the heart of a 18-year-old Yoi a. I. In Lolly la ill Zatk pm a Kottl two Fyk f theory that thalidomide prevented stillbirths is rejected by expert Alsdorf Germany a a British scientist s controversial theory that thalidomide makes life possible for babies doomed to be stillborn was rejected by a key witness in the thalidomide trial Here tuesday. Prof. Wid kind Lenz the Ger Man paediatrician who raised the alarm Over possible links be tween the drug and a wave of malformed babies nearly seven years ago dismissed the theory As an elegant and spirited  testifying at the Mammoth Case against Cherie Groenen Thal German producers of the sleep inducing drug Lenz said the theory advanced by or. Karl Hellmann of 1/o.ndon, could not be classified As Wise or  Hellmann has advanced the View that thalidomide does not cause congenital deformities in foetus but rather acts to pre-1 serve the life of a malformed embryo. I am of the opinion that this theory is completely without foundation. I regard his hypothesis As irrelevant he told the Aachen state court sitting in in provided style in a banquet Hall in this Smoky mining Village. I Hellman is head of a cancer. Chemotherapy unit in , 49-year-old director of human genetics at Muenster University opened his second Day of testimony with the words there is a proven statistical link Between the taking of the drug thalidomide and the occur rence of certain  Means that the connections cannot be explained away As co  he admitted that it could note proved there was a causal link Between the drug and the defects in unborn babies. This still is beyond the grasp of medi Cal research he told the court. Russians say . Wages chemical War Geneva a the soviet Union claimed tuesday that the United states has violated universally recognized standards of International Law by using Chemi Cal weapons in its aggressive War in  soviet Delegate Alexei a. Rosh Chin made the remark in the 17 nation disarmament talks in his first preliminary reaction to Las week s British proposal for a treaty Banning microbiological weapons. Voshchin did not openly reject the British idea. But he said the subject was fully covered in the 1925 Geneva protocol prohibiting chemical and bacteriological weapons and while there was the need to insure its Observance by All nations today there was no need of replacing or revising it. The soviet Delegate blamed the United states As Well As Japan and Brazil for having ignored an Appeal by the United nations general Assem Bly to All states still outside the Geneva protocol to join it. The United states has signed but never ratified it. Roschi added moreover the fact is that the United states has used chemical weapons in its aggressive War in Vietnam. Thus the United states has violated the universally recognized standards of International  he did not expand. . Delegate George Bunn did not react to Voshchin s remark. Anxious polish actress Pola Raksa stars As a Singer anxious to succeed in Paris in the movie the meeting with song being filmed in War saw. A photo not income oriented does t Sway judge Fresno Ca Lif. Up Charles Cole. Monterey calif., had a ready answer when asked Why he was some $8,850 behind in his child support payments. But the judge was unsympathetic. I m not income oriented Cole told Superior court judge Kenneth Andreen who sentenced him to five Days in jail and fined him $500. Russ on scent to close the perfume Gap Moscow up even the russians thought something j smelled when the state perfume works marketed a bottle called the 5th a Union Day of so Viet  j they Are done with such names and now the Russia woman has a selection of such toilet Waters As Moscow by  Cosmos and Aurora  Pyotr Naumenko. Vice minis Ter of food did a Little boasting about the big push in soviet cosmetics in an interview published in the newspaper pravda. Said he the output of cosmetics Al ready places the soviet Union among the world s leaders an per capita consumption is grow ing  Naumenko said the soviet Union exports perfumes and e a u do Cologne to 30 nations. In per fume alone by 1973 the country will produce More than Japan and Britain and will approach the French  he said. British Trade deficit soars jolts Wilson London up Britain s foreign Trade deficit soared again in july to a staggering $192 million the government announced tuesday. It dealt a stunning blow to prime minister Harold Wilson s Hopes of an economic upturn that would boo this government s sagging Politi Cal fortunes. The Pound Sterling slumped atone on the foreign Exchange Market. The Stock Market took a Tumble  july foreign Trade Gap the difference Between what bit Ain bought and what it sold abroad after taking into account insurance and freight charges was not As great As the disastrous s200-million deficits racked up in april and May. Spurred Hope but it came after a june Defi Cit of Only $120 million. This had spurred government Hopes that devaluation of the Pound last no vember was beginning to pay offal last and that the economic Miracle Long predicted by Wil son might be in sight. One foreign Exchange broker said. The figures Are absolutely Lousy. Here we Are a full eight months after devaluation an still showing a Gap of this  the new deficit apparently killed Hopes thai the governments an might relax the economic thumbscrews it clamped Dow during last november s crisis. My. Negroes forming anti Nixon committees Baltimore d pm negro Community leaders h e r e announced monday they Are Organ izing committees throughout the country to oppose the Nixon a new Republican presidential ticket. They claim they have a moral responsibility to Alert the nation and Black americans to what they Call Maryland Telov. Spir Agnew s Inse Sim Ity to t h e Black Community. She s a red Tia ssh sniffer Moscow a a Young at Tractive redhead who claims she can sniff out hashish is being used by soviet customs officials in Tashkent to catch dope smugglers a British embassy spokes Man says. The spokesman says that the woman was responsible for i ate ii Triton Anthony Peter Erek Lorraine a Goatee bearded resident of Toronto Canada. He was arrested Lime 2 in the soviet Central asian City and i j charged with possessing 2 pounds. 5 ounces of hashish. Lorraine. 1j8. Was sentenced last Friday to three years in a labor Camp for foreigners. A British official who attended 1 the Tashkent trial said that the red haired woman in her late twenties told the court she worked for the Airport customs office asking All foreigners if they were carrying narcotics. The woman told the court that Lorraine shred when she Aske. Him if he was carrying drugs the official , the woman added she smelled hashish As Lorraine stood perspiring in the 104-degree heat. A customs official searched him and later told the court he found hashish m a bag beneath the Triton s sleeveless shirt mud in a pocket