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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, August 16, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes log 3 c general ouster final cheap 7 oils support 1 renounced his 1th lip of the czechoslovak army a get. Vaclav Prchlik and a revision of the Warsaw pact,.i soviet Union. Toader ship also disputed Prchlik s Contention that .v, s political and military leaders did not know How soviet soldiers entered the country for Warsaw pact Man i single Allied Soldier or vehicle crossed the czechoslovak without the consent of the responsible state officials said distributed by the official news Agency ctk., lc.,.ent put the army s Seal of approval on Prchlik s ouster Job As defense and Security chief of the communist party s Serai committee last month. To Canada denies troop Cost report Canadian station n senior Diplomat told newsman. Commenting on the report he said n Bonn defense ministry official will visit Ottawa this fall to explore the prospects for joint Canadian German projects in developing and producing de sense equipment. But he said the visit is unrelated to off setting troop costs. Absolute no Semie retort that Canada is  from West Ger May for the foreign currency ass incurred by stationing j my Canadian troops in Ger have no intention what Soever to ask the West Ger Miu government for compel Italy checks foreign motorists Rome a the Interior ministry announced thursday that 32"per cent of the fatal traffic accidents in the first 10 Days of August involved foreigners. It ordered police throughout Italy Ito be severe with foreigners who commit traffic violations. Between july 27 and aug. 11,ithe ministry also noted there were 11,995 accidents on italian roads with 496 persons killed and10,8m injured. In the same period last year 11,371 accidents occurred leaving 502 dead and 9,503  the first Day of the four Day italian religious Holiday last ing from wednesday evening until monday morning 45 person were reported dead in Auto Acci dents. Spain pushes big Day for Liechtenstein Vaduz Liechtenstein up the 17.0m citizens of Small Liechtenstein celebrated a big anniversary thursday. Thirty years ago Prince Franz Josef ii took Over As ruler of the principality located Between Switzerland and Austria. Ban stirs South african protest Johannesburg South and Ca up student protest Oyer ithe government s refusal to per trait a negro lecturer at the White University of Cape town has spread to Johannesburg. After a sleep in wednesday Light by More than 300 Cape town students at the University Slad ministration building student headers at Johannesburg s Witwatersrand University also began formulating a Campaign. The Row began when Archie Mafere was appointed senior lec Turer in the University of Capetown s department of social anthropology. The University coun cil rescinded Mafere s appoint ment after the government committed to a policy of racial segregation threatened to step in. Red faces in East Berlin Bonn up the West German ministry for All Ger i Man affairs said that a Maini item of a collection of books which East Germany attack Edas Revan Chist was written by a professor at East Berlin Humboldt University. The East German communist party Organ Neues in Tschand last week men wed "1,000 years of spiritual me in the sudetenland Hye Duard Winter As one of Sev eral books West Germany subsidized to promote re Van Chist claims to the pre War German sudetenland re Gion of  a Monotone which belied his satisfaction a ministry spokesman announced that Winter was an East Berlin diversity professor a member of the East German Academy of sciences and a Winner of one of East Germany s National prizes in 195. New change in Catholic mass cd can City a another major change in the roman Iwuc mass went into effect thursday with priests Given the of of using any of three new  Canon is the Central part of the mass and contains the con i Lon we lion the Church teaches is the transformation of bread is i in the lady and blood of  a a Litany saints has been dropped from the new canons naj i he f language is much More intimate and familiar better de use since the other 1c w vol i it usal whisky hijacked m?an,1u. A an Amerl Trutt a a flu Lim Ort e track to�4� he  a truck filipino employed Byth . Air Force reported he and an unarmed Filipi Noim no were waylaid on a pro Vincus Road by three armed fit pm  truck was later recovered minus the whisk. A Pear Antly peachy driving motorists so Neh through tons of surplus pears and peaches dumped on National highways by French Farmers near Pont Saint Esprit in protest against the government s farm subsidy program which dropped prices. Up israeli plane at stake air Boycott fails to Budge Algeria Algiers up Algeria said thursday the proposed Boycott of its airports would not Force itto release a hijacked israeli Jet liner. It termed the Boycott imposed by the International federation of airline pilots associations Ifalia ridiculous gesture and without  the Arab world was in an up Roar Over a ban on flights from Europe to Algeria and the affair threatened to turn into a major confrontation with the  Trade unions backed Al Geria s defiant stand by announcing in Cairo that they would counter Boycott any airline Tak ing part in the Sanction against the North african  foreign minister Abdelaziz bout Flika wrote to  general u Thant that nothing will be Able to Sway his country s attitude toward the plane and the persons who arrived on Board july 23. Thant has been trying to negotiate the release of the Crew and passengers still held by Al  letter made no mention of France or French pilots in particular and referred to the Ifalia Boycott obliquely As measures of intimidation announced by certain  the letter was released As the Cabinet of president Houari Bou Jedienne met to discuss the situation again in the Light of the almost total Boycott by the Ifalia set to begin at Midnight sunday and the counter Boycott promised by Arab workers. The International confederation of Arab Trade unions was initially planning to refuse to Han dle Luggage or refuel airliners boycotting  were supported by the Arab transport workers federa Tion which hinted the Boycott could be expanded to include Al transport lines of any country whose National airline refused to serve Algeria. So far All parties have care fully abstained from making any anti French statements apparently because they Are trying to avoid open criticism of preside Tcharles de Gaulle who generally takes a pro Arab anti israeli stand even though the govern ment run air France line has tacitly agreed to their pilots participation in the Boycott. Basque rebels la Coruna Spain a the Spanish government cracked Down thursday on Basque separatists and underground terrorists threatening them with death or 30 years in prison under Mili tary Law. In a Cabinet session in this summer Home of Gen. Francisco Franco s government the minis ters put bandits and terrorists Back under military Law instead of the Law of Public order. The Stern measure obviously was aimed at Basque separatists in a Lipuzcoa province who killed their Long time enemy regional police chief Meliton Manzanas,58, on aug. 2. The killer has not been captured. Same penalties underground labor Union Mem Bers faced the same penalties for work stoppages strikes Sabo Tage or similar acts committed for political ends or which cause serious upset of Public order the news Agency Europea press said. Military rebels under the de Cree were reported by the news Agency to be those who diffuse false or tendentious news with the aim of causing upsets of Interior pub Lic order International conflicts or discredit to the state its institutions government army or authorities and those who. By whatever Means meet conspire or take part in meetings conferences or manifestations with the i same ends. Less severe until the slaying of the Gui Puz Coan police chief and of a civil guardsman political separatists had been handled under the less severe Public order  penalties had been minor imprisonment. Basque separatists generally members of Eta Basque free country want to separate Gui Puz Coa Viscaya and Alvada provinces in Northern Spain fro the rest of the country. I Spanish police have put Down repeated attempts at Demontra j tons but the Basque extremists still Cache guns and ammunition i and carry out terrorism in their continuing Campaign. American pacifist sails j from Japan for China 1 Hiroshima a an Amer ican pacifist and his japanese wife left Hiroshima thursday aboard a 30-ton yacht on the first leg of a Friendship voyage to communist China. Or. Earle Reynolds an anthropologist from Ohio who now lives in Hiroshima said he has no received formal approval from communist China for his trip to Shanghai but he said he would sail to the chinese port even i notification of approval is not received. Beyond caring. Waiting for death Geneva a groups of up to 5,000 mothers and children huddled together emaciated listless Many beyond the Point of caring just waiting for  was one of the grim scenes described thursday Bya United nations Relief Leader after returning from Federal held territory in the nigerian civil  Labouisse american executive director of the  s emergency fund Unico told a new Confer ence after visiting the Udo and Ikot Ekpene areas of Southeast Nigeria i witnessed the frightful suf Fering of the Many thousand refugees who have poured into that area which is now under Federal  said that at one Camp of about 5,000 people "10 to 15 were dying every Day. Labouisse who was not a Leto visit biafran held areas added Many Are dying from starvation particularly children on both sides of the fighting. Great Runny others Are on the verge of  is increasing in geometrical progression he said. He warned that even with sufficient supplies Relief operations cannot succeed unless both sides cooperate to allow it to reach the starving people. With Strong and affirmative action on the part of All concerned a great Many lives can be saved he said. Without it untold thousands of innocent peo ple will   
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