European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse A. Attack throughout nation " " " " " unofficial Newt paper of . Forconi in Europe North Africa and Tho Middle East if 2185s a 5 daily 10 sunday monday August 19, 1968 t s \ " or v is 1 be lady to another these two statues of Liberty seem to hailing each other As the 8.8. France arrives in new York Arbor. The luxury liner was carrying a 40-foot-Hlgh copy of lady Berty to be used in shooting the movie the up urges better life for gis Washington a vice resident Hubert h. Humphrey lied saturday for Steps to in Rove Quality of life for Price men and their proposed More adequate using for men and women inform and their families the in Barracks and Homes Arst rate school system for their Dren and comprehensive medical services for military personnel and their dependents. Humphrey who earlier in the Day issued a Bill of rights for draftees said in his state Menton military service that military families should be protected tothe extent militarily possible against. Frequent unscheduled pyes and calling for a Reform of the pay system the vice president said the military pay system is antiquated and needs thorough overhaul to assure that compensation and benefits for uni formed personnel Are More equitable and More comparable with standards in civilian he also called for improve utilization of military personnel. Apart from pay our men in uniform just As civilian work ers wish to feel that they Are being challenged to perform their highest level of ability he said. Each Man in uniform on both Active and Reserve duty must be selected trained assigned and utilized to the greatest extent possible in accordance with his skills Abili ties and rans Plont performed n child Houston up or. Denton the Ospital Texas the recipient performed Eart ton and the first at children s 5-year-old aria r. Jna Giannaris of Hagerstown a calved the heart of 11 James Dudley Hei Ronny of. Of James Dudley Herron Rof Asor at Purdue University in satisfactory transplant on a child last Winter at Brook medical Cen or. Atorlan Kantrowitz Elivd the heart of a o s Lonj effect and doomed it from Philadel Brook Lynia 2 buses swept into River in Japan 99 feared dead 18 Allied bases Saigon up guerrilla braces hurled assaults against nearly a score of Allied instal actions throughout South Vietnam sunday. But . Military spokesmen said it was too soon to say whether the Long awaited third Offen Sive had begun. The rocket mortar and ground attacks almost from one end of the country to the other followed three Days of heavy fighting in the Northern sector which cos nearly 700 enemy dead. Military spokesmen reported a least 18 attacks sunday 15 of them in Tay Ninh province Northwest of Saigon along primary infiltration routes toward the capital. Initial reports indicated up to300 guerrillas were known dead but some of the Battles were still under Way late sunday and the toll was considered certainty Rise. 12 marines killed Allied casualties were relatively Light although 12 . Marines were killed and 25 wounded Inone attack Southeast of Hui in which the Viet Cong slashed through the Marine defences. Allied commanders have been predicting the third offensive for two months since the end of rocket attacks on Saigon and other population centers Early in june. . Spokesmen would not state flatly that the rash of attacks sunday signalled the Start of the third Tay Ninh province attacks were directed against a .special forces Camp a . 25th inf div base Camp and various South vietnamese base Camps and militia units in adjacent Binh Long province launched ground and artillery attacks on four 25th inf div outposts and a base housing South vietnamese Irreg More assaults were car ried out against government positions near Dak to in the Central Highlands. Fighting was also reported at Danang. . 25th inf div troops killed83 enemy in turning Back an attack on a fire support base cont. On Page 8$, col 2 Gifu Japan up a land slide swept two sightseeing buses off a Mountain Highway into a flood swollen River Early sunday and authorities Fea Redas Many As 99 persons mostly women and children were drowned. There were three known was the worst Road disaster in japanese Rescue party of More than 1,000 men recovered 25 bodies from the swirling Waters of the Hida River near Gifu in the Early stages of the Rescue operation. Police said there was Little hop that the 74 other people listed As missing could have survive the plunge into the boiling Waters the two buses were part of a string of 15 Enro Ute from Nagoya City a port on the Southwest coast of the m a i n japanese Island of Honshu to it. Nor Kura in the japanese Alps. The Accident occurred about 25 Miles Northwest of a landslide of weakened Hillside mud was a result of the torrential Rains of typhoon Polly which swept through the area saturday. The bus caravan was about to turn Back to Nagoya because of rain and increasingly impassable roads officials said. The police said the buses were cont on Page 24, col it weather partly Cloudy to Cloudy with Chance of evening rain. Occasional Hower tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66, Low 62. Temperatures recorded sunday get 4 4 am pm 63 90 Madrid p 57 59 Munich p 54 64 Paris p 50 59 Pru Tolck p 68 72 Rome r 70 84 wheel i c am pm 66 93 Adana c 68 84 Athens p 66 63 Aviano r 54 66 Berlin p w 59 Frankfurt p 52 s3 London r a Clear a partly Cloudy a rain. 2nd weather Wing. Ike suffers More setbacks from a and up dispatches Washington former presi Dent Dwight d. Eisenhower was continuing to suffer setbacks Fol lowing his seventh heart attack his physicians said used electrical shocks to suppress fluttering of his heart muscle. Medical bulletin characterized his condition As but doctors said the Shock treatment halted the episodes of ventricular irregularity the spasms of his heart Muscles that plagued him during the night i both drugs and mild electrical a 3 25 . 8 25 . Get i shocks were applied during the night to Correct the heart fluttering were de scribed As abnormal the bulletin added Gen. Eisenhower is in com Mand of All his senses and has retained his keen sense of the doctors said the episodes cont. On pc it i col. 5
