European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thurs Day aug Yff to czech crisis shoots Down democratic doves Washington up democratic doves wounded just As their Campaign for control of he democratic convention was be ginning to lift off the ground were thrown into disarray wednesday by the Checho Slova Kian crisis. Backers of Sens. Eugene  and George Mcgovern said russian movement of troops into Czechoslovakia could reinforce the party s cold warning and spoil their efforts to elect a candidate bound to program calling for Steps to end the Vietnam  Kenneth Galbraith one of Mccarthy s key advisors said perhaps cause the convention when it was for the Antiwar there was no question but that it will encourage the cold War Community an the climate of to change jus looking favourable  of the czech crisis hit the democratic platform com Mittee like a Thunderbolt during a free swinging debate on o Viet Nam Plank tuesday night it came just As Secretary of state Dean Rusk had delivered a lengthy sometimes bitter state ment defending the administration s Vietnam policy and was preparing to answer questions from the panel. A newsman handed him a news Agency bul Letin and after a hurried conversation with c h a i r m a whale Hoggs of Louisiana Husk immediately left the hearing room. Rusk had counselled the demo cratic platform committe against promising Hanoi an further american concessions in the Hope of winning the  advised the party to steer Clear of a platform spelling out the bargaining strategy we would like our negotiators to employ. After All a party convention in spite of its distinguished membership cannot devise negotiating tactics he de glared. I Mcgovern outlined his own to Days to peace plan and called for the immediate withdrawal of275,000 american troops. Mccarthy through a representative argued for a Piau orm insisting upon a coalition government in South Vietnam which would include communist participation. In forceful testimony Rusk nearing the end of his eighth year in office argued that peace will not to found by saying " rive the aggressor another bite perhaps hell be  nor will it come How saying it s too fir Liv by saying i t. Aja or business or v so a they and sacrifice. The Secretary argue promising further conce North Vietnam in to old guard9 ouster voted Chicago up the credentials committee of the democratic National convention tuesday night recommended ouster of the Mississippi old guard delegation in favor of a biracial group pledged to Bac the party s presidential Candi Date. The committee voted 84 to 10,with 13 abstentions to remove the 24-vote delegation led by gov. John Bell Williams. If the recommendation Sticks it willbe the first time an entire delegation has been  Mississippi regulars had been accused of "20 years of disloyalty to democratic presidential candidates and erecting barriers to negroes attempting to take part in state politics. The committee also announce four decisions that dashed Hopes of sen. Eugene j Mccarthy supporters for a Victory in the North rejecting Mccarthy backed challenges to delegations from Pennsylvania Minnesota Connecticut and Washington. In testimony before the party platform committee labor Secretary w. Willar Wirtz wednesday urged the democrats to take the stand that the government must provide a Job for anyone unable to obtain private employment. Walter Reuther president of the United Auto workers endorsed the proposal wednesday. Winton m. Blount president of the . Chamber of com Merce said the platform should pledge Strong but enlightened measures on Law and  Secretary Alan s. Boyd called for a commitment to provide fast comfortable reliable and above All attractive Public transportation in every major american City by 1975." every to and Saigon shelled for first time since june 21 from a and up dispatches Saigon Saigon came under enemy shelling thursday the first time the capital had been hit since june 21.first reports said that about 15 rounds of what were believe to be heavy rockets either 107 millimetre or 122-millimeter had hit the City. One round smashed into the South vietnamese National As Sembly building. . Infantrymen wednesday turned Back three human wave attacks on an american armore column near the City of Tay Ninh and killed at least 182 Viet Cong military sources said. . Sources said an estimated600 Viet Cong attacked armoured personnel carriers pcs of the25th inf div near the Ben Cui rubber Plantation about 60 mile Northwest of the capital and 14 Miles East of Tay  of the . Armoured vehicles were destroyed in the at tack. Hundreds of Miles to the North East . 1st air Cav div troop ers threw a human cordon around a farming Village near Quang Tri and killed 52 North vietnamese soldiers in a two Day Battle. Enemy gunners shot Down nine american helicopters in the action near the demilitarized zone but . Casualties were de scribed As Light and All of the choppers were recovered. Prat Down after an hour 7 prisoners shot in Ohio rioting Lebanon Ohio a state prison official said seven prisoners were shot and several others suffered minor injuries tuesday night before guards putdown a riot at the Lebanon correctional  one was killed. Two prisoners were reported in serious condition. The state adjutant general office at Columbus said two units of the Ohio National guard totalling about 300 men were ordered to duty at the Lebanon armory. Well decide what to do whence have assessed that Situa Tion said Brig. Gen. R. , Deputy adjutant general for army. Maury Koblentz state correction chief said about 250 in mates who participated in the disturbance were returned to cells and that the prison Vas secured Little More than an hour after the disturbance  said there was some Glass and water damage at the water regulation placed on ice twin Falls Idaho up the City Council concerned about the wettest August on record ordered the City attorney to draw up an ordinance prohibiting rain. The attorney referred the matter to the police chief for endorsement and the problem ended up in a special file at the City water department. Institution and that one fire impersonal belongings in a Dormi tory was quickly  said one inmate was shot in the stomach one near Anele and three suffered Pellet  Shaver Central control operator at the prison said Sev eral Hundred prisoners return ing from a recreation area be came uncontrollable As the entered the Cellblock s corridor Shaver said guards Locke Many of the inmates in their cells but two cell blocks remained in the hands of the prisoners. Cell Loeh hushed guards rescued Columbus Ohio up on orders of gov. James a. Rhodes 500 National guardsmen an police stormed the Ohio state Penitentiary in a Hail of Bullet Sand explosives wednesday to free nine guards held hostage for Aday and a half. Five convicts were reported shot to death in the assault. A sixth had his Throat slashed by fellow prisoners and was hospitalized in critical condition. More than an hour after the plastic explosives were detonated occasional shots were fire inside the prison compound. Smoke and dust filled the air. Leaders of the 350 rebelling inmates had threatened to execute flip guards unless their demands for prison Reform were , it. Sam George was the Only casualty Amon the hostages. He suffered a Cut Over the right Eye. Arabs claim credit for blasts by United press International the palestinian guerrilla group which hijacked an israeli Al Al Airliner july 23 and delivered itto Algiers has claimed responsibility for sunday s night of the grenades in Jerusalem. Grenade explosions injure several israelis and led to retaliation by angry Young jew against arabs. The popular front for the liberation of Palestine issued a statement in Cairo that its agents planted time bombs in various parts of Jerusalem in retaliation against the brutal israeli bomb ing of Al Salt in Jordan aug. 4. The statement claimed that Many israelis including soldiers were killed or wounded in the explosions. Another terrorist group Al Fatah also claimed partial responsibility for the blasts. It said they were meant As a warning of what it might do to counter Israel s aggressive and barbarous actions against the de senseless  in Jerusalem 16 Arab residents of the old City were remanded for 15 Days by an israeli Courtin connection with the blasts. The arabs were Arre Sod Sun Day in the Vicinity of some of the explosions. At the same time two jewish residents of Jerusa Lem were arrested and accused of smashing car windows during the anti Arab reprisal rioting which followed the explosions. The convicts jeering an cursing had watched demolition experts set up the charges75pounds against a Wall and 15 pounds on the prison roof an said they would execute the Host Ages when the first blast we Toff. But the heavily armed troops swept through a 15-by-8-foot Hole in the Wall and swung through an opening in the roof to overwhelm the prisoners and Rescue the hostages within 20 minutes of the first explosive charge. New Breed Warden m. J. Koloski a new Breed pen Logist who took Over Here following a riot june 24 which caused $1 million dam age sobbed the news that the hostages had been Rescue alive. As the demolition team began preparing the explosives the convicts screamed we be got every guard standing in the window and just As soon us one charge goes of we re going to kill every Ono of them and then you la have that on your  George and the other hostage pleaded with the prison officials not to mount the  you Don t get away they re going to kill every Ono of us they yelled. There s one hostage at each , in a message on the radio said i m begging for my life right now. There s no question about it we know what s going to happen they Vav got knives onus and they re Goiny to kill  prepared to accept from Hanoi As a f and move from one another until their Arabi Tion Are satisfied we do not believe a i t p Hes Down that Road for our selves or for  cites aggression Rusk said what the platform should do is not to outline tactics or strategy but to slate objectives. And what should be made Clear above All it seems to me is that our purpose in Vietnam is an Early but honorable peace that will enable the free Peoples of Asia to live together in Freedom. If that b said in Strong and simple terms the nation s interest willbe Well  the Secretary of state said there was no need for a theoretical debate about the Domino theory in Southeast Asia because the communist were already Irving to make inroads in Many asian countries besides Vietnam. Lie ticked off communist activity in Law Thailand Cambodia Burma Eastern India Northern malay Sia and Indonesia. Lie argued that what happen sin that part of the world is of vital importance to America and that whether America keeps its commitments is important to world Security. Rusk in contrast in contrast to Calls for As immediate bombing halt from Mccarthy and Mcgovern and other witnesses before the committee Rusk restated John son s Promise of a Complete halt when North Vietnam is prepared to exercise restraint on its  the Secretary s View on the bombing was even firmer than that of vice president Hubert ii. Humphrey whose views were presented for him by sen. Edmund s. Muskie of Maine. Muskie said it would be All right for the platform to say a total bomb in halt of nor Vietnam May he justified w that a final decision was for the president to make be sow � plight be approx brute to Call to participation by South Viet Nam s communist forces in a coalition coven my it  after elections Hadron Jacw. 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