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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 22, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aug 22, 1961 the stars and stripes i a the 24-nmn demo delegates under fire the credentials committee of the democratic recommended tuesday night the ouster of the favor of a biracial group delegation led by Clov. John Bell Williams 20 i tirs of disloyalty to democratic presidential 1 i1 s Muff off of and Suiter ing9 Mai Britt asks divorce from Davis r1 aaf7 self erecting barriers to negroes attempting to take Partcini whities. If la a conium elation Sticks it will be the first Lime an entire jog Ion Lus bin ousted. R0tuid-uie-clock Rock for Biafra new York a 7 three,1 of round the clock enter t nent began tuesday at St. Lark s in the bowery Church Sinyork to raise funds to re starvation in Biafra. Folk singers Joan bae Amiele Seeger and such Folk a a groups As country Joe and to fish has donated their Tal Lents to the drive sponsored by the american committee to keep Biafra  a news conference in the new York Hilton hotel to publicize the event committe spokes Man Peter Walker said the minimum goal wus $10,000. But he Kii id proper publicity should bring i Ai least $s,000. The Marathon entertainment ends Friday night. The Money will a used for pilots and planes As Well As food for Biafra which has secede from Nigeria. Nigerian forces have prevented supplies from reaching the rebels except through night airlifts. Santa up Britt tuesday s u e d negro entertainer Sammy Davis or. For divorce accusing him of inflicting great anguish and mental suffering during their marriage of nearly eight years in which she had become Illand unhappy the 31-year-old a dress who has worked sparingly since her marriage asked in her Superior court suit for custody of the Monica Calif. And their two adopted sons swedish actress Mai Mark 8, and Jeff 4. Miss Brill s suit also asked that Community property be divided in a just manner an stated that Davis. 42, would assume payment of Community debts. The couple both of whom converted to the jewish Faith were married nov. 13, 1960, at Davis Home in a ceremony attended by actor Peter Law Ford and his then wife. Pat president couple s daughter Tracey 7, sister of the late John f. Kennedy and the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy. Frank Sinatra who was divorced last week by actress Mia Farrow was the couple s Best Man. The Davies separated nov. 1,1967, her complaint stated. It was the second marriage for Bolh Davis and miss Britt. He formerly was married to negro Singer Loray White. Miss Brill previously was married for 18 months to a wealthy California College student Edwin Gregson. Traffic in drugs tags Denver Crystal city9 contract fraud charged new York up fourteen corporations and 13 executive shave been indicted on charges of rigging contracts Worth 50 Mil lion in the last three years  were accused of being involved in a scheme to defraud three giant new York Power companies by rigging bids on construction  fraud against the companies would have been passed on to the Public because the companies charges Are based on profit and loss a District attorney s office official said. Liquid not up to sniff Chiakos said the Gas is believed to have become a popular intoxicant among Young people. Freon can be purchased in Small aerosol cans. The Gas Safe enough in the pore state becomes deadly when mixed with Carbon compounds found in smoke. The police offi Cial said it could be fatal for youths to sniff the Gas in a place filled with cigarette smoke. ,  have asked air condition ing and appliance stores not to sell a refrigeration liquid to Young people because of reports that teen agers have been sniff ing u to get  it. Charles Chilakos said no one has been caught sniffing the liquid called freon but that some parents report their children have come Home mysteriously   ties unimpaired Denver up in the Opin Ion of the United states hippies. Denver is running a close second to being the illicit drug capital of the United states. The drug business has seemed to grow in direct proportion to Laws against drugs in the stale. Federal and state Laws in col Orado strictly prohibit the Sale use or even Possession of Mari Juana hallucinatory drugs and amphetamines. A few months \ ago hippies were As they say up tight Aboul gelling  and students who occasionally smoked pot in the Denver area colleges and universities stuffed towels under their dormitory doors for fear if they were caught there would to plenty to pay. We used to buy anything we would get then a Denver hip pie said. It s different today. Be can afford to be More Selec Tive. Denver is wide open for drugs. I d say it s second Only to san Francisco or  and College students Aren t the Only ones Here who have seen drug traffic multiply. Denver District attorney James d. Mike Mckevitt. In san Francisco last week for a police said the equipment was meeting of the National District custom made. They said evidence at Tommy 8 is social cd Ai in lir at a the nver Lahore Terv present there are1,000 full blown Speed. Says at More than and am Philamine users in the Bay area. We see a similar situation developing in Denver when Mckevitz was in Chi Cago the week before to Lect real Northwestern University s Law school he Learned to his Chagrin that hippies in the Windy City had dubbed Denver the Crystal  men Bers of the Chicago narcotics squad told him Denver Goethe name because there is More Crystal amphetamine crystals in Dover than in most other Large cities. If arrests up More than ten fold in Denver provide some indication of Denver s flowering 1 drug problem evidence seized in those arrests provides More. I when a Denver landlord found one of his rented houses uninhabited and the Lawn in neglect in june he asked police to investigate. They did and found Clandestine Laboratory with Drue Makine equipment valued at More than $25.000. Indicated e Denver Laboratory had been Selling drugs in los Angeles new York san fran Cisco and London. Laboratories like the one found in june sell their drugs in other cities fear ing the new Colorado Law. The crystals Are then sent Back from let s say san Francisco and re sold in , who emphasizes that Denver is nol alone in drug prob lems admits that other Large cities like Chicago Are still Wor ried about so called hard  heroin is still the prob Lem there he says. But the new drugs of the acid Rock generation seem to be whal is flourishing in Denver. Washington u i talk with North korean officials in efforts to obtain release of the Pueblo and us Crew have not impaired relations Between the t filed states and South Korea. The state department said tues Day. Spokesman Robert j. Mcclos Tey said the 19 private meetings eld at Panmunjom. Between american and officials since seized Jan. Impaired the relations we  Mccloskey North korean the 23close have Pueblo have and with was not warm South said there to had been no change concerning the Pueblo and Crew in any sense that is  the lust meeting was hold Luly 9. Is thinking again new Yoke a the Little red Book of chairman mho s i in of us Worls Best Sellers is soon to have a revised i of l kor sequel according to Newsweek Maga inc. It will contain More than 1,000 quotations compared to 100 in vhf old edition. Ostensibly the new Book will be simply an updating to include went supreme instructions concerning the cultural revolution i quotations from the first edition will be dropped including w praising president Liu Shao Ehi who is now anathema to the Newsweek s report said. It is estimated that More million copies of the first edition were published in 24  Blaek Panther threatened ii i l Al an Anonymous letter threatening told to 1 Zinther Huey Newton and his lawyer was reported  1 Luro Newton is charged with murdering a whitest lat a Street gunfight. On lawyer Charles Garry urged that a mistrial he tie on the grounds that the threat reflected an atmosphere of  a Laud making a fair trial impossible ourt judge Monroe Friedman rejected the motion and six week old trial to continue. Brother aiding Nixon flew to new York Zdency 1 1 k k try to wins Orem 0" i Valv from Gnu reial staff do c Northwest hell Tele so a tile spent theone an Antim Ihma while on his a naval air re weekend flying Rine helicopter monthly duty us  Heads a 20 Man staff at his j brother s new York Headquar-1 tors. His Fialty u mail. Tons of it he Buuri. I Tolth comedian Bob Hope crowns Johnine Avery As miss world a .s.a. In san Diego Calif., a the Climax of Abe Autv pageant that brought claims of fix from several com Peting beauties. Hope was one of the judges which picked the stat of Washington entry to represent the United states in he miss world Pugeau. Associated press photo teaching chief urges revamp of schools Cleveland a a plea for wholesale revamping of the american school system was made by the retiring president of the american federation of  delegates at the opening session of the 163.000-ni Ember federation s 52nd annual convention the president Charles Cogen. Said that there was a need for a vastly More effective school  he opened the five Day convention with his Call for school Reform a rift was appearing among its 900 delegates Over a convention stand on the Vietnam  said that most diploma holders were products of an antiquated and understaffed sys tem at a time when a techno logical society was Den funding an educated and skilled work Force. Raps Raisin he called for an Active coalition of Liberal labor and civil rights groups to erase racism in schools by whatever Means  Cogen. Who has headed the federation since i9t 4. Predicted at a news conference the teacher strikes would increase and cited deadlines already set in mis Souri Illinois Ohio and Ivy isl  main  for Civ on s Post were at work on their campaigns a i id  to Ken s asst Man from pcs Ork and Edward c Hohu i of Minnesota. Deletes Weie u ult wednesday. Princess Margaret Back 1 on Don api Princess Margaret just turned 38 re turned to in Muon after a 10-Day Holiday i Italy  
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