European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 24 the stars and stripes saturday August 54 i Dubcek aide gets away Prague a a top aide and confidante of missing czechoslovak communist Leader Alex Ander Dubcek made a dramatic escape from soviet Captivity Friday and is being sheltered by pro Dubcek resistance groups Clandestine radio reported. In reporting Cestmir Cisar s escape the free radio Prague broadcast quoted him As saying he was being protected by czech communists and patriots. He also reportedly expressed the Hope that he could soon resume his political functions. A letter by Cisar was to reprinted and distributed to the population the radio said. The whereabouts of Dubcek Leader of the Liberal movement remained a mystery. There werer mors in Moscow that he had been flown under guard to the soviet Union after being seized during the invasion. Official sources in Moscow would not comment on the report. Amateur radio operators in several parts of the world reported hearing broadcasts from Czechoslovakia that Dubcek is dead. Lira Lull fears for Romania Bonn a West German foreign minister Willy Brandt said Here i riday night he fears the soviet Union and its allies May swing into Romania in a repeat of the armed against Czechoslovakia. Brandt expressed the fear to newsmen at a reception marking the 24th anniversary of the launching of socialism in that country. The reception was boycotted by Moscow s ambassador to Bonn so Myon Tsarapkin. Asked to comment on rumours of a possible impending invasion of Romania Brandt said it is True that i have these fears. They Are fears i share with several other to elaborate the foreign minister said i would rather not go into spent 15 minutes in private conversation with Bis Host romanian ambassador Constantin Oancea. Of the invasion rumours the envoy told senior Bonn officials attending the reception we Are armed and ready. We Are Calm and prepared for every Russia vetoes censure United nations up the soviet Union Friday vetoed a Western backed Resolution condemning the invasion of Czecho Slovakia and calling for withdrawal of occupying troops it was the soviet Union s 105thveto in the world body and Fol Lowed a threat by Czecho Slovakia s representatives that the people of their nation would stage a general strike Friday a noon if the occupying soviet bloc troops were not Security Council vote on the Resolution was 10-2 with three abstentions. Hungary joined the russians in voting against the measure. The Resolution was sponsored by Brazil Britain Canada Den Mark France Paraguay Sene Gal and the United states who were joined by Ethiopia an nationalist China in voting for it. India Pakistan and Algeria vote came after an Over night session of almost 5j hour sin which soviet ambassador Jacob a. Malik led an obvious filibuster apparently seeking to Block . Action until a new puppet government could be chosen by the occupation authorities in the veto Canada introduced another Resolution calling for a . Representative to Fly to Prague to seek the release and insure the personal safety of czechoslovak leaders arrested by the invaders. Exile regime set up Belgrade up Czecho slovak Deputy Premier Otto Sik formed a virtual government in exile Friday the yugoslav new Agency Tan Jug said. Sik will represent Czechoslovakia s Only Legal government five members of Czechoslovakia s Legal government were in Yugoslavia when Warsaw pact forces invaded their country. Their announcement published by Tan Jug stressed that Czechoslovakia has Only one Lega government the government of Premier Oldrich , it added on behalf of it the government appears the vice Premier of the government academician Otto Sik with Sev eral other members of the gov it said the five members in Yugoslavia were the Only ones who Are Able to act and speak Hack in route to ij.1v. Vienna a czechoslovak foreign minister Jiri Haj Elk left Here Friday for Newyork via Brussels to plead his country s Case before the unite nations and with . Secretary general u told newsmen at Vienna s Schwec hat Airport that the invasion of Czechoslovakia is an illegal later at a Stopover in Brus Sels Hajek said the visit of czechoslovak president Ludvik Svoboda to Moscow might con tribute to clarify the tragic situation or our country and might contribute to finding a political solution to the , answering reporters questions in an Airport lounge said the czech government never invited the troops of it sallies definitely russian orders refused Vienna a czechoslovak troops Are refusing soviet orders to turn Over their arms Accord ing to a report from radio Brati Slava still apparently free of soviet station heard by monitors in Vienna said the czechoslovak commander in Bratislava got or Ders from the russians by Tele phone to hand Over his men weapons. He refused the Broad cast said and gave orders to sentries to bar soviet soldiers from their was reported by Clandestine radio stations that 00 people had been killed and at least 160 wounded since the russians invaded. Sub teachers Are need continue from pa0 j is bout this situation Waluch estates is just not Good for Dod ruling makes it very difficult for him to buildup the hard Core of permanent teachers which has been his goal. Out of 4,000 teachers recruited for us Desea teaching last year 700 were local hires. Out of the 4,500 recruited this Yea the proportion will be the same or maybe a bit the turnover of these locally hired teachers mostly dependent wives is dramatic. Fifty three per cent were gone by the end of the school year five times As Many As the num Ber of stateside hired teachers Mason said. The dependent wife teachers czech president flies to Moscow for Parley continued from Page 1 flight of Svoboda to discuss his country s plight with soviet Premier Alexel Kosygin an party chairman Leonid Brezhnev swung the country away from the violence that has marked the four Day old military occur czechoslovak response to the general strike Call was amazing. At the stroke of noon a truck sailing along at a Good clip screeched to a halt As the drive slammed on the brakes. At the same time Driver blew their horns burglar alarms were set off and people made As much noise As possible. The entire City stopped. Not Abus trolley or vehicle moved. A few people continued walking but most stopped in their tracks. The crackle of Small arms fire was heard briefly during the noon hour As edgy soviet troops apparently reacted to open czech hos Dirksen. Continued from Paga / cantly More troops into Centra Europe and if so whether this would be a temporary or permanent part of the balance of russian forces studies before the invasion have indicated a rough balance Between nato and War saw pact forces available for immediate action in Case of such study credits nato with having 900,000 troop available for All regions from Scandinavia to Turkey with680,000 of these immediately available for the Center Region mainly Germany. The same study gave the Warsaw act 960.000 troops available for All regions. 620,000 of them inthe Central area. 337,001 troop sat the beginning of this year the United states had 337,000troops in its european com Mand which includes Britain Continental Europe Turkey ships of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean and a few personnel in North Africa. It was decided to bring 34,000of these Home but keep them earmarked for nato use. Sofar 19,420 of these have returned. Despite the czech situation de sense department officials indicated the remainder of the 34,000will return by the end of sep tember. Utility to their workers stopped a train carrying russian supplies after being warned of its approach by Clandestine radio 5,000 and 10,000 people were in Wenceslas Square where youths had battled soviet tanks with burning wads of paper and other improvised weapons wednesday. But almost everyone left the Square when the horns began to blare and the Bells rang and the sirens wailed. Orderly exit the evacuation was designed to avoid any possible incident that would let Moscow say there were disorders in Prague. Czechoslovak Border troops closed the major Highway Cross Ings to West Germany and posted strike signs. Czechoslovak sol Diers fixed a Large sign across the thick movable Barrier at the Frontier inscribed with the words Otavka Streik 12-13," meaning general strike from noon to 1 . At an extraordinary party con Gress meeting held in a secret location in the Prague Are thursday and attended by Dele Gates selected from All parts of the country months ago Dubcek s Liberal associates were reelected to the ruling presidium and the conservatives left from ousted president Antonon Novotny s re Gime were eliminated. Svoboda s Mission was the first Public top level russian czechoslovak meeting since so Viet and Allied Eastern european forces invaded Czechoslovakia to crush its reformist regime. Before leaving Svoboda Broad cast on one Clandestine station radio free Prague i was no forced to do he said he had agreed to no collaboration is promised of Courso through the Yea l husbands we i curtailed they loft previously pc number of suit in a Given area and available to dam w u Mason cited As an what has Hapich new t l situation that came u Pat a jus air base in Libya la t 3. We had hired All the teachers and there was no to take Over when a teacher j i sick. Classes had to be spit among other teachers j Tsi principal had to sit in or some times when All else ailed school Secretary was used As i " As substitute. Is Pope. Of continued from Page \ Cully the Pope called for an end to wide class and economic Sepa rations and the violent form of revolution that is a Way of Politi Cal life in this continent of 245million. We know How in the great continent of latin America eco nomic and social development have been unequal he said promising to continue to denounce unjust economic inequalities Between Rich and poor an abuses of authority and administration against you and this Dod decision was not made primarily As a Way to save dollars. It s More a sign of govern-1ment concern for military de Pendents a guarantee thai they la have first crack at pm As he sees it the situation grew out of the exodus from France. After making room for tit teachers from the French de pendent schools pc weren t Ablel to hire As Many of the depend ent wives that year. When they did t get jobs they wrote to their congressmen and protested that they were being discriminated against. The resulting Dod order to give local hires first preference came from congressional the critical shortage of substitute teachers May be further complicated this year by the fact that kindergarten May be added to the us sea they Are 3 i More teachers will be needed he less than two weeks left i before school opens to Vever the budget for the coming year has not been decided on by Congress. Therefore our hands Are tied said Mason. We be asked for $64 million $12 million from last year to include Money for a new kindergarten pro Gram a Host nation Prog arc and the hiring of remedial Reading teachers and science am physical education teacher elementary grades. We can to these people on Board however until we know if Well Haff the dollars to pay is the problem you Nan when you get your budget Alf school is started. The Questro of not being Able to know Aba program until after time j Start the program is one of i jul continual Bugaboo we one. Europe con Lnu a fair. Little Frankfurt held Ribera 7y6 cent to i Raturi recorded Friday it 4 66 temperature 4 4 a pm 08 i Adana 82 Atheni p t 73 Valano p 66 70 Berlin p54 72 Frankfurt 70 London c 0-Cleari a partly e 0" 4 .1111 p ". 64 97 Madrid. P 1 p 63 79 per p 61 w Greiwe 70 77 Rome p 73 b4 wheels p 25 dependents injured in bus Cras Karlsruhe. Firm nov ss&s1 the Hue Foo / in 7�h army i Umont nut of control Ami a Germany is Twenty five people were slightly injured when a bus carrying 38 army dependents struck a truck and plunged Over an embankment at an autobahn Junction near Here thursday. The Driver had tried to avoid vehicles crash. Involved in another the bus was carrying 7th army i wont out of e support come children and parents from the to Eslingen Aya Center to Baden Baden on a sum Mer program Outing. As the army bus Driver a Turk swerved to the outside Lane attempting to a void cars involved in an Accident his bus r i Wuhu in. I .1. Into the other vehicle a injured we 3rd Medica Barracks n leased a Ere ire. Re t 120,000,
