European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 24, 1961 the stars and stripes  Oft tin tanks9 Back p Niah e Vlf log note while inter tourists remion Porter pm  Csech a stars and stripes re Ivaria. 7lti1.,l/,., c � m is Lavriotis came family who Cor the invasion ofis his report from 2 hour tape and of the James Neil Palm Beach Fla. By Nic k Stavriotis Nuernberg Bureau Germany raking outside this window. One czech has jumped on a soviet tank and has painted Dubcek across  Are fighting with paint brushes and flags. Five people were shot trying to photograph russians. By 9 . Some 20,000 czechs they re jumping on the tanks look  Lane recorder then began spitting out the bursts of .50-Cal-Iber machine guns and the metallic rumbling of heavy Stalin tanks. Then a voice. Listen. Listen. Listen in the background you could hear thousands of czechs chant ing soviets go Home and you could hear the sporadic bursts of  re jumping on the tanks look i cannot describe the bravery have filled Wenceslas Square i downtown Prague. Everywhere you can see czech  As the tape played James Nellc i wife and six children stared in disbelief at the Little disc that was recreating the Nightmare of wednesday morn ing. Nemic played his tape of the russian invasion As he and his family rested at the . Army Hospital Here after having crossed the czech Border thurs Day night with More than 400 other american tourists. The Nemicas smuggled their2 hour recording out along with film of the invasion. Nemic a Palm Beach Fla., lawyer and an american of czech descent was staying with czechs in Down town Prague when the russian entered the City. J he turned on his tape recorder stood at his window and in a cracking voice related the heroism death and tragedy and disbelief of the czech takeover. A Navy commander during world War ii nemic confirmed rumours that Many russian sol Diers did not know they were invading Czechoslovakia. He described one Exchange be tween a czech student and a russian Soldier we Are your Brothers Why Are you Here Why have you 1 come for a Long time the russian said. No. West Germany " nemic said these were the j troops that were flown in by Large russian troop  no mistake about  Niemic said these troops Are hardened and Well armed. I Thev entered the City first russians thought they were in West Germany Soldier said nothing then turned to the czech and told him. We Are under orders. We thought we were going on  nemic said other Russia troops gave similar answers and some even said they though they were in West  somebody said you mean East Germany the russians make no mistake these troops Are hardened with Light tanks. These were followed by medium tanks. Then heavy soviet Stalin tanks entered Prague. There Are tanks All Over Czechoslovakia Well Over a thou Sand. There Are Over a Hundred alone in  i nemic said heavy soviet an polish Armor is massed along the West German Border. Troops Are garrisoned everywhere in the country. They Are being Well  were rumours that rus Sian armoured vehicles were run Ning out of Gas. Nemic said the russians Are supplying the vehicles with plenty of Gas from tank  when he left Prague he said. Czechs were flying Black Flag Sand czech flags at half Mast. They a re pinning tiny czech flags on tourists leaving the country and giving them big czech flags he said. Go Tell everybody we can do nothing but cry. Also Tell them we want Freedom czechs said. All Czechoslovakia is a prison again. They strangled us before and Are doing it  mrs. Nemic said she  children to Czechoslovakia and Europe to open their  i did not think they would be opened this much. It s the Young people that have to see it to see what it is like to have your life and Tell everybody we can do nothing but cry your country taken away from  does t mean anything to too Many people to Day. If we were not in Prague when this happened we Wouldhave said we were Lucky. We now realize How Lucky we hereto have been there to have seen it All. Freedom Means so Muchmore to us  Citti invaded but proudly defiant ,Mkmf--4hhbrflh czechoslovak students hold up their country s bloody Flag before soviet soldiers Riding in to take Over the City. Al � now clients run with the bloodstained Flag and crash helmet of Olenek 1 Rihou 27, run Down h u tank. I a ban fooled Bauer a a youths through the occupied a Reed of \1� i hot