European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and St Pis marines crush vi1 assault in a Nazig area Saigon up american marines smashed an enemy at tack on the outskirts of a a Tui Early saturday. Viet Cong kept up their week Long wave of As saults in South Vietnam with mortar strikes on two Mekong Delta provincial capitals Mili tary spokesmen said. South vietnamese civilian sol re caught in a crossfire during fighting in Cam la Village on the outskirts of Danang South Vietnam s second largest correspondent Raymond Wil Kinson said North vietnamese rockets Cut cd non children and . Bombs and grenades Tor apart Homes before the Viet Cong withdrew during the night. Twenty vietnamese civilian Sand two . Advisers were wounded in shellings of Cam Tho and Ca Mau in the Mekong Delta. Military spokesmen said. More than 80 rounds of mortar and recoil less Rifle fire exploded inthe towns the heaviest fighting saturday flared at the Cam due special forces Camp guarding the Cam Bodian Border in the Central High lands. Besieged by a North Viet namese regiment of 1,000 Nen since Friday the defenders re ported 16 men killed and 17 wounded. Camp shelled the attackers seeking to Cleara Supply line into the Highlands shelled the Green Beret Cam constantly and launched repeated attempts to overrun it spokes men said. Sixty five enemy dead were counted after two d ays of fighting that continued saturday. Helicopters brought South vietnamese soldiers into the besieged Camp despite heavy ground fire. . Helicopter gun ships dive bombers and Artil Lery pounded the enemy unit. . Headquarters said an air Force f100 super Sabre bomber and an army helicopter were shot Dosun supporting the Camp Friday but All three crewmen were saved. . Spokesmen recorded 56 communist shellings and at tacks in 24 hours that ended at Dawn saturday. A second Battle near cambo Dia flared before Dawn and Cost the North vietnamese 62 men in a two hour attack on a unit of the . 25th div camped for the night near Tay Ninh scene of heavy fighting a week ago. . Headquarters said eight americans died and 45 were wounded defending the positioning rubber Plantation land dotted with communist hideouts a n Supply trails Northwest of Sai gon. Now passports Good for 5 years by Jim Junte staff writer Frankfurt is .passports will be Good for five years from Date of Issue begin Ning monday and will Cost $12 instead of $10.passports have been valid for three years and could be renewed for two years More. Pub Lic Law 90-428 signed by pres ident Johnson on july 26 makes renewal change also applies to so called no fee passports which arc issued to military dependents and government passports already issued arc automatically renewed an the holders Don t have to bring them in for renewal said Larryw. Roeder chief of the passport Section at the . Consulate. If anyone wants to bring f his wife theirs in Well be Happy to Mark it renewed without said it might be help Ful for persons planning to trave to other countries to have their passports stamped As renewed. Americans living overseas actually will save $3 under the new Price schedule Roeder said. Inthe past they have paid $10 for a passport but had to pay another$5 for renewal making a total of $15.All command sponsored Mili tary dependents who ret no fee passports also will save Money Roeder said. In the past the have had of pay $1 for a passport application. This fee has been eliminated. Technically a Serviceman could Ket a no fee passport for get his $1 huh i but that costs a lot of Money. The new Law ends a in n ll0 Flat so renewal Tutu court ruling that the of a natural a Riti unturned to his1,i,v, count Yas Long As three Vears constitutional. Lusbi a state department directives Nicl existing stocks of passports will he a up now on they will be valid for five Vears tanks a and Ali i continued from Page i troops massing on the East Ger Man Borders. Russian soldiers and tank started Landing at the Airport that night the geologist planes came in at a Rale of one every 30 seconds and that kept up for six . Diet a Miami geologist attending the convention said he saw the russians take radio Prague. A tank ran Over and crushed two people he said. Dietz also said the soviet Armor had surrounded the czech army Barracks. The Only troops saw in Prague were russian Dietz added. The people said As other shave that the russian soldiers did not seem to know where the were. They just did not understand the hostility they thought they were there to protect the czech from Western aggression Billy Owens a Young student from Gadsden ala., said. "1 saw one russian tank com Mander crying when he under stood what was happening Owens added. Another Man said he had the film in his camera taken from him at gunpoint by a Russia Soldier. It was horrible tragic a elderly lady tourist from new York said. We re Lucky to bout of the most of the 500 passengers on the two special trains shared the same feelings at what they had seen Shock fright confusion had All seen courage. They wanted to help but did know How. The general impression was that everyone hated to leave them behind said an India professor. He had been in Prague two Days before the invasion guest of the Academy of science there. Several members of a Sydney Australia water Polo team had witnessed the Early morning in Vasion. The people were in turmoils they realized what was Hap pening bean said. It Roy Woodhouse a member of the team said that when news of the invasion was broadcast on radio he saw a Young czech girl break Down and was much High feeling Mccarthy amends czech statement Chicago up sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy stung by criticism of his statement that Russia s invasion of Czechoslovakia was not a great world crisis condemned the soviet action Friday. Mccarthy who is clue her sunday to press presidential drive issued a statement through his chief speech writer Richard Goodwin. Goodwin conceded that Mccarthy s first reaction to he czech crisis had some bad effect and said the new statement was being issued to counter honest misinterpretations of the senator s have had numerous Inqui Ries about my statement on Czechoslovakia Mccarthy s statement declared. I though my position was Clear. In Case there is any doubt let me add this of course i condemn this cruel and violent action. I should not really be necessary to say this but to make clearly attitude i Mccarthy predicted the so Viets would receive severe criticism for this action and the czech drive for Freedom will not be permanently said this was what he meant originally when he said the intervention was More Likely to have More serious consequences for the communist party in Russia than Goodwin said he did t thin Mccarthy Ever meant that the czech invasion was not serious but Only that it did not justify calling a dramatic Midnight meeting of the National Security sessions Goodwin said should be called Only when there is a possibility of the United states taking s new statement scored cold War advocates who seem to think that because the russians have behaved in this brutal fashion we should step up our military action in against the invasion said Keith Quin also of Australia. The czechs feel they have been betrayed by the Warsaw pact nations and they Don t really know what to do. They have asked the world for help but have received none. There were demonstration Sand hourly strikes. We heard of about 25 or 30 people being killed in the City. There was heavy fighting he said. There was panic in the Cit when the russians came Quin said. Everybody went running Home and some went running into the Woods and Hills around the another passenger related that the czechs did t seem to understand Why the invasion occurred. One czech youth was reported to have stood by a Sian tank and asked Why Why the czechs Are really unite now said one passenger. They want a More democratic a group of British tourists said czechs have the National Flag displayed everywhere. Taxis buses and cars All have flags attached to them and Youn czechs Are carrying flags All Over the City. . Sheth a Bombay India textile businessman said there was great courage by everyone and demonstrations everywhere. There were Many anti Russia slogans and some people were comparing the invasion to theone made by Hitler s a russian soldiers described As tired and confused by sow passengers at lie main Railroad station Here gave Wile rank 1 reasons for their presence i Prague. Some soldiers reportedly sail they were there to Liberat Czechoslovakia from the others said they were there to save East Germany from wat a russian officer said the troops were there Only As a show of reports said some of the Young russian soldiers Luid brought suitcases along anticipating a i great Welcome by the czechs one evacuee said russian radio reported that the troops were welcomed warmly by the czechs who threw Flowers to $50,000 bail set for mrs. Him Nivins new York supreme court up stat Justice Frunk Samansky Friday set $50.000 Bailor Alice Cri Mijans convicted of murdering her 4-year-old Daugh Ter pending her Appeal. The red haired former cocktail waitress received a five-to-20 year prison sentence aug. 19 inthe 1965 strangling of her Daugh Ter Spain to join nato House panel urges air a Orr in in tar /t7n�v _ Washington up a House subcommittee has insisted that Spain should be a Mem Ber of nato and said its admission has been rejected by Mem Ber nations which contribute the least to the nations. Member ship allegedly because of its form of government it said. A suspect list or Irish labor party the Scandinavia have spam s opposition is for the same Rea son plus the continuing dispute Over report was written by ath Ehouse armed services subcommittee which visited Europe Tocheck the Impact of Vietnam on other military believe a a neg Friendly and cooperative relationship with Spain is of Paramount importance because of growing ten Sions in the Middle East i said. The soviet Challenge for dominance in the Mediterranean is becoming increasingly apparent and its sea Power is being projected to More Distant Tho report said subcommittee members Are confident that the nato members who object to Spain s membership cannot argue that the newly established nato Oberland command can properly function without Spain tacit Blessing. Nor can the South Ern nato forces adequately Ope with the soviet threat in the Mediterranean without free Dom of operation in overflights and use of Spanish full admission for Spain to nato is not Forth nuking at this time at least her limited Purl for full participation in Oberland cannot be 200 commemorate a i in Lino s death Hollywood a there were bouquets on the floor and scribbled like sleep my Darling on the crypt and tributes like he held the Low of All who saw his so it went As the faithful Aai the curious gathered 200 Strong Friday for Hollywood s unique annual rite the mourning of Rudolph women some aging and stooped they crowded a Marble corridor of mausoleum pm where one holds die remains of the movies t Luau St Lover. It was the i1. I id i arly con Memora Tiomi of the dentil a a of the italian immigrant v1�worked As a Gardener Tanuj dancer movie a Tia and Finiw screen idol of women in w Sheik and other films. 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