European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Russ reported Willi Ngok Dubcek regime some talk of draft for lbs from a and up dispatches Chicago Hubert h. Humphrey held a heavy but highly uneasy Lead for the presidential nomination monday As a deeply divided democratic party began its 1968 convention. The vice president had in his hip pocket two thirds of the first ballot votes needed for the to prize but a lot of the talk was about a non candidate Lyndon Johnson who is a Long Way from this fortified City. There was an Effort made Alsoto Start a draft movement for sen. Edward Kennedy but he asked that his name not be placed in nomination and it will not be done. This development was announced by Kennedy s press Secretary Richard Drayne. He said the senator had talked with Michael Disalle former governor of Ohio who had been boosting Kennedy. Disalle agreed to respect the senator s request made from Hyannis port mass. The president Home on the ranch near Johnson City tex., was giving no hint of whether he d even show up in Chicago though his 60th birthday tuesday offers a dramatic Opportunity to put steam behind a budding cont. On Page of car col. I unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol.27, no. 131 if 21855 a tuesday August 27, 1968 5 Dally 10 sunday q units May leave Czechoslovakia by Henry Moscow up the soviet government has agreed to recognize the Alexander Dubcek re Gime and gradually to withdraw its forces from czechoslovak soil communist sources said monday  came after four Days of meetings in the closely guarded Kremlin Between the soviet politburo and czechoslovak president Ludvik Svoboda Dubcek Premier Oldrich cer Nikand most other members of the czechoslovak  communist sources said the czechs were expected to leave for Prague tuesday. Svoboda Dubcek and Cernik Shapiro were expected to Issue individual statements when they arrived Home and a joint statement Byboth sides would be released. The Heads of the other four Warsaw pact Powers with troops in Czechoslovakia Poland Wladyslaw Gomulka East Ger Many s Walter Ulbricht bul Garia s Todor Zsivkov and Hun Gary s Janos Kadar were reportedly waiting in the wings in Moscow while the czechs and so Viets hammered out their agree  the dispatch of troops to Czechoslovakia had been a join decision the agreement to with cont. On Page a col. V crowd in Prague 9eers occupiers Back they go russian soldiers above rip pro Dubcek andante soviet placards from the window of a shop in Prague. When the russians leave Young czechs below replace the signs. More and More anti russian signs Are appearing in Prague. A photo Prague up Czecho slovaks staged a 15-minute Gen eral strike monday to protest the occupation of their country by soviet bloc forces. In Prague main Square their jeers drowned out russian Loudspeaker de mands for obedience. Angry russian tank Crews re platform writers Back Johnson on Viet policy Chicago up democratic platform writers monday tentatively approved a Vietnam plan backing the administration s policy and rejecting All demands of the War critics. Rejected was a Plank drafted by backers of Sens. Eugene Mccarthy and George Mcgovern mothers who insisted on an weather partly Cloudy with late afternoon lower. Little change wednesday. Frank Urt Heidelberg High 77, Low 55. Temper Wei recorded monday get 44a" pm 90 Adana p � atheta Paulano p " Berlin p to Frankfurt p " London p am pm64 02 Madrid p 55 68 Munich r 63 79 Parit 9 50 57 pretty Lack p 68 77 Rome p 77 83 wheel ii o Celear a partly Cloudy a rain 2nd weather Wing unconditional end of the bombing of the North to Spur the talks in Paris. Approved by the 22-membersteering panel of the convention s platform committee was a Viet Nam Plank proposed by rep. Hale Boggs committee chair Man. The Plank was presented to the110-member committee which was expected to approve the proposal unchanged As was the full convention if the doves carry out their threat of a floor fight. The controversial Plank urge that the United states Stop All bombing of North Vietnam when this action would not endanger the lives of our troops in the  action should take into a cont. On Page % col. It plied to the jeering with bursts of machine gun bullets Over the Heads of the crowd in Wencesla Square. No More did czechoslovak argue with the invaders they once called comrades. Now the stood Back and shouted abuse at the russians and the russians did not like it. Soviet commanders sent Tankard troop reinforcements into Prague monday night declared special evening curfew and cleared the Square where thous ands of czechoslovak had Gath ered to Welcome their Liberal leaders Back from Moscow. The United states officially pro tested to the soviet Union about three incidents in which rus Sian troops halted and searched cont. On Page 24, col 2 Ike s condition remains critical Washington a army doctors reported monday that former president Dwight  has shown further increase in heart irritability since sunday and remains in critical  at Walter Reed army medical Center said that extra heartbeats have been occurring with increasing frequency since sunday