European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes yanks Viets kill 1,400 reds in heavy fighting from a and up dispatches Down the country. Cavalrymen teamed with Artil near Tarn by were seven killed drawl of the in. Saigon Allied units smashed . Troops killed 213 enemy Lery helicopter gunships and and 30 wounded. Miles Northeast q is 125a communist thrust across Viet soldiers in the rolling Foothills planes to kill the 213 enemy an enemy regiment broke off four Miles from to Elgon and Namts rentral a Lateran Anri and Rire daddies of South Viet troops five Miles West of Tam its siege of 8 lonely . Special Border inet Bodian i Nam s Central plateau an farther North along the Central lowlands scored lopsided Victo Ries in a weekend of heavy fight ing that left at least 1,400 communist troops dead military spokesmen reported  the past week Allied forces have reported killing More than5,000 communist troops in Blunt ing a series of offensives up and  Soldier an Ric Paddie Viet Nam s Northern Region sunday military spokesmen said. Intensified fighting in South Vietnam also included an am Bush of a . Truck Convoy that left six americans dead and 51 others wounded about 60 mile Northwest of Saigon. Enemy losses were reported As 96 dead.. Foot soldiers and air Lery r splane l troops Wes of Taky a City on South Vietnam s North  was the same general area authorities said where americans accounted for at least 223 enemy dead and South Viet namese killed another 86 in Day Long clashes with guerrilla Force saturday. American losses in the fighting and 30  t f it Sieg o a. Specia forces Camp at due Lap and at last reports monday was Retreat ing into the Jungle vastness of the Central vietnamese  due Lap special forces Camp and a nearby government District Headquarters were hit with a Savage mortar artillery and rocket barrage late sunday apparently to screen the with eminent soldiers and nine demo convention opens continued from Page h draft Johnson movement. Forces in the Texas delegation Are ready to put Johnson s name in nomination. Attention was entered on the vote heavy Illinois delegation where at the direction of Chica go mayor Richard j. Daley presidential preference vote was put off until wednesday apparently to see whether a John son drive can catch fire. In the keynote speech pre pared for delivery monday . Daniel k. Inouye of Hawaii called upon the nation to reject  said that today s youth and minority groups have reason to protest but that poverty discrimination and deprivation As evil As they Are do not justify anarchy. Or  he said that the vietnamese War must be ended but Only through patient political negotiation. More details of speech on Page 4 aide comments Blair Clark Campaign Mana Ger for sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy contended at a news con Ference in mid morning that it now is quite Clear that Humphrey is not going to win on the first ballot. Clark cited particularly the postponement by the Illinois delegation. This convention is no going to proceed hastily to the business of nominating a presi Dent he said. The vice president maintained commanding Lead in Delegate votes and his managers claimed he was assured of 1,480, More than enough to win on the first ballot. While the candidate contests went on in Delegate caucuses there were preliminary Skir mishes Over a platform position on the Vietnam War and the seating of contested  credentials committee shifting strategy in a raging Dis Pute Over Georgia representation voted to seat All members of two rival delegations and split the state s 43 votes evenly Between them. The panel also imposed a platform. Continued from Page count the response from  the language met demands office president Hubert Humphrey who said sunday that any bomb ing halt must be complemented by a reasonable response som Little sign from Hanoi. On troop withdrawals the tentative Vietnam Plank recommended negotiate with Hanoi an immediate end or limitation of hostilities and the withdrawal from South Vietnam of All foreign forces both United states a dallied forces and forces infiltrated from North  on forming a new Saigon government the Plank again favored Humphrey who has urged that the United states abide by free elections. Modified loyalty oath on the georgians requiring of them pledge not to support the Candi Date of another political  is designed to bar sup porters of third party candidate George c. Wallace. A similar oath was required of Alabama delegates and 52 of them took it. Eight refused an challenged the ruling in court. Tabulation shows Humphrey has 887 Chicago a Here is the standing of democratic presiden tial candidates As shown monday afternoon in an associated press tabulation of publicly committed first ballot votes Humphrey Mccarthy Mcgovern favorite sons others uncommitted needed for Nomi nation 1,312 the totals Are based on Pri Mary results pledges and the results of caucuses and a Dele Gate checks and include Only firmly committed delegates no those leaning toward a candidate. Russ reported willing to of Dubcek regime continued from Page it said. There was no official Indica Tion immediately of details of the settlement based on substantial concessions on both  was understood that the soviets agreed in principle their troops would eventually be with drawn from  the beginning the soviets had insisted they would take out their troops when lawful a protest strike staged Prague continued from Page 11 an american diplomatic vehicle after firing Over it broke into . Embassy official s apart ment and took a Shotgun which was his personal property and armed with rifles entered the embassy Garden for a Short time. In what . Ambassador Jacob beam called a soviet haphazard reaction to Czecho slovak Defiance the russians even threw an armed Force around the american embassy for 45 minutes. See Story on Page 3. Six soviet officers told .diplomats they came to main Tain  the czechoslovak awaited the return of president Ludvik Svoboda communist party Secretary Alexander Dubcek and other leaders from their just concluded talks with the leaders of the Kremlin in Moscow. Soviet troubles began with the general  Prague and in other cities czechoslovak sounded t h e i Church Bells air raid sirens and Auto horns in a Din of Defiance. Czechoslovak stopped All move ment. They deserted the streets but took to the windows. From office buildings store Sand apartment houses students workers and government official looked Down on the russians. They said nothing. Earlier in the occupation the soviet soldiers smoked cigarettes read newspapers and even grinned at the antics of the czechoslovak. Monday the rus sians swung their guns and glared. Some of them Young sters appeared a Little fright ened. 7,500 troops brought to areas near Chicago up about 7,500 army troops have been brought to military installations ringing Chicago in Case of serious Vio Lence during the democratic National convention which opened monday. Security arrangements were the greatest Ever for such a meet ing. More than 26,000 men have been mobilized to keep the peace during the four Day convention. In the City 5,600 National guardsmen were on standby duty in armoires 1,000 Federal agents guarded hotels and mingled with crowds and Chicago s 11,900 policemen were on 12-hour shift for the convention. Despite strict Security at the convention s main hotel the con Rad Hilton a youth was arrested on the roof sunday night. Police said that when  the youth Thomas Peter Laine 19, to his Auto they found a .22-caliber Rifle in the trunk. The extraordinary Security arrangements were drawn up after the y i p p i e a members of the youth International party and members of the National mobilization committee to end the War in Vietnam promised up to 150, 000 demonstrators would come to Chicago to protest the War in Vietnam and the conditions of negro life. In a suburban cemetery about 2,000 workers gathered for the funeral of a 27-year-old Man killed by the russians who seized the Prague television Sta Tion late tuesday. The orators at graveside praised the victim and Poure d hatred on the  lowering the coffin into the grave the crowd turned and boarded waiting trucks adorned with Czechoslovakia s red White and Blue flags. They Rode into Wenceslas Square banners waving shouting at the russians. The trucks swung around Booth with an awning under which czechoslovak lined up cosign petitions proclaiming loyalty to Svoboda and Dubcek. Call for order at one end of the Square rus Sian officers grabbed Loudspeaker microphones. They called for order. They called themselves the friends of Czechoslovakia and czechoslovak. The answer came Back in a Roar from the crowd. Women with shopping bags lined up outside Wencesla Square food shops and jeered. Persons signing the petitions and Long haired youngsters massed around the statute to Good King Wenceslas joined in and began denouncing the russians in uni son. The russians lowered their microphones. Some of the tank Crews appeared almost to shrink Back into their armoured vehicles. Moments later the shooting started. Draw them would also require hem t do collective endorsement sources Ghent hence implied the Dubcek regime now had regained soviet recognition As the Legal authority however the russians were believed to have insisted that Warsaw pact forces would re main temporarily to see that the terms of the agreement would be carried out and even in the Long run some soviet or mixed forces would remain at least As observers on the czech West German Border. Insist on guarantees in essence the soviets insisted observers said on Guaran tees that the Bratislava agreement would be carried out explicitly. Partial censorship would be reimposed on the czech press television and radio to the extent of controls on material Deal ing with the soviet Union and other socialist countries although there would be no interference with press Freedom on Domestic matters. The foreign and economic policies of Czechoslovakia willbe closely coordinated with the Warsaw pact and its common Market com econ. Points raised the czechs on their Side were understood to have raised these questions in priority order the liberation of All detained political  establishment of Normal relations Between the soviets an the legally constituted czech government and party author  beginning of negotiations Between the lawful authorities and the soviets on the conditions under which the withdrawal of troops would be carried out. Nixon cruises in yacht while demos gather Miami up Republican presidential candidate Richard. Nixon vacationing while democrats hold their nation convention in Chicago spent his third Day sunday aboard yacht cruising in the Waters off the. Bahama islands an fishing aide said Nixon was and just relaxing his yacht cruised off Cay near the North end of the Island Chain. Lightning hits governor s daughter Virginia Beach a. A but gov. Godwin who arrived one other person Anshan a. Rontz i n h in i n la Ron Fri in non cams Lair of saw tha Okay i of Viohl Fly to Lei 1311111 we Becky Godwin 14-year-old daughter of Virginia gov. An mrs. Mills s. Godwin was struck by lightning sunday after noon on Camp Pendleton Beach Nar the governor s summer cot Tage Here. Poli Ipie and officials at Virginia Brach general Hospital where the girl was taken declined to specify her condition but. Godwin arrive in Chicago sunday for the democratic National convention told newsmen there that he had been told she was very critic  he made plans for a pos sible flight  child was on the Beach when she was struck at about 3p.m., Virginia Beach police it. Floyd Krahenbill said. Ing on the the struck win Gir when she was str hut he was not injured source thl vernor7sumrner Cote sunday morning  he �