European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 to stars and set lips Subtle warnings appearing French suddenly take sober look at tipping Drivers by Sanford j. Unga Pahis up it is nil very major highways signs Are springing a a regular intervals with the solemn warning Sorte Cegal see rite sobriety equals Security daily newspapers Are slip Ping in Small classified advertisements with such state ments As the Good drive does not fear an alcohol France the country which normally worries Little a notate All about its drinking habits has suddenly decided to crack Down on Drunken driving. And when on Frenchman advises another not to drink he has some thing ser Long on his mind. The Lew Effort led by Interior minister Raymond Marcellin to an obvious at tempt to improve the coun try s High Accident record and that of the capital which is even worse. Last year ,84l French men were arrested for driving under what police consid ered to be the influence of Al Cohol but Only 9,484 had their Driver s licenses those most confident of French Law enforcement procedures say that Star its apprehended represent but a fraction of the offend ers. If police truly cracked Down and applied standards As strict As those in Britain almost everyone in me Conn try would be Fly. For the tendency of French men to drive under the influence of alcohol results from Basic and ancient custom firmly implanted in their Nily Hoesr Vine with every meal and often different wines with different courses. Although a studies have yet been published on the Tim ing of most Highway deaths and arrests for Drunken driving Many informal observers pc regiment surrounded by . Troopers Saigon up . Air borne troops closed in on a North vietnamese regiment inthe coastal Jungle near Hue tuesday and sent broadcast planes aloft warning the 1,200 communists to surrender they Don t have a Chance said col. Alexander boiling re Ferring to the 22nd North Viet namese regiment. He said his airborne troopers had surrounded the communists 18 Miles Southeast of Hue on the North Ern coast. Since Friday the american sin the area have killed 137 communists captured 619 weapons overrun a big base Camp and seized two two level underground hospitals boiling told up Cor respondent David losses were not Given. Can wipe them out boiling said the communist regiment was commanded by col. Trong than Mot a Veteran of the French Indochina War who fought for Hue in the communists february Tel offensive. If Mot wants to fight Boll ing said we will tighten the cordon and wipe him the american commander sent Small planes with loud speakers Over the Jungle Battle Field 400 Miles North of Saigon telling Mot and his men i vietnamese to come out or Oie. Tuesday on the eve of debate on a Vietnam War Plank at the democratic convention the Vietcong fired three rockets into Saigon s Southern fringe killing three civilians including a Mother and her baby and wounding six. It was the second shelling at tack on Saigon since the Viet con renewed their harass ment of the City earlier this month after a two month Lull. At due Lap scene of a four Day siege North vietnamese and Viet Cong troops thought to be retreating toward their Cam Bodian Sanctuary tuesday slammed five new mortar at tacks on the battered special forces Camp. Mark revaluation rumoured again Dollar slumps on German Market Frankfurt a the Selling Price of the . Dollar has slumped sharply on the West German foreign Exchange mar Ket amid persistent rumours fan impending revaluation of the Deutsche the West German government s denials of the rumours the Dollar dropped from 3.9975 to 3.9795 during wednesday trading. The West German Bundesbank Federal Bank took immediate Steps to Stern the decline. It reduced its voluntary intervention limit from 3.91 to s.98 and reportedly bought considerable amounts of dollars. The Bank absorbed about 110million tuesday in the face of heavy speculative buying of Marks. According to the rumours re valuation of the Mark would drop the Dollar to Between 3.40 and 3.80 Marks on the West German of an upgrading of the Mark have circulated regular Yin financial markets since the devaluation of Sterling last Karl leasing the pres ident of the Bundesbank repeat edly has described such rumours As Complete the last revaluation of the Mark took place in 1981, when it was in creased in value by about 5 per Schiller the economics minister said monday that a upgrading of the Mark is completely out of the army copter crashes kills two germans Heidelberg special a . Army ch34 helicopter crashed a few Miles South of Rosenheim in Southeastern Ger Many wednesday morning kill ing a German Man and woman who were on the ground. The aircraft s Crew of three was uninjured. The crash occurred on Wendel Stein Mountain near the Village of Branno Burg. Lost Power the helicopter from the 351staviation co was supporting a German Engineer battalion at construction site. The copter was making a second approach to the site with a Load of construction material when it lost Power Atlow Altitude and fell to the ground. According to an Early report the copter s Blade struck the two unidentified germans As the air Craft crashed. It is believed the victims were Mountain climbers. The Pilot of the copter Wasco Roland l. Haught of Bothell Wash. The Copilot was Homilton e. Donhoff of eau Gallie Fla. And the Crew member was spec. 5 James e. Thalacker of Westfield wis. The Accident is under investigation. Thursday through monday special student Airlift to avoid bottleneck Wiesbaden is additional flights for students de Pendents of american military families stationed in Europe returning to . Schools have been scheduled to avoid a Stu Dent bottleneck after labor Day Safe he said wednesday. The added aircraft Are return inc to the . From nato exercises. The special Airlift Start thursday and will run through 322nd air div he at High Wycombe England i charge of airlifts in Europe the m Dale East and Africa had reported that students might find it difficult to obtain space on military flights after sept. 2 division officials said seating will be reduced after labor Day when planes on hand for the nato exercises will leave the theater. Safe officials have c o a firmed this but added that Stu Dent travel will continue at Normal rate the rest of the year. A commands have Bee asked to submit student travel data to the passenger Reserva Tion Center at Rhein main air base. The information should include names sponsoring serv ices and the student s desire travel dates. Alaska senator apparently ousted Anchorage Alaska up Vietnam War critic Ernest Grue Ning apparently was ousted fro the Senate by a Young Anchorage real estate Developer in tues Day s democratic primary. With 353 of the state s 415 precincts counted Mike gravel held Lead of 14,013 to 12,536 Ove Gruening. The Lead seemed to be steady in All areas. Gravel 38, did not claim vie tory but admitted to was encouraged. The 81-year-old Grue Ning said he did not feel his out spoken criticism of . Involve ment in Vietnam Hud Hurt him As much As a half hour Campaign film on gravel shown frequently on Alaska television in recent weeks. It wowed All the newcomers and particularly the ladies Gruening said. On the Republican Side Elmere. Rasmuson held a growing Lead Over Tad Stevens in the Senate race. The margin was 7,887 to 6,933, according to the latest tally. Alaskans turned out in near record numbers in favourable weather fur the primary. Officials Point out that no guarantee is made that students will travel on the Day average waiting time for students thus far this year has been less than 48 hours. During May and june 833 Stu dents arrived in Europe to spend the summer with Date Only 50 per cent of the students have returned Toto United states via military terminals. Airlift officials urge students to return promptly to avoid late arrival for fall classes. New system gives More Power Frankfurt special american forces network head quarters in Frankfurt announce that a new pm transmitter and Antenna were placed in operation wednesday on the Grosse fold Berg. The new system on the Mountain replaces an older less efficient who receive an pm in the Frankfurt area or who listen to am relay stations which take the Frankfurt of feed rot Westen Kassel bad Hersfeldt Fulda wll Flecken Wertheim Heidelberg Prem and Pitburg should notice a improvement in signal strength and general audio Quality. Of Frankfurt s pm transmitting facility has an effective radiate Power of 80 kilowatts an in crease of 25,000 Watts. Gen. Odd Bull in Cair Cairo up Gen. Odd Bull chief of Tho United nations truce supervision organization in Tho Middle East unto arrived Here wednesday for talks with egyptian officials on Tho Mideast ceasefire. Speculate that grouped around As anyone who has driven in this country the most Are just after and dinner. Heads ar7 get Crothe foot on the Gas 5fjjheavier and tempera 52 More volatile. Much to cure the problem at it source therefore prose no n special challenkc1 fast Early because French police. Men drink lunch too. _ T French claim fallout Light from a blast Paris a the first device which France exploded at its South Pacific test site last saturday was in the two megaton Power Range French government officials saw officials insisted the Security measures taken for the test resulted in extremely Low radioactive fallout. French scientific research minister Orbert Galley said the device was Hung from a balloon1,800 feet above the ground when it exploded. At this height the minister said the risk of ground contamination is extremely Low. The radioactive Cloud reached the troposphere within half an hour after the explosion and no land area was furthermore he said the weather conditions were particularly Good since the winds were blowing northeastward at ground level As Well As at Hig Altitude thus in a chosen direction void of any Island or landed on Lagoon obviously bearing in mind the complaints which Japan be zealand and Malaysia made to France on the risks of the test to the Pacific countries Galle said he himself landed on be Fang Taufa Lagoon three How after the thermonuclear Dew had exploded upon fallout was extremely feeble he said. It was Muo weaker than after an atom Tea of the same Power. The Rad activity on the Lagoon then was of the same Range that we text in a nuclear Laboratory. Galley said the French Wou proceed with other Hydra tests in the Pacific not say when and added. 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