European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes August 30, 196j police struck at everybody in their Way by Richard g. Longwo Tii Chic a 0 him the Burly Man wearing the tiny a in Signia of the secret service swore As he entered the Conrad Hilton hotel. We need a revolution in this country he snapped and i Don t mean a police had angered this hard liberalizing of quarters okd policy continued from Pagitt i government quarters the new guidance will also make it More convenient for servicemen to make off base housing arrange ments including the Purchase of Homes through the Federal housing administration and the veterans officers Are encouraged to Grant qualified servicemen the authority to live of the Post so they can obtain Home Loans. In the past military personnel had some difficulty in obtaining Loans because they were faced with the possibility of being ordered to move onto the Post and lose their quarters allow Ance. Time Factor the new directive also state that involuntary assignments shall not be made nor shall bad be withheld on account of involuntary assignments where six months or less remain on a tour of duty or where hardship would result from such assign ment. Hardship in involuntary on installation assignment shall be considered to exist where the individual has made semipermanent or permanent off installation arrangements due to circumstances beyond his control. And would reasonably be anticipated to suffer financial loss through breaking of either arrangement or the family is of such size and composition that consider Able personal inconvenience would result from assignment to available. the instructions say installation commanders should assign vacant quarters to other Avail Able sponsors before insisting that those with permanent arrangements move onto the Post. In another move related to the Vietnam War the defense department is also authorizing fam Ilies to remain in government quarters for As Long As three months if the sponsor Dies or another cases of severe hardship. Incoming sponsors Are required to report to the installation family housing office As a part of the new reporting for duty procedures. Eisenhower progresses Washington a for Mer president Dwight d. Eisen Hower now off the critical list was reported to be making new Progress thursday. The Progress is such doctors at the Walter Reed army medi Cal Center said that they will give Only one report a Day on his condition unless there is some unforeseen change. The doctors who announced wednesday that the general had been removed from the critical list although still in a Seri Ous condition also reported that his appetite is improving and his restricted Low sodium diet is being Liberal ened Man was the sight wednes Day night of hundreds of police armed with nightsticks sweeping Down Michigan Avenue before the democratic National Conven Tion Headquarters popping teargas canisters and indiscriminately clubbing and arresting hip pies newsmen and bystanders. This sight the Climax of four Days of fierce police retaliation to the provocations of protesters sickened Conven Tion delegates and blackened Chicago s reputation in the eyes of almost anybody with a Tele vision demonstrators posed a problem Ami were by any reckoning an irritant. The most Char Itable verdict Here was that the police Hud Over reacted and made the situation much More violent than necessary. An eng Lish newsman said it s the same heavy hand i saw at work in Battle began at dusk when hundreds of peace demonstrators locked traffic on the Avenue. Confrontation demonstrators cover their faces As tear Gas is fired by National guardsmen in Chicago s Grant Park democratic convention Headquarters. Near__4p-� counsel assails statement go found innocent in Graf slaying Frankfurt is a 20-year-old Soldier charged with the unpremeditated murder of Anair Force wife in Grafe Woehr was found innocent Here thurs Day. Pfc. Tommy l. Kelly had spent four months in confinement and four Days at the trial before the decision was handed Down after 60 minutes of deliberation by the seven officers sitting on the general court martial. Kelly of he and he Btry 5thbn, 77th arty had been charged with the april 23 bludgeon slay ing of the 44-year-old wife of . James f. Harriman. After the v corps panel came Back in to deliver its verdict Kelly nervously reported to the president of the court. On hearing the finding Kelly saluted did an about face an walked Back to his seat fighting Back a smile and tears. He said he was so Happy he did not know what he would do. Iam very surprised he said. The trial reopened thursday morning with the defense presenting its Case. After 39 minute the defense rested. In summation the defense counsel capt. John a. Junus argued that u statement take by the criminal investigation division from Kelly was not admissible because Kelly Hud asked for a lawyer and was not permitted to have one until after the interrogation. Kelly s statement made the Day after mrs. Llu arinian was found dead was read to the court wednesday. Ten letters from Law enforce ment officers in his Home county who had known Kelly were presented As character references. A letter from a barmaid in Grafe Woehr was also put int evidence. The woman said she had seen Kelly in the bar where she worked at the time of the death. The Law officer for the trial it. Col. Madison c. Wright a charged the court Early thurs Day afternoon telling them that they could return with one of three verdicts guilty As charged of unpremeditated murder guilty of a lesser offence involuntary manslaughter or innocent. Kelly of Purcell okln., said he hoped to return to his old outfit or go to the states. I have nothing against the army he said. In fact i like after the verdict Tanas told him to Call his Mother. Kelly nodded and said he would. . Envoy killed in Guatemala City continued from Paya pistols until he died the unidentified chauffeur said. Then he said the men got Back into their cars and drove away. Doctors said the ambassador died of seven wounds. His body was placed in state at a funeral Home where hundreds gathered to mourn. A Florist who said he witnessed the slaying told police one of the gunmen threatened him with the same unless he went Back inside and shut other witnesses said one of the killers cars was a Green Sedan. Police set up roadblocks around the City but there were no re ports of arrests. . Sources said main s life had been threatened by the revolutionary a r m o d forces cuban backed Nisi terrorists. A career group of com no foreign service officer mein was married an the father of three Young boys. President Johnson in 1965 appointed mein As ambassador to Guatemala a nation that has been beset by terrorists of the right and left. Since 1967, political assassins have killed nearly 2,000 people. Seven months ago col. Joh Webber chief of the . Mili tary Mission and capt. Ernest Munro chief of the . Embassy s naval Section were assassinated. A communist led insurgent group said their deaths Wero in retaliation for the killing of a guatemalan Beauty Queen by right Wing terrorists. In Washington a spokesman said Johnson and Secretary of a Ito Deun Husk were shocked and grieved by the slaying and urged a full investigation. To " Bethe Street had the police chose maximum line of face to face it crowd began a re spectators jammed thalys. Police formed i i i it with Circle and pushed them Ward the Hilton Wall the became a crush. Two floor windows broke screamed with pain sem ground women. Suddenly without warning Nung wedges of police Ujj the demonstrators who tried to run. Nightsticks flow. Policemen truck at every likly j n their win " Paddy policemen anyone who resisted was arrested and shoved to Wagon. Move move the shouted " let some tried sit Down tactics. Police hit several on the head and carried them tothe wagons. One youth a passerby shouted an obscenity a the police two patrolmen eau it and beat him then arrested him. A demonstrator threw a Cherr bomb. Police answered with two tear Gas canisters which exploded in the words of a woman bystander with a Dull serious youths and bystander vomited. The Battle into the Hil ton. Police dra ,".ed one Man into the lobby and frisked him. You can t steal that it s mine he cried. A boy Lay bleeding in the Hote Entrance. Another youth Lay injured on a Corner. Two friends tried to help him. Six policemen moved them on. The Hoy was left boy collapsed in in inter Section from tear Gas fumes. Police shouted drag him out of photographer was seized and wrestled into a Paddy Rajjon. A hippie struggling All the Way was dragged by one leg 30 Yards to a Rev. John Boyles a presbyterian chaplain at Yale University said police hit Lam twice in the stomach and arrested him when he protested the clubbing of a girl. He was wearing a Cleri Cal the sidewalk n Well dressed girl sobbed on he Date s shoulder. I unbelievable the Middle aged wife of a Dele Gate Sau. I m scared said in other. Why Don t we do like the English and take away the cops guns the operation took nearly an hour but traffic eventually flowed. After a while u Street cleaner came along to Wash away the smell of tear s superintendent Limos b. 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