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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A kidnapped boy rescued in wild Chase Beverly Hills cmu., a Fri Digenti rescued thei year old son of a banker from two apr Friday after an Auto hse Trtat ended in a ramming and a gun Battle with the boy used As a sew officers said they arrested the kidnapper wounded. The boy suf pc la leg injury. A Ransom of j2mooo in in Bills apparently Ever was turned Over. Fri agent Emmett d. Doher a suffered what was described As a minor Bullet wound and the kidnapper was shot in the right Arm. Why Don t you kill me agents quoted Robert l. Dacy As saying As they pulled him from a car in South Central los Angeles after the fight. Dacy 39 of nearby Lake Wood was taken to Morningside Hospital for treatment. So was Stanley Stalford  Little boy with curly red hair was still wearing the Blu swimsuit he had on when he was abducted wednesday from the family s expensive Home. Doctors took seven stitches inthe boy s left knee and treated a scratch on his head. He suffered both injuries in the Auto crash which also involved the car Ofa Motorist passing by. The boy s father chairman of the Board of the Floo million Fidelity Bank of Beverly Hills and his Mother Joanne waited in an anteroom while the Doc tors worked. Then Stalford 49, clutched the cont. On Page 2%, col. L and stripes cd a i so or unofficial newspaper of . Force in Europe North Africa and he Middle East vol. 27, no. 135 if 21855 a saturday August 31, 1968 5 daily 10 sunday go shift to . On schedule by make huets4s Washington Bureau chief Washington is a defense department spokesman declared that the redeployment of about 33,000 soldiers and airmen from eur j rope is continuing according to  19,400 military person a ncl16,000 from the army and3,400 from the air Force have returned to the United state Early this summer and the bal Ance Are due Home by the end of next month the spokesman said. Major army units involved Are two brigades of the 24th inf div mechanized and the 3rd Arm Cav regt from West Germany i the air Force has also redeployed three fighter squadrons and support units. The redeployed army and air j Force units will continue in their nato role even though they Are stationed in the United states the defense department said. Still in Millay the time the Pentagon an noticed it was bringing som troops Home it was also Dis closed that a brigade of the 24lh div would be flown to West. Germany to use propositioned equipment in Maneu vers with the rest of the division. Although this is technically still in the Mill Pentagon officials say the doubt if the Maneu vers will be held this fiscal year for reasons of Economy. There Are now about 320,000servicemen in Western Europe and the Mediterranean area including 228,000 in West Ger Many. Of those in germany.195,000 Are in the army and cont. On Page a col s Humphrey vows to Lead . On hard path to greatness1 victors democratic presidential nominee Hubert h. Humphrey Points his Inger at his Choice for running mate As he lifts the hand often. Edmund s. Muskie of Maine. Up photo voice Breaks in deploring Street Battles Chicago up a grave Hubert h. Humphrey his own Man at last accepted the presidential nomination of a whipped up democratic convention thursday night with a Call to the nation to risk the hard path of greatness at Home and in Vietnam. A Short time before his speech to the final session of the party s tumultuous 35th National convention delegates ratified by acclamation Humphrey s Choice of sen. Edmund s. Muskie of mainers his running mate. Asks prayer his voice breaking the vice president opened his speech Withan Impromptu request for silent prayer to help heal the wounds ease the pain and lift our hearts after three nights of violence on the streets of Chicago which continued while he  delegates Rose to their feet and cheered when he said riots must be  they listened soberly whence spoke about Vietnam the is sue that had dominated the convention and brought senators cont. On Page 2. Col. L m South of r Bucharest a soviet and bulgarian forces were re ported Friday to be concentrating along Romania s Eastern an Southern Borders touching off a new flurry of rumours about possible invasion. Romanian travellers returning rom the soviet Ukraine reported Ong columns of Armor and Artil Ery near the Pru a River which the romanian soviet Bor Der in the East. Bulgarian troops were said to a moving into the area of rum opposite the romanian Danube Lucr port of Giurgiu where a huge Bridge connects the  was no confirmation of these reports from government authorities but military Aad in two eternal Security precautions take after the invasion of Czechoslovakia remained in Force.jssii1" or rent Albita reported a concentration Pilot of an a r Borte a bomb Crew sumps from b52 at Cape Kennedy weather mostly Cloudy with occasional noon and evening Iho Weri. Little change sunday. Frankfurt a Delbra High 72, Low 57.  recorded Friday let 44 cup 7h at Adana Cliv 81 Al Hunt Cut 73 Avurto Post Berlin p13 Frankfurt r it 3 London Cic Olear it Cloudy rain. After 4 4 am pm 9 76 Madrid p 63 70 Munich cd m pan r 60 m Pretl Mick p 68 77 Rome p 86 the la c p partly Cloudy r Tad weat Attr Wing Cape Kennedy Fla. A i was trying for the Ocean Erh areas and a nuclear submarine. Reported of soviet tanks personnel carriers and guns near the Ukrain areas inn town of Koto Skoje. A group Wun. _ s romanians returning from a j in a Remote area of Cape five Day visit to the Ukraine said the troops apparently moved into the area a few Days  roads leading up to the Border were clogged with troops heading twist one traveler said. Western sources received Simi a cent. On Page 2col a the Fuei i aued Strat fortress exploded As it smashed into a Atlantic Beach about two Miles from missile Row at 8.50 p.m., a deep Furrow in the ground and scattering charred wreckage Over a wide area. All seven crewmen bailed out. The air Force said they received Only minor injuries. There was no damage to facilities at Cape Kennedy where several rockets Are poised on multimillion Dollar launch pads  the Saturn in which isto launch the first three cum Pollo astronaut team into orbit in october. There also were Sev eral thousand workmen at the Cape at the tune of the crash. The air Force said the Pilot maj. Bobby l. Ward of umber  
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