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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wedge Day september 4 the stars and stripes Page 3 i Saigon paper a cleared cloned cat n up the sort in vietnamese government closed rce of two locally i waned English language daily news or Nln tint what it called a completely untrue news1 a r it . Of _ w Story accusing government officials of corruption. News Agency Story used by the Saigon Post quoted sources1 the South vietnamese Cabinet As saying Premier Tran v n Huong had sent president Nguyen Van Thieu 62 dossier detailing corruption chargef1? Iga fist government and military spokesman said the Story printed tuesday was groundless  by the writers  n Newmam or closed  premieres continuing his Campaign against corruption the spokes Man said but he has not sent the president any dossiers As claimed in the St by .,.$,. / Mukanos confers in Athens the return of King Constantin from his Selma posed exile. Makarios met Constantino income sunday night. Before the meeting he told newsmen he hoped the greek Royal family would return to Athene i  Athens up Bishop Makarios preside of Cyprus conferred we Tom greek Premier George Pap Dorp re and other top ranking members of both governments tuesday on topics believed to include Paris completes anti riot step Paris police Paris a. Prefect Maurice Doublet said tuesday that 150.000 Square Yards of Cobblestone streets in the latin Quarter were covered with a thick layer of anti skid Blacktop during the summer. But he let it be understood that the Blacktop was not so much for automobile safety As to keep students from digging out cobblestones for use As weapons and to build barricades in Case of new  smilingly pointed out that the work was done Only in the latin Quarter where the Stu dents riots happened in May and june. But Doublet stopped Smil ing when he specified that the work Cost $700,000, which parisian taxpayers will have to pay. Unions Challenge Wilson Blackpool England up -5 Britain s giant trades Union Congress mucin a defiant Challenge to labor prime minister Harold Wilson tuesday demanded equal pay for women workers within two years. It pledged itself to Back this claim with a nationwide walkout if  the same time it headed toward a showdown fight with Wilson s government Over its unpopular Legal curbs on wag and Price hikes. The Congress was scheduled to debate wage and Price policies thursday. Many labor Union leaders were expected to Tell the government it would lose their support unless it eases its economic austerity  Tuc Britain s equivalent of the Al Cio in the United states represents nearly nine million British workers. It was holding its annual conference at this resort. The governing labor parly traditionally relies on the Trade unions for much of its financial and voting support. Spanish Bishops defy Franco All in the Bull game apprentice Bull fighter Pedro Ruiz Ped Ruelo comes out second Best in an encounter with Eltoro at Anarene near Madrid. Ruiz however used his head for something besides a Landing pad Ashe covered his cranium and his Landing with his bands. He suffered minor bruises to his body but major bruises to his Pride. A acrobatic meet not finished . Ace misses Chance for title Madrid up Bishops in Spain s Northern Basque country have openly defied the Franco government s Campaign to crush nationalists in the Region. Msgr. Pablo Gurpide Bishop of the Basque provincial capital of Bilbao rejected a government demand that 66 priests who endorsed an anti government letter addressed to Basque nationalist be brought to trial. The government is obliged to seek permission to try priests under the terms of the concordat governing relations betwee Spain and the Vatican. Msgr. Lorenzo Bereciartua Balerdi Bishop of san Sebastian another provincial Basque Capi Tal accused the government of violating the concordat in it policy of repression of Bas que nationalists. The Bishop s accusation came in a pastoral let Ter read at sunday mass at the400 churches in his diocese. Frankfurt up the unexplained East German Deci Sion to cancel the world acro Batic championships before the flying Competition was completed almost certainly prevented America s Bob Herendeen from becoming the new world Cham Pion the Captain of the .team said monday. Roscoe Morton of new Orleans who led the . Fliers to the i team Bronze medal at the Magdeburg championships said the View was not held Only Byi the american squad. I Many countries Felt if the world championships had been completed Bob would have Bee the new Champion Morton said. Herendeen an airline Pilot of Torrance calif., grabbed second place behind the soviet Union s i Igor Yegorov. Flight Assurance Given by Nigeria Izvestia attacks Hajek Moscow up the soviet government newspaper Izvestia charged tuesday that Czechoslovakia s foreign minister Jeri Hajek sought to tear out his country from the Warsaw pact communist  a bitter personal attack Izvestia alleged thut Hajek collaborated with the nazi Gestapo during world War ii in order to  As foreign minister of the reformist regime of Alexande Roucek Hajek concentrated All his efforts on revising Czecho Slovakia s obligations toward me soviet Union and its allies and ring his country closer to the West the newspaper charged. Hajek was vacationing la yugoslav when Warsaw pact forces marched into  aug. W41. He flew to new York for the . Security Council session on the crisis and the returned to Vienna. Bonn drafts crime statute Hamburg a Gustav Heinemann West German minister of Justice said he has drafted legislation that would eliminate the statute of Mitans for murder. Irrespective of whether the crime was com muted i n peace or War., admitting that the legislation used opposition Helner Aann Maidho hoped the Bill would be passed by the coalition in Bonn to prevent it from becoming a burning partisan Issue that could split the  20-year statute of limitations for wartime murders which was extended under pres sure of world opinion in 1m5,will expire in 1�89, a National election year. Geneva up Nigeria has privately assured the inter Latina of reel Cross that its Ai flights into Biafra will not be at tacked officials said tuesday. The red Cross had said earlier that it was going ahead with its Airlift to Biafra despite Public Baha i Lilos draw 1.000 Haifa Israel special More than 4,000 adherents of the Baha Faith following an International conference at Palermo Sicily joined Here in ceremonies during the last 10 Days in August commemorating the 100th anniversary of the final Mission exile and imprisonment of Baha u Utah founder of the order the pilgrims included approximately 200 from the unite states together with representatives from Britain India Japan Iran China Australia and Viet conference leaders called upon the world to recognize that i accordance with Baha l teach Ings the greatest spiritual drama of All time is now unfolding and that a worldwide restoration of Faith is imperative warnings from Lagos that the flights Are  red Cross officials said the nigerians could hardly do other j Wise because the International committee of the red Cross has i the right to help innocent War victims under the Geneva con j mention. J or. A. R. Lindt. Coordinator of the International red Cross committee in West Africa in formed the Federal authorities in a letter that he would Lead the flights. He said they would be between9 . And 5 . Tuesday and for the rest of the week and that the aircraft would use the Obi lag  authorities said the Airstrip is in the direct line of their advancing forces. It is be tween Arikpo and  planes supplied by Den Mark Sweden Norway Finla Dand Switzerland Are to be used in the Airlift designed to save thousands of biafran who Are starving As the civil War con  from port Harcourt said the Federal troops Are push ing toward Obil Agu and Biafra s Only other Airstrip Annabelle in the Uli Hiala area. Yegorov was nowhere in the Over All standings for the individual championship  were led by East Ger Many s Peter Kahle. Kahle. Who finished third in the freestyle heat behind Herendeen an Morton said the consensus among competitors was that the California would have won enough Points in the second heat to Clinch the title. Herendeen however never Goethe Chance. The organizers ended the championships on the Day they were scheduled to end de spite some postponements caused by bad weather. They regretted that the last heats of the men s and women s free style events and the t w of week Competition to find the Over All individual champions would not be completed said Morton. Asked whether the organizers could t have extended the championship for one Day or More to Complete the program Morton said it appeared  they knew the weather was Clearing and would be a Beautiful  the competitors did not leave Magdeburg until sunday after noon. It just seemed As though they did t care who won the final events Morton said. He said he was very proud of the american team s perform Ance. We were the Only Tea to place five men in the finals As Well As Mary Gaffaney of the Miami fliers in the women s  the czechoslovak team walked out of the championships when i it Learned of the invasion of its  the czechoslovak team s re Call by Prague after the soviet invasion Morton said it definitely created a bad  other people showed their grief. It was All very   
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