European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes 3 a l rooms replaced a Nim f a toe soviet Union a already replaced the five or r Rod army division in Bart Germany that it marched into Czechoslovakia last month West German intelligence sources said and put soviet troops in East Germany Are Back to Normal Inith of at least 20 divisions they said. Scow s vast increase of forces in Central Europe this summer Effii mixed by the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the reported re placement in East Germany has brought concern to West German Frh Mellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger is thought to have voiced this porn to ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge whom he summoned to a meeting late wednesday. The Chancellor left thursday a a Day official visit to Turkey Iran and Afghanistan. British unions he wifi Wilson Blackpool Fri Igland a organized a handed a sting awl who Twy a i my a. Yeii Khz to the 100tht annual Convent Toa of the trades Union Meress Tuc then approved by the narrow margin of 34,000 vote out of 8,500,000 Cost the toc s own policy of voluntary restraint in wage claims Airlift to Biafra stalled Lagos Nigeria a 7plans for an emergency Daylight Airlift to stricken civilians in encircled Biafra threatened thursday to collapse amid confusion Over where International red Cross planes would to diplomatic sources no red Cross planes took off thursday As scheduled from Fernando to the Spanish Island 125 Miles off the coast of easter s military government agreed tuesday to permit Redcross transports to shuttle Relief supplies to Annabelle Airstrip near the niger River which is the Western Border of Biafra Forten Days beginning thursday. The biafran welcomed the agreement but broadcast thurs Day a proposal that the Redcross planes land instead at Utsuru a Village near Obi Lago air strip in Central Biafra. This site has been rejected by the Federal army which said it blocked the Advance of troops to Umu aha Headquarters of the biafran Leader it. Col. Odimegwu Ojukwu,25 Miles further South. Beer Bruin spec. 4 Ronald e. Ubersox keeps a Short Leash on Brutus the Beer drinking Bear Mascot of the 1st in Lith inf mechanized at Danang. Besides the suds Brutus demoted from spec. 5 for biting a general laps up dog food and soda. A photo definitely Shirley boosts gop in Rome Rome up former child film Star Shirley Temple Blac flew into Rome thursday to boost the Republican party presiden tial ticket and suggested she might run again for . Black told newsmen she was Short of Money when she sought a congressional seat last year but added that was asked if she intended to run again she replied i Don t have a Crystal Hajek going Back to Prague Mark to change Geneva a the Czecho slovak embassy Here said thurs Day that foreign minister Jiri Hajek is returning to Prague after a Short stay in embassy refused to add any details in its one sentence state ment. Diplomatic and govern ment sources were unable to con firm whether Hajek has already left the from Prague indicated that Hajek was replaced Sczech foreign minister following the Moscow agreement. He has been sharply attacked by the so Viet newspaper Izvestia but the embassy statement clearly named him As foreign spokesman vigorously de Nied rumours that Hajek had come to Switzerland to set up a czechoslovak government i exile. Snuff sales nosing upward Rome a to meet a sudden Boom in snuff consumption the italian government has announced plans for bigger and better packaging. The government which operates a National monopoly of tobacco products estimated More than 300,000 italians resort to pinches of snuff regularly. Sales lurched upward last year after a Down Ward trend of 15 years. The state offers six brands. Users will be Able to buy their snuff in Small plastic envelopes containing the right dose for consumption while assuring freshness a government announcement said. Mines found along Suez canal from a and up dispatches Tel Aviv three mines were discovered on Israel s Side o the sue canal thursday the army said. Footsteps led from the mines to the canal a spokesman Ward disarmed the explosives six Miles North of port Taufiq on the Southern neck of the canal opposite the egyptian Elty of Suez. It was the second incident on the canal Banks in 10 has charged at the United nations that 30 regular unit Darab Republic army troops crossed the sue Carol aug8 in on the East Jurov controlled by Israel and ambush id Tut israeli jeep patrol. Israeli ambassador Yosef Tek Oah told the Security Council two israeli soldiers were killed when their jeep ran across an egyptian planted mine and third was dragged across the canal into ambassador Moham med Awad Al Kony told the coun cil the charges were ground indicating the attack might have been Carrini out by Arab commandos not part of . Forces he said attempts of Israel to hold every Ara government responsible for acts of patriotism on the part of their population on israeli occupied territory should not even retaken Bonn a West German ministers delivered a firm re Buff thursday to rumours of an imminent revaluation of the Deutsche Mark and ruled out such a measure in 1968. Asked at a news conference for a binding answer to the ques Tion will the a Mark be re valued soon or by the end of the year finance minister Franz Josef Strauss replied my answer is a Radical next to him at a data packed question session on finance and economic policy was the economics minister Karl Schiller who commented my answer to re valuation rumours is no whether i say it in russian French English or German definitely no and this goes for the rest of this year. Only wednesday a govern ment spokesman Here told news men he saw no need for a rebuttal of the rumours that have been circulating in world finance enters for the last two weeks Strauss said the 1969 Federal budget with an Issue volume o 82.4 billion Marks $20.6 billion and a 5.4 per cent increase on 1968, showed the Success of eco nomic and finance policy in the past year. This could not be torn to pieces by talk of crises or revaluation he told newsmen. We find ourselves in a which we feel we can pretty Well describe As a Normal Situa Ion once again he said add no that the West German econ omy is enjoying a Normal growth rate. Strauss said the 1969 budget approved by the Cabinet in three Day consultations provides a750 million Mark increase in de sense spending which will total just under 20 billion Marks and take second place to social an welfare spending of 22.6 billion third largest spending item will be for the badly trained traffic and transportation network which will take about 9 billion Marks. Ships warned of danger site Papeete Tahiti up radio Tahiti thursday began broadcasting warnings to ship Spring to stay Clear of a danger zone around the French polynesian atomic test site starting sunday giving Rise to Specula Tion that the second French h bomb test will come this week end. 10th Phot Okina in Cologne to open sept. 28 colognes a this Rhine River City will again become the Mecca of photography professionals and amateurs when the 10th photo Kina opens Here Onset. 28 for a nine Day run. Twenty seven american firms will be among a record number of about 650 exhibitors from 22countries, fair officials said. The Public will be admitted tothe photo Kina on sept. 28 and 29 and from oct. 3 through 6, while the other Days Are reserved for i As the world s largest photography fair this year photo Kina focuses strongly on Industrial production and tech Nical scientific applications of photography they there will be much of in Terest to hobbyist photographers including 15 shows such As world show of youth photography sports in photography and the two Heaters with a total of 600 seats will show a non Stop program of International will run in conjunction with the 2nd International Congress for photography for which about 400 delegates from20 countries Are expected fair officials said. Sweden jails 2 yanks Over drugs from a and up dispatches Malmoe Sweden two american deserters thursday were sentenced to two month imprisonment and ordered expelled from Sweden for drug peddling Joseph Edward Norwood 10,and John Dowling 20. Pleaded guilty to charges of illegal pos session and distribution of Nar Malmoe City court sentenced them to two month in prison and expulsion from swe-1den until 1975. When they will be allowed to prosecution told the court that Norwood and powling who were among the first 10 . Deserters to be granted Asylum i Sweden were picked up in a Malmoe apartment last Mont following an Anonymous tip. In the apartment narcotics police found 70 Grams of hashish. The two americans deserted from the army in West Germany and fled to Sweden to escape service in another development 17 More deserters from . Mili tary units have received Asylum in Sweden for humanitarian reasons the swedish alien commission announced. A spokesman for the commis Sion said that 136 deserters so far have reported to swedish authorities and 102 have been Al Lowed to stay. Some 15 of these have left Sweden
