European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes Sahm Tey january 18, Paris asks big 4 meet on Mideast Paris a France announced Friday night that it has invited the other members of the big four of the . Security Council excluding nationalist China to meet and discuss the Middle Eastern  invited the foreign ministry s communique said Arete United states Britain and the soviet Union the French government believes that the crisis in the mid dle Bast far from showing signs of the appeasement hoped for is in the midst of a worrisome aggravation said the  meeting Date was proposed. Early truce is possible Lodge states Washington a  Sparkman d-ala., quoted Henry Cabot Lodge Friday Stelling senators it was entirely possible that the Paris talks could produce a ceasefire agree ment within two months and allow withdrawal of . Troops t begin from , who had been presiding at a closed session othe Senate foreign relations Honor men president Johnson pre sents the medal of Honor to army staff sgt. Drew d. Dix of Pueblo colo., the 3 committee told reporters As he left that he had the impression Lodge had softened his previous views that the United states could win a military Victory. Lodge named by president elect Nixon As his chief negotiator at the Paris talks on Vietnam was said by Sparkman u have agreed to the latter s question that an agreement could be reached soon which would permit the withdrawal of up to 65,000 american fighting  thought that it was entirely possible Sparkman said alluding to Lodge. He did l predict that. But he said that i we got a ceasefire he saw no reason Why we could t with draw some  after the meeting Lodge said he will do everything in his Power to achieve Success in Thev Vietnam peace talks. He told newsmen that he con siders the negotiations a matter of greatest urgency and supreme  he also described himself As a realist on Vietnam and said he was neither a Dove nor Hawk. Cohen to be Dean Ann Arbor Mich a Wilbur j. Cohen outgoing . Secretary of health education and welfare will become Dean of the school of education at the University of Michigan officials said thursday. Continued from Page 1 space. Soyuz 4 and 5 made the first Orbital Docking of manned Craft. They stayed locked together for 4 hours and 35 min utes then pulled slowly apart and continued separate flight. Soyuz 4, the first to go up waste first to land. Tass described the Standard pre Landing procedures followed by spacemen o both Russia and the United states stowing gear scientific research transferring and photo graphic equipment into the land ing capsule and securing every thing to withstand the tremendous deceleration forces of reentry into the atmosphere Tass said soyuz 4 touched down25 Miles Northwest of the City of Karaganda in soviet Central Asia at 9 52 . Moscow time. Tass said they were welcomed by members of the recovery team by friends sports commissars and  soyuz 5 continues its flight Tass said. Cosmonaut Boris vol nov i feeling Fine aboard soyuz 5 and All systems Are operating nor Mally the Agency said. Soyuz 4 apparently followed the new soviet space Landing techniques perfected after cosmonaut col. Vladimir Komarov was killed during the Landing of soyuz 1 on april 23, 1967. This technique involves the us of Retro rockets As Well As Para chutes to slow the capsule s final weather partly Cloudy to Cloudy and Windy with occasional i Howera. Little change sunday. Frankfurt held Elbert High 43, of 37. Temperatures recorded Friday get 4 4 am pm 50 &4 , p 55 57 Athens cd 48 48 Valano p 34 Berlin cd 41 Brm Tali p 32 up no on cd 39 Frankfurt p 30 37 34 3 4 4 am pm 32 39 London r 39 m Madrid p 34 3 Munich p 37 41 Parli. P 32 m pre lick i 49 02 Rome f  we la p cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a rant new. 2nd weather Wing descent. As Tass said of soyuz 4 standing a Parachute system and a soft Landing engine ensured smooth touchdown of the a  techniques were the same As those used by Ameri can astronauts Ihring of a braking engine separation of the command capsule carrying the three cosmonauts met a fiery descent through Che atmosphere. As the air thickened Tass said soyuz 4 made use of its Aero dynamic features to make a controlled  this referred to features designed to use the air As a Cushion to slow the descent. Apollo 8, America s last manned spacecraft made a Mas Sive Bounce during its final drop in the same  sources said soyuz 5 would land saturday. If Pas practice is followed it will land air the same area As soyuz 4 Safe fourth to receive the award in a Cere Englewood fla., arid Marine a Mony at the White House. Others Are left Stephen w. Presb and air Force it. Col. To right Navy it. Clydee Lassen of Joe Jackson both of Newman a. A . Cannons Batter reds in Viet Doz continued from Page d Lions were demolished spokes men said. They said the americans zeroed in on a network of North vietnamese bunkers four Miles Jio Linh inside the Dozer he enemy pegged Rifle at the spotter plane. To plane escaped undamaged the said. Lopsided Battle reports of several Brief lop sided encounters in the allies favor capped a Day in which . Infantry unit near Plesku blasted its Way out of a North vietnamese ambush designed to Stop it from reaching the bodies of two americans killed in a downed helicopter. That Battle in the Central High lands Cost the . 4th inf div unit two dead and 22 wounded and . Officers said enemy dead would mount far above the six bodies found in the initial  later action . Marines near Danang caught two enemy units moving across open Terri tory and killed 42 with artillery fire and air strikes spokesmen said. 12 reds killed farther North near the old Imperial capital of Hue . Para troops killed 12 communists in Anig time firelight that wounded one  of Saigon in the me Kong Delta a South vietnamese infantry battalion killed 24 Viet Cong and captured five. Six government troops were reported wounded. Continued from Page 1 with a degree in business administration. He received an honorary doctorate of Law from the same University in 1958. He entered flight training i december 1940 and was commissioned a second lieutenant the following August. He performed various flying duties at Jackson fiery crash. Continued from Page 1 treated at the military Hospital Here. Positive identification of the dead men had not been made Friday. A Vii corps spokesman also said that investigators had not been Able to determine who had been driving. No injuries were reported among those in the slightly damaged wrecker which belongs co. B of the 1st signal in Ica quartered at Ulm. Thanker was from the 2nd army a regt s 3rd so. Neither vehicle the army spokesman said was involved in prepare ports Lor the reformer i Maneu vers. Allies discuss troop cuts cease fire continued from Pine i . Air Force disclosed it is re viewing its contingency plans for a troop withdrawal in the even of a cease fire. One source said the meeting was pretty High level stuff Al so attended by vice president Nguyen Cao by and foreign minister Tran Chanh Thanh. Topics included withdrawal of american troops How Many and How soon i a truce which could mean a total cease fire a partial cease fire or a cease fire in  latter moans All troops would simply stay where they Are without mounting any new operations or continuing any old ones. How to retaliate if the enemy should attack Saigon during the new negotiations. In other words said the source would this mean in automatic resumption of bombing North Vietnam the demilitarized zone by supervisor of South Viet Nam s Paris delegation is scheduled to return to Europe Earl next week. U. Alexis Johnson under Secretary of state for political affairs in the Incon Iii Jet icon administration cancelled a scheduled meeting with Thieu late Friday. A spokesman for the . Mission said a had a bad attack of flu. Miss., Patterson Field Ohio an Barksdale Field la., before be ing ordered to Europe in septem Ber 1942. Rated a command Pilot Hoz Apple has attended the armed forces staff College and the National War College. He has held Many posts in operations an weapon development and is Mil itary director of the air Force scientific advisory Board. The Pentagon also announce new assignments for two other three Star air Force officers effective feb. 1. It. Gen. John w. Carpenter Iii 52, will become senior air Force member of the military staff committee for the United nations in addition to his present duty As Deputy chief for personnel. It. Gen. Marvin l. Mcnickle 54, will shift from de sense research to Deputy chief for air Force research and development. Of doctors warn of deadly bean Manila up american soldiers in Vietnam and else where were ordered on a search end destroy operation Friday against a tiny but deadly bean. Doctors at the . Air Force Hospital at Clark air base 60 Miles North of Manila issued a alarm against the be Quiriy bean and warned that the Oval red and Black seed if chewed and swallowed is sufficient to Killan average size  an air Force announcement said military officials were concerned that some of the 6,500ramient personnel mostly from Vietnam passing through Clar Keach month May have purchased he Beans in the Guise of Decora icons on toy animals and dolls i blood Law faces repeal Little Rock Ark a the Arkansas House of representatives thursday approved87 to 2 a Bill to repeal the state Law that requires blood transfusions to be labelled race. Forby an will broadcast the inauguration Frankfurt is Americua forces network Europe will broadcast live coverage of the presidential inauguration and related Cere Mottles begin Tong at 5 . Monday get the live coverage jul Eon traae until it