European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday january 23, 1969 10 swept away during California cloudburst continued from Page i rainstorms hit the state. The three other victims we remembers of a search party which was bringing them out of the lonely area monday night about 35 Miles North of  survivor was Scott eckers Ley 28, a House father at Liveoak school in the Ojai who met Thi boys at a Camp ground on saturday. He invited them to take shelter in his camper truck when rain started to fall. Recalling his experience Earl today Eckersley said it was so fantastic to understand that ties Young children could comprehend what was going to happen to them and not panic scream or holler or carry on. They actually played among themselves a they went from us and disappeared. It was  the boys ranging in age from10 to 13, and their Leader Robert samples broke into Cabin at the campgrounds sunday afternoon with Ecker Sley to wait out the storm. 24th div men begin weapon test firing Vilseck Germany special men of the 24th inf div went to the ranges at Grafe Woehr Earl wednesday morning and began test firing their weapons As Parton the reformer i exercise. The first round was fired at9 20 . By the main gun of an m60a1 tank of the 1st in 70tharmor. Test filing was originally scheduled to begin at 8 .but heavy ground fog hampered  stateside based Taro men wednesday were to align tank sights and Zero their main guns. In order to Zero in a Tan Crew must score three consecutive hits within an 18-Inch Cir Leon a target 1200 meters away. Other weapons scheduled to retest fired wednesday were mor tars machine guns and recoil less rifles. Testing of Materiel and equip ment will continue for the remainder of the week before the invasion critic site returns continued from Page 1 premiership under soviet pres  to the sources Sik would have returned earlier but for a spurious Telegram received in december warning him defaced disciplinary a c t i on in Czechoslovakia. The Telegram allegedly from the communist i him an Extension party Central committed turned out to be a  May have returned to obtain permission to remain abroad for a longer time. His passport expired during his absence an officials at the czechoslovak embassy in Bern refused to Grant Nixon May. Extend surtax Field training exercise ice begins Jan. 29. Carbide . Launches Sun satellite Cape Kennedy a solar Observatory rocketed into space wednesday to study the Sun during a period of maximum flare activity and to help War future astronauts on the Moon of perilous radiation storm the satellite oso5, Rode aloft in the nose of a three stage Delta rocket at 11 48 . Est aiming for an orbit 350 Miles above the Earth where its sensors can peer at the Seething Sun from above the distorting Blanket of the at  satellite is the fifth in a series of orbiting solar observatories launched by Nasa. Half an hour after launching Nasa reported os05 was in a Good orbit and functioning  will be turned on by radio command starting Satur Day. Riots in Pakistan City Rawalpindi Pakistan up More than 70 persons were arrested and two others were hit by bullets in clashes Between police and demonstrators tues Day. Continued from Page t the three television sets and Wir service tickers former preside Johnson kept close at hand. Spend a great Deal of Tim working adjacent to the White House in the executive office building. Go to work Early in the morning and expect his staff apparently including his Cabine too to do the same. Nixon held his first meeting with the National Security coun cil tuesday. The White housemaid Vietnam and other Basic for eign problems were discussed atthe hour-and-47-minute session alternate courses Ziegler said studies ordered by Nixon several weeks ago played a part in the discussion at the closed meeting. The studies were aimed at developing alternate courses of action on such issues As Vietnam arms control the Middle East and . Alliances in Western  Ziegler gave no indication  monday s soviet Over Tures for beginning talks on nuclear control and disarmament were brought up at the meeting. Nixon recently announced stocks close slightly up new York a the Stock Market closed with a gain wednesday in moderately Active trading. After a mixed Start stocks advanced slightly As they snapped Back from a couple of sessions of irregularly lower trend. Big three motors and the to steelmakers produced a string of fractional gains. Recent caution Over the intentions of the Nixon administration regarding Mone tary and fiscal matters seemed to be replaced by a degree of optimism. Ina corp. Was the volume Leader As it dipped sharply on disappointing news. Plans to revitalize and restructure the Council. He ordered his National Security adviser Henrya. Kissinger to develop ideas for Long Range planning and provide for contingency planning so the United states could help shape world events rather than just re act to  said Richard Helms director of the Central intelligence Agency gave a briefing on the International situation and this led to a discussion of Basic issues including  sitting in on the session included Gen. Andrew Goodpaster the Deputy commander of . Forces in Vietnam who Nixon recalled two months ago to serve temporarily As a adviser during on the military transition  the Johnson administration. Nixon sat in the Center of a Oblong table flanked on the one Side by William p. Rogers Secretary of state and on the other by Melvin r. Laird Secretary of defense. Also private meeting attending the meeting were Gen. Earle c. Wheeler chairman of the joint chiefs of staff with whom Nixon held a private meeting Elliott Richard son an under Secretary of state Brig. Gen. Ret George , head of the office of emergency preparedness Vic president Spiro t. Agnew and Treasury Secretary David Ken Nedy. Ziegler said All the studies ordered by Nixon including one or. Courses of action on disarmament and control of nuclear weapons had Bee completed and discussed by Nixon with Kissinger. Meanwhile a member of the teaching staff at a Prague University revealed details of the suicide pact and agreed that the two workers were not  professor who did not wish to. Be identified said that Stu dents from various universities in Czechoslovakia decided on the pact during a sit in strike last nov. 17. They vowed that if no tone of of Weir 10 demands for re forms was granted by Jan. 1,students would Burn themselves As a mean of jolting the Leader ship. Hundreds volunteered hundreds of students were said to have volunteered. Fifteen were chosen with strict qualifications that they be Well balanced students with Good school records so As not to question the motive of their sacrifice. The students vowed to die one Byone every five Days in Broad Daylight and never in the someplace according to the professor. However fervent appeals fro the nation s leaders to youths not to repeat Palach s deed apparel by have stopped the student suicides. Another reason is that students also feel the two psychopathic worker self burnings marred their plot f o r political  professor said that pal Ach s death was so Well planned that it included giving him a pain  ministry of Interior said that police have been posted Winall places where self burners would be Likely to appear. Meanwhile the Rescue Tea set out for the area on a Navy Bulldozer borrowed from Seabee training Camp at Rose Valley in the National  three rescuers reached the Cabin Early monday night Eckersley said. With the children perched on the Hood and fenders the group set out for civilization. Disaster struck when the attempted to Ford the Sespen Creek swollen to eight fee deep by three Days of rain. We were Riding out on the Caterpillar and got to the Middle of the Creek Eckersley  the water was too deep and it Rose up Over All of us and we went one by one. We were All getting numb from the cold adjust slipped  Navy chief Petty officer Robert Sears was the first to go Eckersley said. He Wen quickly and then the kids went one by one and soon there were Only two of us left. The Deputy sheriff and  said the Deputy Chester Larson was sitting on the rear of the Bulldozer. When he went he fell into Means i held whatever i him was for a while holding onto v. German University unrest Bonn up Chancellor Kurt Reorg Kiesinger will meet Here Jan. 31 with presidents of the 11 West German states to discuss ways of dealing with the growing unrest and violence in universe ies. Want to locate a Friend an going into tracing business Frankfurt special want to see Days May submit their name rank How Many of your old school buddies Are serial number unit military duty phone in Europe an is going to try to let Home town civilian school and former you starting monday. Military units to Tempo an Europe the network wide Tempo program Apo 09757. The announcer will mention on the air every weekday morning from All names and As much other information 9 15 to 10, will include a segment called Tempo  military personnel dependents or As time allows. Listeners recognizing a Friend s name May then write to the station just rent a stored Tommy London up the British government is soon to Start a rent a Soldier scheme to give Idle troops something to do. What it Means is that anyone will be Able to hire a Soldier for a Day a week or even a Mont to do any of the following help out in disaster areas ordering emergencies. Work in construction an demolition and other specialized Fields. Drive special transport  defense minister Denis Healey said the move is being made because Many British troops Are coming Back to Brit Ain following withdrawals from foreign areas. Healey wants to Stop potential boredom and also to help pay for the Upkeep of the army. / 2 Page leaflet gives employ ers full details and Points out the troops Are not cheap labor an cannot be used if there is a Union with my other hand broke and we both went in. We were the last to go  said he went under the Stormy surface of the Creek twice and struck a Rock with his Back As he was swept Down Stream. The next thing i remember 1was lying in a Pool and i crawled up on the Bank. Iwasyn t sure whether i was dead or  crawled up a Small Hill under some Brush and dug whole in the mud squeezed inside and covered himself with the ooze to keep warm. He Lay there until tuesday morning when he walked Back upstream about four Miles to stalled car he remembered seeing on the Bulldozer  spent All of tuesday in the car. A Rescue helicopter arrive overhead in late afternoon and Eckersley flagged it Down. Minor exposure a sore hip and minor exposure were the extent of his  tiny Humboldt county Community of starvation Flat was abandoned in the floodwaters of the Van Duzen River us250 residents taking Refuge on higher  200 persons fled their Homes on Sherman Island in the Sacramento River in Central  described the flood situation throughout the Sacra mento san Joaquin Delta of Central California As potentially dangerous. Pope. Conflict. The Cost of was not  a Soldier weather mostly Cloudy. Continued mild Friday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 48, Low 38. Temperature recorded wednesday get i am pm 62 64 London r 39 46 Madrid p 23 84 Munich p 41 60 Parli cd 48 Prentwick p 39 62 Roma p 69 61 wheel i p 4 4 am pm 48 61 Adana p 3? 38 Atheni. R 8? 43 Valano cd 30 37 Berlin p 60 62 Bruiel p 32 34 cop no an r 32 41 Frankfurt p a partly Cloudy a rain. 2nd weather Wing continued from Page 1 courteous and Friendly contacts and avoid overstepping the  was the most Liberal state ment on Christian Unity Effort by the Leader of the roman Catholic Church since the ecumenical Council first officially acknowledged a share of wrongly catholics in the present Divi Sions of  on the occasion of the worldwide week of prayer for Christian Unity being celebrated by All christians Pope Paul blended ecumenical overtures with criticism for catholics who jointly celebrate the eucharist with other christians. Lie labelled these inter com Munion rites which have been reported on the increase in the United states and Europe As unwary ecumenical haste