European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 24 the stars and stripes sunday january 26, 1969 Nixon halts Pacific air route pacts Washington a presi Dent Nixon called off Friday awards of new Pacific air routes and began taking a look at some additional actions under his predecessor in the White House. This followed the recall thursday of president John son s nominations for Hundred of postmasters and five Federal judgeship. Press Secretary Ronald  said the White House is going to go into a news report that the administration might do something about a $25-Mil-lion Grant to the Illinois Central Railroad by the department of transportation. The report noted that the rail Road is hiring Johnson s Secre tary of transportation Ala Boyd As president. Furthermore Ziegler said head looked a Little bit into other reports that the air Force ineffectually tried to get Back air Field equipment and communication facilities installed at pub Lic expense at the lbs ranch i Texas. Friday was the deadline that Nixon could act in the trans Pacific airline route awards by Johnson. Charges made Ziegler was told there had been printed charges some of the cab route allocations unfairly favored friends of the for Mer president. Asked whether Nixon s action should be Jud Gedas reflecting fears there might be something to the allegations Ziegler said he was not going beyond the chief executive s announcement. He said it is common practice to recall last minute nominations by an outgoing president and that action in the cab Case should not be interpreted As indicating a full scale r e v i e w of everything else that is underway. There were other actions the president set his first news conference for 11  monday. It will be in the White House East room and willbe broadcast live. He created a Cabinet com Mittee on economic policy to coordinate government functions in a Broad Range of eco nomic  r. Hamil of Denver colo., who was administrator of the Rural electrification administration in the Eisenhower administration was nominated to return to that  be Deputy administrator of the agriculture department agricultural and stabilization service the president appointed William e. Galbraith Beemer neb., Farmer and livestock feeder. And the White House listed67 air Force colonels whose names will be submitted to the Senate monday for promotion to brigadier general. New cavity stopper due in e by Marcis a Washington Bureau chief Washington is Ift Earmy s Battle against dental cavities successfully fought i Vietnam the past six months will be carried to the front Tifi Sof decay in the . And in Europe according to officials of the surgeon general s office. The stepped up Campaign involves the use of a fluoride paste twice a year to form a protective coating for Teeth it is de signed to reduce and prevent the progression of decay by 40 to 60 per cent and army dental officials Call it a major break through in dental  in Uwe of the pleasant tasting paste is Given under the direction of army Den Tal  Complete Protection it is used twice a year in addition tothe Normal use of an american dental association approve dental Cream officials said. The army has been using the new dental paste since August to protect troops heading for Viet Nam the paste is available when they leave the ., when they go on rest att recuperation leave and when they return , As production catches up with demand it is being phased into All Basic training Camps in he . And by june 1 should available for everyone in the far East and  air Force and Navy pro. Text against tooth decay in slightly different manner since airmen and sailors work under More controlled conditions. A Stan Nous fluoride paste is applied in Navy and air for6e clinics. Restore Doz says Lodge " m " my. Continued from Page 1 set at each  Vietnam and the Elf Laid Down their toughest  Vietnam challenged its opponents to admit you will never take the South by  the statement by Lodge briefest of All four contained the Only really Concrete propos als of the Day the suggestion of reestablishing the Doz andean offer to work toward Mutual withdrawal of foreign troop from South Vietnam. The other three statements were largely Long acrimonious policy reviews. Lodge said after the meeting he noted no reaction to his con Crete proposals from the other Side. Lodge s statement came shortly after North Vietnam and the Elf Laid Down the toughest of terms in policy statements they demanded an end to the present Saigon government and forma Tion of a peace Cabinet to participate in this conference. Hanoi and the Elf seemed to concentrate on political aspects of a prospective settlement while the americans and their allies zeroed in on the military aspects. Both North Vietnam and the Elf accused the United states of insincerity in approaching the conference but Lodge advised them that the United states will enter these talks with a profound sense of responsibility and an open  the United states said presi Dent Nixon s envoy will put Forth carefully considered propos als and Hopes that the other Side will do the  he added that undoubtedly we have Many difficult sessions ahead of us an then made his first proposal. Specifically the United state proposed that the Doz should be free of All regular and irregular military and subversive forces and personnel military installations military supplies and  area in which from which and across which All acts of Force Are prohibited. A zone temporarily separating North and South Vietnam pending their reunification through the free expression of the will of the people of the North and of the people of the South. An area the same in size and definition As that provided in the 1954 Geneva  to an effective sys tem of International inspection and verification. We therefore propose that each Side publicly declare us readiness to respect the provi Sions of the 1954 Geneva accords relating to the Doz and abide by these  the Elf foreign minister Tran Buu Kiem speaking first after 60 delegates of All sides seated themselves at the Confer ence table sharply denounced the United states for supporting perfidious and cruel policies and shoring tip tyrannical an blood thirsty puppets in Saigon. Ambassador Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam though1 somewhat less violent in tone demanded the end of the Saigon regime in terms almost identical with  wholesale arrests follow Franco decree continued from. Page 1 their Home provinces and ban free speech and free  newspapers radio and television returned to a censor ship which had been abolished two years  sunny campuses of Spain s two largest universities stood quiet and empty. Both the University of Madrid with around40,000 students and the univer sity of Barcelona with 28,000,were closed until further notice presumably when police can guarantee that prime agitators Are behind  Barcelona 20 persons including four Jesuit priests we rearrested As they left a meeting at the House of writer Alfonso Carlos comin. The writer and the widow of French journalist Frances Emmanuel Maunier were among those arrested. On of the priests Juan Antonio Gar Cia Nieto recently won a prize for an essay on worker participation in Industry. Police also searched the Barcelona offices of the catalan language Maga Zine or Flama. In one last gasp before digging even deeper underground communists littered the University of Madrid Campus during the night with propaganda leaflets. These hurriedly written appeals called for armed  appeared Only a 3rd Marine regt co 7 others die in crash Danang Vietnam up eight military personnel including the commander of the 3rdmarine regt col. Michael m. Spark were killed when their helicopter was shot Down by communist ground fire it was announced Friday. Spark 41, of new York City was directing his regiment in operation Taylor common fro the command helicopter dream of the most optimistic of agitators. The average spaniard either ignored the state of Emer gency or Rode quietly with the latest punch. Overheard conversations indicated a certain rap port with the government action. Moscow gunman reportedly aimed at soviet leaders London a the Man who shot at soviet cosmonauts in Moscow wednesday was wearing the uniform of a hand picked Kremlin guard and was apparently aiming at russian leaders a Veteran american correspond ent reported saturday from mos  also reported the would be Assassin carried a gun in each hand and two cyanide capsules for a suicide attempt that was never made. The correspondent russian speaking Edmund Stevens who has reported from Moscow forbore than 20 years was writing in the London sunday times. Renamed no source for his report. Stevens said the unidentified gunman leapt from a sentry Box within the Kremlin Walls to fir five shots through the Windshield of the third car in the Cosmo naut s motorcade. Stevens asked just Why theman fired at car three then he added the answer seems to be that he miscalculated when the cosmonauts and the party leaders cars changed sequence just be fore crossing the Moscow River Ridge leading to the  before that Stevens said part chief Leonid i. Brezhnev and president Nikolai v. Podgorny had been in car no. 3. Jets to show the Flag after War games continued from Page 1 cause of the Warsaw pact inva Sion of the Liberal minded coun try according to spokesmen in  Flag showing trips had not been publicized before. The air Force said Only that the Phan Toms would remain in German for in healer  they Are scheduled to return to their . Bases in Early  said that the visits to each country would last three or four Days each. Making the Flag showing trips will be elements of the 417th tactical fighter so at Hahn an the 49th tactical fighter Wing at Span Dahlem air  two units comprising 96 f4s, crossed the Atlantic from their . Bases in crested  417th is assigned to Moun Tain Home fab Idaho and the49th is stationed at Holloman fab  phantoms Are the work horses for the air Force fighter bomber Mission. The jets at High altitudes can achieve a rela Tive ground Speed of 1,600 Miles per horn1. At lower altitudes they Fly at about 800 Miles an  phantoms can carry 12,000 pounds of bombs one Pilot  can be equipped with air to air missiles air to ground rockets bombs napalm and the Vulcan Gatling gun which fires20mm Cannon shells at a rate of 0,000 rounds per  jets have a combat Range of 600 Miles 11 by mudslides in continued from Page 1 alive when Rivers of mud poured Down Southern califor Nia Foothills already saturated by More than a week of steady rain and ripped through their Hillside Homes. In the Ojai area of Ventura county dozens of families were forced to climb to their roof tops to await helicopter Rescue from the High  Santa Barbara county 300 residents of the Small Mountain Community of Paradise Camp were Cut off by floods landslides. And in los Angeles county afire Captain called the flooding the worst we be had around Here since 1937." firemen counted 201 Homo destroyed or severely damaged in the suburb of Glendora alone and Many other Hillside areas were stricken As  Outlook gloomy the Weatherman s Outlook was gloomy. He predicted the heavy rain would continue until sunday. The downpour began i week  midday saturday a new storm had dumped More than five inches of rain on downtown los Angeles and up to twice Smuch on foothill areas bring ing the season s total to More than 15 inches. Normal was seven  highways As Well As hundreds of streets in Souther California were closed or partially blocked by slides and High Waters and the traffic death toll mounted rapidly. Boy presumed drowned an 11-year-old boy wis presumed drowned when he and his 10-year-old brother Wen swept away in a flood Contro Channel. The brother was saved. In Glendora water and debris poured through Homes in the area where a Wall of mud had slammed through a residential area  Hillside areas of los Angeles also were punished by slides and floods including the expensive residential areas of Brentwood Bel air the Holly Wood Hills and  of the dead was Michael Riordan 41, chairman of the Board of equity fund of Beverly Hills who was trapped and buried in the bedroom of his Brentwood Home when twas hit by two successive slides. 6 hospitalized firemen trying to Rescue Riordan were caught in the second slide and six Wei hospitalized with injuries. The dead included two elderly ladies from Midway ky., trapped in a rear room of Hillside Home when mud col lapsed the Structure. The residents of the Home in which they were visiting escaped. Two Small children also were listed As victims of a mudslide hat crushed their Home