European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the Star and stripes tuesday january 28, 1969 Pueblo Sisters got better destruction gear Washington a the Navy says that improved destruction equipment was in stalled in the sister ships of the Pueblo after the intelligence ves Sel was captured by North Korea just Over a year acknowledgement came after Pueblo cmdr. Lloyd told a Navy court of in Quiry in California last wee that he had been denied such equipment on two occasions because of Money and rep. Bingham urges revised conduct code Washington up b. Brighamd-n.y., called sunday for the revision of the military code of conduct to allow captured servicemen to confess to anything so Long As the confession does not contain factual information that would be useful to the hostile , citing the Case of the Crew of the Pueblo who underwent mental and physical Tor Ture at the hands of their North korean captors made his prop Osal in a letter to president Nixon. The Bronx Democrat asked Nixon to Issue an executive order that would take the following Steps revise the name rank an service number provision of the code of military conduct to permit any american Soldier imprisoned or detained by hostile government to sign or make any statement or Confes Sion which does not contain any factual information that would be useful to the hostile Power and that to the Best of the prisoner s knowledge is not already known to the hostile government. Bingham said the changes would remove one of the major excuses used by hostile captors to torture and kill american Munich consulate to give tax help Munich is for two weeks from feb. 10 to 24, a . Government tax expert willbe available at the american consulate general Here to answer questions about income tax con sul Thomas a. Kelly has announced. Those with questions or prob lems should Contact the consulate Tel. Munich 2301669 and ask for an appointment with Jerome Rosenbaum. Appointments willbe limited to 15 minutes. Army personnel and dependents should obtain tax return forms from their Legal assistance offices. The court 6f inquiry which has been taking testimony in the Pueblo Case has generate heated controversy Over Bush or s statements that Superior twice rejected his requests for a system for Swift destruction to secret intelligence equipment and Why the Pueblo was not provided with this equipment the Navy said the subject is being covered by the court of in Quiry thus indicating it comment on Bucher s Testi Mony a however the Navy did say that Impf offed destruct equip ment has been installed in Al ships of the Pueblo clasps and that this was accomplished after the Pueblo was seized Jan 23. 1988. The improved destruct equipment will permit More rapid destruction of classified equipment and publications the Navy said. Can be actuated by personnel and with greater reliability than previous destruct no technical details were Given. Bucher told the five Admira court last week that his ship had Only fire axes and Sledge am Niers to break up equipment and an incinerator for burning papers. There Are two other ships inthe Pueblo class the Banner and the Palm beach.-, although the Navy was asked questions about improvement sin terms of All . A hips per forming intelligence unctions it chose to limit its reply to the Pueblo Navy customarily avoids identifying intelligence ships but there Are about a dozen with that primary Mission along with about 15 6%anographic Survey ships which May also serve intelligence purposes. Hopes to Cool Middle East Veir continued 1. Powder Keg and if another explosion occurs there it could pit the interests of the unite states and the soviet Union against each believe we need new Initia Tives and new leadership on the part of the United states in or Der to Cool off the situation inthe Middle East Nixon said. He said next saturday s ses Sion of the National Security Council will be devoted to the problem. Nixon said the problem of crime in the streets was brought Home to him by secret service objections to his taking a walk in the evening and by a purse snatched from a White House employee said one of the suggestions made to prevent Street crime at night around the White House was better lighting and therefore we have turned on All the lights in that s comment was regarded As a Small dig at former presi Dent to h n s p a who on Tak ing office made an Issue of turn ing 6ff As Many White House lights As possible to save the government Money. Nixon said he had asked the attorney general on an urgent basis to recommend a pro Gram to Deal with crime in the District of pronounced the new administration s efforts at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris off to a Good , of course what is involved is what happens on theother Side he added. Nixon said instead of putting a laundry list of proposals on the Paris peace table the United states represented by his negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge has sought to present specific mentioned the new administration s formula again in Sug Gesting that talk of a Vietnam cease fire is not really helpful inthe peace Effort. Nixon said a cease fire May Spanish for student extremists continued from Page 1 of the state of leaders have fled the cities or tried to lose themselves in the Back streets of Madrid Barcelona huge Campus of the University of Madrid normally warming with about 40,000 Stu dents was empty except for a occasional policeman or a hurry ing faculty member. At bar Celona where 28,000 students Are enrolled it was the same. Bot schools have been closed in , there were persistent but unconfirmed reports Here that Prince Juan Carlos 30, grandson of King Alfonso Iii May soon be on the throne. In a dispatch from Madrid London daily Telegraph reporter John Ridley said in a front Page Story i understand that at the end of the three month state of emergency in Spain Gen. Franco will resign from office and handover Power to the in 1947, Franco announced that Spain was still a monarchy and he would choose his Juan 58, pretender to the throne and the son of Alfonso i has never been one of Franco s favorite people said Ridley. Prince Juan Carlos who has lived for the last few years in Madrid has clearly been regarded by Franco As the Prince Don Juan s son i married to Princess Sophie sister of King Constantine of Greece and is a Captain in the Spanish army. Be meaningless because the enemy might prove unable to control their own guerrilla forces. Instead he said the better approach is the on6 Lodge set Forth at his instruction Mutual withdrawal on a guaranteed a Sis. And As his news conference neared an end Nixon said he has never talked of Vietnam in terms of a settlement in six months a year or even three he said Overly optimistic state ments May impede the Paris negotiations. ,. " All that i will say ," he said. We have a new team i Paris. We have new directions frown the United states behave a new Sensie of urgency with regard to the negotiations there will be new we believe that tactics May be More successful than the tactics of the past Nixon added. But he said that a hard Tough grind of negotiations on such matters As Mutual withdrawal self determination for South Vietnam and a prisoner Exchange lies ahead. This is going to take time but i can assure you that it will have my personal Atten Tion he said. In the jammed news Confer ence broadcast live from the White House Nixon said he favors the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and said the Only question is the timing of the ratification of the pact. He said that question would be discussed at the National Security Council meeting an with congressional leaders. Nixon added he also favo stalks with the soviet Union on reduction of strategic arms but said the question again is timing. Nixon said there have Bee suggestions for four Power talks on the Mideast that the unite nations should be the principal peace seeking forum that the United states and the soviet Union should hold bilateral talks or that the parties concerned should solve it. By is willing to meet reds any place any time continued from Page 1 As happened last year by said Saigon would Welcome such a attack because it would Lead to a new enemy talked with newsmen after conferring for an hour with .negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge on Allied strategy for the second plenary session of the peace con Ference scheduled for whether he was willing to meet representatives of the other Side privately he said it was too soon to envisage this but added who knows once you Are inthe open Light of a formal con Ference there is no reason Why we cannot have private talks with the other Sido if they asked whether these talks could take place in Paris he said if they Are willing the could be anywhere in Paris or anywhere by had said previously that the Saigon government was willing to talk to the Viet Cong Only i Saigon outside the framework of the Paris conference and after the end of communist Daggres South vietnamese Delegat Epham Dang Lam told the first plenary session of the conference saturday that Saigon was pre pared to discuss the Viet Cong reintegration into the National Community if the insurgent movement stopped its Campaign of violence and abandoned us communist he said the american an South vietnamese commands Are studying the extent and timing of initial american troop withdrawals from South Vietnam before the end of the year our government will try to reduce the american forces before the end of this year he said. Our two Headquarters Are studying this problem right Many and when they can be withdrawn i Don t , i want to replace the . Troops by want to show the whole world and particularly american citizens that we Are fighting for our own survival and taking our own pilots defend fog diverted landings by de Freakley staff writer Hahn Germany is weather delayed or diverted planes engaged in reformer an crested Cap at least three times but in a War the air Afi Wouldhave larded say pilots Here. " the Jet jockeys of the 417thtactical fighter so which is dual based Here and at Mountainhome fab Idaho say criticism in the German press concerning the delayed and diverted planes just in t heavy fog at Rhein main an Nuernberg caused c141s bringing reformer troops from the . To change Landing plans and to wait for the weather in Germany to Clear. 31 Miles away the 24 f4 phantoms of the 417th were supposed to arrive at Hahn but had to go Down at Span Dahlem air base 31 Miles to the West because of the weather. In a peacetime exercise the minimum air Force safety stand Ards for Landing c141s and Phan Toms is one mile of visibility and a 300-foot ceiling. You have to consider you Mission and the men involved. In this Case we had to ask our selves is it Worth it trying to land in dense fog and perhaps lose a plane and the men aboard. And of course it just in t Worth any risk at All in a peacetime situation one Pilot said. But he was Quick to add that the planes could land if they had to and with minimal risk. He theorized that if the 417thhad deployed to Hahn in a War situation and the Fie d was socked in which is often the Case the f4s would have rendezvoused with a Tanker Over the Field. Even with Zero Zero conditions we would have made passes at the Field until we could letdown the Pilot said. Mother of four leaps to death bad Kreuz Nach Germany is a 31-year-old Mother of four boys leaped to her death monday from a third tory window of the , army Hospital Here. She was mrs. Ruth Gates wife of spec. 6 Harold l. Gates of the 56th general Hospital. Witnesses related that she pushed the screen out of the window an leaped after it. Gates was convalescing at Home after being released from the Hospital a few Days ago officials said. Mrs. Cates had been admitted to the Hospital because of depression a spokes Man sons Are Thomas 12 Patrick 11 Harold 9, an Robert 5 months
