European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 29, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 a the United states replying to soviet charges of . Military invent lib till  it of th/pf&b1k presence of some 40,000 North vietnamese troops there. The american reply read lit statement by a state depart ment spokesman said that so Viet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko had distorted the reality of the problem of Laos in charging the Uffit Edwith violating its neutrality through bombing raids Shell Ings and am fit subversion. % th6 Uii it a states hid not in restly deny the soviet charge of . Bombing attacks against Forth vietnamese troops. The United states has acknowledged conducting air reconnaissance operations with armed fighter escorts but has never acknowledged that combat. Per about Laos a doth Viet namese have been carried out in Laos f a Jig officer Roberft j. Me closer said the soviet Union Aco chairman of the 19tf2 Geneva conference on Laos has failed to live up to its responsibility to work for peace in  have made Clear in the Paris  the spokesman went on that the North Viet Nam government s return to a full compliance with the Geneva agreements of 1962 is an Essen tial element of any lasting settlement Ift Southeast Asia. Vwe Mig fat also note there is mechanism for the investigation of such allegations As made bythe Patchet lao communist representative referred to by Gromyko. That is the International control commission established by the Geneva agree  Farmers Gie up after siege a. By the Swiss French Border  up two Swiss farming Brothers surrendered to police tiie Day after a three Day siege. Athenais and Edmond ,45 and 39, turned Over their collection of rifles and Shotgun Sas they were escorted away front their farmhouse at mate Nin on the Brothers shut themselves up in the House saturday and began firing at passersby. On policeman was shot in the shoulder police said the Brothers will be Given medical care. Right from the Birds Mouth Tangier Morocco a storks were seen circling Over Tangier tuesday with what was interpreted As Good news for  arrival of the storks from their Winter Homes in Morocco and beyond the Sahara in Africa Means an Early end to Winter according to the Amateur weather forecasters. The Birds wheeled Over Tangier and flew off Over the Strait of Gibraltar to the North by groups. General seeks to ease friction Naha Okinawa a it. Gen. James p. Lampert was in stalled tuesday As . High com missioner of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands and immediately plunged into consultations with local officials on the increasing resentment against the . Military base son Okinawa. Lampert promised in a television address he would strive for two goals improving the Wel fare and living standards of the Ryukyu ans and maintaining . Military role to guard non communist Asia. Adding insult to robbery Manila up taxi Driver Salvador Marin Lopez 27, walked into a suburban police station naked Early tuesday morning and told police two men and a woman stole his cab his Cash and Allis clothes. Arab women end Church sit in Jerusalem up eleven Arab women walked out of the Basilica of the holy sepulchre tuesday night to end a three Day sit in protesting israeli occupation of Arab lands. Israeli authorities apparently did not formally accept any of the demands from the women but mrs. Anine Husseini and he daughter were released after be ing held since the demonstration began on sunday. About 40 women began the demonstration sunday. Inadequate h ". I -. On up i Britain Sor govern Zinent discussed essay plans f6 the most dras tic Reform of the4cradle-to-grave welfare state in ,20 years. The called for ultimate doubling of state pensions for elderly britons and elimination of the Specter of poverty in old  proposals were made pub lice in a White paper presented to parliament. It described them As the most fundamental changes in social Security since the present National insurance scheme was introduced soon after the second world  code the proposals were made pub Lic Only 11 Days after another major piece of planned social legislation. This called for a new labor relations code giving the government p o w e r to curb strikes enforce secret strike ballots and order 28-Day Cool ing off periods before walkout Likely to damage the Economy. Most informed political observers interpreted the two Blue prints As designed to Appeal strongly to voters. They were expected to form major planks in the labor platform in parliamentary general elections generally expected in october 1970. The White paper conceded that the state retirement arrangement Pearl Bailey honoured new York a Singer Pearl Bailey has been named woman of the year by the unite service organization. Miss Bailey currently the Star of Broad Way s hello Dolly was presented with the award by  a. Rockefeller. Prince in Paris Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and his wife Princess Sophie Leftare greeted upon their arrival in Paris monday by the Spanish ambassador to France Pedro Cortina y Mauri and his wife. Juan Carlos who is rumoured to be Generalissimo Francisco Franco s Choice As King of Spain if he resigns is on a two Day private visit to Paris. A is clearly inadequate. A re tired male worker at 65 or a woman at 60 gets a $10.80 weekly pension. A married couple gets $16.80. The White paper said nearly30 per cent of the 7 million on state pensions have to draw supplementary Aid in order to live. The existing Flat rate scheme has failed the White paper said. In its place the government proposed a new plan under which pensions and the weekly social Security contributions made to obtain them would be a fixed proportion of a worker s earn Ings. Lower paid workers would contribute less and get proportionally lower retirement pen Sions and higher paid workers would contribute More and end up with proportionally larger  plan would take 20 years to reach full effect. By then the White paper estimated most re tired people would get about Dou ble what they get now. In addition the elderly who will not qualify for the new higher pensions because they have ceased work will have their pen Sions reviewed every two Yea Sand raised to match increases in living costs. Caller was a fired i Naples Italy a fire fire at the american consulate a frantic neapolitan said in Telephone Call to the fire depart , with their trucks sirens wailing rushed tothe scene. Consul general Homer  or. Came out to meet  said there was no fire unless the firemen wanted to count the big Carbon fed flames that Cooks used for a indoor Barbecue Byington hosted. Red China Hunts for the Hague up communist chinese diplomats through out Western Europe reportedly have been alerted for possible action in the Case of a diploma there who defected last week. Diplomatic sources said the consider the local legation one of peking s main espionage cent Ersin the West. The sources said peking i greatly concerned by the defection of Liao to shoe 46. The said chinese diplomats through out Europe will do their utmost to find out where he is being  was the temporary charge d affaires in the legation her until Friday. Then he asked for and received dutch Protection after telling authorities that he did not want to return to  is being interrogated and dutch authorities Are guarding the location Well to prevent a repetition of the Hsu Case of 1966.in that instance Hsu Tsai 42, a chinese Delegate to a welders Congress was found critically injured outside the chinese Lega Tion. He was taken to the dutch red Cross Hospital Tut forcibly returned by a chinese official to the legation where he  diplomatic sources said Liao might be the target for similar kidnapping attempt. Unless he can be found before he discloses too Many secrets the sources said peking May be forced to overhaul its whole spy ing apparatus in Europe. Pueblo crewman thanks his pastor via across a. A Wayne Anderson a crewman of the . Intelligence ship Pueblo has written his pastor Here that Faith in god kept me alive and sane during those 11 lonely months in a North Korea prison Camp. Anderson 26, of Way Cross wrote to the Rev. John Beach of the Heb Ardville Baptist Church no amount of communist propaganda and lies could Takeaway the things i Learned in Church. Thank you for giving me these memories. They kept me  drunk driving cases climb Albany . A Al most 5,000 motorists in new York state were arrested by state police in 1968 for Drunken driving twice the number arrested on that charge the year before. Slaying probes allege obstacles Paris up Paris police sources said monday that authorities were up against big Money in their efforts to solve the slaying of French actor lain Delon s bodyguard. The sources said the Case could involve an International scandal and that we Are up against  the sources also said that when Delon Learned of a threat against him and his wife nov. 15he applied for a permit to carry a gun. Police refused the permit but organized a guard for Delon the sources  s bodyguard and film double Stephen Markovic was killed in september. His Bod was found stuffed inside a bag oct. 1 in a suburban rubbish dump. Delon has been questioned fou times in connection with the kill ing most recently last weekend when he was detained for 36 hours and spent one night at the Interior ministry sleeping on a  s chauffeur Francois Marcantoni  been charge with complicity in murder. The police sources said several potential witnesses in France Yugoslavia and Belgium had been dissuaded from giving Evi Dence