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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 1, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 three gis and a doughboy four unknown soldiers reburied in Belgium by de Freakley staff write Liege Belgium is the four sores in the Earth were gaping. A bitter wind teased the Corners of the american flags raping the four Silvery Metal  bugler sounded taps. The notes were caught in the wind and carried Over the gentle slope Over the 5,310 White grave Mark ers. A Volley of Rifle reports echoed21 times bouncing from the ground toward the Blue Gray  priest a rabbi and a min ister said prayers the living left and returned to a warm  shiny caskets waited to be lowered into the ugly holes. They waited for the first thuds of dirt which was mostly mud that would Bury them for a final time. They had All been dead As Longas their countrymen who rested in the surrounding Graves. On had died More than 50 years ago. The four american unknown soldiers were buried thursday at the ardennes american Ceme Tery 12 Miles South of Liege. They had All been buried be fore one in a German Ceme Tery in Aachen two in a Field i Italy and the fourth in Belleau Wood France. Thwe were discovered in their grave last year by Farmers. The other was found in Aachen in 1966 by a German War grave commission that was trying to Darld identify the dead in the Ceme Tery. The Soldier found in France was killed in world War i. The other three died in world War  remains of the soldiers were turned Over to the com mortuary in Frankfurt. After at tempts to identify the remains the defense department was asked whether the bodies could be buried at ardennes. The remains were brought he reared Lay in the cemetery Chapel overnight a seven Man firing squad from the Hessen support District a bugler from the 3rdarmd div band and pallbearers from the mortuary buried the soldiers with full military honors. According to reports the body found in Belleau Wood was Dis covered by a Frenchman who was digging a shallow Trench fora drainage pipe. The remains were found onland owned by the mayor of Berzele Sec. Town records show that the Only fighting in the area occurred in july 191s. The american units involved were the 1st and 2nd army  was no fighting in the area during world War  of the remains revealed that the Man was 18 whence died of medium build and 5 feet-7�/4.study of the body in Aachen showed the Man was betwee the Ages of 28 and 35, stood 5 feel-64 and weighed about 150pounds. The two bodies found in ital were mixed together in a shallow grave near Borgo on the sea coast involved in the Anzio in Vasion. The parts were separate Don the basis of similarity of Structure size and Bone . Military equipment was found with All four  the time of death one Man was believed to have been be tween 22 and 24, 5-feet-6, and 135 to 150 pounds. The other was judged Between the Ages of 28 and 28, 5-feet-5y2 and 150 to 160i pounds. I the four buried thursday joined 778 other unknown Ameri can soldiers Here. Here rest sin honoured glory a Soldier known but to god is their final foot i note in history. Progressive named Spanish Itma Vatican City a Pope Paul i has named archbishop Vicente Enrique y Taran Cotta Aleader of Spain s progressive catholics As primate or Spain the Vatican announced saturday. The archbishop was shifted from his archdiocese of Oviedo in the heart of the restive Asturi As mining Region to tse Over As archbishop of Toledo the country s oldest and most prestigious see. The move put Pope Paul i directly behind he progressive clergy in Spain pushing for social a and economic chances  archbishop of Toledo Arch Bishop Enrique y Tarancon 61,becomes the leading member of the Spanish Hierarchy and unaccepted certain candidate for Cardinal whenever the pop holds his next consistory. Protestants March in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a thousands of protestant demonstrators paraded the Union Jack through Belfast saturday demanding the dismissal of Northern Ireland s embattled prime minister Captain Terence o  the head of the Parade the cheering demonstrators carried on their shoulders the Rev. Ian Paisley 42-year-old militant protestant Leader who has vowed Oneill must  Parade blocked traffic from Belfast s protestant Shankill Road area to the City Center More than a mile  estimated the crowd at the outset at 7,000. Hundreds More joined it from smaller parades starting in Sid streets Andy unofficial estimates the crowd soon exceeded 11,000. Earlier in the week the moderate o Neill won a relatively close vote of Confidence in the Ulster parliament. Tito romanian party chief Confer Belgrade a yugoslav president Tito and Romania s communist party chief Nicola Ceausescu met saturday for a Surprise round of talks in the romanian town of Timisoara about 50 Miles from the Frontier Between the two countries. It was the first meeting of the two Independent minded communist chiefs since last augus when they both denounced the soviet led military intervention in Czechoslovakia. Tito s trip was officially described As a Short visit of Friendship at Ceausescu s invitation. Informed sources said Tito was expected to return to Belgrade on sunday. The meeting caught Western observers by Surprise. Tito s trip was not announced until after head left Belgrade by train. Truck loses race 14 killed Puebla Mexico up the death toll stood at 14 saturday following a Grade crossing Accident thursday in which a locomotive smashed into the Side of a dump truck filled with  engine battered the truck 300 Yards Down the track and spilled out men to be ground to death on the  said the Driver of the truck apparently tried to race the passenger train to a crossing then jammed on the brakes whence saw he could not make it and skidded into the train. De Gaulle ignores separatist jeers Brest France up pres ident Charles de Gaulle Satur Day ignored for the second straight Day anti government demonstrators As he continued his swing through troubled Brit  78-year-old president plunged into crowds outside pity Hall to shake hundreds of out stretched hands. He ignored the jeers and taunts of More then 100 student age persons in the crowd of 3,000 who shouted lib Erate Brittany de Gaulle to Colombey and we Are All  second slogan was in reference to de Gaulle s country Home at Colombey Les Deus Eulises to which he retired to political exile in 1946 until his return to Power in 1958 and the third was to his shout of Long live free Quebec the rallying cry of French Canadian separatists made from the Montreal City Hall Balcony during his 1967 visit to Canada final rest pallbearers from mortuary in Frankfurt roil the the . Army coffins of four unknown soldiers to their new Graves in the ardennes american cemetery. Is Rohde red for 40 years briton takes big government Job London a will Paynter lifelong communist and former Trade Union Boss has quit the party and taken a Well paid Job with the British government. His actions embittered old col leagues in the party he served for the past 40 years. Paynter 65, was appointed Fri Day night a member of the new commission on Industrial relations set up to introduce More efficient systems of bargaining Between unions and manage ment. It has been fiercely opposed by communists and other left Wing groups. Drifted away Paynter Leader of the National Union of mine workers until his retirement in december once was regarded As the top communist in Britain s labor move ment but in recent years he drifted away from the part line especially in the Field of Industrial  decided a Long time ago that when i retired from the miners Union i would also retire from party polities Paynte told newsmen. My decision to leave the communist party snot connected with my appoint ment to the government  in his new Job Paynter will repaid 115,900 a year Ayub offers to discuss opposition s demands Karachi up president Mohammad Ayub Khan deeply grieved by anti government noting which has Cost 37 lives in the past two weeks offered saturday to meet with opposition leaders to discuss their political  s a i d in his regular monthly radio address i shall shortly invite re present natives of responsible political parties for  shall have no hesitation in agreeing to any settlement that is achieved through Mutual discussion be  gave no hint of what sort of settlement he had i mind but it is believed the opposition would not Settle for Little less than major Constitution Al  charged that enemies of the country were responsible for these  he said they took advantage of the government s restraint and in the name of democracy destroyed democratic principles opposition demands for greater share in political life have resulted in widespread rioting and the stationing of troops in eight  rioting armed by student demands and the working Man frustration caused by Static so Cial conditions is the most ser ious threat to Ayub in his 10 years in  charged that the unrest began with student demands for greater political Freedom and these were exploited by Sev eral organizations and anti social  appealed to the 115 million people in East and West pakis Tan to cooperate with the government in maintaining , with Bayonet tipped rifles continued their nightly patrols in the most volatile areas. Paisley is released after posting Bond Belfast up the  Paisley returned Home to a triumphal Welcome after spend in 24 hours in a Belfast jail. The protestant extremist Leader won his release after signing a Bond to be free pending Appeal against the three month sentence handed Down by an Armagh court maj. Donald Bunting com mandant of the Loyal citizens of Ulster organization was Suu in jail on a similar charge  
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