European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february 7, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 and stripes today Darld higher wages for germans Bonn a West germans were told by their government thursday they can expect higher wages during 1969 and that Price increases will generally not exceed 2 per government said it expects wage increases will average be tween 5.5 and 8.5 per minister Karl Schiller told a news conference that the government will do All to achieve the aim of keeping Pride steady. He pointed out that Price increases from 1962 to 1965 aver aged 3 per cent whereas in 1967 the increase was 1.4 per cent an last year 1.5 per cent. Red cuts Tongue off Dies Saigon up one of three suspected Viet Cong agents hiding in a downtown Danang hotel room severed his Tongue with a knife and died before he could be questioned police source said. Informants said the Man a Viet Cong major killed himself seconds after police burst into the room on a up froth a captured guerrilla. Strike stuns Irish Republic Dublin a a strike by 3,000 Industrial maintenance me virtually paralysed the Irish Republic thursday forcing 35,000 other workers out of work and running Down food supplies in than 200 factories throughout the country were closed. Dublin hotels ran Skeleton staffs As strike pickets outside tried to Stop customers entering. Five Large bakeries shut Down causing an acute bread who had been besieging supermarkets and big stores were searching for Small bakeries that might still be stoppage hit the docks forcing hundreds of longshoremen not involved in the dispute out of work. Language Barrier the word gift on it explain ing it was sent to her by american policeman had told her the word gift in English Means a present while in German it Means parcel contained a Calen Dar police said. Zurich Switzerland up an old lady showed up at precinct of the Zurich City police charging that friends in the United states had attempted to Poison her police said thurs Day. She presented a parcel with focus on space Cambridge England a an old Railroad track that once carried professors Between Cambridge and Oxford universities was selected thursday As the site of a movable new to peer More accurately than Ever into space. The British government s science research Council announced donation of $4.64 million to build the Observatory for Cam Bridge University. It will be composed of four fixed and four movable aerials mounted on the old track and harnessed to a com Puter that will make a composite diagram of their completed in about two years the radio Observatory will have the widest aperture three Miles of any in the world. Watch and Wear Istanbul up turkish police claimed thursday the found More than 1,500 Swiss made watches concealed under the clothes of a Swiss and her companion a Swiss Man were arrested when they arrived in Istanbul on Board the italian liner san Marco police both allegedly stated they were tourists and claimed they knew nothing about watches. The police alleged that the pair acted suspiciously when they went through the customs said they searched the two and found 1,530 watches arranged under the woman s slip. Bonn still backs airbus9 Bonn a Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger s Cabinet has authorized continued West German support of the european air bus project with or without Britain. Noting reports that Britain May no longer be interested in French German British development of a 320-passenger plane the Cabinet consented to negotiations with France alone if necessary government spokesman Guenter Diehl told expressed Hope that both London and Paris soon would authorize continued support. Wanted a pied Piper London a sixty men armed with Poison Gas guns Are Hunting a plague of rats in Eastern England. They already have killed about 25,000. A. ,. The Hunt is taking place Over about 120,000 acres of Lush farm land and 500 Miles of Flatland drains in stamp chief drainage Engineer in the area estimates As Many As 10 million rats in the worst such plague Ever recorded in the area. Kosy Iii Back in Public Eye Moscow up Premier Alexei Kosygin made his first Public appearance thursday night in More than six weeks to great hungarian communist party first Secretary Janoska Dar. Kadar arrived by train fora Friendly visit. Paris peace talks in solid deadlock As reds again assail Saigon regime Paris a the unite states appealed to North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong s National liberation front thursday to come to grips with Basic problems of peace but the Viet Nam peace talks Here bogged Down into a solid deadlock sealed by violent attacks on the government of South Vietnam. The third session of the full scale talks opened with an Elf blast declaring peace Impossibles Long As the present South vietnamese government remain sin Power and the americans re fuse to negotiate directly wit the Elf. This plus a North vietnamese statement echoing the senti ments suggested a distinct hard ening of positions. The Elf in fact said bluntly that the talks can make no Progress so Longas the Saigon government re Mains in other Side of the deadlock came from Saigon where presi Dent Nguyen Van Thieu said South Vietnam will not make any concessions detrimental to the National sovereignty or this news conference statement was a clarification Ozone in Paris by vice president Nguyen Cao by who had said Saigon had made Many conces Sions and was willing to make More. Such concessions Thieu indicated concerned Only Ges Tures of Goodwill in order to obtain Good results in As the american North Viet namese Elf and Saigon Dele-1 Gates gathered for the third time j tuft boy wearing a traditional child s Hairdo a boy Waits to be taken to a govern ment refugee Camp near Quang Ngai Vietnam from a nearby combat area. The tufted hair style tradition appears to bedding out and is Seldom seen nowadays. A photo London Call it Lontin London a London i getting cleaner but noisier officials reported traditional London fog is now a rarity thanks to smoke less zones in which Coal fires Are banned. Fish Are returning to Central reaches of the thames River As factory effluents an sewage disposal come under in creasing Points emerged from a report by or. Basil Brown scientific adviser to the greater London Council the capital main municipal authority. Brown said the reduction Nair pollution should ensure that newly cleaned buildings like s Cathedral stay clean for Many he added daytime noise Levels in Central London do no appear to be increasing appreciably but the period of relative quietness during the night is be coming Shorter and less he blamed on increasing night flights into the capital Airport and a general increase in night Road added that noise on saturdays and sunday afternoon appears to be rising As More people take to their cars for the weekends. He forecast that residential Side streets now quiet will suffer from noise As Drivers seek alternatives to the congested main routes. Thalidomide still on sole court is told Alsdorf Germany a a defendant in West Germany s Mammoth thalidomide trial testified wednesday that the sleep-1inducing drug is still being marketed in defendant Hans Werner von Schrader Bielstein said the German Developer of Thalida j mide had granted a License to a brazilian pharmaceutical firm in j 1959 but had withdrawn it in 1961when thalidomide was linked to a wave of congenital malformations of infants. The drug was withdrawn from the German Market in 1961.schrader-Beielstein, head of licensing for Cherie Gruenthal said the production of the drug in Brazil was continued after 1961without the German company s approval and without its sharing in any profit. The brazilian producer was not named in open is one of seven past and present officials and scientists of Cherie Gruen Thal who have been on trial since May 27 on charges of negligent manslaughter and inflicting in jury through the development and Sale of thalidomide. The drug has been blamed forthe malformation of thousands of children in 20 countries. Plane Down 13 lost Manila up a . Ail Force hc130 Hercules Rescue plane with 14 crewmen aboard crashed wednesday in heavy seas about 100 Miles South of Taiwan. The plane was looking for survivors from the japanese freighter Shoka Maru which Sank tues Day. A japanese freighter picked upon of the american crewmen but reported no sign of the 13others. A . Spokesman said search for the missing men was continuing but was being hampered by heavy seas. Japanese officials said 15 per sons were rescued from the Shoka Maru but eight other were missing. Cd eco arrives in Moscow Moscow up czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Mark arrived Here wednesday on an official visit the official soviet news Agency Tass said. Around the enormous round table in the International conference enter the atmosphere was one of pessimism for any positive result in the near future. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge heading the . Team sought once again to bring up military matters although he declared that we do not thereby set aside the importance of Politi Cal ambassador Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam however insisted that the Vietnam problem must be solved As a whole in Bot military and political aspects the political aspect being the More fundamental this is a Basic element of the deadlock. Lodge indicated this when in his formal statement he said we do underline two things in this regard first As we have repeatedly said we con Sider that the settlement of political affairs must be a matter for determination by the South vietnamese themselves second that the separation of the con tending military forces will help to create a climate in which the political process can go Forward without external dealt with first thus the United states i stressing that military matters involving reestablishment of the demilitarized Buffer zone Between North and South Vietnam an Mutual withdrawal of forces must be dealt with first in revived his Doz proposal arid rejected a charge of his antagonists that the Ameri cans brought this up As a Means of maintaining military superiority in the South. he said the contrary is heals repeated his Call for Mutual withdrawal of on the latter Point Lodge said it Means the withdrawal for All North vietnamese military and subversive forces to North Vietnam vaguely Sug Gesting that Hanoi must act first. As that is happening Lodge said the withdrawal of Ameri can and Allied forces will com cover up scheme but both the Elf and Hanoi claimed that bringing up Mili tary questions separately is a american attempt As they put it to cover up the scheme to continue the Tran Buu Kiem the Elf foreign minister and chief negotiator said such a proposal was meant to permit the americans to bring in yet More forces and massacre the South vietnamese Kiem s terms seemed harder than Ever. He demanded that the United states realize that unless it undertakes serious discussions with the Elf it can never Settle the South Vietnam Ese problem and added that the Saigon government must be displaced to permit any Progress in Paris. Lodge told the Elf and Hanoi delegations the americans do not consider the 17th parallel dividing North and South Viet Nam since the 1954 Geneva agree ment to be final. Let me Clear up one misconception expressed at the previous meeting Lodge said. We Donot regard the 17th parallel As a permanent political restoration of the demilitarized zone does not in any Way preclude the reunification of Vietnam if that is the freely chosen preference of the people of North Vietnam and the people of South Vietnam. But that kind of free expression of Choice can Only be done with
