European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 13, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 3 expelled former priest Michel Colin who Calls him self Pope Clement Xiv is expelled at the French Border by italian police after Lead ing a demonstration at the Vatican. A photo Mao had to Oft army too much gun May be on top in red China Hong Kong up forbore than 30 years chinese communist party chairman Motse Tung has preached the Prin Ciple that the gun must never be allowed to command the in his drive to perpetuate his Brand of hard line communism however Mao May have put the gun in command for years to the cultural revolution that ripped apart the fabric of the party Mao was forced to rely upon the army to a far greater extent than he had , with the rebuilding of the party As one of the major immediate tasks the army still is sitting in the Driver s seat of what Mao likes to Call the Loco motive of revolution in military men show no signs of relinquishing the considerable Power they have acquired during the past three years As Mao purged his col and the rest of the party leadership Are committed to holding the Long delayed ninth National Congress of the part this year but no Date has been set. Today orld Pope rejects conscience argument Vatican City up Pope Paul i rejected publicly for the first time wednesday the argument that catholics who decide in Good conscience they cannot follow his teaching against birth control Are free to use contraceptives. In a speech to his weekly general audience the Pope said con science can be guiltily the Pope thus rejected the position taken by some National conferences of Catholic Bishops and by such a High ranking Churchman As John Cardinal Heenan of the speech the Pope did not mention the birth control question specifically but his reference was Clear. Unique heart operation in Italy Turin Italy up a Turi doctor announced wednesday he has carried out a successful transplant of a part of a heart from a donor who died 13 Day before the operation took place. Prof. Francesco Morino director of the general surgical clinic said the Section of heart was taken from the body of the unidentified donor Jan. 30 on Day after his death and flown Canada peking talks Start Stockholm up talks Between Canadian and communist chinese officials aimed at establishing diplomatic relations Between the two governments have begun Here a Canadian embassy spokesman said wednesday. Embassy counsellor Robert Bradford Edmonds said contacts at a diplomatic level have been made in recent diplomatic sources said cambodian ambassador Arthur Juli Nandrew met with chinese charge d affaires Liu Chi Tsai once or twice in recent Days. To London s Imperial was sterilized with a High dose of Gamma rays and pre served at 110 degrees below Zero Section was shipped Back to Turin monday and Morin transplanted it tuesday into the body of 16-year-old Giuseppe Massa of Genoa who was re ported in satisfactory condition24 hours later. Information leaking out of China in recent weeks indicates that one of the reasons for the apparent sluggish Progress of preparations is the military civilian rivalry in provincial areas about the makeup of delegations to the Congress. Civilian factions Are involve Din a similar Battle among them selves. This mainly is betwee the party veterans who survived the purge and the new face that emerged during the cultural there is a major new upheaval the Congress is almost certain to be held before oct. 1, when the peking regime will Cele brate the 20th anniversary of it founding. Most analysis believe the leadership is trying for a late Spring or Early summer Date. Their reasoning is that the chinese probably do not want to hold the Congress before the scheduled world communist meeting in Moscow which China will boy Cott. About a half dozen of the 26provinces have held part congresses. Little information i available on what took place but a communique issued after meeting of the Hunan party s Central committee said the Selec Tion of delegates to the National Congress had been discussed. It did not indicate whether the Dele Gates had been selected. The Best available information indicates that civilian elements have been complaining about at tempts by the military to get the largest number of alluded to the need to keep civilians in the majority in his instructions quoted by the party newspaper and theoretical journal in a new year s editorial on the was things Are Goin it seems certain that the Van guards leading the new party will be the men with the guns a boosts defences Belgrade up Yugo Slavia has ordered the nation to gird itself for an All people partisan resistance War against any possible soviet or Warsaw act intervention in the foresee Able in High authority said Yugoslavia far from reassured by the Post Czechoslovakia in Vasion Lull remains highly suspicious of Kremlin designs and is taking no fear of imminent danger has faded. But genuine fear of russian Long term designs on the country political ideological and above All strategic persist in highest quarters. Russian entrenchment in the Eastern Mediterranean has added to the fears of a growing potential threat. Discreet feeler Yugoslavia these sources said has neither asked nor receive guarantees or commitments from the United states or nato. No has it asked for Western arms though it is understood to have put out discreet feelers lately. The sources said Yugoslavia which had been receiving in the past mostly russian arms would buy weapons wherever Avail Able if required there being nothing dogmatic about Yugoslavia while hoping for peace says it can defend itself and has decided to take All Neces sary precautions for a partisan j Type defense laying in economic reserves stocks and arms across the entire nation boys girls men and women Between 15 and65is to be involved in peace time preparations for guerrilla defense tactics sabotage and passive resistance under a new Law passed by parliament tues to authoritative quarters Yugoslavia has had very Little political and virtually no party Contact with Russia Poland East Germany and bul Garia in recent months. Relations with Hungary which had reverted to a softer line Are be ing revived and those with go it alone Romania have also Bee getting closer. The Kremlin they said has deliberately left its intentions obscure. Soviet party chief Leo nid Brezhnev declaring last november the Kremlin s new doctrine of limited sovereignty for members of the so called socialist Commonwealth has studiously avoided a delineation fits frontiers. Moscow did not Tell whether this includes Yugo Slavia once a bloc member until it quit after a break with Josef Stalin in 1948. The soviets have not mad open threats against Yugoslavia lately nor have they impose economic sanctions As Stalin did unsuccessfully. Still Only 28 percent of Yugoslavia s foreign Trade is now conducted with the East european bloc. But a soviet press Campaign has been stepped up recently against Yugoslavia s neighbouring Bulga Ria a hardliner and close Fol lower of Moscow moreover has unleashed a fierce evidently russian backed Campaign claim ing the macedonian territories of Yugoslavia which amount to about one third of Serbia the largest of Yugoslavia s six fed eral All however the soviet push into the Mediterranean i seen As a growing potential threat to the country s Long Ter Security. Yugoslavia fears the soviets if they have designs on the nation s bases could try to encircle it. At the same Tim thereby also neutralizing Greece and the . 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Russia is unlikely to risk such a Man Euver now. But yugoslavs fear some crisis development in the Middle East real or manipulated could trigger off a soviet Blitz Ven Ture of which they might be the victims. Laos chief admits . Bombs n. Viets in Laos Vientiane up prime minister Souvanna Houma admitted publicly for the first Tim wednesday that american air Craft Are bombing North Viet namese troop concentrations on laotian the same time he withdrew a year old threat to invite West Ern military forces into Laos if the communists disturbed the political balance by seizing provincial capitals they did not hold before the 1962 Geneva accords were also said he believes government forces can successfully defend themselves against North vietnamese attacks in Southern Laos and said he does not think communist military gains during the current dry season offensive will be substantial. Souvanna was asked for com i ment on Washington reports that Clandestine bombing of North i vietnamese infiltration route through Laos by american planes j stationed in Thailand had been doubled since the bombing of North Vietnam was ended nov. 1.j we have closely watched and understood this fact that the North vietnamese have doubled their infiltration in Laos. Behave no other Means to Stop Souvanna fact that american planes bomb the North vietnamese inlays has been common knowl Edge for years but both Ameri can and laotian officials always had refused to admit a violation of the Geneva accords. Hue is cautiously confident one year after its darkest hour by David Lamb Hue South Vietnam up the ancient Royal capital of Al Vietnam observes the first anniversary of its destruction this month As an armed City caught Between the dead past and the struggle for resurrection. Thousands of minutemen patrol the streets and canals at night by Day the City is alive build ing painting plastering. And Anu ways there is talk of tet 1948,the City s and South Vietnam s darkest hour just one year ago during lunar new years the Viet Cong Flag flew Over the Citadel where emperors once lived in palaces near the Banks of the perfume River. Hue belonged to the North vietnamese and the Viet took the allies 24 Days to storm the 15-foot-High Citadel Walls rip Down the Viet Cong Flag and hurl Back the the Buttle for Hue was Over feb. 84, the City Lay in ruin an the dead numbered 8,000. I suppose the communists could set to the outskirts of Hue this tet if they want to throw away three regiments said Bowen 43, senior adviser Tor thua Thien province but it s doubtful they d make it much is the Aura of Confidence that prevails in Hue As it approaches the Start monday of tet 1969. Yet the optimism i tempered by caution. For any prolonged siege even if unsuccessful could cripple the Renais Sance of Hue and shatter the Willow its 160,000 residents. Despite reconstruction the fac of the onetime Imperial capital is scarred and often ugly. The Cercle sport if once a Swank watering p4ac, is dilapidated. The University s science building is deserted the Palace vandalized and its grounds overgrown. Strolling through the abandoned zoo across the Pontoon Bridgeland past the emperors tombs the visitor has the feeling that Hue can never be the same resurrection of Hue in terms of Mere survival if notes thetic value nevertheless has been one of the More remarkable stories of the War. When the communists committed an estimated 30,000 troops against Hue Jan. 31, 1968, some 2,500 Allied soldiers herein and around the former Capi Tal. Now there Are 12,000 and18,000 civilian defense volunteers whose contribution is perhaps More psychological than military. The volunteers and women share some 6,000 weapons and Are stationed throughout the the past year the govern ment has paid out $1.7 million to repair private Homes. About 87,000 refugees have been re settled. The train Between Hue and Danang the big . Base on the coast is running for first time since 1w6
