European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday february 14, 1969 space rescues impracticable now Borman says upon arrival in Rome Rome a american astronaut rank Borman arrived thursday on a four Day visit torome to meet italian leaders and Pope Paul i and told newsmen he still would be circling the Moon if any technical difficult had crippled his Apollo 8 flight. The problem of rescuing Aman or a ship in space will re main for a Long time Borman said at a news conference. Laird comments . Considers moving abm Sites from cities continued from Page i communist chinese missiles. The Sentinel defense now proposed could not hold up under � nuclear attack by the soviet Union he explained. But Faircl maintained the sys tem could defend against inter Continental ballistic missile launched by China now in the Early stages of its nuclear mis Sile development. Although China does not Haven operational icbms Lair said "1 think they la test fire in18 months and in the next few Turk women protest visit by 6th Fleet Istanbul up turkish mothers and students demonstrated Here and in Izmir thurs Day against visits by ships of the . 6th Fleet. One group of students seized and locked up a youth from an Kara to keep him from carrying out a threat to Burn himself alive to protest the naval visit to Istanbul. Police arrested a group of 14students who started a hunger strike. They Lay in a Dock Are Street to protest a visit by two of the Fleet s Supply ships to Izmir. Police gave Protection to aboul300 girl students and 300 other women who marched to the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Istanbul with signs saying turkish woman will always protect her Honor and Turkey is not the Brothel of the 6th the March started in the Gar Den of Istanbul University Black edged Flag some of the girls carried Ablack edged turkish Flag and some carried other signs saying Down with imperialism either Independence or death we brought up our children to expel imperialism from our country and we do not want you we did not want you we shall not want students from the Istanbul University economics faculty seized Muzaffer Kolu Only a few hour before he planned a fiery suicide As a protest against the week Long visit. Kolu announced wednesday he would set himself afire at 1 . At the Dolma Barce Dock where 6th Fleet sailors arrive for Shore leave if the . Vessels had not left Istanbul by that time. But at that hour his student captors had him locked in a room belonging to the association of economics students. They said they would keep him under close watch for his own Protection until the ships weighed Anchor. Years have a Force of 18 to 20missiles. Laird also said the unite states must continue research toward an effective defens against More numerous and sophisticated weapons. He said the soviets Are out spending the United states in both strategic offensive and defensive areas. As far As offensive weapons Are concerned Laird said the number of soviet icbms in operation or Sites under construction equals or is More than the United states already Laird s immediate predecessor Clark m. Clifford told con Gress in a january military pos Ture statement that As of last october the soviet Union gadabout 100 fewer operational icbms than the United states 1,054. But Clifford omitted mention of How Many other soviet icbms Sites were under construction predicting Only that in coming months the soviet Union would match or exceed this country in sheer numbers of icbms. Laird also offered reassurances the Sentinel nuclear War Heads would pose no inherent danger to population centers near antimissile has been Public protest in Seattle Chicago and Detroit All candidates for Sentinel Sites that a Sentinel Accident might kill thousands of persons. Almost nil Laird contended the Chance fan accidental explosion is Al most he said that Over thelast 10 years the United states has stored 15,000 nuclear War Heads around the world without a single Accident. Laird said his previously announced trip to Vietnam Proba Bly will be in March. It will be his first on the scene assess ment of the War. Candy is barred in South Dakota town Mitchell . Up the movie Candy was seized Here and a theater owner was arrested. A complaint alleging the exhibiting of obscene material to the general Public was signed by Joe Lapour wrestling coach at Dakota Wesleyan University Here. Sheriff Lyle Swenson acted on an order from the 6th District county court. Replying to questions about hypothetical Rescue Mission for a stranded american or Russia astronaut Borman said there was no question that philosophically we would do All we could to Rescue a russian spaceman but the problems of Docking and other technical questions Are so Complex that this does not seem have no possibility of res cuing a Craft in space and we would be still circling the Moon if we had had any Borman was greeted by applause from italian newsmen when he said his Faith in godhead been reinforced during the trip. I think i am a Man with Strong Faith he said. But i am sure that everyone goes through Waves of High and Low Faith Dur ing his life and i have been no exception he added. On saturday Borman an Episcopalian will Brief Pope Paul and the Vatican cardinals on his trip around the Moon and will look at the heavens through the Vatican s Telescope. Borman his wife and two sons flew to Rome from Berlin on the seventh Stop of their european tour. He9d put talks in Moon orbit berlins a astronaut Frank Borman has a plan for hastening the Progress of the Paris peace talks. Do you think they would reach agreement should the hold the Vietnam peace conference in a spacecraft orbiting the Moon asked a reporter at a press conference , who visited Paris before coming to Germany on his european tour replied with a laugh "1 think it would be successful with a very limited Supply of fuel on in Washington sen. John j. Sparkman d-aia., told up he would be glad to see an armistice called in the Viet Nam fighting Over the tet Holiday. Sparkman a ranking member of the foreign relation committee was first understood by a reporter to have said he had been told by the Nixon administration that the United states had agreed to a lunar new year cease fire but Sparkman subsequently denied this. 4th peace session ends with stands unaltered Paris a the fourth ses Sion of the full scale vietnamese peace talks ended thursday wit the opposing sides barricaded be Hind fixed positions and the knot of deadlock seemingly drawn even the meeting the senior spokesman for the Viet Cong s go convicted of Mutiny in protest at Presidio san Francisco up an army private was found guilty of Mutiny thursday for joining26 other soldiers in a sit Down strike at the Presidio stockade. A six Man court martial Board deliberated Only 35 minutes be fore returning its verdict against pvt. Mesrey Sood 26, of Oakland Calif. Sood standing at attention Ashe verdict was read appeared shaken but said nothing. Warsaw pact talks held in e. Germany Berlin a representatives of Warsaw pact military forces have met in East German with the pact commander in chief soviet marshal Ivan Yakubovsky the official East German news Agency adn reported thursday night. The Agency said the representatives came from Bulgaria Hungary Czechoslovakia Roma Nia East Germany Poland and Russia. There was no immediate word on the theme of the meet has been growing speculation that Warsaw pact Maneu vers might take place in East Germany in reaction to the forthcoming West German presidential election in West Berli March 5. The communists have issued repeated warnings threat ening serious consequences should the election be held in the communist enclosed City. The Board heard argument from prosecution and defense attorneys at a Brief mitigation hearing following the verdict then retired to consider the penalty. The officers could sen tence Sood to life . Col. George Robinson the Law officer judge said the trials of two other alleged Muti neers will resume on Short he interrupted the trials of pvt. Louis of Sczmonski of Florida n.y., and pvt. Lawrence reidel of Crescent City Calif.,for sanity hearings. The other 24 stockade prisoners face trials later this month or in were charged with Mutiny after staging a sit Down demonstration in october to protest the killing three Days earlier Ofa fellow inmate at the base stockade. Pvt. Richard Bunch of Dayton Ohio was fatally shot by a guard while allegedly trying to escape a work detail. Paul Halvonik an attorney forthe american civil liberties Union representing Sood said the27 men were trying to draw at Tention to the Bunch shooting and inhumane stockade conditions and not attempting to usurp military authority. The court martial Board Dis agreed finding Sood guilty of violating article 94 of the uni form code of military Justice which defines Mutiny As an unlawful attempt in concert with others to disobey lawful teachers9 mini maxims Conan sea from Pago 1 air As on the chalkboard you write. Ask someone who s watching exactly what sin sight. Will Small folks on lower chairs get quite different a Leaf pit Ity Artex they Are seeing when they Are Wir Cwm you finally come to Ltd to crossing Experiment when you May be teaching something that needs some careful thought but perhaps it s difficult to Tell what they Rve been reprinted poem concludes while keeping up with fashion remembering the end it s Little things that ready count like now to sit and Bend any question National liberation front did say that the Elf would consider pro. Longing its lunar new year cease fire if the americans Here propose a truce. If such a suggestion is submitted to the conference we arc prepared to examine it the spokesman said. He recalled that the Elf has called a one week cease fire but said it has received no official notification Ofa Washington acceptance of a truce. He added that . Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge had made no mention of a truce Dur ing thursday s session. The Day s proceedings shortest of the four sessions thus tar ended after six hours and 10minutes. They included an hour Long informal Exchange after the delivery of prepared statements with Tongue i South vietnamese Cheek theand North vietnamese ambassadors acidly exchanged Good wishes to one another for the new year. After the meeting Lodge said he was sorry to report that Noth ing really significant other delegates agreed. 4 soldiers sentenced for Holdup attempts Nuernberg Germany four Vii corps soldiers were sentenced Here wednesday to German jail terms for two at tempted taxi robberies in july. The men who had been in jail five months were sentenced to Terras ranging up to 21 months according to the office of inter National affairs Here. They were identified with outrank As Rodney Parrish 18, who received a 21-month sentence and Mark Custer 20, Walter Goodyear 23, and Stanley brix,21, All of whom got 15-month terms. The robbery attempts we remade using an Iron pipe out Side Merrell Barracks Here. Bri was shot and wounded during the second attempt which led to the arrests. Red protests election directly to Kiesinger Bonn a soviet ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin protested directly to West German Chan cellar Kurt Georg Kiesinger thursday the scheduled march5 election of the West German president in West promptly rejected fhe contents of the protest at meeting with Tsarapkin held to ,1ns envoy a request a West to comm spokesman said
