European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june 1977 arrives in starry promotion stalled rocket exp von Braun Dies at 65 Washington a a promotion for a three Star army general in hot water Over his controversial speech was stalled on Capitol Hill on Friday while he returned from Germany to face his Pentagon Supe acting on a request from Gary chairman John Sennis of the Senate armed services committee agreed not to schedule any hearings on the nomination for a fourth Star for Donn he is the second general to be called on the carpet within a month for speaking out of ordered to explain was scheduled to report to army Secretary Clifford Alexander and chief of staff Bernard Rogers to explain his who has been commander of v corps in already had been head ing Back to the states for a vacation and to take a new assignment after the Contro Versy developed Over his he was directed to postpone his leave and report to army on Capitol Hart said no action should be taken on starry nomination for a fourth Star until Senate armed services committee members had read the full text of the generals speech and starry had met with starry told a class of graduates at Frankfurt american High school that the United states May wind up in the Middle of court t continued Arn Page i murder of Kelly Ann Dobbert he also was of second degree for the death of a younger Ryder in Early authorities found another Ernest Dobbert wandering the streets of obviously the child told police his father had beaten and that a similar beating killed his sister and Dobbert was found and arrested in Texas in late testimony at his trial established that Kelly Ann Dobbert had suffered Burnt poked kicks to the head and battering that sometimes lasted for 45 prosecutors said Dobbert finally choked Kelly Ana placed her body in a plastic bag and buried in two other rulings Friday affecting Cri Minal the court reached these results by a unanimous the court applied to earlier cases a 1975 decision requiring prosecutors to prove All elements of a crime before they could win a the 1975 decision had taken away the Power of states to require an accused person to Bear any of the Burden of proof during a criminal fridays decision simply extended that decision to cases tried before the ruling was by a 53 the court ruled that a state May require an accused person to prove that a killing was done in a state of emotional disturbance if the person wants to have a murder charge reduced to Man a soviet chinese he did not submit us comments to the Pentagon for prior As required under regular a Pentagon spokes Man the Pentagon sent a message worldwide to All commands thursday reminding members of the military not to speak out of line or to contradict established officials said the message actually was prompted by the controversy Over John who lost his Job As chief of staff in Korea after predicting that withdrawal of ground troops from the country would Lead to Singlaub comments were seen As a direct criticism of policy set by president who wants to withdraw ground troops from starry remarks were considered out of line because they were not and Europe 10 i Oyer wifi a and Snaar Neft after t Heidi or Saul they forecast a major War when the administration is trying to ease world tensions and eliminate nuclear but Pentagon officials said starry re Marks were not another Singlaub White House officials said Carter had no plans to meet with the As he did with in his speech june starry told the graduating students and guests that China and the soviet Union probably would fight a major War in their lifetime and that it was Likely the United states would get involved once it appeared one of the forces was about to starry was honoured at a Farewell recep Tion at the Headquarters officers club in Frankfurt about 200 invited German and american guests Al tended the the general seemed at ease and smiled and 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Back at the dirty Rhodes although in not inclined to think that the motivation of the democratic leadership in confirming the democrats have refused to name names in the spirit of confidential sharply criticizing the democrats for trying to weaken the morale of republicans in the House and to some extent succeeding Rhodes said democrats were acting completely irresponsibly in a Way that could have the effect of hurting the republicans in a very Sleazy sort of the Washington Star reported earlier this week that John a seven term Republican from was one of the three Al though perhaps wavering now that his name has come Rhodes acknowledged that perhaps Buchanan was the one among republicans mentioned As possible the reasons this is because Buchanan has become a More moderate was Defeated by Ronald Reagan supporters when he ran As a Gerald Ford Delegate in Alabama for last years gop convention and had been threatened in harsh Way with a Tough primary1 fight next year by Hartline but Rhodes said he did not think Bucha Nan Ever had decided to switch the minority Leader said the same of two other moderate republicans who had been mentioned in speculation about potential defectors Charles r and Paul in satisfied Whalen int going any Rhodes Whalen has flatly denied he was one of the defectors being mentioned by the of Mccloskey and Rhodes i give you my word that neither of them is going Over to the could the whole thing be a colossal mis understanding on the part of democratic leaders maybe that the i Hope the democrats have Learned that much from Rhodes he said that a number of Republican members had come to him on the House floor and it int the fact that they took this initiative was viewed by Rhodes As important evidence that there would be no if i am ill eat my Rhodes although he quickly added a Quali Fier but there have to be three of three 1969 Cuba plan to blast Nixon Home reported Washington a cuban Premier Fidel Castro developed a secret plan in 1969 to have underwater raiders blow up the president Richard Nixon Winter Home at key columnist Jack Anderson reported Anderson said the raid was a contingency plan and added there was no known at tempt to carry it he also said he didst know whether the plans included an at tempt on Nixon but he said a cuban official at the United nations was expelled from the United states in connection with the Anderson said the Lazara Eddy Espinosa tried to recruit a Cuba american servant working inside Nixon key Biscayne compound to pro vide blueprints of Security the who was told that harm would come to him and to relatives in Cuba if he did not agree to help in the instead told officials about Anderson the account said the blueprints were to be used to guide attacking frogman in an attack on the Nixon continued Page 1 funeral was held later in the Day and tended by his family and a few von Braun lived at a time when to evolved from backyard exp highly developed Means of t he was at the forefront when achieved status As a tool of peace As 1 As a weapon of he had been hospitalized several Timm for cancer since an operation two year ago at Johns Hopkins Hospital to remove a malignant pioneered Moon rocket Rocco who worked for 20 Yean i with von Braun developing the giant Saturn rockets that put men on the j called the German bom rocket Pioneer Man with his feet on the ground and Bis head in the without von Petrone the could not have gotten to nearly As quickly As it he led the team that developed tin rocket that orbited americas first Satel later von Braun became known As the father of the Tatums that launched Apollo Moon retired Lima Nasa von Braun retired from the National aeronautics and space administration in 1972 to become vice president of Fairchild but he remained As Active As Ever in promoting despite his failing health earlier Tell von Braun continued to encourage development of advanced space tech nolo which he was confident would continue to open new vistas for Man in space White enhancing life on concerned about lagging Public interest in von Braun told vice president Nelson Rockefeller in april that an Active space program was essential for the nation to retain its technological leadership in the helped build Viz von Braun dreamed of sending rockets to the Moon when he was a teenage Astro Nomy student in Germany in the he achieved that goal 40 years after first guiding development of the v2 Rock ets the nazis used to bomb his foresight first paid off for the in the nation was still smarting from the Licking its Pride took when Russia orbited the worlds first artificial sputnik on three years von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the armed services and Industry came up with a plan to use a modified Redstone missile to carry a tiny satellite into orbit the named was the defense department decided in Stead to support a Navy satellite Effort based around a newly no War rocket called von Braun was ordered to abandon his but after russian stunning the government changed its mind and defense Secretary Neil Mcelroy gave von Braun the Green eighty four Days on a Jupiter rocket developed by von Brauns army team propelled explorer into Page it or by Means of any independently unlawful said the Mere words alone do not constitute physical Force or if a warning like cases was considered a then a casual meeting of two tra veers at a rest Stop along a  followed by a casual remark by one that a radar setup had been seen would be enough to Mark the author of the remark As a said the opinion written by Justice Lawrence