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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 26,1977 second thoughts on Vietnam War continued from Page 1 and Kinnard excluded himself. By promising anonymity and focusing questions on first hand knowledge Kin Nard received what he terms an astonish ing response. Sixty four per cent of the officers completed the questionnaire and Many added pages of comments. Perhaps the most surprising finding said Kinnard was that Many viewed the tactics of the War As ill conceived. Asked about the search and destroy concept 58 per cent said the tactics were either not sound or sound when first implemented not  Kinnard observed i just can t imagine a world War ii general saying that the tac tics of that War left something to be de  asked whether the results of the War were Worth the Effort in View of the casual ties and the disruption of american politics and society 53 per cent of the generals responded that the War either had not been Worth the Effort or should not have progressed beyond an advisory Effort. Only 8 per cent of the respondents saw the South vietnamese army As a very a Carter. Continued from Page 1 the president said it is time for the . To get Over Vietnam scandals in the Cia and watergate. He said he sensed a burgeoning Hope for the  we can withstand challenges he said. We can overcome mistakes that might Well destroy a lesser government or a lesser  speaking on the nation s Economy Carter said although the monthly Fig ures go up and Down slightly there s a Basic stability  the president did t stay to eat the dinner of snapper Turtle soup and roast tenderloin of beef with the 140 couples at Williamsburg. Instead he left before the appetizer course to attend a congressional Black caucus banquet in Washington later saturday evening. Carter spent six hours campaigning in Williamsburg Norfolk and Roanoke for Howell a former lieutenant governor who is running against Republican it. Gov. John Dalton. The president s trip Cost the Howell Campaign an estimated $20,000, but that expense was Well covered by the $140,000 realized from the Williamsburg dinner. Referring in Norfolk to the Petroleum lobby s efforts to add immediate deregulation of natural Gas to the Energy Bill the president said the Gas companies Are very powerful in Washington As you Well know and want to deregulate immediately and add a tremendous Cost for the american Public. $20 billion to the Price of natural Gas Al ready discovered in Alaska  in a Senate test vote thursday an Effort to scrap an Industry backed natural Gas deregulation Bill failed by a 52-46 vote. The House already has passed Carter s Gas pricing plan which would continue controls on Gas shipped across state lines while lifting the Price ceiling from the cur rent $1.45 per thousand cubic feet to $1.75. The president said his Energy proposals Call for an end to regulation of natural Gas prices Over a period of time and include enough incentive and encouragement for  divers find Man s body on Concrete Post in Quarry Belfast up police divers recovered the body of a 70-year-old Man tied to Concrete Post and dumped into a Quarry Lake probably to keep him from testifying in a terrorist trial two years ago. A police spokesman said Samuel Miller 70, would have been a key witness at the trial of suspected provisional Irish Republican army men on Bank robbery charges. Septable fighting Force 89 per cent thought newspaper coverage had been either partly or completely irresponsible 91 per cent thought that television coverage had tended to be out of context or sensational. Perhaps the most emotional replies came on the question about the enemy body count which was designed to serve As an Index to How the War was going. A total of 61 per cent said the count was often in  the comments included the immensity of the false reporting is a blow on the Honor of the army grossly exaggerated because of the interest shown by people like Mcnamara and  i shudder to think of How Many of our soldiers were killed on body counting missions what a  often blatant  newspaper reports Kidnap plot Prince believed terrorists target Bonn up a group of terrorists planned to Kidnap Prince Claus husband of dutch Crown Princess Beatrix the German newspaper Bild am sonntag said sunday. The newspaper said the plot came to Light with the arrest thursday in Holland of Knut Folkerts a 25-year-old West German wanted in connection with the murder of Germany s chief prosecutor. Bild said Folkerts and other terrorists were about to try to carry out the plot when Dod could save billions by revamp study says continued from Page 1 Force has added less than $300 million to the Cost of defense manpower about two tenths of 1 per cent of the defense budget he said. One of the biggest hikes in defense spending has been from $6 billion in 1956 to $20 billion next year for civilian defense employees he said. Replacing 250,000 of them by contracting out their jobs could save a billion yearly. He also said a 50-50 ratio of career people to recent enlistees might save be tween $1 billion and $2 billion yearly. In addition he cited increasing retirement costs that will hit $9 billion next year although Pentagon officials said that no reduction can be made in retirement obligations Al ready made. While senior Pentagon officials agree that the Volunteer Force has so far attained about 98 per cent of recruiting goals doubts have been voiced about some of Cooper s findings. Pentagon manpower chief John White said that while it was possible billions sports in Brief Colorado Springs a los an Geles getting the nod Over new York was named Host City sunday for the 1984 summer olympics by the . Olympic committee. Mason Ohio up Mike Hill Sank a three foot putt on the 18th Hole sunday to win the Ohio Kings Island open by one stroke Over Tom Kite. Sunday s baseball National league Pittsburgh 000 002 020-4 8 1 Chicago 0 000 000-0 8 0 Cardelaria Gossage 8 and Ott r. Reuschel Hernan Dez 8lamp 9 and Hundley. A Candelaria 19-5. A r. Reuschel 20-9. Or Pittsburgh Parker 21. Los Angeles 010 012 1005 7 0 Houston 010 001 0024 9 0john, Rautzhan 9carman 9 and Yeager Niekro Thomas 8 and Herrmann. A John 20-6. A Niekro 13 8. Or los Angeles Yeager 16baker 29. American league Boston 311 112030-12 15 0 Detroit 100 101 002 5 18 1 Cleveland and flask Glynn Grilli 2crawford 6foucault 8 and May. A Cleveland 11-8. Lglynn 2-1. Or Boston Fisk 26yastrzemski 27hobson 30. Detroit Oglivie 20. First game new York 330 101 30415 20 0 Toronto 000 000 000 0 7 t Guidry and Munson Hendricks 8 Garvin Murphy 2johnson Willis 8 and Carooe. A Guidry 16-6. A Garvin 10-17. Or new York Jackson 31johnson 2 12piniella 12kingman 6. Baltimore 300010000-4 84 Cleveland 000 050 40x9 14 0 Grimsley  5briles 7parrott 8 and Skaggs Garland and Kendall. A Garland 12-19. A Grimsley 14-10. Or Baltimore Murray 25. Cleveland Carty is. Pro football Washington 10, Atlanta 6 Baltimore 20, by jets 12 Detroit 23, new Orleans 19 san Diego 23, Kansas City 7 could be saved Over the Long term through revamping personnel policies he was Uncertain whether the $5 billion to $10 billion level could be reached. White also said he believed the present ratio of about 60-40 Between first Wermers and career personnel can be lowered but i Don t know if it will be possible to get Down to 50-50." gym protesters rip up Fence at Kent state Kent Ohio up demonstrators Tore Down part of a Fence at Kent state University saturday to protest construction of a gymnasium at the site where four Stu dents were shot to death by National guard troops in 1970. Police refusing to play King of the Mountain stayed away from the weekend demonstrators but vowed to arrest an still at the site monday when workmen resume building the gym. Activist attorney William Kunstler told some 1,000 demonstrators rallying at the Barren site that attacks on students in the1960s were deliberate and constituted murder. The demonstrators want to halt construction of the $6 million gym Complex and turn the site into a memorial to the four students killed at a May 4, 1970, anti War demonstration. Murder charge Kunstler who has represented the May 4 coalition in a Long and so far futile Battle to Stop the gym described the killings As murder by those in highest places including the governor of this  Portage county sheriff Allen Mckitrick barred 300 deputies from arresting anyone trying to reoccupy the gym site Over the weekend. He said police action would wait until monday when construction workers Are due Back at work. Mckitrick said protesters wanted a National incident and they la get the Shock of their lives when they go to that ditch and see nobody  we re tired of playing King of the Mountain he said. At a news conference Kunstler said opponents would bring a Federal court action charging a conspiracy among Portage county judges University officials and others to violate the rights of May 4 coalition members and supporters. Another action he said would be filed to resist a Portage county grand jury that is hearing testimony about incidents arising from the gym controversy. He was arrested after killing a dutch policeman in utrecht in a gun Battle during which his accomplices escaped. The newspaper said the plan confirmed the fears of German Security authorities that the red army faction the Baader Meinhoff Urban guerrilla band plans to follow up the sept. 5 kidnapping of industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer with another kidnapping. Terrorists seized Schleyer in an Effort to gain the release of 11 imprisoned terrorists but the German government although negotiating has shown no sign of surrender. Bild said dutch and German investigators found in Folkerts papers references to a person identified by the letter  the German born Prince spells his name with a a but the usual German spelling is with  Folkerts on a map in his pos session had marked off the area around the Drake Steyn Palace the family residence the newspaper said. The License plate number of Prince Claus s private automobile also was in the notes the newspaper said. Bild said the Prince might have been an easy target for the kidnappers because unlike Beatrix and their three children he is not closely guarded and often drives his automobile himself without a bodyguard. When Folkerts was arrested he was trying to rent a Small truck of the Type used in the Schleyer kidnapping in Cologne Bild  on the German and French embassies in the Hague also were found on Folkerts and Security officials thought some terrorist action was planned either against the embassies or the ambassadors the newspaper said. Security officials in Bonn said there was a new Contact saturday Between Schleyer s kidnappers and the Federal criminal police office. Officials said the kidnappers gave new evidence that Schleyer still was alive. They gave no other details. The Cologne newspaper Koeln Ischer Rund Chau said saturday that the Kidnap ers in an earlier message indicated impatience with what they considered the government s stalling tactics. In reply to a demand for proof that Schleyer still was alive the kidnappers cynically hinted at mutilation the newspaper said. East Germany frees 90 More political prisoners Bonn up the communist regime of East Germany has released 90 More political prisoners and allowed them to go to West Germany an official in the ministry of Intra German relations announced. A ministry spokesman said the prison ers some of whom had been sentenced to Long jail terms were released ahead of time. He said the release was the result of negotiations Between Bonn and East Berlin. Europe Cloudy with rain showers monday. Mostly Cloudy to Cloudy tuesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 60, Low 50. Sunset monday 6 17 . Sunrise tuesday 6 19a.m. Temperatures recorded sunday get 4am 4pm 4am 4pm 69 82  43 59 Frankfurt r 63 66 Athens cd 56 66 London p 59 72  64 77 Madrid cd 41 54 Berlin p 43 55 Munich cd 54 61 Brussels cd 56 64 Paris p 48 57 Copenhagen p 48 70 Rome pc Cloudy a partly Cloudy a rain. Det,31stweathersq  
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