European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Humphrey Saga is Over Greaf Liberal loses his Battle against cancer Washington up on a cold and Mournful Hubert Humphrey came Home to his beloved Capitol for the last time saturday to receive the grieving tribute America reserves for heroes and extraordinary human the outpouring of from president Carter to Ordinary showed that the Joyful fighter for Liberal dead of cancer at held the nations other Page 2 biography and pages 10 and former president Richard virtual Recluse since tie resigned the presi travelled to the nation capital on a commercial flight from los Angeles to Honor it was Nixon first trip to Washington since be resigned the presidency on former president Gerald Ford told reporters at his Palm Springs Home that he also was flying to washing both Ford and Nixon spake with prey by Telephone in the last Days of his flown from Minnesota aboard air Force Humphreys Flag raped casket arrived saturday morning to the 19gun Honor Salute for vice travelled to the Capitol in a Black Hearse and Wai placed b Black velvet cat Falque in the vast Rotunda for 24 hours of Public vice president Waller the it Mestan who is Humphreys political led the Honor escort and walked with Humphrey across the Snow slicked Andrews fab Tarmac under Chilly she smiled gamely As she walked at his at the Humphrey dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief and embraced friends during a private viewing for family and congressional after an the doors to the Capitol were opened thousands of Public mourn ers began filing by the casket from a line that stretched far out into the icy congressional police kept the mourners moving briskly past a roped off Circle surrounding the Fla covered Bier maintained tight Security with restraining ropes and rooftop the president was to deliver a Eulogy sunday at 11 then1 Hubert Horatio the f continued on Page 4 gesture to Well wishers Muriel widow of Hubert it acknowledge saturday expressions of sympathy by a group gathered to see her off at Mlynne As be Tor Washington on air Force Humphrey body was on us in route to lie in state in the Capitol a photo unofficial Puiu Camion for the Ahmed Foitl 270 january 1978 if 21855 a become nato Carter says pulled Korea gis to be kept by Helen Thomas Washington up president Carter said saturday that american troops being withdrawn from South Korea Over a five year period will not be disbanded but will be used As reserves to help increase North Atlantic treaty organization the statement was made Friday to visit hut was released the president was asked whether he in tends to use the troops leaving South Korea to meet the pledge you made to the nato he those troops will probably come Back to our country to a staging we will increase in the nato area our troop placement in this i month about i so when we do bring the troops Back 1 from they wont be he sail they will be used on this continent As a Reserve Force that can be used in Europe expeditiously in he said the United states is trying to Orient its forces where they Are most and also plans to have much More Mobile military capability in the european theater by trying to reduce substantially the amount of time it lakes to shift United state based Mobile units Over into Europe u11 becomes of he what we Are doing ims for is not to create a but to a nude an sure demonstration to the Warsaw pact nations that we Are capable of defending Europe along with our euro Pean Carter also told the editors that if the peace initiatives of egyptian president Anwar Sadat break Down it would be a very serious blow to world said he would meet with Secre tary of state Cyrus Vance before Vance de parts for Jerusalem to participate in the Israel egyptian political we put a great Deal of importance these discussions in be i think if the peace process that Sadat has initiated should break it would be a very serious blow to world and we arc determined to add our Good offices whenever we Carter said he just cant imagine prime minister me Nancy begin and the israelis having the Basic peace negotiations broken Down because of an argument about jewish settlements in occupied one of the current stumbling it May very Well be that in he West Bank or he Sinai that there could be some f combined on it More Snow clobbers East by the associated press the Northeast was hit by up to a foot of Snow and upwards of a Quarter million most of them in the new York City metropolitan were without electricity Early saturday As freezing rain caused widespread Power the National weather service forecast heavy Snow for most of Northern new eng land and parts of new York with freezing rain in Southern new with temperatures expected to fall below Freeling As More rain continued Power outages like those that left residents on Long in parts of new York and areas of Pennsylvania and Connecticut shivering Early saturday were Snow fell Over the lower great lakes across the Ohio Valley and into the Southern appalachians and mid Atlantic coast the cold weather was expected to push South into Alabama and there were Snow flurries in the Florida Panhandle and temperatures were fore cast to dip into the 90s and 30s saturday but High winds were expected to Ward off at least customers were without Power on Long the hardest hit area of the and at least custom ers in scattered areas of new York City were without Power temporarily during the a consolidated Edison Dan said Power was restored to All customers by 6 and fire alarm boxes knocked out of commission in Queens for about three hours were restored by then Eastern airlines out of Laguardia air port in new York qty cancelled its hourly shuttle flights to Boston unfit noon because of weather condition at the reeling rain also occurred in parts f confirmed m 4
