Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 24, 1978

You are currently viewing page 5 of: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 24, 1978

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Big Trident sub Given unveiling up the first of the giant new Navy Trident the largest submarine in the was unveiled saturday for the first the nuclear submarine Ohio was rolled out of its covered Assembly building Here at the electric boat division of general dynamics on a specially rigged conveyor in an operation that took nine the massive conveyor system moved the vessel 500 feet onto a Concrete waterfront pier where it will undergo final Assembly and the keel of the sub was Laid two years it is scheduled for launching Early in 1979 with delivery the following the Ohio will have a submerged Dis placement of tons and will be 560 feet electric boat is contracted to build six sister submarines of the Ohio the Trident carry 24 missiles and Are scheduled to replace the navys Fleet of Polaris Poseidon attack found chained Bangkok a police have raided a heroin processing factory in an apartment House and found a 3yearold girl who had been chained to the stairs for More than eight officials investigators speculated that the girls parents chained her to prevent her from telling people about the heroin police Are searching for the april 1978 the stars and stripes Page s Westmoreland says journalists failed Nam test Chip off the Ostack Elizabeth stack swirls to the beat of music during a disco fashion segment on the Dinah Shore to show filmed in Lai Shes the daughter of movie and to Star Robert a Washington up retired army William Westmoreland said saturday american free of wartime censorship for the first failed to report in a responsible manner in the former commander of troops in Vietnam said if the United states is to wage War a policy should be set to avoid ambiguity Between the news Media and the Westmoreland criticized the news Media for being masterfully manipulated by propaganda from Hanoi and Moscow during the Vietnam War and particularity for its characterization of North Vietnam 1968 tet offensive As a Victory when it was really a major military defeat for the he said the War might have been concluded within six months after the tet offensive if it had not been projected As a North speaking before an annual conference on accuracy in Westmoreland told about 150 persons few realized that the Vietnam War was the first War eve fought without some sort of official this situation thrust upon the news Media a responsibility onto itself one never experienced As an inst in my it failed the Westmoreland said reporters have tended to become and smug and excessively Leafu Shirley Temple Block turns 50 a life of dimples and diplomacy fed i led u use it of ravish Dice i san Francisco a Shirley Temple who says she led an enchanted celebrates her 50th birthday looking Back on half a Century of dimples and reaching the Hal Century Mark hardly seems to faze the woman who mingled with two women imprisoned for teacher abuse a two women have begun serving 11month sentences in t prison work farm for beating a school teacher in front of horrified Merita Feaster and Bessie Hayward convicted of Battery by a Volusia qom to court jury which deliberated Only m they began their sentences judge Harrison Griffin ordered the to stay at the county farm for at least nine months of the 11month sen he also ordered each of them to w1700 in reparation to the an Nette and in court u Griffin had imposed the maximum penalty of one the women would have been eligible for parole after serving three the two both went to stones Jas room the Day after she stopped a fight Between Feaster son and another the jury heard testimony from five Stu who said Feaster attacked the teacher without warning and that Hayward guarded the doorway shouting encourage Feaster testified she hit Stone Only after teacher pushed Hollywood stars As a toddler and now moves just As easily among International i had an enchanted childhood a magic childhood with great but i dont want to live in the and i dont live in the she said in an inter View from her suburban Home in Wood about 25 Miles South of at age she 1 dont Cross out any options or she said Shes had two other careers at Home and in Public life since i the Good ship Lollipop Days of the 1930s when she became the scout at age she retired from film Mak  working for 47 years and i like hard said the former whose laughter sprinkled her Conversa proud and serious interest continues to be International she studied Long and hard and feel reasonably expert in some said her diplomatic experience led to seats on the boards of directors of three major president Nixon appointed her representative to the United nations in in became ambassador to Ghana in and two years Bur nations first fan mall and enjoys tending her Garden at Home with her husband of 28 Charles her daughter by a previous mar is 30 years old and her is and her is a year he said that they must police them selves and show More responsibility or they will destroy their Westmoreland said he favors a free press and does not solely blame the Media for the collapse of but he if the nation is to wage War declared or undeclared a policy should be made to protect the interest of both the Media and government and avoid the ambiguities that characterized relationships in South Viet head of the Saigon com Mand from said he has not thought of a precise policy to meet that but he said if a conflict threat ened National i think censorship could be imposed and would be sup Westmoreland charged that correspondents stationed in Saigon in the Early Days of the War sought to achieve the sensational because nothing Short of that would make the Hometown he said the joint pulitzer prize award in 1964 to David Halberstam of the new York times and Malcolm Browne of the associated who confused reporting with influencing american foreign worsened the other reporters then followed with criticism of the military thinking they had a better Chance of recognition and he who retired As army chief of staff in said that television contributed to the distortion with com dramatic film clips of guns men helicopters buildings huts refugees women Westmoreland said Hanoi suffered such a defeat in the tet offensive that it needed four years to Here at it was portrayed As a Victory for the if the Media can create a defeat of our armies on the they can also eventually defeat the viability of our Westmoreland in that it May be later than we jumbo flights London tip after a three year British airways is resuming jumbo Jet flights from London to the airline of time in a recent appear her by to Calls herself a Garden piety citizen who still gets legend disputed Dan a former president of the Texas state historical Lalou to have evidence that frontiersman Davy Crockett was far from a dying hero at the that he May have surrendered and been executed Hbeo the Alamo was seized March Crockett is shown above in a Crayon drawing he look with him to washing ton where he served in a april 1948 Gen Lucius Clay said the would ignore any new controls placed by Russia on air traffic to april 1958 five paratroopers were killed and a number injured in troop drop As part of operation Eagle Wing at fort Campbell the fatalities re culled during the practice drop of about 500 men and tons of equipment from h april 19u military spokesmen said a handful of soldiers fought off about 500 guerrillas for eight noun until Armor and air Power rescued them during a Battle to save Saigon from a new guerrilla  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade