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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - October 4, 1968, Norwich, New York The e vening in vol 78, no. 132 Friday october 4, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 Ioc per copy allies raid reds kill 150 in Battle troops enforce Uncertain Calm on olympic City Mexico City apr Stu dents Burn d trolley cars near an olympic Field and armoured cars kept their guns trained on apartment buildings where snipers had holed up but most of the mexican capital was quiet thursday night. Despite the eruption of the student rebellion into a shooting Battle with army troops wednesday night the olympic games still were set to open a week from saturday. A was guests of Mexico we have full Confidence that the mexican people. Will join the participants and spectators in celebrating the games a veritable Oasis in a troubled world a said Avery Brundage president of the International olympic committee after an emergency meeting of the committee. A count of casualties at hospitals and police stations showed at least 27 persons killed in wednesday night s fighting and some Mexico City newspapers reported death tolls As High As 40. There was no official estimate of the number wounded but it appeared to be in the hundreds. Various sources reported Between 1.000 and 1,500 arrested. The government has reported 20 deaths. Gen. Marceline Garcia Barragan Secretary of defense said one of the dead was a Soldier. No injuries were reported in thursdays incidents. Students Burn Al three streetcars in front of the Altce stadium where olympic soccer games will be played and fled before police made any arrests. Hit and run gunmen fired apparently random sprays of bullets in various sections of the City. A noise bomb which did no damage exploded on the Eastern Side of the City so far in 21 reds took part in Chicago Prober Washington apr the chairman of a House subcommittee on in american activities says he has heard testimony that at least 21 communists were involved in the bloody clashes Between Antiwar protestors and Chicago police during the democratic National convention. But rep. Richard chord. D-mo., did not name anyone during a hearing thursday and when question after the session he was vague about the charge. At first he said the testimony came tuesday. Then he changed his mind and said it might have been Bast d in part on a closed subcommittee meeting wednesday. Finally he said he did t know where he got the testimony. Thursdays session the second since the subcommittee opened its investigation this week was again the scene of bizarre incidents of wild behaviour ballot wont include Lemay Washington apr in spite of his selection As George c. Wallace a running mate Gen. Curtis Lemay a name wont be on the ballot As a vice presidential candidate in most states. Wallace a announcement that Lemay is his no. 2 Man Carne too late to replace the name of former Georgia gov. Marvin Griffin on the ballot except for a handful of states. Griffin was picked by Wallace at the outset of his third party Campaign As a stand in running mate because Many states required any party seeking a place on the ballot list both presidential and vice presidential candidates. Weather scattered Light showers Early tonight some Snow flurries Likely in higher elevations. Partly Cloudy late tonight and Chance of some scattered Frost by Daybreak lows in the 30s. Partly Cloudy Cool saturday highs in upper 40s and 50s, 4 touched by the sporadic violence that Lias occurred since the students went on strike two months ago charging government repression and police brutality. Besides armoured cars at the Plaza of three cultures there were other signs of continued unease. The mexican olympic organizing committee placed a police guard inside its office. The olympic teams of several nations ordered curfews for their athletes. Soldiers stood guard at some olympic Sites. And a costly space exploration exhibit was moved from the University of Mexico to an olympic committee building. Army troops occupied the University Campus across the Street from the olympic stadium. From sept. 18 until monday because of a reported student plot to disrupt the olympics. When the troops pulled out striking students returned vowing to hold out for their demands for abolition of the Roit police corps firing of three top police officials repeal of some anti subversion Laws and a guarantee of University autonomy. Several students told newsmen thursday that at least six leaders of the strike committee were killed wednesday night. They said several others were arrested and the rest were in hiding. Although Many students perhaps a Large majority now appear ready to abandon the strike a hard Core of strikers still is pressing for answers to the demands. In Monterrey students took Over administration buildings and four departments at the University of Monterrey thursday. Water color Glare of car lights shimmer on wet pavement of North Broad Street during late afternoon rain thursday when this painting like photograph was taken by evening Sun photographer Casey Jones. Except for famil tar signs in background one might think it was Paris Street scene during warm Shower. What happened to City pedestrians during cold heavy rain is depicted on Page three. Navy airs sub steel Nixon tells at Antans probing Wallace unfit for Job involving groups of wildly dressed hippies of the youth International party. One Antiwar witness walked out of the hearing another refused to answer questions about whether he is a communist and a Yippie Leader was arrested after he showed up Iii a shirt that police charged was made from an american Flag. Abbie. Hoffman denied the charge and said it was merely a shirt of stars and Stripe design. Hoffman a wife Anita and another Yippie Brad Fox. Also were arrested for interfering with police. Authorities also reported arresting a girl for having a dirty phrase about the police printed on her hat. Or. Quentin b. Young of the medical committee for human rights was the witness who re fused to answer whether he is a communist. He said the question was irrelevant and that the first amendment to the Constitution protected him from having to answer such inquiries. Another witness Robert Greenblat National coordinator of the National mobilization committee to end the War refused to answer several questions and then stalked from the committee room. The subcommittee also listened to testimony from a Cook county qi., police investigator who infiltrated the hippies during the convention. Robert l. Pierson said he worked his Way in As a personal bodyguard to Jerry Rubin a Yippie Leader. He quoted Rubin As saying a the candidates should be killed and the government toppled. Pierson told the subcommittee that the violent overthrow of the government was the Mutual goal of the hippies students for a democratic society the National mobilization committee to end the War in Viet Nam and the Black Panther party. Pierson said the groups warned to disrupt the convention Embarrass mayor Richard j. Daley gain sympathy from the news Media during confrontations with the police and win the support of Liberal delegates to the convention. Washington apr the Navy acknowledges that for the past nine months it has been investigating inspection practices for steel used in . Submarines. The review the Navy disclosed thursday night was prompted by a letter from the head of a steel testing firm who a expressed concerns about the services steel buying and inspecting procedures. The Navy said a wide ranging probe the it involved building of submarines steel producers and government agents showed a a there is no evidence that defective steel plates Are being used in submarine a there is also no indication that the loss of the Thresher 1963 and scorpion last May were due to the failure of the steel plates used in the Hull submarine steel plates and fabricated structures Are guaranteed Safe through inspection procedures that Are a always Carrit a out under government a recent ultrasonic inspection of welds and plating in More than 40 submarines in service a has not revealed any evidence of plates which do not meet Safe submarine construction a a there is no evidence that rejected plates were used in any submarine the comments followed re ports this week by Washington columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson that the Navy had evidence As Early As july 16, 1962, that steel producers had a knowingly delivered defective plates for submarine construction. What the Navy called a an extensive and detailed review was Start d last february after the naval ship systems Coni Mand received a letter from Raymond g. Per Al Man president of Penn galvanizing co. Of Philadelphia. Atlanta. A. A Richard m. Nixon has declared for All the South to Bear hat Alabama a George c. Wallace is not fit to be president of the United states. But the Republican nominee for the White House acknowledged that the third party candidate could in the end prove to be his major rival in the nov. 5 election. Nixon chose a Campaign Tel evasion appearance broadcast across a dozen Southern states thursday night to level his most direct assault against Wallace. A we need policies at Home that will go beyond simply saying that Well if somebody lies Down in front of my presidential limousine it will be the last one he lies Down in front of a Nixon sail. His reference was to a state Tuchi Wallace had made repro edly during his Campaign that if he were president and a protest or Lay Down in front of his car a i will guarantee you it will be the last car Ever Lay Down in front a i done to think anybody who would say that is even fit to be president a Nixon said in an interview later. Nixon also said for the first time that he would be willing to meet Wallace in two Man televised Campaign debate. But lie later added that is not going to happen and said his comment was made facetiously. As he has from the beginning Nixon said Campaign debates if they Are to be held should match him and vice president Hubert h. Humphrey the democratic nominee. Nixon talked As Well of the requirements he would set for a chief Justice of the United states now that president Johnson has withdrawn his nomination of Abe Fortas to take that Post. Nixon said he does not care whether a Man is a Democrat or a Republican a Liberal or a conservative. He said he wants a chief Justice who will interpret the Law and leave it to Congress to write Laws. A i want men who will interpret the Constitution strictly and fairly and objectively and that a the kind of Man i intend to anti Point a he said. Humphrey drive Quot turns Corners Washington apr Hubert h. Humphrey says his Campaign a turned the Corner Quot during a 15-Day push that carried him through wide sectors of the country. Rallies in Portland and Seattle ore., were disrupted by hecklers. He admits Republican Richard m. Nixon is out Iii front. Lack of Money forced him to cancel a Batch of television commercials. Yet Humphrey and his staff were buoyed by the size and enthusiasm of crowds that turned out in san Francisco and Char Lotte . Presidential Hemen ants George Ball and Douglass Cater joined the vice presidents entourage. The nations largest Union the teamsters gave him formal endorsement. Democratic Mills claimed lie s ahead at least in eight states holding 136 of the 270 electoral votes needed for election. And in the Wake of his Salt Lake City Utah speech advocating a qualified bombing halt democratic senators Rose in debate to defend Humphrey at nearly the same time to House democrats who had backed War critic sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy announced they now support the vice president. Sen. Albert Gore. D-tenn., said a Humphrey has hit his stride again. He seemed to be Uncertain and fumbling before but now he is the old campaigner we have known in the Humphrey s Campaign in West Virginia charged that re. Publican Victory Means a recession depression and a employ a a Republican administration never gave you a dime a he said at a Stop while driving through a string of Small towns. Resistance stiffens in Peru Lima Peru apr spawned by Street Battles Between Stu dents and police resistance was stiffening today against the military leaders who overthrew the government of president Fernando Belaunde Terry. Students swirled through the streets breaking shop windows. At least to cars were burned. Police used tear Gas in an attempt to control the of breads in this andean nation on the West coast of soot ii America. In one encounter thursday night police fired into i crowd of students hitting one in the head and apparently killing him. Five photographers taking pictures of the incident w re arrested. Starving 6-year-old Seldom eats own Erri Eastern Nigeria apr for want of a name they Call the Little girl Uia at a guess shed be 6 years old a homeless Parent less refugee. She a starving but Seldom eats. Her frail body rejects any form of nourishing food. Like thousands of other ibo children uprooted by the nigerian civil War. Ula May soon die. Her Black curly hair is turn ing Light Brown and falling out signs of advanced malnutrition. She a practically sightless and totters along like a dwarfed old woman. Ula is not Hun and spindly like some starving ibo children. She is grotesquely bloated with her head and limbs twice Normal size. Most of the Day she whimpers huddled in a Corner of the nigerian army refugee Camp close to the fighting zone. She appears Unwor ried by the humid Mosquito Laden atmosphere the thundering torrential Rains or the stutter of machine guns. Ula is one of thousands of ibo refugees crowded into make shift refugee Camps. Most of the children Are in advanced stages of starvation after living for months on Root vegetables. Concentrated protein and Vitamin foods Are rejected by their wasted bodies. Doctors forecast that a whole generation of Young ibo children May be doomed to an Early death if the starvation continues on us present widespread scale. They Point out that advanced protein deficiency in Young children seriously curtails lift expectancy. The children become mentally retarded and unable to resist even minor ailments. Already plagued with trans purgation problems and a serious Lack of medical facilities in aircraft collide killing 24 yanks he issued a communique de tailing the formation of the new govern my warning against ids of violence and telling of the new government composed of the highest ranking officers in a he air Force and Navy is headed by Gen. Juan Velasco army chief of staff Aud president of the joint chiefs. Belaunde a exile. It was also signed by the chiefs of the Navy and the air Force. Eleven members of a Cabinet that had been sworn in 14 hours before the coup remained under House arrest. They had been drafting a communique calling for a rebellion when officers broke into their meeting. Forward areas the nigerian army Lias its hands full trying to Cope with the increasing flow of refugees Many too weak to Aid themselves. A we must soon face up to the tragic problem of having millions of refugees crowded together in a Small concentrated area in what is left of rebellious Biafra a said one Field commander. A unless the biafran surrender thousands of ibo tribe people May Well die not Only of starvation but because they will be in the direct fighting Saigon apr Allied forces killed 150 enemy troops in a new outbreak of heavy fighting near the cambodian Border along tile jangled approaches to Saigon military spokesmen reported today. Enemy gunners shot Down a . Helicopter ferrying ammunition to the embattled South vietnamese mercenaries in the area. Four americans were killed and two wounded. Earlier . Headquarters reported that 24 americans were killed in the collision of a big army ch47 Chinook helicopter and an air Force Caribou cargo plane la Miles Northwest of Hue on the coast. It was one of the worst air collisions of tile War. There were no survivors. The fighting along Hie cambodian Border co Miles Northwest of Saigon was triggered at Daybreak thursday when about 400 South vietnamese civilian irregulars were lifted into the area by american helicopters. They immediately ran into an enemy Force of about 800 to 1,000 men. Two and a half hours later another 400 South vietnamese mercenaries were committed to the fight. Government casualties were put at 15 dead and 44 wound Tel. The american helicopter was brought Down by machine gun fire As it was Landing. A . Special forces Captain and the Crew chief were killed in the flaming wreckage. The Pilot and a gunner were killed by enemy riflemen As they crawled away from the wreckage after pulling out the wounded helicopter commander. The commander a first lieutenant and a special forces master sergeant sur. Vived with minor wounds. The new outbreak of fighting broke a week Long Lull in ground action along the cambodian Border where the enemy lost 700 men during the last week of september in suicidal attacks on Green Beret Camps screening infiltration routes. The ene. My troops were believed to be from the Viet Cong 9th division which has bases inside Cambodia. In the Aerial collision far to the mirth Headquarters said the air Force Caribou had just taken off from Camp Evans Headquarters of the . 1st air cavalry division. Thirteen men were killed aboard the Caribou including four crewmen. Eleven others were killed on the helicopter including four crewmen. The loss of the helicopter shot Down and the one destroyed in the Aerial collision raised toll the number of american aircraft downed since the first of this week. . Headquarters said the latest losses raised to 4,465 the number of fixed Wing aircraft and helicopters lost in the Vietnam War. A spokesman said 904 . had been downed in combat Over North Vietnam including two pre. Piously unannounced for Security reasons. Another 309 War planes have been downed in combat Over South Vietnam and 1,176 have been lost As the re suit of accidents mechanical failures or being downed by Erie my ground fire while serving As sup Fiort aircraft. The spokesman said 882 Corn Bat helicopters have been lost to enemy ground fire Over South Vietnam awl nine Over the North. Another 1,185 helicopters were reported lost As the result of mechanical failure or Pilot error or were downed by ground fire while on support missions such As medical evacuation. Humphrey claim is challenged Washington apr an adviser to Richard m. Nixon has challenged a democratic claim that Hubert h. Humphrey is leading the presidential contest in eight states with a total of 136 electoral votes. Sen. Thruston b. Morton of Kentucky said private polls offered by democratic National chairman Lawrence f. Of Brien a a done to jibe with what the Public opinion Mills of Brien said thursday that party pos show the vice president ahead in Connecticut Michigan Minnesota Missouri Massachusetts new Jersey Pennsylvania and Texas. . Pilots flew 143 missions Over North Vietnam s Southern Panhandle thursday the highest number since tile 149 logged july 2. Pilots reported destroying or damaging 15 waterborne Craft and 31 trucks moving southward. B52.s flew to missions Over South Vietnam thursday and today. The eight Jet Strat fortresses dropped nearly 2,000 tons of explosives on enemy base Camps and infiltration corridors from tile Jungle approaches North West of Saigon to tile Foothills South of Danang. Military spokesmen also announced that Allied troops making a sweep ll1 Miles North of Plesku City capital of the Central Highlands had found the bodies of to enemy soldiers killed in five raids by b52 bombers sept. 25 and 26. The Allied loops also uncovered three tons of Rice and assorted military equipment. Czechs set to request no debate United nations . Apr Czechoslovakia is expected to urge the . General Assembly to avoid debate on the invasion while the nations leaders negotiate in mos. Cow for a withdrawal of occupation forces. Czechoslovakia s acting foreign minister Vaclav Pleskot is listed to address the 125-na-Tion Assembly today in its general policy debate. He is expected to make the Appeal. A plea went out from Prague thursday night for czechoslovak themselves particularly students to do nothing to hinder the task of the leaders at tin1 Kremlin. A every Chain is As Strong As its weakest link a education minister Vladimir Kadlec said on czechoslovak television. A students make sure you Are not that weakest link. The government is meeting your demands As much As it can. Done to make the task of our leaders More Pleskot took Over his functions last month when foreign minister Jeri Hajek quit under soviet pressure and Premier Eldrich Celk became the nominal foreign minister. Pleskot got his turn to speak Here while Cernik and communist party chief Alexander dub Cek were Iii Moscow for the latest talks on a normalization a meaning withdrawal of the soviet East German polish hungarian and bulgarian troops in Czechoslovakia since aug. 20. Secretary of state Dean Rusk and soviet foreign minister an Drei a. Gromyko were planning a second talk despite their differences Over Czechoslovakia stated in the general de Bate. . Officials told reporters that Rusk and Gromyko would have dinner together sunday night. They said the two had Only touched on the Middle Eastern question in their first meeting wednesday night and would have a real discussion of it sunday and go on to other subjects. The officials expressed belief Gromyko would like to see the Arab israeli conflict settled. They said the dispute Over Czechoslovakia was not hampering .soviet contacts. The americans described Gromyko a speech to the assent Bly thursday As nor polemical a a sober arid a moderate in speaking for about an hour Gromyko defended a the events surrounding Czechoslovakia a warned against encroachments on a the socialist commonwealths but offered Friendship to the whole world including the United states. A to damage the position of socialism in the world a he said a is tantamount to increasing the danger of a new world Wir. A the socialist states cannot and will not allow a situation where the vital interests of so Cial sin Are infringed upon. Today s chuckle you can fool some of the people All of the time. Done to be one of them

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