Humphrey Hit By Paint In Rome

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 13

Humphrey Hit By Paint In Rome

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright}

ROME March 31.

An anti-Vietnam war demonstrator threw yellow paint at the United States VicePresident, Mr Hubert Humphrey, as he entered the Rome Opera House last night.

The paint splashed down the front of Mr Humphrey’s host, an opera director, Mr Angelo Carlucci, and a few drops touched Mr Humphrey's suit The Vice-President reached Rome a few hours earlier by air from Bonn on a three-day visit for talks with Italian Government leaders. Soon after the paint was thrown by an unknown person, a bearded man standing with.. other onlookers inside the building shouted: “Stop bombing Hanoi.” Secret Servicemen accompanying the Vice-President

grabbed the bearded man and rushed him away. Mr Humphrey and Mr Carlucci were wearing dark business suits. They continued on to their box after the incident

The Italian police later arrested the paint thrower and identified him as Gianni Bazzan, an employee of the Young Communist Federation in Rome.