16 Mar 1969
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Newspaper
Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1969
Page
1
Chinese and Soviet troops traded heavy fire on the Sino-Siberian frontier in a five hour battle over Damansky Island. Both sides claimed casualties and accused the other of starting the clash as monsoon snow and freezing conditions persisted.
Six rockets struck Saigon and nearby areas early today despite a White House warning. A guard at a Shell petroleum dump at Nah Be was wounded as three rockets hit the facility and a large fire broke out but was controlled within an hour.
The Soviet Union launched an unmanned Cosmos satellite on Saturday carrying equipment for precision measurements of orbital elements. Cosmos 271 circles Earth every 9 minutes as part of a broader space exploration program.
STATELINE Nev a one carat diamond cut in the Shape of Nevada will be auctioned Wednesday at a buffalo barbecue to help feed 70 wild mustangs trapped in deep snow on a high Sierra ridge. A helicopter haylift was started three weeks ago to feed the horses believed to be direct descendants of 18 animals brought to the New World by Hernando Cortez.
University of Texas officials and regents banned the Students for a Democratic Society from using UT facilities for the SDS national council meeting planned for March 20 30 in Austin. President Norman Hackerman cited university rules and the group's aims as incompatible with UT sponsorship. About 1500 attendees were expected.
Sunlit Amarillo notes 66 of 72 days in 1949 with intermittent light snow in the south portion. Forecast calls for hazardous driving through the morning as warm air lifts, with a high around 40 and improving conditions later.
U S forces launch Operation Focus Retina an airborne exercise from North Carolina to South Korea with 7 000 troops testing Strike Command reach over five days Kadena Okinawa hosts part of the final 700 man 82nd Airborne contingent amid protests for Okinawa’s status A ME evacuation crash kills seven near the DMZ and President Park backs U S military flexibility on Okinawa.
The United States seeks progress at the Geneva disarmament conference with new proposals. President Nixon's envoy Gerard Smith met with the White House and NSC to plan talks on nuclear test limits chemical and germ weapons control and an atom free seabed as Geneva opens.
In Burnet Texas lawyers for Clyde Durbin Jr gathered hundreds of news reports from subpoenaed reporters as they seek to shift his murder trial from Burnet to Austin. Durbin 21 a UT dropout faces two counts including the killing of Keitha Morris and John Albert White. The hearing continues with witnesses and court rulings on press publicity.
Elmer Lee Miller 64 of 904 Sunset suffered multiple fractures when his car was struck by a train Friday afternoon at a Santa Fe crossing in the 1300 block of North Me Masters. He was listed in satisfactory condition at Northwest Texas Hospital late Saturday.
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