27 Apr 1969
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1969
Page
1
US soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division fought a two day engagement at Frontier City in Vietnam near the Cambodian border. They killed 213 North Vietnamese soldiers with no American deaths and five wounded minor, two evacuated.
Washington officials report virtually no mail has reached American prisoners in North Vietnam for six months since the end of US air raids. No Christmas packages are believed delivered to the estimated 400 or more captives. Undersecretary Flott J Richardson voices concern over the silence and questions Hanoi’s motive in denying basic family contact.
Police arrested over 100 Black demonstrators on Saturday after they ignored orders to disperse following a four hour clash with state police National Guardsmen during a march in Charleston. The day followed 102 arrests on Friday for violating a restraining order limiting hospital pickets at South Carolina Medical County Hospital. Among Friday’s detainees was Rev Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who said he would stay jailed.
In U S District Court Orville E Stifel I faces a bomb murder charge for the July Lorain killing of Daniel J Ronee as eight character witnesses describe his peaceable reputation The defense questions prosecution test results and radiochemical methods amid the high profile case.
A candidate is to be sought as executive dean for the Black Studies Institute at Ohio University Athens. The item appears on page 2 of Inside Today.
President Charles de Gaulle, 78, hunkers at his Colombe y Deux Eglises estate with wife Yvonne and a few aides as France votes on Sunday. Police guard the walled property on General de Gaulle street while polls gauge whether a Yes vote will loosen centralization by creating two new regions and shifting power from the Senate to a consultative body. He said Friday night he will resign if defeated.
A Columbus measure by Rep. Jim Thorpe would let inmates work during the day and serve time at night and allow superintendents to reduce sentences by up to one fourth with judge approval. The bill cleared the House Commerce and Labor Committee and faces a House floor vote Monday night.
AP report from Londonderry notes 350 British infantry and engineers airlifted into Northern Ireland raising total troops to over 6,000 as Catholic and Protestant bishops tour riot zones urging restraint while sectarian unrest intensifies. A group calling itself the People's Revolutionary Army threatens new violence targeting water pipelines in the province.
An Xenia, Ohio mother, Mrs. Hichard F. Keyers, praised a personal letter from President Nixon saying her son Dennis did not die in vain. Nixon acknowledged her grief, defended his son’s service as voluntary, and urged belief in God and country, noting the values that sustain civilization.
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