The Year That Was 1968 Major News Review
A retrospective on 1968 highlights with famous heart transplants and disasters. Notable items include Sicily quake devastation, U S and North Korea Pueblo crisis, B 52 Greenland crash with nuclear bomb search, and significant medical milestones plus Super Bowl and diplomacy themes.
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Packers
Oakland Raiders
United States
North Korea
USS Pueblo
U. S. Navy
Fifth Air Force
Navy
Sea of Japan
Pentagon
Congress
Thule Air Base
Greenland
Tet Terror and Winter Games Marked February
Tet ceasefire shattered as Viet Cong attacked Saigon and across South Vietnam from Quang Tri to Ca Mau. Hue endured weeks of house to house fighting while the Tet offensive yielded heavy casualties. In Grenoble, the 10th Winter Olympics opened with Norway leading and Peggy Fleming winning the USA's sole gold. Back home, New York battled a garbage strike as Gov Rockefeller and Mayor Lindsay clashed over sanitation. The stalemate ended after mediation pay raises and a state takeover proposal.
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North Vietnam
Quang Tri
Ca Mau
Mekong River
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Hue
Norway
Peggy Fleming
Colorado Springs
United States
New York City
Nelson A. Rockefeller
John V. Lindsay
Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association
National Guard
Rockefeller
Federal Support Set For Education In 69
Federal support will continue for a program that last year enabled 30 colleges and universities to apply their resources to community problems. The HEW Office of Education allocated 9.5 million dollars for fiscal 1969 with 324 216 tagged for Ohio. Funds will finance programs addressing urban unemployment juvenile delinquency slum housing and inadequate health services.
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Washington
Health, Education, and Welfare Department
Office of Education
Ohio
Purchase Of Piano Discussed By Group
NEW HAVEN A New Haven St. Paul Lutheran Church Esther and Rebecca Circles held a general meeting. The Rebecca Circle hosted with devotions, scripture by Mrs. Roush, and discussions on buying a piano for the multi purpose room. A committee was formed to obtain prices. The circle noted a service book purchased in memory of Margaret Dawkins and discussed the Sunday nursery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Esther
Rebecca
New Haven St. Paul Lutheran
J. W. McGrew
John F. Roush
William Russell
Carroll Adams Jr
McGrew
Russell
Harry Layne
Circle
Margaret Louise Dawkins
Neth Thompson
Governor's Grandson Resigns Bank Post
Denver reports John Evans resigns from the First National Bank of Denver. He is the grandson of the Civil War era Colorado territorial governor John Evans, who founded the University of Denver and Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.
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First National Bank of Denver
Colorado
Evans
John
University of Denver
Northwestern University
Evanston, Il
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Joy Stilley
Associated Press
Bells
Sicily
Salaparata
Rosa Scandina
Mediterranean
Hun
Rome
Nicola Cevelli
Poggioreale
South Africa
California
New York
Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto
Mike Kasperak
Maimonides Hosital
Brooklyn
Louis Block
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
Groote Schuur Hospital
Clive Haupt
Christiaan Barnard
Miami
Green Bay
Blaiberg
Vietnam
Grenoble
France
USA
Dale E. Shultz
THE
Athens County Savings & Loan CO
Mill Street
Athens
Denver
John Evans
Ishes
Restauran
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