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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1968
Page
1
U S and World briefs report the death of 76 year old former Democratic Senate majority leader Scott W Lucas in Rocky Mount North Carolina after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was unseated by Everett Dirksen in 1950.
A U S House Armed Services panel urged intensified U S military action in Vietnam as peace talks stalled. Chairman Porter Hardy Jr said progress is too slow to defeat the enemy and North Vietnam has rejected peace efforts. Thant’s talks with Johnson and peace probes yielded no clear path. Johnson welcomed Thant and outlined a bombing halt tied to productive negotiations.
U S planes hit the Hanoi radio station for the first time in the war while monitors said it remained on air. Air Force F105s struck a large storage area near Hanoi. US casualties rose to 543 in combat with 2,547 wounded as Hue battle persisted and Communist divisions threatened Saigon.
Washington lawmakers clash over civil rights as Senate rejects tabling the open housing measure by 58 to 34, threatening progress on broader civil rights proposals this session. The next vote on cloture is crucial, with debates lingering since January and a possible end to action if cloture fails.
Seven people including a mother and five children died when a small wooden home burned near Powhatan Point Ohio Two others survived badly burned and escaped through a window The fire started from an overheated coal stove authorities said the house stood three miles west of Powhatan Point and had suffered a previous fire about two years earlier
Washington AP reports Ronald Reagan’s aides gauge a standby presidential run if Nixon falters. F Clifton White aids Reagan, attending GOP meetings while telling Republicans not to commit. White to head California delegation as a potential uncommitted favorite son. Bliss seeks a compromise on platform committee leadership amid Dirksen governors split.
President Johnson urged Congress to set a far reaching goal to build 26 million homes and apartments over the next decade as the centerpiece of The Crisis of the Cities. He proposed a housing and urban development act to replace six million substandard units and allocate 2.34 billion for 2.5 million units in five years.
Senator J W Fulbright charges the administration misled Congress and the public about the August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. He cites a 21 page Defense Department statement by Robert McNamara and a navy commander’s removal for mental examination after offering testimony. Fulbright says staff findings should counterbalance the McNamara release as the Tonkin event spurred escalation in Vietnam.
A gunman in a white cowboy hat hijacked Delta Flight 43 from Tampa to Miami, forcing a detour to Cuba with 109 aboard. He held a pistol to a stewardess in the cockpit for hours before the aircraft landed at Jose Marti Airport in Havana. The hijacker, later identified by passengers as S. Wilson or Lawrence Roberts, bought a $21 first class ticket and said he faced a death sentence for the act. The crew declined to overpower him. four MIG fighters escorted the DC8 to Havana.
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