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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 04, 1968

Page

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Market ends session at best as shares rise

U.S. stocks closed sharply higher in active trading with gains widening through the day. The market strength contrasted with the day’s early trading as investors pushed indices to session highs. Escapee Quickly Obtains Job Fort Lauderdale Florida Thomas Edward Perri 25 escaped from Brevard jail and found a job near the jail then returned. National Transportation Safety Board urged FAA to bar pilots from using radar to penetrate storms and seek weather avoidance instead. Lloyd Mangrum 12 observed birthday with autographs from firefighters after reporting a blaze at an office building on Central Parkway. damage estimated at 8500 dollars.

New York Fort Lauderdale Fla Thomas Edward Perri Brevard County Washington —Jr National Transportation Safety Board Joseph J. O'Connell Jr Federal Aviation Administration Cincinnati Lloyd Mangrum Central Parkway Fire Department

Hanoi releases pilots while hard line at peace talks persists

Hanoi informs the United States it will free three captured American airmen as a humane gesture but shows no sign of easing demands for war de escalation. Harriman calls the gesture a possible wind of progress while Thuy notes no real movement.

Paris North Vietnam United States Hanoi W. Averell Harriman Xuan Thuy Thuy U.S

Johnson Plans Single Training Academy For Enforcement Officers

The Johnson administration proposes a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to train all federal law enforcement officials except FBI agents. The 61 acre Beltsville Maryland site would reuse Agriculture Department facilities and train about 7400 recruits yearly. The project could cost tens of millions and aims to start activity this autumn with full readiness in about three years.

Washington Johnson Administration FBI Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Beltsville Agriculture Department Experimental Center

Bullets Miss Suspect's Kin on Pasadena Freeway

Police recovered two .38 caliber bullets from a car driven by Saidallah B. Sirhan brother of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the man charged with Kennedy's murder Sirhan said shots came from one of two cars that chased him on the Pasadena Freeway at 430 am as he returned home from Los Angeles

Pasadena Calif Saidallah B. Sirhan Robert F. Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Kennedy Los Angeles

Brezhnev Attacks West in Kremlin Speech on Berlin

Leonid Brezhnev denounced Western democracies in a Kremlin address to a Hungarian delegation, defending East Germany's Berlin border controls and labeling the United States as morally decayed. He praised communism and warned against Western plans while linking recent tensions to U.S. failures from Kennedy to King.

Moscow Leonid Brezinev Kremlin Soviet Union East Germany Berlin Soviet Communist Party United States Britain France West Germany Italy Brezhnev Washington

Rockets Captured Near Saigon During Viet Cong Skirmish

U S troops from the 1st Infantry Division swept near the Rach Dia River six miles southeast of Saigon and uncovered 43 Red Chinese 107mm rockets and 13 Soviet 122mm rockets hidden in bamboo, plus a Soviet aiming device and crude mounts. No American casualties. one Viet Cong soldier wounded and captured. The find follows a brief clash with a Viet Cong force and signaling renewed concern about rocket attacks on Saigon.

Saigon USS 1St Rach Dia U.S

Johnson surprise visit as Westmoreland sworn Army chief

Gen. William C. Westmoreland was sworn Army chief of staff in a Pentagon ceremony attended by President Johnson who praised him as he took command. Westmoreland, the 25th to hold the post, received full military honors as the Old Guard fired a 21-gun salute.

Ongrepheta Westmoreland Army Chief of Staff Washington William Childs Westmoreland Army Pentagon Johnson Defense Department Westy Golly West Moreland Westmoreland Nette Kenneth G. Wickham Vietnam Harold K. Johnson Joint Chiefs of Staff

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