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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 17, 1967
Page
14
Thousands of US Marines and South Vietnamese launched a fresh sweep south of the Demilitarised Zone. One Marine was killed and 30 wounded as heavy fighting raged all day with Communist troops. US bombers and artillery pounded North Vietnamese positions, and Vietcong strikes on Da Nang air base killed eight Americans and wounded 173.
AAP reports William Stanley the lone survivor of his company after North Vietnamese forces overwhelmed a Fourth Division unit near the Cambodian border. He feigned death amid the dead as bullets and shrapnel tore through, later recounting a brutal sequence that left him wounded but alive. The story notes 35 Americans killed and 10 missing, with Stanley enduring hours among corpses before rescue. A later item mentions a US gold reward offer for a downed pilot in North Vietnam.
Radio Biafra blamed traitors within the Eastern State for sabotaging the fight against Nigerian Government forces who announced the capture of Nsukka. Nigeria’s army said it smashed secessionist resistance, the first major advance of the war toward Enugu. The radio claimed covert orders caused a retreat near Nesukka and alleged Biafran casualties, while officials tallied over 2,000 rebel deaths or captives in the siege near Napkka, 41 miles from Enugu.
Report says White mercenaries escaped from Congo government forces crossing into Zambia while another group fled to Portuguese Angola. In Zambia troops man roadblocks on main highways and bridges. An aircraft carrying 20 people, including 2 wounded, flew to Henrique de Carvalho in Angola. Government says the men will be interned until repatriated.
John Smith, a Newark taxi driver, says he does not want to be seen as the man who started Newark’s Negro rioting, while his lawyer notes his recent arrest for a traffic violation and fighting officers. The case involves Newark Legal Services Scheme administrator Oliver Lofton and a confrontation after a Wednesday night stop.
Stokely Carmichael, 26, arrived in London saying he expects to be shot this year as he denounces U S race oppression. He plans a few weeks at a left wing conference while clashes erupt in Newark. police attacked a driver, sparking a riot with helmeted officers clashing with bricks and bottles.
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