Czechs Resist Soviet Accord Moves Against Moscow Agreement
Czechoslovakia's national assembly demanded a firm withdrawal deadline for Soviet led troops and condemned the occupation as illegal. Dubcek faced central committee pressure over rumored concessions while reformists seek to oust hardliners, amid underground activity and growing protests in Prague.
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Prague
Czechoslovak National Assembly
National Assembly
Moscow
Communist Party Central Committee
Alexander Dubcek
Ludvik Svoboda
Dubcek
Slovak Communist Party
Bratislava
Vasil Bilak
First Slovak
Central Committee
Wenceslas
United Nations
Czechoslovakia
Security Council
Jan Muzik
Cedar Rapids cost of living rises slower than nation in 1968
Iowa State Extension reports Cedar Rapids Linn county area saw a 1.2 percent cost of living rise in the second quarter of 1968, below the 1.3 percent national increase. The index reached 114.3, with housing and health and recreation among the biggest gains.
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Cedar Rapids
U.S
Iowa
Linn County
Armed Robber Wounded In Cedar Rapids Hold Up
Two Cedar Rapids officers stopped at the Clark service station on Sixth Street SW after a prior robbery. They witnessed John L. Schaepperkotter, an escaped convict, threaten the night attendant John P. O'Brien with a gun. After tear gas forced them out, Schaepperkotter was captured and O'Brien freed. He faces robbery with aggravation charges.
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Cedar Rapids
John L. Schaepperkotter
Clark
Sixth Street
Schaepperkotter
Ft. Madison Penitentiary
Linn
John P. O’brien
First Avenue East
Dean Johnson
Clark Station
Dennis Kelleher
Kirk Bailey
Linwood Cemetery
Kelleher and Bailey
East Side
Draft Kennedy support in Iowa collapses as Kennedy ends bid
Iowa backers of the draft Ted Kennedy movement conceded disappointment after the Massachusetts senator ruled out a presidential run. Iowa chairman William Sueppel said the effort appeared doomed and a meeting of state chairmen with Jesse Unruh was canceled.
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McCarthy
Iowa
Ted
Chicago
Ted Kennedy
Massachusetts
William Sueppel
Iowa City
Robert Kennedy
Sueppel
Jesse Unruh
California
Kennedy Victory Hints at Humphrey First Ballot Nomination
Vice President Hubert Humphrey led the Democratic convention with strong first ballot support as Edward Kennedy urged delegates to reject a draft. Endorsements from Govs Hughes McKeithen Godwin, and Chicago Mayor Daley boosted Humphrey while Maddox quit the race.
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Chicago
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Richard Hughes
New Jersey
John McKeithen
Louisiana
Mills Godwin
Virginia
Illinois
Richard Daley
Daley
Kennedy Brothers
Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
George McGovern
South Dakota
Eisenhower Shows Further Decrease in Heart Irritability
Doctors reported former President Eisenhower had some further decrease in heart irritability and was enjoying light background music in his hospital room. He spent another comfortable night, with a hospital bulletin noting his condition remained critical but the trend was favorable. John Eisenhower and his family returned to their home in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John
Phoenixville
No matter how she carries years she slips up now and then
A light humor item notes that despite aging gracefully a woman may still misstep occasionally. The quip frames aging as a human, relatable moment with a playful sting. Copyright information is implied but not detailed.
Battle near Saigon as U S air cavalry fight sizable Viet Cong force
American air cavalrymen clashed with a large Viet Cong unit northwest of Saigon while Viet Cong rockets hit the city for the third time in two months killing three civilians and wounding five. U S headquarters reported 44 enemy dead as jets gunships and artillery supported the 101st Air Cavalry Division in sweltering jungle near a highway to Saigon.
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Saigon
U.S
101St Air Cavalry Division
Creighton Abrams
U.S. 199Th Light Infantry Brigade
Dau Tieng
Solon Man Drowns in Coralville Reservoir Mishap
Special to The Gazette Solon resident James Vernon Prohaska aged 41 drowned near the Sugar Botton boat ramp on Tuesday night when his boat tipped during a turn. His body was recovered about an hour later from 25 feet of water. He was an assistant postmaster, Korean War veteran, and lifelong Solon resident survived by his parents and four sisters and a brother. Services are Friday at 2 p.m. with military rites at Brosh Funeral Home.
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Solon
Coralville
James ‘Vernon Prohaska
Sugar Botton
Johnson County
Maynard Schneider
Prohaska
Francis Frauenholtz
James Prohaska
Francis McDowell
Iowa City
Gordon Kinney
Des Moines
Donna Mae
Francis
Brosh Funeral Home
Brosh
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Communist Party
Vitava
St. Wenceslas
UPI
James A. Farley
F. D. Roosevelt
Texas
John Connally
Farley
New York
Connally
Johnson
C.R
Cedar Rapids News
By Bill Duffy
O’brien
Kelleher and
Bailey
Young O’brien
Schaepperkotter Called
Iowa Convention News
Robert Fulton
John Kibbie
Emmetsburg
Lavern Kaseel
Dubuque
Ed Obermiller
Clinton
Thomas Hyde
M. S. O’brien
Oelwein
Michael Carr
Manchester
Martin Berry
Lake Park
Joseph Bradley
Algona
Paul Mohr
Gladbrook
James Schaben
Dunlap
Loren Mondt
Boone
Maurice O'Reilly
Fort Dodge
Charles Gifford
Newton
Michael Doyle
Marco Dellaca
Dagmar
Vietnam
Maddox
Lester Maddox
Georgia
Alabama
George Wallace
South
Democratic Socialist Party
McGovern
Robert F. Kennedy
James Howard
Joseph Tydings
Maryland
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Joseph Alioto
San Francisco
Lawrence O’brien
Alioto
Democratic Party
Unruh Appeal
California State Assembly
Unruh
George McArthur
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