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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1968
Page
6
U S Marines beat back a 200 to 300 man North Vietnamese assault on Hill 861A near Khe Sanh while a fresh communist push hit Saigon Hue and other cities. Police and allied forces reported heavy VC actions as reinforcements moved to northern front.
Weekend traffic toll rises in Iowa with three deaths in Delware County and Clayton county. Joseph Walters and Richard Drafahl, both 20s and from Cedar Rapids and Delaware County, perished in a fiery crash near Earlville after leaving Highway 3. John Allen Clark, 19, Farmersburg, died from skull and internal injuries after a late Saturday crash north of Elkader on Highway 15.
Dr. Christiaan Barnard said in an interview with Der Spiegel that he and his team avoided performing the first heart transplant on a colored mulatto patient to prevent international accusations of racial bias. He noted they anticipated criticism tied to South Africa's racial policies and said they would transplant to a colored patient only after proving the procedure's viability.
President Johnson urged Congress to remove economic and racial barriers to higher education, proposing federally guaranteed loans and expanded aid. He framed a "fifth freedom" freedom from ignorance, calling for a national goal to ensure equal access to college for all young Americans despite budget constraints.
Johnsons administration proposes a new tax on American tourist spending abroad above seven dollars per day to curb a five hundred million dollar net outflow. The plan extends a five percent U S excise on air tickets to foreign travel and water transport outside the Western Hemisphere and tightens duty free purchases.
Hundreds of soft coal miners in central Pennsylvania ignored the United Mine Workers return to work order. They picketed and shut down several non union operations, defying a Saturday night Washington issued order affecting 56 500 striking soft coal miners across five states.
AP dispatch from Saigon details six days of combat. Civilians lie wounded in Cho Ray Hospital while streets littered with debris reflect a city paralyzed by battle. Families search for food amid black market shortages as graves are dug for Viet Cong and a colonel beheaded by the enemy.
Prime Minister Lester Pearson urged a great new act of accommodation between English and French Canadians at the federal provincial conference. He warned that without it Canada may not endure and called Canada’s survival as a nation at stake.
New York City faces rising health concerns as uncollected trash piles up on streets during the sanitation workers strike. Mayor John Lindsay warned a health emergency could unfold if the four day walkout continues, noting stray dogs and fire hazards from accumulated refuse. A Queens fire damaged multiple buildings, reportedly started in uncollected garbage. Justice Saul Streit rejected a delay request for a back to work hearing, prompting terse remarks from the judge.
AP dispatch from Hue Vietnam depicts Marines facing rubble strewn streets narrow alleys and ambush risk. Young servicemen compare Hue to a Warsaw ghetto while detailing recon patrols sniper fire and the routine of fighting in ruined buildings.
Kyodo and Mainichi Shim bun report a Seoul briefing that the United States and North Korea agreed to release the entire crew of the captured USS Pueblo. Four crewmen were said wounded and a sailor killed would be returned within days, with Panmunjom talks ongoing.
The United States and North Korea held a third meeting on the Pueblo incident at 1 a.m. CST in Panmunjom. A State Department spokesman cautioned against viewing talks as a breakthrough while denying reports of an 83 crew member release. congressional reaction suggested possible admission of intruding into North Korea’s waters.
President Tito of Yugoslavia conferred with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Aswan on the Arab-Israeli crisis after talks with leaders from six African and Asian nations during his tour.
A humorous observation overheard in an elevator jokes about a slow typist who notices the typewriter bell and assumes a coffee break, reflecting office myth and light workplace humor.
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