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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1968
Page
4
Paris reports French police threaten to strike to support workers staying off the job amid student unrest and brutality accusations. Unions may refuse orders conflicting with other workers' interests, recalling a 10 year past protest that preceded De Gaulle’s rise.
President de Gaulle convened his cabinet as strikes expand nationwide. Paris blanketed by empties streets and gasoline shortages. unions push wage demands while Pompidou mobilizes support in parliament. Report notes student protests and scattered plant reopenings amid a tense political moment. Meanwhile in New Orleans H Rap Brown remains free on bond pending appeal after a firearms act conviction.
A humorous item captions a baseball player filling out a job application. When asked reason for leaving previous job he wrote No curve ball highlighting his fear of pitching curves in employment.
Police began a mass arrest of demonstrators on Capitol Hill for the Poor People's Campaign but halted after two patrol wagons filled as demonstrators agreed to leave. 18 arrestees will be charged with unlawful assembly. Rev. Jesse Jackson led the group away after warnings and a call to depart.
The Gazette presents a 16 page feature on outdoor living and recreation. It showcases trends in comfortable outdoor space and activities for living and playing outside.
The Czech central committee will meet next Wednesday to decide between Alexander Dubcek s liberal majority and Antonin Novotny s Moscow backed faction. A communique after two days of secret talks noted the agenda includes cadre measures, signaling a high stakes power struggle.
A long-haired youth in safari jacket and bell-bottoms walked into a Columbia riot, presented his police badge to leader Mark Rudd, and arrested him for inciting resistance. The youth identified as Frank Ferrara, 23, of the Bureau of Special Services, filed the complaint leading to Rudd’s arrest.
A twin rotor Sikorsky S-61 en route from Disneyland to LAX broke apart midflight and crashed near Paramount, killing 23 aboard including nine Ohioans. Investigators considered rotor failure or a possible collision. debris scattered over a dairy farm as witnesses heard a loud pop and saw the craft disintegrate.
Singapore based Hawoii radio cited a Phnom Penh dispatch claiming a Cambodian vessel seized a U S boat carrying two U S military personnel and eight Filipinos. The report offered no further details.
A blue ribbon Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam warns Americans may expect too much from U S North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. The 14 member panel led by former President Eisenhower says Hanoi uses talks to wage war and urges patience, noting instant victory is unlikely on or off the battlefield.
A national guardsman from Strawberry Point and a Arlington woman died in a head on two car collision on highway 3 ten miles east of Oelwein about 5 30 am Thursday. Spec 4 Donald B Pierson 22 and Lilian Welch 47 were sole occupants of their vehicles. Pierson had served 2½ years in Company D 133rd Infantry National Guard and planned to attend NCO academy. Welch employed at Grandview Nursing Home in Oelwein left a husband Cecil who died last August and several relatives. Both bodies were taken to local funeral homes in Arlington and Strawberry Point.
An Atlantic high school driver education instructor Richard Nettz age 23 of Lewis was killed when his car ran off Route 414 near Atlantic. He was alone in the vehicle. In Minnesota Delvin Reverts 17 of Lester Iowa died when his car went off a Rock County road near Luverne.
The Senate approved emergency wiretaps up to 48 hours without court order as North Vietnamese forces moved south. Reports note increased American flight missions and losses amid monsoon season. 530000 U.S. military personnel were in Vietnam last week.
U S spokesmen said 549 Americans were killed in combat last week the second highest weekly death toll of the war. Another 2282 service members were wounded and 73 were reported missing raising U S losses since Jan 1 1961 to 23500 killed 143676 wounded and 1138 missing.
North Vietnamese forces retook the A Shau valley within a week of allied troops ending their sweep, renewing the threat to Hue and surrounding areas.
In Kampala Ugandas President Milton Obote opened peace talks between Nigeria and Biafra and urged an immediate cease-fire to halt fighting. The appeal came as delegates gathered to seek a settlement in the Nigerian conflict.
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