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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 23, 1969

Page

12

Fulbright Sees No Viet Change in Nixon Policy

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Fulbright says Nixon will not alter U S policy in Vietnam and announces new hearings to reevaluate American policy. He cited Nixon speeches and talks with South Vietnam's President Thieu as confirming fears of no Johnson policy change.

Washington J. W. Fulbright Nixon U. S Senate Foreign Relations Committee Vietnam Fulbright U. S. Air Force Academy South Vietnam Nhuyen van Thieu Johnson Arkansas Democrat ABC Thiew Air Force Academy U.S Midway United States Thieu Congress Slso Senate

Judy Garland Dies in London at 47 in Chelsea Home

Judy Garland, a show business icon since childhood, died in London at age 47. Police ruled out suicide. post-mortem expected to determine cause. Her husband Mickey Deans found her body at Cadogan Lane after a brief trip to New York. Garland’s children Liza Minnelli Lorna Luft and Joey Luft were informed.

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Egyptian Israeli Conflicts Escalate Across Suez and Jordan

The Associated Press reports Israeli warplanes strike Jordan with retaliation for shelling Beit Shean while Israeli commandos claim to have destroyed an Egyptian radar station and fatally wounded 15 enemy soldiers near the Gulf of Suez. Egypt says commando forces crossed the Suez Canal twice to ambush Israeli patrols, inflicting heavy losses. Jordan reports multiple air raids, including six jets hitting the village of Fina in Kerak, wounding four and injuring another civilian passenger.

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Rockefeller Returns Home From Latin America Trip

Governor Rockefeller returns to New York tired but upbeat after his Latin America tour advocating a new hemisphere policy for President Nixon. He and aides avoided press at Kennedy Airport and headed to Tarrytown as protests and worker unrest marked the Uruguay stop. He planned further stops in Argentina Haiti the Dominican Republic Jamaica Barbados and Guyana with Chile Peru and Venezuela possible later in the trip.

New York Nelson A. Rockefeller Nixon Kennedy Airport Latin America Tarrytown Rockefeller Argentina Haiti Dominican Republic Jamaica Barbados Guyana Chile Peru Venezuela

Opposition Weakens On Safeguard First Time In Debate

The Senate tightens around the Safeguard missile defense vote as opposition signals a defensive shift. White House counts claim 50 or 51 supporting vs 46 opposing with undecideds. ABM opponents push strategy while the Armed Services Committee moves toward a phased deployment with near 1 billion for Safeguard.

Washington Senate Nixon White House ABM Senate Armed Services Committee

Marches Halted By S C Police

In Charleston South Carolina police halted two hospital strike marches for lacking parade permits. About 300 teens moved three blocks on Reid Street near Memorial Baptist Church before dispersing after a brief rally. A later 70-person march on the main business street was stopped before curfew.

Charleston Hospital T Heir Memorial Baptist Church Reid Street National John Conroy Memorial Church

Ground fighting dips to year low amid Ben Het siege

U S and South Vietnamese forces logged only four small contacts across South Vietnam on Saturday with 77 enemy killed and no U S casualties. The Ben Het Special Forces camp, under siege by the North Vietnamese 28th regiment, faced about 100 rounds of artillery and mortar fire as analysts warned against drawing broad conclusions from the lull.

Saigon South Vietnam Ben Het Central Highlands U. S 28Th Regiment

The Swinging Seventies predicted by economists

A Los Angeles Times piece surveys forecasts for the 1970s, outlining Prosperous Seven ties with rising incomes and inflation, Potential Poverty and unrest in the Strangling Seventies, and the Lazy Seventies trend toward leisure and sensate culture driven by home computers, artificial foods, and wider vacations.

Buthey Harold Williams Norton Simon Industries, Inc

State Forecast: Cloudy and warmer with scattered showers

The forecast calls for cloudy skies and rising temperatures with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs will reach the 80s and 90s as the day advances.

Defense plans to bring home 325000 US troops from Vietnam

Newsweek reports the Defense Department drafts a plan to withdraw about 325,000 U S troops by Christmas 1970. Officials say such a move could end U S ground war involvement, but caution the plan may not reflect a formal commitment.

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Sinking of Iranian troopers reported by Baghdad radio

Baghdad radio said a warship sank in the Persian Gulf last Wednesday with 450 Iranian soldiers and officers killed or missing after a two day search by warships and helicopters. Also a barge carrying Portuguese troops sank in the Zambesi River near Beira with 108 of 150 aboard missing. An Eastern Air Lines DC8 was hijacked to Cuba with 9 aboard. two hijackers detained in Havana while a separate hijacking near Wilmington, North Carolina, left 7 aboard and reached Miami safely.

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Obituary notices from Inside Today Amusement section

Obituary notices appear in the Inside Today page area with brief summaries of recent deaths. The fragmentary clipping mentions individuals connected to the Gazetteer, television, and comic page features. No specific names or dates are readable in the provided text.

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