05 Jan 1969
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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1969
Page
1
The FTC on Saturday proposed regulations to ban rigging in supermarket and service station promotional games. It would require weekly updates showing remaining prizes and bar manipulation that misleads participants, amid industry pushback disputing widespread abuses.
Protestants and Catholic demonstrators faced off outside walls as police kept order during a heated confrontation. Two teenage girls fought inside, triggering a surge of Catholic demonstrators who hurled rocks and sticks at authorities near game prizes. FTC plans a Feb 24 hearing on rules to curb coercion in promotional games, with seven firms pledging cooperation and noting voluntary guidelines already in place.
Informants say remaining 20 or so vice president staff members will depart under recall orders. In Saigon Huong allows four of 12 Vietnamese Press Agency staff to stay in Paris, after their initial discharge for lacking government authorization.
Afternoon readings show mixed conditions with temperatures ranging from single digits in Chicago to near 78 in Los Angeles. Clear skies appear in Boston Washington Chicago Anchorage and Dallas while Detroit and Minneapolis report partly cloudy. Rain falls in Miami and Honolulu with drizzle in Seattle and cloudy in Denver Phoenix and Kansas City.
The document shows Czech leaders responding to strike threats by shaping a party declaration. It outlines major points emphasized by the leadership as leverage in negotiations and policy stance. The text highlights the pressure from organized labor and the party's effort to present a unified position.
A three man Apollo ship in lunar orbit aims to taxi astronauts to the Moon surface using a Lunar Module. The Society faces internal dissensions and external tensions as it prepares to ride the Saturn V into space amid a political crisis and shifting leadership.
Marine Chief Chapman said the third factor in U S troop withdrawals is South Vietnamese army progress. He noted ARVN could handle Viet Cong but not North Vietnamese on its own, doubting whether North Vietnamese regiments will stay out. He added troop removal will take months due to substantial gear to be removed.
At Amman headquarters Yahia Moumedeih frames the campaign as a war of liberation and rejects settlements that would liquidate the Palestinian cause. He notes Arabs would govern areas with pre 1948 Jewish residents and calls for continued fighting against Israel as factions reconfigure leadership from Shukairy to Hammondeh. The PFLP has mounted hijackings of El Al planes, including a Boeing 707 to Algiers and an attack on an El Al jet in Athens that prompted an Israeli Beirut raid.
New York police lieutenant Nick Zirpolo promised his wife a night at the theater for her birthday, but first he faced a gunman in a bar. He subdued the assailant with a half bear hug, retrieved the pistol, and escorted him toward a patrol car before securing two guest tickets for Promises Promises at the Shubert Theater.
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