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27 Mar 1968
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1968
Page
1
A notice invites readers to call ACTION LINE for help or to write to The Enterprise. It emphasizes answering questions, settling problems, and sharing worries via phone or letter.
Readers chase a mystery teaser for a youth weekend sponsored by about 55 area churches. Promoters invite all to Northeast Jr High Friday sessions through Sunday, with 100 plus college-age leaders from the Southeast.
A William Penn students' note condemns a career day speaker for mispronouncing the word Negro as Negra. They urge using Webster guidance on pronunciation and state the insult closed minds and silenced the audience.
A veteran civil servant alleges that high level Maritime Administration staff were pressured to donate to a Democratic fundraising dinner. James Gulick, acting head, summoned 79 staff to the April 4 event with invitations to 12 000 government personnel, while denying coercion. The Civil Service Commission said it would investigate if warranted.
U S troops of the 25th Infantry Division fought uphill to seize the hamlet Ap Long Mac near Trang Bang northwest of Saigon. Artillery and napalm blasted ahead as U S and South Vietnamese forces report about 396 enemy killed in the area since Sunday, with at least eight dead in the latest clashes. An AP photographer was lightly wounded as tanks and APCs advanced under heavy machine gun fire.
Allied forces in Operation Quyet Thang press the Viet Cong around Saigon. About 50,000 troops from U S and South Vietnamese units sweep five provinces seeking to regain momentum near the capital. Casualties not disclosed, no Americans killed so far.
A Nationa AP survey of 24 Democratic governors finds limited backing for Kennedy or McCarthy. Only Vermont's Philip Hoff endorses Kennedy, while Iowa's Harold Hughes keeps Johnson as his choice, with six uncommitted and two leaning away. Hoff urges leadership change to halt the national course, amid Viet Nam policy debates.
AP photographer Al Chang was wounded slightly as U S and Vietnamese accounts describe heavy fighting around Ap Long Mac, 30 miles northwest of Saigon. The 25th Infantry Division pushed through the hamlet with tanks and armored carriers, while napalm and artillery pounded Viet Cong positions just yards from American troops. The battle continued with continued artillery and air support and at least one American officer killed.
An informed official says CIA funds and equipment support a substantial portion of South Vietnam pacification, with advisers including CIA and military personnel. The transfer of funding to the Defense Department is under discussion, while a resigning coordinator claims CIA funds large scale recruitment and pay for pacification workers.
An open letter by 134 writers and artists in Prague calls on Communist party chief Alexander Dubcek to resist outside pressures as Czechoslovakia pursues liberalization. They defend democratization as a path to lasting democracy, criticizing hostile reactions at the Dresden summit and German opposition.
U S Labor Department reports consumer prices rose three tenths of 1 percent in February marking a fifth consecutive increase. Wholesale prices jumped seven tenths with a 1.5 percent rise in food costs, copper and steel product prices climbing amid strikes and stockpiling.
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