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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1969
Page
2
A youth decency rally drawing about 40 000 people in Baltimore sparked wild melee violence. Eighty eight injured including several stabbed and more than 80 arrested as fights spread from Memorial Stadium into downtown. Police and bystanders faced shattered windows and debris as exits emptied.
President Nixon met two hours with Atty. Gen. Mitchell and aides Ehrlichman Haldeman Kissinger at Camp David to discuss Korea Czechoslovakia and a crime control message for Congress. Also reports of Wilson Kosygin line exchanges and Tony awards plus Maj. Robb to LBJ Ranch reunion.
Doris Rudder and ten others protested for an hour outside the National Archives to remind the public of constitutional rights. Her son Jose Rudder is among eight soldiers held at Fort Jackson South Carolina. Rostow argues Kennedy would have escalated Vietnam as Johnson did, if he had lived.
A 26 year old man parachuted onto an Illinois interstate near Joliet Sunday and was arrested for illegal entry to a controlled access highway. Roger L. Pemble faces the illegal entry charge. Alice Garland, 19, a journalism student at the University of Georgia, was named National College Queen in West Palm Beach Florida Sunday night. Secretary of State Rogers called it encouraging that the Soviet Union might cooperate with the United States in locating the crew of the reconnaissance plane shot down by North Korea last week.
Enemy gunners fired 20 Soviet built 122 mm rockets at the Marble Mountain Marine helicopter base outside Da Nang Sunday night. Two Marines were killed and 46 wounded. A separate attack at a training camp killed 38 South Vietnamese soldiers. No helicopters were hit at Marble Mountain.
A Canadian National official said foul play was evident in a Sunday derailment near Toronto that killed two people and injured about 30. A switch padlock was sawed, diverting the Toronto to Sarnia express onto a passenger track. Hacksaw marks were found on the lock. About 30 passengers were hospitalized, with three kept for treatment.
machinists across Canada walk off at 11 59 p m shutting down the publicly owned carrier just hours after cargo flights were halted last week. NATO conducts Dawn Patrol maneuvers in the Mediterranean with over 60 ships and 300 aircraft as five alliance nations test sea air力量 against Soviet strength.
Charles University students voted Sunday to strike today protesting the purge of Alexander Dubcek and Josef Smrkovsky, symbols of liberalization. Another vote by 54 Prague departments occurred later, with a split decision on participation and a second vote to be held today.
Troops moved into Northern Ireland as violence flared for a second day between rock mobs and police. At least 150 people hospitalized after nine Belfast post offices were set ablaze by gasoline, amid low water pressure from a reservoir blast that disrupted two pipelines. Public unrest ties to the civil rights protests over jobs housing and local wing procedures.
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