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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1968
Page
2
In woodlands southwest of Saigon on Tuesday night American infantrymen battled a Viet Cong battalion in the heaviest fighting there in four weeks. Seventeen Americans and 104 Communists died as air support and helicopter gunships backed the U S. forces.
U.S officials said there is no basis for rumors Johnson will end all bombing of North Vietnam and noted the lull in South Vietnam does not signal policy change. Indicators show Hanoi and the Viet Cong pushing for a new offensive while Washington downplays political significance.
Premier George Papadopoulos escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb buried under the highway exploded behind his car. Authorities captured a deserter fleeing toward a boat and blamed the plot on democratic liberals abroad. The attacker, former Lt. George Panagoulis, was arrested after leaping along the beach attempting to reach a boat.
President Johnson authorized a second phase to trim about 9 000 Americans and 1 000 foreign staff from U S embassies as part of a balance of payments program. The plan targets 18 percent of Americans abroad and 16 percent of foreign nationals in the posts.
Veteran state Rep. Marion H. Crank captured Arkansas Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Tuesday's runoff, defeating Virginia Johnson and moving to face Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller in the November general election. Rockefeller won renomination easily in July. Johnson, 40, wife of 1966 nominee Jim Johnson, finished a distant second.
Dr Christiaan Barnard in Sydney said the Declaration of Sydney insults the field by urging two independent doctors certify donor death. Approved by 120 doctors at the World Medical Assembly, Barnard noted he certified hundreds of deaths and asks why hearts face more debate than kidneys.
Dell Ross, a Black Panther witness in Huey Newton's Oakland murder case, insists he cannot recall anything about the shooting after previously telling grand jury he was kidnapped at gunpoint. He repeatedly refuses to answer, prompting the judge to warn of contempt and possible jail.
Magician Channing Pollock and his 32-year-old wife were divorced Tuesday after she claimed he cut up her clothes with scissors. Josephine Pollock told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge it was the last straw.
David Winters filed a Los Angeles suit seeking 10500 in damages claiming he was hired to stage Connie Stevens nightclub act. He asserts a contract promised 16500 by July 26 and that only 6000 has been paid.
The snippet lists contact numbers for classified ads and notes publication details for a Long Beach California newspaper. It includes date August 14 1968 volume 31 number 163 and indicates the paper is published daily except Saturday from Sixth Street and Pine Avenue.
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