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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1968
Page
2
World Today reports a two day battle near Xuan Loc 40 miles northeast of Saigon. Mortar barrages and a ground assault left at least 100 enemy and 52 government troops dead. U S forces at the base camp of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment were hit by 122mm rockets.
South Vietnamese troops were ambushed six miles southeast of Xuan Loc as armored reinforcements and air and artillery strikes were deployed. U.S. pilots flew 114 missions against North Vietnamese supply lines, destroying boats, trucks, and antiaircraft positions.
CAPE KENNEDY and ASCENSION ISLAND saw the Minuteman 3 achieve a 5000 mile intercontinental flight and Poseidon launch a 1000 mile missile reach its Atlantic target in dawn tests. Both services called the trials complete successes as the nation reviews its strategic balance.
Lloyds of London posted a 1965 underwriting loss of 91.2 million dollars, the first since 1948. Premium income exceeded 1.1 billion while claims hit a record 1.2 billion, led by Betsy hurricane losses in the United States along with Midwest storms Watts riots in Los Angeles and several air crashes.
Mia Farrow, daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow, filed for divorce from Frank Sinatra in Juarez Mexico. The decree was signed at noon after a brief hearing at Municipal Palace. Farrow cited cruelty and incompatibility and asked to reclaim her maiden name.
SAS announced it has hired Truid Wideroe a 30 year old Norwegian aviatrix as a pilot trainee the first major airline to recruit a woman for potential flight captain. Wideroe daughter of aviation pioneer Wiggo Wideroe has logged over 1300 hours.
Italian painter Gilberto Severi files suit to collect the promised commission for a three portrait series showing Brigitte Bardot and her husband Gunther Sachs as Adam and Eve. He says Bardot and Sachs, married two years, breached a verbal contract amid reports of a looming separation.
Rome television interview features Henry Miller calling America sick and curable by simpler living while former Governor Edmund G Brown faults decades of indifference to minority issues. The program California the Dissension also includes other interviewees.
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