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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1968
Page
2
The U.S. Command reports 228 Americans killed in action in the past week, the heaviest weekly toll since late September, as battles rage along the Cambodian border near Saigon and surrounding areas.
A Saigon report states almost 30,000 Americans have been killed in Vietnam since January 1961, with nearly half of annual deaths this year. Last week 1,095 Americans were wounded, South Vietnamese losses reached 223 killed and 709 wounded, and Allied forces reported 2,689 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong deaths.
Communist shells raked seven South Vietnamese cities and villages in one of the heaviest one night barrages since President Johnson ended bombing North Vietnam. The attack followed the Viet Cong high command announcing a three day ceasefire in South Vietnam for Christmas and New Year.
Washington blames Biafra for looming famine in the Nigerian civil war while welcoming Nigeria's stated willingness to aid relief in breakaway Biafra and nearby areas.
More than a million workers joined a one day strike in Rome while thousands gathered in a street protest that devolved into noisy but nonviolent clashes. Authorities feared major violence but noted the worst may be over after four days of civil disorder, marking Rome's most paralyzing period since 1960 riots.
Israel announced new rules restricting Arab movement in the occupied territories. The measures extend the ban on vehicular traffic across the Jordan River and limit Arab vehicle entry into Israel and Jerusalem in a bid to prevent a repeat of the Jerusalem blast two weeks earlier.
Prague reports Deputy Premier Peter Colotka was dismissed after leading a bid to ban a Russian occupation newspaper. He said reform leaders planned to use diplomatic channels to close the Czech language Zpravy, seen by many as pro Soviet propaganda.
North Carolina state troopers arrested 16 young Black students in Swan Quarter after they tore up a principal’s office and barricaded themselves inside. Bomb threats disrupted Hyde County schools. Brown University and Pembroke College faced mass disassociation by Black undergrads over enrollment and recruitment.
Marlon Brando boarded National Airlines Flight 64 to Miami in Los Angeles with a beard and casual attire. A stewardess failed to recognize him and Brando was escorted off after inquiry about Cuba. He declined to reboard citing a needed connection to Colombia.
Character actor Fred Clark 54 died Thursday night at St. John's Hospital Santa Monica of a liver ailment three weeks after treatment for a back spasm He was known for Don't Go Near the Water The Bells are Ringing and appeared on television radio stage and in a dog food commercial He was the neighbors husband on Burns and Allen, and Bea Benaderet his on screen wife died earlier this year.
The Washington diocese bishop William F. Creighton was urged to drop membership in two private clubs that exclude African Americans. He urged instead efforts to integrate. Secretary of State Dean Rusk posthumously awarded the State Department’s highest honor to ambassador John Gordon Mein, killed by machine gun fire in Guatemala. Mrs Mein accepted the award.
FBI agents on Thursday arrested Russell Alfred Bufalino a leading Pennsylvania Cosa Nostra figure over an alleged conspiracy to transport stolen television sets across state lines. This follows last week’s arrest of Stefano Maggadino a Buffalo New York Cosa Nostra chieftain in a separate case.
Classified lines list the phone numbers HE 5 1161 and HE 2 5959 and show an entry about a Superior Court decree C-10280 issued in Los Angeles County. The page notes Long Beach California publication details with dates and circulation information.
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