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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1969
Page
2
The United States fired more than 300 howitzer rounds into North Vietnamese positions across the Cambodian border in a counterattack. Casualties at Kotre camp were light, with no official damage tally from the allied strike.
President Nixon lauded the nation's young athletes at a black tie gala dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. Outside, antiwar demonstrators clashed with police in a bloody confrontation as about 1,400 attendees gathered.
Nixon receives the Distinguished American Plaque from the National Football Foundation and is among nine inductees including Bud Wilkinson. He recalls bench time at Whittier College and calls the award a giant step for a man who never made the team.
The Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad Richard Gordon and Alan Bean will leave their isolation suite at noon today ending a quarantine begun on the moon to prevent lunar germs from reaching Earth. A government committee will poll on the release plan by telephone Wednesday.
James Earl Ray, serving a 99 year term for the King assassination, must appear in federal court in Nashville on December 29 for a review of his maximum security confinement. Judge William Miller ordered in-person transport with proper security precautions. Robert Culp sues wife France Nuyen for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty, filed on their second wedding anniversary.
The Army discharged 28 year old New Yorker Harold Raderman for refusing to cut his long hair after repeated unsatisfactory marks at Reserve meetings. Federal courts ruled judges could not halt the Army dress code, and a settlement offered immediate discharge from the reserve.
Tiny Tim real name Herbert Buckingham Khaury 37 arrives with fiancée Victoria Budinger 17 of Haddonfield New Jersey to apply for a marriage license and plans to wed December 17 on Johnny Carson's Tonight show. The groom reveals his age as 37 after initial hesitation.
Diphtheria has reached epidemic proportions in northwest Miami where two children have died and another is critically ill. authorities are sending 32 000 doses of serum from Philadelphia and 10 000 doses were rushed to Miami. Six medical teams will staff 40 public schools as 5 000 shots are planned today. The outbreak is the first since 1962 with multiple cases and unconnected patients.
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