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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1968

Page

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Hayakawa accuses newsmen as campus tensions rise

Dr S J Hayakawa acting president of San Francisco State College laments media hostility at a televised news conference. He accuses dissidents of manipulation and claims outsiders fuel demonstrations while demanding reporters focus on his supporters. He notes the Black Students Union and Third World Liberation Front have not accepted invitations to protest.

S. J. Hayakawa San Francisco State College Hayakawa Dents Union Third World Liberation Front

Steinbeck Reported Seriously Ill at Manhattan Home

A source close to 66 year old John Steinbeck said the Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1962 was seriously ill with a heart ailment at his Manhattan apartment. The health reportedly has not been good since a spinal operation last year.

Gustav VI Adolf Sweden Stockholm Lars Onsager Yale University Marshall W. Nirenberg National Institute of Health H. Gobind Khorana University of Wisconsin Robert Q. Holley Cornell University John Steinbeck Manhattan Steinbeck

U S War Dead Top 30 000 in Vietnam War

The U S military said fighting near the Cambodian frontier and the South China Sea coast has pushed U S battlefield deaths past 30 000, approaching totals for the Korean War. Official count stood at 29 865 as of November 30. The conflict north of Saigon and near Da Nang continued to rise casualties.

Saigon South China Sea U.S da Nang

US casualties rise in Korea as 1968 toll nears 33329

International tallies show the toll past 30,000 and rising toward 33,629 Americans killed in the Korean conflict. Heaviest losses occurred in Da Nang area with 107 dead and 523 wounded during a 20 day Meade River cordon. U.S. air cavalrymen aided by bombers overran a Communist rocket site north of Saigon, seizing two multiple launchers and killing 14 soldiers.

U.S da Nang Meade River Saigon

Scranton Encouraged by Prospects for Peace in Mideast

William W Scranton, amid jet battles over Iran Strait, said he leaves the Middle East more hopeful about peace than on arrival. He noted every leader he spoke with desires a peaceful settlement as hostilities continue. The Israeli army claimed it shot down one of two Egyptian MiG-17s over the Tiran Strait near the Red Sea coast.

Tel Aviv William W. Scranton Iran Strait Mideast Nixon Jelf Tiran Strait Red Sea

Eminent theologian Barth dies at 82 in Basel

Dr Karl Barth Swiss Protestant theologian dies in his sleep in Basel Switzerland at age 82 He wrote over 400 works in 49 years shaping evangelical theology and arguing faith rests on God's love He opposed Hitler aided ecumenism and preached to prisoners and small town congregants Also Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower obtain a marriage license in New York and plan to wed December 22.

Karl Barth Basel Switzerland Barth Ence Adolf Hitler Julie Nixon David Eisenhower New York Miss Nixon Eisentower

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