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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1969
Page
2
Communist gunners fired five rockets into downtown Hue on the Tet anniversary as a savage battle neared its first year in the old imperial capital. Separately gunmen struck a marketplace near Saigon, wounding seven civilians according to spokesmen.
Rockets hit the Ben Ngu area of Hue near the historic Citadel as U.S. pressure to stop Communist shelling rises. Hue province forms a major South Vietnamese metro area amid ongoing Tet related fighting. In Germany, 15,000 U.S. troops take part in drills near Grafenwoehr with Carbide Ice testing repulsion of a Czech border invasion scenario.
The Mennen Company recalls thousands of bottles of Baby Magic Lotion found to contain a bacteria risk. Two lots are affected, one manufactured before last March with a stamped code and another produced late last year with the code 219 but no letter. The company offers refunds for returned bottles.
Pope Paul VI urged Jordan to spare two Bethlehem taxi drivers condemned as spies for Israel. The pontiff also asked Iraq to spare 14 prisoners including nine Jews. In London a 12 day postal strike ended with 3,500 telegraphers accepting pay rises.
Hundreds of Paris student protesters attacked the University of Nanterre faculty building injuring none reported. They used helmets clubs and iron bars in retaliation for a visiting lecturer's support of President Charles de Gaulle.
Curtis Counts of Los Angeles a 53 year old Douglas Aircraft executive was named by President Nixon Friday to head the federal mediation service replacing William Simkin. He aims to help settle the longshoremen strike delaying some 400 ships on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Independent Press Telegram edition lists contact numbers and offices for the Long Beach California paper. It shows publication details Vol III No 5 dated Saturday February 1 1969 and the post office entry status with the Long Beach Pine Avenue address and phone lines.
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