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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1969
Page
2
Allied forces report seven fronts around Saigon with 245 Communist deaths in one sided battles. Saigon area engagements Friday to Sunday produced 138 Red casualties. A suspect was arrested over a plastic bomb attack on Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Kiem. Paris notes Hanoi denies peace talk concessions amid stalled negotiations.
About 500 moderates led by the dean stormed a Nihon University building occupied by 12 leftist students. After a six hour battle they recaptured it injuring six as barriers were torn down and rocks and firebombs were hurled.
Jordan reports two Israeli planes crossed the border south of the Dead Sea and 35 miles into Jordan before antiaircraft fire forced them to turn back. The aircraft passed over the Maan area in a mid morning mission.
President Tito and Romanian Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu wrapped a two day meeting with a demand for noninterference in other nations internal matters. The stance appears aimed at Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia.
President De Gaulle announced a spring referendum on decentralizing France into regions to soothe rising Brittany unrest after a three day tour marked by separatist protests in Quimper and the surrounding province.
Stockholm officials reported a strong boost for the Nordic common market with premiers from four nations saying they are strongly optimistic and more hopeful than ever about forming an economic union of 22 million people by early 1971.
About 400 demonstrators gathered across from the Iraqi U.N. mission in New York to protest the alleged hanging of Israeli spies. Police clashed with youths as tensions escalated during the Sunday demonstration.
Police broke through barricades and dragged a youth from a tree where he had placed a hangman’s noose. Three others were restrained as they tried to intervene. The confrontation lasted about five minutes and the crowd chanted “Let my people go” in solidarity with Iraqi Jews.
New Orleans shippers and Longshoremen reached a tentative contract Sunday, narrowing the 43 day dock strike that idled about 65 000 workers along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Gulf ports may follow with a master package from New York. I L A president Thomas Gleason will not lift a work ban until port wide accords are set. The strike has cost about 600 million dollars and caused layoffs in trucking and related industries.
In New Orleans the Clay Shaw conspiracy trial nears a pause as Jim Garrison readies his evidence. Jurors, including an all male panel, prepare to hear witnesses starting Tuesday or Wednesday with two alternates to be chosen today. Prosecutors and defense await next steps.
Franchellne Cadwell, 33, head of an ad firm for menswear, says Nixon’s wardrobe has not changed in eight years with a white shirt, floppy pants, and a sack jacket. He was among 250 guests at the White House on Sunday where a Presbyterian minister urged that God is available to those in high places.
In Allenstown New Hampshire divers comb the Suncook River for Debra Horn 11 missing five days as family members hold a private prayer service at home. Separately Dutch officials report Liao Ho shu former Chinese envoy has defected to the West and seeks asylum in the Netherlands. He has moved to Bonn for CIA questioning on Chinese espionage in Western Europe.
Independent Phone HE 5-1161 classified ads surface in a Long Beach California daily. Volume 32 number 24 lists publication details, circulation and delivery, with court adjudication on October 6 1944 and a Cree Decree number C 10280.
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