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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1968
Page
2
North Korea and the United States allegedly held a third secret meeting in a rural area near Seoul after two prior talks. U N command spokesmen declined to comment as South Korean officials provided details of the talks.
Report notes potential accord between United States and North Korea to free wounded crew of the captured communications vessel Pueblo seized in the Sea of Japan on January 23. An unconfirmed note mentions ambulances near the 121st U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital at Ascom, near Seoul.
North Vietnamese forces launched heavy artillery and ground assault near Khe Sanh in northwest South Vietnam. U S Marines repelled a fierce attack after enemy penetrated outer lines at Hill 861.
Britain prepares for its first Polaris missile test aboard HMS Resolution docked at Port Canaveral with two Scottish paypiner crewmen aboard. The nuclear powered submarine recently arrived at Charleston, S.C. for missile loading as the first of four Britains subs. The U.S. sells the missiles. Britain will arm with its own warheads.
A Sunday appeal from 428 French and Japanese scientists urged American universities to bar military research in their labs. They warned that researchers abroad would sever ties with U.S. institutions if such work persisted, calling biological and chemical warfare research at many U.S. universities a grave violation of science’s core commitments.
Eighteen people die as violent snow storms sweep Iran from the Soviet border to the Persian Gulf. Landslides and drownings are reported while thousands are isolated. In Cairo, Yugoslav President Tito arrives for talks with Nasser on the Middle East crisis and Vietnam War discussions.
New York City faces a health crisis as garbagemen strike for fourth day piling 8,000 tons daily. Mediators to meet both sides at a secret location with a back to work injunction anticipated though not guaranteed.
A springlike bit in midwinter contrasted by rain and snow from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast. Flooding persisted in Indiana and Michigan with hundreds homeless along Clinton River in Macomb County. Subzero readings and frigid wind chills swept North Dakota and Minnesota.
News update reports Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., 79, father of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, in serious condition after a stroke at his Palm Beach winter home. A priest was summoned for last rites as Kennedy remains in a coma under care at St. Edward Church bedside. Other items note Churchill named greatest mark, Columbus wreck discovery, and other international briefings.
A fire bomb was thrown at assistant state attorney Mack Futcht’s Gainesville residence Sunday night with no injuries. It follows a second recent attack on a Gainesville house. Earlier, two bombs hit Circuit Court Judge James Adkins Jr.’s home on January 17.
Ernesto Deira, a leading Argentine painter, claimed police detained him for 13 hours after an antihippie raid on a Buenos Aires nightclub. He said officers humiliated him before release and a police barber cut his hair short, though he has worn it long.
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