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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1969
Page
2
Community organizers in One Beach Calif finalize plans for a local fair on the coming weekend. Key sponsors include city groups and regional businesses expected to provide crafts food and music activities for residents and visitors.
Pope Paul VI hosted astronaut Frank Borman and his family in a 17 minute library visit praising the moon mission as unveiling God's work. Borman called the meeting moving and praised the Pope as a sacred figure. The exchange included a rare English speech by the Pontiff.
A Nixon administration analysis warns Hanoi will press military and political efforts in South Vietnam for months, avoid a Tet scale offensive, and pursue a long haul strategy to wear down Saigon and allies. Negotiations in Paris show no real progress with little chance of major concessions.
U S diplomats at Vietnam peace talks face a new label progress-mongers after Hanoi accuses them of private meetings to fake progress. Henry Cabot Lodge denies any meaningful outcome amid fruitless sessions. In Tokyo, China denounces a Russo-Japan aviation pact as aiding joint actions against China with Japanese overflight of Siberia.
Yale law professor and Connecticut group press that James Miller 42 a New Haven beauty shop owner was unjustly convicted in a narcotics smuggling case linked to a Canadian government bribery scandal. Miller argues evidence tied to other suspects and witnesses.
Forecast calls for mostly fair conditions in Long Beach and vicinity with a slight morning shower chance and higher rain potential this afternoon. High around 62 with a low near 44 and gusty winds, rain areas clear with strong gusts and a 600 foot snow level.
Sealab II readiness reaches a 610 foot depth off San Clemente Island where a 340 ton habitat sits in Wilson Cove. Nine aquanauts will enter compression chambers Monday aboard the Elk River and descend via transfer capsules to begin a 12 day stay underwater. Sealab III aims to surpass the 328 foot record set in 1965 by Jacques Cousteau.
A Superior Court hearing on February 28 will decide if a preliminary injunction should bar further raw milk sales in Los Angeles County. Alta-Dena Dairy labeled milk as pet food to avoid the order while state analysts warn of Q fever risk. County Supervisor Hahn rejects the label and asserts the sale remains illegal. Health advocates say pasteurization reduces food value.
A 28 year old Colombian sailor was rescued 30 miles off New York after a skull fracture. He was revived during the transfer from ship to helicopter and flown first to Ft Wadsworth then to a Staten Island hospital for treatment.
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