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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1968
Page
1
American Marines closed on the Hue Citadel as the 1st Air Cavalry fought a brutal battle nearby to seize a supply point. The operations aimed to trap Communist forces inside the Imperial Palace within the citadel walls, with napalm fury leading the Marine advance.
President Johnson unveiled a 10.4 billion package targeting housing poverty transportation and riot insurance. He urged a 10 percent income tax surcharge to curb inflationary pressure on homebuilding and backed a new housing and urban development act to renew hope for American cities and build 26 million homes in ten years. The plan also moves to raise FHA rates remove rate ceilings and convert GNMA to a private corporation with federal mortgage bond guarantees.
Close support strikes kept Communist defenders in holes while Marines moved west from the southern wall. U.S. jets bombed Radio Hanoi’s transmitter near the capital and Hoa Lac airfield near Hanoi as Johnson authorized the raid. B52s hit Khe Sanh and tunnels north of Saigon, with 22 Marines wounded as three Communist divisions orbit around the capital amid supplies of a new rocket type.
The United States reports 543 service members killed in Vietnam last week, the war’s highest weekly toll. Wounded in action number 2,547 in seven days, as the three-week period becomes the costliest for the U.S. Since 1960, American deaths total 18,230 and 112,469 have been wounded, with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces at 37,515 dead in the same period.
Ottawa report says the House of Commons did not reach a confidence showdown in the Liberal government crisis. A new session is planned for today after an 84 to 82 tax bill defeat left 46 of 130 Liberal MPs absent while Prime Minister Lester B Pearson was on vacation. Pearson expected to move for a confidence vote.
London moved to curb colored immigration under emergency legislation after pressure. Home Secretary James Callaghan announced the bill aimed at about 160,000 people of Indian or Pakistani origin living in East Africa who hold British citizenship from Kenya's 1963 independence. He cited racial motives and warned entry could fuel disharmony and explosions.
The State Department said Dobrynin received threats three weeks earlier and extra protection at the Russian Embassy was withdrawn before a bomb exploded there. The Soviet Embassy reported five threatening calls after the blast. A round the clock watch had been ordered after an unsigned letter to the White House. FBI pursuing leads as Johnson orders vigorous investigation. In New York, a Times poll shows 59 percent support Lindsay against Rockefeller over the sanitation strike.
Dr. Donald Pinker, medical director at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, announced a major breakthrough in leukemia research. He cited a five-drug combination given to 31 patients from 1964 to 1966 that produced the longest remissions in medical history for five patients.
Plainspoken Blythe Junior College instructor William Hensey Jr, 56, seeks reinstatement after suspension for using the word whore in a San Luis lecture about venereal disease. Palo Verde District officials cite insubordination. students protest and national groups plan support. Police probe continues in the fatal shooting of Herald-Examiner printer Maurice Maynard.
President Johnson appointed Samuel D. Berger to be deputy ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, filling the top embassy post in Saigon. Berger, 56, will succeed Eugene Locke, who resigned to pursue the Democratic nomination for Texas governor. Berger previously served as ambassador to Korea from 1961 to 1964 and is deeply versed in Southeast Asian politics.
H. Rap Brown, flown from New Orleans to Washington and jailed in Richmond on a $100,000 bond for inciting a riot in Cambridge, Md., threatens to fast until freedom or death. Police surrounded a commercial jetliner at Dulles as Brown’s lawyer accuses authorities of political detention.
Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace had malignant tumor removed along with a section of bowel at St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after dawn surgery. Doctors said she is in quite good condition and recovering from the procedure. Band leader Guy Lombardo also reported recovering after artery repair by Dr. Michael DeBakey in Houston.
Army Spec. 4 Mike Tiernan joined a ham to ski program in Arapahoe Basin Colorado amid more than 20 Vietnam casualties who lost limbs in combat. Tiernan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a February 16 1987 mine explosion near Ben Hoa South Vietnam, demonstrates resilience and pursuit of adaptive skiing.
Air Force Academy cadet Paul David Spears received a two week continuance in his court martial on charges of armed robbery and theft. The delay delays further proceedings and new dates will be set by the judge advocate.
Timothy Leary says he and his LSD followers will join young people blacks peace and women's groups to disrupt next summer's Democratic Convention in Chicago. He told a news conference they would attempt to block the nomination of President Johnson.
Former Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois died in a Rocky Mount North Carolina hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 74 and had been taken from a special train bound for Wildwood Florida after a mid journey stroke. Lucas had lost re election to Everett Dirksen in 1959 and was once considered for vice president in 1940 1944 and 1948.
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