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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1969
Page
1
Heavy fighting raged around Saigon with 277 Communist troops killed in five battles within 60 to 100 miles of the capital. Red rocket teams struck a U S base 37 miles from Saigon as a distant 8,000-man Allied force invaded a Viet Cong stronghold peninsula in the north.
Negro students occupied admissions offices and controlled buildings at multiple colleges including the University of Minnesota Brandeis Swarthmore and Wittenberg amid demands. The Swarthmore group raised new conditions for returning to campus as a sixth day of occupation continued.
International forces mount the largest amphibious assault since the Korean War in northern Batangan Peninsula as US and ISS troops clash around Sai Gon. A US convoy near Tie Ninh City repels Red troops for seven hours, claiming 122 enemy deaths under air and artillery support.
France warned Israel and pledged to support Lebanon if its existence is threatened while de Gaulle faces domestic uproar over a total arms embargo. Prime Minister Eshkol accused the French president of moral double standards and threatening peace in the Middle East as the Knesset expressed backing for his stance.
Communist leaders and Czech oslovak journalists reach agreement allowing public debate on party programs while keeping censors out of editorial offices. Deputy Premier Colotka to replace Smykovysky as National Assembly chairman amid reform talks. Pope Paul VI summons extraordinary synod to defend authority over birth control ban.
Morton Sobell, once linked to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, won release from federal prison after nearly 18 years of a 30 year sentence. His wife Helen awaited at the New York Port Authority for his arrival from Lewistown prison. Also noted were updates on David Greenglass, Admiral John S. McCain, a Navajo draft exemption case, Alvin Karpis’s release to Canada, and other assorted crime and public notices.
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