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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1969
Page
1
U S artillery pounded the southern DMZ as Marine and Army units mounted defenses to shield troops from a long anticipated assault. Reports say North Vietnamese forces remained concentrated in the area, with air and ground operations coordinating to blunt the expected drive.
Allied units killed 78 Red troops with no American casualties. An apparent North Vietnamese ammo dump in the neutral buffer strip exploded during shelling and three firing positions were demolished. American planes targeted a bunker network north of Gia Linh inside the PMé after rifle fire hit a spotter plane. the plane escaped undamaged.
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker warned that Viet Cong forces have the capacity to strike Allied forces and population centers in South Vietnam. He said the Viet Cong might attempt dramatic attacks to influence Paris negotiations and global opinion.
Week ending reports show 19 American deaths bringing U S battle toll to 30,795 since January 1961 and 1,398 wounded. Allied forces claim 2,102 Communist dead as NATO debates non nuclear strength and a planned allied naval force forms in the Mediterranean. A student in Prague self immolates in Wenceslas Square while Brazil's da Costa e Silva purges three Supreme Court justices and strips 39 others of political rights.
National previewing a calmer inflation outlook Johnson urged continued high taxes to restrain an economy that had a strong 1968. He emphasized reconciling prosperity with price stability as the key remaining policy challenge for the nation.
Four masked gunmen invaded the Washington home of socialite Gwen Cafritz replacing loot from safe and binding Cafritz, her household staff, and widow colleagues. The caper follows a similar 1962 break in that remains unsolved with jewelry and cash estimated up to 250000 dollars.
Wilbur J. Cohen former U S secretary of Health Education and Welfare will become dean of the University of Michigan School of Education officials said Thursday. Dr Courtney Smith Swarthmore College president died of a heart attack during tense negotiations with Negro student activists. Twenty five Negro militant students abandoned their occupation of the admissions office out of respect. Vi Drake topless dancer arrested for lewd conduct and indecent exposure at a North Hollywood bistro. The federal government billed Joseph Valachi $10860 for back income taxes from 1950 to 1956 while awaiting a war veterans charge appeal.
Judge Chantry ruled Mickey Hargitay must provide 7533 in support to Jayne Mansfield's three children Zoltan 9 Milles 7 and Mariska 4, despite claims the estate, valued near 1 million, may be drained by creditors and Mansfield’s estate tax. Mansfield died in 1967 in a highway crash.
President Johnson awarded Dean Rusk the President’s Medal with Distinction in a farewell ceremony at the State Department. Johnson praised Rusk as this decade’s man for the ages and declared the highest civilian honor for a lifetime of service amid a sentimental evening.
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