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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1969
Page
2
Communist forces bombarded five U S bases around Saigon between Sunday and today and sent infantry against two. A jungle bivouac 44 miles north of Saigon saw the worst American casualties with five killed and 11 wounded. Casualties elsewhere were light as North Vietnamese infiltration rose in the past two months.
National Guard troops who patrolled Wilmington's black ghetto with loaded M1 rifles for more than nine months will end their rounds Tuesday. Gov elect Russell W. Peterson will halt the patrols begun by outgoing Gov. Charles Terry, calling them a national spectacle and insult to the community. The move follows unrest after the King's assassination and stops measures said to keep order.
Police with shields and helmets fought rebels for hours on Tokyo University campus. They smashed through barricades and moved up the nine story clock tower administration building while water hoses drenched passages. Television crews broadcast the daylong clash nationwide.
London reports the Soviet Union promised North Vietnam extensive postwar reconstruction aid to speed recovery and reduce Chinese and American influence in Southeast Asia. Economic aid would replace recently supplied military goods as Ho Chi Minh seeks an eastward settlement.
Prague reports Martyr Palach, 21, died from self immolation burns after a freedom protest. Thousands join a quiet funeral march and hunger strikes as dissent grows and fears rise of Soviet intervention warnings.
Washington George Christian, outgoing White House press secretary, told Meet the Press he did not lie for the Johnson administration but admitted withholding information in the national interest. He cited sensitive negotiations and North Vietnam talks as examples of the full story not being told immediately.
Senator Hugh Scott argues the White House contradicted campaign rhetoric by warning the Soviet Union may surpass the United States in land based intercontinental missile launchers by this summer. He cites a Defense Department summary released after Clark Clifford’s briefing as proof of false framing.
President Johnson attended church with family and Billy Graham as he relinquishes power to Nixon. He read a self written prayer urging peace and warning against power and pride while calling for aid to the hungry sick and needy.
Producer Charles de Gaulle leads a film about his role with Roger Stephane directing. De Gaulle has viewed nearly half of a 20 hour cut intended for television worldwide release detailing the general and the Free French in World War II.
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