Redship 3 Bases Hit as Viet Cong Attack Khe Sanh
Viet Cong ambushed a Marine supply convoy and attacked air bases at An Khe Pleiku and Phu Bai amid combat along the Khe Sanh defense line. At least 100 Americans killed, 68 wounded. Marines repel mortar assaults as B52 bombers and fighter jets strike suspected VC positions across North and South Vietnam. Two Marines escape after being paraded by Viet Cong, identified as Lance Cpl. Steven D. Nelson and Pfc. Michael R. Roha. Kosygin begins six day India visit with no comment on Pist Pueblo crisis.
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Sicily Quake Strikes Island Killing Dozens
A two minute tremor across Sicily from Trapani to Catania killed eight more people, raising the 2 day toll to 246. Five rescue workers died in debris collapses, three died of heart attacks, and at least 40 were injured as a magnitude eight event on the Mercalli scale rattled the island.
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Auto strikes idle 72,200 workers in US and Canada
Nationwide disruption hits GM and Chrysler plants with plans for more layoffs in Michigan New York and Ohio. Senate panel approves Clark Clifford as defense secretary. Cuban exile bombings strike Miami shops and a nonemergency garage. Cold overcoat weather chills the north with frost warnings from Florida to New England amid lingering Great Lakes snow.
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Gardner resigns as secretary of HEW after years of service
John Gardner, longtime advocate of education health and welfare reform, resigns from the Johnson administration 21 percent years after taking office. The move prompts praise from Senator Wayne Morse who calls Gardner’s tenure magnificent. Separate reports note a prison hunger strike by Robert Viles and a legal maneuver in the Philadelphia arson murder case. Singer Nancy Wilson and husband Kenneth Dennis announce a trial separation as their son turns five.
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Picnic Time After Rescue On Tennessee Mountain
Two young Canadian couples crash landed on a snowy eastern Tennessee mountainside and spent 18 hours in a spruce tree. Rescued by helicopter, they described a calm night of barbecued chicken and starry skies near 6,300-foot Raam Mountain. Pilot Peter Rex and his wife Arlene, Stu Ramsay and wife Toni were aboard.
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Teachers End Strike Vote In San Francisco Talks
San Francisco 1,400 union teachers called off a strike vote after day-long talks with Superintendent Robert E Jenkins. Negotiations yielded progress improving potential contract terms and production-focused revisions. The action follows broader 1968 political and social tensions influencing national opinion.
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