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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1968
Page
2
The report covers B52 and fighter-bomber strikes around Khe Sanh as allied forces seek to disrupt North Vietnamese positions before a lunar new year ceasefire. Air Force and Navy jets attack southern targets, including supply lines and bridges, with clashes reported near the demilitarized zone east of Khe Sanh.
Heavy snow blanketed Switzerland and Austria, washing away chalets and barns. Twenty four bodies recovered in Switzerland and at least ten missing. Searchers toil in wet conditions as roads and rail links remain cut. Skiers warned to avoid affected runs as alpine communities reel from the disaster.
National SRLS report shows fiscal 1968 spending 175.6 billion with receipts 155.8 billion and a 19.8 billion deficit, the largest since World War II, and fiscal 1969 projections list gouging deficits. Foundry strikes settle. UAW reaches agreements at GM plants in Saginaw Michigan and Defiance Ohio.
The 34 year old fugitive known as Murph the Surf leaped through a plate glass door during a Miami Beach mansion raid on Millionaires Row. Three other suspects were captured after shots were exchanged. They face assault to murder and armed robbery charges as police swarmed the scene at Mrs Olive Woffords home.
A collection of brief reports covers immigration delays and mediation for a Purple Heart recipient in Utah, Patricia Neal’s comeback in The Subject Was Roses filming, Dr. Barnard defending heart transplant outcomes in Munich, and updates on Miss Darvall's kidney transplants. Also noted are Mia Farrow's New Delhi meditation, Kennedy on racism, missing soldiers, a potential new hearing for Gridley Lorimer Wright, Christina Olson’s death linked to Wyeth portraits, and various crime stories including the Great Train Robbery manhunt and a local assault on a Philadelphia shop owner with escalating robberies.
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