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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1968
Page
1
The text outlines how to reach ACTION LINE for help by mailing Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or calling 432 3451 during listed hours. It notes questions chosen for general interest and usefulness.
Readers may obtain a copy of Associate Justice Stanley Mosk's address 16 Years to 1984 at the Supreme Court of California in San Francisco. Also covered are tuxedo rental options for a daughter's Aug. 3 wedding, veteran pension details, AMVETS flag replacement, an oyster opener for shellfish, and Long Beach Heartwell Park development plans.
A Long Beach family spent days searching eighty miles of neighborhood and repeatedly checking the animal shelter. An officer suggested checking kennels behind a No Admittance sign where they found their old dog, who had been picked up the prior Thursday. The incident ends with the owners worried about the record keeping and the possible fate of their pet.
Northwest Orient Flight 714 with 85 to 93 aboard diverted to Havana after a gunman seized the Boeing 727 near Chicago en route to Miami. FBI Chicago begins investigation as pilot communicates emergency landing and Cuban airspace is requested.
The Public Health Service report to Congress links cigarette smoking to heart disease and lung cancer. Heavy smokers may lose about eight years of life, with growing evidence of cardiovascular risk. Secretary Cohen urges warnings on vending machines and ads.
President Johnson announced the start of joint discussions on partial nuclear disarmament with the Soviet Union to be held in the near future. The White House speech coincided with signing of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in London and Moscow by Britain and Soviet allies. Kosygin proposed measures to halt the arms race including banning nuclear weapons use and reducing stockpiles.
The United States asked the Soviet Union for the immediate return of a Seaboard World Airlines chartered plane and 214 U S servicemen forced to land in the Kurile Islands. Washington said the airliner strayed off course north of Japan en route to Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam. President Johnson gave no comment on the incident as talks continued on arms control.
Richard Nixon urged immediate release of an American aircraft forced to land on a Soviet island. He warned that the action risks detente progress and current negotiations and could trigger new US Soviet tensions. He compared it to the Pueblo incident and called for concrete signs of restraint from the Soviet Union.
A Long Beach man died Monday when his car struck a parked truck on Pacific Coast Highway near Cota Avenue. Vera Espinoza, 50, of 2026 California Avenue, was pronounced dead on arrival at Pacific Hospital.
Police in Berkeley beat a bearded youth during a curfew crackdown on Telegraph Avenue. Beatings occurred after a dissenter taunted officers. no arrests were made that night. A crowd, including students, faced a 8 p.m. curfew with 170 officers on duty.
A report notes a mother and brother visiting Sirhan Sirhan who is detained in a county jail. The piece appears on page A-4. No further details are provided in the readable text.
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