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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1968
Page
2
U S Marines backed by planes and artillery fought a day long battle near Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. The action killed 157 enemy soldiers while the Marines suffered two killed and 11 wounded. The clash occurred Monday.
In separate actions near Khe Sanh and the Mekong Delta Allied forces captured 71 enemy weapons and uncovered a large cache including rifles rockets mortar rounds pistols and mines. B52 strikes maintained pressure on bases around Saigon while Harriman returned to Paris stating the U S position remains unchanged in peace talks with Hanoi.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Tokyo causing one death from a heart attack and five injuries. Buildings swayed, dishes broke, and transit halted as the tremor rattled the city in a rare, severe event. Separately, signals suggested Russia may be testing atomic weapons north of the Caspian Sea.
London pilots suspend their 17 day stoppage after new pay rise proposals to railway workers sparked optimism for ending Britain’s rail slowdown. The two actions arrive as Britons face widespread travel disruption and fresh hopes for relief.
A heatwave pushed temperatures to 90 in London as Sahara dust blankets southern England. A dust storm lifted by a Sahara tornado coated cars and houses in reddish dust while the Tower Bridge remained raised, causing major traffic jams.
Strong winds at Salisbury Beach Mass tore through a camping area overturning 85 trailers and 66 tents. About 100 people were hospitalized with non fatal injuries. many received only emergency care. The rest of the day covered political and financial news including a Poor People's Coalition formation and a ship strike resolution.
William F. McKee head of the FAA submitted his resignation to President Johnson effective July 31 after 39 years in government service. Lee Loevinger of the FCC declined a further term as his FCC appointment expired. No successors named yet for either post. McKee praised for leading FAA in expanding and modernizing airports and airways.
President Jomo Kenyatta hosted Robert F Kennedy Jr at his Nairobi home on Monday. RFK Jr presented a PT109 tie clasp symbolizing Kennedy’s World War II torpedo boat service. U S Ambassador Glen Ferguson and Kenya Attorney General Charles Nionjo attended the meeting. Rexford Eagan on the Anthony Dontanville case says he has been cleared by the State Bar. The bar would not confirm or deny confidentiality rules. Dontanville, 35, was convicted of first degree murder in the rape slayings of two Altadena sisters. He was later acquitted in a second trial defended by Charles Hollopeter, Pasadena’s former landscape designer for the city.
President Johnson will attend an Organization of Central American States meeting in El Salvador and then travel to four more Latin American countries. After July 4 in Texas, he will meet Central American presidents for two days to discuss a Central American Common Market and then fly back with brief airport ceremonies.
Beatle John Lennon stood with Yoko Ono at a downtown gallery art show and declared his six year marriage to Cynthia Lennon “over though not legally.” Marilyn Eaton filed for divorce from attorney Robert A. Eaton in Los Angeles, citing extreme cruelty and seeking custody of daughters April and Heather. Arjay Miller named dean of Stanford Business School as Semon Knudsen becomes Ford president. Theodore Briskin testified to suspicious play at the Friars Club gin rummy table after losing $220,000, saying others used unorthodox tactics.
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