Final U S Marines Destroy Last Khe Sanh Bunkers
U S Marines destroy the last two bunkers at Khe Sanh and fight a separate battle as North Vietnamese troops try to seize the abandoned base. Fifteen NVA killed near Highway 9, two Americans dead, eight wounded, and ongoing sniper and mortar fire as evacuations continue.
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Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
Highway 9
Ca Lo
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Mekong Delta
Poor Leader Urges Olympic Boycott and Torch Protests
The Poor People's Campaign leader Reverend Jesse L. Jackson urged Negro athletes to boycott the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and carry torches through the South and urban slums to protest poverty. He spoke in a telegram to Harry Edwards of San Jose State College, with earlier support from Tommie Smith and Lee Evans and protests by UCLA and St Bonaventure players.
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Washington
Mexico City
South
America
Jesse L. Jackson
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Mobilization For
Harry Edwards
San Jose State College
Calif
Olympus
Jackson
Edwards
San Jose
Tommie Smith
Lee Evans
Lew Alcindor
Lucius Allen
Mike Warren
UCLA
Bob Lanier
St. Bonaventure
Riddle of Lester Maddox Linked to Klan Endorsements
A Ku Klux Klan official confirmed a 1962 endorsement strategy for Maddox's lieutenant governor runoff opponent Peter Zack Geer, in a biographical account. The book notes Maddox ordered troopers to shoot and stack marchers during King’s funeral march.
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Ku Klux Klan
Lester Maddox
Georgia
James R. Venable
Stone Mountain
National Knights of the
Maddox
Bruce Galphin
The
Atlanta Constitution
Galphin
Venable
Peter Zack Geer
Geer
Martin Luther King
Cardinal Pla y Deniel dies at 92 in Spain
Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, the Roman Catholic Church’s senior Spanish prelate, died Friday night at age 92. He led Avila, Salamanca, and Toledo as bishop before being elevated to cardinal by Pope Pius XII in 1946. He was known for his conservative stance.
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Francis Cardinal Brennan
God
SS. Peter and Paul
Philadelphia
John Cardinal Krol
Brennan
Pope Paul
Cardinal Brennan
Misericordia
Enrique Cardinal Pla Y Deniel
Spain
Pla Y Deniel
Avila
Salamanca
Toledo
Pius XII
Princess Weds French Duke After Tragic Death Of Child
Princess Peggy D Arenberg wed French Duke Emanuel Jacques Duzs in Marrakesh with the pasha officiating. The ceremony follows her former life as Margaret Bedford of the Standard Oil Bedfords. A Las Vegas family tragedy left 10 year old Gregory Lee Faile electrocuted near a water faucet. His mother Mrs. Faile suffered an electrical shock while trying to revive him. In New Hampshire, William Johnston, PT 109 crew member, died after a brief illness at 58. his wife Natalie survives.
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Gregory Lee Faile
Lee Faile
Las Vegas
Peggy D’arenbert Friday
Emmanuel Jacques Duzs
Marrakesh
Si Dulai Chaiya
Morocco
D’arenberg
Margaret Bedford
Standard Oil Bedfords
Prince D’arenberg
Paris
William Johnston
Seabrook Beach
John F. Kennedy
Solomons Islands
Johnston
Natalie
Alec Rose Knighted by Queen in Portsmouth Ports mouth
Alec Rose the lone circumnavigator known as the modest vegetable man was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II in Portsmouth. He said I cannot believe it in reaction to the honor.
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Alec Rose
Sir Alec
Queen Elizabeth II
Portsmouth
Oilman Herbert Willetts Dies at 68
Herbert Willetts, 68, a director and former president of Mobil Oil Corp., died Friday at New Rochelle Hospital after a stroke suffered 10 days earlier. Gaetan Paris, 22nd heart transplant patient, is doing well. no further bulletins will be issued by the Montreal Heart Institute. Paris, 49, an electrical designer from Laval, received his new heart on June 28.
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Hall
New York
Gus Hall
American Communist Party
Communist Party U
Herbert Willetts
Mobil Oil Corp
New Rochelle Hospital
N.Y
Gaetan Paris
Montreal Heart Institute
Paris
Laval
Long Weekend for Rusk and Other Global Briefs
Secretary of State Dean Rusk takes a long weekend at home due to a recurring fever and plans to return Monday. Chancellor Kiesinger tells Bonn to deny the 1938 Munich pact. Czechoslovakia demands treaty void. Dr Philip Blaiberg, 59, at Groote Schuur Hospital faces pulmonary complications after a heart transplant. Richard Stevenson, 37, returns to San Diego after a failed solo circumnavigation attempt. plans another departure within a week. Johnny Puleo, 56, wed Evelyn O Shea in Las Vegas. couple to depart for Alameda after shows with Harmonica Rascals.
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Dean Rusk
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Rusk
Groote Schuur Hospital
Philip Blaiberg
Richard Stevenson
West Los Angeles
San Diego
Stevenson
Ensenada
Mex
American Spirit
Coast Guard
Marina del Rey
Los Angeles
Johnny Puleo
Evelyn O’shea
Las Vegas
Puleo
Harmonica Rascals
Harmonica Gang
Alameda
Calif
Stardust Hotel
Canada
Long Beach Saturday Issue No. 28 1968 Postal Notice
Saturday July 6 1968 edition of a Long Beach California publication printed for the public. The issue indicates a social class matter filed at the Post Office in Long Beach and lists the address at Sixth Street and Pine Avenue.
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Long Beach
Cal
Sixth St
Pine Ave
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Hilton
U.S. Goodby
Israel
U.N
Jerusalem
Sinai Peninsula
UAR
Egypt
Sinai
U.N. Security Council
Suez Canal
Helsinki
Vietnam
Peter Nilsson
Nilsson
Athens
Peloponnesus
Red
Moscow
Russia
Poland
East Germany
North Atlantic
Baltic
Barents
Warsaw Pact
Czechoslovakia
de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Bastille
Bonn
Gerd Wend
Interpol
International Police Organization
Combined News Services
LBJ
San Antonio
Johnson
Senate
Trans World Airlines
Leavenworth Prison
San Francisco
U.S. Marshal’s Office
U.S. Atty
Robert Linnell
John Hamilton Morris
Martin, Mich
Rocky
Honolulu
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Royal Hawaiian
Pueblo Washington
Pentagon
North Korea
Garner Shriver
Shriver
Holtville
Johnnie O. Parish
Parish
Paul K. Carlton
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Strategic Aerospace
Vandenberg Air Force Base
SAC
Carlston
William B. Mortensen
Hawaii
Greece
Miranda Zafiiopoulou
Miami
Maznah Ali
Johore
PT 109
Frederick van Deusen
William C. Westmoreland
Defense Department
van Deusen
Katherine
Westmoreland
Kurt George Kiesinger
Sudetenland
Nazi Germany
West Germany
Welch S
Welch's
Atlantic Ave
Press-Telegram
Bank OF
Long Beach Boulevard
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Naltion
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