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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1968
Page
2
American Marines advanced into Communist held territory within miles of the South China Sea and about one mile from the DMZ. The weekend sweep killed 162 North Vietnamese, with 134 Saturday and 28 more Sunday. Marine losses were six dead and 73 wounded. South Vietnamese forces reported 40 Viet Cong killed.
American B52 bombers attacked North Vietnamese artillery positions in the DMZ and southern panhandle while striking base camps and infiltration routes near Saigon. The raids extended to shore batteries near the Tonkin Gulf as U S patrol boats conducted large operations to curb Viet Cong movement toward the capital.
Pacific A test at Papeete Tahiti resumes 1968 nuclear activity with a conventional warhead detonation 800 miles southeast of shore. The device over Muru roa atoll tests instruments ahead of a planned hydrogen bomb this summer despite protests from Japan New Zealand and Australia.
Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic Party led Sunday in a crucial Diet election, winning just over 52 percent of the vote, up 1.3 points from three years ago. The Socialists trailed with about 21 percent, reflecting anti American sentiment.
Poland warned it will suspend some dollar payment obligations to the United States if Washington revokes Poland from the most favored nation MFN trade status. The resolution was introduced Wednesday by senators Dodd Hollings and Ribicoff. MFN grants lower tariffs to Poland and Yugoslavia in the East bloc.
Czech reformists won a notable victory as a Communist Party presidium member was defeated in the election for delegates to a crucial party congress set for September.
Nixon urged a tighter economic quarantine on Cuba and stronger leverage through European and Canadian trade partners. He said Castro is exporting revolution across the hemisphere and that U.S. policy must quarantine his government.
Dr. Philip Blaiberg the longest surviving heart transplant patient shows definite improvement at Groote Schuur Hospital South Africa and declines a third heart. His wife says there will be no further transplant operations.
Albert Foster spent a decade planning and two years building a 30 foot fiberglass cabin cruiser in his driveway. The boat is 10 feet wide, wider than the alley between his fence and house, making it impossible to move out of the backyard after he turned the hull right side up last Christmas.
Francine Nelson aged 18 and Thomas King 22 wed barefoot in Golden Gate Park San Francisco. The Rev Leon Preston Harris officiated at a reverent ceremony before a reception at a Haight Ashbury communal home.
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