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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1969
Page
2
A series of overnight Communist assaults targeted installations and towns with seven of 24 attacks deemed significant for casualties or damage. The only major U.S. position hit was near Trang Bang, Saigon area, by rockets and mortars.
In Fayette Mississippi Charlies Evers was sworn in as the first Black mayor of a biracial municipality in Mississippi since Reconstruction. The ceremony drew several hundred attendees and national figures amid 100 degree heat.
The report covers a white politician urging Fayette toward a clean town with integrated living, a Senate vote granting 7.6 billion for the Agriculture Department, a Fourth of July storm in Cleveland with 34 dead and 10 unaccounted, a push for a secret session on a 20 billion military bill, a fatal head on freight train crash in Louisiana, a record 607 holiday traffic deaths, and a possible rise in savings bond interest to 5 percent.
United Nations Secretary General Thant said open warfare has resumed along the Suez Canal as Egyptian forces continue firing for a prolonged period. He described renewed hostilities as the canal zone remains volatile and tense amid ongoing clashes and international concern.
President Nixon drops plans to dine with Apollo 11 astronauts on the eve of their July 16 launch due to germ concerns and to avoid detracting from launch operations. The chief physician urged total isolation before liftoff.
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