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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
2
Viet Cong forces used chemical gas in a Monday night assault on an Ong De outpost in the Mekong Delta 58 miles southwest of Saigon. Government troops repelled the attack but suffered moderate casualties. The gas caused nausea and vomiting among several defenders. Far north near the DMZ, U S Marines engaged North Vietnamese forces.
American forces fought near the abandoned Khe Sanh base and swept toward the eastern DMZ ridge at Gio Linh. In Saigon, infantry repelled a Communist force 24 miles southwest of the capital, killing 17. A Viet Cong attack hit an oil tank complex southeast of Saigon, causing a fire but no casualties.
Paris based spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le for the North Vietnamese delegation said communist troops won a string of victories over U S forces in the Khe Sanh region and voiced Hanoi support for the Viet Cong insurgents in Laos. He said four strategic hills were captured and American and South Vietnamese positions were surrounded on another on the Khe Sanh front.
Britain pledges international help to back the pound. Twelve nations guarantee a standby credit of up to 2 billion dollars for about ten years to stabilize the currency during the transition and prevent another devaluation. The pound rose to 2.3895 dollars, its best one day gain in memory.
At Panmunjom the U N Command charges North Korea is expanding its army beyond defense needs and illegally adding brigades of rockets guided-missile boats and MIG jets. Maj Gen Gilbert H Woodward cites 345 000 troops in the North Korean force.
In Uppsala Sweden youth delegates without voting power adopted a resolution criticizing the United States and allies over Vietnam and urged the assembly to issue a matching statement.
The Senate approved a three year plan to send at least 100000 to each state for delinquency programs. The measure totals 150 million over three years and aims to cut juvenile crime amid estimates of four billion in annual national costs.
A 2 year old girl was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for 12 hours before being returned unharmed to her Marysville home. The suspect Thomas Fulton Scholfield, a 22 year old Marine, remained at large in Northern California. Scholfield’s wife Loretta was taken for investigation and the kidnap was described as a hostage flight to flee authorities.
Wallace Mellish surrendered peacefully ending an eight day standoff in Sydney. He had held a teenage girl at gunpoint forcing marriage to his wife Beryl and their infant son Leslie. Police avoided fire and Mellish surrendered with a minister and officer present.
Everett C. Thomas the ninth heart transplant patient in the world says in Houston he feels like a million bucks and plans to leave St. Luke's Hospital in about two weeks to live with his family in a Houston apartment.
Peggy Lennon of the Lennon sisters has a son named Michael Matthew born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces. Peggy and her husband Dick Cathcart have three other children.
Dr Christiaan Barnard faced censure as Cape Town officials debated giving Blaiberg a third heart. Prof Velva Schire of Groote Schuur Memorial Hospital opposed a second transplant, favoring European anti lymphocyte serum to treat Blaiberg’s liver and lung issues while doctors credited the serum with his rapid improvement.
Sterling Hayden's son Christian, 19, and four other men face a Los Angeles federal trial after Judge Manuel L. Real denied motions to dismiss the indictment. Defendants include attorney Peter J. Marx, 26, Daniel Lott, 20, Donald P. O'Connell, 22, and Paul T. Porter, 21, all pleading innocent.
In Shanghai a newspaper accused Lo Jui-Ching former head of China's security apparatus of ordering his agents to study the methods of Sherlock Holmes, the British detective, as inspiration for espionage and surveillance.
Louis Lomax called the black revolution a silly season in a Portland speech to the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies. He criticized black militants who preach hate and claim that everything not black is ugly and contemptible.
A Detroit Criminal Court judge sharply criticized John Hersey's The Algiers Motel Incident and ordered a six month postponement in the trial of a white policeman charged with killing one of three Negro youths during last year's riot at the motel.
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