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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1968
Page
2
American pilots reported sinking or damaging 115 barges and boats and knocking out 23 trucks on Wednesday as heavy U S bombing targeted supply routes and storage areas in southern North Vietnam, reducing the enemy flow to South Vietnam. Thursday's bag was only partial.
The week ended last Saturday saw 1,446 Americans killed or wounded, the lowest in six months, with 961 Communist deaths. U.S. wounded totaled 1,248, 651 hospitalized. South Vietnamese losses reached 293 killed and 597 wounded. Since 1961, U.S. battle deaths total 25,752 and wounded 160,693, with 1,187 missing or captured.
Savage gales lash the eastern coast with up to 70 mph winds sweeping 200 miles of shoreline. Floodwaters threaten holiday resorts, ships, and North Sea gas rigs as rescue teams use boats helicopters and amphibious vehicles. Six people are feared dead as floods spread across southwest central England.
Defense Secretary Clark Clifford will fly to Saigon on Saturday for a close-up review of threats from a new Communist offensive and then join Johnson Thieu talks in Honolulu. He said a U.S. troop withdrawal before 1970 is unlikely barring breakthroughs in Paris.
The House approved production of a new helicopter despite Rep. Otis Pikes claim that Lockheed won the contract under dubious circumstances. Leaders defended the program as essential for the Army.
Regis Philbin announced on stage in Hollywood that he is leaving Joey Bishop's late night ABC show. He claimed network pressure and Bishop’s protection kept him on air, while Bishop urged him to stay. ABC responded that his statements had no basis in fact.
New York appeals court upholds Powell contempt conviction for refusing to pay Esther James slander judgment. Esther James, 70, sued Powell after he ignored court orders to settle the case. In Los Angeles, Don Taylor loses a $450000 plagiarism suit against McGowan Productions over The Bashful Elephant claims.
District Attorney Jim Garrison claimed his office has exchanged information with a foreign intelligence agency that he said penetrated forces involved in the Kennedy assassination. He described the agency as allied militarily with the U.S. and said its data includes an interview with one of the assassins. The Los Angeles Press Club named comedian Pat Buttram master of ceremonies for the Miss Press Club finals and coronation dinner on August 2.
Sculptor Eldon Danhau will wrap his nude police headquarters statue Copper Cop in a girdle like metal diaper this weekend after Chief Giarrusso objected to exposing parts. The $15,000 piece is from Chicago and previously tarpaulin covered at unveiling.
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