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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1970
Page
2
U S helicopter assaults and B52 bombing left at least 417 North Vietnamese troops dead with many more wounded after operations began near Khe Sanh, with South Vietnamese forces aiding in the cleanup and reporting numerous bodies and weapons in the hills.
Reports from TEL AVIV describe intensified fighting along the Suez Canal with two Egyptian commando groups crossing the canal and attacking Israeli positions. Soviet and U S actions are noted as possible shifts in support and air defense systems amid mounting regional tension.
Chet Huntley, retiring after 140 years on the Huntley Brinkley report, says Richard Nixon is a shallow man and that his presidency frightens him. Huntley also notes he preferred Lyndon B. Johnson, recalls dinners, and describes astronauts as dull while covering space missions.
The report details multiple regional disturbances with authorities deploying troops and curfews. Indiana state troopers occupy Michigan City after firebombings. New Bedford sees violence and arrests. Highland Park faces tear gas as curfews hold. Oklahoma City radio piracy prompts state of emergency talk. West Virginia disabled miners protest pension policies, closing southern mines.
Eldridge Cleaver and Robert Scheer head a diverse U S antiwar delegation to Moscow en route to Pyongyang to press for US involvement in Korea. The group includes Black Panthers, student, GI and feminist groups and plans a month in North Korea.
Noahs Ark expedition led by Ralph E Lenton has been barred from climbing Mt Ararat by Turkish authorities citing security concerns. The 11 member team, seeking to excavate at high altitude, hoped to verify wood remains from the biblical ark.
A fragment lists item A an Italian style white saddle with brown red or blue accents priced at 40 dollars. Item B notes a brown white or saddle option but is incomplete in color detail.
Colorado Democrat Rep Wayne N Aspinall wed Esse Jeffers Best at Crossroads Methodist Church. Aspinall, seeking a 12th term in the House, said his late wife Julia died July 8 1969 and that he first dated his new bride in 1911 when he was 14 and she 13.
John Steinbeck IV Tom Fox and Gerald Liles of Dispatch News Service International were detained after a student protest in Saigon. Steinbeck says they were seized for photographing police activity and accuses the U.S. Embassy of inaction as Americans are mistreated. An embassy spokesman cites black armbands as evidence of involvement.
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