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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1968
Page
2
Saigon remains under tight alert as Allied forces anticipate a full Communist offensive. Government police uncovered a Viet Cong defector link amid ongoing security measures.
Allied intelligence warned of a large Viet Cong offensive in the Saigon region with potential strikes on Hue and other northern provinces. In Saigon's Cholon district two teenage assassins fired on a pedicab driver, then vanished, as authorities uncovered TNT and weapon stockpiles in the area.
President de Gaulle, 77, rode down the Champs Elysees in an open car during Bastille Day ceremonies while police dispersed rock throwing demonstrators in the Latin Quarter with tear gas. Large crowds were moved along Boulevard St. Michel as tanks rolled by in the military display.
Soviet forces delayed their two weeks delayed pullout from Czechoslovakia again. The Warsaw Pact troops were in the country for war games ending June 30 and their continued presence stoked anxiety about a Russian threat to Prague's liberal regime. OTTAWA Seaway workers ratified a wage deal ending a peak season strike idling ships. The agreement includes a 19 percent wage rise over three years. Seaway ships to move within hours. Seoul reports talks with North Korea over the Pueblo apology and crew releases. The only remaining issue is whether the apology or release comes first.
Congress faces a packed week of foreign aid gun control and large appropriations as leaders push long sessions toward an August finish. The pace could decide if a meaningful gun law passes this year amid dim prospects. ABC bids block Hughes 148.5 million bid for 43 percent of ABC stock faces a last minute appeal. Rev Milton Galamison named to NYC Board of Education amid decentralization plan. Kansas pickets, 41 jailed as union seeks reinstatement of 34 aides fired June 19.
Two giant jetliners a Russian and an American take off in Moscow and New York to launch the first commercial air traffic between the Soviet Union and United States. The exchange follows a 1958 cultural agreement and marks a new phase in Soviet American cooperation.
Rep. Joe R. Pool of Texas, HUAC member and Vietnam war proponent, died of a heart attack Sunday. He was 57 and declared dead on arrival at a Houston hospital after a flight from Los Angeles. Pool, elected in 1962, chaired a HUAC subcommittee and opposed draft resistance while supporting Johnson's Vietnam policy.
Westbrook born Van Voorhis died in New Milford Connecticut after a long illness. He narrated The March of Time from 1935 to the 1950s and voiced the film short Wanted to Die. A Mexican fisherman, Carlos Prado Uribe, survived 18 days at sea after drifting 534 miles.
Martha Vascon, the Miss Universe winner, expressed homesickness after her victory and plans rest before a New York promotional tour. Separately, Peter Edelman married Marion Wright in McLean Virginia with dignitaries present and legal questions raised by Rev. Coffin's bail status. James Kavanaugh conducted a civil wedding in San Diego, stating priestly status and resignation plans.
The Rev Ralph David Abernathy led about 400 demonstrators in a symbolic protest at Capitol Hill and pledged to carry the Poor Peoples Campaign to the Republican and Democratic conventions. He was released from jail after a 20 day term for a June 24 demonstration on the Capitol grounds. Former Congressman Ross A Collins died at 88 in Meridian Mississippi. Denton Cooley met with Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town and praised Blaibergs health as inspiring to heart transplant patients in Houston. Senator Hartke urged offering Mindszenty permanent asylum in the United States.
Bobby L. Rogers 31 was extradited from North Carolina after surrendering Friday for the killings of three men on a Bronx street. He will be arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court on homicide charges. The suspect, held incommunicado, was superintendent at the tenement where the shootings occurred. Also: California Assemblyman Pete Wilson wed Betty Robertson in Palos Verdes on Sunday.
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