22 Jul 1970
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1970
Page
1
Reports detail heavy combat in Vietnam with helicopters downed and groundfire while South Vietnam presses for prisoner safety on Con Son Island. In Britain a dock strike escalates amid threats to halt food handling. Iceland and Greenland tensions rise as defense statements question call origins. A powerful earthquake leaves 20 000 dead and 50 000 missing, per health authorities.
Cairo reports Egypt and Israel clash over test claims that 20,000 Americans serve in the Israeli army and that Egypt captured an American pilot. Egyptian Information Minister Hassanain Helal said on TV that many others joined Israel during the June 1967 war, a claim Israel denied.
An armed gang wearing ski masks hijacked a truck carrying 203000 dollars in gold during rush hour on the Major Deegan Expressway. The truck was later found in Brooklyn with 140000 dollars in gold. 96000 dollars missing. Police theorize hijackers panicked or were interrupted unloading.
President Nixon will add stops at Salt Lake City and Denver to his Western White House trip. He will meet Mormon President Joseph Smith on Pioneer Day and attend the Stampede rodeo, then proceed to San Clemente before Denver for an administration planning officials meeting.
The San Francisco YWCA received 162000 from Kasson Avery and the Salvation Army 924000 from the Sir Francis Drake tenant. Avery, a reclusive 40 year downtown resident, left an estate over 1.8 million. Patty Duke files for divorce from Michael Tell after a brief Las Vegas marriage. A heart transplant in Ann Arbor and Luce estate of 103 million with 67 million for charities are reported.
Sidekick veteran Arthur Treacher announced during Tuesday night taping that he is leaving the show. The event marked his 76th birthday and his 51st year in show business.
Robert Penn Warren, famed author of All the Kings Men, was named the 1970 National Medal for Literature winner. The prize includes a $5,000 grant and a bronze medal, awarded annually by the National Book Committee to a living American writer for overall contribution to world letters.
Filmmaker Fred Zinneman files a 2.3 million dollar breach of contract suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer claiming he completed work and Carlo Ponti produced for the Andre Malraux adaptation Man's Fate before MGM canceled production four days before shooting last November.
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