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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1968
Page
2
Intelligence reports say North Vietnam has repaired most damage from U S air attacks during the past three years as of the March 31 Johnson de escalation order. Seven major North Vietnamese targets were cited as restored.
Allied air activity reports all bases north of the bombing line now operational with most MIG interceptors driven into Red China sanctuaries. Haiphong port cleared of war cargo as bridges and rail lines to Hanoi repaired. Communist rockets and mortars hit a north coast provincial capital, killing four civilians in Quang Ngai, with weekend raids around Saigon leaving at least 20 dead and about 120 wounded.
Three American fliers released to an antiwar committee in Hanoi were not flown home as scheduled last week. A North Vietnamese spokesman said they are free somewhere in North Vietnam and that he did not know their exact location or departure time, while noting they were freed after a Hanoi ceremony last Thursday.
North Vietnamese negotiators expressed disappointment after the Honolulu meeting between President Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. They said Washington intends to intensify the war while privately doubting a total halt to bombing and urging reciprocal restraint from Hanoi.
Cambodia refused to release 11 Americans and one South Vietnamese aboard a U.S. vessel seized on the Mekong River. Prince Norodom Sihanouk demanded ransom in the form of bulldozers or tractors. The crew, Army personnel, were taken July 17 after the ship crossed the ill defined border in what the U.S. called an inadvertent error.
Members of Parliament urged a ban on demonstrations in London amid calls from the Labor government after a three hour protest march on Sunday. The plan sought to curb unruly crowds and prevent hooligan action during public displays.
The Justice Department uses the new open housing law to charge three Baton Rouge subdivisions with selling homes only to white buyers, alleging a pattern or practice of racial discrimination. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark announced the suits in U.S. District Court in New Orleans against the builders and sellers.
Lynda Johnson Robb recounts a 1960 campaign blooper when President Johnson asked a crowd to vote for Maryland candidates and a West Virginia shout echoed. Mike Collins is grounded by a bone spur, missing the Apollo 3 mission. Sacramento recall election eyes Irene Hickman’s fate as assessor with about half of 260,008 voters expected.
Polls show Eugene J. McCarthy leading Nixon 42 to 34 with Wallace at 16 and 8 undecided mid July. Outside the South Wallace gains 10 to 20 percent. Humphrey leads Nixon 37 to 35 with Wallace at 17. A Fresno hike story notes a rainstorm washout during a Caltech JPL clothing test. The Black Panther Party and SNCC form a working alliance aimed at uniting militant groups into a black political movement.
Fragmentary entry dated Tuesday July 23 1968 shows publication details and postal/cover information. It lists circulation pricing and delivery terms, with obscure references to court case numbers and local office locations. The readable bits indicate a standard issue header for a Long Beach area publication.
Elizabeth Taylor, 36, underwent a partial hysterectomy in two operations at Fitzroy Nuffield Clinic in London. Doctors removed part of her womb due to a uterine tumor. She is resting but miserable and will not be able to have more children. She has three children from prior marriages to Michael Wilding and Michael Todd and is married to Richard Burton.
Robert Kennedy the 14 year old son of the late New York senator spent thirty minutes in Dar Es Salaam with President Julius Nyerere. He flies to Malindi today for the final leg of his African safari and has spent most of the trip in Tanzania’s Serengeti Manyara and Ngorongoro national parks.
Mark Shannon, a 60 year old San Jose bartender, eclipses Patricia Ann Haverland of Charleston by beating the 64 day underground coffin confinement. Shannon began May 28 in his cubicle fitted with TV, radio and phone and emerged after surpassing the previous record on a Sunday.
A prior felony conviction remains for Huey Newton as his Oakland trial continues with the 26 year old Black Panther leader facing automatic first degree murder charges. Superior Court Judge Monroe Friedman denied a defense motion to strike Newton's 1964 knifing assault conviction from the grand jury indictment and to treat his present charge as a first offense. Newton is charged with killing one Oakland police officer and wounding another.
Former White House consultant Arthur Larson says Eisenhower privately called Barry Goldwater "nuts" during Goldwater's 1964 bid for president. Larson adds that by 1967 Eisenhower had softened his view, noting Goldwater was "a nice guy" with everything but brains.
Don Foley assistant city manager of Sacramento on Monday flatly denied that the recent bombing of Governor Ronald Reagan's home was part of a Negro militant plot to execute Reagan.
GOP National Chairman Ray Bliss said former President Dwight Eisenhower probably will address the first evening session of the Republican National Convention by telephone.
Capt. Jorge Prellezo a Cuba-born U S Airlines pilot freed by the Castro regime arrived in Mexico City with his wife after being arrested June 29 when a passenger hijacked his Miami to Key West flight to Havana. He had escaped Cuba in 1960 and later became a U S citizen. Cuban officials had warned he would be tried as an enemy of the state.
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