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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1968
Page
2
U S Army air cavalrymen killed 11 Communist soldiers in sharp fighting near Hue the battered ancient capital. American patrols uncovered a large weapons cache while Communist forces fired from jungle lairs shooting down a courier plane and damaging five helicopters. Three crewmen and eight passengers were aboard.
Reports detail U S air cavalry fighting west of Hue with seven Americans killed and nine wounded, while two Phantom jets were downed. Saigon notes 157 Americans killed in Vietnam last week and 11 813 civilian casualties in five months, with a lull in major war zones. Also covered are a South Vietnamese political trial, a Pacific command shift, and a hijacked plane crisis in Algiers with Israeli hostages.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller confronts three court challenges arguing a permanent appointment would violate the 7th Amendment by filling Kennedy's two and a half year term. He may delay filling the vacancy until after the Miami convention.
A Prague leadership move removes Lt. Gen. Vaclav Prehlik from a party post as reformists face Soviet pressure. Meanwhile Moscow intensifies border war games and tourism bans to curb liberalization amid showdown talks with Soviet officials.
Herbert Marcuse, 70, a Marxist philosopher at the University of California San Diego, reappeared after a death threat and said he will return to teach in September. He thanked supporters and said he would not let students down despite the 72 hour threat. The incident follows past attention over his writings and protests at the University of Rome. An American Legion post offered to buy out his contract, which the chancellor declined.
Wealthy restaurateur Al Mathes testified in Los Angeles federal court that electric shocks signaled him and associates in rigged Friars Club gin rummy games. He described placing a card and a ceiling observer sending a sting if not played. Mathes and George Emerson Leach are named as unindicted co conspirators in the trial of five men charged with conspiracy over a ceiling peek hole at the club.
About 170 rooms in two Mission Bay hotels near San Diego were tentatively reserved for Richard Nixon and his party after the Republican National Convention. Hotelman William Evans said Nixon plans to stay ten days if he wins the Republican nomination for president.
Long Beach California daily edition July 26 1968 issue details contact numbers HE 5 1161 HE 2 5959 and distribution notes. Publication information shows Sixth Street Pine Avenue location and periodical dates with mail carrier delivery and court adjudication history.
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