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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1968
Page
2
Communists fired four rounds of recoilless rifles on Tan Son Nhut, killing one American civilian and wounding two South Vietnamese. The predawn attack damaged one plane and damaged two others, the lightest Saigon area shelling in two weeks. The Viet Cong threatened a major rocket barrage beginning Monday for up to 100 nights.
Allied officers warned civilians to move as they assessed a new possible invasion. US troops conducted sweeps near Saigon and uncovered 22 rounds of Chinese made 107 millimeter rockets and nine complete 122 millimeter rockets in submerged sampans about nine miles north of the capital.
U S forces lost 380 killed and 2,739 wounded in the week ended last Saturday while North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties reached 2,134 killed. Rocket and mortar barrages into Saigon continued, killing 222 civilians and wounding 818 since May 5. American casualties in 714 years of fighting stand at 24,744 killed and 152,972 wounded.
Paris police clash with about 700 students and young workers in Nantes defying a government ban on demonstrations. About 200 arrested as De Gaulle’s government widens a crackdown. Government outlawed four more leftist groups and deployed large police forces nationwide.
West Germany faces renewed pressure as Berlin traffic is squeezed to a trickle and East German authorities threaten further actions. Chancellor Kie?inger called the situation very serious while hinting he may withhold signature on the U S Soviet treaty if road harassment continues.
A Titan 3D rocket from Cape Kennedy lifted off in a fiery display and placed eight $11 million satellite relay units into a high equatorial orbit about 21,000 miles up. The mission was nearly flawless with 17 Defense Communications Agency satellites already linking Washington and U.S. forces in the Far Pacific.
In the ant i draft conspiracy trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock and four co defendants the prosecutor said Spock convicted himself on the stand while praising his conduct. Defendants include Rev William Sloane Coffin Jr Mitchell Goodman Marcus Raskin and Michael Ferber. Also noted were Cyrus Eaton and William Boyd with updates on Vietnam talks and a hospital condition.
Government opening statements in Los Angeles outline large losses at the Friars Club Beverly Hills venue. Debbie Reynolds' husband Karl and a banker reportedly lost tens of thousands of dollars in allegedly rigged games. The case involves five men in a conspiracy trial before Judge William P. Gray.
Jim Brown won a court delay until June 19 on a felony assault charge after a deputy said Brown struck him at his apartment building. The model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, was found semiconscious and bleeding outside Brown’s unit, with Brown denying wrongdoing. Comedian Bob Hope and Howard Hughes related suits also appear in the day’s news.
Gov. Lester Maddox demanded Thursday the removal of Martha Henry a white teacher in Atlanta who allegedly required 10th graders to read A Patch of Blue a novel about a romance between a blind white girl and a Negro The governor cited her claim she picked the book after pupils rejected one from a list and could not obtain copies of their choice
A tornado struck Tracy Minnesota killing seven people and injuring more than fifty. Debris filled homes and businesses as rescuers continued searches and a local hospital reported it was overwhelmed with injured patients.
Dr. Philip Blaiberg, the world’s longest surviving heart transplant patient, shows marked improvement and his wife says there is now great hope. He remains ill with hepatitis and liver ailment in Cape Town, South Africa.
Ernest C. Arbuckle was elected chairman of Wells Fargo Bank, the 11th largest in the nation, succeeding H. Stephen Chase who retired May 31. Arbuckle has alternated occupations roughly every decade and has served as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 1958.
Eric Patrick Clapton, 23, a member of The Dreams, was acquitted in Malibu on health and safety code violations for being present in a room where marijuana was smoked. The incident involved 19 people arrested March 19 at a Topanga home shared by The Buffalo Springfield.
A St Luke's Hospital surgical team in Houston attempted a ram's heart transplant into 48 year old Sam Willoughby of Waterloo Iowa to sustain him until a human donor was found. The animal heart failed to beat and the patient died on the operating table despite efforts to start it.
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