Mass surrender and wars across Vietnam and Korea
Ragged, hungry prisoners, about 150 North Vietnamese soldiers surrendered near Saigon as shelling hit the capital. Nine miles south of Khe Sanh, 128 enemy regulars died in a day-long battle with Marine forces, with 11 Marines killed. Elsewhere, Hanoi talks in Paris proceed amid threats of strikes in Italy and renewed fighting along the Korean DMZ.
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Tornado Rips La Crosse Kansas Injures Eight
A tornado tore through La Crosse Kansas injuring eight, overturning four trailer homes, damaging buildings, and rupturing a gas main during storms. Severe weather swept the central plains with 70 mph gusts in Chicago and hail in Milwaukee.
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Movie Gunslingers Lead Push for Gun Laws
Gregory Peck Charlton Heston Hugh OBrien and others urge Congress to pass stronger gun control including outlawing mail order sales to minors and to those without proper ID. They cite Kennedy and King killings and warn the sound of gunfire could echo again.
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AMA leader urges doctors to face health care changes
The new AMA president Dr Dwight L Wilbur urged 311000 physicians to modify their stance toward government involvement in health care. He warned if doctors do not guide change it will default to a bulky inefficient federal bureaucracy. Also reported Maizlish UCLA teaching assistant convicted for failure to report for induction.
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Kennedy Family Requests Memorial Service at DNC
The Kennedy family requests a memorial service at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August. DNC chairman John M. Bailey said a family representative, Kenneth P. O’Donnell, has approached him in recent days. California designer Mr Blackwell plans a June 30 estate opening for the fourth annual Wine and Cheese Tasting Festival in Los Angeles, benefiting the Catholic Press Council of Southern California, with about 1,200 attendees last year at David Rose’s home.
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Texas Boy Discovers Second Comet of 1968
A 16 year old from Bishop Texas named Mark Whitaker is credited by the Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge Massachusetts as the youngest person to discover a comet. The Whitaker-Thomas comet is named for the Texas youth and a confirming professional astronomer.
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Remarkable Dr Blaiberg shows improvement after liver infection
The world’s longest living heart transplant patient Dr Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town South Africa is reported to be showing signs of a remarkable improvement as he recovers from a liver infection doctors say.
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Hope Responds To Eye Treatment Ahead Of Patch Removal
Comedian Bob Hope reported improvement after treatment for an ailment in his left eye. Doctors planned to remove one of two light protective patches today and for several days he will wear special glasses with pinpoint openings to focus his eyes. Hope, 65, underwent surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Hollywood last Saturday to address a blood clot behind the left eye.
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Aviator Mira Slovak in satisfactory condition after crash
Mira Slovak, the aviator who sustained serious injuries when his glider powered by an automobile engine crashed during landing at Santa Paula airport after a 5000 mile flight, was reported in satisfactory condition on Tuesday.
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