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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1969
Page
1
Green Berets and U S artillery hold the Ben Het outpost as mercenaries, helicopter gunships, and B 52 bombers strike North Vietnamese positions around the central highlands camp. Casualties mount with 13 GIs killed and 36 wounded amid heavy shelling.
The Rhine's western section showed no new fish deaths as a health ministry expert said the contamination waned after late Tuesday. He attributed the poisoning to about 220 pounds of Endosolvan, noting insecticide absence may have triggered the incident.
A broad outbreak of tornadoes and severe storms cut across the Great Plains and Midwest, with snow on the Rockies. Tornadoes touched down in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Iowa. Nebraska and Wisconsin flood warnings followed heavy rains. In Indiana a woman died by lightning. Groton, D C, suffered power loss and damaged buildings as a tornado struck. Primrose Nebraska and nearby towns reported destruction of homes and a grain elevator. Trailer homes overturned in parts of Nebraska. Jasper Minnesota reported five injuries.
Eldridge Cleaver and other American Black Panthers in Cuba face discouragement from talking to Cubans about black heritage and Afro hairstyles. Raymond Johnson, a former Panthers member and ex hijacker, says many have been imprisoned or barred from organizing. He cites racial discrimination and possible arrests as Panthers seek to leave Cuba. The group’s information minister Cleaver also faced questions.
Deborah Fox USA 13 underwent a 13 hour operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore and received a personal letter from President Nixon. The letter praises her courage as she plans further nose and mouth reconstruction in Baltimore in months ahead.
A hazy OCR fragment shows a delivery entry for a single copy and prices 32.90 and 42.00. It mentions Carrifa delivery and a date style word Setetdey but the line is garbled. Mae stork and payment terms appear with unclear organization.
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