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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1968
Page
1
reports from Saigon describe a three day clash that left 86 Communists dead and 14 prisoners as U.S. and South Vietnamese forces pursued guerrilla units massing 400 troops near the city. Khe Sanh base was reported abandoned amid ongoing high intensity clashes across the country.
The United States announced special duties on French goods within hours of Paris signaling export subsidies. The move aims to curb protectionist momentum in Congress amid France’s crisis driven by May and June strikes affecting 10 million workers.
Pope Paul VI announced the 1953 excavations under St. Peter's Basilica identified bones as those of St. Peter, based on extensive investigations. Dr. Margherita Guarducci led the analysis citing anthropological tests and soil studies supporting the claim.
Mayor John V. Lindsay comforted Edward Troutman’s mother and calmed about 100 angry residents in a Brooklyn basement after the Tuesday night shooting of the 17 year old by a housing authority police man. The event followed security concerns near Mrs Nixon’s Michigan visit and other national political notes.
Ziggy Elman, swing era bandleader and famed for And the Angels Sing, died at 54 after a long liver illness at Sepulveda Veterans Hospital. A trumpeter and composer, he led his own orchestra, played with Tommy Dorsey Benny Goodman and Harry James, and rose to prominence in the 1940s.
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