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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1968
Page
2
American forces using a portable "people sniffer" killed 124 Communists in a Thursday ending offensive. Allied units found a vast rocket arsenal as B52s destroyed concealed munitions. U.S. 9th Infantry Division troops chased Viet Cong forces around Saigon.
President Johnson urged Congress to ratify a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 for national state and local elections. The measure would extend voting rights to more than 10 million citizens ages 18 to 21 upon passage by two thirds of Congress and three quarters of the states.
Rev Ralph David Abernathy begins an indefinite hunger strike in a District jail during a 20 day sentence for Capitol Hill demonstrations. He calls for wisdom and prays for victims of racism and violence while criticizing Resurrection City as a powerful symbol.
Mrs James Francis found a diamond ring valued at ten thousand dollars while arrowhead hunting in the Big Horn Mountains Wyoming during a family picnic. A nude stage appearance occurred at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon England with Maggie Wright 24 playing Helen of Troy in Dr Faustus, described as nervous by a theater spokesman.
Timothy Nicholson 25 was ordered free on probation for seven years by Pasadena Superior Judge H Burton Noble after a 45 minute hearing. He had served three years for the shooting death of his twin and sought new psychiatric exams and sentence modification. Ralph Schoenman was arrested in London after 10 days eluding police and served with a deportation order.
U S forces report three day operation in the Mekong Delta using helicopter sniffers to detect human odors while Communist guerrillas mass for a third Saigon assault. A large arsenal near Saigon was found as B52 raids destroy storage. A MIG21 was shot down over the Panhandle in a 45 second duel, the first in four months.
Last week in Vietnam saw the lowest casualties in two months. Allies report 1,819 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed, 299 Americans killed and 2,220 wounded. South Vietnamese losses were 355 killed and 1,149 wounded. A U.S. spokesman cites general inactivity nationwide amid Paris negotiations deadlock and a shift to Saigon-area attacks. Since January 1961, American deaths reach 25,367 with 157,517 wounded. Communist losses total 366,160.
French Foreign Minister Michel Debre said Paris will maintain an independent policy and resist blocs. He warned Washington that punitive retaliation over emergency trade measures would target France’s independence and noted European powers shield currencies with little U S response. Debre cited Britain as example. France has used gold and foreign reserves to support its economy since May. President Nasser of Egypt will visit the Soviet Union next month, with Belgrade stopover before or after. A pledge to resist the Vietnam War has been signed by 100 student leaders and ex-presidents in New York.
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