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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
1
The United States now believes the enemy will strike Hue, not the Khe Sanh encampment, a shift echoed by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky who supported the prediction. A senior American officer noted Hue as the next major battlefield, while not ruling out Khe Sanh.
General Ky says Hanoi will concentrate efforts on Hue and Saigon to regain countryside control while pressuring the DMZ. Marines and soldiers kill 132 North Vietnamese in separate border fighting. a U S Air Force C 123 plane was shot down near Khe Sanh with 49 aboard. American bombers strike airfields docks and artillery targets across North Vietnam in a heavy bombing day.
Rhodesia executed three African murderers early Wednesday despite a royal reprieve from Queen Elizabeth and British warnings of murder charges. African nationalists in nearby Zambia call the officials responsible part of a "death list" as Rhodesia moves toward a republic and withdrawal from the Commonwealth. James R. Smeed of Friends for Rhodesia defends the actions as lawful.
Venezuela's government invalidated parliamentary elections, costing it control of Congress for the first time in a decade. The Democratic Action Party coalition lost parliamentary dominance amid the political crisis.
The top political officer in Czechoslovakia's army Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna defected to the United States seeking permanent residence. Aged 40, he fled homeland 10 days earlier with his son Jan and his son’s fiancée Evgenie Musilova and is believed to be undergoing briefings with U.S. officials.
Fire trapped 21 miners nearly a quarter mile below ground in the Belle Isle Mine near Morgan City ta. destroying the mine entrance and elevator equipment. Growing hope they survive fuels rescue efforts as workers search the labyrinthine passages for the missing men.
A rescue team dropped weighted lines into a 4192 foot shaft and reached the level where three miners were believed trapped. Officials said the shaft is open with no obstructions and there is likely air for the men, who last communicated with surface via a telephone call stating fire in the shaft.
Singer Jimmie Rodgers filed an $11.081 million claim against Los Angeles alleging police caused head injuries when he was stopped on suspicion of a traffic violation. He was found unconscious in his parked car on December 1 after an off duty officer flagged erratic driving. Rodgers endured three major brain operations and weeks in hospital.
Patrick J. Nugent son in law of President Johnson and Charles S. Robb brother in law to Lynda Johnson Robb will report for active duty in Vietnam era service. Nugent 24 transfers to 113th Tactical Fighter Wing at Andrews AFB while Robb heads to Camp Pendleton en route to Vietnam.
Belafonte accused Chrysler-Plymouth and Young & Rubicam of threatening to cancel Petula Clark's U S television debut after she touched him during a taping. He called it the most outrageous racism in show business as sponsors demanded re-taping of a duet in Paths of Glory.
Joseph W. Martin Jr a longtime U S congressman and twice speaker died in Florida at age 83 after falling ill in Fort Lauderdale He served in the House from 1924 to 1986 and led Republicans as chairman of five national conventions from 1944 to 1956 He twice served as speaker during his 20 years as Republican leader and died after hospitalization in Hollywood Memorial Hospital Florida.
Twiggy, the 18 year old London model, plans a drastic image change to pursue films. She will appear in a Beatles produced movie The Wishing Well. Berkeley mayor Wallace J S Johnson said he may enter the Oregon presidential primary.
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