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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1969
Page
2
Reported shelling struck four key U.S. facilities near Saigon including Dong Tam the 9th Infantry division HQ Tay Ninh the 25th Infantry Brigade HQ Vung Tau airbase for aerial reconnaissance and the Saigon air force HQ for an F unit.
Information Minister Manuel Fraga announced that Spain will end the eight week state of emergency and remove press censorship. The move follows government claims of suppressing "subversive outbreaks" as its justification for the extraordinary measures.
Miss Mackle also known as Eisemann Schier from Honduras pleads not guilty to kidnapping. Trial for her is set for June 16 in Dekalb County with two attorneys appointed after her assertion of inability to pay. Gary Krist faces a sanity hearing April 21 with a possible trial May 19 if found sane.
About 40 demonstrators interrupted Billy Graham's Melbourne crusade at Music Bowl shouting for peace and questions about Vietnam. Police arrested several protesters as the scene ended without further incident.
Britain said Fi reconnaissance troops will leave Anguilla early next week. Two paratroop companies of 140 men each remain on the island along with about 40 London policemen. The first company to be withdrawn at week’s end and the second about a week later, per a defense ministry statement.
TEL AVIV reports Arab gunners shot down an Israeli plane near the Allenby Bridge. It was one of two sorties to silence Arab positions. the pilot is presumed fatally hurt. It marks the first Israeli warplane downed over enemy soil since last year. CAIRO reports Egypt’s worst commercial air disaster toll rising to 99 with four survivors and two more bodies found as a Moslem pilgrim plane crashed and exploded at Aswan Airport.
A 19 year old Perth reporter Miss Geraldine Willesee contradicted Prime Minister John Gorton on the embassy visit with his secretary saying they arrived near midnight and left after about 30 minutes while she testified they stayed until about 3 a.m. Her father Senator Willesee defended her account.
U S envoy John N Irwin met with Prime Minister Ernesto Montagne and Foreign Minister Edgardo Mercado to discuss Peru’s claim to 200 mile fishing zones after Peruvian gun boats seized two U S tuna boats 30 miles off the coast. The boats were released after fines.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, 71, went to Walter Reed Army Hospital Friday to begin cobalt treatments for possible lung cancer. An aide said he is expected to remain in the hospital over the weekend.
Former Governor Orval Faubus, aged 59, newly wed to Elizabeth Westmoreland, 30, in Little Rock hours after his divorce from his wife of 37 years was finalized. The ceremony followed a 21 day divorce.
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