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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1968
Page
2
Viet Cong troops overran the American Green Beret base atop Black Widow Mountain north of Saigon in a three hour battle. The clash killed 25 Viet Cong and 19 Americans as attackers destroyed several buildings and knocked out the control bunker. The base had been surrounded for a year, marking a first breach of the perimeter.
Viet Cong rocket grenades mortars and small arms fire push toward a camp perimeter as ground forces breach barbed wire. In Saigon mortars hit homes wounding civilians. blasts near police HQ and U S barracks. Evacuation losses include a C130 crash killing about 120 soldiers and dependents. In Tokyo Eisaku Sato demands proof submarines are harmless before allowing visits. In Moscow the Soviet Union agrees to discuss a Vietnam peace conference with Britain, aiming to reconvene the Geneva 1954 talks.
About 50 demonstrators, largely Black, seized an experimental Brooklyn public school and vowed to run it until they gain parent community control. Nineteen teachers were fired by a parent community council for allegedly sabotaging decentralization, prompting Mayor Lindsay to threaten police to restore teaching.
New York Columbia University trustees refused to meet with striking students to settle the classroom boycott. Graduate students call a "great victory" after winning voting membership on four policy making bodies.
In Westville Nova Scotia forty nine workers were trapped 670 feet underground after a rock fall at a coal mine entrance on Tuesday. They were brought to the surface unharmed after more than five hours by a bucket hoist.
France faced nationwide student occupation as 18 universities, led by rebels wearing red and black, challenged Premier Pompidou who called it a trial of civilization. He presented concessions to the National Assembly after a censure motion, with most demands reportedly met.
Homeowners nationwide may face an 11 dollar per year home insurance increase as insurers offset riot losses. At least 13 states have approved the hike and a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute says the measure could spread nationwide.
Lynda Bird Robb 24, daughter of President Johnson, is expecting her first child in late October. The announcement came from press secretary to Lynda’s mother, with Robb serving as a Marine captain in Vietnam at the time. The baby will be born at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Retired Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, longtime Pearl Harbor commander who claimed he was unfairly blamed for the 1941 attack, died of a heart attack in Groton Connecticut. He once said he exposed the Pearl Harbor affair and faulted Roosevelt and others, but offered no definitive proof.
President Johnson inducted four Medal of Honor winners into the Pentagon Hall of Heroes as he urged Paris talks toward peace with honor. The ceremony displayed the names of 3,210 MHOs, with Hagemester, Pittman, Williams, and Young honored for Vietnam era heroism.
Lt Gen Victor Krulak praised the Tet offensive as a major misstep in the Vietnam War during a San Diego luncheon, saying the Viet Cong value freedom and that Communist powers are fallible. UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy is retiring and honored by Los Angeles officials as FSU President John Champion resigns amid protests. Scotty Beckett has died at 38 in Hollywood, Oscar Bryant recommended for Medal of Valor, Wheeler gains fifth year as JCS chair, Eisenhower at Walter Reed for convalescence, Nelson hair lock fetches 456 dollars at London auction.
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