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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1969
Page
2
North Vietnamese artillery in Cambodia reopened on Bu Prang base as Allied jets attacked for a second day. Col Vo Van Canh vows continued strikes until Communist guns are silenced and B 52s hit jungle camps after a day of heavy shelling and ground fighting with Viet Minh forces massing over 5 000 troops nearby.
A major winter system blanketed much of the nation with snow and cold rain from the intermountain West to the plains and Great Lakes. New low temperatures were set in several southern cities. In Chester a historic Northwest Passage voyage ended with the S S Manhattan docking after carrying Alaska oil to the East Coast. Other items note a House probe into pesticide labeling and a Wells Fargo robbery car found in New York, plus a fatal hotel fire in Chicago.
In Japan on Sunday and today, leftist students and workers protested Prime Minister Sato's departure for Washington. More than 700,000 demonstrated across 180 areas, with militants attempting to reach Haneda Airport before Sato's helicopter landing. Police deployed 25,000 officers and canceled 101 domestic flights to curb disruptors amid clashes at Tokyo stations. about 1,700 arrests and 58 injuries in Tokyo alone.
President Nixon watched the Washington Dallas football game from stands near the 37 yard line and later flew to Camp David with Mrs. Nixon and Tricia. He introduced Rev Harold Rawlings from Evandale Ohio and declined to predict a winner, saying Dallas is the favorite.
In New York the attorney for Raffaele Minichiello argues for a psychiatric examination as mandatory. Mitchelson and Minichiello’s mother and sister returned from Rome after visiting the youth in an Italian jail where he has been held since Oct 31 for hijacking a TWA jet. Minichiello faces New York charges of kidnapping assault and air piracy and would seek to combine Italy and US filings into one continuous crime for a single trial.
Friends say Lynda Bird Robb, daughter of former President Johnson, is in the third month of her pregnancy and due in May. Her sister Luci Nugent also expects a second child in late December or early January while Lynda and her husband Maj. Charles Robb reside in Alexandria, Virginia.
Debbie Patton, 17 from Odessa Texas, won the Miss Teen America title after a week of pageantry in Fort Worth. She said she wanted to be seen as an individual beyond the crown and was processing the win the day after the finale.
Four day old girl quintuplets in Britain developed slight jaundice but doctors rated their survival prospects as good. Dr Archie Norman said all five babies were doing better than typical single birth premature infants after a Caesarean delivery nine weeks early to Irene Hanson, 33, wife of an engineer, who used fertility drugs.
John Drew Barrymore, 37, son of the late actor, was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of narcotics possession after a sports car was stopped for a traffic violation. A friend, Anthony Fairbanks, was booked on the same charge. Barrymore previously faced narcotics charges and probation, with a late 1960s conviction and a 1967 conviction. An August arrest for marijuana near Indio is noted.
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