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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1969
Page
2
The weekly U.S. casualty tally rose to a two month high as combat operations intensified near Ai Khe and towns northwest of Saigon. B-52 strikes targeted Communist concentrations near Bu Prang and Duc Lap as the war escalated.
Sen Edward Kennedy will deliver the funeral mass eulogy for Joseph P Kennedy at St Francis Xavier Hyannis. Richard Cardinal Cushing will celebrate the service for the 81 year old former ambassador and burial will follow in Brookline Mass. Kennedy will read from The Fruitful Bough during the mass.
The Apollo 12 wives gather around squawkboxes as Charles Conrad and Alan Bean conduct a four hour moon walk. Neil Armstrong listens with Jane Gordon as liftoff and lunar chatter roll in while Richard Gordon watches from above. The group notes a lunar TV breakdown but treats the mission as the priority.
Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and President Richard Nixon met for about two hours and said they were close to a settlement on Okinawa returning to Japanese control. The White House indicated the Okinawa question was nearing resolution.
A second Nixon Sato session is to concentrate on economic and trade issues. A joint communique prepared in advance will be issued Friday, outlining a timetable for returning Okinawa and other Ryukyu islands to Japan by 1972.
The Senate approved a major revision of the Selective Service creating a lottery to induct draftees. The House bill was rushed through on a voice vote after brief debate. Chairman John Stennis said random selection could begin early next year, possibly by January 1, replacing the current oldest-first draft system.
Gail Henshaw 22 of the United States fears she lost inches on the journey to England for Miss World 1969. She says she starved to death during a delay at London airport, eating her chaperone's dinner and her own, but hopes her measurements settle at 38-24-37 after arriving from New York.
The FBI charged Joseph Kaufman, named as the manager of falsetto entertainer Tiny Tim, with transporting $90,000 in stolen New York bearer bonds from New York to London. The bonds were seized from a January 24 burglary at the Wall Street law firm Dewey, Ballantine, Bush by Palmer and Wood, a crime not publicly disclosed at once.
Evangelist Billy Graham told the National Press Club that President Nixon's Sunday services at the White House are marvelous because politicians and newsmen who rarely attend church sit in the pews. He said the services reach people clergy often miss.
Actress Vikki Dougan, famed for backless dresses, won a 75 000 settlement from Cavalier Magazine. She testified that nude photos she expected for Playboy in 1963 were published by Cavalier without permission in January 1964 after she had backed out of the deal.
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