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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1968
Page
2
Viet Cong gunners fired three rockets at the Ben Luc bridge in Cholon Sai Gon. One direct hit created a large hole in the 750 yard span, the main link between Saigon and the Mekong Delta, as a two story government administration building in Sai Gon area was filled with dynamite.
Lima reports the military junta voided a disputed contract with International Petroleum Corp used as pretext for the ouster of President Belaunde. The United States suspended diplomatic relations with the regime.
A blast at a Danish grain company complex ripped through a silo, sending firefighters and workers through windows while flames engulfed the area. Five million dollars in damage reported with twelve injured as the blast shook Aarhus.
National news item details Robert Greenblatt and 12 others at the Democratic National Convention hearings. He described meetings with Viet Cong negotiators in Paris and officials in Prague, plus a Cyprus gathering with Communists.
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller said in Kansas City he would consider serving as secretary of defense or secretary of state in a Nixon administration, depending on its structure. He stressed he seeks no offer, marking his first public comment since the convention.
Former U S attorney general Francis Biddle died at Cape Cod Hospital at 82 after a heart attack struck his Wellfleet summer home. His career included heading wartime arrests of Axis sympathizers and serving as a judge at the Nuremberg trials.
Police rescued two women from a crowd of about 5000 at Wall Street and Broad Streets as a mob mobbed Geri Stotts from Burbank California 47 inch figure and Ronnie Bell a 19 year old New York stripper with 50 inch bust measurements.
General William C Westmoreland former U S commander in South Vietnam entered Walter Reed Army Hospital Friday for treatment of a recurring intestinal disorder contracted in Vietnam He spent over four years in Southeast Asia before Johnson named him Army chief.
Chief Justice Earl Warren on Friday night called for a massive government effort to solve racial hatred and distrust. He warned the Supreme Court must stand ready to advance the rights of Negroes and other minority interests if the executive and legislative branches falter.
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