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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1969
Page
2
Montreal faced violent clashes after a police walkout with taxi factions clashing, fires, and injuries. The army was deployed as 3,700 officers and 2,100 firefighters were ordered back to work amid threats of fines and imprisonment. Holdup gangs hit 19 businesses including 10 banks in the unrest.
Reports from Saigon describe American helicopter and river patrol crews killing 25 Communists in four small actions near Saigon, signaling a lull in fighting. Concurrent international items include London’s garbage strike, a U.N. arms control treaty draft, East Berlin military parades, and U.S. political maneuvering over Social Security benefits.
Apollo 12 flight director Gerald Griffin said astronauts will bring hammocks and blankets for comfort in the landing craft. He added the color TV camera passed most tests and will likely fly on the November lunar mission. In Atlanta, Rodney Cook and Sam Massell moved toward a runoff for mayor, eliminating the first Black candidate from contention.
Army Sgt. Maj. William Wooldridge declines to testify to Senate investigators citing Fifth Amendment protection. His attorney says he would not allow him to be grilled and notes he fears self incrimination while facing a probe into an alleged ring of senior sergeants embezzling service club funds.
Hundreds of thousands greet NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins as they pass through Madrid in an open car to Plaza Colon. They carry a letter of thanks from President Nixon to Franco for Spain's help monitoring the moon flight.
Mary Sirhan, 55, mother of condemned assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan, seeks to address the United Nations. A second Sirhan brother Munir, 22, will reveal the topic at an 11 a.m. Pasadena news conference. Also, Lehman Brightman of United Native Americans calls for Interior Secretary Hickel's removal. Baxter Ward to anchor KHJ-TV Los Angeles 9 News later this month.
Brigitte Bardot and Guenther Sachs were divorced in Filisur Switzerland last July court officials said Monday. Bardot and Sachs had wed in Las Vegas on July 14 1966. Bardot 35 known as BB, had previous marriages to Roger Vadim and J Charrier.
Peking announced major proposals to the Soviet Union to defuse the Sino Soviet border crisis. They include troop withdrawals and resumption of negotiations. Moscow agreed to border talks in Peking on Oct 20 with foreign minister Kuznetsov heading the talks.
Senator Ralph Yarborough criticized the U S effort to curb illegal drug flow from Mexico calling it Nation Inept and urged a reassessment of the plan and its leadership.
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