13 Oct 1970
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1970
Page
1
Ottawa informed sources say Canada and Communist China reached agreement to establish diplomatic relations. The Chinese embassy was to close soon and the Nationalist envoy Yuichi Hsueh planned to depart. talks had been held in Stockholm over 20 months.
Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s ban on abortion even to save a mother’s life and condemned euthanasia. A Vatican letter dated October 3 and released in Washington upheld that life remains under grave threats from abortion to euthanasia and warned against legalizing these acts.
The Prince of Wales bails water from a 20 foot open boat as a Fijian lookout watches from the foredeck during a shark hunt. He later brushed off a heckler while campaigning on New York's Lower East Side and tackled a contentious crowd with Bell Abzug challenging Governor Goldberg.
Communist forces engaged US Army units in three battles in South Vietnam. Four Americans were killed and 13 others hurt, plus one American killed and four wounded by an artillery barrage likely fired by U.S. Marines. A 25 to 30 round 103mm howitzer attack struck a district military HQ at Hien Duc, with a South Vietnamese militiaman dead and another wounded.
Defense lawyers plan one final bid as charges against Sergeant David Mitchell are dismissed before testimony in the nation’s first My Lai massacre trial. Mitchell, 30, is among 17 American soldiers charged in connection with the March 16 1961 incident and becomes the first to go on trial.
Police search for four ban dit suspects who stole 500000 dollars in uninsured jewelry from actress Sophia Loren. Loren failed to identify the bandits from photo files as she prepared to fly back to Rome.
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