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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1968
Page
2
American GIs from the 9th Infantry Division battled a Viet Cong patrol in the Me Kong Delta swamplands on Sunday. The day-long fight pushed the VC through the area and ended on the banks of a tributary, with 24 Communist troops killed.
U S helicopter gunships join operations as B52 bombers pound targets north and west of Saigon and in North Vietnam. In the Mekong Delta South Vietnamese forces kill 40 Viet Cong and capture 12. Across Europe and Ireland protests and political tension unfold with strikes and embassies attacked.
Bea Benaderet star of Petticoat Junction dies in Los Angeles Good Samaritan Hospital from lung cancer after a long career in radio and television. She recently filmed five Petticoat Junction segments for the 1968 69 season and had undergone radiation therapy earlier this year.
Robert Kriebs and his wife Georgia welcomed their third child at Baptist Hospital after aborting a trip to Good Samaritan. The baby girl arrived at 10 30 p.m. followed five hours later by his sister Merrilee Taylors birth in the same hospital.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower rests on the eve of his 78th birthday as doctors prepare a medical bulletin. Daily bulletins had been suspended on September 3 during his recovery. President Johnson proclaims the week of October 13 to 19 as Salute to Eisenhower Week to honor the former president.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi landed at Kennedy Airport for a brief New York stopover. She will address the United Nations General Assembly during her visit.
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