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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1968
Page
2
U S artillery hit a convoy of armored Communist vehicles near Duc Lap Special Forces camp on the Cambodian border. The clash follows months of heavy fighting around the camp, marking a renewed armored challenge to U S and allied forces.
U S reconnaissance teams encountered a caravan on a dirt road as American gunners used 365 artillery rounds and helicopter gunships to attack. B52s dropped 900 tons of bombs on rocket-launching sites around Quang Ngai City while clashes in the Mekong Delta claimed 25 Viet Cong.
Tran Van An and Tran Van Hue arrived via Moscow from South Vietnam to prepare opening an information office for the Viet Cong National Liberation Front. They told a news conference the guerrillas will win the war. The second Western Hemisphere office will follow soon after Paris.
In Moscow Czechoslovak Premier Oldrich Cernik and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin negotiated final treaty details to set up a Soviet military force in Czechoslovakia and withdraw most occupation troops. The agreement follows a principle accord reached ten days earlier at a Kremlin conference.
A secret student organization asserted responsibility for two incendiary bombs that damaged part of London's Imperial War Museum on Monday. The group warned of further attacks on public buildings in protest of the Vietnam War.
A strong earthquake rocked southern Western Australia triggering panic in Perth as Meckering suffered near destruction with 28 injured. York saw hotel balcony collapse while tall buildings shed masonry and residents fled in fear.
New York City teachers in the United Federation of Teachers strike for the third time since September closing many of the system’s 900 schools. The walkout targets plan to decentralize control across 33 districts. UFT president Shanker calls Ocean Hill Brownsville experiment a failure. Mayor Lindsay and School Superintendent Donovan defend board policy.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 78, celebrated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with his wife Mamie beside him while the Army band played. Generals Westmoreland and Heaton attended as he waved to cheering servicemen and pledged a sweeping GOP victory on November 5.
Mrs. Walter Schirra wife of Apollo 7 commander and Mrs. Donald Slayton wife of flight operations director watch the live telecast from the spacecraft at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston as the mission unfolds.
Republican vice presidential nominee Spiro T. Agnew released a financial statement listing a net worth of 111 084 dollars and total assets of 160 834 dollars with liabilities of 49 750 dollars. He cites bank accounts 36 621 dollars stocks 27 113 dollars and bonds 10 000 dollars plus Virgin Islands property worth 50 600 dollars with a 38 750 dollar mortgage and a 10 000 dollar demand note plus 1 000 dollars in current obligations.
Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover told a Detroit audience at the 50th Materials Engineering Congress Exposition that current industry safety codes fail to adequately protect the public from hazards inherent in modern technology.
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