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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1968
Page
2
American A4 Skyhawks from USS Coral Sea and USS Intrepid roared off two carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and struck targets up to 60 miles inside North Vietnam Sunday despite reports of a looming bombing halt. Some planes dodged anti aircraft fire and returned.
BRNATIONAL reports heavy antiaircraft fire as aircraft dive on highways bridges and an automatic weapons site about 60 miles north of the DMZ. Captured enemy documents discuss a winter spring offensive across South Vietnam with Saigon a prime target, but no major action appears imminent as the ground fighting lull enters its fourth week.
In Saigon the U S command exchanged all military currency to curb black market cash. A thriving black market offered two old Military Payment Certificates for one new note. Soldiers were confined to base areas until conversion was completed.
Prague and Warsaw Pact troops were moving to new garrisons across Czechoslovakia as fears rise of a broader evacuation. Dubcek appeared in footage of the occupation ceremony showing Soviet and Czechoslovak leaders signing a temporary pact. Tito rejected Western capitulation while urging resistance to outside pressure.
The Rev. Robert Niklibore a 37 year old priest who ran the Boys Town of the Desert orphanage in Banning is due in U S District Court Los Angeles to face arraignment on tax filing failures on nearly 120 000 in personal income. He was known in Palm Springs as Robert Drew Rand and lived in a 75 000 home. Additional notes mention preparations for a jeep fund by a paralyzed nun and a separate commentary by Dr Benjamin Spock on Nixon.
San Francisco Chief Thomas J. Cahill blames critics and a harsh legal climate for the police crisis. He warns that continued eroding support will leave citizens without protection as crime and public pressure mount. He cites Supreme Court decisions as widening the gap between police duties and public expectations.
An air and surface search covered 30 000 square miles in the Pacific about 800 miles southwest of San Francisco for Capt. Koshi Shimoyama 37 after engine trouble forced him down while ferrying a Beechcraft from San Francisco to Tokyo via Hawaii Eight Navy and Coast Guard planes participated in the fourth day of the hunt and no trace of Shimoyama was found Meanwhile Lt Lewis B Puller Jr underwent surgery for a bleeding ulcer at the U S Naval Hospital in Yokosuka Japan the son of famed Lt Gen Lewis B Chesty Puller
A mother, two children aged 11 and 13, and a 28 year old man and his wife escaped East Germany through barbed wire at Kladow in West Berlin. The father of the children was shot and died. others were hospitalized briefly. A separate 24 year old East German also crossed into West Berlin unnoticed.
A readable fragment shows publication details for Lane Reach California dated October 71 1968 with volume and issue numbers, daily except weekends, address at Sixth St and Pine Ave, and legal registration notes including court adjudication in Los Aneles County.
Irish playwright Paul Vincent Carroll who wrote Shadow and Substance and achieved Broadway success died Sunday at his home near London. He was 67.
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