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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1969
Page
2
In a earlier Tuesday report planes and artillery aided American air cavalrymen in fending off a North Vietnamese assault 85 miles northeast of Saigon near Song Be. Fourteen enemy dead were counted after a half hour battle. Five Americans were killed and 13 wounded.
Two Soviet cosmonauts Maj Gen Georgi Beregovoi and Konstantin Feoktisto canceled plans to visit Cape Kennedy during a goodwill trip to New York. They cited fatigue after a 12 hour flight and remained at the Plaza Hotel. The event followed a reception with Mayor John Lind and a Mets celebration.
Police in San Francisco compare handwriting on taunting Zodiac notes to signatures on purchase permits for a rare 9 millimeter pistol used in two slayings. Seventeen officers from seven agencies reviewed the five murders.
Tropical storm Laurie strengthened into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and moved toward Louisiana. A hurricane watch was posted along 750 miles of coastline from Galveston Texas to Apalachicola Florida as winds reach gale force near the Mississippi River mouth and tides rise 3 to 5 feet by early today.
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