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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1968
Page
2
Heavy artillery battles disrupted northern South Vietnam on Tuesday. U S Marines reported killing 54 enemy fighters during the clash as fighting intensified around Saigon and nearby provinces.
Reports describe ongoing U S air missions over North and South Vietnam as Marine base shelling intensifies near Da Nang. North Vietnamese forces attack Dong Ha and a hospital while a Leatherneck reconnaissance team spots about 114 troops in black pajamas. Prague sees Soviet led withdrawal yet a strong Stalinist faction surfaces in Czechoslovakia. New taxes loom in Canada as Ottawa aims to balance the budget. Arias seizes the Panamanian embassy and calls for an interim government. Abba Eban and Lyndon Johnson discuss the Middle East and Phantom jet sales.
Mayor John V. Lindsay warned New York faces disaster in labor relations as teachers strike, police and fire slowdowns loom and a potential garbage-collection walkout nears. Gov. Rockefeller toured a billion-dollar Lower Manhattan development as unions defy the Taylor Law.
In an article written at Walter Reed and published in Readers Digest, Dwight D. Eisenhower rejects claims he delegated foreign policy to Dulles. He asserts he and Dulles consulted closely and that his own view prevailed when there was disagreement. The piece also notes other items, including a court ruling on Nicholas Darvas, gun surrender in San Francisco, and Caltech’s Millikan Award to John W. Gardner.
The Rev. Robert Daniel Niklibore, head of Boys Town of the Desert in Banning, admitted two misdemeanor counts for failing to file personal income taxes in 1963 and 1965. A 1964 income count was dismissed. Sentencing set for Nov. 19.
Yvon Therrien aged 45 walked six hours after becoming Canada’s seventh heart transplant patient on Monday. His donor is unnamed. Edouard Desrivieres, 51, who received a new heart on Sept 26, rode in a car on Tuesday.
William M. Batten chairman of J. C. Penney Co. proposed a partnership with San Jose State College to boost the ghetto economy in a Tuesday note.
A federal judge refused to intervene in the Navy’s decision to strip Lt Cmdr Marcus A. Arnheiter of command of the destroyer Vance. The court ruled the removal an internal administrative matter and dismissed Arnheiter’s lawsuit seeking a full inquiry. Separately, doctors removed a brain tumor from Guatemalan Foreign Minister Emilio Arenales Catalan.
Major Charles Robb, son in law of President Johnson, near promotion to major within a week. His wife Lynda Bird Johnson expects their first child by month’s end. Robb, 29, led a rifle company in South Vietnam and now heads a supply unit at Da Nang Marine HQ. Autopsy sought in Los Angeles for Peter Gardiner, 31, nicknamed the father of the Pop film, but officials say natural causes likely.
A damaged OCR fragment shows classified ad details with dates, addresses, and court reference mixed with numbers. It mentions Long Beach California and an entry date or matter number, but the full context and meaning are unclear.
Frank Werber 39, once manager of the Kingston Trio, pleads innocent to imports cultivation and possession of marijuana. The case stems from a Tiburian home raid where 400 pounds of marijuana were seized.
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