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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1968
Page
1
In Friday action near the DMZ American armored troops jets and artillery killed 65 North Vietnamese regulars as U S command reported the week’s lowest losses in 14 months. U S tanks and infantry fought six engagements amid the fiercest day’s fighting with artillery and air power credited with heavy enemy losses.
Reported figures show 65 Communist dead near Con Thien as U.S. weekly toll drops to a seven year low, while Communist forces regroup. In Prague, Soviet pressure looms over celebrations as Czechoslovakia scales back reform efforts. NBC confirms intercepts of Chinese broadcasts. Panama’s exiled leader Arias storms an Inter-American board meeting, denouncing the regime. West Germany orders jets and tanks in a major defense package amid political wrangling, and a New Guinea quake causes structural damage with no casualties.
President Johnson disclosed plans for a nationally broadcast speech Sunday night in support of Hubert H. Humphrey ahead of the Tuesday election. He predicted Humphrey would win and said the House would not be needed unless no candidate secures a majority, stressing law and order as a key issue.
Lynda Bird Johnson's social circle figures in a national brief as her close friend Miss Smith, aged 24, is assigned as a USIA officer in Santiago after visits to Mexico City, Panama City, Bogota, and Lima, amid broader USIA personnel cuts ordered by President Johnson. The article also notes a murder kidnap trial in Washington state, a Shirley Temple Black campaign stop for Nixon, comments by Stanford dean candidate Asjay Miller, a Tasmanian circus death, Lennon Ono nude cover debates, Kennedy family criticisms of George Wallace, and a San Antonio priest letter seeking Archbishop Lucey’s resignation.
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