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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1968
Page
2
B52s dumped 360 tons of bombs on Communist infiltration routes near Saigon over Tuesday and Wednesday. Pilots described thunderous explosions implying a major ammunition dump was struck as ground fighting remained light nationwide. The U.S. intensified air and sea bombardment against North Vietnam with three million pounds released early Tuesday.
The Long Beach based battleship New Jersey fired 16 inch shells in the heaviest blitz in a month, while U S aircraft attacked Cambodian border crossings north of Tay Ninh and northeast of Tay Ninh. Pilots reported a string of secondary explosions signaling depots hidden in the jungle.
Mayor John V. Lindsay calls for ending the 23 day teachers strike and proposes carving a Brooklyn district from the city system to be run as an adoptive unit by Yale Princeton Columbia and other universities. He warns of state takeover if settlement is not reached.
About 10,000 Bratislava citizens joined a flag waving march in the Slovak capital on Tuesday night to denounce the Soviet presence and show solidarity with Prague. Tanjug said the Bratislava protest surpassed Monday’s Prague turnout, noted as the wildest anti Soviet demonstration since late August.
Germany's security system was rocked by disclosure that a stolen Sidewinder missile and two secret navigation instruments were smuggled to Moscow. Attorney General Ludwig Martin said the 10 foot air to air missile was sent as ordinary air freight and the instruments were carried in luggage on two separate flights by a mystery passenger.
The Vatican tells Italy it is prepared to pay disputed taxes on income from its Italian stock holdings. It asks for the tax amount due and cites prior nonpayment of stock dividends. Back taxes could total 12.8 million dollars with 2.4 million annually thereafter. Italy estimates 160 million dollars in Vatican stock holdings in Italian companies.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told Parliament Israel has strengthened positions along the Suez ceasefire line since the 1967 war and warned Egypt not to assume immunity from a future attack. In Moscow, cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoi neared the solo endurance record after four days in space with no end in sight.
Two young drifters were convicted of kidnapping a teenage couple, with Braun named guilty of first degree murder and Maine of second degree murder. Both were found guilty of rape and kidnapping after a 35 day trial in San Jose. The victims Timothy Luce and Susan Bartolomei, both 17, faced brutal crimes from gas stop to Sierra mountains, with Bartolomei surviving to testify.
Classifieds listings and a Superior Court decree from Los Angeles County appear in the Long Beach edition. The notice references case number C-10280 and provides delivery and publication details for the October 30, 1968 issue with standard postal and carrier rates.
Dr. Thomas Paine states NASA is not in a race with the Russians yet stresses the United States will maintain its leading position in space. He appears with James E. Webb at a Waldorf Astoria dinner hosted by the Navy League of New York. Huey Newton begins a 2 to 15 year sentence for voluntary manslaughter at California state facilities near San Luis Obispo after processing at Vacaville. Tommie Smith, expelled from the Olympics, signs to act with Marlon Brando in a film by Gillo Pontecorvo to be shot in Colombia.
The White House said Lynda Bird Robb and her five day old daughter Lucinda Desha receive heavy fan mail. A letter offering 1000 dollars was sent to plant a shade tree in honor of President Johnson's granddaughter.
David Alan Mark Hutchings of San Carlos California celebrated his 19th birthday in court in Honolulu pleading not guilty to three counts of writing bad checks. Judge Kenneth W Harada committed the case to Circuit Court for a jury trial. bail set at 1550 dollars remains unpaid.
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