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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1968
Page
3
Ambassador Harriman says four months of stalemate could yield a formula to de escalate the Vietnam war and advance peacemaking. He notes Hanoi wants end to bombing without commitment and that talks continue though progress is slow.
Radio Hanoi quoted Thuy in Paris saying after fighting ends South Vietnam would form an independent democratic neutral state and then move toward reunification with the North under the Viet Cong National Front. The North previously insisted the Front alone represents South Vietnam. Broadcast monitored in Hong Kong.
American Communist Party leaders met in New York to heal a split over the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. About 80 attendees included Charlene Mitchell, the presidential candidate, as Gus Hall urged support for the pro Moscow line and rejected an anti Soviet stance.
Police used tear gas and pepper spray as 1,000 demonstrators looted a bank and damaged UC Berkeley. One patrolman was shot in the leg and four others hurt. 18 protesters were arrested on charges from malicious mischief to narcotics possession.
In Los Angeles three suspects including a 15 year old juvenile and two men, David A. Harris and Ronald L. Preston, were arrested on conspiracy to murder a police officer. Two loaded rifles were found nearby and all suspects admitted Panthers ties.
The battered body of Lori Gunn, 2, was found rolled in a sleeping bag inside the home of Midland officer Michael Moody, who is charged with her death. Moody, 24, a rookie and stepson of a former councilman, jailed without bond as searches linked him to the case.
Robert Lee Dacy, 39, formerly of Lakewood, was captured by the FBI after a Friday chase in a ransom plot targeting Beverly Hills banker Stanley Staf ford Sr. Police records show a long felony history from 1948 to 1960 including theft, fraud, and larceny by check. Psychiatrists note a deep sense of worthlessness contributing to self destructive tendencies.
Gov. Philip Hoff sent a telegram to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stating the Vermont delegation is glad to be out of what he called a police state in Chicago. The message criticized the city’s handling of demonstrators and defended the democratic process in the convention.
Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen of HEW said poverty could be abolished in the United States by 1980. Speaking at Georgetown, he noted the drop from 40 percent poor in 1930 to under 13 percent now and from 40 million to about 22 million, urging bold coordinated public and private programs focused on education, job training, and broader access to welfare, health, and social services.
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