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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1968
Page
3
A prisoner report cites heavy B52 raids killing 300 North Vietnamese near Chu Lai last month. The strikes hit southern panhandle targets and DMZ areas, with eight additional bombing runs from Vinh to Kontum in 24 hours.
New York surgeon Houston Merritt said Salazar, the Portuguese premier aged 79, was gravely ill after a stroke but there remained hope for survival. Merritt examined him twice and conferred with his Portuguese doctors as a medical bulletin noted his condition stationary after Tuesday improvement.
National news briefs report student demonstrators clashing with guards at Columbia University disrupting fall registration. About 150 tried to barge into the gym to register suspended youths while 400 later attended a meeting in the science building amid a campus ban on the SDS chapter.
Actor Franchot Tone died at his home on New York's East Side at age 62 after a career spanning theater radio film and television. His private life was marked by marital battles and brawls though he was often cast as a refined gentleman. Tone appeared in The Wiser Sex Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. He had four marriages to actresses Joan Crawford Jean Wallace Barbara Payton and Dolores Dorn-Heft.
Arthur A. Fletcher, once a shoe shiner and ice deliverer, becomes the first African American to win a Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in Washington. The Pasco city councilman defeated Seattle hydroplane racer Bill Muncey in Tuesday’s primary, touting his self help programs and a platform of action for whites, blacks, Indians and pinks.
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Abbie Hoffman told a U.S. commissioner he earned $10,000 last week writing for Dial Esquire Look and Time and has film contract. He said he has only $4 on him. He dropped in on Lynda Bird Robb’s tea for wives of Marine officers in Vietnam and praised their husbands’ steel and courage.
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