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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1968
Page
4
Allied intelligence on Thursday reported Viet Cong commanders ordered a fresh general offensive against Saigon to begin Monday. U S B52s conducted saturation bombing on infiltration routes as a U S officer warned, When they attack, we'll be ready.
American troops earned a hard fought victory with 53 Communist soldiers killed in two battles near the north coast of Vietnam while U S losses reached 24 dead and 81 wounded. Allied totals show heavy weekly Vietnam casualties with 2,484 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed and 1,485 American wounded. Overall war tolls rise to 27,921 Americans killed and 202,615 wounded since January 1961. Communist deaths reach 395,454.
Mexican forces with bayonets hold the national university near the Olympic Village as about 1,000 students make three failed efforts to retake the campus. Paratroopers occupy the area, protecting the site across from Olympic Stadium where nearly 2,000 athletes have settled for the October games.
An Israeli lieutenant colonel and a major were killed Tuesday in an Arab ambush that also claimed four other Israeli soldiers. The Arabs were wiped out, marking Israel's most disastrous clash with guerrillas since June 1967.
The Soviet Union draws up a purge list targeting Czechoslovak officials and intellectuals and demands their removal. Foreign Minister Jiri Hajek is said to be on the blacklist and resigns. Moscow talks will include a high Czechoslovak delegation led by Alexander Dubcek, Ludvik Svoboda, and Oldrich Cernik.
The House approved a 1.6 billion dollar foreign aid bill the smallest since the program began and only slightly more than half the president's request. It also passed a 1.9 billion dollar authorization for military, economic and technical assistance for free world countries. The Senate concurred and sent the authorization to the White House. Four men died in a Colorado coal mine collapse. In other news gas bombings hit a Broadway theater and Cuban exile stores in Miami drew attention as the vice president's California campaign was reorganized. The Medicare hospital charge rose to 44 dollars. The Judicial Conference urged limits on comments about criminal cases.
Country star Red Foley died in a Fort Wayne motel after two Grand Ole Opry shows. His death leaves a legacy including the million selling gospel classic Peace in the Valley and ties to Pat Boone through his daughter.
The Army surgeon general reported that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower rises from bed and sits up several times daily. Lt. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton said Eisenhower is progressing, looks very good, has a good appetite and diet, and is no longer on oxygen.
Television star Sally Fields and writer Steve Craig wed in a Las Vegas chapel on Monday. Both were first-timers, longtime friends and childhood sweethearts, Fields aged 21 and Craig 23. They honeymooned in Jamaica.
Stanford student body president Dennis Hayes voiced support for Ken neth Pitzer as president designate while warning of a possible serious incident that could outstrip Columbia this fall. Hayes had said he had grave reservations when Pitzer’s selection was announced on August 19. In Stamford Connecticut Jackie Robinson Jr. pleaded innocent to gun and morals charges. his case moves to Superior Court next session after he and an alleged prostitute were found in a downtown hotel with a loaded .32 revolver on August 23.
Walter L. Mitchell, reelected Wednesday in New Orleans to a four year term as president of the International Chemical Workers Union collapsed and died Thursday night while dressing for a banquet. Mitchell, 53, had just finished presiding at ICWU's 21st constitutional convention and led the 110 000 member union since 1956.
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