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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1968
Page
2
National reports say Xerox and Cit Financial Corp discuss a 1.5 billion stock exchange. CAD: The plan would trade one Xerox share for three Cit shares, with boards needing approval.
Church leaders joined a simulated parachute jump from St Pauls Cathedral to launch a three month youth festival organized by the Armys parachute regiment. Deans and canons described the stunt as exhilarating and a bold appeal to younger crowds.
Lynda Bird Robb will give birth at Bethesda Naval Hospital despite pleas to use the White House. The 24 year old, due late next month, favors the Navy hospital where her father has received care. She has arranged two bassinets from Luci Nugent’s infant son Patrick and from her husband Charles S. Robb when he was a baby.
In Houston Dr. Denton Cooley and rival Dr. Michael DeBakey plan artificial heart programs within five years. Cooley cites donor shortages and has performed 11 transplants since May. DeBakey has developed a left ventricle pump and has used it seven times since 1966. Cooley and DeBakey will work near each other at distinct centers.
U S troops from the 4th Infantry Division swept through old battlefields around the Duc Lap Green Beret camp near the Cambodian border and killed 32 Communist soldiers with artillery and air support, U S spokesmen reported.
In a three hour clash Friday North Vietnamese forces engaged U S troops with seven Americans killed and nine wounded. Air actions followed as U S bombers and fighters targeted jungle along the Cambodian border to curb infiltration and suicide attacks on Allied outposts near Saigon.
Two North Vietnamese army defectors received a total $30,000 reward for aiding U.S. troops to locate enough weapons for a full Communist regiment. Bguyen Van Banh and Duong Cao received about $18,000 and $12,000 respectively, with some donated for civilian relief.
The International Committee of the Red Cross reports 8,000 to 10,000 Biafran refugees dying daily from starvation. It criticizes both Biafran and Nigerian authorities for denying land or river relief corridors and a daytime airlift.
Prague radio and the Czechoslovak Communist Party led a new attack on Warsaw Pact troops and censored papers. Politika mocked the Soviet White Book as a counterrevolution report that could not even fool a child.
Lt Col Sir Rex Benson banker diplomat and former spycatcher linked to Mata Hari era died while on vacation in Italy at age 78. He worked with the French secret police before Mata Hari's 1917 execution and led banking interests including chairmanship of English and New York Trust until 1967. Married 1932 to Leslie Nast, he leaves a widow and two sons. Also Nobuo Miyazaki, Asia’s lone living heart transplant patient, reports serum hepatitis as first setback seven weeks after surgery in Sapporo.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, known as Danny the Red, was sentenced by a Frankfurt court to eight months suspended for breaches of the peace trespassing and rioting linked to a Sunday Frankfurt protest against the Peace Prize awarded to Senegal's President Leopold Senghor. Police clashed with students during the demonstration downtown.
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