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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1968
Page
1
In a reflective column, Hank Greenspur compares his aging role to a growing son who pens views from the Republican convention. He muses on succession, editorial legacy, and a possible mentoring partnership while acknowledging the pull of youth and the burden of experience.
Democratic platform writers approved a tax reform plank calling for overhaul of the federal income tax to curb deductions and credits favoring the wealthy. Drafted at a five hour secret session of the Platform Committee, the proposal must win full panel approval. The session also weighed Vietnam policy amid competing views from McCarthy Kennedy and McGovern.
Moscow accuses Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek by name of treason to the Communist cause over the Prague spring reform movement. Pravda portrays the Dubcek regime as deterioration toward subversion and anti communism while Dubcek and others are held under house arrest in an unknown location.
A New York ham radio operator said a radio message claimed ousted Czech leader Alexander Dubcek was killed two hours earlier. U.N. sources had no confirmation of the death, and the operator noted the message was relayed via ham networks.
UN Security Council heard Czechoslovakia warn that Soviet and other troops must withdraw by noon today or a general strike will paralyze the country. Acting Czech envoy Jan Muzik said the Communist Party congress issued an ultimatum and that no Prague newspapers appeared except special editions.
Doctors report former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remains in critical condition with cardiac irritability at Walter Reed. A 11 p.m. bulletin notes stable vital signs and that he is resting comfortably though on the critical list after multiple heart attacks and spasms requiring electrical treatment and experimental drugs.
Sunny today with gentle winds and high near 93 degrees. Noontime humidity 13 percent, sunrise 6 05, sunset 7 21, after yesterday's 86 60.
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