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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1968
Page
1
Guerrilla forces attacked positions within 15 miles of Saigon, firing over 600 mortar shells at the 25th Division HQ and striking three other nearby posts. Government spokesmen reported multiple fatalities from the coordination.
Communist China charged yesterday that U.S. bombers deliberately attacked a Chinese freighter, Hongqi No. 158, in Cam Pha harbor near Haiphong, wounding crew and heavily damaging the vessel. Beijing called it a grave provocation by the United States as Soviet and Chinese protests followed similar attacks on ships in the same region.
Mike Kasperak the 54 year old East Palo Alto man who received a woman's heart at Stanford University Medical Center is sleeping under sedation and shows signs of responsiveness. Surgeon Dr Norman Shumway called the start of the recovery and warned that the danger of rejection remains. A 15 member team performed the four and a half hour operation using a heart about one third the size of Kasperak's own from Virginia Mae White.
Las Vegas Patrolmen Robert S. Robinson and Perry Middleton rescued 46 year old Robert J. Edell from the ledge atop the 16 story Fremont Hotel. Edell faced jumping as crowds watched and fire trucks gathered. Officers described his reluctance and the officers’ calm talk which ultimately saved him.
Surveyor 7, the United States 28th unmanned lunar mission, performed a mid course maneuver at 3:30 p m PST to set a landing in the lunar highlands. The retrorocket fired 11.3 seconds altering the path by 80 miles, aiming near Tycho crater but offset without the correction.
In Athens Constantam Kollias, former Greek premier, returned from Rome after exile linked to King Constantine. He declined interviews, traveled to his apartment guarded by plainclothes police, and said he hopes to regain the post of attorney general while pledging not to pursue politics.
Sunny with scattered high cloudiness and gentle winds. High 50 and low 30 today. Yesterday reached 50/26. Noontime humidity 25 percent. Sunrise at 6 52, sunset 4 43.
A Harris survey of 9,003 households shows President Johnson leading a two way race 43 to 43 percent against Nelson Rockefeller, while including George Wallace shifts leads to Johnson 41 to 37 percent. The poll underscores volatile support with 10 months to go.
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