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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1968
Page
4
Crowds of Fukuoka residents and Kyushu students gather around a crash site near Itazuke airbase demanding U S Air Force action. Police and armed American soldiers monitor the crowd as demonstrators call for the base to vacate while authorities investigate the crash involving Lt Col Russell Critchlow and Wing Commander Ernest Johnson.
Three heart transplant patients died within five hours Saturday at a Lanus clinic near Buenos Aires. Antonio Serrano, 54, remained comatose after receiving a heart Friday. A New York City officer, Ronald G. Smith, 39, died during surgery in New York. Others, including Joseph Klett and Albert Murphy, died in or after the procedures. A 23 year old Brazilian cowboy Joao Ferreira da Cunha survived after a week with a new heart and remains active in his room.
In Natchez Mississippi state troopers flooded the city after a station attack sparked looting and arson. Police say both sides suffered injuries with two white youths charged and a third witness held. Dozens of suspects were questioned as officers searched cars and streets for illegal weapons. Stores were damaged and a furniture store burned.
The missing nuclear submarine Scorpion and its 99 crew remain unfound as the Navy intensifies a Atlantic search. A submerged object was found east of Cape Charles by Parro but proved nonmetallic. The Mizar joins the hunt near the Azores while three scenarios loom: collision with a sea mount, rapid flooding, or hull failure under pressure.
The final National Guard units left Louisville's Negro West End after civil disorders last week that left 400 arrests, two deaths, and over 50 injured. About 850 troops were pulled from the area by Sunday, with patrols around oil refineries reduced as authorities reviewed a dynamite plot. Judge Colson ordered arrests of James Cortez Sam Hawkins and Robert Sims, leaders of BULK, on conspiracy charges. all three remained jailed on $50,000 bonds each as appeals were filed.
A Utah woman, Margaret Buhler, 22, of St. George, received cuts and bruises after her car headed toward Las Vegas on Interstate 15 North and rolled over early Sunday morning. She was treated and released at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital.
A Harris poll of 1,116 adults in mid May finds 50 percent doubt the Paris negotiations will end in an honorable settlement and 25 percent expect such an outcome. It notes divided views on Viet Cong representation and a potential neutral South Vietnam, with more educated and affluent respondents likelier to accept broader concessions.
In a post Oregon defeat interview Kennedy outlines a coalition with McCarthy to challenge Humphrey. He says major issues are narrow and urges McCarthy to join after Nebraska. Kennedy predicts victory in California and dismisses fears of a mass move to his banner.
In Saigon a rocket hit a schoolhouse serving as a command post during heavy fighting in Cholon. Six high ranking officers died, including Saigon and Cholon police chiefs, while the mayor and others were wounded. The U S command suggested a friendly fire incident may have occurred.
A GOP panel accuses the LBJ administration of inflating promises from the War on Poverty and the Great Society. They say expectations rose but were not met, fueling hostility and some violence while urging tax incentives, job training, housing, education, and local control reforms. Also notes Abby hurricane threat on Florida coastline.
U S chief negotiator W Averell Harriman welcomes Vance in Paris while Vance says no new instructions and pegs U S policy to Johnson March 31 speech. Hanoi signals possible deescalation as Tho, a Hanoi Politburo member, weighs softened demands amid Moscow Pravda timing.
Humphrey edges toward victory with renewed California campaigning. Kennedy and McCarthy spar on TV while Missouri Democrats bind 40 delegates to Humphrey and 60 to any candidate backed by two thirds. Kennedy vows to win California primary. Nixon gains Florida support.
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