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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1969
Page
6
The country endures two weeks of unrest as a 24 hour strike hinders commerce. In Cordoba the army enforced control, curfews and trials, with 71 people detained and 100 stores destroyed. Police clash with students in Tucuman amid wider anti government demonstrations.
Israeli Ambassador to the United States General Itzhak Rabin told a Pan American Zionist conference in Miami Beach that barring direct Soviet military intervention Israel could sustain the existing balance in the Middle East. He argued Arab terrorists cannot alter military facts and condemned Soviet backing for a no peace policy while insisting Israel will not withdraw from cease fire lines for partial solutions.
Berkeley protests escalate after campus land near the university becomes a dispute site. City Council and police approve a route by the site while University of California Chancellor Roger Heyns urges a park plan. clashes have left hundreds injured and one dead as arrests rise across California.
Clark County deputies investigate the drowning of three year old Kelly Alkema of Santa Ana after she slipped from a Riverside Casino dock south of Davis Dam. The family vacationing at the Colorado River resort. burial in Burbank, California pending.
A Los Angeles man was jailed on a drunken driving charge after driving on the wrong side of I 15 and colliding with an oncoming car minutes after forcing another off the road near Las Vegas. One seriously injured woman, An nette Marcus, 43, of 545 Canosa Ave, was identified. David R. Mulligan, 21, the other driver, was uninjured and questioned by troopers.
Mario Andretti roared to victory in the 500 over nearly two minutes ahead of Gordon Gurney as humid skies and heat tested drivers. Foyt, Dallenbach, and Ruby traded leads before Andretti seized momentum after Ruby’s pit issue, turning the race into a historic finish despite earlier fiery crashes and a backups car in use.
UPI report says a U.S. serviceman escaped or was released by Viet Cong. a helicopter recovered him 10 miles northeast of Tay Ning City as Buddhists marked Buddha's birthday under a fragile cease-fire. At least two Americans were killed and 17 wounded in truce breaches during the first eight hours of the 24-hour hold.
United Press International reports a two and a half hour battle between Jordanian and Israeli forces south of the Sea of Galilee. A Jordanian spokesman claimed three Israeli military vehicles were destroyed and said Israeli forces opened fire with machine guns and tanks in the Al Manshiyya area, eight miles south of the Sea of Galilee.
Sen. Kennedy faced Republican censure for commenting on Vietnam tactics during a Paris peace push. He avoided direct naming of Hamburger Hill and its 50 U S deaths while alluding to “hills and valleys.” Kennedy serves on an advisory board at a Catholic college.
Governor Nelson A Rockefeller of New York urged Ecuadorian youth to abandon street protests after violence killed seven and wounded 52 during his South American fact finding mission for President Nixon. He said, We came here to listen and not to fight, as clashes in Quito and Guayaquil raised tensions.
The article notes promises of women’s equal pay and recalls De Gaulle’s leadership a year after the 1968 labor student protests. Nearly a million Parisians marched the Champs Elysees on May 30 1968 to defend his regime as the leftist revolt closed universities and factories for weeks.
Police, FBI agents and state troopers probe a strong possibility that 10-year-old Mary Mount has been abducted from Kiwanis Park near her home. A brown loafer found at the scene and absence of a struggle drive the investigation as nearly 500 responders search a half mile area for clues.
Clark County detectives booked 45 year old William George Emslie of San Marino California on nine burglary charges tied to recent Strip hotel room thefts. A key planted at a poolside led to surveillance and his arrest as 60 keys were found in his car and 20 matched to burglarized rooms.
A study warns about 80,000 acre feet of untreated LV Lake Mead water entering summer mains serving Henderson. It urges improved treatment at city and county plants, notes pollution in Lake Mead from Las Vegas Wash effluent, and explores credits for returned treated water to ease growth limits.
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