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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1969
Page
4
A survey finds growing acceptance of protests over Vietnam and civil rights while nonconformists remain mostly unpopular. Public concern about demonstrators has eased from 68 to 59 percent, yet tolerance gaps persist by age as younger people oppose the war and back Black rights, while elders resist more.
Three airmen from March Air Force Base and three sisters die after their car overturns into a 47 inch deep irrigation canal. The vehicle becomes stuck on its top, trapping occupants. one driver’s body is found downstream, six bodies recovered in total at dawn. The car’s occupants include John C. Rumble 19 Canton Ohio and Richard Spoonamore 19 Renton Washington, Donald Stolarick 80 Chicago, and sisters Rose Ann Vigil Mary Margaret Vigil 19 Cathy Vigil 17. Their parents stay with the sisters at a ranch near Cheyenne Wyoming.
Soviet crews aboard Soyuz 6 7 8 conducted coordinated launches and close passes while under manual control. Kubasov welded remotely in Soyuz 6, testing vacuum metal joining for future orbiting structures. The teams studied navigation, earth features, and medical biology as plans move toward external welding with the Vulkan kit.
In Tokyo radical students clashed with police firing gasoline bombs as authorities brace for a massive Tuesday protest over Japan U.S. military security ties and Okinawa. Police sealed key areas with 25 000 officers deployed amid arrests and scattered bombings nationwide.
A UPI report states four American soldiers killed at the South Korea truce line were apparently executed by North Korean attackers. An American military spokesman said the men died in the ambush and the details pointed to execution.
PepsiCo plans a new sweetener product using saccharin with other substitutes and will label it Sugar added no cyclamates amid FDA cautions on cyclamates. The move follows long running debates over safety and consumer warnings about artificial sweeteners.
Vallejo police Captain Wade Bird says a massive hunt targets the Zodiac killer who has killed two young women near Vallejo and Napa. Bird notes the suspect uses complex codes and likely knows the area well and does not hold a steady job.
Sacramento police note criminals targeted retail cards and departments stores in California tightened checks on identification at point of sale. Officers caution a flood of phony cards could surge during the Christmas shopping period, though no counterfeit cards have yet been passed.
In Quinhon near Saigon a blast outside a movie theater killed three South Vietnamese civilians and wounded 35, including children. Initial U S reports cited about five pounds of plastic explosives at a street corner as crowds entered the theater.
A Luzerne County hearing begins with two medical directors a diver and a funeral director ready to testify on the request for an autopsy for Mary Jo Kopechne killed when Senator Kennedy's car plunged off a Massachusetts bridge. District Attorney Edmund Dinis plans to call at least five witnesses.
The Nixon Administration will propose that personal possession of any drug including marijuana be a misdemeanor. First offenses would carry up to two years and or a $10,000 fine, with penalties for dealers varying across three proposed sets. Marijuana would be reclassified as hallucinogenic with harsher penalties for traffickers and ongoing criminal conspiracies.
Assistant FBI director William C. Sullivan says Students for a Democratic Society is moving toward open advocacy of violence and expects more confrontations on campuses. He cites 61 serious incidents including arson and bombing last year and notes disruptiveness spreading to high schools, warning of a growing extremism threatening open society.
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