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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1968
Page
1
Nevada voters prepare for the primary amid a busy campaign eve. Candidates lobby on the Strip and in parks, with TV radio ads and door to door efforts. Key races include County Commission and U S Senate contenders Bill Raggio Ed Fike and Alan Bible watches the fray.
President Nicolae Ceausescu moves to stall Warsaw Pact staff maneuvers on Romanian soil amid fear such exercises signal Soviet pressure similar to events before the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Diplomats say he argues these drills harm crops and violate harvest timing.
Istanbul reports that the Turkish government barring hippies and beatniks from entry. Interior Minister Faruk Sultan announced new regulations and said the rules have been sent to authorities handling incoming tourists.
Labor Day weekend ends with Clark County youths returning to 86 schools and parents voting in primaries. In Clark County one death in a string of accidents. three more fatalities reported elsewhere in Nevada including Thomas McColler 22 Goldfield killed in a U S 95 crash, Arthur Taylor injured, Stanley Davis 60 Whittier Calif killed on I 15, Robert Axelson 21 Carson City killed near Reno, and an unidentified man struck in Reno on U S 395.
United Press International reports the Labor Day holiday traffic deaths reached 564 by 8 p.m. since Friday. Michigan led with 40, Texas 39, Illinois 37, California 36, with 1966’s 636 as the record and the council estimating 575 to 675 deaths for the 78 hour period.
U S Air Force B52s dropped 350000 pounds of bombs around Saigon 25 miles north in a pre dawn raid targeting supply lines and infiltration routes. At least 27 killed and 46 wounded as North Vietnamese forces observed Ho Chi Minh day amid reduced ground action.
Mostly sunny with variable clouds today. High 103 degrees and a low of 70 with noontime humidity around 12 percent. Sunrise is 6 14 and sunset 7 06. Yesterday reached 104 with a 75 low.
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