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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1968
Page
1
UPI reports the United States began pulling back the 27th Marine Regiment from Vietnam marking the unit's first withdrawal though not a general pullout. About 1,500 of 4,500 men have left Vietnam, with 700 others leaving under the order and the rest reassigned.
The LV Cowboys move up as they join a larger professional league, signaling a major step in their competitive status and schedule. Details and reactions from team officials and league representatives appear on pages 15 through 17.
A Las Vegas cocktail party for Sen Edmund Muskie drew a brief crowd and little liquor. The column notes a nosy SUN reporter raises a ballot title question for MDs. Readers urged IRS reform, higher education focus, and regent actions to expand classrooms amid rising enrollments.
State Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order against the UFT to end the one day strike affecting New York City public schools. Union leader Albert Shanker rejected the injunction saying it won’t put children in classrooms as teachers defy the order.
Senator Edmund S. Muskie told a packed Stardust convention hall that if elected he would secure full cooperation from the vice president and back collective bargaining for federal employees. He endorsed Hatch Act revision and government employee state outreach as part of a bigger push for workers voices.
Senator Alan Bible calls for federal and state action to fight narcotics traffic. He warns the drug problem will spread unless each state creates narcotic bureaus and cooperates with federal laws. Bible spoke during a Nevada campaign swing at the Sahara Hotel and Caesars Palace.
The forecast notes warm conditions with a high of 105 degrees and a low of 70. Noontime humidity is listed at 9 percent with sun rise at 6 19 and sunset at 6 56.
The mother Victoria Sagmoey 21 was released from city jail and charges dropped while her husband Charles Sagmoey 31 remained jailed on an open homicide charge. The two were linked to 2 year old Ilya Lyn Stinson who died after a skull fracture reported by a pathologist to be from a blow. Police noted bruising and said the child would have required a fall from a two story building to incur the injury.
In Los Angeles a rookie officer Gary Murakami, 23, died after a shotgun blast during a confrontation with Addison Cash, a 25 year old man shot by more than 20 officers at Cash's apartment. Two other officers were wounded. Cash, wearing a T shirt, told a postman he was fed up before the shooting.
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