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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1968
Page
7
Soviet Luna 14 remains in lunar orbit conducting radiation and gravity studies as Cosmonaut Day marks Yuri Gagarin anniversary. Across Europe reports of antiwar protests intensify after Red Rudi Dutschke is critically shot in West Berlin.
In Prague Dubcek defends party functionaries amid liberal press debate and warns of one sided criticism. Interior Minister Pavel pushes to separate secret police from public safety, aiming to remove law violators from ministries though counts are unclear.
A stormbound Wahine ferry ran aground near Worser Bay as 52 people died and 675 survived from the 727 aboard. Police say 46 bodies were found on beaches, six are missing, and 106 survivors required hospital care. The vessel plowed from Lyttleton to Wellington when it struck a reef and capsized in 125 mph winds.
In Warsaw the Polish Communist party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka solidified his grip as Parliament approved his allies for top posts. The Sejm unanimously elected Marshal Marian Spychalski as ceremonial president and Lt. Gen. Wojciech Jaruselski as defense minister amid cabinet changes and a power struggle with the secret police faction.
Paris AP reports French pop star Sylvie Vartan and her best friend injured when a station wagon crossed in front of her car on an autoroute. Vartan's passenger Mercedes Salmes Mandes died. Vartan suffered a broken arm and shock. Driver Jean Baptiste Santis initially reported dead, later said alive with a chance to recover.
The 35th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in North Miami fields calls from 24 500 reservists and their wives as Army Navy and Air Force personnel are tapped for duty. Quotes reflect mixed emotions from concern over families to acceptance that service must proceed with some already on riot duty.
A DC3 passenger plane vanished on Wednesday and was found crashed on a mountain side 28 miles northwest of Mexico City. The wreckage lay nose down on a 12 000 foot peak, burning, with four crew and 14 passengers aboard, and no signs of life observed by a pilot who located the site.
President Johnson named Maj. Gen. George W. Underwood to command the U S Army Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs Colorado and promoted him to lieutenant general He will succeed Lt Gen Robert Hackett who retired on March 26 and he now commands Air Defense at Ft Bliss Texas
Texas Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin called a federal court ruling striking down the breach of the peace law a blow to sovereignty and law enforcement. He plans to ask the three judge panel to rehear and pursue immediate appeal to the Supreme Court if needed. The suit grew from arrests at a Johnson speech in Killeen, with soldiers not charged and protesters later dropped from charges.
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