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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1968
Page
3
Prague remains calm on the surface as pressures from Communist neighbors grow. Citizens stroll near Wences Square and vendors sell fruit while intellectuals, once in revolt for democracy, anxiously await each news bulletin and rumor.
U S troops and South Vietnamese forces repelled a major Viet Cong and North Vietnamese assault in the Mekong Delta near Phu Vinh, 16 miles southeast of Saigon. About 76 enemy soldiers were killed while U S losses were seven dead and 21 wounded. Allied reports say another clash deeper in the delta raised enemy deaths to 116. The action involved U S 9th Division troops, more than 1,000 South Vietnamese infantrymen, navy gunboats, artillery and air support as the heaviest fighting in weeks continued toward Saigon's approaches.
Sheriff Pitchess showed reporters a transformed storeroom on the 13th floor of the Hall of Justice as the 24-year-old Sirhan Bishara Sirhan prepares to enter his plea Friday. The room seats 79 spectators plus 23 aides behind a rope barrier with two mahogany tables and leather chairs. Sirhan, guarded constantly, will walk about 50 feet from his cell to the courtroom to plead to the Kennedy assassination charges.
John Bull a 24 year old Navy lieutenant commander and Apollo crew support member withdrew from space duties after diagnosis of aspirin induced sinus and lung disease traced to a condition called aspirin asthma. Medical officials at Bethesda Naval Medical Center report the illness is not contagious and may persist for life, with plans for Bull to seek postgraduate studies if medically unfit to continue.
Enrollment at the University of Texas during the first summer term reached 13 583 with William Walace registering as supervisor noting a rise of 1 077 from the prior summer.
Thea Van Der Wort, 18, of Amsterdam, won the Miss 95 Degrees in the Shade contest in Cesenatico Italy. The grand prize was an electric fan.
On Tuesday morning 8 a.m. at the Lubbock Country Club top banking officials will be honored guests. William B. Camp comp roller of the currency K A Randall chairman of the FDIC and William W Sherrill governor of the Federal Reserve System will attend from Washington D C. Lubbock bankers join the Lebbock Clear ne House Association for the June 34 fete.
A 20 member group guided by Dr. George Worrell of First Baptist Church Lamesa will tour several European countries and attend the Baptist Youth World Conference in Berne Switzerland. They depart from Lubbock Friday by air and from New York Saturday night visiting Amsterdam before Berne. The conference theme is One World One Lord One Witness. Speakers include Billy Graham and Kenneth Chafin. After Berne the group visits Italy France and England returning August 11.
Howard Hughes abandoned his bid to acquire a major stake in American Broadcasting Companies after failing to reach the two million share target by the deadline. Leonard Goldenson, ABC president, hailed the outcome as stockholder confidence in the company.
Brooklyn village in New York celebrates its 95th year of incorporation. The town is noted as one of the few all Negro towns in the United States.
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