11 Aug 1969
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1969
Page
1
Police pressed a manhunt as the murder toll rose to seven in two days. Investigators linked a second Hollywood slaying to Miss Tate's killing, while officials cautioned that a single suspect or copycat could not be confirmed.
The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins left quarantine in Houston ending three weeks of isolation. They planned a busy schedule with a Tuesday news conference a Houston luncheon a Wednesday ticker tape parade in New York and a United Nations appearance followed by a Chicago parade and a Los Angeles state dinner with President Nixon.
London and Brussels markets opened calmly as speculators traded West German marks against Belgian francs and British pounds. The pound fell modestly but stayed above intervention levels while the mark strengthened in Zurich and prices held steady elsewhere. Officials argued the event posed limited threat to the pound and no immediate devaluation was expected.
North Vietnamese forces launch ferocious assaults along the Cambodian Laotian and demilitarized zone fronts killing thirty-eight U.S. service members and wounding 144 in the heaviest 24 hour toll since June. Analysts warn of a broader August September campaign as enemy regiments reinforce across four corps zones.
Israeli warplanes pounded seven Arab guerrilla camps in southeastern Lebanon east of the Hasbani River for about 30 minutes. The attack followed a spike in guerrilla sabotage incidents and was part of a broader cross border clashes with no injuries reported on the Israeli side.
Three Italians in an 18 foot rubber boat landed on Roma atoll near Papeete Tahiti after a 4500 mile Pacific crossing from Peru. Zond VII returns to Earth from around moon, Jodrell Bank reports. A South Korean soldier dies and two are wounded in a DMZ clash with North Korea, defense ministry says.
Paris Reuters reports government inspectors were deployed to enforce a sweeping price freeze tied to austerity measures after Friday’s 12.5 percent franc devaluation. The freeze lasts until Sept 15 covering prices profits and certain fruits and vegetables.
A 35 year old ex patient Lynn W Blackwell faced assault with intent to murder charges after a half hour gun battle with five police officers and a neighbor in a northwest Detroit home. Patrolman Henry Demetroff talked him into surrendering on his porch unarmed. Blackwell had been released from Northville State Hospital in 1968 and had a long mental illness history.
A search for two elderly women missing since Thursday from the Baptist Haven of Rest Nursing Home continues with police checking leads in Saskatchewan. Laurie Lullaby, 88, formerly of Golden Prairie and Maple Creek, and Ottila Kost, 72, of Medicine Hat, were reported missing after not returning from a walk. Officer Dick Drake said leads are being checked and that things are looking better.
An American lawyer for one of eight Green Beret soldiers charged with killing a South Vietnamese man in June near Nha Trang says the victim was a CIA double agent. The claim adds weight to theories he worked for both sides, with body location and discovery still unresolved.
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