30 Nov 1968
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1968
Page
1
U S air cavalrymen mauled a North Vietnamese battalion near the Cambodian border while American infantrymen decimated a Viet Cong force in the Mekong Delta. In Saigon 140 captured Viet Cong were released on city streets.
Paris discussions face more accusations as Hanoi and Saigon spar over bombing incidents and access to talks. U S planes allegedly hit North Vietnamese territory while Saigon releases 140 former Viet Cong prisoners in a national reconciliation drive, with ceremonies in Saigon Pleiku and Da Nang.
Paris AP report says the French government’s austerity drive hits Christmas outreach as the Postal and Telecommunications Ministry ends the Santa Claus office that answered children’s toy-list letters.
Officials said sealing No 9 mine was completed early with 78 miners trapped for over a week. The process stops air flow and extinguishes the fire but confirms human life is not possible, as families mourn at James Fork Methodist Church.
Police and firemen in Newark New Jersey returned to full duty today after Superior Court Judge James Giuliano issued a temporary injunction ending a sick call strike over higher salaries. A spokesman said 140 police were on duty and 180 firemen on the early shift. The strike began Friday morning and men started returning Friday night.
The National Communicable Disease Center reports Hong Kong flu flaring in Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, Philadelphia and Puerto Rico. Tourists returning from Hawaii linked to North Carolina cases. 2,000 Air Force cadets ill at Colorado Springs with mild symptoms and waning outbreak. Nine deaths noted in Riverview Philadelphia, while vaccination efforts target elderly and chronically ill.
A cold spell is forecast with clear skies tonight and a low around 30 degrees. Sunday brings partly cloudy skies and a slight turn toward warmer temperatures across the Miami Valley.
U S officials report Soviet forces in Czechoslovakia have shrunk to three divisions after an October accord with Moscow. NATO is reinforcing defenses and considering returning Green Beret units to Europe early next year as Moscow keeps significant power in East Germany and Poland.
NATO expands presence in the Mediterranean by creating a unified Naples command to surveil Soviet naval buildups. Plans call for replacing older U S fighter bombers with Phantom jets and extending redeployed units beyond initial timelines. Concrete barriers will shield allied air bases from air attack.
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, 42, suffered a broken hip and broken ribs in a two car collision near Albany County airport. He was admitted to Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition.
Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, re elected head of the Liberal Democratic party, unveils a new action cabinet with one holdover Shigeru Hori as chief Cabinet secretary. Kiichi Aichi is foreign minister amid a lineup representing major factions. Takeo Fukada becomes finance minister and Masayoshi Ohira heads international trade and industry.
About fifty Welsh Language Society members occupied BBC North Wales studio in Bangor demanding more Welsh broadcasts. BBC said protesters show no sign of moving as protests began in Cardiff with disruption and a leader calling for an independent Welsh broadcasting corporation and separate Welsh channels.
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