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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1968
Page
1
Russell Foster, a lampman on the midnight shift, testified that four ventilation fans were running and no trouble signs were seen the morning of the first explosion at the Mannington area mine. The escape affected 21 men. 78 others remained trapped by blasts and fire.
W Averell Harriman said after meeting with President elect Nixon he expects Nixon to send a personal observer to the Paris talks and replace the principal American negotiators soon after taking office. Harriman and Cyrus Vance will hand over duties around Jan 20 with Vance possibly remaining briefly in Paris.
AP report details a 27 percent rise in American combat deaths in October after the bombing halt in North Vietnam. U.S. Command noted 536 Americans killed in October, highest weekly toll in two months at 228 last week, as ground operations intensified along Cambodia border. Mention of Nixon era diplomacy and Vietnam War context appears among mixed items from the same page.
A Des Moines manhunt ended with a murder warrant for Michael Charles Niccum, 23, linked to the death of Linda Boothe Ney, a 20 year old night clerk. Police cited a protected informant and 3200 hours of work leading to the break. Niccum, originally from St. Louis, is described as armed and dangerous and believed to be in Town or Missouri.
In Lima, 34 year old Dr Alfonzo Zavaleta Cruzado says he injected his sister Elis Wenzell with her own cancer cells to trigger antibodies that killed the tumor. He reports the cancer seems to have vanished but cautions results are unproven and five years are needed to verify the cure.
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