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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1968
Page
1
Democratic presidential hopeful Eugene McCarthy is scheduled to address a Rural America Declaration of Independence Day observance in Corning on Thursday. McCarthy will be among principal speakers at the event organized by the National Farmers Organization.
French crowds fill Paris streets to celebrate Charles de Gaulle's election win as horns blare and flags fly. In the Latin Quarter students block parade routes with improvised barricades while police manage sporadic clashes extending into the night. A separate Davenport report notes a boy presumed drowned after a sea wall collapse near Pershing Street and river rises affect several towns, with scattered weather updates following.
In Des Moines 25 welfare workers and mothers from the Iowa Welfare Rights Organization presented 14 demands to Director Maurice Harmon. He refused to alter county and federal administration, citing no letter to county boards. Some attendees called the meeting productive, others said it wasted time as ADC cuts continued and checks were reduced.
Soviet Premier Kosygin and First Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov said the incident is under investigation. Pentagon reports Seaboard World Airlines pilot Tosolini contacted another American aircraft by radio during the encounter and said MIG fighters intercepted and forced landing on an apparent MIG base on an island. The plane landed without injuries or damage, then engines were shut off before the crew reported. The Seaboard jet, chartered by the Military Airlift Command, had strayed off course en route to Yokota, Japan, though Seaboard officials said the route had been flown safely before. Crew members listed included co pilot Henry Tregor, flight engineer Earl Scott and navigator Lawrence Guernon, with in flight checkers and stewards aboard.
SAIGON AP reports U S B52 bombers conducted a striking raid into North Vietnam for the first time in nearly two months. Twenty five heavy bombers targeted Cape Lay near Gig Linh and coastal artillery sites shelling U S ships off the coast. Authorities say new intelligence indicates Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces are regrouping in secret bases up to 75 miles from Saigon in preparation for a major attack this month.
An American airliner hijacked to Cuba with 15 passengers aboard landed at Key West International Airport after being released for takeoff from Havana at 12 34 p m EDT. About 50 to 75 friends and relatives of the passengers waited at the airport as the original pilot remained under arrest in Havana.
President Johnson said the United States and the Soviet Union will begin talks soon on limiting offensive and defensive nuclear missile systems. Kosygin proposed disarmament talks including halting weapons manufacture and stockpile cuts. Wilson called the NPT signing a major arms control step.
Martin Link chairman of the Navajo Centennial Committee and BIA area director Graham Holmes reenact a treaty signing scene with Lt. Gen. W. T. Sherman portrayed beside them.
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