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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1968
Page
6
The Seoul Appellate Court sentenced three people to death at a retrial of 22 defendants tied to a North Korean spy ring based in East Berlin. The original trial strained relations with West Germany after 11 Koreans living there were brought back, allegedly by South Korean intelligence.
Worried Moscow reports the Soviet Maritime Union urged the Soviet government to obtain assurances from China that assaults on Soviet ships in Chinese ports will not recur. The request follows what Moscow calls a hooligan attack on April 3 against crewmen aboard the Komsomolyets Ukrainy, a tanker bound for North Vietnam, at Whampoa near Canton.
Rev Rick Mawson, the strip's only full time chaplain for six years, will resign as the program loses funds. He will study at the School of Theology in Claremont for a year or two. Mawson, 32, engaged with casino workers and guests to aid their problems and chats. The United Church of Christ spent about 20 000 dollars yearly on the chaplaincy.
John G. Brawley former Ferguson mayor who commuted 1000 miles to New York chose not to seek another term. He handed the office to a new mayor and said Trans World Airlines has transferred him back to the St. Louis area where he serves as area manager of reservations. He ruefully noted he would have considered running again if he had known he would return sooner.
Mikhail A. Suslov a senior Soviet leader aged 65, reportedly ill in recent weeks, appeared publicly at a Kremlin rally marking the seventh anniversary of Yuri A. Gagarin s space flight. The Politburo and Secretariat member attended the event, signaling no official withdrawal from duties despite circulating reports of illness.
A Hanoi observer notes that LBJ's partial bombing halt prompts guarded optimism. North Vietnamese leaders insist peace is possible only if aerial attacks end, while ministers plan a frame for talks. The visit era brings day travel, rumors, and a wary hope that the war may pause without surrender.
William C. Baggs of the Miami News completed a second excursion to North Vietnam following an earlier January 1967 visit. This item marks the third of his field reports detailing findings and observations from the trip.
By BILL BAGGS The Miami News 1968 reports a rare week of peace talk in Hanoi North Vietnam as American bombers hit near the Red River. A veteran reporter describes a near misses and a comical evacuation from a hotel bathroom after a bombing shakes the Thong Nhat Hotel.
AP report outlines how peace negotiations with the Communist bloc in Vietnam may unfold. It notes that initial contacts, agenda fights, and language differences prolong talks, with tactics like delay, propaganda, and leaks shaping world opinion. Past Korea and Indochina examples illustrate lengthy bargaining and stalemates.
Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, long aloof from politics, reportedly appears in two Kennedy campaign television tapes. The tapes feature reminiscences with Theodore Sorensen about the Cuban missile crisis, linking McNamara to Kennedy adviser discussions from 1962.
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