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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1968
Page
6
More than 1,000 U.S. infantrymen and airpower attacked a Viet Cong base camp southwest of Saigon, killing the base camp in marshlands. One American dead and 25 wounded. estimates put enemy at 300 to 400.
Robert Greenblatt, organizer of antiwar demonstrations, testified before a House subcommittee that he met North Vietnamese officials and Viet Cong agents during a June trip. He said the talks concerned potential conferences between U.S. youths and North Vietnam while also learning about Paris peace talks. He coordinated the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and cited meetings in Paris and Prague, with a Cyprus report noted.
Gen. Duong Van Minh, exiled leader who toppled Diem in 1963, arrives in Saigon invited by President Nguyen Van Thieu to become an adviser. Officials frame the move as a political strengthener while wary Buddhists and rivals watch. Minh says he must see Thieu before deciding, family now his focus.
A New York AP report says three more girls of heroic proportions entered Wall Street's bustroom Friday and were rescued by police from a crushing crowd.
Los Angeles AP The attorney for Sirhan Bishara Sirhan seeks a October 14 postponement of the Kennedy assassination trial and proposes post Christmas holidays and nightly hotel sequestering for jurors. Judge Herbert V. Walker will hear motions with Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. Lynn Compton opposing sequestering as too limiting.
Demonstrators clashed with police on Manhattan's Lower East Side as teachers threaten another strike in New York City. AFL-CIO United Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker called the district actions a provocation tied to the Ocean Hill Brownsville case. At Seward Park High School about 200 students and supporters hurled rocks and bottles for 20 minutes amid the dispute over 8 dismissed teachers.
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