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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1968
Page
6
Miss America 1968 Debra Dene Barnes will give up her crown tonight and marry Mitchel Miles, 22, of Arcadia, Kansas, a fellow music major at Pittsburg State University.
SEATTLE AP Linda Jean Kilp 1967 Miss Washington and Gary Robert Sandal 23, a county jail inmate facing burglary charges and parole revocation, were married Tuesday by a justice of the peace in the county courthouse.
Hyannis Port Mass AP The Kennedy family head former Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy marked his birthday with two gatherings. Grandchildren enjoyed cake and ice cream while adults dined with Kennedy and Rose Kennedy. Guests included niece Ann Gargan and daughters Jean Smith Patricia Lawford, plus Sen Edward M Kennedy and wife Joan. A Paris birthday call came from EuNice Kennedy, married to ambassador R Sargent Shriver.
Shirley Temple Black leads a European fundraising tour for Richard M. Nixon. She hosted a cocktail party in Rome attended by about 300 Americans, raising 1300 dollars for the Nixon campaign. She plans appearances for Nixon among expatriates in Paris London Brussels and Frankfurt.
The Supreme Court weighs government powers to reclassify draft resisters and ship reservists to Vietnam. The Justice Department argues the system uses reclassification as punishment and cites director Hershey’s note proposing denial of deferments for violators. The case centers on James J. Oestereich, 22, a Cheyenne divinity student reclassified 1-A after turning in his draft card. Separately, 113 Cleveland reservists seek to block a presidential order without a formal declaration of war.
Latin American bishops endorse a nonviolent social reform program led by Magr Helder Camara. The plan, to begin Oct 2 in 41 Brazilian dioceses, targets socioeconomic change and ethical living while urging economic integration free of imperialism. The final document condemns militarism and birth control devices and follows Pope Paul VI guidelines.
Prague reports show editors testing Moscow era censorship as Czech and Slovak media hint at past happenings and foreign troops. Despite occupation, nine Czechoslovak deaths linked to invasion are described without explicit words, while radios and CTK resume with new restrictive rules aimed at a “truthful though not necessarily complete” view.
Nine days after the Democratic National Convention aides of Vice President Hubert Humphrey express confidence he will lead a substantially united party into the November elections. Some McCarthy supporters and Liberal party backing signal broader support while ADA lines up to back Humphrey against Nixon.
In Houston Nixon attacked Wallace's charge of policy equivalence, citing major gaps with Humphrey on Vietnam, crime, poverty relief, farming, and oil policy. He accused Humphrey of backing a flawed war approach and of supporting Ramsey Clark, while praising Israel's Phantom interceptor and urging broader international burden sharing.
Washington AP reports John P. Roche, two years as a White House consultant, was terrified by the kinds of decisions humans must make constantly on the basis of inadequate information. He described the pressures and uncertainty facing leaders in the presidency.
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