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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1970
Page
1
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller announces the November 25 wedding of his daughter Ann Rockefeller to architect Lionel Coste Jr. The bride, a divorcee formerly married to Reverend Robert L. Pierson, wed at the governor’s former wife Mary Clark Rockefeller’s home with only close family present.
Industrialist Howard Hughes reportedly vanished from Las Vegas after four years in seclusion at the Desert Inn. Nevada officials and associates cite California-plate cars seen near the hotel before his disappearance on Thanksgiving Eve 196? Four years after moving into Harolds Club and expanding holdings, Hughes’ fate remains unresolved amid ongoing Nevada gambling and political discussions.
A convicted robber moves from a New York City prison to a Baltimore jail to donate a kidney to his sister, Mrs. Joan Washington. The operation aims for a transplant within six weeks, with artificial kidney support in the interim and tissue tests beginning for the brother, Donald Smith.
Communist gunners dumped rockets and mortars on three air bases and multiple provincial capitals including Pleiku Ban Me Thuot Quang Ngai and Holloway Field in the central highlands and Mekong Delta. Casualties were light but Cam Ranh Bay and other sites reported American deaths and injuries. US Air Force Phantom crash and helicopter loss reported with four Americans killed. Vietnamese infantry pushed toward the Viet Cong stronghold near the U Minh forest while Cambodian troops halted a north of Phnom Penh offensive and began counter measures.
Egypt calls the sinking of an Egyptian motorboat by an Israeli patrol a criminal act against unarmed civilians. Israel says four men on the boat were spies and hashish smugglers. three bodies were recovered and one carried documents. Cairo disputes any military or intelligence presence in the area.
Army survey of 2372 personnel at Cam Ranh Bay found 53.2 percent of outgoing draftees had used marijuana, with 17.7 percent habitual users in Vietnam. About half used marijuana in country and before entering. several favored legalization. Officials warn of heroin rise and potential U.S. drug market impact.
Wind swept a sheaf of checks and currency totaling 743 dollars from Helen Sleight on Tuesday. Bystanders spent two hours helping her scoop up the money and all but twenty dollars was recovered. Sleight, mother of seven, paused to fix her scarf and left the checkbook atop her car as wind blew it across Tron Street.
NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels approve the AD 70 plan for the 1970s, combining flexible nuclear and conventional forces to deter the Soviet bloc. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird reiterates no U S force cuts in Europe for 18 months and notes a $1 billion mixed package to ease U S burden.
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