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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1969
Page
3
North Vietnamese forces hit a US camp 50 miles northwest of Saigon around 3 a.m., mortars rockets and gas rounds used as gunships fired on positions. Six Americans mortally wounded in a mortar unit. 12 of 28 evacuees later returned to duty. Chu Lai air base near Da Nang also struck with rockets. no deaths reported.
A1 report details the SF State strike led by nonwhite students beginning November 6 with 2000 marchers, demanding ethnic studies and nonwhite admission. It notes faculty disputes over Hare and Murray, campus tensions, and calls for a school of ethnic studies while warning dissidents of waning student backing amid violence.
Laird defended shifting from city defenses to the Safeguard ABM system amid Senate hearings while critics in the foreign relations subcommittee pressed arguments against deploying antiballistic missiles. Gore Fulbright and Church questioned the mission and risks of the Sentinel era and the new system, warning of escalation and uncertainty.
Ten meningitis cases with one death are reported at Fort Dix New Jersey. An Army spokesman confirms Pvt. Gerge A. Trampler of Riverside Connecticut died in Wattson Army Hospital. Nine sailors are sick with upper respiratory illness. officials call it not an epidemic and note winter respiratory ailments common at bases. Measures from January remain in effect to curb respiratory spread.
Pasadena scientists report a swarm of undersea earthquakes off the Baja California coast between San Felipe and Santa Maria. Two shocks measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale were followed by many smaller quakes. no damage or injuries reported, though felt in Mexico.
Secretary Hickel announced new actions on Santa Barbara oil operations including a buffer zone of 21 000 acres and an additional 34 000 acres to be set as an ecological preserve with no drilling. He said resumption on leased Santa Barbara tracts would await safety data and offered no cost estimates.
Sacramento reports Assemblyman Vincent Thomas underwent heart surgery at Long Beach area hospital after tests at St Marys found a gallstone and heart circulation issue. He is recovering and expected to leave in a week to ten days.
Major Robb Peri, son in law of former President Johnson, was unharmed when four Viet Cong 82mm mortars struck the building where he worked in Da Nang. Two Marines were killed and two wounded as shrapnel sprayed Robb’s office walls. He was in another room nearby. He continues as a logistics officer at the 1st Marine Division HQ and is scheduled to return to the United States in May.
A court-appointed psychiatrist testified that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan can harbor malice and premeditate to kill but only if not tied to his allegedly mistaken political beliefs. He noted Sirhan could maturely plan to kill unrelated targets, as shown by diary references.
BROOKVILLE Pa David Brosius 12 sent NBC a release to permit use of his Laugh-In joke. He signed but asked that if used the joke appear in the last half since his dad watches another program first half.
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