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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1969
Page
22
Demonstrations in Tokyo over Okinawa escalate as thousands march from Yoyogi Park to protest U S Japan ties. Police deploy tear gas and riot squads after students clash with authorities near Shinagawa and Tokyo University campuses. rail and subway services halt.
Dr. Dinis testified he ordered an autopsy at 1 a.m. July 20 but Lt Killen said the body was moved to Pennsylvania for burial. Judge Brominski denied Mills request and withheld ruling on a videotape of Kennedy explaining the tragedy.
A large gulf storm veers eastward toward Apalachicola as Mississippi and Louisiana areas prepare evaculations. Civil defense officials in Harrison county Mississippi report comfort with the shift while authorities in Cameron and Lafourche parishes urge coastal residents to move to higher ground. Officials fear potential destruction similar to Camille Betsy and Audry as residents flee en masse toward safer inland areas.
A Czech seaman who jumped a 24 000 ton ship at Terminal Island in a fuel stop in 1950 will be granted U S asylum and a route to permanent residency and eventual naturalization. He works for C A Buchen Corp a Sun Valley steel fabricating firm near his home and will receive 3 29 an hour. The company will petition to place him in a sixth preference category enabling him to move to Canada and apply for an immigrant visa. He says the escape was planned for nine years and cites witnessing tanks and deaths in Prague. Authorities note security checks found nothing against him. Also in Washington a SDS pair from Columbus Ohio testified about plans to kill police and burn a store. In London Graham Kane pleaded guilty to obstructing traffic by running naked into the street.
Officials say the United States will hand Okinawa back to Tokyo by 1972 while keeping a U S military base on the island. The deal calls for removing U S nuclear weapons from Okinawa and a joint statement from President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Visaku Sato after their November 1921 Washington meeting.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said President Nixon’s orders to Vietnam commanders amount to a unilateral cease fire. He noted a policy shift with limits on troops under “protective reaction” and urged national unity behind Nixon as leaders offered mixed optimism on a reduced U.S. role.
President Nixon welcomed Soviet cosmonauts to the White House Oval Room on day two of their US visit. Maj. Gen. Georgi Seregovoi age 48, his wife and son, and civilian Konstantin Feoklisilv age 13 were greeted, then spoke through an interpreter as reporters filmed. Nixon presented presidential pens as mementos.
Washington reports the Department of Health, Education and Welfare says Wink, a Canada Dry beverage, was mistakenly included in a list of cyclamate containing products. A government order bans manufacturing and selling foods with the artificial sweetener cyclamate. The error surfaced in a Saturday list and a revised list is being prepared.
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