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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1971
Page
1
President Nixon forms the 63 40 Club to honor retiring AP White House correspondent Douglas B. Cornell who covered the White House since 1996. Only other member is Nixon, who serves as president, after Cornell accompanied him on his Alaska trip for his 65th birthday.
Saigon reports more than 490 total casualties in three days of NVA assaults along the South Vietnam Cambodia border. North Vietnamese claims 230 enemy killed, while Saigon lists 27 killed and 473 wounded. Attacks targeted Pace base and Tay Ninh West Base Camp among others. U S B 52s bomb eastern Cambodia as helicopter evacuations move supplies to Cambodian fronts. A separate AP item notes San Quentin inmate Raymond Labrum surrender after a 12 day manhunt following a work furlough lapse.
The United States and Soviet Union presented a revised draft to outlaw germ warfare, aiming for broad U.N. General Assembly support. Key changes strengthen chemical weapons negotiations, push the preamble ban into the main treaty, and retain U.N. appeal limitations, while nonaligned nations sought concessions.
Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery near his first wife. The 86 year old former Supreme Court justice died eight days after resigning from the court. President Nixon ordered flags flown at half mast as tributes flowed from colleagues and friends.
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