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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1968
Page
5
Rep Fisher predicts no difficulty in securing funds for a new VA hospital in San Antonio. Projected to cost about 9 to 10 million dollars, it aims for a July 1 1971 completion and a fall 1971 operation start. Staffing plans call for 1 452 fulltime workers plus 168 residents and 133 trainees, with many hires from the San Antonio area.
War dispatches describe fierce fighting around Hue with Marines breaking toward the Citadel amid burning ruins. Reports say North Vietnamese flags were lowered at the provincial Capital as U.S. forces seized the building and raised the American flag. Looting, hunger, and street warfare marked the city’s collapse into a battered battleground while U.S. troops mass near Saigon and along the Mekong Delta. A new element is the reported presence of anti aircraft missiles in South Vietnam, shifting the strategic landscape near the border.
A letter from Mrs. Gonzalez requests guidance on stopping children from erasing through her yard and recalls watering the front lawn to keep water off the sidewalk. It also recounts a dispute with a contractor who threatened to roof the house shingle by shingle, prompting reflection on gratitude toward the contractor’s behavior and the eventual decision to hire lawyers.
Thieves raided a home garage in Japan taking auto parts valued at 1190 dollars as police reported. The rest of the article mentions plans for a munitions plant and wartime reparations, with various names and locations fragmentary in the text.
CAPE TOWN South Africa AP The only surviving heart transplant patient at Groote Schuur Hospital will stay longer in hospital the wife said Doctors reported fluid around the transplanted heart again and the discharge is delayed to weeks or two months The patient 134 year old is under care as doctors drain the sac around the heart and monitor his condition He will need daily hospital visits to build up strength after discharge according to his wife
About 30 students from Chungang University staged outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul denouncing secret talks with North Korea and urging an immediate end to U.S. appeasement. Premier Chung Ti kwop handed a protest note to Ambassador Porter opposing the talks at Panmunjom. A North Korean broadcast claimed a Pueblo crewman confessed to violating waters.
Testimony to start in the murder trial of Dwight G. Covelle in 175th District Court. A jury of three women and nine men was seated, with the case recessed to allow Covelle’s attorneys to handle another matter in U.S. District Court. Covelle is free on a 7500 dollar bond after a June indictment for murder with malice aforethought. District Attorney James Barlow waived the death penalty. Eloy Hernandez, 21, was killed in the Blue Nove Lounge shooting on Patton Street.
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