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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1968
Page
1
U S troops guard approaches to Saigon clashing with Viet Cong at two spots nine miles apart. B52s bomb North Vietnam for the first time in a month while tactical fighters fly 110 missions. Heavy fighting reported. 28 Viet Cong killed and three Americans wounded in one engagement.
Washington officials echo Vice President Humphrey that Paris talks with North Vietnam have reached a serious phase. No details were released on progress as Cyrus Vance returns to Paris amid expectations of restraint signals and potential new offensives against Vietnam cities.
In New York the stock market rallied broadly as peace talks in Paris appeared to advance. The Dow rose 5.65 to 875.30 at noon, with the AP 60-stock average up 1.1 to 327.1 and gains across steels, farm implements, aircraft, electronics, chemicals, tobacco, building materials and drugs.
Forecast calls for a chance of light showers ending tonight with a low in the 60s. Tuesday will be mostly clear to partly cloudy and a bit warmer with a high near 80.
USAID director Donald D. MacDonald said the 19 percent reduction in American staff in Vietnam shows Vietnamese capacity to proceed with fewer advisers. About 300 positions were cut since April, mostly in agricultural and educational programs, while Vietnamese staff were unaffected.
Nguyen Thanh Le at the Paris peace talks condemned the Republican platform and Nixon's stance as failing to end the Vietnam War. He accused Nixon of seeking to extend the war and of treating South Vietnam as his property while opening criticism of the Democratic candidate after their convention.
A secretive effort since last April aims to locate raise and exhibit the USS Monitor the famed 127 foot ironclad known as the cheesebox on a raft. The wreck lies near Cape Hatteras with past claimed finds by Robert F. Marx in 1955 about 50 feet deep a mile offshore.
A 630 mile Capline pipeline will connect Patoka to St James Louisiana. The 40 inch diameter line will be the largest pipeline ever laid in the country.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey expressed confidence he will win the Democratic presidential nomination on the first convention ballot and pegged his delegate strength at 1 600. An Associated Press poll showed 792% for Humphrey, 42312 for McCarthy, and 1 408 uncommitted or pledged. Nixon and Agnew planned to emphasize TV appearances over rallies as Javits warned about southern influence in the Nixon ticket.
With the Democratic national convention two weeks away Mayor Richard Daley pushes a two part effort. Prefabricated homes for Negro residents aim to show slum improvements while a white working class neighborhood near the International Amphitheater in the stockyards gets a visible spruce up.
The International Amphitheatre is reinforced with a half mile fence topped by barbed wire as 5500 Illinois National Guard troops guard the site. Security head Robert Burke coordinates plans while electrical workers refuse added communications work and taxi bus unions threaten strikes before the convention opens.
Army doctors report former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has passed the immediate critical period after last week's major heart attack and is making satisfactory progress.
President Johnson visited Brooke Army Medical Center for intestinal X rays to be sent to Bethesda for study by Navy doctors and a Mayo Clinic internist. He is being treated for diverticulosis with a 48 hour liquid diet before the test and has had routine checkups since 1960.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark said the Justice Department will increase nationwide civil rights enforcement in housing education and employment. He noted a sharp rise in litigation under the 1964 Civil Rights Act with 15 of 23 employment cases in the North and West, contrasted with earlier focus on the South.
Gun battles in the Watts area left three Black residents dead and 35 wounded or injured, including six officers. Across the country brief flareups in Little Rock Chicago suburbs Seattle and Miami followed a festival anniversary in Watts with arson and looting reported and curfews imposed in several cities.
Five crew members on the 125-foot trawler Novelty collapse and die in the hold as a fast acting poison likely gas or toxin floods the space while unloading fish. Investigators from Lee County and federal agencies probe the incident and seal the vessel.
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