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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1968
Page
4
A pre dawn blaze at the Full Moon Castle Hotel a honeymoon resort near Kobe Japan killed 27 people including two newlywed couples. Four dozen injured and three missing as power failed and alarm wires broke delaying fire crews. Survivors jumped from windows amid smoke and narrow hallways.
UPI reports Washington seeks a formula to involve South Vietnam and Viet Cong emissaries, while Thieu threatens to boycott unless the NLF joins as a separate delegation. US officials weigh cautious engagement as Hanoi insists on NLF status, with Thieu’s stance sparking domestic political reaction and high-level consultations.
In Amman more than 1,000 demonstrators damaged the American embassy and torn a U S flag. Police used gunfire and tear gas to disperse the crowd amid protests across the Arab world marking the Balfour Declaration anniversary.
Tass denounces Czechoslovak intellectuals abroad in a thinly veiled purge. Central committee members Eduard Goldstuecker and Ota Sik are accused of contact with émigrés and Western propaganda. Kamil Winter is singled out for criticism and alleged party membership ambiguity.
Thousands of friends filed by the former Greek prime minister George Papandreou as he lay in state at Athens Cathedral. His exile son Andreas, once UC Berkeley faculty, remained in Sweden amid opposition to the military regime and impending arrest if he attended. The funeral was set for Sunday at 4:30 a.m. EST with burial in Athens Central Cemetery and a private family ceremony despite an official state funeral offer.
Aristotle Onassis paused his honeymoon to fly 320 miles from Skorpios to Athens on business negotiating a $400 million Greek plan to develop oil refineries and tourist facilities. His wife Jacqueline remained aboard the Christina in the Ionian Sea as chilly weather kept her below decks. She was reported to have received an absentee ballot for the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
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