23 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1968
Page
1
U S forces rush thousands to bolster the Khe Sanh sector as U S 1st Air Cavalry prepares backup units. A Marines battalion joins the Khe Sanh base while South Vietnamese troops withdraw from Huong Hoa amid heavy fighting and claimed enemy losses.
AP photographer Eddie Adams reports on U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces clashing with Viet Cong in Cambodia near Khe Sanh. Shelling, casualties, and a temporary shift in defensive posture accompany air strikes and ground operations as Washington voices regret over an intrusion.
Olympic swimming champion and Hawaii icon Duke Kahanamoku, 77, known as the Bronze Duke of Waikiki, collapsed at the Waikiki Yacht Club and died soon after at Kaiser Hospital. He won 1912 and 1920 Olympic sprints, shaping a lifetime in surf and sport.
A sports and obituary styled note recounts Duke’s famed 1925 water rescue at Newport Beach where he paddled through giant waves on a surfboard, saving eight of seventeen who failed to survive the yacht Thelma sinking. It also notes his later civic life as Honolulu city county sheriff with party switches.
Denmark prepares for national elections as Premier Jens Otto Krag seeks a mandate to curb inflation and the rising cost of living. The Social Democrats face a strong challenge from opposition groups in a race seen as crucial for stabilizing the economy and forming a possible parliamentary majority. The high voter turnout is anticipated, with Krag’s party aiming to maintain power after decades in government.
New York stocks fell as trading remained heavy in shortened sessions to finish paperwork backlogs. The Dow dropped 4.28 to 267.43 amid broad losses with blue chips like Sears Roebuck and U.S. Steel slipping while a few names such as Control Data and Polaroid edged higher. Trading blocks included American Telephone and Massey Ferguson with notable declines.
An unnamed youth is questioned at gunpoint as American troops handle a smoke grenade incident. A POW tag is affixed to the youth’s shirt while G1 squats between two Vietnamese figures in the scene.
TOKYO AP officials of Chugai Pharmaceutical and Kanazawa University report a Japanese team led by Prof Hajime Okamoto has developed a cancer treatment showing encouraging results in humans for tumors in the hard palate area. Tests on animals preceded human trials with dramatic and slow responses noted.
Archbishop Michael Ramsey of the Church of England will preach at Westminster Cathedral in London from the Roman Catholic pulpit by invitation of Cardinal Heenan. The event marks a historic step toward Christian unity amid decades of mutual suspicion, timed with the 1988 World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
In Moscow Premier Harold Wilson met with Soviet leaders for about four hours to discuss Vietnam and international relations. Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Suslov attended, with Kosygin and Podgorny on the schedule, as officials described the exchange as frank and constructive.
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