08 Mar 1969
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1969
Page
1
Enemy rocket and mortar attacks increased today as a strong ground assault hit a U.S. position in South Vietnam on the third day of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's visit. The Associated Press reported from Saigon.
Saigon officials weigh firmer U S action as Viet Cong forces press the Saigon area. Vice President Ky hesitates to call for North Vietnam bombing. Thien and Huong stay quiet. Heavy fighting and shellings surge near An Hoa and Saigon, with U S casualties and civilian deaths reported.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Moscow for a second day, denouncing Mao Zedong and denouncing the Chinese Soviet border clash amid heavy police presence. Reports cite 31 Russian soldiers killed the prior weekend and massive media campaigns across papers.
Advocates urge President Nixon to scale back the ABM Sentinel program from 20 missile sites to about six. Critics in Senate push to scrap the $5 billion project, with Nixon planning a decision early next week. Sen Milton R Young says a scaled prototype may win congressional support amid cost doubts and reliability fears.
Truro investigators uncovered a human leg 50 feet from graves in a Cape Cod wooded area as searchers probe a serial-discovery case. Two Rhode Island victims, Patricia Walsh and Mary Wysecki, both 23, identified. other bodies remain unidentified. Antone Costa, 25, of Provincetown, faces psychiatric evaluation after being charged in the Rhode Island deaths.
The Associated Press reports scattered student protests across the nation with no new violence. Incidents include arson at Beloit College dormitories causing $5,000 in damage and 200 students fleeing to safety. Other campuses see demands for black studies programs and autonomy, while a New York City high school faced a disorderly mass expulsion and property damage.
Handicapped students, Jewish students, and linguists at the University of Oklahoma issued spoof demands in response to Thursday Black Student demands. They threatened a campus roll in unless a handicapped vice president for student affairs was appointed, while mock requests included an Israeli general for Jewish affairs, a kosher kitchen, French maids in dorms, Mongolian counselors, Turkish baths, and Swedish masseurs. University President J Herbert Holloman rejected most demands of the All American Student Association.
US corporations enjoyed a banner year for profits in 1968 with a 10 percent rise at First National City Bank of New York. Construction contracts surged, nonresidential up 59 percent and residential 19 percent, while new factory orders dipped slightly in January. Major oil firms raised gasoline prices, and a vast merger between Atlantic Richfield and Sinclair Oil created a new giant in the sector. New car sales in late February set a record at 255,559 units with output around 180,700 cars.
Rescuers in Utah worked to reach miner William Jones trapped in a mountain mine for a week. Pilot drilling progressed about 20 feet of a 40 foot rock section, with a 6 inch hole being prepared and larger drills planned to reach the 20 inch shaft. Jones, 38, has been fed and supplied via a pine conduit while officials assess timing.
A prayer asks for divine guidance to face personal and national decisions with decency and love. It asks for help to overcome hopelessness, affirming that love can conquer hate through Jesus Christ, from Budley Strain of First Christian Church in Lubbock Texas.
Adv. Gen. John N. Mithall announced that capital funds from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration totaling 29 million dollars will be allocated in April, two months earlier than planned, with simplified procedures to speed disbursement.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan’s defense plans to call psychiatrists next week to persuade the jury that his mind did not function properly when he killed Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Testimony from psychologists is expected to dominate the trial, with other witnesses recounting voices heard and Sirhan’s odd behavior in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen area.
Detroit Free Press columnist Marilyn Beck reported Elizabeth Taylor was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood with suspected spine cancer. A doctor cited a gradual deterioration of her spine, more serious than initially thought, and a 20th Century Fox spokesman said they are very concerned for her life.
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