16 Oct 1969
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1969
Page
1
New York trading opened with a mixed pattern as advances slightly outpaced declines on the Dow Jones at 829.79 after a 0.27 point dip. Analysts cited profit taking cooling a rally and noted the market may need time to consolidate before further gains.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins met Pope Paul VI and the Roman Catholic Synod of Bishops in the Apostolic Palace in a private session. Their moon trip slides were shown and televised to others, as a protest by shadowy dissident priests outside denounced the meeting.
U S battlefield deaths in Vietnam last week stayed near the lowest in three years while South Vietnamese casualties rose sharply. Allied reports show 82 Americans, 384 Saigon troops, and 1 687 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed. 573 Americans and 1 444 South Vietnamese wounded. The trend shows South Vietnamese forces taking on more fighting duties and the overall American deaths reaching 19 989 since Jan 1961 with enemy dead at 560 903.
In Paris on Wednesday night two American POW wives from Virginia Beach met North Vietnamese officials at the Faris peace talks. The delegates told them no prisoners would be released until all U S troops leave Vietnam and the war ends. The women, Sue Shuman and Martha Doss, left disappointed, saying they hoped for humane releases of the sick and wounded. Cmdr Edwin Shuman and Lt Cmdr Dale Doss were shot down in North Vietnam on March 17, 1968.
Boston AP report says five Massachusetts Supreme Court justices held an unscheduled consultation amid speculation a quick ruling could be issued on the May Jo Kopechne death inquest. Attorneys for Kennedy and others seek to close the inquest to the public and grant cross examination. A court source declined to confirm details of the contending petition.
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