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Newspaper
The Times Herald Record
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1968
Page
25
The Viet Cong announced 72-hour cease-fires for Christmas and New Year and aimed to outdo allies during Paris talks. US and South Vietnamese leaders would honor only their 24-hour Christmas truce, with no immediate comment on the Viet Cong plan.
U.S. command reports 228 Americans killed in action last week in Vietnam, the heaviest seven day toll since late September, with 1,095 wounded. Overall, almost 30,000 Americans killed since January 1 1961, and allies tally 2,689 enemy deaths amid battles along the Cambodian border near Saigon.
UPI reports heavy Communist shelling across seven South Vietnamese locations early Friday. Casualty totals included 56 civilians killed or injured and 112 bombardments since November 1, with at least one South Vietnamese soldier killed and 36 others wounded. Mortar strikes hit Uan Loc My Tho Tay Ninh Ben Tinh Moc Hoa and a hamlet near Mai Lanh district. exact counts vary by report.
Paris negotiator W Averell Harriman told President elect Nixon that new faces in Washington would not change the Vietnam peace talks. Harriman said Communists see all Western powers as imperialists and capitalists. He suggested Nixon might send an observer before year’s end, though Ziegler denied that.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Gannett Co. alleging news and TV assets in Rockford Illinois reduced competition. The action targets Star Rockford Register-Republic and WREX-TV after the combined 92,000 circulation buying the Rockford Morning.
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