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B-J Cabanes dispatch on mountain refuge in N Vietnam; says N Vietnam back country is prepared for long war; sees hidden schools, factories and hospitals
Capt J J Herrick, who commanded 2 US destroyers in Tonkin incidents, says ships were definitely attacked by N Vietnamese; denies attacks were provoked by US; denies secret USN message made pub by Sen Morse was order to his ships; officials say message was sent by Admiral Sharp to Joint Cs/S, who did not approve it; Herrick describes incidents
2 plainclothes policemen assigned to protect Dist Supt Frey who opposed memorial program; act after Frey reptd to police that source told him 'some men were looking for him'; Human Rights Comm announces it will probe racial tensions in pss with particular attention to IS 201; NY ACLU critical of Educ Bd directive to Donovan; says it will challenge in ct any legal attempt to bar outside groups from using school facilities; bd pres Giardino restates bd's position
Hurst, Fannie
T W Kheel charges Times ed dept, being 'irrevocably committed' to NYS Taylor Law, is biased in discussing issue, joint Legis com hearing; exempts news dept-warns legislators not to be 'bullied' by Times stand; SLRB Chmn Kramer scores adverse effect on Gov Rockefeller pol position of Times ed criticism during NYC sanitationmen's strike; Sanitationmen's Assn pres DeLury scores Times and A H Raskin coverage of strike
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 21, 1968, covering February 24, 1968.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Diana Ross & The Supremes
1968Mitch Hedberg, American comedian and actor (died 2005)[†]
Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and deadpan delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs.
1968Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quang Truong recapture the citadel of Hué.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]