College Disturbances Across the United States Continue
The Associated Press reports nationwide campus unrest as Roosevelt University in Chicago arrests 13 and suspends 24 others. Marquette University sees 800 students march for greater involvement in racial issues. Stanford agrees to amnesty and to shelving suspensions from a sit-in at the Old Student Union. Columbia faces potential criminal trespass charges despite a disciplinary recommendation. Police disperse a Temple rally over a court order banning campus protests. Southern Illinois University and Buffalo State see anti-administration actions and letters to Johnson. Roosevelt demands a full-time appointment for Staughton Lynd.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Roosevelt University
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Stanford University
California
Wallace Sterling
Richard Lyman
CIA
Columbia University
Grayson Kirk
Columbia
George W. Fraenkel
Philadelphia
Temple University
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Marquette
John P. Raynor
Cost to Americans If Congress Approves Tax Hike
Analysis of a proposed 10 percent surcharge on federal income taxes. The plan would start about June 10 after signing and run through June 30, 1969, affecting about 83 million taxpayers while 17 million in the lowest brackets pay nothing more. Individuals and corporations would face accelerated payments and a total hoped for $15.53 billion in extra revenue through mid-1969, with various exemptions and timing details.
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Congress
Senate House
Johnson
Treasury Department
Treasury and Johnson
The
Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Wilsons Party Hit By Electoral Rout
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces an unprecedented Labor rout as Conservatives win control of 560 seats and 570 gains in towns across Britain. Labor holds 43 of 368 town halls. London shifts to Tory dominance. Parliament remains 74-seat Labour majority.
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London
Harold Wilson
Britain
Labor Party
Labor
England
Wales
House of Commons
Wilson
Sara Barker
Cecil King
Daily Mirror
King
Point Pleasant Family Welcomes Baby Amid War Wounds
Leonard McCarty, serving in Vietnam, was wounded and treated at Hawaii’s Tripler General Hospital. On May 3 his wife Phyllis Wheeler McCarty gave birth to a daughter there. Grandparents Homer Schultz and others from Point Pleasant were listed as relatives. The Earth’s equatorial circumference is 7,926.68 miles.
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Leonard McCarty
Point Pleasant
Vietnam
Hawaii
Tripple General Hospital
Phyllis Wheeler
Leon
Homer Schultz
Saigon Second Wave Offensive Weakened by Intel Sources
U S and South Vietnamese troops say the Viet Cong second wave against Saigon was crushed with 80 to 90 percent of the force killed captured or scattered. Peak enemy strength inside the city did not exceed about 200 to 150 fighters. Tet era losses were far greater overall.
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Saigon
U. S
Cholon
Paris
South Vietnam
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