Congress Resumes Work in Slow 1968 Session
Congress opens after Memorial Day break amid waning influence and uncertain mood. Leaders push to finish before August conventions as major bills lag and appropriations pace remains slow. open housing and disclosure bills have passed, but fate hangs on the House.
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Washington
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Vietnam
Martin Luther King Jr
Sen
Senate
Mike Mansfield
White House
State Toll Reaches 334 Over Memorial Weekend
The Associated Press reports Minnesota’s road toll rose to 334 during the Memorial Day weekend, up from 309 a year earlier. Fatalities include Leonard Ellis 29 of Ponsford Alver G Smith 79 of Minneapolis Robert O Smerdon 36 of White Bear Lake Mrs Don Borchard 27 of Dawson William L Schmidt 18 of Proctor Ervin G Kushel 54 near Garrison and Steven Meier 18 of Minneapolis.
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Ponsford
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Becker County
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Minneapolis
Robert O. Smerdon
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Aitkin County
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William L. Schmidt
Proctor
Duluth
Ervin G. Kushel
Garrison
Mille Lacs Lake
Steven Meier
Wisconsin
River Falls
Crisis as Rome students clash at university gates
In Rome rival student groups battled at the University of Rome barricaded gates as government crisis loomed after elections. Police stayed back while attackers pelted defenders with rocks and flaming bundles. 300 antileftist students faced 2,000 pro‑Chinese and anarchist supporters. Premier Aldo Moro, facing resignation, watched coalition collapse amid political turmoil.
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Christian Democrats
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Textile Mill Blast in Clemson Kills 3, Injures 10
An early morning gas furnace explosion at the Utica Hawhawk plant of J. P. Stevens & Co. ripped through a finishing room near Clemson South Carolina. Three killed and 10 injured, with at least two more feared dead, as workers were evacuated to Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca.
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J. P. Stevens & Co
Clemson
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Oconee Memorial Hospital
Seneca
Law to Bar Age Bias on Workers
A new federal law effective June 12 prohibits age discrimination in employment for ages 40 to 65. It bans employers from hiring or firing on age, imposes limits on retroactive pension plans, and bars unions and employment agencies from age-based exclusion or referral refusals.>tag
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Labor Department
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Johnson
Three Die In S D One Vehicle Crash Northwest Of Huron
Three Wessington residents Hazel Fritzsche 68 Blanche Matthews 69 and Keith Matthews 29 died in a one car crash Sunday night on U S Highway 14 about 12 miles northwest of Huron South Dakota. Earl Fritzsche was hospitalized in serious condition. The car left the road struck a telephone pole and rolled over.
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