Union printers defy Czech leaders amid reform drive
In Prague union printers refused to print material they deemed contrary to post January reforms and adopted a duty to reject such content at odds with the new direction. The action comes amid wider worker pressure for information and less censorship as Dubcek era promises more openness.
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Prague
Communist Party
National Assembly
Josef Smrkovsky
Smrkovsky
Tribuna
Alexander Dubcek
Cesimir Cisat
Czech National Council
Ostrava
Czechoslovakia
Prace
Metal Workers Union
New Federal Assembly
Lyndon Johnson budget faces final push with guns and butter
Lyndon B Johnson presents a 193.5 billion dollar budget featuring guns for war and butter for home, plus a 25.7 billion Vietnam outlay and a 3.4 billion potential surplus. The piece notes inflation, deficits, and the reminder of his Great Society amid a shifting economic wake.
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New York
Lyndon Johnson
United States
Vietnam
Nixon
Johnson
Old South Church To Mark 300th Birthday
Old South Church in Boston prepares a year long 300th anniversary program beginning with monthly lectures titled Decisions Facing the Citizen in the Next Decade. The General Synod of the United Church of Christ will meet in Boston in June to observe the tricentennial. Old South, founded May 16, 1669, sits on the site of the Cedar meeting house and is now a Freedom Trail museum. Utah’s Great Salt Lake holds four billion tons of dissolved minerals including sodium chloride magnesium lithium and potash.
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Boston
Old South Church
General Synod of the United Church of Christ
Massachusetts Conference of the United Church
Old South
Third Congregational Church
Gov. Winthrop
Washington and
Milks Streets
Utah
Great Salt Lake
New Subsidiary Formed By U S Steel In Engineering Push
U S Steel announces a new subsidiary USS Engineers and Consultants Inc to offer worldwide professional engineering and consulting services in steelmaking and related areas. J Donald Rollins, ex American Bridge Division president, will head the firm based in Pittsburgh. The unit will coordinate technical assistance leveraging U S Steel expertise from mills mines and labs including the Monroeville Pa research center and Gary Ind casting operations.
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Chicago, Ill
Steel
EB. H. Gott
J. Donald Rollins
U.S. Steel
American Bridge
Pittsburgh
USS
U. S. Steel
Monroeville
Gary
USS Engineers and Consultants, Inc
Italy approves sweeping university reform amid student unrest
Rome reports the Italian government unveiled a broad reform plan to curb student protests by granting students 20 percent participation on university committees, banishing professorships from public office, expanding university autonomy, and increasing professors, schools, and campuses to relieve crowded facilities.
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Rome
Italy
Judge Taken Aback By His First Case
In Baton Rouge district court Judge Melvin Shortess, newly sworn in, confronted his first case challenging a constitutional amendment. The plaintiff Gov. John McKeithen, who appointed Shortess to the vacancy, questioned the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal Board of Directors appointment amendment. Shortess remarked on the irony of the situation cited after taking the case under advisement.
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Baton Rouge, la
Melvin Shortess
John McKeithen
Shorttess
Lake Charles
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