Germans Discount Revaluation
West Germany’s two major parties moved to dampen talk of a mark revaluation. Kiesinger’s CDU and Brandt’s SPD said a revaluation is not planned, though both failed to halt all public discussion. Exchanges closed briefly, reopening Monday as cabinet meets. The issue split the coalition amid a rising economy and speculation about the next government.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Christian Democratic Party
Willy Brandt
Social Democrats
Kiesinger
Economics
Kurl Schiller
Social Democratic Party
Schiller
Christian Democrats
Dubcek Addresses Czech Party Shakeup Session
Alexander Dubcek broke a long silence and spoke at the Central Committee session amid reports he may be retired from leadership. A communique listed him among the 17 speakers and noted mixed agreement with Husak’s personnel and organizational proposals in the party reform drive. Dubcek, 47, remains popular but faces criticism over leadership and ties with the Soviet Union after the 1968 invasion.
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Prague
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee
Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Gustav Husak
Presidium
Husak
Sill
Presilium
Soviet Union
Better Early Readers Happier Teachers Reported With British Phonetic Alphabet
A first independent study on the Initial Teaching Alphabet from Britain finds children taught with the 44-letter phonetic system read earlier and more confidently in infancy, but long term gains over the traditional alphabet are inconclusive, with mixed results on spelling and comprehension.
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New York Times
Hows Service
London
Britain
Schools Council
F. W. Warburton
Vera Southgate
University of Manchester
James Pilman
Cyril
North Irish Leader Wins Party's Confidence Vote
In Belfast, Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark won a party confidence vote as British troops patrolled Londonderry to keep order. The 30 member standing committee backed him overwhelmingly at a five hour meeting, with earlier backing from Northern Ireland Parliament Unionists. Troops manned barriers to separate Protestant and Catholic factions after recent sectarian violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
James Chichester-Clark
Londonderry
Chichester Clark
Lon
Chichester-Clark
O'Neil
London
United Kingdom
Democrats Seek Review of Route 128 Highway Plan
A group of 21 Massachusetts Democratic state representatives urged Gov. Sargent to halt highway construction around Route 128 and shift to a mass transportation program. They call for stopping expressway work, halting land acquisitions, redirecting funds to cities, and building central western highways where mass transit fails.
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Boston
Francis W. Sargent
Commonwealth
Department of Public Works
Professor proposes airborne virus to curb birth
A University of New Hampshire botany professor at a two day Population symposium urged sterilizing all women by an airborne virus to curb world population. Dr Richard W Schreiber claimed the virus and a short lived antidote could be developed in three years with an estimated $5 million cost. He argued governments would not dare act but said antidote necessity would force a woman to seek abortion or limit births, and that most women would have at most two children.
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Durham
N.H
University of New Hampshire
Richard W. Schreiber
Schreiber
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