Columbia Registrations Resume After Disturbance
Registration at Columbia University resumed uneventfully after SDS blocked a doorway and a large night march disrupted events. The campus, home to about 25 000 students, faced earlier suspensions and a six day rally by European and American student activists led by Mark Rudd.
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New York
Columbia University
Radical Students For A Democratic Society
Columbia
Ivy League
Schermerhorn Hall
SDS
Rudd
Mittee
Mark Rudd
Cordier
Italy
Mexico
Canada
France
Germany
Sweden
Andrew W. Cordier
Students For A Democratic Society
Mansfield Worried Nonproliferation Pact Faces Doubt
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield warned the nonproliferation treaty may be endangered by skepticism sparked by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He said nonnuclear nations risk entrusting defense to nuclear powers and urged careful U.S. restraint and not tacitly accepting Soviet dominance.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Czechoslovakia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Montana Democrat
Mansfield
Soviet Union
Johnson
Hungary
United States
Europe
U.S
Foreign Relations Committee
Hajek resigns as Czech foreign minister amid occupation
Prague reports Jiri Hajek quit as foreign minister amid the Soviet led invasion. Premier Oldrich Cernik named acting foreign minister. Hajek had faced Kremlin pressure while in Yugoslavia during the early days of 1968 occupation.
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Prague
Jiri Hajek
Prague Radio
Oldrich Cernik
Hajek
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
Proxmire backs IRS oil and gas depletion rules
Senator William Proxmire says IRS proposed regulations on the 27 percent oil and gas depletion allowance would increase tax receipts by up to 100 million dollars a year. He notes the rules set market price as the basis, narrowing a prior loophole and limiting inflated depletion claims.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Oil and Gas
IRS
Johnson urges steadfastness at Medal of Honor ceremony
President Johnson awarded the Medal of Honor to five Vietnam veterans on the White House lawn. Wisconsin's Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Stumps, 23, of Menasha, was among the honorees. Johnson urged Americans to stay committed in the limited war while avoiding haste to pull out roots.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Johnson
Kenneth E. Stumps
Menasha
White House
Senate approves gun control bill limiting mail order sales
The Senate passed a gun control bill, though diluted from Johnson’s aims after Kennedy’s assassination. It bans mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and ammunition, with penalties differing from the House version. The bill moves to joint conference with the House, with fate uncertain amid campaign-time debates and a pending constitutional issue. Senator Edward Kennedy appears, and NRA opposition centers on registration provisions.
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Washington
National Rifle Association
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate
House
Conference
White House
Congress
Kennedy
California
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harold Glassen
Lansing, Mich
Edward M. Kennedy
Mass
Robert
Heart and Kidney Transplants Done at Methodist Hospital
Three teams at Methodist Hospital in Houston performed a heart and a kidney transplant from a donor into two patients on Wednesday. The heart recipient was 16 year old Dusan J. Vlaco of Elemir Yugoslavia, and the kidney recipient was 23 year old Troy Calvin Stewart of Pasadena Texas. The hospital did not identify the donor or team leader.
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Houston, Tex
Methodist Hospital
Dusan J. Vlaco
Elemir
Yugoslavia
Troy Calvin Stewart
Passadena
Tex
Houston
43 Per Cent Foreign Aid Budget Cut Recommended By Committee
The House Appropriations Committee proposes a record 45 percent cut in new foreign aid financing for the fiscal year ending next June 30. The panel approved 1.619 billion, well below Johnson's request and earlier ceilings, while urging the program remains important to national interests.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Johnson
House
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Americans Blast Reds Along Fringes Of DMZ
American forces pressed near the DMZ along the McNamara Line and battled entrenched North Vietnamese troops with tanks and guns in a two hour fight. About 200 soldiers of the 1st Brigade 5th Mechanized Infantry Division killed 29 NVA. three Americans wounded. Additional clashes occurred south of Quang Ngai and near Tam Ky as Americal Division units reported heavy fighting and high enemy casualties while stockpiles of munitions were seized in the Saigon region.
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George Esper
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
McNamara Line
1St
5Th Mechanized Infantry Division
Dmz
5Th Division
Con Thien
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Americal
Quang Ngai City
Americal Division
Tam Ky
1St Corps
Rock Pile
Harborview Plaza renewal grant enables January property buys
HUD approves a 4.03 million grant for La Crosse Harborview Plaza urban renewal. Property acquisitions could begin in January with the city paying about 481 thousand for utilities and street work. The plan envisages two high rise buildings and riverfront park extensions after clearing most of the 21.5 acre site.
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Washington, D.C
la Crosse
Harborview Plaza
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Charles Parrott
City Hall
Roellig’s Inc
State and
Mount Vernon Streets
2Nd Street
Redevelopment Authority
Candeub, Fleissig and Associates
Riverside Park
Pearl Street
Mount Vernon Street
Mississippi River
Front Street
Nelson
Parrott
Chicago
Four Die In Minnesota Highway Toll Rises This Year
A head on crash on Highway 7 near Silver Lake killed a Canton man and a woman in separate vehicles. Among other fatalities, two Luverne teens died in an I 90 wreck near Beaver Creek and 66 year old Robert McKay of Canton died in a Canton township collision. One injured was taken to a Hutchinson hospital. The state highway toll for the year reached 742 with these deaths.
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Silver Lake
Minn
McLeod County
Hutchinson
Beaver Creek
Canton
Minnesota
Highway Patrol
Luverne
Interstate 90
Curtis E. Leger
Robert Lee Skyberg
Allen Meinerts
Laverne
Sioux Falls
Robert A. McKay
Arvin Baken
Decorah
Iowa
Baken
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