Catholic Schooling Is Threatened by Costs and Shortages
Washington AP reports rising tuition and a shortage of trained teachers endangering Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Lay educators replace nuns as parochial schools consider inner city focus and mergers while seeking public funding through federal block grants. Priesthood vocations have fallen sharply, with attrition rising from 37 percent to about 50 percent in recent decades.
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Washington
America
C. Abert Koob
National Catholic Education Association
United States
Father Koob
Koob
Christian Herald
Romania Goes Go Go As Tourism And Industry Boom
Bucharest hotels fill with businessmen and tourists as Romania opens to visitors and rapid industrial growth continues. An 11 percent annual industrial growth rate drives plans for 1968 car assembly in Pitesti, a Galatz iron and steel complex, and a 400 room Bucharest hotel. Visas on entry boost tourism to 1.5 million this year, amid a campaign called socialistic democratization that aims to shift from peasant to industrial society.
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Romania
Pitesti
Renault
Galatz
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Bombers Hit Viet Cong Sanctuaries Near Saigon
AP reports U S Air Force B52 bombers attacked Viet Cong sanctuaries on both sides of Saigon in a bid to disrupt enemy concentrations near the capital. At Con Thien Marines supported by tanks and artillery killed 72 North Vietnamese, with 9 Marines killed and 17 wounded.
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Saigon
Con Thien
U.S
Camp Carroll
Khe Sanh
Quang Tri
A Shau
North Vietnam
Air Force
828Th
Vinh
America
Panhandle
Johnson
Tiger Division
South Vietnam
Bermuda Burns and Violence Quieted in Hamilton
Bermuda declares a state of emergency after a night of burnings and looting by predominantly Negro gangs. 300 Bermuda Regiment troops reinforce 250 riot police as curfew runs 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Five injured, 15 arrested, one seriously.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Executive Council
Bermuda Regiment
United Bermuda Party
UBP
Progressive Labor Party
PLP
John Patton
ABP
Columbia Sit-ins Persist Amid Peace Plan Rejection
New York AP Columbia University faculty proposed a peace formula to end a four day student sit in but a protest leader rejected the plan and reaffirmed the demand for general amnesty. About 200 to 400 students occupy five campus buildings on Morningside Heights as supporters bring groceries to the barricaded sites. A faculty panel recommended a 12 member group to set disciplinary guidelines and appeals with five faculty, five students, and two administrators.
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NEW York
Columbia University
Ivy League University
Morningside Heights
Harlem
Columbia
University
Grayson Kirk
Vote in Baden Wuerttemberg tests Kiesinger era pull
Voters in Baden Wuerttemberg face an election shadowed by the April 11 assassination attempt on leftist student leader Rudi Dutschke and ensuing clashes. The rise of the rightist NPD worries CDU and SPD as observers view the ballot as a 1969 national election warm up and a gauge of Kiesinger’s federal coalition.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Baden
Wuerttemberg
Landtag
National Democratic Party
NPD
Rudi Dutschke
West Berlin
Esslingen
West Germany
Kiesinger
Bonn
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Constantin Caloiany
State Planning Committee
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Vietnam
Fitts
Dong Hoi
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Marine AG
Glo Linh
Dmz
18Th
Vince Cortazzo
Cortazzo
NASA
Joseph Cecil
Cecil
Robert Love
Ailan
Ottawa
Ments
Christian Democratic Party
CDU
Winly Brandt
Social Democratic
SPD
Adolf von Thadden
NPB
James Li
Dean Martin
Stanley Shapiro
Columbia Pictures Presents
Stella Anne ‘Stevens Wallace
Jackson
Edward Small
United Artists
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