Antiwar Protesters Target New York Induction Center
Police halted a second Stop the Draft Week march at the New York Army induction center as about 4 000 officers kept demonstrators in groups behind barricades. About 264 were arrested Tuesday and nearly 40 more by 8 a.m. on the morning of the latest protest.
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Induction Center
the Waldorf
Rusk
New York Hilton
Times Square
Commodore
Midtown Manhattan
Philadelphia
New York
Whitehall St
Compromise antipoverty bill shifts Community Action control
After 11 days of bargaining, House and Senate conferees reach a bipartisan compromise. The measure keeps overall antipoverty spending at 1.98 billion in 1968 and 2.18 billion in 1969 while placing Community Action programs under public official management rather than private agencies. Senate action may come late this week, with House consideration next week.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
House Education and Labor Committee
Congress targets December 15 adjournment and January 15 session start
Congressional leaders set December 15 as the adjournment target and agreed to reconvene January 15 for the 1968 session. House Speaker John W. McCormack said adjournment by the end of next week is possible. Without a fixed date, Congress would have to return January 3.
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Congress
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Steel firms raise prices across major producers
U S Steel announced a second price rise in a week boosting galvanized and aluminum coated sheets by 5 a ton. Kaiser Steel followed with a 5 a ton hike on cold rolled sheets and strips and 5 a ton on galvanized and culvert sheet. The increases take effect December 15 and include Armco Bethlehem Republic and Kaiser among others.
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U.S. Steel Corp
Big Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Armco
U.S. Steel
Kaiser Steel Corp
Oakland
Calif
Kaiser
Second human heart transplant performed in Brooklyn
CBS reports the second ever human heart transplant occurred at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. A hospital spokesman would not confirm details until a 6:30 p.m. statement. Louis Washkansky’s successful operation in South Africa sparked fresh hope and debate about donor supply and immunity.
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New York
CBS
Brooklyn
Maimonides Hospital
Outlook improves for first heart transplant patient
Cape Town AP reports chief surgeon Dr Christian Bernard optimistic that patient Louis Washkansky will survive the historic transplant. Bernard said minimal rejection is likely and if progress continues he may be home in three weeks. Washkansky, 55, shown improvement and joked with a nurse as Groote Schuur Hospital notes his condition remains satisfactory three days after the operation.
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Louis Washkansky
Maimonides Hospital
Adrian Kantrowitz
Mchael DeBakey
Baylor University School of Medicine
Houston
Tex
Kantrowitz
New York Academy of Medicine
Washkansky
Cape Town
South Africa
Christian Bernard
Bernard
Frankenstein
Groote Schuur
Weather Outlook Colder With Light Rain and Snow Flurries
Intermittent light rain or drizzle turns general tonight with colder air. Lows near 40. Thursday turns colder with highs in the 40s. A chance of snow flurries Thursday morning as precipitation ends. Weather map and details on page 26.
Big relief in sight a Lusk Creek reservoir plan faces money snag
Shawnee National Forest Supervisor Owen Jamison says funding delays amid the Vietnam era stall a Pope County dam on Lusk Creek five miles north of Golconda near Eddyville Golconda Blacktop. The 2400 acre lake would reach 115 feet deep with 109000 acre feet storage and 55 miles of shoreline. Opponents including the Illinois Audubon Society and SIU activists push back citing environmental impact while former drainage projects are recalled. Next: cost discussions and opposition analyses.
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Vietnam
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Illinois Audubon Society
Southern Illinois University
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Ohio River
Reevesville
State Water Survey Division
Illinois
Water Survey Division
Pam
Humphrey to Leave for Africa Tour December 29
The White House announced Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will fly to Africa for an eight nation tour. He will visit Liberia Ivory Coast Ghana Congo Ethiopia Somalia Kenya and Tunisia, leaving Washington December 29 and returning January 10.
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Africa
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White House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Liberia
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Congo
Ethiopia
Somalia
Kenya
Tunisia
Meat inspection bill reaches House Senate accord
House and Senate conferees agreed on a compromise meat inspection measure aimed at overhauling the 60 year old federal law. It would extend federal standards to 15 000 plants within three years and allow states to set up programs with federal cost sharing. If states do not act the federal government could impose standards.
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House
Senate
Johnson
Betty Furness
Pres
Ident Johnson
Inspector cites few meat plant violations in Jackson County
Joe Boyd of Anna oversees Illinois meat, poultry and livestock plants in Jackson County and beyond. Since July his team inspected 13 poultry plants 79 livestock operations and 88 locker plants with only three of 21 plants failing to conform to state rules.
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Joe Boyd
Anna
Illinois
Jackson County
Boyd
State Agriculture Dept
Meat, Poultry and Livestock Inspection Division
Rt. 50
Equality
Centralia
Mt. Vernon
The
du Quoin Packing Co
B52 Bombers Pound Suspected Communist Buildup Near Border
U S Air Force B52 bombers dropped 450000 pounds of explosives in three strikes on suspected Communist positions near the Cambodian border and just inside North Vietnam. The actions followed heavy fighting around Bu Dop, with reports of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese buildup from Cambodian sanctuaries. A separate raid targeted antiaircraft and artillery sites near Con Thien, as U S forces reinforce the Bu Dop area amid ongoing clashes and a reported massacre at Dak Song.
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North Vietnam
Bu Dop
Saigon
Cambodia
Con Thien
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Dakson
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Arnett
Dak Song
U.S
School bill block removal shifts fate of federal aid plan
Sen Everett Dirksen withdrew a pivotal amendment to bar federal funds for busing to remedy racial imbalances, clearing a major hurdle in the $14.2 billion federal school aid bill. Southern senators seek other civil rights rollbacks while Sen Wayne Morse pressed to move the measure toward a House Senate conference by week’s end.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Wayne Morse
Dore
Four Bakeries Halt Operations in Nationwide Driver Strike
Four large bakeries Continental Interstate Wards Foods and New Process shut operations as their delivery drivers began a strike at 12 01 a m Thursday. The move cuts about 70 percent of bakery products for Chicago and north western Indiana.
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Indiana
Continental
Interstate
Wards Foods
New Process
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