18 Jun 1967
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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1967
Page
1
U S infantry division reports 31 soldiers killed and about 196 enemy dead after a three hour ambush in War Zone D. About 113 Americans wounded. Viet Cong casualties and wounded tolls under revision amid air and artillery strikes.
President Johnson welcomed Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt to Camp David for private talks and left open the possibility of a meeting with Soviet Premier Kosygin. The U.N. emergency session on Middle East issues looms as Kosygin plans a Soviet keynote in New York after Goldberg.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived quietly in New York for the United Nations emergency General Assembly opening. He proceeded to the Soviet mission, then to a Glen Cove estate, with a restrained welcome unlike Khrushchev's 1959 crowds.
The Herrin Plan Commission reviews a zoning proposal anew, seeking clarification and potential changes. In related notes, Carbondale aims to assist the affected area as talks continue. Father’s Day ties highlight features elsewhere in the edition.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with a high in the mid 80s today and a low tonight in the mid to upper 60s.
The United States reports China exploded its first hydrogen bomb near Lop Nor in Sinkiang. The event, the sixth atomic test since 1964, prompts renewed calls for missile defenses while analysts warn ICBM threats must mature before city targets are at risk. U Thant urged restraint in the UN context.
The NAACP urged the AEC to revoke Weston Ohio's giant atomic accelerator contract after Illinois failed to pass open housing laws. Roy Wilkins called the decision intolerable, saying federal funds would favor white workers. He urged relocating the project and cutting the $7 million budget.
An emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Kuwait ended early with no announced united policy on continuing the struggle with Israel. The brief communique cited a studied Middle East situation after Israeli aggression and noted oil producers stood by cuts, but gave no details.
Governor Otto Kerner urged an emergency joint session to back his service occupation tax proposal, rejecting a sales or income tax rise. Republicans signaled no rescue, with Sen. W Russell Arrington saying broadening may not pass, and no substitute offered as the Senate Revenue Committee delayed a vote to Monday.
The Illinois House backed about 4.9 billion in budget items including a 400 per pupil foundation level for education and 123.2 million for Southern Illinois University operations. House chair Rep. John Parkhurst said many appropriations were reduced from Gov. Kerner’s requests and may be trimmed further by the Senate.
Senate Republicans blocked an open housing bill despite committee approval. The move rebuffed Sen. W. Russell Arrington of Evanston as GOP leaders sought to keep the measure from floor action.
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