Presidential candidates courted on campus in 1968 year
College students mobilize as six million potential voters influence campaigns through canvassing, phone calls, and speeches. Indiana University students report high involvement and a push to reform politics amid Vietnam War concerns and race relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garven Hudgins
Associated Press
Bloomington
Ind
White House
Vietnam
Johnson
James Wood
Indiana University
Jerry Abramson
Indiana
Columbia
Pam Mitchell
Ed Abrahams
University of Connecticut
John Nirenberg
Connecticut
Robert Johnson
Campus
Afro American Students Association
National policy urged to save rail passenger service
Editorial urges Congress to authorize a two year government study on preserving a national rail passenger system and to enact stopgap measures limiting rail discontinuances. It cites the ICC request regarding service quality and the Chicago to St. Louis route, warns of highway funding neglect, and calls for a unified transportation policy to protect low income travelers and prevent high speed transit from remaining a mirage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
United States
Illinois
ICC
U.S. Post Office Department
Commission
Norfolk & Western
Chicago
St. Louis
Five Billion Dollar Gap: Deficit Forecast Revisions Stir Debate
A presidential warning of a looming $20 billion deficit led to Congress enacting a surtax and spending cuts. Economists now peg fiscal 1968 at about $25 billion but project a $5 billion deficit for the following year if the surtax expires. They caution that Vietnam spending and late tax enactment may force further revisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
Nixon proposes government commission to study reform
A Nixon panel would examine government itself not unrest. It would include a college president, an investment banker, "distinguished politicians," a Negro and a union leader to explore decentralizing federal power. Critics question its value beyond information gathering and whether will is lacking in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard M. Nixon
Washington
Socie
Trouble with tactical fighter aircraft in Thailand era war games
This account from Takhli Thailand details vandalism and chaos around F111A squadrons, a first combat sortie over North Vietnam, and subsequent mysterious crashes. It describes aircraft grounding, suspected weather and mechanical issues, and a Pentagon analysis blaming a hydraulic valve as the cause of several incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh A. Mulligan
Associated Press
Takhli
Thailand
T.F.S
T.E.S
42Nd Tactical Electronic Squadron
Edsell
Filia
Takhli Royal Air Force Base
King Cobra
Nellis Fab
Nev
North Vietnam
Ha Tinh
Demilitarized Zone
Son Tay
Hanoi
Mekong
Mukdahan
Ho Chi Minh
Laos
Ponderosa
Southeast Asia
Pentagon
Nevada
Air Force
Tahkli
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National Railroad
Doesown
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Panama
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