Johnson warns against big spending cut
President Johnson told the Business Council that a budget cut of $6 billion would worsen hardship for the poor, while urging support for a $10 billion tax increase and a $4 billion safe budget reduction. He pressed steel and auto industries to curb costs and warned against price controls. The House vote on the tax hike and $6 billion cut is likely delayed until late May due to congressional maneuvering.
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Eileen Shanahan
New York Times
Rot Springs
Johnson
Congress
Business Council
Washington
Cloudy Cool Weather With Showers Possible
Cloudy and cool conditions continue with a high in the 50s. Partly cloudy skies persist tonight and Monday with a chance of showers late tonight into Sunday.
Viet Cong Launch Broad Assault on Saigon Area
Viet Cong forces pounded at least eight Saigon area locations with mortars and rockets as the enemy offensive persisted into a second week. Allied forces claim to have repelled attempts to breach central Saigon while Hue and northern bases faced shelling. In the Mekong Delta near Saigon, U.S. troops repelled a night attack near the Y bridge with 98 enemy killed and no reported U.S. casualties. Long Binh headquarters also struck, with unofficial reports of one American dead and about 20 wounded.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hue
Bac Lheu
Mekong
U.S
Hanoi
Newport Dock
U.S. Army
Long Binh
Siagon
Secret Senate report cites kickbacks in Vietnam aid projects
Senate aide Ribicoff charges a vast U S aid program in South Vietnam is marred by corruption and inefficiency. The 75 page document urges a broad congressional probe into U S operations, naming Pacific Architects & Engineers and RMK BRJ as major contractors and detailing unaccounted for materials and inflated costs amid a system he portrays as rife with collusion and waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaylord Shaw
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
U.S
South Vietnam
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Southeast Asia
Ribicoff
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Agency For International Development Mission
Saigon
Vietnam
General Accounting Office
Pacific Architects & Engineers Inc
Los Angeles
Rmk-Brj
Raymond International
Deljaware Inc
Morris-Knudsen
Asia Inc
Brown & Roof Inc
J.A. Jones Construction Co
Pacific Architects & Engineers
Rme-Brd
Rme-Brj
Rme-Brj Venture
General Accounting ‘Office
United States
Navy
Long Bienh
Viet Nam Talks Begin After Procedural Agreement
American and North Vietnamese negotiators concluded weekend talks on war strategy and set Monday morning as the start of formal discussions. They agreed to limit initial talks to North Vietnam and U.S. delegates, excluding South Vietnam and the National Liberation Front for the time being.
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North Vietnam
Paris
Vietnam
Johnson
Doss Fie
U.S
Xuan Thuy
Ha van Lau
North
Bagih
Hedrick Smith
New York Times
United States
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Senior Kennedy proposes minimum income tax for wealthy
Inside the Southern Allinoisan notes a plan by Senator Robert F. Kennedy to levy a minimum income tax on the wealthy on page 4, with other items referenced across pages 10 and 33 including miners entombed, cobalt 60, cancer and education politics, plus Centralia district track title on an unspecified page.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Herrin
Mini corridor plan boosts Carbondale Chicago trains
Five Illinois Central trains will run on revised schedules under ICC approval. The plan cuts stops at smaller towns, standardizes on-the-hour departures from Carbondale and Chicago, adds food service, and targets a four hour fifty five minute Chicago to Carbondale run. Two trains may be renamed, with new and refurbished coaches for faster, more comfortable service.
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Sinois Central Railroad
Carbondale
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Paul H. Reistrup
ICRR
Reistrup
Memphis
Tonn
ICC
New Orleans
Catbbondale
Manteno
Gilman
Paxton
Torono
Tuscola
Arcola
Odin
Ashley
Boston
New York
Alexander R. MacMillan
Southern Triavis University
Transportation Institute
MacMillan
Chamber of Commerce
Frat Rizuto
Miami
First marchers reach outskirts as Poor People's Campaign moves on
The Poor People's Campaign reaches Washington outskirts as Pentagon says selected units are in readiness for possible civil support. About 12,000 troops had been deployed earlier to quell violence after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. King's widow leads a march of welfare mothers from a JFK playground amid the campaign’s capital approach.
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Washington
Pentagon
Arlingtoy
Martin Luther King Jr
King
John F. Kennedy
Georgia
Ohio
New England
SIU senate acts to reaffirm student petitions channel
Rain cools the Carbondale campus as SIU plans a special senate meeting to reaffirm its role for student petitions and grievances after a week that saw a campus bomb blast and student invasions. Police reported no disturbances Friday night as seven students faced mob action charges and a pistol was found in a car.
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Southern Illinois University
Wilbur
Moulton
Carbondale
Richard Karr
Student Senate
Senate
Codie
Tom
Leffler
Craig "Thurmond
Thurmond
Jackson County
Foster
Kinois Central
SIU
Desste Morris
Health Service
Southern ‘Illinois Peace Committee
Morris
SIPC
Board of Trustees
Camppus
Harry Goldman
Ron Hasing
Barry Sanders
Michael Harty
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John F. Baker, Jr
Congressional
Moline
Viets
Henry Tanner
Centralia
L.C
Mem
Ihis
Rizuto
Bill Whitson
Ralph Bidwell
Art Prell
SIU Senate
Theodore Dawson
E. Hester
Richard Walker
S. Graham St
Lorenzo Bell
John Foster
Dawson
William Ridgeway
Bai
Bell
Walker
Singleton
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