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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1968
Page
4
On Samos island ex-brigadier Stylianos Pattakos and Deputy Premier Pattakos defended the army backed regime and its pledge to press on until revolution goals are met. They cited economic and social aims and noted a plebiscite for a revised constitution is planned for September, with possible postponement.
Soviet Premier Kosygin assured Czech reformist leaders that their democratization moves are met with understanding in Moscow. He discussed economic questions and a potential 400 million dollar loan to aid the struggling Czechoslovak economy during a 90 minute Prague meeting with Dubcek, Cernik, Smrkovsky, and Svoboda, before an ailment sent him to Karlovy Vary for treatment.
In Warsaw the Polish Communist press reasserts anti Jewish themes accusing the Judenrats of aiding the Nazis. PAP claims Jewish councils supplied goods to Germans and organized shipments to destruction camps. It cites the Warsaw ghetto police delivering Jews to death.
South Vietnam general Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam said the C130 transport shot down near Kham Duc carried no more than 50 aboard, possibly as few as 30, refuting earlier agency reports of 156 deaths in the deadly incident.
In Bucharest on a five day visit France's Charles de Gaulle and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu issued a joint communique condemning outside intervention in internal affairs. They urged self determination for peoples and expressed hope Hanoi Washington talks in Paris would advance peace in Vietnam based on the 1954 Geneva agreements.
Frankfurt report says the National Democratic Party launched its bid to enter the West German Parliament next year. Under the motto From the Alps to the Sea the NPD staged motorcades and rallies in many cities to celebrate its entry into Baden Wuerttemberg and push for the September 1969 national elections. Trade unions and leftist youth groups in Ruhr, Hamburg and other areas planned counter demonstrations.
The Cannes Film Festival was cancelled after hundreds of film workers seized the hall in support of a nationwide strike. Five of 11 jury members resigned, no prizes awarded, and director Godard was knocked down during clashes with angry spectators.
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