NEW 5% SALES TAX STIRS PROTESTS; POLITICS CHARGED; Many Object to Larger List of Taxable Items -- Stores in Brooklyn Shut Briefly
Costello takes part in Bklyn protest against NYS sales tax
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Costello takes part in Bklyn protest against NYS sales tax
Sec Rusk says his papers may go to library, press conf; to dictate memoirs for Kennedy and Johnson libraries
Athanasiadis-Novas asks Parliament for confidence vote as scuffles erupt on floor; revs crisis; deals mildly with Papandreou; Min Melas charges Mrs A Papandreou wrote lrs to wives of Pres Johnson, Sec Rusk, Vice Pres Humphrey and other pol leaders asking US support; she admits charge
30 Guam-based B-52 bombers strike suspected Vietcong base, Doxa area; US troops end Phuoctuy offensive; fail to contact Vietcong, accidentally kill 3 S Vietnamese soldiers; search illus; S Vietnamese kill 17 guerrillas, capture 6, Binthuan Prov; scattered Vietcong actions described; map
Ford says Johnson attack on 'prominent' Repub is possible result of misunderstanding, news conf; White House press sec Moyers says there will be no further comment; chronology of controversy; details on 3 newspaper repts on Mansfield statement
22 nursing homes, closed in '63, reopen as residential hotels
Screvane names Comr Badillo, Puerto Rican, for Bronx Boro Pres on his slate, Beame names Sen Warner, Negro
Raffaello in NYC; illus
NYC Educ Bd pres Garrison and Deputy Supt King announce Operation Reclaim, to recruit and retrain 500 Negro teachers ousted in South as result of desegregation for NYC pss; 1st yr cost set at $4 million; Fed aid to be sought
Rusk says N Vietnam holds key to peace, news conf; says it must withdraw troops, halt arms aid to Vietcong; hints US might suspend raids if N Vietnam took equivalent step; discusses current Adm effort for UN role; rules out use of Nationalist Chinese troops; takes issues with Russell statement on S Vietnamese support for Ho Chi Minh; Goldberg confs with Mansfield and Sen Aiken on UN role
Commons, 303-290, defeats Conservative no-confidence motion over Govt's econ policies; Conservative party leader Heath clashes sharply with Wilson in debate; charges Govt undermined confidence through series of econ misjudgments; Callaghan links econ troubles to Conservatives; Wilson holds legal controls will be used if voluntary wage and price restraints are not effective; Maudling scores Wilson