May 27, 1966

US casualties of 966 are record for any wk; S Vietnamese casualties for wk at 746; repts on enemy casualties conflict; Vietcong attacks Central Highland camp, kills 28 Vietnamese women and children; B-52s continue strikes; Panamanian freighter under contract to US severely damaged by explosion; all crewmen rescued; US sources say explosion was internal: S Vietnamese link Vietcong

NYS Legis Repub leaders would amnesty officers, amendments to Rockefeller bill to replace Condon-Wadlin Law

Buddhist students sack and burn US cultural center and library. Hue; link US support for Junta and Johnson failure to reply to their lr of protest; fire trucks arrive an hr after attack, make no attempt to put out fire; students, prior to attack, had asked J R Bullington, US acting consul, to observe ceremony marking end to their hunger strike and for reply from Johnson; Bullington declined inv to ceremony, gave them copy of recent Johnson news conf statement; S Vietnamese rgt brought into city, takes up positions around consulate and compound occupied by US mil advisers; attack seen indication that Tri Quang and Nguyen Chanh Thi grow desperate; column of about 125 Buddhist monks and nuns, aided by Govt soldiers, pushes aside barbed wire barricades, gets to consulate and begins 48-hr hunger strike; 2 monks write to Johnson, in own blood, protesting US policies; about 6,000 Hue residents Join in funeral procession for Vietnamese killed by US helicopter machine gunner on May 17; Tri Quang illus

Pres Johnson denounces Rhodesian racial policies as repugnant to US, s, White House reception for African ambs to mark 3d anniv of African Unity Orgn

Johnson sends message to Cong urging enactment of Election Reform Act of 1966 to correct omissions, loopholes and shortcomings of Fed Corrupt Practices Act and Hatch Act; asks new controls on contributions to candidates for Fed office and promotion of pol contributions by small givers by allowing Fed income tax deduction for 1st $100 of contributions to candidates in any Fed, state or local campaign; asks nearly complete disclosure of sources of campaign funds in primaries and in gen elections for Fed office; asks for $5,000 limit on contributions from single source to primary or election campaign of any 1 candidate; asks Cong to allow sale of campaign souvenirs at $5 each to further broaden participation; asks end to ceilings on present total expenditures (presently $3-million for natl pol coms, $25,000 for Sen candidates, $5,000 for HR candidates) noting present loopholes; asks that every candidate and com rept in detail on every contribution or expense over $100; includes Pres and Vice Pres candidates in disclosure provisions for 1st time; present exclusion of primaries and conv nomination contests would be ended