Trucking Employers decides to delay lockout and continue talks despite scattered strikes; calls on Fitzsimmons to end walkouts; Simkin comments

LOCKOUT AVERTED IN TRUCK DISPUTE; Industry Negotiators Agree to Keep Talking Despite Scattered Stoppages

Hart rules cts have no right to order HR to seat Powell; cites separation-of-powers doctrine; rejects petitions for setting up 3-judge Fed ct; Powell's attys appeal; Hart notes lack of precedents; issues he left unresolved because he found no need to resolve them noted; holds Bond case did not present pol question and did not raise question of separation of powers; FBI studies Powell's spending for travel and other purposes when Educ Com chmn

U.S. JUDGE RULES COURTS CAN'T ACT ON POWELL'S SEAT; Cites Separation of Powers Under the Constitution-- An Appeal Is Filed

Humphrey Praises De Gaulle Warmly; Crowds Assail U.S.; DE GAULLE HEARS HUMPHREY PRAISE

Baker Sentenced; Term 1 to 3 Years; Baker Receives One to Three Years in Prison on Tax and Fraud Charges

Romney announces stand on Vietnam war coinciding with Johnson's, s, Hartford, Conn

Warning by Governor; ROMNEY SAYS U.S. SHOULD WIN WAR

Hayes, A: slain by sniper, NYC; E Beasley charged after police trace path of bullet to his hotel room; diagram

Passer-by Killed on W. 85th St.; 6th-Floor Roomer Held as Sniper; Police Trace Path of Bulle to Hotel Window and Discover Rifle

White House thanks him for strong endorsement of its position, especially for statement that US must hon SEATO commitment; Sens Javits, Griffin and Scott laud s; Sen Aiken critical; Gov Rockefeller silent

White House Pleased; ROMNEY THANKED BY WHITE HOUSE

UFA and PBA members ratify pacts expected to cost city about $41.5-million over 2 yrs, $2-million more than panel recommended; Lindsay pleased; aide repts pact within panel guidelines; pact reptdly to run for 27 mos, instead of 24 suggested, is retroactive to July '66

FIREMEN, POLICE RATIFY PAY PACT; STRIKE IS AVOIDED; 27-Month Contract Gives Each Man $1,360 More-- Cost Is $43.5-Million LINDSAY HAILS ACCORD City's Agreement Raising Bid by $2-Million Caps An All-Night Session

Israeli C/S Gen Rabin repts Israeli planes downed 6 Syrian MIGs in series of clashes, E of Sea of Galilee; repts Syria began clashes by firing on tractor near Haon and shelling nearby Tel Kazir; says Israeli pilots pursued Syrians to outskirts of Damascus, repts 3 MIGs fell in Jordan; repts no Israeli planes downed, 1 Israeli killed; warns any encroachment may provoke air response; Jordan radio confirms 3 Syrians planes fell in Jordan; Damascus radio repts 5 Israeli and 4 Syrian planes destroyed; repts at least 70 Israelis killed; says Syrians fired on tractor after warning; Comay warns that recent clashes with Syria menace peace, lr to UN Security Council Pres Ignatieff; US watches developments; Israel reptdly has 350 mil planes, Syria 65; map

ISRAEL REPORTS HER JETS DOWNED 6 SYRIAN MIG-21'S; Damascus Says 5 of Foe's Mirages Were Destroyed in Series of Battles TROOP CLASH AT BORDER Tanks and Mortars Used in Buffer Zone Fight That Led to Action in Air

S Vietnamese Buddhist leaders propose cease fire in Vietnam war to mark Buddha's birth

SAIGON PROPOSES BRIEF MAY TRUCE; Asks a Day's Pause to Mark Buddha's Birth and Offers to Discuss an Extension

WASHINGTON, April 7-- The United States has offered the World Bank a contribution of up to $960-million over the next three years--with certain conditions--as its share of a major increase in funds for loans to poor nations.  

U.S. Offers $960-Million in Aid, But Terms Disturb World Bank; U.S. OFFERING AID FOR POOR NATIONS

Comsat Station Proposed

HARTFORD, April 7--Following are excerpts from an address on Vietnam as delivered tonight by Gov. George Romney of Michigan:

Excerpts From Address by Romney on Vietnam

Plot to Kidnap Nkrumah Seen

US destroyer hit by shore btry 65 mi SW of Haiphong

North Vietnamese Guns Damage U.S. Destroyer

H W Baldwin discusses new Sattahip base; map

Strategic Importance Is Seen in Shift of B-52's; New Thai Base, Restricted to Use Against Vietcong Now, Close to Asian Targets

G.I. in Vietnam Gets Life Term

int, Tokyo; confs with other Japanese leaders; leaves for Hong Kong

Nixon Says Asians Back U.S. on War

ROME, April 1--Secretary General Thant of the United Nations gave a pessimistic assessment of the situation in Vietnam tonight and got an equally dark report from the Special United Nations Mission to seek solution of troubles in Aden.

THANT SEES POPE; IS GLOOMY ON WAR; Confers With Saragat and Fanfani on Way to Asia

Dem tendencies and limitations illus in public replies of party members purged for raising regional rivalries by advocating separate Croatian and Serbian languages

In Yugoslavia, the Victims of a Purge Talk Back

3 US servicemen sentenced to 6 yrs each for robbing taxi driver, Bamberg

Germans Sentence 3 G.I.'s

Norway, in apparent shift, will not reopen visafree border crossing for visitors to Boris Gleb; holds town not 'sufficiently interesting,'

Norway Decides to Reject Soviet Proposal on Tourists

State Com on Prices approves 129 wholesale price lists out of total of 139, scheduled to be effective July 1, to reflect production costs more accurately and to implement profit-oriented reform

SOVIET TO REVISE PRICES ON JULY 1; New Schedule of Wholesale Charges Nears Completion

Cabinet presents to Parliament draft of law, part of proposed emergency laws widely assailed as threat to democracy, to make possible curtailment of right of postal and telephone privacy in time of natl emergency; Govt says measure, to be ltd to 3 mos if put into effect, is intended to discover treason

Bonn Seeks a Check On Mail and Phones During Emergencies

Norodom Sihanouk repts 46 Communist terrorists arrested after attacks in Battambang Prov

Cambodia Arrests Terrorists

Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin is a former cricketer from Antigua and Barbuda who played 26 Tests and 26 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

April 8, 1967

Headlines from April 8, 1967

LOCKOUT AVERTED IN TRUCK DISPUTE; Industry Negotiators Agree to Keep Talking Despite Scattered Stoppages

U.S. JUDGE RULES COURTS CAN'T ACT ON POWELL'S SEAT; Cites Separation of Powers Under the Constitution-- An Appeal Is Filed

Humphrey Praises De Gaulle Warmly; Crowds Assail U.S.; DE GAULLE HEARS HUMPHREY PRAISE

Baker Sentenced; Term 1 to 3 Years; Baker Receives One to Three Years in Prison on Tax and Fraud Charges

Warning by Governor; ROMNEY SAYS U.S. SHOULD WIN WAR

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