US officials believe USSR and Communist China have, in last 6 wks, worked out accord to speed flow of USSR mil supplies to N Vietnam across China; note USSR shipments having been moving across China in steady stream; suggest N Vietnam may take title to them as they reach Chinese border; note abrupt end, since early Mar, to USSR accusations that China was hampering shipments

A Soviet-Chinese Accord On Aid to Hanoi Reported; U.S. Officials Believe an Agreement to Speed Transit of War Supplies Was Reached in Last 6 Weeks

Chancellor Callaghan urges wage freeze be continued in modified form, budget message; jobless put at 2% of labor force

BRITISH WILL KEEP ECONOMIC BRAKES; Labor Budget Rules Out Tax Relief--Callaghan Expects Resumption of Growth

Citizens Com for Medicaid repts about Vi of small number of participating drs resign over delay in payments; repts only 280,000 nonwelfare clients enrolled; Alexander sees no mass resignations; Ginsberg calls charge untrue; Welfare Dept repts 340,000 nonwelfare clients enrolled

DOCTORS QUITTING MEDICAID IN CITY; Committee Says 'Perhaps Half' Have Withdrawn

20,000 idled because of parts shortage caused by trucking indus lockout

Impact of Tie-Up Felt; Stores Report Supplies Normal Despite Shutdown in Trucking

Estimate Bd and City Council override veto

LINDSAY'S VETOES ON BUDGET UPSET; Estimate Board and Council Bar All Capital Changes

Teamsters and Trucking Employers announce tentative accord on new pact; Simkin lauds both parties

Mediator Hails Pact; ACCORD REACHED IN TRUCK DISPUTE

6 Repub Sens assail Pres Johnson and Sec Wirtz for failing to fulfill pledge to propose natl emergency antistrike law; Sen Dirksen says Cong has responsibility to pass such legis; Sen Morse says Pres group has completed study of issue

CONGRESS VOTES DELAY OF 20 DAYS ON RAIL WALKOUT; President, in Uruguay, Hails Swift Move on His Request for Extension of Deadline ASKS 'TRUE' BARGAINING Hints He May Urge Further Measure to Avoid 'Terrible Consequences' of a Strike

N Amer Aviation vp Dr J F McCarthy says failure to design capsule to guard against fire on ground was grave error, HR subcom; N Amer pres and chmn J L Atwood says co will weigh bd's recommendations; says 'overconfidence' might have caused relaxation of standards but denies '70 deadline had led to shortcuts; co's Apollo program mgr D D Myers says original design for craft included hatch that would have blown open but was rejected because it might have been triggered accidentally; says plumbing was well soldered; Borman says NASA and co must share responsibility

APOLLO'S MAKER CONCEDES ERROR; Executives Accept Share of Blame in Underestimating Threat of Capsule Fire

Syria and UAR open secret talks, Damascus, apparently on coordinating mil strategy

U.S. TOURISTS FLEE FIRING FROM SYRIA; 200 in Israel Led to Shelter After Attack at Border

HR leaders agree case provided impetus for HR's creation of ethics com

U.S.-LATIN ACCORD FIXES TIMETABLE FOR A TRADE BLOC; Presidents Expected to Back Draft for Common Market to Function by 1985 VIGOROUS AID IS SOUGHT Ministers Say That Growth of Business Is Needed as Basis for Integration

session; growing use of pills and devices in Latin Amer discussed; panels debate effectiveness of intrauterine devices and 'immunization' of males to incapacitate sperm cells

A Latin Revolution: Birth-Control Pills; LATIN USE OF 'PILL' IS RISING SHARPLY

Johnson in Montevideo; assembles with other leaders amid 'routine' ceremony and no crowds; s briefly; goes to Punta del Este; confs with Pres Diaz Ordaz (Mex); illus; strict security on rd to and in Punta del Este noted; Uruguay bars all popular displays

Johnson and Other Chiefs Gather Without Fanfare; JOHNSON ARRIVES WITHOUT FANFARE

Powell re-elected by record 86% of vote; gets 27,900 votes, Mrs Williams 4,091, Yearling 427; tabulation

POWELL ELECTED TO HOUSE AGAIN BY ALMOST 7 TO 1; He Swamps 2 Opponents With 86% of the Vote-- 32,000 Cast Ballots

Labor Dept repts Mar jobless rate dropped to 3.6% from prior 3-mo rate of 3.7% despite continued econ slowdown; drop in number of jobseekers seen factor; Mar employment put at 73,747,000; other data

Jobless Rate Stable Despite Slowdown; Unemployment Rate Is Stable Despite Slowdown

Casualties Listed

CEYLONESE PROPOSAL ANSWERED BY SAIGON

US airstrip, Chulai, shelled by mortars; other clashes reptd; map

Mortar Barrage Strikes U.S. Airstrip at Chulai; American Is Reported Killed and 37 Are Injured

W Ger Govt gives 200,000 marks ($50,000) for memorial

Bonn Aids-Auschwitz Fund

Russell 'Tribunal' Loses Paris Hotel 'Courtroom'

hamlet of Khanhvan pacified for 5th time in 10 yrs; illus

Hamlet Near Saigon Is 'Pacified' for the 5th Time in 10 Years; Villagers Are Given Free Lunch of Hot Dogs and Rice

nev Dr M L King accepts inv to become co-chmn of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam; co-chmn Dr I C Bennett lauds move

Dr. King Takes High Post In Peace Group of Clergy

The Proceedings In the U.N.

PHS repts sharp rise in parasitic malaria in US, mostly among servicemen returning from Vietnam; NYC repts no cases

VIETNAM MALARIA SPREADING IN U.S.; 700 Cases This Year Traced to Returning Servicemen

Min Chagla repts 2 groups of Naga rebels crossed Burma into Communist China to seek arms aid and training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare; believes groups are dissidents who do not back Naga leaders' talks with Gandhi

Nagas Seeking Aid From China, Chagla Tells India's Parliament

No Cases Reported Here

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April 12, 1967

Headlines from April 12, 1967

A Soviet-Chinese Accord On Aid to Hanoi Reported; U.S. Officials Believe an Agreement to Speed Transit of War Supplies Was Reached in Last 6 Weeks

BRITISH WILL KEEP ECONOMIC BRAKES; Labor Budget Rules Out Tax Relief--Callaghan Expects Resumption of Growth

DOCTORS QUITTING MEDICAID IN CITY; Committee Says 'Perhaps Half' Have Withdrawn

Impact of Tie-Up Felt; Stores Report Supplies Normal Despite Shutdown in Trucking

LINDSAY'S VETOES ON BUDGET UPSET; Estimate Board and Council Bar All Capital Changes

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