Gen Wheeler says he does not think nuclear weapons will be needed to defend Khesanh, int; Sen Byrd comments on offensive

Wheeler Doubts Khesanh Will Need Atom Weapons; Wheeler Doubts Atom Weapons Are Needed to Defend Khesanh

Park and Vance agree on moves to counter N Korean aggression, communique; see security of area threatened by it; say US and S Korea will consult on action to be taken if such aggression continues; S Korea reptdly reluctantly dropped earlier insistence on an 'automatic' mil reaction by US; favorable outcome for Vance mission believed to have been assured by recent swift deployment of nearly 200 US jet planes to Korea

VANCE AND PARK REACH AN ACCORD; Agree on Moves to Counter North Korean Actions -- War Threat Noted VANCE AND PARK REACH AN ACCORD

Gov Rockefeller proposes heart research inst at Roswell Pk Memorial Inst, Buffalo, special health message to NYS Legis

$1.1-BILLION ASKED FOR STATE HEALTH; Rockefeller Proposes Plan to Modernize Municipal and Private Hospitals Rockefeller Seeks $1.1-Billion To Aid Hospitals in the State

Time Inc to buy paper for over $34-million from Scudder family, which will continue ties with paper and will become big stockholder in Time Inc; paper to be Time Inc subsidiary

Time Inc. to Buy Newark News; Purchase May Lead to Others; TIME INC. TO BUY THE NEWARK NEWS

Sec Rusk says all explorations so far show N Vietnam rejects US terms for entering peace negotiations, special statement; Amer officals say remarks take into account contacts by Ital Min Fanfani with N Vietnamese reprs, as well as Thant diplomatic soundings in India, Moscow and Paris; Rusk shift to pessimistic appraisal seems to signify Adm gives up hope of talks in near future; other comments noted; Italy discloses Fanfani talks

RUSK SAYS HANOI SPURNS U.S. TERMS FOR NEGOTIATION; Declares 'All Explorations to Date' Prove Rejection of Johnson's Position 2 NEW CONTACTS CITED Washington Given Reports After Thant and Fanfani Meet North Vietnamese RUSK SAYS HANOI RULES OUT TALKS

Streit rejects union request to free DeLury daily for talks; grants DeLury unltd access to atty and telephone; Legis adjourns without taking action; Lindsay aide doubts city will seek to reduce penalties against union; Lindsay suggests longer contract to stabilize city-union relations, int; Feldman repts clean-up progressing; cuts overtime to rest workers

JUDGE WON'T FREE DELURY FOR TALKS ON GARBAGE PACT; Streit Rejects Plea by Union for Release of Leader From Imprisonment NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED O'Dwyer Asserts Absence of Chief of Sanitationmen Impedes Bargaining Judge Won't Free DeLury to Join Sanitation Talks

NYS Dem Com votes to endorse Johnson for re-election; tables resolution upholding Johnson policy; Sen R F Kennedy and Sen McCarthy backers pleased that reference to war was omitted; substitute resolution backing Johnson policy presented by Dr G P Gorman

STATE DEMOCRATS ENDORSE JOHNSON FOR RE-ELECTION; Final Committee Resolution Omits Any Reference to His Conduct of War STATE DEMOCRATS ENDORSE JOHNSON

US repts it will resume arms shipments to Jordan, suspended since war; repts detailed talks have begun; urges 'restraint on all arms shipments' to area; notes USSR has shown no serious interest in curbing arms race; Jordan reptdly might eventually get some of 36 jet interceptors promised before war; Jordanian staff for program continues training at Tex air bases; renewed Israeli pressure for advanced fighter-bombers expected during Dayan visit to US

U.S. Again to Send Arms Aid to Jordan; U.S. WILL RESUME AID TO JORDANIANS

A Book That Couldn't Go to Harvard; HARVARD'S BOARD REVERSED ON BOOK

Estimate Bd orders MABSTOA to allow riders 65 yrs or older to ride its Bronx and Manhattan buses for 10¢ fare during nonrush hrs, holidays and weekends; defeats plan to provide free transfers for elderly; NYCTA says it will take several mos to set up half fare system; Lindsay to ask MTA to extend half fares after it takes over system in Mar

10-Cent Bus Fares At Age of 65 Voted; ELDERLY TO RIDE BUSES FOR A DIME

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -Following is the text of a statement by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, which was read to newsmen today by the State Department spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey:  

Text of the Statement by Rusk on Hanoi

Hanoi Assays Visits

Bunche makes pub lr scoring Rostow and defending Thant

Bunche Defends Thant In Response to Rostow

Communist China downs 1 of 2 unarmed USN A-1s being ferried from PI to aircraft carrier off Vietnam; craft strayed into Chinese airspace off Hainan Is; is 8th US craft lost over or near Chinese territory in 3 yrs; China warns US; says 2d craft was damaged

Unarmed Navy Plane Downed By a Chinese Communist MIG

parents of 1 dead US soldier bid Johnson be firm, parents of another score war

PARENTS OF DEAD G.I. BID JOHNSON BE FIRM

ROME, Feb. 14 -- Representatives of North Vietnam met with Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani here 10 days ago and discussed prospects for a negotiated settlement of the war in Vietnam, it was disclosed today.  

Fanfani Saw 2 Hanoi Aides

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demonstrations staged at Amherst Coll and Washington U against Dow

NAPALM VALENTINE' IS SENT AT AMHERST

Washington Discerns No Gain

U. S. Warned by Peking

Thant confs with Mai Van Bo, Paris; talks with de Gaulle and Min Couve de Murville; French statements on talks and negotiations prospect noted; N Vietnamese observers believe Thant asked for details on N Vietnam's conditions for peace talks; State Dept sees no gains in Thant talks

Thant Confers With Hanoi's Envoy and de Gaulle; But the Paris Assessment Is That Prospects for Peace Have Weakened Recently

KHESANH, South Vietnam, Feb. 14 -- From foxholes just inside the wire that makes up Khesanh's vulnerable perimeter, it was easy today to spot an occasional North Vietnamese soldier within 150 yards.  

February 15, 1968

Headlines from February 15, 1968

Wheeler Doubts Khesanh Will Need Atom Weapons; Wheeler Doubts Atom Weapons Are Needed to Defend Khesanh

VANCE AND PARK REACH AN ACCORD; Agree on Moves to Counter North Korean Actions -- War Threat Noted VANCE AND PARK REACH AN ACCORD

$1.1-BILLION ASKED FOR STATE HEALTH; Rockefeller Proposes Plan to Modernize Municipal and Private Hospitals Rockefeller Seeks $1.1-Billion To Aid Hospitals in the State

Time Inc. to Buy Newark News; Purchase May Lead to Others; TIME INC. TO BUY THE NEWARK NEWS

RUSK SAYS HANOI SPURNS U.S. TERMS FOR NEGOTIATION; Declares 'All Explorations to Date' Prove Rejection of Johnson's Position 2 NEW CONTACTS CITED Washington Given Reports After Thant and Fanfani Meet North Vietnamese RUSK SAYS HANOI RULES OUT TALKS

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