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US helicotper gunships destroy 8 enemy trucks near Hue; B-52s raid in several areas
HUD and Transportation Depts reach accord on how they will divide responsibility for mass transit; major share will go to Transportation Dept, a 'substantial' amt to HUD Dept; Sec Weaver and Under Sec Wood outline plans to 3d Internatl Conf on Urban Transportation, Pittsburgh; reorgn to take effect July 1; provides for Transportation Dept to receive responsibility for promoting and helping to finance research and development on operational systems involving conventional modes; HUD Dept would be charged with promoting and planning transit with schools, hosps and other community insts; both orgns will act jointly in testing systems incorporating advanced technology, unconventional vehicles and propulsion systems
article on supplies being dropped by air at Khesanh; because of intensity of groundfire, more than 90% of supplies are being dropped; downed US planes in area noted; illus
Sen Foreign Relations Com serves notice to Johnson Adm that it will not consider foreign aid bill until it got some satisfactory answers on future course of US policy; Fulbright says com's chief interest is effect of war's cost on such problems as racial violence and youths' revolt; Morse says foreign aid issue is ' secondary' to other questions raised by war
2-mo emergency program designed to wipe out backlog of civil jury cases underway, NYC; 4 of 11 judges assigned to program by Justice Warren arrive; Chief Judge Sugarman discusses program
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 6, 1968, covering March 12, 1968.
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Bob Dylan
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Beatles
Aretha Franklin
1968Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician[†]
Ladda Tammy Duckworth is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving since 2017 as the junior United States senator from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
1968Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer[†]
Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age. He began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior year. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through a professional education course, and then graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film.
1968Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.[†]
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island, as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, along with nearby Réunion, are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where the population is concentrated, hosts the capital and largest city, Port Louis. The country spans 2,040 square kilometres (790 sq mi) and has an exclusive economic zone covering approximately 2,000,000 square kilometres.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]