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March 28, 1968

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Headlines from March 28, 1968

TAX BILL DELAYED AS SENATE BACKS TEXTILE QUOTAS; Dirksen Loses in Appeal to Speed Excise Levies as Import Curbs Are Voted WOOLENS ARE AFFECTED Study of Income Surcharge and Spending Cut Slowed by Talk on Amendments TAX BILL DELAYED IN SENATE DEBATE

By Eileen Shanahanspecial To the New York Times

Sen, 54-35, imposes import quotas on manmade fabrics; Sens Dirksen, Percy objections noted; bill, sponsored by Sen Hollings, affects nations that have no voluntary accords with US, thereby exempting most cotton-producing countries; limits imports to avg imported annually, '61-66, allows increase in proportion to rise in Amer consumption

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U.S. JETS POUND RAILS NEAR CHINA; Vital Yard at Langgiai Hit -- G. I. 's Battle Entrenched Foe North of Saigon U.S. JETS POUND RAILS NEAR CHINA

By Bernard Weinraubspecial To the New York Times

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Thursday, March 28 -- Air Force jets moved through gray and overcast skies yesterday to pound a vital North Vietnamese railroad yard 18 miles from the border of Communist China.

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Arkansas Prisons: A Grisly Record; Arkansas Prisons: A Grisly Record of Death, Inmates Living a Nightmare of Fear

By Walter Rugaberspecial To the New York Times

state police complete rept on mistreatment in state penal system; unnamed official says findings could bring about execution of several people; incidents of slayings and brutality described; Rockefeller says he is not 'terribly excited' by findings; says rept may be released with names deleted; dilemma rept creates for his adm discussed; prison scenes illus

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PRAGUE PROTESTS TO EAST GERMANY; SCORES MEDDLING; Voices Objection to Speech by Ideologist Criticizing Czechoslovak Reform ESTRANGEMENT GROWS Prague Party Paper Urges Separate Foreign Policy on German Problem Czechoslovakia Protests to East Germany, Charging Interference in Reforms

By Henry Kammspecial To the New York Times

Czech Communist party paper complains USSR and other Communist nations give inadequate news coverage of Czech events

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BURNS THREATENS. OUSTER OF WEISL; Says Johnson Aide Is Not Enrolled as a Democrat Burns Is Threatening the Ouster of Weisl as a National Committeeman

By Peter Kihss

Burns charges Johnson's 'handpicked' choice for NY natl committeeman, Weisl, is not enrolled Dem and consequently is 'fraudulently' holding party office, press conf, NYC; makes pub Elections Bd records indicating that since '32, Weisl enrolled as Dem only in '52; Weisl, Natl Chmn Bailey score charges; Burns says nonenrollment was discovered during 'routine check by Kennedy 'volunteers' of possible delegates; J A Farley named hon co-chmn of NYS Johnson Com; English denies Petito charge on Nassau jobholders-White House silent on Burns' charge

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 27, 1968, covering March 28, 1968.

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Blooming Hits
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra
Last week
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Peak
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Weeks
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The Graduate
Soundtrack
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Peak
2
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Aretha: Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
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Peak
2
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6
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Axis: Bold As Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Peak
3
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John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan
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Peak
2
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Notable Births

1968Iris Chang, Chinese-American journalist and author (died 2004)^[†]

Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking starring Olivia Cheng as Iris Chang. The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory.

1968Nasser Hussain, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster^[†]

Nasser Hussain is an English cricket commentator and former player who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all first-class and List-A cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by Wisden as "touched by genius". He played 96 Test matches and 88 One Day International games in total. In Tests he scored 5,764 runs, and he took 67 catches, fielding predominantly in the second slip and gully.

Historical Events

1968Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.^[†]

Edson Luís de Lima Souto was a Brazilian teenage student killed by the military police of Rio de Janeiro after a confrontation in the restaurant Calabouço, in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Edson was one of the first students to be killed by the Brazilian military government, and the aftermath of his death marked the beginning of a turbulent year for the regime, which ended with the enactment of AI-5, a decree restricting most of the basic human rights guarantees.

Historical Context for March 28, 1968

In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people^[†]

Headlines from March 28, 1968

TAX BILL DELAYED AS SENATE BACKS TEXTILE QUOTAS; Dirksen Loses in Appeal to Speed Excise Levies as Import Curbs Are Voted WOOLENS ARE AFFECTED Study of Income Surcharge and Spending Cut Slowed by Talk on Amendments TAX BILL DELAYED IN SENATE DEBATE

U.S. JETS POUND RAILS NEAR CHINA; Vital Yard at Langgiai Hit -- G. I. 's Battle Entrenched Foe North of Saigon U.S. JETS POUND RAILS NEAR CHINA

Arkansas Prisons: A Grisly Record; Arkansas Prisons: A Grisly Record of Death, Inmates Living a Nightmare of Fear

PRAGUE PROTESTS TO EAST GERMANY; SCORES MEDDLING; Voices Objection to Speech by Ideologist Criticizing Czechoslovak Reform ESTRANGEMENT GROWS Prague Party Paper Urges Separate Foreign Policy on German Problem Czechoslovakia Protests to East Germany, Charging Interference in Reforms

BURNS THREATENS. OUSTER OF WEISL; Says Johnson Aide Is Not Enrolled as a Democrat Burns Is Threatening the Ouster of Weisl as a National Committeeman

Blooming Hits

The Graduate

Aretha: Lady Soul

Axis: Bold As Love

John Wesley Harding

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for March 28, 1968