First F-111 Jet Lost And North Vietnam Reports Downing It; F-111 JET IS LOST; DOWNED, FOE SAYS

8 NYC Health Dept plant inspectors arrested on charges of perfury before grand jury investigating 'systematic payoffs' by milk indus; Milk Inspection Div assistant chief Greene, 3 field supervisors among those accused by jury of accepting unspecified payments 'to look other way' when they spotted violations; indictment said several dealers made regular payments to inspectors, Jan 1 '60-Jan 1 '68

8 Inspectors Seized In City Milk Inquiry; Eight Milk Inspectors Arrested On Perjury Charges in Inquiry

Labor party suffers stinging defeat as Conservatives win all 4 elections; total Labor votes in 4 dists dropped from 105,286 in '66 to 49,955; Conservative votes rose from 94,439 to 102,516; Govt, despite setback, will have majority of 74 seats in Parliament and is not obliged to hold gen election until Mar '71; Conservative party leader MP E Heath hails result as 'devastating vote of no confidence' in Govt; party chmn Barber holds Govt has lost all 'credibility'; calls for gen election now; vote seen not so much pro-Conservative as anti-Labor

LABORITES SUFFER STINGING DEFEATS IN 4 BY-ELECTIONS; British Ruling Party's Vote Drops Sharply as Many of Its Backers Abstain

Legis meets in rare 5-day work wk on budget impasse

CUTS IN MEDICAID PARTLY RESTORED; Legislature Acts After U.S. Warning on Loss in Funds

A CZECH GENERAL TO BE PRESIDENT; Party's Choice of Svoboda, Tantamount to Election, Is Meant to Assure Bloc

Sens Javits and Prouty and Reprs Goodell and Quie offer bill to provide tax incentives for indus to hire and train hard-core unemployed; put cost in lost revenues at $292-million; group of Congressmen backs it

JOB LAW IS SOUGHT AS CURB ON RIOTS; Congress Republicans Ask Incentives to Industry for 300,000 Openings

MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 28 -- A 16-year-old Negro youth was killed today in violence surrounding a massive protest march that was led through downtown Memphis by the Rev. Dr. Martin. Luther King Jr.

A NEGRO IS KILLED IN MEMPHIS MARCH; Violence Erupts on Route of Protest Led by Dr. King -- 50 Persons Injured

Sen defeats aspects of Smathers-Williams substitute pkg proposal on tax rise and spending cuts; rejects amendment to impose added 20% tax on individual or corp trading with Communist nation that trades with N Vietnam

SENATE ADDS CURB ON SALES OF GOLD TO NEW TAX PLAN; Proposal, Aimed at Nations With Debts to U.S., Would Threaten World Accord

strike ends as arbitrator Turkus 'affirms' now ILA-Shipping Assn pact providing joint labor-mgt seniority bd that will farm travel gangs to be sent as units where labor shortages exist with gangs getting 2 hrs extra pay; Turkus says comm's action caused 'tremendous and irreparable' damage and threatened 'delicately balanced' dock relations; avoids word 'strike,' uses 'portwide paralysis'; other pact details; dockers return to work; Chopin says dockers must accept work in other areas or be docked pay; says assn has not yet withdrawn damage suit; Gleason hails pact as great victory for ILA

Longshoremen End 11-Day Strike Here; Some Cargo Moves; 11-DAY WALKOUT BY DOCKERS ENDS

Sutton 'disappointed' that Liberal party policy com designated Javits, reassesses position, sets news conf; Johnson and Kennedy reprs reptdly urge Wagner run; he denies pressure on him to enter race; Upstate leaders reptdly warn Burns that Sutton candidacy would hurt local tickets; Pike seen beneficiary if Sutton withdraws; Nassau Dem chmn J F English holds Sutton nomination assured

JAVITS IS BACKED BY LIBERAL PANEL; Party Nomination Deemed Certain -- A 'Disappointed' Sutton Restudies Race

State security ct prosecutor accuses high civil aide M Picard of espionage with unidentified foreign powers; press has speculated that affair centered in W Ger; has also mentioned rumors of contacts with E Ger and US; spokesman for W Ger Pres Luebke denies he and Picard were friends; nature of espionage not disclosed

FRENCH OFFICIAL HELD IN SPY CASE; Ex-Civil Defense Chief Said to Have Divulged Secrets

Travia offers plan to raise rates for high-income brackets, take other fiscal steps to end need for surcharge; sees higher rates producing $180-million, fiscal '69, as compared with $270-million for 20% surcharge; Brydges holds plan strikes bitterly at middle-mgt group, would allow persons in $10,000 range to pay no added taxes; reptdly is drafting counterplan to cut surcharge to 10%; Travia attacks Brydges plan

RIVAL TAX PLANS FOR STATE BUDGET DRAWN IN ALBANY; High Incomes a Target of Travia-- Brydges Would Raise Cigarette Levy

he repts renewed assurances from Communist China and N Vietnam that they will not interfere in internal affairs

Sihanouk Tells of Assurance

Veracruz, Mexico residents view fall of 3 huge meteorites

Meteorites Jar Mexico Port

East Germany Gives News

1,300 Japanese students storm new US hosp compound, Tokyo; 179 arrested; 314 policemen, demonstrators and onlookers injured; 49 break into hosp area

PROTESTERS IN JAPAN STORM U.S. HOSPITAL

Adm Sharp forecasts increased offensive activity by allies, s, NZ; upholds bombing of N Vietnam; makes other comments

SHARP SEES PICKUP IN ALLIED OFFENSIVE

Cong party loses 16 seats in elections for 240-member Council of States, upper house of Parliament; now holds 144 seats as against 75 for combined Opposition

Mrs. Gandhi's Party Loses 16 of Its Parliament Seats

Plans for rebldg Kalinin Prospect dist include preservation and restoration of chs and other historic bldgs

Historic Churches Are Restored in Moscow; Neglected Buildings Receive Attention in Urban Rebuilding

Pravda rejects claims that USSR is seeking to curb Czechs; observers hold USSR will permit liberalization drive as long as foreign policy remains unchanged

SOVIET DENIES AIM IS TO CURB CZECHS; Pravda Says Reforms Are 'Activation of Party'

U.S., Jordan Sign Arms Pact

Yugoslav party paper Komunist rejects previously cautious stand and attacks Polish Communists' campaign against Zionists

CZECH LIBERALISM STIRS YUGOSLAVS; Reports From Prague Bring Enthusiasm in Belgrade

Sen passes bill to authorize Pres to designate Apr as Natl Jewish Hosp Save Your Breath Mo

Hospital Honor Backed

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US approves deal permitting Italy to sell 100 refurbished M-47 tanks to Pakistan at cost of $3-4-million, 1st sale of US-made weapons to Pakistan since US suspended arms sale during '65 Kashmir war

PAKISTAN TANK DEAL IS APPROVED BY U.S.

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The funeral of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and test-pilot Vladimir Seryogin took place on 29–30 March 1968.

The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, started in Moscow, with thousands of people in attendance.

March 29, 1968

Headlines from March 29, 1968

First F-111 Jet Lost And North Vietnam Reports Downing It; F-111 JET IS LOST; DOWNED, FOE SAYS

8 Inspectors Seized In City Milk Inquiry; Eight Milk Inspectors Arrested On Perjury Charges in Inquiry

LABORITES SUFFER STINGING DEFEATS IN 4 BY-ELECTIONS; British Ruling Party's Vote Drops Sharply as Many of Its Backers Abstain

CUTS IN MEDICAID PARTLY RESTORED; Legislature Acts After U.S. Warning on Loss in Funds

A CZECH GENERAL TO BE PRESIDENT; Party's Choice of Svoboda, Tantamount to Election, Is Meant to Assure Bloc

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