Referendum set on plan to establish port auth and appropriate operating funds; Mayor Stokes urges approval

$1.5-Billion Cleveland Renewal Planned by Stokes Over Decade; CLEVELAND PLANS MAJOR RENEWAL

Johnson Adm and key Cong Dems agree on associated pkg of budget cuts easing 9-mo log lam on tax rise; Mahon, Laird see deadlock broken

HOUSE UNIT BACKS SPENDING CUT PLAN TO FREE TAX BILL; White House Parley Slices $10-Billion From Johnson Appropriation Request NINE-MONTH JAM EASED Republicans on Committee Abstain on Vote -- Some Call Formula Partisan House Unit Backs Spending Cuts to Free Tax Bill

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16 indus nations offer to speed Kennedy round tariff cuts on US exports to help US solve its balance-of-payments problem, Geneva; US expected to refrain from curbs on imports or a subsidy on exports and repeal Amer Selling Price system of evaluating certain duties; offer hailed by Wyndham White

16 Nations Offer to Speed Tariff Cut on U.S. Exports; Seek to Narrow American Payments Gap -- Move Is Conditional on No New Import Bars by Washington U. S. IS OFFERED EARLY TARIFF CUT

Educ Bd pres Giardino says system will hire 1,200 new teachers, fall, instead of planned 1,600 because of planned cuts in educ budget; says more teachcr-assts will be employed to help instructors handle class loads

SCHOOLS TO HALT NIGHT UNITS HERE; Board Says Fund Cuts Also Mean Bigger Classes and Fewer New Teachers SCHOOLS TO HALT NIGHT UNITS HERE

Gov Rockefeller says there can be no purely mil solution to war, s, Penna; advocates de-Americanization of war in place of more escalation; scores former US policy; lauds Johnson peace moves; chides Nixon for silence on war

ROCKEFELLER SAYS U.S. POLICY LAGS; Calls for Review of 'Painful' Vietnam Position -- Hails President's Peace Steps ROCKEFELLER SAYS U.S. POLICY LAGS

Treas to offer 2 securities paying 6%, highest rate since '20

U.S. WILL PAY 6%, HIGHEST SINCE '20; Treasury Sets Peak Rate for 2 New Notes Despite Progress on Tax Rise U.S. WILL PAY 6%, HIGHEST SINCE '20

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Truong Dinh Dzu arrested for urging formation of coalition govt as step toward peace; Pres Nguyen Van Thieu, Brig Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Truong Dinh Dzu's wife and some Amer officials comment on arrest; US mission silent

SAIGON REARRESTS PEACE CANDIDATE; Says Dzu Urged Coalition -- Takes Him From Hospital SAIGON REARRESTS PEACE CANDIDATE

trustees offer to negotiate with Harlem community leaders on gymnasium, statement; meet with 10 members of sr faculty exec com apptd to advise on future course of univ; com proposes all criminal charges against those students arrested be dropped; actions by trustees seen as move to meet student demands for more voice in univ affairs; earlier, police clashed with students in attempt to move students blocking campus walkway during s by Rudd; 11 students and ptl injured, 1 student arrested; illus; leaders of student strike propose 'Free U' to hold 'liberation classes' during strike; Nichols says he has names of 3,700 students on petition supporting strike; Student Council passes resolution asking Kirk and Truman to resign and dismissal of charges against arrested students; Prof M Harris charges Prof A Westin of faculty exec com of tricking ad hoc faculty group by 1st supporting statement of faculty backing for strike and then withdrawing his support

COLUMBIA OFFERS TO MEET LEADERS OF HARLEM ON GYM; Board Also Calls for Study of Ways to Give Students and Faculty Bigger Role TALKS FOLLOW A MELEE 6 Youths and 5 Policemen Hurt in Clash -- Dropping of Charges Is Urged Columbia Offers to Negotiate With Harlem on Park Gym AT LEAST 11 HURT IN DISTURBANCE Key Faculty Group Proposes Dropping of Charges in Raid Held Tuesday

Lindsay concurs with C G Davidson study assertion that high realty taxes contribute to high elec rates in NYC; 8% of all realty taxes collected by NYC are paid by Consol Edison Co

Mayor Seeks Control of Utilities;; City Agency Urged Mayor Seeks Control of Utility Rates

some senior Amer mil officers reptdly have begun to argue for resumption of US bombing throughout N Vietnam; feel delay over agreement on talks site and repts of heavy enemy infiltration into S Vietnam indicate N Vietnam is not interested in peace; Adm Sharp and Gen Westmoreland hq reptdly support argument; Sec Clifford asserts he is not aware of increase in infiltration since bombing restriction; White House announces acceptance of Indonesian proposal made about 2 wks ago by Min Malik that preliminary talks be held in neutral waters aboard Indonesian ship; Sen Fulbright and other Sens urge Adm to accept N Vietnam's proposal that talks be held in Warsaw; Fulbright suggests talks could be held in buffer zone; says there are several sites thus far unmentioned by either side that could be suitable; illus

Military Men Said to Urge End of Curbs on Bombing; END OF RAID CURB REPORTED URGED

State Dept asks Czech to renew talks on various issues, including return of gold; hints flexibility that could lead to compromise if Czech makes formal counterproposal

U.S. ASKS PRAGUE TO RENEW TALKS; Hints Flexibility on Czech Gold Bullion It Holds U.S. ASKS PRAGUE TO RENEW TALKS

US Sup Ct, 7-1, overrules US Appeals Ct and approves FPC's rates for Permian Basin area; clears way for FPC to use area-rate making technique to control price of about 93% of US natural gas; decision expected to reduce cost of gas to Calif consumers by about $10-million a yr; FPC considers price reductions in 4 other major gas-producing areas; Assoc Justice Douglas comments on case; case history; NYS is not directly involved in decision, Calif expected to be immediate beneficiary of decision

F.P.C. Natural Gas Rate Upheld; Justices Rule 7 to 1 F.P.C. Is Upheld by Court on Right to Set Rates for Sales of Natural Gas

Jersey Man Killed in War

Southern Yemen Appoints First Representative at U.N.

The Proceedings In the U.N.

3 Parades in Berlin

PRAGUE PARADERS ACCLAIM DUBCEK; A Spontaneous Rally Also Hails President Svoboda

Pope deplores 'psychological' rift between ch and labor that 'still keeps many' away from faith, gen audience

Pope, on May Day, Terms Labor Noble and Sacred

Pentagon sources say defect in tail of F-111s has been corrected; problem may have contributed to loss of 2 planes

PROBLEM CORRECTED IN TAIL OF F-111A'S

19 in Wedding Party Killed

Govt seizes book A Soldier's Day by Y Dayan (Israel) from bookstalls

Pakistan Seizes Dayan Book

makes rare pub appearance to preside at May Day celebrations

Ho Chi Minh Presides At May Day Festivities

Togo Chief of State Gen Eyadema visits Lagos presumably to collect reward for 9 tons of Nigerian bank notes which were seized by Togo when plane carrying them from Eur landed there in Jan; bank notes ceased to be legal tender Jan 22; reward not given

Togo Fails to Get A Nigerian Reward In Currency Seizure

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May 2, 1968

Headlines from May 2, 1968

$1.5-Billion Cleveland Renewal Planned by Stokes Over Decade; CLEVELAND PLANS MAJOR RENEWAL

HOUSE UNIT BACKS SPENDING CUT PLAN TO FREE TAX BILL; White House Parley Slices $10-Billion From Johnson Appropriation Request NINE-MONTH JAM EASED Republicans on Committee Abstain on Vote -- Some Call Formula Partisan House Unit Backs Spending Cuts to Free Tax Bill

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16 Nations Offer to Speed Tariff Cut on U.S. Exports; Seek to Narrow American Payments Gap -- Move Is Conditional on No New Import Bars by Washington U. S. IS OFFERED EARLY TARIFF CUT

SCHOOLS TO HALT NIGHT UNITS HERE; Board Says Fund Cuts Also Mean Bigger Classes and Fewer New Teachers SCHOOLS TO HALT NIGHT UNITS HERE

Billboard 200

The Graduate

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Aretha: Lady Soul

Bookends

The Good; The Bad And The Ugly

Notable Births

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