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Nixon wins Neb primary with 70% of vote; Reagan gets 22%, Rockefeller 5%; Rockefeller votes are write-ins; Stassen, A Liberator get votes; Wallace gets Repub and Dem votes

NEBRASKA GIVES 53% TO KENNEDY;; REAGAN RUNS WELL McCarthy Calls Foe's Victory 'Significant,' but Won't Join Him KENNEDY VICTOR IN NEBRASKA VOTE

2 robbers posing as Wells Fargo guards make off with $198,000 from Bklyn branch

2 Early Bird 'Guards' Rob Bank Of $198,000 by Signing Receipts; TWO 'GUARDS' ROB BANK OF $198,000

Premier Cernik says Czech will use trade to help break down East-West barriers

PRAGUE'S LEADERS OUTLINE REFORMS; NEW CHARTER DUE; Premier and Two Deputies Hold News Conference -Stress Citizens' Right ECONOMIC CHANGES SET Western Capital Welcomed -- Law Being Drafted on Freedom of the Press PRAGUE'S LEADERS OUTLINE REFORMS

N Vietnamese and Amer delegates spar at distance, through medium of press,as they take day off from talks; N Vietnam says no ransom will be paid to US for halting raids; Harriman says N Vietnam is aggressor and seems determined to hang on; S Vietnam says US should not halt bombing until Hanoi actually curtails infiltration; feeling in Paris is that if accord is to come at any point, it will come after period of talking for record and of mutual exploration; N Vietnamese spokesman says Harriman's stand is stubborn; activities and comments of both sides noted

Hanoi Delegates Rule Out 'Ransom' for Halt in Raids; HANOI'S DELEGATES BAR ANY 'RANSOM'

NYS Assembly passes bill authorizing wiretapping in strictly controlled circumstances; Assemblyman Kottler opposed, DiCarlo favorable

ASSEMBLY PASSES WIRETAPPING BILL; Governor Expected to Sign Measure, Drawn to Meet High Court's Objections ASSEMBLY PASSES WIRETAPPING BILL

de Gaulle reptdly almost canceled visit because of student unrest in Paris

DE GAULLE OPENS VISIT TO RUMANIA; Asks Joint Moves Toward a Europe Without Blocs De Gaulle Opens 5-Day Official Visit to Rumania

USSR scores him, article in Central Com newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya; reiterates charges that he paid 200,000 rubles in 1918 to anti-Bolshevik terrorist B Savinkov in plot to murder Lenin; accusation was made at Savinkov's trial in '24; article cites books by USSR pol analyst V Ardamatsky and Czech historian V Kral to support allegations; Kral accuses Masaryk and E Benes of instigating anti-Bolshevik uprising among Czech troops in Siberia in '18; charges seen reflecting USSR anxiety over Czech moves to restore him to position of honor since they come amid preparations for commem of 50th anniv of repub and election of him as Pres; Prague to rename major st for him; NY Times correspondent W Duranty's acct of Savinkov's trial quoted; por

SOVIET DENOUNCES THOMAS MASARYK; Reiteration of Old Charge He Plotted to Kill Lenin Linked to Czech Reform Soviet Denounces Thomas Masaryk as a Plotter Against Lenin

statement backing rights of teachers ousted by local school bd in Ocean Hill-Brownsville school decentralization controversy

PARENTS OCCUPY BROOKLYN SCHOOL AS DISPUTE GROWS; Negroes Blocking Doors of J. H. S. 271 Keep Ousted Teachers From Entering PARENTS OCCUPY BROOKLYN SCHOOL

Johnson hopes talks will silence guns in free Vietnam, s, White House

4 MEN AWARDED MEDALS OF HONOR; President Honors Soldier, Sailor, Marine and Airman -- Voices Hope for Peace 4 Men, From 4 Services, Receive Medal of Honor

thousands of students occupy Sorbonne threntening to bar resumption of classes unless Mins Peyrefitte and Fouchet and Paris police chief resign; Communist and anarchist groups are among student demonstrators; Natl Assembly meets

Students Occupy the Sorbonne, Demand Cabinet Resignations; FRENCH STUDENTS OCCUPY SORBONNE

Gov Rockefeller indicates he wants to retain bd; State Regents Bd and Educ Comr Allen opposed; compromise reptdly being weighed whereby Lindsay could add more bd members who are sympathetic to school decentralization

Albany Is Revising Its Bill to Localize Control of Schools; ALBANY REVISING ITS SCHOOL PLAN

Adm reptdly failed to persuade AFL-CIO Exec Council to restrain voluntarily wage demands; G Meany says AFL-CIO will reject voluntary restraints but will abide by 'equitably' applied mandatory controls, news conf, Washington

WAGE CURB PLEA BY JOHNSON FAILS; Labor Also Rebuffs Okun in Second Private Meeting Johnson and Okun Fail in Bids To Labor for Curbs on Wages

H E Petersen (Justice Dept crime unit) charges over 120 members of Cosa Nostra are engaged in major loan-sharking in NYC Met Area, Sen com hearing; says it may be 2d largest source of income for Cosa Nostra; he and R F Salerno (Natl Council on Crime and Delinquency) suggest broader Fed laws to fight usury; Prof H S Ruth Jr cites interest rates up to 1,000%

NIXON FAR AHEAD; Cosa Nostra Linked To Loan-Sharking COSA NOSTRA TIED TO LOAN-SHARKING

Article on potentially explosive econ, pol and religious discontent; USSR seen profiting from unrest; internal problems seen more important to people than Israeli conflict

Intense Economic and Political Strains Beset Iraq; Deceptive Calm of Baghdad Hides Growing Discontent Arif Regime Criticized Over Lag in Development

Dutschke undergoes 2d operation; his condition termed good; Prof H Marcuse says Dutschke appears 'almost his own self again' and plans to visit US

Dutschke Has 2d Operation; His Condition Termed Good

M A Husain, calling present treaty draft discriminatory and divisive, says India will not sign it while Communist China remains outside disarmament discussions, statement at UN

INDIA, IN U.N., SCORES ATOMIC ARMS DRAFT

USSR newspaper Izvestia scores plan to celebrate 50th anniv of victorious ending of '18 Finnish Civil War by White Guard forces led by Mannerheim; condemns Mannerheim's alleged 'dismal and sinister role' in Finnish history; holds fete organized by reactionary forces to 'heat up' anti-USSR sentiments

SOVIET CHIDES FINNS ON FETE FOR '18 WAR

IRC appeals to natl Red Cross societies for emergency aid

Relief for Nigerians Urged

Initial Nigeria Talks End

47 miners rescued after snapping timber causes rock slide deep in mine, Westville, NS

47 Canadian Coal Miners Safe After a Rock Slide

W Ger Defense Min, after quiet study of impact of right-wing radicalism on forces, concludes there is no cause for alarm

ARMY RIGHTIST VOTE DISCOUNTED BY BONN

De Gaulle to Speak May 24

S Korean troops kill 3 N Koreans in clash in demilitarized zone

Three North Koreans Slain

State Planning Comm chmn Baibakov opens 4-day conf on econ development; says future goals include use of computers for indus, and more jobs for housewives

SOVIET CONFERENCE ON ECONOMY OPENS

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May 15, 1968

Headlines from May 15, 1968

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NEBRASKA GIVES 53% TO KENNEDY;; REAGAN RUNS WELL McCarthy Calls Foe's Victory 'Significant,' but Won't Join Him KENNEDY VICTOR IN NEBRASKA VOTE

2 Early Bird 'Guards' Rob Bank Of $198,000 by Signing Receipts; TWO 'GUARDS' ROB BANK OF $198,000

PRAGUE'S LEADERS OUTLINE REFORMS; NEW CHARTER DUE; Premier and Two Deputies Hold News Conference -Stress Citizens' Right ECONOMIC CHANGES SET Western Capital Welcomed -- Law Being Drafted on Freedom of the Press PRAGUE'S LEADERS OUTLINE REFORMS

Hanoi Delegates Rule Out 'Ransom' for Halt in Raids; HANOI'S DELEGATES BAR ANY 'RANSOM'

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