May 17, 1968

562 Amers died last wk, most in any wk; 1,153 wounded seriously enough to need hospital treatment, another 1,072 wounded, but do not need treatment; 22,951 Amers have been killed since Jan '61; other figures noted

Truman announces univ will go ahead with its commencement exercise on June 4 despite threat of demonstrations by protesting students; says exercise will be held in Cathedral Ch of St John the Divine and that natl figure, whom he refuses to name, will be principal speaker; calls 35-40 of univs's 150 adherents of SDS 'insurrectionists with romantic Che Guevara view'; says there is evidence of funds coming into campus to support student protest; his views of adherents of SDS challenged by orgn repr; students who split from strike coordinating com form new group called Students for Restructured Univ; claim loyalties of 27 of 70 coordinating com members; J Thomas is chmn of new group

Cooke has asked priests for 1st time to submit nominations of priests to ill diocesan offices; has recd over 200 replies; leading priests indicate disappointment that suggestions were requested on confidential basis; charge organized groups of priests that have requested voice in personnel questions are being bypassed; Priests Sen pres Rev J E Byrne comments

majority of teaching faculty and admrs of Law School, including Dean Warren, sign statement scoring student uprisings and backing univ's decision to summon police; 8 other faculty members refuse to sign statement for various reasons

Rumania weighs membership