all 23 aboard killed as craft chartered by Los Angeles Airways crashes, Paramount, Calif, on Disneyland-Los Angeles flight; map

CRASH OF COPTER KILLS 23 ON COAST; Craft Was Returning From Disneyland to Los Angeles CRASH OF COPTER KILLS 23 ON COAST

Cong approves truth-in-lending bill which includes provision to protect homeowners from unknowingly signing 2d mortgages to finance home repairs

CONGRESS PASSES 'TRUTH IN LENDING'; Requires Consumers Be Told Exact Charge for Loans ' Truth-in-Lending' Bill Is Voted; Wide Consumer Protection Seen

PARIS, May 22 -- The Gaullist Government, beset by a paralyzing nationwide strike survived a left-wing challenge tonight in the National Assembly when it narrowly defeated a motion of censure.

DE GAULLE REGIME UPHELD; CENSURE FAILS BY 11 VOTES; 10 MILLION NOW ON STRIKE; HINT BY POMPIDOU Before Balloting, He Indicates an Easing in Paris stand Gaullist Regime Upheld as Censure Bid in Chamber of Deputies Fails by 11 Votes TOTAL OF STRIKERS PUT AT 10 MILLION Farmers in Brittany Start Demonstrating -- Students Take to Streets Again

Brussels Facilities Jammed By Paris-Bound Travelers; STRIKE FLOODING BRUSSELS HOTEL

about 350 teachers supporting reinstatement of 13 'ousted' colleagues walk out of 8 dist schools; illus; Shanker charges teachers were locked out of classrooms; urges parents and teachers to rally at City Hall in support of 'due process' for 'dismissed' teachers; says he will not rule out citywide teacher strike over issue; McCoy calls lockout charge 'lie'; Council of Supervisory Assns repr denies 6 admrs requested transfers

' OUSTED' TEACHERS ARE BACKED BY 350 IN UNION WALKOUT; Shanker, Charging Lockout, Vows None Will Return Until Allowed to Teach M'COY CHARGES A 'LIE' Says Brooklyn Instructors Left After Ignoring Call to 'Clarify Situations'  OUSTED' TEACHERS ARE BACKED BY 350

WAGNER PROPOSED AS ENVOY TO SPAIN; Madrid Accepts Ex-Mayor After McKinney Falls III WAGNER IS CHOSEN AS ENVOY TO SPAIN

accord on strong decentralization plan collapses apparently because of diminishing support by legislators under heavy pressure from groups opposed to plan; new plan weighed which would be modified version of Marchi proposal, reptdly providing for enlarging city's Educ Bd to allow for apptmt of pro-decentralization members and authorizing bd to prepare decentralization plan for consideration by '69 Legis; plan would also direct bd to give almost autonomous powers to 3 pilot school dists, including powers to hire and discharge teachers, set curriculums and allocate budget funds but only within limits of present state regulations

Pact on City School Plan Collapses in Legislature; City School Plan Fails in Albany And Senate Gets a Milder Bill

Team of Harvard U chemists under Prof Corey synthesizes 5 kinds of hormone-like chems called prostaglandins; substances described as 'messenger' chems that control cellular reactions; potential therapeutic value noted; Corey int; other scientists comment

Chemists at Harvard Synthesize Material Resembling Hormones; TEAM SYNTHESIZES HORMONE MATTER

new campus violence flares as students, in apparent pretest against student suspensions, smash windows and doors of univ bldgs; illus; waves of police sweep through univ grounds clubbing, kicking and punching student protesters who in turn fling rocks, taunts and obsenities at police; 68 persons injured, 177 arrested; NY Times reporters say they saw some police carrying guns in their hands; Police Dept repr denies this; 12-member faculty exec com scores student demonstrators; Students for Restructured Univ and Strike Coordinating Com score univ adm; Kirk warns univ will use 'all measures necessary to restore campus peace,' news conf; use of police on campus is 1st since May 9; 2 univ spokesmen hold univ's involvement with Inst for Defense Analyses was 'minimal,' fact-finding comm

Columbia Warns Rebelling Students After 68 Are Hurt in Campus Chaos; Kirk Says All Steps Necessary Will Be Taken for Peace Columbia Warns Rebelling Students After 68 Are Injured in Violence on Campus KIRK PROMISES ALL STEPS NEEDED Says He Will Expel as Many Students as Necessary to Bring Back Peace

gets 5-yr jail term, fined $5,000 for violating Fed firearms act

Rap Brown Guilty in Arms Case; Gets Five Years and $2,000 Fine; RAP BROWN GUILTY OF ARMS VIOLATION

BLACK MARKETING DEVELOPS IN PARIS; Government Appeals for a Halt as Prices Soar on Items in High Demand Food Black Markets Springing Up in Paris as National Strike Isolates France SALES OF GASOLINE ARE NOW LIMITED Filling of Cans and Pails Is Forbidden -- A Housewife Recalls War Shortages

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Harriman urges both sides reduce pub polemics in order to get meaningful negotiations started, but is rebuffed by N Vietnamese; suggests 2 sides agree not to give text of formal statements to press after each session; Xuan Thuy rejects suggestion; 2 sides accuse each other of stepping up war; exch recriminations without any major shift in positions; schedule next talks for May 27; details on session

U.S. PLEA TO CURB POLEMICS IN TALKS SPURNED BY HANOI; North Vietnamese Bar Plan to Keep Exchanges Secret -- Next Session Monday U.S. PLAN AT TALKS SPURNED BY HANOI

Airline indus to set up its own agency, Airport Security Council, to help curb increasing robberies; action will substitute, at least temporarily, for proposed state legis to assign role to Waterfront Comm; NYS bill was defeated

AIRLINES TO FORM SECURITY AGENCY; Action Is Taken to Protect Cargo at Fields Here Airlines to Form a Security Agency

US marshals carry Talmanson from ch; Dyer indicted and arraigned, Providence

EVADER OF DRAFT SEIZED IN CHURCH; Arrest in Boston Sparks a Protest by War Foes

Arrest in Dayton

Indictment in Providence

Activities of Chinese in Cholon sector of Saigon discussed

Saigon's Chinese Caught in the Crossfire of War; Cholon Easily Penetrated by Foe and Hard to Patrol They Are Unfairly Mistrusted, Many Vietnamese Feel

State Dept aide F Smith Jr says US has no legal basis on which to demand extradition of deserters, Sen subcom

U.S. Aide Says No Treaties Allow Deserter Extradition

fire damages dormitory; 1 coed killed, 13 others injured

An Ohio State Coed Is Killed In Fire at Dormitory Tower

Conservation orgns urge Cong to establish Redwoods Natl Pk without trading off natl forest land, HR Interior subcom hearing; Repr Taylor says compromise on land-exch issue may be necessary; Sec Freeman opposes trade, Sec Udall 'reluctantly' supports it

LAND SWAP OPPOSED AT REDWOOD HEARING

Brit Foreign Sec Stewart arrives in USSR for talks with Min Gromyko on future Brit-USSR role in settlement; illus

Stewart in Moscow for Talks on Joint Role in Vietnam

Vietnam Casualties

Mortars Strike at Saigon

S Vietnamese troops kill 170 enemy near Danang and Quangtri; enemy gunners strike Saigon, shell 2 airfields and 3 allied mil posts elswhere in S Vietnam; map

Saigon's Forces Press Enemy in Northern Area; Report Killing 170 in 2 Battles -- 2 U.S. Planes Downed Capital and Province Centers Struck by Mortar Fire

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May 23, 1968

Headlines from May 23, 1968

CRASH OF COPTER KILLS 23 ON COAST; Craft Was Returning From Disneyland to Los Angeles CRASH OF COPTER KILLS 23 ON COAST

CONGRESS PASSES 'TRUTH IN LENDING'; Requires Consumers Be Told Exact Charge for Loans ' Truth-in-Lending' Bill Is Voted; Wide Consumer Protection Seen

Brussels Facilities Jammed By Paris-Bound Travelers; STRIKE FLOODING BRUSSELS HOTEL

' OUSTED' TEACHERS ARE BACKED BY 350 IN UNION WALKOUT; Shanker, Charging Lockout, Vows None Will Return Until Allowed to Teach M'COY CHARGES A 'LIE' Says Brooklyn Instructors Left After Ignoring Call to 'Clarify Situations' OUSTED' TEACHERS ARE BACKED BY 350

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Historical Context for May 23, 1968