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Amer officials see shift in N Vietnamese denial at Paris peace talks that it has troops in S Vietnam; Amb Harriman repeats Amer charges about N Vietnamese infiltration; hands to N Vietnam document giving details of enemy units and actions; N Vietnam asserts it has right to help guerrillas and pledges to do so
Ore campaign ends; latest poll, taken by Quayle for NBC, gives Kennedy 34%, McCarthy 32%, Humphrey 10%, Johnson 9%, with 11% undecided
IRT service between Manhattan and Bklyn crippled by power failure caused by transformer fire; NYCTA to run special trains to Atlantic Av, where Bklyn riders may transfer without cost to BMT for rest of trip to Manhattan; urges riders to switch to alternate routes whenever possible; says IND and BMT will be running normally; disruptions detailed; map
US Sup Ct, 7-1, upholds '65 law making it crime to destroy or mutilate draft card, D P O'Brien case; Chief Justice Warren writes majority opinion, Justice Douglas dissent; ruling reverses US Appeals Ct decision that law infringed on free speech; gives strong, sweeping, endorsement to power of Cong to strengthen draft laws; ruling will not affect many cases since most protesters since '65 have turned in cards, not destroyed them; O'Brien shocked by decision
Scorpion (US nuclear submarine): Reptd overdue with 99 men aboard; was last heard from May 25 off Azores; was due in Norfolk, Va, after completing 3-mo training exercise in Mediterranean; wide search by planes, ships and subs begun; sub illus at '60 commissioning; map
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 22, 1968, covering May 28, 1968.
Simon & Garfunkel
Soundtrack
The Monkees
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Aretha Franklin
1968Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[†]
Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Frequently referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has achieved recognition in both the music industry and fashion world as a major style icon. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. Minogue is the highest-selling Australian female artist of all time, with sales surpassing 80 million records worldwide. In 2024, Time listed her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
1968Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (born 1908)[†]
Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov was a Soviet sniper during World War II credited with 429 kills. Nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 after tallying his first 420 sniper kills but rejected for unclear reasons, he was belatedly awarded the title in May 1965 over twenty years later to coincide with the anniversary of Victory Day. He is considered as one of the deadliest snipers in history.
1968Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30.[†]
On 28 May 1968, Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892, a scheduled international passenger flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam with stopovers in Singapore, Bangkok, Bombay, Karachi, Cairo, and Rome, crashed during the climb-out after take-off from Santa Cruz Airport for the flight's Bombay to Karachi leg. The Convair 990A jet airliner operating the flight came down at Bilalpada village near Nala Sopara, killing all 29 people on board and one person on the ground.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]