Czech Foreign Min Hajek voices concern over comparison, int, Prague

PRAGUE TO OFFER BILATERAL TALKS ON REFORM STEPS; Hajek Suggests Meetings as Alternative to Rejected Plan for Bloc Parley SOVEREIGNTY STRESSED Kosygin Discounts Reports of Pressure by Moscow on the Czechoslovaks Prague to Offer Bilateral Talks With Its Allies on Reform Steps

Natl Assn for Puerto Rican Civil Rights says NYS Repub Com has ignored Puerto Ricans in making up delegation; NYS Repub Chmn Schoeneck says it is too late to change; says there are 4 Negro dist delegates among 92 delegates, that there are no Puerto Rican at-large delegates and that he does not know number as dist delegates

6 OFFER TO YIELD CONVENTION VOTES; Democrats Here Would Aid Two Minority Groups 6 OFFER TO YIELD CONVENTION VOTES

COUVE REAPPOINTS CABINET LEADERS; Debre Is Foreign Minister -- Government Is Similar to Pompidou's Regime Couve Reappoints Leaders of Cabinet

Humphrey urges shift in US policy from confrontation and containment of Communism to 'reconciliation and peaceful engagement,' statement; suggests reordering of priorities to stress East-West relations, particularly with regard to USSR and other Eur nations; says Communist countries no longer pose monolithic threat; difference with Nixon noted in his stress on USSR and Eur

HUMPHREY URGES U.S. STOP TRYING TO CONTAIN REDS; He Calls for 'Reconciliation' in East-West Relations, Stressing Soviet Union OMITS MENTION OF ASIA Asks New Look at National Interest -- Says 'We Are Not World's Policemen' Politics: Humphrey Asks Foreign Policy Shift; McCarthy Discerns a New Course WOULD END IDEA OF CONTAINMENT Vice President Proposes 'Reconciliation' Instead

Vatican astonished by Ital Premier Leone pledge to resume taxation of dividends from RC Ch's Ital investments; Leone made pledge before he won confidence vote made possible by abstention of Socialists, who demanded move; tax was suspended by Leone '63 Govt, suspension has never been ratified by Parliament; Vatican liability since '63 through current fiscal yr put at over $7-million; Vatican statement holds move inequitable and unilateral

Vatican Is Stunned By Plan to Tax It; Vatican Stunned by Leone Plan To Tax Its Dividends in Italy

numerous long delays in arrivals and departures at Kennedy and La Guardia Airports attributed by Port Auth to slowdown by control personnel; FAA denies charge; cites heavy traffic; illus

Flight Delays Up to Six Hours Affect Thousands at Two Airports; Flight Delays Up to Six Hours Affect Thousands

Rogers surrenders to deputy sheriff in Graham, NC; his bro says he shot the 3 men with their own gun in self-defense; Rogers waives extradition at hearing; neighbors of dead men collect money to help defray funeral expenses; Rogers illus

Suspect in Bronx Killings Gives Himself Up in South; Police Say He Boarded a Bus to North Carolina After Slipping Away From Tenement That Was Under Siege Suspect in Bronx Killings Gives Himself Up in North Carolina After Slipping Away From Tenement

PO Dept announces immediate ban on extension of carrier services to new residential developments as part of broad plan to conserve manpower; Watson orders dosing of 347 small POs between Aug 2 and 30, sharp curtailment of Saturday and Sunday window service at urban POs and preparations for discontinuance of all Saturday deliveries on city residential routes; present and future postmaster vacancies in 3d- and 4th-class POs will not be filled; list of POs on E Coast to be discontinued and effective dates of discontinuance

MAIL SERVICE CUT FOR NEW HOUSING; Carrier Delivery Banned to Save Manpower -- Weekend Window Hours Reduced MAIL SERVICE CUT FOR NEW HOUSING

Johnson preparations for history of his adm seen possibly producing most comprehensive historical record of any adm; Pres aide J A Califano Jr defends project, cites precedents, cites past practice of crating documents, shipping them to Pres library, and then having historians spend yrs getting them in order

President Orders History of His Era; Johnson Orders History of His Era

Among passengers on Delta Air Lines plane that passenger attempted to hijack; illus; says passenger threatened him before entering craft cockpit

GUNMAN IS FOILED IN JET HIJACKING; Crew, Told to Fly to Cuba, Persuades Him to Yield -- Senator Eastland Aboard Gunman Foiled in Attempt to Hijack Plane to Cuba

France believed to have sold US $100-million in gold for badly-needed dollars to help counter speculative attack on franc

$100-Million in Gold Sold By France to Get Dollars; PARIS EXCHANGES GOLD FOR DOLLARS

B Ginzburg opposes Justice Fortas nomination as Sup Ct Chief Justice taking issue with views Fortas expressed in book Concerning Dissent and Disobedience, Sen com hearing

DIRKSEN DEFENDS JOHNSON'S NAMING FRIENDS TO COURT; Rebukes Griffin for Attempt to Block Nominations of Fortas and Thornberry DIRKSEN DEFENDS JOHNSON CHOICES

US State Dept repts Soviet writer and literary critic A V Belinkov and wife apparently have defected to US; Belinkov was jailed from '44 to '56 for novel

A SOVIET WRITER DEFECTS TO U.S.; He Was Imprisoned From '44 to '56 -- Wife With Him A SOVIET WRITER DEFECTS TO U.S.

Cairo sources link USSR interest in Suez Canal reopening with interest in bldg up influence in Indian Ocean area

MOSCOW PRESSING FOR SUEZ OPENING; Soviet Said to Have Urged Moderation on Nasser

Television Strike Suspended

Judge R Advincula assassinated, Manila area, 2d official to be killed in 24 hrs

Another Filipino Slain

Cabinet issues decree establishing position of Heir to the Throne, ranking next to Chief of State; informed sources see it as step toward naming Juan Carlos as heir

SPAIN BOLSTERS CAUSE OF PRINCE; Cabinet Decree Is Viewed as Benefiting Juan Carlos

Bourbon Who Learns Juan Carlos

2 Tanzanians Get 10 Years In Suffocation Death of 13

S Korean troops kill 3 N Korean infiltrators

South Korean Troops Kill 3

Brit pub held still skeptical about Wilson despite some recent gains for Labor party; disbelief in Wilson and in politicians in general seen stemming, from 'pervasive sense of natl failure'

Britain's Skepticism on Wilson Persists Amid Some Good News; Week Has Been a Happy One for Labor Government, but Pervasive Sense of National Failure Remains

Modugno's car, damaged during City Hall demonstration, towed away from City Hall plaza by police; Modugno says he will send repair bill to NYC; Lindsay's office says removal of car was entirely police matter

COUNCILMAN'S CAR TOWED FROM PLAZA

Petition to save Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Rgt circulated in Scotland after defense white paper announces famous unit will be disbanded as part of gen mil retrenchment; Capt C Mitchell, who resigned recently as unit's commanding officer, to lead fight for survival of rgt; backed by Scottish Nationalists: rgt badge illus

Backers of Argylls Piping Mad at Move to Disband Unit; Circulate a Petition in Scotland to Save Battalion

Kiesinger Rejects Terms

W Ger pub texts of documents on talks with USSR on mutual renunciation of use of force; Brandt says documents are being made public because Moscow pub some parts of its own memoranda to W Ger in Izvestia, news conf; discloses July 5 USSR memorandum says USSR reserves unilateral right to use force against W Ger even if it signs mutual declaration renouncing force; says USSR bases right on 'obsolete' provisions of UN charter; says Bonn is ready to continue discussions with USSR and other nations; makes other comments; rev of USSR-W Ger contacts that began in Feb '67; Brandt says USSR demands mutual declaration be negotiated with E Ger as sovereign state; Kiesinger rejects terms

July 13, 1968

Headlines from July 13, 1968

PRAGUE TO OFFER BILATERAL TALKS ON REFORM STEPS; Hajek Suggests Meetings as Alternative to Rejected Plan for Bloc Parley SOVEREIGNTY STRESSED Kosygin Discounts Reports of Pressure by Moscow on the Czechoslovaks Prague to Offer Bilateral Talks With Its Allies on Reform Steps

6 OFFER TO YIELD CONVENTION VOTES; Democrats Here Would Aid Two Minority Groups 6 OFFER TO YIELD CONVENTION VOTES

COUVE REAPPOINTS CABINET LEADERS; Debre Is Foreign Minister -- Government Is Similar to Pompidou's Regime Couve Reappoints Leaders of Cabinet

Vatican Is Stunned By Plan to Tax It; Vatican Stunned by Leone Plan To Tax Its Dividends in Italy

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