July 22, 1968

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USSR troops apparently remaining in Czech on day when delayed withdrawal was to have been completed; officials silent, confirming suspicion of many Czechs that departure has again not been completed on schedule and nourishing fears of USSR intervention; authoritative sources estimate that 16,000 USSR troops took part in maneuvers; Czech radio commentator J Dienstbir denies Pact is threatened by developments in Czech; USSR convoy illus on way to frontier

Jefferson Book Shop, NYC, which specializes in antiwar and Marxist pubs, damaged by bomb; illus; none hurt; police probe whether bombing is linked to rash of bombings attributed to anti-Castro Cubans

drive to make Kennedy Vice-Pres candidate gains strength at Natl Govs Conf; Govs R J Hughes and Shapiro strongly back him, press confs; Shapiro indicates Mayor Daley will deliver Ill delegation to Humphrey; Hughes, Credentials Com chmn, indicates he will give some help to McCarthy delegates by saying he is opposed to loyalty oaths; says NJ delegation will vote to abolish unit rule

Fed Reserve study group recommends reforms of discount rate under which banks would be given a basic borrowing privilege; reform is aimed at more frequent and more responsive changes in discount rate in close alignment with money mkt rates; categories of borrowings from Fed Reserve detailed; Reserve Bd gov G W Mitchell comments, describes how changes would work

Sakharov, in essay Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, offers bold, wide-ranging plan for cooperation and eventual rapprochement between US and USSR; looks to 'convergence' of 2 superpowers as only means of averting dangers confronting mankind; lists dangers as threat of thermonuclear war, over-population and famine, environmental pollution, police dictatorships and encroachment on intellectual freedom; proposes tentative 4-stage timetable, to yr 2000, for pol, econ and soc transformation in both US and USSR which would bring 2 nations together on common ground of 'dem socialism' and enable them to deal jointly with problems; points to current democratization effort in Czech as significant experiment in search for middle ground between socialism and capitalism; specific proposals detailed

Galamison proposes bd select new pres and vp from among 5 incoming members, TV int; proposes S L Lewis for pres; Haddad proposes entire 13-member bd resign when it completes work on decentralization plan, TV int; suggests ombudsman be responsible for both bd and Schools Supt and investigate complaints regarding decentralization; Mrs Shapiro comments

Mayor Lindsay holds voters judge ticket by top man and sees 'unhealthy number of young people who will be turned off' by Nixon-Humphrey race and will boycott election, TV int

Pres Cabinet Com on Price Stability calls surcharge 1st essential step in combating inflation

Amer officials hold any Amer move to make USSR problems with Czech more acute will probably eliminate lingering hope of benign USSR influence at talks

Italy's top adm tribunal rules Mussolini had been in service of state for over 20 yrs and that his widow, Rachele, is therefore eligible for Govt pension