August 19, 1968

McCarthy forces want to bar all challenged delegates until their cases are settled; Repr J G O'Hara, Humphrey backer, charges aim is to block 'hundreds of Humphrey delegates from exercising their conv rights

Dem Platform Com faces battle over war policy plank; Humphrey backers seek compromise plank road enough to bring together dissident Dem factions yet ambiguous enough to loosen Humphrey bond with Adm policy; seek to maneuver McCarthy into a minority position

Maher, V: Killed by bullet fired through side of LIRR train, Queens; suspect, found near track, held

Chief O'Hagan repts city preparing emergency fire protection, sees 'real threat' of strike, TV program and int; notes legal obstacles to walkout; repts 'new labor militancy' in dept, links firemen's belief that their problems in ghettos are neglected by city; Dir Haber repts no progress in talks

5 heavy blasts rock center of Jerusalem, injuring 14 Israelis; terrorists, who said they would attack Israeli civilians in retaliation for air strike on Salt, blamed; hundreds of Israeli youths stream into Arab sec, smashing windows and stoning taxis; Israeli police force crowd out of sec, cordon it off; crowds continue to roam through Israeli sec; Mayor Kollek tours riot area; Jordan charges Israelis started arty and machine gun exch in al-Shurat area, N of Allenby Bridge

Heaviest fighting in 3 mos breaks out as enemy troops attack allies in 3 mil regions; allied command repts 19 separate attacks, 15 of them NW of Saigon near Cambodian border; some of heaviest fighting is in Tayninh; S Vietnamese troops sweep through city and meet no opposition following attacks; about 300 enemy killed in attacks; about 30 allies killed, 60 wounded; Amer mil spokesman says lull has ended but says it is too early to make accurate judgment of whether attacks are start of 3d offensive; US command repts enemy uses unkown type of gas; details on attacks; map

condition worsens when elec pacer threaded into his heart proves ineffective; family at bedside; Dr Mattingly, Lt Col Bedjnek, and Cols Moser and Blohm are members of med team attending him

poverty of Los Laches sec described on eve of visit by Pope Paul VI; efforts of RC parish priest to alleviate suffering noted

talks collapse; unions to ask NYS Pub Employment Relations Bd to appt fact-finding bd

USSR economist Dr Cheprakov, in Izvestia article Problems of the Last Third of the Century, holds that capitalism-Communism struggle will sharpen and that Communism will emerge victorious; apparently intends to rebut Sakharov thesis of convergence of capitalism and Communism by yr 2000; holds Communism only solution to threats of population and famine; Sakharov essay has not been published in USSR but has become widely known there through Western radio broadcasts; he reptdly has been summoned by high party official to discuss it

blesses crowd

Pravda charges Czech leaders are losing control; says they cannot cope with continuing 'subversive activities by anti-socialist forces'; sees new assaults by 'reactionary forces' as attack on Cierna and Bratislava accords; voices alarm over 'outrageous escapades' taking place in Prague st rallies and continuing attacks on 'loyal Communists' despite Czech Presidium's condemnation of pub debates and criticism of people's militia; suggests Presidium's statement was inadequate; holds attacks on people's militia were instigated by West; also charges that Prague factory workers, who sent lr to USSR, July, urging that troops be sent into Czech, were being subjected to 'moral terror'; cites Prague paper Svobodne Slovo's denunciation of workers as traitors'; assures Czech workers of USSR-bloc aid in rebuffing counterrevolution; article was signed by I Aleksandrov, said to be same pseudonym used for July 11 article which launched propaganda campaign; Presidium members, in meeting with eds, appeal for moderation pending Sept 9 cong; eds reptdly accept appeal in principle, but claim polemics could not be avoided if USSR attacks continue; sensitivity to situations that might jeopardize democratization effort seen in Rude Pravo denunciation of excesses in recent pol rally; collection of signatures protesting against people's militia reptd to have ended, indicating appeals for moderation are being heeded