September 7, 1968

The Board of Education moved into around-the-clock negotiations yesterday afternoon to avert a strike on Monday as the delegate assembly of the United Federation of Teachers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a walkout.

Amer troops fight 2 battles near Saigon; 71 Vietcong killed, 33 Amers killed; 3 terrorist incidents in city reptd; 9 civilians killed, 30 wounded in most serious incident; details on action near Saigon; action in other areas reptd; map

Lindsay reptdly passed over for interim US Sen apptmt because he refused to request post and Rockefeller refused to bear onus of returning city adm to Dems by apptg Lindsay

returns to Czech

USSR seen dissatisfied with relatively lax censorship

D Brothers and other Black Panther leaders meet with reprs of Mayor's office, Bklyn police and Civilian Complaint Rev Bd to air grievances; Bklyn Asst Dist Atty Golden questions 5 top members of Law Enforcement Group on attack; notes not 1 'alleged victim' has so far lodged a complaint with his office

Lay Ger Cath Conf held, Essen; resolution on birth control; recent W Ger episc conf noted

Nixon scores handling of war by Dems, s, Tex; says only new leadership can bring honorable end to conflict

Johnson appeals to Sens Mansfield and Dirksen to let him spend $1 -billion over ceiling Cong set earlier in session, meeting with them; at news conf repts unforeseen increases in mandatory items require such spending; Mansfield says proposal is reasonable, Repr Mahon says it has to be done; Sen takes big bite out of spending ceiling; leaders see Cong achieving $3-billion to $3.5-billion cutback, with Johnson having to make up balance; Johnson discusses areas for cutbacks, news conf

NYC Human Resources Adm and Investigations Dept investigate repts that $300,000 in Neighborhood Youth Corps funds have been stolen in wide-scale and systematic pilfering; NYC aides say many checks were issued to fictitious names; investigation began after 4 men, 3 of them adm employes, were arrested with briefcase containing 105 Youth Corps checks made out to nonexistent persons; checks were worth over $4,000; Ginsberg has begun rev of Youth Corps fiscal procedures, asked Fraiman to complete inquiry; holds auditing checks instituted last spring, after $250,000 misappropriation, would have disclosed irregularities within a mo; says implementation of those changes by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co will also be revd

Johnson says he and his Cabinet members will be active in campaign in defense of his Adm but pledges bipartisanship in keeping all candidates informed on foreign affairs, news conf

Frank D. O'Connor, the Democratic President of the City Council, and Aaron E. Koota, the Brooklyn District Attorney, were nominated yesterday for judgeships in the State Supreme Court.