Fulbright: State Dept informs coms that run Fulbright program in 18 countries that because of Cong budget cuts funds for program will be cut avg 72% beginning in '69; effects of cuts on Brit-Amer program discussed

FULBRIGHT GRANTS IN EUROPE PERILED; Funds for Higher Education Exchanges to Be Slashed 72% by Congress Action Fulbright Exchange Program In Europe Is Periled by Cuts

THANT PROPOSES MEETING OF BIG 4 TO EASE TENSION; Asks Action by U.S., Britain, Soviet and France to Halt Rising Sense of Insecurity THANT PROPOSES MEETING OF BIG 4

US BLS survey finds area prices rose 0.8%, Aug, largest jump in 20 yrs and 0.5% more than natl increase; regional dir Bienstock discusses factors; illus; table; graph

'68 Climb in Prices Here Is Steepest in 20 Years; PRICES HERE RISE 0.8% IN A MONTH

Chrysler Retracts, Cuts '69 Price Rise; CHRYSLER TRIMS 1969 PRICE RISES

15 Conn taxpayers, joined by Amer Jewish Cong and ACLU, file suit, US Dist Ct, New Haven, to halt $1-million in grants to 4 ch-related insts given under '63 Higher Educ Facilities Act; hold grants subject taxpayers to 'compulsory taxation for religious purposes'

Suit Scores U.S. Aid To Church Colleges; SUIT ATTACKS AID TO SOME COLLEGES

Lindsay and Shanker cite some progress toward ending controversy; Donovan, under orders from Educ Bd, assigns 37 staff members to 'observe' school conditions in Ocean Hill-Brownsville; McCoy scores action; Bloustein rules strike illegal under provisions of state Taylor Law; Sen Com (Marchi) sets probe on who is responsible for strike; motorcade of Bklyn parents backing te,chers drives past Gracie Mansion

MAYOR AND UNION HOPEFUL SCHOOLS CAN OPEN MONDAY; 'Major Problems Resolved,' Lindsay Says After Talks At Gracie Mansion FURTHER SESSIONS SET Approval of U.F.T. Officers Needed -- Plans Drawn For Making Up of Lost Time Mayor and Head of Teachers Union See Hope That Schools Will Reopen Monday 'MOVEMENT CITED AS TALKS RECESS Shanker Sees 'a Little Light at the End of the Tunnel' -More Discussions Set

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Humphrey reaffirms support of Amer involvement in war, but promises to take fresh look at war with new advisers if he becomes Pres, TV int; pledges to reassess war in Jan; defends Johnson policies; Humphrey comments seen assuming greater meaning with announcements that Goldberg will play major campaign role and that Ball resigned UN post to become Humphrey's foreign policy adviser; Humphrey compares Vietnam to Korea; urges UN peacekeeping force; Rusk says he doubts if force can function while war is in progress

Humphrey Pledges to Call New Advisers on Vietnam; Humphrey Vows to Call New Advisers on Vietnam

Sec Clifford urges indus to expand efforts to build plants and to subcontract as much defense work as possible in labor surplus areas, says Adm will re-examine legis policy to see if Defense Dept can provide monetary incentives to business to expand more rapidly in slums

PENTAGON TO ACT ON DOMESTIC ILLS; Clifford Says He'll Mobilize Resources of Military to Attack Social Problems Clifford Says Pentagon Plans To Attack Domestic Problems

Amb Ball resigns as permanent repr to UN to become foreign policy adviser to Vice Pres Humphrey; says he acts because he feels that Nixon 'lamentably lacks' qualities needed to conduct policy successfully, news conf statement

BALL QUITS U. N. TO AID HUMPHREY; EDITOR IS NAMED; Chief of Delegation Declares Nixon Is Unfit to Direct Nation's Foreign Affairs POLICY RIFT DISCOUNTED Successor, J. Russell Wiggins of The Washington Post, Is Praised by Johnson BALL QUITTING U.N. TO AID HUMPHREY

Johnson of Quebec Is Dead at 53; Premier Backed Canadian Unity; Moderate Also Strengthened Province's French Ties -- Ill Earlier in Year Premier Johnson of Quebec, a Moderate, Is Dead

Pravda, in ideological justification of invasion, denies USSR violated Czech sovereignty and holds it defended Communist cause; article, written by ideologist S Kovalev, distinguishes between special socialist sovereignty, upholding intervention, and abstract sovereignty, valid only in principle; asserts that each socialist nation is free to determine own affairs as long as its decisions do not imperil party control or bloc interests; Brit Communist party paper ed scores Pravda article as 'red herring' intended to divert attention from USSR violation of oft-stated principle of nonintervention in affairs of another Communist nation against its wishes; calls for official repudiation of thesis; entire 21-member Presidium confs, Prague, on next move in efforts to speed troop exit; unusual length of meeting noted

Soviet Denies It Violated Sovereignty of the Czechs; In Ideological Justification of Invasion, Pravda Says Warsaw Pact Forces Defended Communist Cause Soviet Denies Invasion Violated Sovereignty of Czechoslovakians

FORTAS TEST VOTE PLANNED TUESDAY; Mansfield to Seek Closure of Debate Over Motion to Call Up Nomination Test Vote Planned Tuesday on Fortas Nomination

Ojukwu defiant as Fed troops close in on Umuahia; denies plans to form govt-in-exile; Prof Letiche says war has cost Govt at east $840-million, lecture in Lagos after tour of country

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H L Hunt, Tex Oil billionaire, works on plans to organize League for Liberty, new conservative orgn designed to discourage liberal views by news media

OILMAN ORGANIZING CONSERVATIVE UNIT

S African heart transplant surgeon Dr C N Barnard, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, bequeaths his eyes to Sao Paulo eye bank

Barnard Donates Eyes

Soviet troops occupy 2 Kosice papers as eds reject Soviet propaganda articles and printers refuse to print them as pamphlets

MOSCOW FANNING SLOVAK RIVALRIES; Propaganda Leaflets Back Separatist Feelings

PETWORTH, England (Canadian Press) -- A 100-year-old Sussex railway station, closed several years ago, is making its contribution to Britain's export drive and keeping thousands of children happy at the same time.  

Ex-Station Now Toy Plant

USSR demand for stationing of Warsaw Pact troops in Rumania, as part of strengthening of pact's defenses, said to be contingent on regime's willingness to tone down ind line; concern over undefended Rumanian-Yugoslav border indicated

Big Balkan Military Build-Up Believed Planned by Russians; Warsaw Pact Chief's Visits Convince Poles Defenses Will Be Strengthened

UMUAHIA, Biafra, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Lieut. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Biafran leader, said today that his secessionist state's war with Nigeria is "just beginning," despite a string of federal military victories.  

OJUKWU IS DEFIANT AS NIGERIANS GAIN

US AEC Chmn Seaborg sees invasion of Czech only delaying signing of nonproliferation treaty, news conf, Vienna; hopes that W Ger, India and Japan will overcome their hesitancy

SEABORG IS HOPEFUL ON NUCLEAR TREATY

Council of Eur brands proposed const undem, calls for free parliamentary elections in 6 mos; M van der Stoel, who visited Greece for council, holds there have been 'large-scale' purges, many citizens have been deprived of their liberty

COUNCIL OF EUROPE SCORES GREEK RULE

craft to be returned to Moscow via Bombay

Soviet Craft to Go to India

HR Armed Services Subcom says cost of M-16 rifle contracts awarded to Hydramatic Div and Harrington & Richardson are unreasonable and should be lowered

HOUSE PANEL CHIDES ARMY ON M-16 COSTS

S Kovalev, in Pravda article justifying occupation of Czech, says people of socialist countries do and should have freedom to determine own affairs but holds none of their decisions should damage socialism in their own country or fundamental interests of other socialist countries; says each Communist party is responsible not only to own people but also to all the socialist countries; text

Text of Pravda Article Justifying Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Mari Johanna Kiviniemi is a Finnish politician, who served as the 41st and second female Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011.

September 27, 1968

Headlines from September 27, 1968

FULBRIGHT GRANTS IN EUROPE PERILED; Funds for Higher Education Exchanges to Be Slashed 72% by Congress Action Fulbright Exchange Program In Europe Is Periled by Cuts

THANT PROPOSES MEETING OF BIG 4 TO EASE TENSION; Asks Action by U.S., Britain, Soviet and France to Halt Rising Sense of Insecurity THANT PROPOSES MEETING OF BIG 4

'68 Climb in Prices Here Is Steepest in 20 Years; PRICES HERE RISE 0.8% IN A MONTH

Chrysler Retracts, Cuts '69 Price Rise; CHRYSLER TRIMS 1969 PRICE RISES

Suit Scores U.S. Aid To Church Colleges; SUIT ATTACKS AID TO SOME COLLEGES

Billboard 200

Time Peace/The Rascals' Greatest Hits

Waiting For The Sun

Feliciano!

Cheap Thrills

Realization

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 27, 1968