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Nixon, elaborating on his 'security gap' s, says strength should be improved so that nation s leadership can negotiate from strength and achieve eventual arms reduction, TV panel
unions defy NYS Sup Ct restraining order, will continue slowdown; hearing set on city request for permanent injunction; Sen Adams to seek stiffer financial penalties against unions
Clifford says Johnson orders that there be no slackening in mil effort in S Vietnam during intensive efforts to break talks impasse, news conf; defends US policy
Informed sources say critical unresolved question in talks is conditions under which S Vietnamese Govt and NLF could enter next phase of negotiations; diplomats indicate there has been further exch between Washington and Hanoi in 2 wks since US put forward proposal; N Vietnamese are said to be convinced, for 1st time, that Johnson is genuinely interested in stopping the bombing; US is believed to want evidence of mil restraint by N Vietnam and participation of S Vietnamese reprs in next phase of talks; informants say S Vietnamese Govt has been adamant in resisting any formula that would bring NLF into next phase of talks as equal; some reactions of N and S Vietnam to proposal discussed; Nguyen Van Thieu is reptd to have refused to yield in his opposition to letting NLF have separate major role in talks
Sec Clifford concedes USSR has markedly narrowed US nuclear missile load but insists US maintains substantial mil superiority, news conf reply to R M Nixon charges that Kennedy and Johnson Adms have allowed 'gravely serious security gap to develop'; says USSR now has 900 ICBMs, compared with 720 in '67 but is still below US total of 1,054; says US has 4-1 lead in 'deliverable' warheads and nuclear bombs
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 23, 1968, covering October 26, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
The Rascals
Jose Feliciano
The Chambers Brothers
Iron Butterfly
1968Miyuki Imori, Japanese actress and singer[†]
Miyuki Imori is a Japanese entertainer, idol, actress, and singer who is represented by the talent agency, Horipro.
1968Space Race: The Soyuz 3 mission achieves the first Soviet space rendezvous.[†]
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and the onset of the Cold War. The technological advantage demonstrated by spaceflight achievement was seen as necessary for national security, particularly in regard to intercontinental ballistic missile and satellite reconnaissance capability, but also became part of the cultural symbolism and ideology of the time. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic landers to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the Moon.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]