March 21, 1969

NY Telephone asks NYS PSC to approve $175-million-a-yr rate increase; new rate pkg would raise basic monthly 75-message-unit residential phone bill in NYC, flat-rate monthly costs in other parts of state, toll-call costs, and double to $10 cost of installing residential phone; co says increase would provide 13% rise in intrastate revenues, 10% increase in total revenues; co vp Mulhearn says increases, 1st since '57, are needed to attract investments to support co's construction program; other proposed rate changes discussed; avg householder and business would have to pay 10.5% more in basic monthly rates if increase is approved

US command repts 351 Amers killed during 3d wk of enemy offensive; 1,140 Amers have been killed since offensive began; 325 S Vietnamese killed during 3d wk, 4,137 enemy killed; 3d wk of offensive said to have been characterized by scattered shellings and occasional intense ground assaults; many allied officers hold enemy makes determined effort to convince Amer pub that it can carry on war indefinitely and continue to inflict unacceptable number of US casualties; details on fighting during wk; illus

Sen E M Kennedy urges withdrawal of Amer mil forces from Taiwan as part of new US policy on China, s, NYC

Fed grand jury, under anti-riot provisions of '68 Civil Rights Act, indicts 8 portent (including D Dellinger, T C Hoyden, R C Davit, J Rabin and A Hoffman) on charges of conspiracy to Incite riot during conv; indicts 8 Chicago policemen, 7 of them on charges of assaulting demonstrators, 1 on petjury charge; US Atty Gen Foran says grand jury will continue investigations; denies there is truth to repts that Justice Dept wants to 'balance' indictments of demonstrators and police so grand jury would not seem to be blaming police for violence; details on charges; grand jury names 12 other demonstrators as co-conspirators, including Prof S M Peck; trial of 13 other demonstrators, involved in march, enters 16th day; P Saltonstall testifies