Nixon and Nguyen Cao Ky meet, White House

12 FOREIGN CHIEFS MEET WITH NIXON; White House Is Guarded on Details -- Ky Spends 29 Minutes With President 12 Foreign Chiefs Meet Nixon; White House Guarded on Talks

Sec Laird repts 18 low-priority USN ships will be deactivated as part of Defense Dept economy move

B-52 RAIDS IN WAR CUT 10% BY LAIRD IN ECONOMY MOVE; He Asserts That Reduction to 1,600 Sorties a Month Will Save $613-Million  DE-ESCALATION' DENIED President's Defense Budget Is Now $1.1-Billion Below Estimate by Johnson B-52's Aid Capture of Hill as Laird Tells of Curb B-52 Raids in Vietnam Reduced By 10% in Laird Economy Move

ISRAEL CENSURED BY U.N. COUNCIL; Raid on Jordan Condemned by a Vote of 11 to 0 -- U.S. and Britain Abstain ISRAEL CENSURED BY U.N. COUNCIL

police, at request of McMurray, end sit-in demonstration, arresting 39 persons who refuted to leave bldg; about 600-1,000 students later reoccupy bldg; illus; demands by students listed; include reinstatement of Prof H Lesnick, who was earlier arrested and suspended, and dropping of all charges against those arrested

39 Seized at Queens, But Sit-In Resumes; Queens College Sit-In Resumes After 39 Arrests

CITY COUNCIL ASKS DELAY ON BUDGET; Seeks Time to Study Effects of Albany's Welfare Cuts -- $500-Million Gap Seen City Council Asks Delay on Expense Budget

election; Obey holds narrow lead; partial tally

Wisconsin House Race Is Close; Laird Seat at Stake WISCONSIN PICKS LAIRD SUCCESSOR

US Fed Dist Judge Wyzanski upholds right of individual moral conscience as valid legal reason for objection to war, decision in J H Sisson case declaring unconst sec in US draft law under which man can be exempted as conscientious objector only if his objection is religious

High Court Plea Expected; Judge Rules Out Draft of Nonreligious Objector

Pres Gallagher resigns, charging city and state budget cuts will adversely affect operations of CUNY, lr to Higher Educ Bd; says he will not serve as 'lackey of pol expediency or fiscal timidity'

GALLAGHER QUITS AS C.C.N.Y. HEAD OVER FUND ISSUE; He Says That No Freshmen Can Be Admitted in 1969 Because of New Budget OUTLOOK CALLED BLEAK Educator Fears City Drafts Lower Allocation -- State Denies Any Reduction C.C.N.Y. Head Quits Over Fund Issue

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Chinese Communist party opens 9th cong, Peking; Mao presides and is elected chmn of a 176-man presidium that will direct work of gathering, Peking radio rept; Min Lin Piao elected cong vice chmn, is expected to be formally named Mao's pol heir; Premier Chou En-lai elected Presidium gen sec; cong, convened 8 yrs after it was due, will elect a new Central Com, adopt a new party const and may establish a new structure to adm party orgns; Mao's wife Chiang Ching and her associates in group which directed cultural revolution purge listed high in rankings of Presidium; Lin's wife Yeh Chun, Mao's former bodyguard Wang Tung-hsing and Chen Po-ta rank high, Mins Chen Yi and Li Hsien-nien are far behind; persons on rostrum with Mao listed

PEKING CONVENES PARTY CONGRESS, DELAYED 8 YEARS; Parley Follows Long Strife and Is Expected to Name Lin as Mao's Heir Party Congress, Delayed for Eight Years, Is Convened by Chinese Communists Parley Likely to Name Lin as the Heir of Mao

Nguyen Van Thieu offer to begin direct private talks with NLF said to demonstrate degree of his growth as pol figure and comparative stability he has achieved in 18-mo-old regime; S Vietnamese Govt said to now view NLF as vehicle for solution of problems of war; Nguyen Van Thieu, in making offer, said to discard whole set of conditions that previously applied to negotiations; offer said to have been made not because of US 'arm-twisting', but because Nguyen Van Thieu felt he had enough pol strength to make offer safely

Thieu's Shifts on Vietcong Role Reflect His New Political Gains; Shifts in Policy Toward Vietcong Reflect Thieu's Growing Political Strength and Regime's Stability

Group of antiwar soldiers at Ft Jackson sue US Army in attempt to obtain tame rights to protest that civilians have under 1st Amendment; seek to end 'pattern of harassment and intimidation' that they say authorities use to suppress peaceful dissent movement; Army spokesmen describe suit as without parallel in Amer history; acknowledge Army is concerned about antiwar agitation at several bases where 'underground' peace movements have been organized; suit names as defendants Sec Resor and Brig Gen Hollingsworth; L B Boudin and H Moore Jr are among plaintiff's attys; plaintiffs listed; leader of soldiers group says unknown number of antiwar soldiers have been transferred to other bases or shipped out to Vietnam after their identities became known

G. I.'s Sue Army on Rights; 10 G.I.'s Sue Army Over Right to Protest the War

crowds of thousands line stations, tracks and rail crossings for glimpse of funeral train as it travels through Va, W Va, along Ohio River to Cincinnati and on to St Louis; Mrs Eisenhower requested trip of barest simplicity but family breaks silence at Cincinnati and thanks crowds; Amer flag and black bunting is placed on car carrying coffin; Mrs Eisenhower and grandson appear on rear platform at St Louis and express gratitude; illus; illus of train passing through farm country near Wheatland, Ind; map shows route

People Pay Homage on Last Eisenhower Journey; People Pay Homage to Eisenhower on Last Journey

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election; Goldwater leads in HR race but must face G Schlessinger or J Van DeKamp in runoff

Negro and Yorty Gain Runoff;; Los Angeles Votes Negro Gains Runoff In Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Similar Case Appealed

15 Shellings Overnight

Beam Arrives in Moscow

Airman 1st Cl P J Nugent to return from Vietnam; his wife plans big homecoming

Nugent Returns to Texas From Vietnam Duty Today

3 US soldiers killed, 5 S Vietnamese civilians wounded when helicopter crashes on NW edge of Saigon

ENEMY OFFENSIVE STILL SEESAWING; Contact in the Mekong Delta Increases After a Lull

Vietcong says offensive has 'shattered' strategic plan conceived by Abrams after '68 Tet offensive; pledges to intensify gen offensive; Abrams plan discussed

Vietcong Say Offensive 'Shattered' Abrams's Strategic Plan

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The Defense Department made public today the following names of servicemen killed in Vietnam:  

Names of Servicemen Killed in Vietnam

12 bodies recovered; illus; hope virtually abandoned for remaining 156

Little Hope Is Seen for Men Trapped in Mexican Mine

Article on Tras-os-Montes region fed of agr co-ops; fed head C Mendonca says fed seeks to develop new crops and to wrest control of processing and mktg from Lisbon; illus; map

Portuguese Co-ops Trying to Cut Poor Area's Shackles; Mountainous Northeast, Slighted by Economic Advances, Is Working Out Its Own Development Effort

USSR Pres Podgorny arrives for 6-day visit

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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 was an Antonov An-24 aircraft, registration SP-LTF, operating a scheduled passenger flight from Warsaw to Krakow Balice airport. It crashed into a mountain on 2 April 1969 at 16:08 local time (UTC+1) during a snowstorm. All 53 people on board were killed.

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashes into the Polica mountain near Zawoja, Poland, killing 53.

April 2, 1969

Headlines from April 2, 1969

12 FOREIGN CHIEFS MEET WITH NIXON; White House Is Guarded on Details -- Ky Spends 29 Minutes With President 12 Foreign Chiefs Meet Nixon; White House Guarded on Talks

ISRAEL CENSURED BY U.N. COUNCIL; Raid on Jordan Condemned by a Vote of 11 to 0 -- U.S. and Britain Abstain ISRAEL CENSURED BY U.N. COUNCIL

39 Seized at Queens, But Sit-In Resumes; Queens College Sit-In Resumes After 39 Arrests

CITY COUNCIL ASKS DELAY ON BUDGET; Seeks Time to Study Effects of Albany's Welfare Cuts -- $500-Million Gap Seen City Council Asks Delay on Expense Budget

Billboard 200

Wichita Lineman

Blood; Sweat & Tears

Ball

Goodbye

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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Historical Context for April 2, 1969