NYS Assembly, 78-69, defeats bill to liberalize law after 14 legislators suddenly defect to opposition; defection linked to emotional, highly personal appeal by Assemblyman Ginsberg, who cited his own polio deformity in opposing bill and centered his attack on provision that would have allowed abortions when there was risk of a baby being born with physical or mental defects; Assemblyman Blumenthal, bill sponsor, replies to Ginsberg, defends reforms; says he had 82 firmly promised votes, 6 more than needed, before 5-hr debate began; declines to name defectors; vote marks death of bill for '69 session, 3d straight yr abortion reform has been thwarted in Legis; Ginsberg illus

ASSEMBLY BLOCKS ABORTION REFORM IN SUDDEN SWITCH; 14 Legislators Pledged to Bill Defect After Polio Victim Urges Defeat

Hardin says there is no authorization in Fed fiscal '70 budget to include NYC in food stamps program, news conf; Javits vows to fight for increase in funds for Fed food programs

CITY FACES DELAY ON FOOD STAMPS; Hardin Says U.S. Budget Has No Fund for Plan Now, but Javits Vows Fight for It

US and S Vietnamese mil officials meet to work on withdrawal of 'sizable number' of US troops

U.S. BATTLE LET-UP IN VIETNAM DENIED; Military Feels Nixon Heeds Arguments for Offensive -- Combat Deaths Drop

several soc scientists score Head Start rept as tech innacurate and potential pol disaster if Cong and Adm should decide to downgrade or discontinue program

Head Start Report Held 'Full of Holes'; Head Start Report Assailed as 'Full of Holes' and Potential Political Disaster

elected Czech Communist party 1st Sec; illus

DUBCEK IS OUSTED AS PRAGUE YIELDS TO THE RUSSIANS; To Remain in Party's Ruling Presidium -- Husak Gets First Secretary's Post

US Sen Foreign Relations Com, in commenting on negotiations for renewing bases pact, holds US mil presence in Spain is a 'quasi commitment' to defend Franco regime; notes with approval Sec Rogers recent statement that existing commitment to Spain would not be 'upgraded'

Spain 'Commitment' Decried by Senators; Senate Foreign Relations Panel Says U.S. Has a 'Quasi Commitment' to Defend the Franco Regime

Arts and Sciences Faculty votes, 385-25, to endorse Prof Bruner resolution urging univ sever all official connections with ROTC program and that program be regarded as extracurricular activity for students wishing to participate; also approves amendment to resolution calling on univ to provide advice to students and mil services on student participation; defers action on any action to alter character of black studies program; Ford's condition reptd improved

HARVARD FACULTY SCORES R.O.T.C. TIE; It Would Make Program an Extracurricular Activity

Nixon Adm reptdly has warned USSR that any violent repression by Soviet troops in Czech will once again interrupt progress toward strategic arms talks

U.S. Warns Soviet on Use Of Force Against Czechs; SOVIET CAUTIONED BY U.S. ON FORCE

Fed Reserve Bd member A F Brimmer suggests raising surcharge to 15% on corps to curb business investment, s, ABA exec council

Gross National Product Rose By $16-Billion in First Quarter; $16-MILLION GAIN SHOWN BY G.N.P.

US charges N Korea with having committed a calculated act of aggression, Panmunjom conf; demands that it take appropriate measures to prevent similar incidents in future; Maj Gen Knapp, in detailing charges, says Navy plane never even closely approached N Korean airspace, that N Korea has lied in claiming it penetrated deeply into it; N Korean repr Maj Gen Yi Choon Sun charges US illegally sent plane into N Korea to spy, asks to which outfit plane belonged; Knapp walks out of conf after Yi Choon Sun repeats query for 3d time; Defense Dept suspends further flights of electronic intelligence aircraft along N Korean coast pending further rev of their value; search for survivors continues; illus; bodies of 2 crewmen retrieved from Japan Sea by Amer destroyer; Navy plans to convene board of inquiry to determine facts; Laird defends ill-fated mission as essential to US natl security; Sec Gen Thant says downing cannot be brought before UN since N Korea is not a member

U.S., at Meeting in Korea, Protests Downing of Plane; Measures to Prevent Similar Incidents in Future Demanded in Panmunjom -- Scouting Flights in Area Halted

Sirhan convicted of 1st-degree murder; also convicted on 5 counts of assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill of 5 persons near Kennedy on night of shooting; same jury will now sit for penalty phase; verdict comes on 63d ct day of trial; Compton comments; doubts state will press for death penalty; defense says it will ask for new trial after sentencing; Cooper says he again asked for new jury to decide penalty but Walker refused; Walker also rejects defense motions to let it call reprs of Dist Atty's office to tell jury at penalty phase about bargaining for plea, Feb, to let San Quentin ex-warden Duffy try to show that death penalty is not efficacious, to let it bring in Mideast specialists to corroborate testimony of Sirhan and family about living conditions in Palestine in late '40s

SIRHAN CONVICTED IN FIRST DEGREE; JURY TO FIX FATE; Will Rule Whether Slayer of Kennedy Gets Life Term or Goes to Gas Chamber

Amer Educ Council issues statement warning acad community has responsibility to deal promptly and directly with disruptions' and that student violators should not be encouraged to expect amnesty either from law or campus discipline (F M Hechinger rept); urges univs to take prompt action before stage is reached where use of police is necessary; outlines program aimed at averting student discontent; Dr N M Pusey was among educators who drafted statement; others listed

EDUCATOR'S GROUP OPPOSES AMNESTY; Says Academic Community Must Handle Disorders

about 200 radical students led by SDS occupy Philosophy Hall to voice support for black students and demand 'no more racist expansion' by univ; leave voluntarily after univ serves ct restraining order; reptdly took action in defiance of SDS leadership; clashed with security guards who entered bldg through underground corridor in attempt to serve order: illus; students join 1,000 supporters for campus rally after leaving bldg: some clash with conservative students; occupation of Philosophy Hall followed earlier SDS rally attended by some hs students who demanded open enrollment' at univ; Cordier tells Students for Restructured Univ, moderate campus group, he has no intention of calling in police; campus map

200 Seize Columbia Hall, Then Leave After Clashes; 200 Occupy a Columbia Building and Then Leave After Clashes

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- King Hussein of Jordan has assured the Nixon Administration that he could control the Palestinian guerrilla organizations once a reasonable Middle East settlement had been devised.  

Hussein Gives Assurances

BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 17 -- Al Nida, a Communist organ, said today that the Iraqi Government had imposed tight controls on the activities of Palestinian commando groups within its territory.  

Iraq Said to Curb Palestinian Groups

Catholics Called Most Sympathetic To Israel's Position

Govt repts further success in breaking econ sanctions, '68, and predicts further gains in '69, annual econ rev; repts '68 exports totaled $178-million; repts GNP rose 5 1/2%

RHODESIA REPORTS SANCTIONS BROKEN

U.N. Vehicle Set Afire

Hungarian Parliament ratifies friendship treaty; also hears attack on 'right-wing, natl and counterrevolutionary forces' in Czech

Czech-Hungary Pact Ratified

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., April 17 -- Secretary General Thant said today that he had begun to "pin very great hopes" on the talks of the Big Four powers on a Middle East settlement.  

Thant Hopeful on Big 4 Mideast Talks

JERUSALEM, April 17 -- Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said tonight that Israel had suffered 1,600 dead and wounded in the nearly two years or border fighting since the six-day war in June, 1967.  

Dayan Ridicules Claims Of Arabs on Israeli Toll

Jeweled Bible is stolen from ch on Queen Elizabeth's Norfolk estate

Queen's Jeweled Bible Lost

NIXON NAMES BANKER AS NEW SWISS ENVOY

13th plenary session; enemy rejects allied proposals for mutual troop withdrawals; reiterates earlier demands that US forces must leave unconditionally and at once; meeting ends with no progress

HANOI AND VIETCONG ADAMANT AT PARIS

USSR Pres Podgorny presents medals to border guards who fought Chinese during recent border clashes

Medals for Soviet Guards

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April 18, 1969

Headlines from April 18, 1969

ASSEMBLY BLOCKS ABORTION REFORM IN SUDDEN SWITCH; 14 Legislators Pledged to Bill Defect After Polio Victim Urges Defeat

CITY FACES DELAY ON FOOD STAMPS; Hardin Says U.S. Budget Has No Fund for Plan Now, but Javits Vows Fight for It

U.S. BATTLE LET-UP IN VIETNAM DENIED; Military Feels Nixon Heeds Arguments for Offensive -- Combat Deaths Drop

Head Start Report Held 'Full of Holes'; Head Start Report Assailed as 'Full of Holes' and Potential Political Disaster

DUBCEK IS OUSTED AS PRAGUE YIELDS TO THE RUSSIANS; To Remain in Party's Ruling Presidium -- Husak Gets First Secretary's Post

Billboard 200

Blood; Sweat & Tears

Hair

Galveston

Donovan's Greatest Hits

Help Yourself

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 18, 1969