WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Urban lawmakers failed today in their bid for a larger share of Federal funds for hospital construction and modernization.  

HOSPITAL AID BILL PASSED BY HOUSE; URBAN DRIVE FAILS; $937-Million Measure Wins as Bid to Increase Funds for the Cities Is Blocked

A Socarras Ramirez, 22, stows away in wheel pod of jetliner from Havana to Madrid; survives temperatures of 40 degrees below zero and acute shortage of oxygen during 9-hr flight; fellow stowaway reptdly fell to death as plane began approach to Madrid; Socarras illus in Madrid hosp

Cuban Hidden in Landing Gear Survives Flight to Spain at -40; CUBAN STOW AWAY ON JET SURVIVES

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Mexican Airlines: All 79 aboard killed as Boeing 727 crashes on mt near Monterrey, Mex, on flight from Mex City; map; victims include R Osuna and C Madrazo

79 Killed in Crash Of a Mexican Jet; Crash of Mexican Jet Kills 79, Including Osuna, a Tennis Star

informed sources say NLF rejects S Vietnam's offer of secret negotiations; some Amer officials see narrowing of gap in allied and enemy negotiating positions since talks started; Nixon Adm sources believe deadlock in talks results from Vietcong demand for coalition govt and allied insistence that Vietcong take risk of free election

Vietcong Reported to Bar Secret Talks With Saigon; But Gap Between Negotiating Positions of Allies and the Enemy Appears to Have Narrowed in Recent Months

Latin-Amer Foreign Mins outline 'common position' proposing new bases for inter-Amer econ and soc cooperation in memorandum prepared at Vina del Mar, Chile, conf; memorandum deals mainly with econ growth and is to be delivered to Nixon by Chilean Min Valdes shortly; covers scattered complaints encountered by Rockefeller from Latin Amer leaders; cautions that its proposals should not be regarded as antagonistic or negative towards US but as part of necessary effort to overcome causes of friction; calls for curtailment of barriers limiting Latin-Amer countries' ability to export goods to US; urges private investment not be considered as assistance or computed as part of financial cooperation for development; scores existence of pol and mil conditions for aid; neglects to mention term Alliance for Progress, which Latin-Amer leaders reptdly consider as Dem phrase, but insists on validity of underlying multilateral agreements on which Alliance is based; cites lack of adequate US implementation of and attention to programs; calls on US to adopt certain 'operative measures' in internatl trade, financing, investments, transportation and 'invisible' transfers, tech cooperation and scientific and tech development; measures detailed

LATIN MINISTERS URGE NEW SET-UP IN TRADE AND AID; Outline for Inter-American Cooperation Goes Beyond the Alliance for Progress

Pres Nixon defends decision to develop and deploy Safeguard system, s, USAF Acad commencement, scoring critics of Adm policies and defense establishment as advocates of 'unilateral disarmament'

NIXON, DEFENDING POLICY, HITS 'NEW ISOLATIONISTS'; PLEDGES A WORLD ROLE; HE CHIDES CRITICS

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sixty-five House Republicans, including most of the party leadership, today endorsed Mayor Lindsay of New York in his primary fight for renomination.  

65 IN HOUSE BACK RACE BY LINDSAY; Most of G.O.P. Leaders Join in Unusual Endorsement -- Victory Called Vital

s stirs strong Cong resentment; Fulbright complaint that Nixon attempts to depict critics at unpatriotic; Sen Gore says 'central issue' in Safeguard debate is not disarmament, either unilateral or bilateral, but rather calling halt to mad armaments race while there is still time

President's Speech Stirs Resentment in Congress; Address Stirs Resentment in Congress

" Major changes" in the city's Human Resources Administration were urged yesterday by a City Council investigating committee.  

CITY COUNCIL BODY PROPOSES CHANGES IN POVERTY UNIT; Opposition to H.R.A. Plan for Poor Is Indicated in Investigators' Report

BISHOP IN DISPUTE RETIRES IN TEXAS; Catholic Prelate, Criticized by Priests, Quits Post at 78

Dempsey vetoes sec of tax program calling for rise in sales tax to 6%; plans special Legis session; will propose graduated real estate transfer tax and extension of 1% unincorporated business tax to professionals; explains veto, s to Legis; vetoed sec also called for rise in corp income tax, other measures; Sen earlier approved tax-budget pkg, 24-12

DEMPSEY VETOES SALES TAX OF 6%; Governor Says He Will Call a Special Session to Balance the Budget

Article on continuing shortage of low- and middle-income housing; contributing factors, such as lag in construction, decay and abandonment of existing bldgs, mounting costs of land, construction, interest rates and taxes, city's unwieldly pol and adm machinery, and limitations of Fed housing programs discussed, series on city problems

The Changing City: Housing Paralysis; The Changing City: Housing Paralyzed by a Conflict of Powerful Forces

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Nixon's top education advisers are drafting an ambitious and costly new program that would radically increase Federal support of the nation's public school system.  

Nixon Aides Draft Sharp Rise in Funds For Public Schools; Key Nixon Aides Plan Sharp Rise in School Aid

captured enemy documents show enemy acknowledges grave battlefield reverses, but insists its forces still occupy most advantageous position; reveal plans for series of summer and fall campaigns, including summer offensive

Foe's Papers Concede Heavy Losses

Vietnam Casualties

Nhan Dan ed says elections in S Vietnam can only be held after withdrawal of US troops

Hanoi's View Given

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Albert Sydney McLemore, who has devoted half his life to the Navy, will observe his 40th birthday tomorrow at sea. It will be a very dreary occasion for the commander.  

Skipper of the Evans; Albert Sydney McLemore

Army reaffirms decision to send Sgt M Sanders to Vietnam despite his contention that he is being sent as punishment for speaking against war

Sergeant Who Scored War To Get Transfer to Vietnam

loss of 3 brothers prompts rev of US mil's assignment policies; preliminary hearing held aboard Melbourne; list of 12 more missing; official Australian account of collision describes opening minutes of disaster; illus of survivors

Collision Leads to Personnel Review

17 killed, 7 wounded after mine blows up civilian bus in Mekong Delta

Mine Kills 17 in Delta

SYDNEY, Australia, June 4 -- An official Australian account of the collision between the Melbourne and the Frank E. Evans, made public in Canberra tonight, described the opening minutes of the diaster as "a scene of tragedy and heroism."  

Australian Account Given

Cambodia to admit Amer specialists to check her charge that Amer defoliation has destroyed crops in Cambodia; Cambodia makes charge in lr to Thant; State Dept spokesman says US defoliation operations come no closer than 3 mi to Cambodian border

Cambodia to Allow U.S. Check On Defoliant Damage to Crops

Sentenced to 3 yrs in prison for slander against Soviet state; had sought emigration to Israel and had opposed official Soviet position on Babi Yar massacre; text of Nov 28 '68 lr to Brezhnev protesting refusal to permit emigration

Jewish Engineer Who Sought to Go to Israel Gets 3 Years as Soviet Slanderer

Residents in 8 Suffolk County towns will be able to reach police by dialing new emergency number 911

911 Comes to Suffolk

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June 5, 1969

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HOSPITAL AID BILL PASSED BY HOUSE; URBAN DRIVE FAILS; $937-Million Measure Wins as Bid to Increase Funds for the Cities Is Blocked

Cuban Hidden in Landing Gear Survives Flight to Spain at -40; CUBAN STOW AWAY ON JET SURVIVES

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79 Killed in Crash Of a Mexican Jet; Crash of Mexican Jet Kills 79, Including Osuna, a Tennis Star

Vietcong Reported to Bar Secret Talks With Saigon; But Gap Between Negotiating Positions of Allies and the Enemy Appears to Have Narrowed in Recent Months

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Romeo & Juliet (1969)

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