August 29, 1969

N Korea discloses that US crewmen are alive but injured, Panmunjom conf; says they will be returned it UN Command states in writing the 'real aim' of helicopter's overflight, admits 'criminal act,' apologizes for it and guarantees that similar violations will not occur; repts Crawford and Hoffstatter are seriously injured, Loepke has light injuries; disclosures made in response to Maj Gen Adams 3d request for information

white construction workers, angered by city-arranged shutdown of construction projects, picket City Hall, Pittsburgh; Mayor Barr meets with contractor and union reprs and Black Coalition; contractors' offer to train up to 100 persons in bldg trades skills rejected; workers threaten strike; Teamsters local pres H Trotto calls shutdown a lockout, threatens to sue Master Bldrs Assn; Hill says Negro workers will close every publicly financed project in nation unless hiring bias is ended

ct grants delay till Dec 1 but rules that new plans must require steps toward desegregation be taken before end of this school yr; fund to file suit, US Sup Ct, seeking reversal of ruling; Aug 20 conf, Biloxi, between Judges Russell, Nixon and Sen Eastland prior to hearing on school case attended by 3 civil rights staff lawyers, followed by Adm request for withdrawl of desegregation plan involving 30 dists, contributed to feeling among lawyers that they were outsiders in Adm; Greenberg scores ruling

A Feinberg elected chmn; discusses orgn's aims

Lodge, in 32d session of talks, says Nixon defers decision on additional US withdrawals until US can further evaluate recent enemy mil activity and examine potential action in future; says US has reduced for over a mo rate of B-52 missions; says this is in addition to halting all action against N Vietnam and replacing 25,000 Amer troops with S Vietnamese; enemy spokesmen, in news conf after session, continue to place responsibility for mil activity on US; say US will have to comply with Vietcong program; Lodge scores enemy's insistence on unilateral withdrawal; presses enemy on POWs; enemy insists it gives prisoners humanitarian treatment, links POW disposition to Vietcong program