February 18, 1968
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Riot Study Is Said To Express Alarm by John Herbers
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was set up to find the causes of the urban riots and to suggest solutions. “There is every indication that the commission will find American’s racial crisis to be of alarming proportions, that all the conditions that led to the disorders last summer still exist and in some ways are worse.” (New York Times)
Draft Calls Of 40,000 A Month Through June Seen By Hershey
Director of Selective Service Lewis B Hershey Lieut. Gen. said that the calls through June would run 40K men a month. The highest call was 49,200 in October 1966. (New York Times)
Violence Is Seen Eroding The US: Urban Studies Director Says ‘We Cannot Live With It’ by M.A. Farber page 39
Dr. Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard Universty and Mass Institute of Technology said that …” an immediate and passionate objection” must be entered against “any voice that gives aid and comfort to the present drift of events towards an ever-rising tide of domestic violence.” He deplored “an increasing tendency of Americans to accept certain forms of violence as “legitimate expressions of grievance” and as “Something we can live with.” “In fact,” he asserts,” we cannot live with it. Violence is never inevitable and never admissible in this society.” He warned about our exaggerated sense of stability. (New York Times)
February 19, 1968
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To M’Carthy, Now It’s ‘On, Wisconsin’ by Warren Weaver Jr.
Wisconsin primary only 6 weeks away. McCarthy will go to Wisconsin directly after the New Hampshire primary. He will campaign continuiously there for three weeks. Wisconsin if the only state that a Republican may choose a Democrat on primary day. Most Republican doves will support Romney. For the first time, ballots will also contain a none of the above option. (New York Times)
N. Korea Given Warning: Pueblo Crewmen Must Be Unhurt
“The United States warned North Korea again not to punish crewmen of the captured USS Pueblo.” (United Press International)
Viet Cong Offensive Lessens in Second Say: Marines Advance at Hue by George Esper
“Battle weary U.S. Marines moving behind a protective umbrella of artillery pushed 400 yards through the rubbled ruins of Hue’s Citadel today to the brink of one of the last Communist strongholds in Vietnam’s old capital.” (Associated Press)
LBJ Ends Weekend Tour Following Visit with Ike by Frank Cormier
“President Johnson gave an enthusiastic account today of a six-hour meeting with Dwight D. Eisenhower that climaxed a transcontinental tour.” (Associated Press)
GOP Governors Work for Moderate Party Platform by Jack Bell
“Republican governors, frustrated in attempts to agree on a presidential candidate, are launching a grass-roots drive for a moderate party platform.” (Associated Press)
February 20, 1968
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2 Seized In Plot To Bomb Union Square Bookstore by Martin Gansberg
FBI seized two right-wing extremists that had placed three sticks of dynamite and a fuse in the doorway of Jefferson Book Shop over on 100 East 16th Street. They placed it there at 2:15 am. FBI was disguised as bums. They watched the two place the bombs in the doorway. The bookstore specialized in left-wing literature. (New York Times)
Crew To Be Punished, Says Korean Diplomat: War Threat Made
“The crew of the U.S. Naval espionage ship Pueblo will be punished and any American reprisals will bring immediate war, the North Korean Embassy here said today.” (United Press International)
LSD Bill Rapped, Not Strong Enough
“The ranking Republican member of the House Commerce Committee, warning of abnormalities ‘horrible to contemplate,’ said today the administration bill to make individual possession or use of LSD a misdemeanor does not go far enough.” (United Press International)
Tonkin Gulf Probe Begins With McNamara To Testify by Robert Gray
“Quizzing of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara opens a Senate inquiry into the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which generated a major step-up in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.” (Associated Press)
Police Will Walk Summer Tightrope
“Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said today the policeman will be the ‘man on a tightrope’ this summer when tempers flare in the nation’s big city ghettos.” (United Press International)
February 21, 1968
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Thant, Johnson Meet For New Peace Talks: No Results Seen From Discussion
“President Johnson and Secretary General U Thant of the United Nations met for one hour today for an intensive discussion of Vietnam peace prospects.” (Associated Press)
Blast Rocks Embassy: ‘Senseless’ Says Johnson
“A predawn explosion shook the Soviet Embassy just four blocks from the White House today and President Johnson called the incident a ‘senseless act.’” (Associated Press)
Housing Provision To Be Eliminated by John Chadwick
“Some Senate backers of President Johnson’s civil rights bill, already dealt one serious setback, plan jettisoning an open-housing provision in an effort to salvage the original measure.” (Associated Press)
Johnson Confident of Pueblo Release by Jack Bell
“President Johnson is depicted by White House visitors was quietly confident that diplomacy eventually will win release of the captured intelligence ship Pueblo’s crew.” (Associated Press)
McNamara’s Testimony Doesn’t Change Views by John Hall
“Despite a marathon briefing by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, some Senate administration critics still voiced suspicious today that the United States provoked the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident as an excuse to bomb North Vietnam.” (United Press International)
February 22, 1968
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Embassy Bombing Probed: Dynamite Theft is Discovered
“Working under President Johnson’s personal order to clear up the case quickly, police and FBI agents probing a bomb explosion at the Soviet Embassy are exploring a possible link with a dynamite theft in nearby Virginia.” (Associated Press)
Negroes Urged At I.S. 201 To Arm For ‘Self-Defense’ by Leonard Buder
Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem were urged to arm for self-defense against whites at a memorial program for Malcolm X. Herman B. Ferguson told 600 negroes that.
The NY Times also went on to explain what N*gg*** were. “N*gg***” referred to subservient Negroes, who are content to accept ‘slavery’ and, among other things, go to ‘white, dirty ____Jewish-owned bars.’ (New York Times)
Khe Sanh Totally Encircled by John T. Wheeler
“The 40,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounding the Khe Sanh combat base have closed their siege wing so tightly that neither withdrawl nor reinforcement of the U.S. Marine garrison could be carried out except as a cost of heavy casualties, Marine officers at Khe Sanh believe.” (Associated Press)
13 Midshipmen Face Dismissal
“The superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy says 13 midshipmen face dismissal on charges of smoking marijuana in their rooms in Bancroft Hall, the academy dormitory.” (Associated Press)
50 At State U In Albany Hold Sit-In
State University staged sit-in to prevent Dow Chemical from interviewing students. At one point, they broke into the interview room and led the Down rep to another room. He decided to temporarily discontinue his work. Sit-ins were staged by the Student-Faculty Committee to End the War in Vietnam and by the Students for Democratic Action. (Associated Press)
February 23, 1968
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US Dead For Week At 543, A Record by Tim Buckley
Toll the week before was 400, week before that 416.
About 9000 were killed in action in 1967 and 5000 in 1966.
American’s wounded were at 2547 for the week. 1247 of these required hospitalization. (New York Times)
48,000 Men Are Slated for April Draft Call: Most since 1966 by Donald H. May
“The Pentagon announced today an April draft calls of 48,000 men – highest in a year and a half. The Marine Corps will take 4,000 of the draftees.” (United Press International)
Saigon Decision Halts Marines’ Hue Advance by Eugene V. Risher
“U.S. Marines today halted their advance on the Imperial Palace in Hue to wait a political decision from Saigon on whether to use artillery and air strikes against this final objective or attack without support, heedless of the heavy cost.” (United Press International)
‘Big Brother’ Will Known Sex and Drinking Habits by David M. Sullivan
“This Big Brother is computerized and is being fed with information by many government and private agencies and businesses. Experts in the field consider the demise of traditional privacy inevitable.” (United Press International)
Sparkman Warns of Cities’ Problems
“Key Democrats on Capitol Hill have pledged support for President Johnson’s proposed $10.4 billion assault on urban ills, echoing his warning that immediate action is needed if the nation’s big cities are to be revitalized.” (Associated Press)
February 24, 1968
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S. Viet Forces Capture Palace Grounds at Hue: Fighting Heavy in City by George Esper
“South Vietnamese forces recaptured the palace grounds of Hue’s Citadel today from Communist troops which seized them 25 days ago, but heavy fighting continued in other parts of the Citadel.” (Associated Press)
Thant Offers Vietnam Views by Bruce W. Munn
“Secretary General Thant said today he was ‘more than ever’ convinced that meaningful peace talks would follow within a few days after an unconditional end to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.” (United Press International)
War in Vietnam Creates Acute Refugee Problem by William L. Ryan
“From seven to 14 per cent of South Vietnam’s people are homeless today and the government, in the midst of a costly war, faces a staggering refugee problem.” (Associated Press)
An AP wirephoto shows the garbage strike in Memphis. The disturbance is being broken up the use of mace by police.
