In the National News
Fighting Rages As Reds Attack U.S. Artillery Base by George Esper
"About 1,000 North Vietnamese troops attacked a U.S. artillery base in the central highlands in human wave assaults today and overran one gun position in the heaviest fighting there in four months... 135 North Vietnamese troops and 19 Americans were killed and 51 Americans were wounded." (United Press International)
U.S. Can't Have Guns in Vietnam., Butter at Home by Warren Unna
Joseph W. Barr, undersecretary of the Treasury told the Senate Armed Services Committee that we have to reduce our standard of living if we are going to handle the problems of the less fortunate people all over the world. At the end of the session, he said, "I'll either get fired or impeached before I get out - and either one is not too bad." (Washington Post-Capital Times Service)
Bobby Blames 'Pride' for War by Carl Greenberg
At San Fernando State College (California), Kennedy told students that he took no pride in gross national products that include napalm, nuclear warheads, and armored trucks. Hecklers shouted "Where were you in New Hampshire?" "Mingled with the pro-Kennedy signs were some that said "SOB" — meaning "Students opposing Bobby" — and "Are you going to open the archives up? The last referred to the archives of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." (Los Angeles Times - Capital Times Service)
Business Moves to Anti-War Stand by John Cunniff
"'In business, if you adopt a strategy for results and maintain that strategy for 36 months and find you're no further along than when you started, then it makes no sense to continue with the same strategy,' is a typical opposition remark." (Associated Press)
LBJ Gets Backing From Big Labor
"President Johnson has won promises of solid labor support for his election and left little doubt that he intends to seek another term... We do intend to stand here as long as we can stand here," he said Monday night, "and fight for what is right." (Associated Press)
In the Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
Under the banner headline: 18,000 Hail McCarthy Here:
Listen to Blast at Viet War: Minnesotan Jabs At LBJ and Bobby by John Patrick Hunter
Drawing the largest crowd in the city's history, McCarthy spoke out against the war in Vietnam. "They stood and cheered him for nearly .two minutes when he said "we are seeking the presidency of the United States. "We made a great beginning in New Hsnpshire," McCarthy said. "The next significant step is here in Wisconsin." Dorothy Knowles, wife of the Republican governor, attended the event. "There were signs asking "Who Killed Kennedy?'; and "Oswald— Did he or didn't he?" (page 1)
Iowa Dems Give McCarthy Big Lift
"Iowa Democrats turned out in record numbers Monday night to express opposition to the Johnson administration by electing large numbers of anti-administration delegates to county conventions... Beardsley added that an Associated Press evaluation of the anti-Johnson strength showed that about 70 per cent belongs to McCarthy." (page 1)
SWP Candidate Expounds Marxist Black Nationalism by Whitney Gould
Paul Boutelle is a candidate for Vice President, on the same Socialist Workers Party ticket as Fred Halstead. The article describes Boutelle as a mixture of Karl Marx and Stokely Carmichael. "We call for a socialist America," said Boutelle at a press conference this morning, "—a country in which the workers tare control of (he means of iroduction. The country can be saved, but not the capitalist system. The ruling class are corrupt, thieving hypocrites and liars." (page 6)
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