In the News: May 14, 1968
These are the top stories for May 14, 1968
In the national news
Harriman Predicts Prolonged Fighting: Paris Talks Already at Stalemate by Raymond Lawrence
"U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators are struggling with a stalemate at the very outset, with real decision being made in Hanoi and Washington, not Paris."
Early Paris Agreement Unlikely
"U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman said today he expects no quick agreement to end the Vietnam war." (United Press International)
LBJ Expresses Hope for Peace
"President Johnson expressed hope today that the U.S.-North Vietnamese talks in Paris will 'silence the guns.' (United Press International)
RFK 'Must Win' Today in Nebraska
"Nebraska Democrats vote today in a presidential primary which Sen. Robert F. Kennedy said he must win if he is to become the party's nominee for the White House." (Associated Press)
150 Feared Killed in Viet Air Crash
"North Vietnamese who overran a Special Forces camp in the far north shot down nine U.S. aircraft, including a C130 transport that carried six American crewmen and possibly 150 South Vietnamese to their deaths." (Associated Press)
Motion of Censure Aimed at DeGaulle
"Students seized the Sorbonne University today in a hippie-style 'cultural revolution' while leftist deputies in Parliament filed a censure motion against the Gaullist regime in a tumultuous session suspended when the deputies almost came to blows." (United Press International)
Republican Governors Stay 'Uncommitted'
"Governors of the West's biggest states made it clear today they plan to keep their preferences for the Republican presidential nomination a closely guarded secret." (United Press International)
West Virginia Picks National Delegates
"West Virginia voters pick delegates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions and elect party nominees for governor today in a state primary election." (Associated Press)
Voting Heavy Over Nebraska
"Voting was reported moderate to heavy at several points in Nebraska during today's all-star primary election, and with sunny skies forecast for the remainder of the day the record 410,000 voters estimated by Secretary of State Frank Marsh could materialize." (United Press International)
Poll says RFK to get 47 per cent of the votes today
"Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will win today's Nebraska Democratic presidential primary with almost half of the votes, according to a survey completed Monday by the Oliver Quayle Co. and released by the National Broadcasting Co." McCarthy was expected to receive 22 per cent. (United Press International)
