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...governor's appearance capped a day-long Republican Issue Forum sponsored by the Young Republican Club featuring panels and speeches on civil rights, urban affairs, the poverty program and Vietnam...
...within five days they assembled V.C. and North Vietnamese army regulars in regimental numbers and struck at government units along Route One north of Qui Nhon. Hardly had the shooting started when allied planes spewing fire and metal were on top of the Communists. The result: one of Hanoi's worst beatings of the war, with some 700 enemy dead in one engagement alone. At week's end the desperate Viet Cong tried another regimental assault, this time in the Delta, 30 miles from Saigon. Again, the Reds were routed, and in a day-long battle nearly...
...battle started when miners dynamited the local police headquarters to protest a government edict reducing wages and laying off unnecessary workers. The government responded by putting the entire country under a state of siege and ordering 6,500 troops to the area. After a day-long skirmish that left 26 miners and six soldiers dead and some 100 wounded on both sides, the miners retreated into the mines...
...Ecumenical Affairs Commission to carry on a dialogue with other churches. It is rapidly becoming the busiest Catholic agency in the country. Last week eleven members of the commission, headed by Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of Charleston, S.C., met with a delegation from the United Presbyterian Church for a day-long dialogue. Within the past two months, similar meetings have been held with Episcopal and Lutheran representatives, and the commission plans to meet in the future with the National Council of Churches, the Greek Orthodox hierarchy and several more Protestant bodies...
Early this month, 50,000 German university students marched out of their classrooms for day-long demonstrations along the streets of 120 cities and towns. The picket lines had nothing to do with banning the bomb or demanding free speech. Carrying such signs as WHERE IS OUR FAMOUS GERMAN EDUCATION NOW?, the students were protesting the decline and fall of a school system that once was as synonymous with excellence as Swiss watches are in timekeeping. One newspaper called the demonstrations, designed to prod West Germany's two major political parties into pledging their support for better education...