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...network executives learned that they faced tight restrictions on what they can cover and how. The Soviets intend to use Russian crews and equipment for all live shots and to exclude any glimpses of Pat Nixon's activities. Only three weeks before the first Soviet-American summit since Glassboro in 1967, the networks had not even obtained permission to bring their own crews to film the visit for later broadcast. Even if such permission is granted, the indications were that film coverage would be restricted to the ceremonies of Nixon's arrival and departure...
...while pickets shouted their dissent. Some mass marches developed a football rally spirit; elsewhere a funereal atmosphere dominated as church bells tolled and the names of the war dead were read. A pair of high school sweethearts from Blackwood, N.J., attended an M-day rally at Glassboro State College, then committed suicide together. Across the Hudson, New York's city hall wore the black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town in patriotic tricolor. Across the country-in drenching San Francisco rain...
...GLASSBORO. N.J.-Two high school students suffocated themselves "in the name of peace" after attending a Moratorium rally, leaving two dozen suicide notes...
...efficacy and wisdom, were the beginning of a necessary break with the dole approach. In the foreign field, the continuing torment of Viet Nam overshadowed significant accomplishments. Most notable were agreements with the Russians and the beginning of the process that could lead to realistic arms control. The Glassboro summit with Aleksei Kosygin helped start this movement...
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY, 1968. After being kicked around for ten years, the idea was finally approved at the Johnson-Kosygin summit in Glassboro, N.J., a year ago. The resulting treaty, worked out in Geneva, commits the signing nations (60-odd, so far) to the historic agreement. Nations without nuclear weapons will not produce or receive them in the future from the present nuclear powers. The pact also promises have-nots the full peaceful benefits of the atom, while committing the nuclear powers to move forward toward effective arms limitation and disarmament. France and Red China refused to sign...