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...Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants have already been organized, as have "freedom schools" for the older children and an agency to process marchers' welfare checks...
Girard first mobilized 20 youthful Sinologists who had been admitted to Peking on a cultural exchange program, then set to work. Some parts were easy. "The price list for food," says Girard, "was taken right off the stalls in the Peking markets, the section on Chinese cooking from actual menus of banquets we attended." The group questioned every tourist, businessman and teacher who came through Peking about his travels inside China, then sent the information out of China in the safety of French diplomatic packets. Forbidden to visit the grave of Confucius in Shantung, Girard contrived to overfly...
Lack of any formal contests plus the difficulty of "writing-in" on voting machines rob today's presidential primary of any great significance. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is the only candidate on the Democratic ballot, and Governor John A. Volpe is alone on the Republican list...
Third-Party Hope. Raising the number of U.S.-proposed sites to 15 seemed mainly a ploy to demonstrate that the U.S. was open-minded. North Viet Nam dismissed the four criteria as "absurd and insolent," and termed the lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador...
...list of 11 demands--formulated by MAT students over the last two weeks--aims at promoting a drastic increase in Ed School involvement with urban problems, and at providing broad student controls over the MAT program's administration...