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...Long-Range Study Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers has previously made known its desire to receive written suggestions and memoranda from committees and groups in addition to those with which it is arranging to have oral discussions in mid-May. It has now taken note of the April 28, 1969 announcement by the Committee of Fifteen inviting submissions of such material to it. If anyone who submits such papers would care to send a copy to the LongRange Study Committee, c/o William G. Young, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, the Committee would be pleased to have...
After debriefing the astronauts and studying telemetry from Apollo 9, NASA will announce on March 24 whether it will maintain the current schedule (Apollo 10 in mid-May, the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission in mid-July) or move directly to a landing mission in June. Whatever the decision, there is now more confidence than ever that U.S. astronauts will be walking on the surface of the moon this summer...
...request, though he did agree to a modest increase, and the ceiling on U.S. manpower now stands at 549,000. Then came Johnson's March 31 renunciation of a second term and his declaration of a partial bombing pause over the North. Six weeks after that, in mid-May, the Paris peace talks began...
...mid-May, 6,500 agents of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the largest after Prudential, went on strike for higher commissions and bigger retirement and pension funds. At one point, a settlement seemed near. But that was before the strikers began to toss bricks through windows of Metropolitan's headquarters in Manhattan, throw knives around the cafeteria and generally terrorize nonunion agents...
...Martin Luther King's final enterprise seems close to foundering. Resurrection City is an unhappy, unfriendly-and increasingly dangerous-collection of disparate groups of the poor. The National Capitol Parks Police estimate that 100 assaults and other violent incidents have occurred since the shacks were set up in mid-May, and at least 20 visitors have been robbed, beaten or stabbed outside the encampment fence. "There are rapes, robberies and cuttings every day," said Alvin Jackson, who resigned in anger last week as the camp's chief security marshal, "and there is nothing we can do about...