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...climax of the referendum battle took place at the February 5 meeting of the Council. After elections for the semester were concluded and Munyon was installed as president, Parker proposed that a non-binding opinion poll be substituted for the anti-war referendum. The latter called for prompt withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam and would have been binding on the Council if approved. Parker's motion passed...
Loose Wires. To cool the "feverish boom," Johnson once again "urgently" asked for prompt congressional approval of a temporary 10% surtax. The measure would take $10 billion out of circulation in the next fiscal year, easing pressure on interest rates and prices. At that, 1968 would hardly be austere. According to Johnson's projection, the G.N.P. would still rise more than 7%, to about $846 billion. Of the total, about 4% would reflect genuine gains, with the remaining 3% attributable to inflation. Without the tax bill's restraining influence, the Administration believes, these estimates would be thrown...
...home, the plight of Pueblo's crew was eloquently conveyed by a photo from North Korea of the ship's officers and crew parading with their hands up. Washington's impotence in a week-long waffling effort to obtain their release helped prompt a predictably irascible response from press, public and Congress. "A dastardly act of piracy!" cried Massachusetts Congressman William Bates, senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett urged the U.S. to send "an armada steaming into Wonsan harbor, throw a tow rope around the Pueblo...
...explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also called the seizure of the ship a "wanton and aggressive act" and added, tightlipped: "Clearly, this cannot be accepted...
Doctors said Skihil's prompt action prevented Miss Stewart's burns from being more severe than first degree...