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ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Illinois Governor Otto Kerner and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins discuss the report made by the President's Commission on Civil Disorders...
...Viet Nam war grows bloodier, covering it becomes a more dangerous occupation for newsmen representing all media. Many correspondents are working under enemy fire-as ours were last week in the process of reporting for this issue's stories on the war. Bureau Chief William Rademaekers was based in combustible Saigon, as were Correspondents Don Sider, Peter Vanderwicken and John Cantwell. After covering the bitter fighting in Hué, Karsten Prager flew out to Danang to send his report...
...head of the Library of Congress and the director of the National Science Foundation) will advise the President on the Commission's findings. And the Commission, is having a huge chunk of its work done by outside experts--the ACLS group. The ACLS, Bryant says, intends that its report "have a life of its own," regardless of how it is treated by Johnson's Commission and Committee...
Bryant and his colleagues are left in a delicate position by the sluggish official progress of their recommendations. They are anxious to spread their view of the needs of American research libraries, but relucant to undercut the punch of the report by speculating what the Commission should say. The report may call for federally supported regional research centers, and Harvard would of course be a logical location for a New England center. But the legislation for such a project can't be considered until the Commission's report is released...
This is the worst of times, though, to try to get the public to pay attention to the nation's library needs, and there seems little alternative but to wait. For the present the "life of its own" Bryant sees for the ACLS report must be counted among the Vietnam war casualties...