OCR Text |
Show Scanning The World News Fronts Negotiation Protests Rock Korea (Compiled From Associated Press) SEOUL, South Korea About 40,000 protesting stuedrrts marched in Seoul and 2,000 others fought with soldiers near the presidential mansion on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. It was the biggest such outpouring since a student-led revolt toppled President Syngman Rhee in April of 1960. Target of the student protests was the possibility poss-ibility that the government may give away too much in current diplomatic negotiations with Japan, once the overlord of Korea. JACKSONVILLE, Ha One of few roving bands of Negro youths still operating in racially disturbed Jacksonville severely injured a white man Wednesday, Wednes-day, police reported. The city generally quieted down after two violent vi-olent days. A biracial committee came into being with the aim of restoring peace. " WASHINGTON -President Johnson called on religious leaders of the South Wednesday, and Southern Baptists in particular, to get behind' the fight for a strong civil rights bill. : Turning a routine greeting into a plea for help. Johnson stepped into the rose garden outside his office and tol4 150 participants in a Southern Baptist Bapt-ist leadership seminar " iNo group of Christians has a greater responsibility respons-ibility in civil rights than Southern Baptists." TOKYO In the first transpacific live telecast from Asia, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda expressed express-ed Wednesday to the American people Japans deep regrets for the knife attack on U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. Reischauer, who is making a good recovery from the bone-deep wound in his right thigh, sent word to his countrymen on the same program emphasizing em-phasizing the incident could have no possible effect on U.S.-Japanese partnership. WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said Wednesday free world strength around the edge of the Communist bloc will quickly quick-ly melt away unless the military assistance program gets at least a billion dollars a year. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sounded an .even stiff er warning. He said the requested billion dollars for the coming com-ing fiscal year can only be regarded as a holding operation of borderline adequacy. MIAMI, Fla The FBI said it arrested a fourth man Wednesday and charged him with trying to blow ! up a Florida East Coast Railway train March 12. He was identified as John Katsikos, 40, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who worked on the railroad for 10 years as a car Inspector. - DALLAS, Texas Dr. Hubert Winston. Smith, college professor who is Jack Ruby's new ; head legal counsel, indicates he will pursue new lines of defense in seeking to reverse Ruby's death sentence. Smith, 56 .director of the University of Texas Law School's Law-Science Institute, was introduced Tuesday night as Chief defense lawyer by Eva Grant, Ruby's sister. " |