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Show Scanning The News Belgian Doctors Negotiate BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Premier Theo Le-fevre's Le-fevre's government began bargaining with 12,000 striking doctors Thursday night on terms for ending a walkout which has deprived Belgium of normal medical services for nine days. VIET NAM: Communist guerrillas struck n force again Thursday, ambushing a Viet-ramese Viet-ramese battalion moving along a road near Mo Cay. No casualty figures were immed.ately available. WASHINGTON: The House: early Thursday passed a sweeping cotton-wheat subsidy bM nd sent it directly to President Johnson, ine otmTdniht vote'came after earlier approva. of a food stamp program for needy families. HARRISBURG. Pa: Pennsylvania's Gov. Willi Son made what he described 'n final effort" to convince supporters that he is not a candidate for the Republican fre sidentfal nomination. But the governor m SLTeSK "not engineered." BUDAPEST, Hungary: Premier Kruschev accused ac-cused the Communist Chinese today of .rres ponsibly playing with the destiny of millions of people." He predicted their "spasmodic efforts ef-forts to subordinate world communism will end in "shameful failure." LONDON Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home Douglas-Home deferred a British general election until fall, giving himself time to maneuver and try to recoup the sagging prospects of his ruling Conservative party. The decision Thursday by the 60-year-old British leader means the Conservatives will cling to power until the last possible moment. They have been in office continuously since 1951, and their five-year term expires in November. The most likely election dates were regarded re-garded as Oct. 8 or Oct. 15. A formal statement from the prime minister's office did not name the date. The prime minister had been under mounting mount-ing pressure from inside and outside his party to give a clear statement of his intentions. He had frequently hinted the election would be held either in June or October. He obviously ruled out the former date on the assumption that the Conservatives stand little chance of winning an early encounter with the high-riding Labor-ite Labor-ite opposition. The Laborites have a 10 per cent edge in the latest public opinion polls. |