NATO FUTURE
U.S., Britain talk
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Crucial U.S.-British talks on NATO begin today against a background of reports Europeans want a De Gaulle-Johnson summit meeting on the alliance's future.
A two-day round of State Department conferences with George Thomson, British minister for European affairs, was expected to lay out blueprints for a reorganized, streamlined alliance to be presented to the NATO Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels June 6.
AT THE SAME TIME the possibility of transferring NATO headquarters from Paris to London, a move necessitated by French action to withdraw from NATO, was to be explored.
There appeared to be little chance of a summit meeting between President Johnson and France's President Charles de Gaulle.
The atmosphere of crisis surrounding the crucial talks was mitigated somewhat Sunday by a report from Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho.
He said his just-completed two-week trip to Europe showed there was "no cause for despair" about the alliance, although there was "cause for grave concern."
Peace advocates march
WASHINGTON —(UPI) Thousands of peace demonstrators marched on the White House Sunday, pledging their votes to the November candidates who seek an end to the Viet Nam war.
President Johnson was walking on the White House grounds an
hour or so before the demonstrators trooped along the back fence of the executive mansion. It was not known whether he saw or heard the demonstrators from inside.
A turnout of over 10,000 had been expected.
British seamen strike
LONDON—(UPI)Britain's first merchant marine strike in 55 years confronted this seafaring nation today with the greatest threat to its maritime lifelines that it has faced since World War II.
The National Union of Seamen, whose 62,500 members man the world's biggest merchant fleet, began the walkout at the stroke of midnight Sunday.
ITS IMMEDIATE EFFECT was to tie up 300 to 400 ships in British harbors. The jam was expected to grow worse as other ships reach port and their crews walk out.
ships reach port and their crew visits Prime Minister Harold Wilson was to broadcast a report on the situation to the nation by television tonight.
Wilson is expected to declare that the government is ready for any contingency, and that there is enough food on hand to rule out any need for rationing.
HE ALSO IS EXPECTED to appeal to Britons to refrain from hoarding and panic buying.
Union leaders reported that they are receiving 100 per cent support from their members in their "fight to the finish" with ship owners.
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Coed living comes to K-State
MANHATTAN, Kan.—(UPI)—A new coeducational dormitory, possibly the first of its kind in the nation, will open this fall at Kansas State University, according to Thomas Frith, assistant dean of students.
selling Center staff member, said. "There are other coeducational dorms in the nation, of course, but Waltheim will be different in that students will live in apartments."
Dr. Eugene Wiesner, a Coun-
Waltheim Hall now houses ten girls and 58 boys, and is involved
as part of a research project in which group processes and their effect on student development are being watched.
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