Tuesday, April 30, 1968
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Eisenhower hospitalized; undergoes diagnostic tests
MARCH AFB, Calif. — (UPI)— Former President Dwight Eisenhower today underwent diagnostic tests in the hospital of March Air Force base, where he was whisked by helicopter from his desert home after complaining of "some chest discomfort."
An Air Force spokesman said doctors would not make any announcement on Eisenhower's condition until sometime later in the day.
Shortly after the 77-year-old war hero and former President was carried into the hospital on a stretcher at dusk Monday, one of his aides made a brief announcement that "the doctors feel it is best for a period of medical observation and bed rest."
Asked whether Eisenhower, who twice has recovered from heart attacks, had suffered a third, the aide snapped: "I didn't say anything of the sort."
He disclosed that Eisenhower played a round of golf Monday morning and "complained of some chest discomfort in the afternoon, long after the golf."
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Methodists may expand
DALLAS—(UPI)—The United Methodist Church Monday moved toward a union with eight other churches, which could make it a 20-million member denomination.
Delegates to the two-week conference, authorized its commission on ecumenical affairs to begin drafting a proposal for eventual union with the churches, all members of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU).
The Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren, also members of COCU, formed their congregations into a 12-million member church last Tuesday.
The other denominations are the United Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church, the Disciples of Christ, the United Church of Christ, the Southern Presbyterian Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
In other action Monday, the uniting conference voted to have the Methodists' $10 million investment portfolio withdrawn from a New York bank because the bank has extended credit to the Union of South Africa.
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EDT), two helicopters from the air base landed at the country club. Ten minutes later they were airborne, carrying Eisenhower the 34 miles to the five-story, 200-bed hospital.
He said Eisenhower looked pale. A nurse walked beside the stretcher holding up what appeared to be a bottle of fluid for intravenous injection.
"He didn't feel good so he came in for a checkup," an Air Force spokesman said.
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower did not accompany her husband to the hospital. She was expected to join him there today.
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Abernathy leads march to demand answers
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— Advance contingents of the poor people's march swung their efforts to Capitol Hill today, pledged to return to Washington in force and "demand answers" if federal help is not quickly forthcoming.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, successor to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as leader of the cruse, arranged to testify before the Senate antipoverty subcommittee at 10 a.m. EDT, and later to confer with Senate leaders of both parties.
price tag—$2.5 billion—failed on the floor last year.
The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., is studying legislation to help underwrite 2.4 million jobs over the next four years at a cost of $10.3 billion. The bill is given virtually no chance of passage, since a measure with a much smaller
Abernathy and about 100 followers opened three days of meetings with government officials Monday in an atmosphere of confusion, delay, and running declarations of determination.
Abernathy said at one point that if a series of demands for the poor were not met within 10 days he would return heading "the most militant, nonviolent direct action in this country's history."
Halls of government buildings echoed to "we shall overcome" as the singing marchers arrived for separate sessions with Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman, Atty. Gen, Ramsey Clark, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and Bertrand M. Harding, acting director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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Rockefeller agrees to seek nomination
ALBANY, N.Y. —(UPI)—Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller told his supporters today he will challenge Richard M. Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination because he is convinced "the party wishes to have such a choice."
A telegram from Rockefeller released by Vermonters for Rockefeller in Montpelier, Vt., confirmed that the New York governor will announce his candidacy at an 11 a.m. EDT press conference here. Rockefeller made passes at the GOP candidacy in 1960 and 1964 and failed.
Rockefeller's telegram said his purpose in challenging frontrunner Nixon "is to give our party a choice of candidates and of programs."
"I have become convinced that the party wishes to have such a choice," his message said. "I have become convinced that I can present it within a framework of party unity. This I pledge to do."
"I shall campaign as vigorously as I know how on the grave issues
"We need two viable candidates for the Republican nomination, not one," Nunley said.
Gary Scott Nunley, Ashland, Ky., graduate student, and Dan Austin, Salina senior, co-chairmen of Students for Rockefeller, said the group would be reactivated. Students for Rockefeller suspended operations after Rockefeller announced March 21 that he would not seek the nomination.
facing our country with a view to our coming out of the convention strong and united behind a candidate and a program that can win in November and restore in Washington the responsible Republican leadership that time so urgently requires.
"As against a divided opposition, victory is within our grasp."
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