The Soviet Union suffered a defeat in the U.N. General Assembly’s emergency session last night when a Yugoslav resolution and its own measure demanding withdrawal of Israeli forces from conquered Arab territory failed to win the required two-third majority votes. A Latin-American draft resolution, supported by the United States and linking withdrawal to an end to belligerency, was also rejected. A condemnation of the Israeli unification of Jerusalem was adopted.
Fifteen United States marines were killed and 51 wounded in mortar, rocket and artillery attacks, on positions just south of the demilitarize dzone between North and South Vietnam. In the air war, planes from Navy carriers bombed the MIG base at Kep, 37 miles northeast of Hanoi.
Intelligence sources in Seoul reported that North Korea had set up an extensive infiltration program designed for possible future guerrilla warfare in the south. An immediate objective of the plan, the sources said, is to test the receptiveness of the South Korean masses to a full-scale subversion movement such as that introduced by the Vietcong in South Vietnam.
Britain's House of Commons passed a controversial bill to reform British law on homosexual conduct. Only approval by the House of Lords, which has twice previously voted for this reform, is now required to make the bill law.
The Bolivian Government asked Argentina to send troops into Bolivian territory to aid in fighting guerrillas reported to be operating near the frontier of the two nations, according to reliable sources.
New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon unveil in Washington recommendations for a massive attack on slum problems. His proposals, following long study and consultation with industrial and financial leaders, are based on two objectives: jobs and better housing for the poor. The Senator seeks to achieve these aims through basically the same mechanism: the resources of private enterprise.
Fewer than 50 Negroes turned out in the predominantly Negro town of Canton, Miss., to witness James H. Meredith's completion of an 11-day, 162-mile symbolic "march against fear" through Mississippi. His first such walk, a year ago, was interrupted when he was wounded by a shotgun sniper.
Patrick Lyndon Nugent, the grandson of the President, was christened at the St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Stonewall, Tex.
