The U.S. Air Force announced that training flights in a 70-mile zone along the East-West German border would be prohibited in the future. Three U.S. airmen shot down March 10 had been released earlier by the Soviet Union.
Signing of a 20-year treaty of friendship and mutual assistance between the Soviet Union and East Germany. The treaty included a guarantee of the frontiers of the German Democratic Republic.
Celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Polish Republic. Khrushchev, Walter Ulbricht, and Antonín Novotný joined in casting aspersions on Romanian nationalism.
Prime Minister Ulbricht, in a parliamentary speech, asked for East German membership in the UN and proposed a treaty betweenNATOand the Warsaw Pact and a general reduction of forces in Germany.
Members of the Common Market, after prolonged debate, agreed on a common wholesale price for wheat. German farmers were to be compensated for substantial losses vis-à-vis their French counterparts.
British prime minister Harold Wilson's counterproposal for a broader Atlantic nuclear force. The U.S. proposal for a NATOmultilateral nuclear force of 25 mix-manned surface ships, equipped with Polaris missiles, had met with a favorable response only from West Germany.
