UN security council calls for Dominican cease fire
The UN Security Council unanimously urged a cease fire in the Dominican Republic and asked for a personal representative from Secretary-General U Thant. Both Dominican rebels and government forces accuse each other of violating the truce as air strikes and shelling continue near the U S embassy.
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UN Security Council
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United States
Teachers Continue Meeting in South Bend Strike Stand
South Bend Indiana police searched the superintendent Alex Jardine’s home after a bomb threat linked to firing striking teachers. Jardine issued notices ending contracts for 360 teachers while AFL CIO members voted to continue the boycott amid a wage dispute with the school board.
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Jardine
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
George T. Bull
Teachers Union
Queen Elizabeth Dedicates Kennedy Memorial in Runnymeade
On a sultry Magna Carta site in Runnymeade England Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs John F Kennedy dedicated Britain's memorial to the late American president. The seven ton Portland stone monument near Magna Carta’s signing ground gains American property status with the ceremony.
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England
John F. Kennedy
Britain
Navy Recruits Lower Aptitude Personnel to Fill Needs
The Navy announced it must recruit a sizable share of men with limited testing aptitude to meet manpower needs. Typically six percent fall into this Group IV category, but November through March figures show 27 percent in November, 24 in December, 24 in January, 25.7 in February, and 22.1 in March. The recruits are directed to unskilled technical roles such as cooks and boatswain's mates.
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Navy
Ber
Vietnamese forces claim major Mekong Delta victory
South Vietnamese troops report killing 178 Viet Cong and capturing 53 in a two stage battle near Bac Lieu 135 miles southwest of Saigon. Four Americans wounded, 18 South Vietnamese killed, 77 wounded. Heavy air support and reinforcements aided the operation with large Viet Cong losses and weapons seized. Red China denounces an Indian peace plan.
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South Viet Nam
Mekong
Red China
Bac Lieu
Viet Nam
China claims second atomic test amid arms race push
Peking Radio announces China has exploded its second atomic device, saying tests aim to deter nuclear blackmail by the United States and to abolish nuclear weapons. The blast, likely in Sinkiang, times 10 am local, 9 pm EST, May 13, marks China as the fifth nuclear power with evolving delivery systems.
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China
United States
Peking Radio
Peking
Voting Amendment Offered Literacy in Senate
The Senate votes today on an Ervin proposed amendment to the voting rights bill. It would preserve voter qualification requirements and reading ability but bar literacy tests and allow federal registration in parts of the South. The measure aligns with a 1959 Supreme Court decision. debate stretched to a 66 19 rejection of a Sparkman registrar qualification amendment.
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Senate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N. C
North Carolina
Virginia
South
Ervin
Supreme Court
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Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Ohio University to lead Fairfield School education experiment
Ohio University will provide a chairman for an experimental education program at the Fairfield School for Boys near Lancaster. Prof. Robert Boyd will chair the initial phase, with a cooperative group of state universities and city systems guiding the project. The Regents will fund two years of the project with over 1 million dollars requested for each year.
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Vernon R. Alden
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State Board of Regents
Ohio U. Center For Educational Research and Services
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College of Education
Board of Regents
Alden
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Pentagon Reserve merger plan prompts joint news conference
Washington reports a zero hour compromise signaled in the dispute over merging Army Reserve units into the National Guard. Rep F Edward Hebert and Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara scheduled a Saturday morning joint news conference on Capitol Hill, with no subject disclosed. Hebert accuses McNamara of sidestepping congressional authority as hearings continue.
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Weather Forecast for Tonight and Saturday
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with a low around 50 to 55. Saturday remains partly cloudy and warm with scattered thunder showers and a high in the mid 80s.
Dangerous Mines Slow Revenue Agents in Kentucky
FRANKFORT Ky The Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals will brief federal revenue agents on mine safety May 24 25 as they resume searches of abandoned coal mines for illegal liquor stills and learn to avoid traps suffocation and explosives during investigations.
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Federal Revenue
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Senator denounces YAF acts over Firestone plant pull
U S Senator Stephen Young denounces the Young Americans for Freedom as a radical group and says their boycott threat helped pressure Firestone to drop talks on a 50 million synthetic rubber plant in Ro mania Indiana. Firestone said the boycott was a factor but not the main reason, and the deal fell through after April 20. A Kiwanis luncheon speaker urged the group against intimidating national firms. Dayton notes Kevin Clary Marion Catholic High School senior wins 500 college scholarship from the Ohio Association of Broadcasters to attend Ohio University.
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Stephen M. Young
Young Americans For Freedom
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Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Romania
Firestone
Kiwanis
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Committee Against
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Dayton
Kevan Clary
Marion Catholic
Ohio Association of Broadcasters
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Eaton leads Hungary hotel plans and Rhodes picks site for lab
Cyrus Eaton Jr heads Tower International talks with Hungarian officials about a $6 million Budapest hotel as East West trade policy promotion. In Columbus Gov James A Rhodes forms a three member panel to locate a new $5 million health laboratory building with James Shacknessy Don Hiliker and Dr Judson D Wilson on the committee.
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Cyrus Eaton Jr
Budapest
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Eaton
Tower International
Hungary
Johnson
Columbus
James A. Rhodes
James W. Shacknessy
Ohio Turnpike Commission
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Bennefontaine
Judson D. Wilson
Cammarata Dies In Cuba
Frank Cammarata once a noted Ohio Michigan gangster figure died May 3 in a Havana hospital at age 66 from acute edema of the lung and heart hypertension. He had escaped deportation to Italy in 1958 by fleeing to Cuba.
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Cuba
Frank Cammarata
Italy
Tshombe party gains nine seats in Luabourg Province
Premier Moise Tshombe's Conaco Alliance secured five seats and a favorable party four in Luabourg Province final results, increasing his National Assembly total.
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Moise Tshombe
National Assembly
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Tshombe
Conaco Alliance
Ben-Gurion Signals Return as Israeli Premier
Tel Aviv reports David Ben-Gurion says he is willing to resume the premiership, replacing Levi Eshkol in the Mapai Labor party, after resigning as premier in June 1963.
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Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai Labor Party
Levi Eshkol
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