Kennedy asserts US role in European defense
President Kennedy says the United States bears the heaviest burden of Western defense and will participate in major decisions on war and peace in Europe. He frames the stance as a response to de Gaulle and urges continued European security commitments to the limit of capability and with allied support.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Europe
Conference On Trade Policy
Charles de Gaulle
Western Europe
New Guinea War Reports Mixed on Paratroop Skirmishes
Dutch forces clashed with Indonesian paratroopers near Fakfak and reported drops east of Kaimana in West New Guinea. District Commissioner J Dubois cited a Thursday night landing ten to twenty miles southeast, but confirmation remained uncertain.
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Hollandia
West New Guinea
Fakfak
J. Dubois
Kaimana
New Guinea
Civil defense drill evacuates 2900 students and teachers
Nearly 2900 public school students and teachers were returned home after a large civil defense test evacuation in Logan. Eight elementary schools and two high schools were emptied over 160 square miles and the drill concluded in under an hour.
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Logan
Hoffa Pleads Innocent In Assault Charge
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa pleaded innocent and sought a jury trial on an assault charge involving union aide Samuel Baron. The trial date was set for June 19 in Municipal Court after Baron, who sustained facial injuries, filed the complaint with the U.S. attorney.
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James R. Hoffa
Samuel Baron
Hoffa
Baron
Union
H. Clifford Allder
Thomas C. Sealley
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Teamsters’ National Warehouse Division
U.S. Attorney
U.S
Silver Spring
Justice Department
Man Admits Slaying While Proved In Jail
Kentucky officers plan to question Billy Jack Greer who admits killing Donald Ray Howard 20 and his wife 17 in their Ashland Kentucky car. Greer 24 was jailed on burglary charges and had been reported in Ironton Ohio as his home. Authorities say records show Greer was in Carter County jail Grayson Kentucky at the time of the double slaying.
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Kentucky
Ashland
Billy Jack Greer
Tommy Joe Waddle
Joplin
Ironton
Ohio
Greer
Donald Ray Howard
Mrs. Howard
Carter County
Grayson
Bomb strikes Saigon cafe injuring two U S troops
In Saigon two American servicemen were slightly injured when a small homemade bomb exploded in a downtown cafe. Security was tightened around the city as Viet Cong concerns rose and searches for further bombs were launched by South Vietnamese intelligence agents. Later in New York U Thant was informed Cambodia plans to buy five thousand dollars in U N bonds.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Kennedy urges farm program fix to curb Estes era costs
President Kennedy, at a news conference, linked old farm programs to Estes type cases and rising farm surpluses. He warned surpluses could reach ten to fourteen billion dollars if government reverts to prior programs, while FBI and committees probe Estes activities and gifts to Agriculture Department officials.
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Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Karl Mundt
Mundt
FBI
Texas
Bill Mundt
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Agriculture Department
Orville L. Freeman
John Bagwell
Agriculture
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Rep
J. T. Rutherford
Dtex
Washington
Congress
Treasury
West Texas
Congressional
Kennedy Says He Won’t Help Brother Ted in Massachusetts
President Kennedy refused to involve the White House in Ed ward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate bid while expressing sympathy for his brother. Ted Kennedy seeks the Democratic nomination against Edward McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack. A separate dispatch reports 12 East Germans escaped to West Berlin via tunnel on May 5, led by an 81-year-old man. Moscow papers announce the death of Admiral Arseni Golovko, 55, first deputy commander in chief of the Soviet Navy.
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Ted) Kennedy
Senate
Edward McCormack
House
John McCormack
D-Mass
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West Berlin
Moscow
Adm
Arseni Grigorevich Golovko
Author disillusioned now jailed in Yugoslavia over Stalin views
Milovan Djilas, once vice president of Yugoslavia, is sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison for disclosing state secrets in Conversations with Stalin to be published by Harcourt Brace. The Belgrade court ruling follows his detailed accounts of meetings with Stalin in 1944 45 and 48 and his quotes about postwar aims and another war in 15 to 20 years.
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Milovan Djilas
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Djilas
Yugoslavia
Stalin
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Belgrade
Mos
Vinton Man Drowns In Farm Pond
Harold Markins Collins 56 drowned in a farm pond near Vinton in Vinton County while hunting bullfrogs with his twin brother Harold and Jack Murphy. Their boat tipped. Murphy and Harold reached shore while Harold Collins was recovered after an hour. He was visiting from Athens State Hospital.
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Harold Markins Collins
Here
Vinton County
Collins
Harold
Jack Murphy
Murphy
Harold Steele
Harold Collins
Athens State Hospital
Courle Wed For 72 Years
Lancaster County notes belated congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mendenhall of Nine Points on 72 years of marriage. He is 92, she 88, and they quietly celebrated their anniversary last December 19. They offer simple advice: work together.
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Lancaster
Lancaster County
Frank Mendenhall
Mendenhall
Mendenhalls
Parachute Delay Forces Snooze of Aurora 7 Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida Navy Lt Cmdr Malcolm Scott Carpenter’s Aurora 7 launch is delayed three days to Tuesday to fix parachute reliability. The postponement followed a mission review with Carpenter Operations Director Walter Williams and Project Mercury officials after investigation into Glenn’s capsule parachute issue at 27 000 feet versus 21 000 feet and a backup deployment switch addition.
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Carpenter
Walter Williams
John H. Glenn Jr
William
Williams
Marines Dig In Along Border 5000 Men Ready
American Marines fortified camps 30 miles from the Laotian border near Udon as 1800 Marines landed. Another 500 Marines plus Army units left Hawaii for Thailand to reinforce the defense arc along the northeast frontier.
Khrushchev Critics Kennedy Vietnam Policy in Bulgaria
Premier Khrushchev denounces Kennedy landings in Thailand as unwise and predicts U.S. exit from Southeast Asia. He blasts U S Laotian and South Vietnamese actions, accusing Washington of bloodshed to back pro Western regimes during an impromptu address to 3000 collective farmers in an OBNOVA Bulgaria gathering.
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Bulgaria
Nikita Khruschev
Kennedy
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Laos
Viet Nam
United States
Khrushchev
Meany backs 35 hour workweek to cut unemployment
Atlantic City reports AFL-CIO President George Meany proposes a 35 hour week without pay cuts as a solution to U S unemployment. He argues shorter hours could create more jobs while maintaining earnings.
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N. J
George Meany
Afl-Cio
United States
Spring heat wave lingers across central and southeast
A persistent spring heat wave has blistered the central and southeast sections of the nation all week and shows no sign of a broad immediate break today.
Salan Judges Threatened by Terrorist Group
Paris judges trying Raoul Salan for crimes against the French state were warned of death by the Secret Army Organization if Salan is executed. A letter from former Col. Ives Godard threatened that if Salan or ex-General Jouhaud are executed, they will pay with their lives. Chillicothe inmates face attempted jail break charges after a Wednesday night incident at the reformatory.
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Raoul Salan
Secret Army
Salan
Ives Godard
Satan
Edmond Jouhaud
Chillicothe
Pthree Chillicothe Reformatory
Reformatory
Olin Lee Minton
Southeast Asia Diplomacy and Force Show of US Marines
American Marines dig in 30 miles from the Laotian border to deter Communist aggression in Laos. Honolulu reports 500 more Marines and Army infantry to bolster U S forces in Thailand. Kennedy expects rival Laotian princes to resume talks aiming for a neutral Laos government. Paris notes Prince Souvanna Phouma heads home for coalition talks.
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Mekong
Pathet Lao
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Associated Press
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U. S
Washington
National Union For
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Souvanna Phouma
Masked Bandits Strike Oxford Street Bank Messengers
Two masked men attacked two payroll messengers outside a London bank on Oxford Street and fled with cash bags that turned out to be empty as the messengers entered the bank. The five day forecast shows temperatures 8 to 12 degrees above normal with 0.2 to 0.4 inches of rain possible in scattered thundershowers likely Sunday or Monday.
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