Cuban plot to kill Castro and invade Cuba uncovered
Informants report about 300 rounded up and 75 struck in a purported August plot to assassinate Fidel Castro and spur an invasion. The FAL and MARC were named as organizers, with executions at La Cabana Fortress and convictions ranging from prison terms to death sentences.
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Liberation Front
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U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
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Acros
Havana Bay
Cuba
Santiago de Las Vegas
New ruler reported eliminated in Yemen coup
A new Yemeni ruler Imam Mohammad Ali Badr was reportedly assassinated after a coup announced by Cairo Radio. The upheaval follows a rebellion linked to Pan Arabism and allies of Nasser.
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Yemen
Mohammad Ali-Badr
Cairo Radio
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Al-Badr
Imam Ahmed
Mohammad
Soviet Union
China
East Germany
President Calls for Broad Action on Narcotics
President Kennedy urged much more comprehensive action to combat narcotics abuse at the first White House conference on narcotics and drug abuse. He noted confusion and differing agency statistics and pressed for clear uniform medical treatment for addicts.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Hawk Missile Sale Okayed For Israel
The United States approves a Hawk antiaircraft missile sale to Israel to bolster defenses against neighboring states. The deal includes training of Israeli operators in the United States and is described as a purely defensive straight sale. McNamara then travels to Frankfurt for a two day check on troop readiness along the Iron Curtain.
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United States
Israel
Soviet Union
U. S
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
America
Iron Curtain
Newsman predicts Algeria will resist communism
Richard K. O Malley, AP Paris bureau chief, told the AP Managing Editors Association that Algeria will not become Communist due to Arab nationalism. He noted Reds fared poorly in North Africa and Iraq and urged patience as Algeria’s future alignment remains uncertain. He cited Maghreb unity as a possible regional factor shaping East West influence.
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Algeria
North Africa
Richard K. O’malley
Associated Press Managing Editors Association
O’malley
Associated Press
Paris
Iraq
O'Malley
United States
Tunisia
Morocco
Four Die In Crash At Forbes Air Force Base
An RB 47 plane from Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka Kansas crashed on take-off during a weather mission killing four airmen aboard. The base commander Col Jerry Upchurch said the craft went down about 2000 yards from the main runway and the victims' names were withheld.
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Topeka
Kan
Forbes Air Force Base
Here
55Th Strategic Reconnaisance Wing
Forbes
Jerry Upchurch
Flood Devastation in Barcelona Province Leaves Hundreds Dead
Spain's worst natural disaster in modern times results in 341 dead 546 injured and 464 missing as floods devastate a 150 square mile industrial area north and west of Barcelona. Thousands displaced hundreds of homes destroyed 25 factories ruined and $80 million in damage reported. Many victims died in their sleep or at work as floods swept through the region.
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Barcelona
Spain
Brezhnev Warns Cuban Attack Could Start War
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev warned that an American attack on Cuba would trigger a general war. In New York, Secretary of State Rusk held talks with about a dozen South and Central American nations on a possible alliance to halt the spread of communism from Cuba.
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Split
Yugoslavia
Leonid Brezhnev
Cuba
New York
Dean Rusk
UN commander refusals surrender with North Korean troops
Maj. Gen. James R. Winn of the UN command armistice panel refused to surrender two North Korean soldiers captured in a Sept. 5 firefight. Winn said the North Koreans illegally crossed the demarcation line. East German authorities urge use of potato waste for animal fodder amid food shortages.
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Panmunjom
Korea
James R. Winn
UN Command
Military Armistice Commission
Winn
Berlin
Army to expand elite antiguerilla forces to 15000
Pentagon sources disclosed that the Army has won approval to boost its elite antiguerilla forces to about 15000 men, roughly triple the present strength. A Defense Department spokesman confirmed the increase in ground elements but offered no further details.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
U. S
Kennedy to Campaign Weekly Trail in Election Drive
President Kennedy will tour on weekends through November to boost Democratic majorities in Congress. He will speak in Wheeling West Virginia tonight and has stops planned for October 19 in Chicago and in Springfield Illinois.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Senate
Wheeling
W. Va
Chicago
Illinois
Springfield
Congress Approves Cuba Force Resolution
Congress completed action on a resolution backing use of force if needed to block Cuba from becoming a military threat. The House passed 384 to 7 after debate. Senate approved 86 to 1. Kennedy expected to sign. The measure expresses unified support for any action Kennedy deems necessary to curb Cuban communism.
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Washington
Congress
Cuba
House
Senate
Kennedy
United States
Sabin Defends Oral Polio Vaccine Amid Nebraska Cases
Dr Albert B Sabin rejected claims tying his oral polio vaccine to five suspected Nebraska polio cases. Omaha tests isolated polio virus in only one patient a 16 year old girl who had five Salk doses. He said the missing virus in the other four cases means no link to Type III vaccine.
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Cincinnati
Albert B. Sabin
Nebraska
Omaha
Ole Miss Guards Against Meredith
State and local police sealed the University of Mississippi campus as about 400 officers protected against James H. Meredith. Gas masks, helmets, and billy clubs marked the security with hundreds of patrol cars surrounding the gates while students resumed classes. Meredith was reported in Memphis and bound for New Orleans for a press conference.
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Oxford
Miss
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Meredith
Harrison County
Gulf Coast
Tupelo
Mississippi
Memphis
New Orleans
Rhodes criticizes bond debt and state spending in Ohio
Republican candidate James A. Rhodes attacks Governor DiSalle over bond provisions and $158 million in bonded indebtedness with $27.6 million in interest. He says DiSalle promotes pay-as-you-go claims while citing a $185.6 million cap and capital programs.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
Michael V. DiSalle
Rhodes
DiSalle
President Praises Market Economy at News Conference
President Kennedy told about 350 editors and publishers that the free market is a more efficient decision maker than central planning. He said the administration is not anti business and spoke at the State Department auditorium about comity between government and industry.
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Washington
Kennedy
State Department
Canadian PM Appears Before Nation in Turbulent Opening
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker faces a hostile political landscape as he opens the 25th Parliament of Canada. The session centers on a possible no confidence motion from Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson amid strains in US-Canada relations and Canada’s $18 billion investment ties. Two small opposition parties may grant temporary relief.
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Ottawa
John Diefenbaker
Canada
United States
Diefenbaker
Lester B. Pearson
Liberals
House of Commons
Mariner 2 Venus Pass Targeted This December
Washington reports the Mariner 2 mission progress from NASA. Launched August 27, the craft is on track to pass within 9000 miles of Venus on December 14, with current Earth distance 4,997,091 miles and Venus distance 41,464,910 miles. Radio signal is good.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Venus
Mariner
Earth
Copter Brings Four Survivors To Shore After Ditching
In Shannon Ireland four more survivors from the Atlantic ditching of an American airliner were brought ashore by helicopter from the Canadian carrier Bonaventure. Lois Elander, 31, described how she survived a life raft crowding with 52 aboard a raft built for 25. She suffered a spinal injury along with a broken arm and dislocated shoulder but thanked an unknown man who pulled her to safety as her husband Dick answered her calls.
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Shannon
Ireland
Bonaventure
Lois Elander
North Atlantic
Celerina
Royal Air Force
Cork
Lincoln Memorial defaced with racial graffiti
Vandals painted Black person lover on the rear wall of the Lincoln Memorial in pink letters. The paint was scrubbed but specialists will repair the damaged area. Nelson Murdock said the act likely occurred Sunday night or early Monday with no arrests to date.
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Washington
Lincoln Memorial
U.S. Park
Nelson Murdock
National Plow Contest Opens in Wilmington Amid Farm Drama
In Wilmington Ohio the National Plowing Contest begins alongside a Farm-Drama exhibition expected to draw about 150 000 visitors. The weather looked cloudy but the event aims to showcase farming activity and attract a large crowd to the Southwest Ohio city.
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