Nkrumah Downfall Sparks Mixed Global Reactions
UPI reports mixed responses to Kwame Nkrumah's overthrow as Ghana pivots from a legacy of pan African aims. Leaders in Guinea and Zambia praise his contributions, while Accra measures the change with national and economic concerns amid debts and Western alignment. Australia to triple Vietnam troops to 4,500 as regional tensions persist.
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UPI
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Viet Nam
Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Australia
Harold Holt
Nguyen Cao Ky
Kwame Nkrumah
Guinea
Ghana
Moscow
Peking
Nkrumah
Accra
Nkrumah Square
United States
Britain
Peace Corps
CIA
Ambassador Proves No Radioactivity At Palomeres Site
U S Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke swam off Palomares with Maj Gen Stanley Donovan and embassy officials to demonstrate there is no radioactive danger from the B 52 crash seven weeks earlier. Duke cited tests by American and Spanish scientists confirming no public health risk or detectable radioactivity in the Palomares area.
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Spain
UPI
U.S
Angier Biddle Duke
Stanley J. Donovan
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Publishers Hit Price Increase Of Newsprint
The American Newspaper Publishers Association charged that a newsprint price rise will cost U.S. newspapers an extra 75 million annually and urged North American producers to reconsider. The ANPA noted 1957 price stability and rising producer profits as it labeled the increase unwarranted and unjustified.
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UPI
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
UNPA
ANPA
Association
Rusk urges food for freedom to avert future wars
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Senate Agriculture Committee that a five year 3.3 billion dollar a year expansion of the Food for Freedom program could prevent wars sparked by overpopulation and hunger. He warned that population growth could outpace food production if trends continue. The note comes as the House prepares to vote on Coast Guard funding and other measures.
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UPI
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United States
House
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Guard
Viet Nam
Senate
New York
Hugh Carey
Big City
Supreme Court
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Joseph Tydings
Maryland
Committee For Government of the People
Wets and Drys Face Maine Recount in Liquor Vote
In Augusta Maine a recount of the Sun day liquor referendum results will begin March 14 and take about two weeks. Officials said the recount should resolve a see-saw result between wets and drys after ballots from February 21. The outcome will decide Sunday liquor sales in first class restaurants hotels and motels and beer in grocery stores with disputed margins shifting between factions as counts were updated.
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Maine
UPI
Herbert R. Ferrell
Vacationland, Inc
Drys
Kenneth Curtis
Twets
Monmouth
Nelson Column Crashes Down in Dublin Blast
An early morning explosion toppled the 121-foot Nelson monument in Dublin as Irish extremists, believed IRA aided, hit British symbols ahead of Easter 1916 anniversary. No injuries. police hunted suspects and checked another memorial at Wellington Park.
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Northern Ireland
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