De Gaulle Wins Major Victory in French Elections
Paris AP reports Charles de Gaulle and his UNR won a clear majority in the National Assembly after runoffs. UNR totals 233 seats with 40.6 percent of the vote, plus 30 allied nominees, giving over 260 deputies and decisive control. Voter turnout surpassed 15 million of 21 million registered.
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France
Colombey-les-deux-Eglises
National Assembly
Marcel Coon
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Union For A New Republic
UNR
New National Assembly
Independent Republicans and Peasants
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Reds Routed Near Viet Nam Border Slaughter Described
In Danang South Viet Nam near the border with North Viet Nam a major Communist rout left at least 124 guerrillas dead, including two battalion commanders. Capt Graham Vernon of Tallahassee Fla aided government defense as 10 Americans were wounded and no deaths were reported.
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Danang
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Graham Vernon
Tallahassee
Fla
Vernon
Viet Nam
Young Chilean 16-year-old given life sentence for murder
Ignacio Galvez Allende, aged 16, receives a life term for a robbery murder in Santiago. He is noted as the youngest person in Chile to be sentenced to life, with the crime yielding only two dollars.
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Santiago
Chile
Ignacio Juan Galvez Allende
India Rejects Key Part of China Cease Fire Plan
New Delhi officials rejected the central clause of Peking's cease fire and troop withdrawal plan. The spokesman said China would keep troops inside Indian territory, a move India cannot accept. China says withdrawal begins Saturday while U.S. planes airlift Indian supplies to bolster border forces.
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New Delhi
China
Himalayas
Peking
India
Nehru
U.S
Churchill Kin Proposes Daily Hydrogen Bomb Strike on China
Julian Sandys, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and son of Duncan Sandys, urged in a Petersfield speech that one hydrogen bomb be dropped on Red China daily until China withdraws from India. Sandys, aged 25, is a prospective Conservative candidate for Parliament and spoke before the Pekin cease-fire announcement.
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London
Julian Sandys
Winston Churchill
India
Sandys
Commonwealth Relations
Duncan Sandys
Petersfield
Peking
Army Crushes Sunday Revolt In Guatemala
Guatemalan army quickly crushed a Sunday revolt as government says pro Communist air force rebels strafed the presidential palace and an army barracks from two commandeered warplanes. President Fuentes claimed Fidel Castro backed the abortive coup. Two civilians were killed and about 30 injured including Mrs. Philip Snare wife of the American Embassy attache. An anti aircraft battery downed one plane. the president and his grandsons were elsewhere as bullets struck beds and rooms.
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Guatemala
Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes
Republic
Fidel Castro
Philip Snare
Buffalo
N.Y
Ydigoras
Arizona scientist unveils atom scale microscope breakthrough
A University of Arizona physicist reports a new electron microscope design enabling viewing of atoms in life's molecules. If scalable, the device could read the genetic code from hereditary material, aiding structure analysis and verification of nucleic acid coding in cells.
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University of Arizona
New York Times
Arizona
Alvar P. Wilska
Department of Physics
Strauss Victory in Bavaria Complicates Adenauer Crisis
In Munich the Christian Social Union led by Franz Josef Strauss won a 12 seat majority in the Bavarian state legislature, strengthening Strauss's grip amid the Spiegel affair. Adenauer's coalition faces a fragile balance as the Free Democrats demand Strauss’s removal while staying allied in parliament.
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Munich
Germany
Franz Josef Strauss
Konrad Adenauer
Strauss
Christian Social Union
Adenauer
Christian Democrats
The
Spiegel
Free Democrats
der Spiegel
Bundestag
Free Democratic Party
Weekend Death Toll Hits 679 Across Nation
The Thanksgiving weekend traffic deaths reached 679, the highest total since 1958. In New England 23 accidental deaths occurred 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday, with 17 from highway crashes and one fire death. Kenneth W. Warner of Vergennes died in Vermont.
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New England
Vermont
Kenneth W. Warner
Vergennes
Maryland
U S Expected to Reject Soviet Cuba Proposal
Anastas I. Mikoyan returns to New York from Havana to learn the U S likely rejects the Soviet Cuban plan to wind down the Cuban crisis. He will confer with U Thant ahead of a dinner with U N officials and U S delegate Adlai Stevenson, then depart for Moscow Tuesday.
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United Nations
N.Y
Anastas I. Mikoyan
New York
Havana
U.S
Mikoyan
United States
Fidel Castro
Moscow
U.N
U Thant
Adlai K. Stevenson
Thant
Cuba offers deal on inspection issue
In Havana the Castro government proposed UN verification of dismantling bases for counter revolutionaries if the UN confirms Cuban bases are cleared. It reiterated Fidel Castro's five point package, including Cuba denying any change to Guantanamo while demanding inspection of US and other sites.
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Havana
Cuba
United Nations
Fidel Castro
U.S
Guantanamo
United States
Puerto Rico
Soviet vows support as Cuba issues amid Guantanamo drawdown
Mikoyan appears on Havana TV offering Soviet help by all possible means for Cuba, while the United States signals a withdrawal from Guantanamo and an end to the Cuban economic boycott. U.N. TALKS continued on Page 10.
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U.S
Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
Mikoyan
Havana
Cal
Kennedy urges end of arms race at Geneva disarmament talks
President Kennedy called for halting the arms competition as the 17 nation Geneva conference resumed. He urged immediate steps toward disarmament, highlighting a nuclear test ban and the need to curb the warlike tempo while noting recent atmospheric tests by the United States and potential Soviet actions. He linked urgency to the Cuban crisis and India China border tensions.
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Geneva
Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Russians expected to soften policy toward the West
Moscow signals a new phase of diplomacy after the Cuban crisis with hints of compromise and mutual concessions. Western diplomats weigh whether the stance is a short term tactic or a long term detente, as Geneva hosts disarmament talks and possible on site seismic inspections emerge as a key test.
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Khrushchev
Kennedy
Moscow
Geneva
Soviet Union
President Kennedy tours Ft. Stewart amid Cuba buildup
President Kennedy inspected 1st Armored Division troops and tanks at Ft. Stewart Georgia in a quick stop as part of a four site tour. The visit came as the looming U S military buildup tied to Cuba began to ease with Soviet missiles reportedly removed. Joint Chiefs head General Maxwell Taylor accompanied the president on the trip.
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Hinesville
Kennedy
1St Armored Division
Ft. Stewart
Cuba
United States
White House
U.S
Hunter
John W. Kline
A. W. Tyson
Carl D Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Stewart
Soviet Union
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Brazil Airliner Crashes Killing 23 Passengers
A Brazilian airliner on a Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro flight with 23 people aboard crashed today. The air force rescue service found no signs of life near the wreckage, sighted about 65 miles north of Sao Paulo.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Record Year For Building Seen in 1963
The Commerce Department forecasts 1963 construction spending at 63.3 billion dollars, rising about 2.1 billion from 1962. Housing is projected at 25.5 billion with about 1,425,000 private nonfarm dwellings and 40,000 public housing units to begin.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United States
Department
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