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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1964
Page
2
Belgium moves to draft striking doctors if the eight day long walkout continues. Premier Lefevre reluctant to draft 12000 strikers but plans for national interest. Health insurance reform sparked fury as 10000 doctors and 2000 dentists protest. Emergency service system remains, threats and tarred homes reported.
In Jammu Nehru frees Moslem leader Abdullah Moslem and 13 others jailed in 1953 for attempting to secede Kashmir or join Pakistan. CARE signs with Ceylon to provide 5 million dollars worth of flour and milk for free distribution to school children and medical cases over the next year.
Princess Irene of The Netherlands arrived in Paris from Amsterdam after a bomb scare delayed her takeoff. The Dutch government denied exile plans while Irene refused to join her parents on a Mexico trip and prepared to celebrate fiancé Don Carlos Hugo de Bourbon Parma’s birthday.
Nixon says the principle of victory from Korea should guide South Vietnam. He warns against compromise or neutralization and argues against widening the war to North Vietnam. While visiting Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa, he criticizes loose talk on flexible policy toward communism.
President Johnson designates W Averell Harriman to handle African affairs in any crisis. State Department notes Harriman will oversee crisis response while Noris Williams remains in place. Harriman’s survey trip to West Africa signals possible East Africa follow up.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Overseas Press Club that the United States will press divided European allies to back its fight in Asia and Latin America. He warned that Soviet missiles threaten Europe and urged new patterns of collective action to counter Hanoi and allied expansions in Asia and the Americas.
Thousands of starving men women and children flee Portuguese Angola fleeing toward the Congo as a Baptist missionary reports large crowds trekking hundreds of miles to escape the unrest and seek refuge in Leopoldville and surrounding areas.
UPI reports that at Panama President Roberto Chiari's request the United States raised a Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone to full staff after it had been lowered in honor of the late General Douglas MacArthur. The flag’s change followed Panamanian student protests and was said to reverse customary policy, with U.S. zone officials noting the gesture.
A Republican Citizens Council led by Milton S. Eisenhower urges a wholly new U.S. Panama treaty within 25 years for a second sea level canal. It calls for interim reforms, higher tolls by about 30 percent, and raising Panama’s annual canal receipts to 15 million dollars from 19 million.
Senator Clifford Case argues the civil rights bill offers a modest, weak job protection compared with state anti-discrimination laws. He supports banning racial bias in hiring and firing but questions other provisions as Dirksen proposes nine amendments to narrow or modify protections, while Case stresses the nation's moral duty to address injustice against African Americans.
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia UPI The Defense Ministry said Ethiopia pulled all troops from the disputed Somali border area. A government spokesman announced a delegation of Ethiopian observers met Somali officials at Ferrer to begin a peace keeping operation.
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