Saigon Embassy Apologizes After Threat to Newsmen
In Saigon and Da Nang U.S. officials clarified a code of conduct for press corps amid reports that correspondents could be expelled for failing to follow rules. Col. Ben Legare and Lt. Col. Warren Mahr along with Capt. Bruce Driscoll regretted the incident, while Barry Zorthian denied any policy to expel reporters. Military authorities cited security concerns for restricting informal contact with U.S. servicemen.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
Ben Legare
da Nang
Warren Mahr
Bruce Driscoll
Barry Zorthian
Stevenson Blasts Soviet At UN Over Viet Nam Policy
Adlai E. Stevenson at the United Nations accused the Soviet Union of baseless attacks on U.S. Viet Nam policy, saying the speech by Niko lai T. Fedorenko dominated the Disarmament Commission and torpedoed any chance for meaningful talks. He cited Soviet charges of U.S. use of toxic gases and warned of nuclear capabilities in Southeast Asia.
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United Nations, N.Y
Adlai E. Stevenson
Soviet Union
U.S
Viet Nam
United Nations
Stevenson
U.N. Disarmament Commission
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Commission
U.N
Geneva
Fedorenko
Britain
United States
Southeast Asia
Baltic States
Iran
Tibet
South Korea
India
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Fedoresko
Catfish Caught In Airport Flood Weighs 40 Pounds
In St Paul Minnesota three young adventurers waded through three feet of floodwater by the downtown airport to fish for rough fish. Tom Dahir 15 described the moment when his hook snagged a catch that proved to be a 40 pound catfish. Jim Weber and Danny Jospehs 19 doubted it was a log until the fish was hauled ashore.
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St, Paul
Danny Josephs
Study Recommended For Anti-Tram Bill In Mass House
The Committee on Natural Resources recommends a study of a bill defining Greylock Reservation Commission factions and permitted activities. Rep. Mary B. Newman filed the measure for Mt Greylock Protective Association and Massachusetts Forests and Parks Association. The vote was 7 to 7 with one reserved. If Rules approves, Ways and Means may fund the study. opponents may seek to kill it on the floor.
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Committee On Natural Resources
Greylock Reservation
Mary B. Newman
Cambridge
Mt. Greylock
Committee On Rules
Mouse Ways and Means
Sidney Q. Curtiss
House
Rules Committee
Rules
Benjamin Nason
Massachusetts Forest and Parks Association
Air Strike Damages Bai Duc Thon Bridge in North Vietnam
U S Air Force jets hit the Bai Duc Thon bridge in a steep valley 160 miles south of Hanoi after two failed attempts, buckling a span. Eight F100s took part with twenty five jets providing top cover. Vietnamese Skyraiders conducted recon over Routes 7 and 101 and damaged ferry approaches on the Kien Giang River. No U S losses reported. Britain’s Gordon Walker and U S envoys Lodge and Johnson aides discussed the Viet Nam situation in Asia.
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Sagon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Bai Duc Thon
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Huu Hung
Kien Giang
U.S. Air Force
Britain
Southeast Asia
Patrick Gordon Walker
Hong Kong
South
Viet Nam
Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
Lodge
Seoul
Korea
Chung Hee Park
Dominican Rule Uncertain as U S Plans Evacuation
Loyalist air raids on insurgent encampments outside Santo Domingo left at least 25 dead and about 80 wounded as fighting resumed. The U S Navy moved to evacuate about 500 Americans from the island while helicopters and warships remained offshore.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
Puerto Rico
U.S. Navy
Dominican
State Department
Peace Corps
Washington
Interim steel pact ends looming strike in four months
Pittsburgh based report notes USW and 11 major producers reached an interim agreement at 11 pm EDT to avert a strike by midnight Friday. The pact includes an 11.5 cent hourly wage increase funded by an escrow and sets a 30 day termination window for Aug 1 with possible strike by Sept if talks fail. McDonald stated the figure is not final and seeks 3.2 percent plus cost of living adjustments in a long term deal.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Tian
Mars
Earth
Colin S. Pittendrigh
Princeton
Cochairman
Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University
Melvin Calvin
Donald A. Glaser
University of California, Berkeley
Harold ©. Urey
Luci Kennedy Prom Set In White House Garden
Washington reports the White House East Garden will host the National Cathedral Girls School senior prom led by Luci Johnson. The 58 students and escorts will dance Friday night in the garden, now named in honor of Mrs. Kennedy, with indoor plans if weather fails.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Johnson
Luci
Executive Mansion
National Cathedral Girls School
East Garden
John F. Kennedy
Catholic Bishop Says Faults Like Speeding Must Be Confessed
Paris dispatch reports Most Rev Auguste Gaudel bishop of Toulon declared driving faults a sin that must be confessed. He cited clearly accepted infractions such as speeding double passing and drunk driving as offenses to be confessed by Roman Catholics in his diocese.
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Paris
UPD
France
Auguste Gaudel
Toulon
Twenty Foreign Curators Visit Berkshire Museums Tour
Twenty museum curators and executives from various nations will tour Berkshire sites in May as part of the sixth annual State Department study initiative sponsored by the American Association of Museums. The group includes representatives from four Communist countries and will visit the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Hancock Shaker Village, and the Berkshire Museum, after stops in Boston and Hartford. The visitors arrive May 15 and depart May 37, with special events planned including a new Clark Art exhibition opening.
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Berkshires
U.S. State Department
American Association of Museums
Poland
Romania
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Williams College Museum of Art
Hancock Shaker Village
Berkshire Museum
Boston
Hartford
New England
Clark Art
U.S. Panel Urges Mars Life Search and Orbital Probe
A National Academy panel urges an immediate government program to seek life on Mars with an orbital unmanned lab by 1971 to 1973 and possibly human visits by the 1980s. It favors orbiting surveys before landings to avoid contamination and notes the value of a Mars orbiter for studying seasonal surface changes.
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Washington
Mars
National Academy of Scientists
Earth
New York Times
Mar
Rightist Parties Merge in Korea
Seoul AP reports South Korea's two conservative opposition parties announce a merger set for May 3 to oppose President Chung Hee Park. The new Masses party will be led jointly by ex-President Yun Po-sun and Assemblywoman Park Soon-chun, combining 62 seats in the 175 member National Assembly.
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Seoul
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
Japan
Masses Party
Yun Po-sun
Civil Rute
Park Soon-chun
Democrats
National Assembly
Supreme Court rules Virginia poll tax change unconstitutional
The Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, invalidates Virginia’s certificate of residence requirement for federal elections, holding it abridges the right to vote under the 24th Amendment. The ruling follows Virginia’s 1963 emergency act removing the poll tax as a prerequisite, allowing payment of the tax or filing a residence certificate six months before elections.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
U.S
Richmond
Congress
Earl Warren
Robert Y. Button
Warren
District Court
Button
Denmark Expels Czech Diplomat Over Spy Claims
A Czech diplomat, Josef Lesnky, third secretary at the Czech Embassy, was ordered expelled from Denmark for alleged illegal intelligence activity against Allied defense interests. The Danish Foreign Ministry announced the action on Monday night.
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UPI
Denmark
Uhe
Foreign Ministry
Josef Lesnky
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