Fewer and Smaller U.N. Peacekeeping Actions Seen
The United Nations faces a tighter budget and reduced capacity as US decline of funding and Soviet opposition push toward smaller, voluntary peacekeeping missions. Moscow favors a council dominated, centrally controlled force while the US seeks a multinational standby arm and nonpayment standoff to avoid new entanglements.
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Congo
Palestine
Cyprus
Moscow
Washington
U.N
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General Assembly
Security Council
Soviet Union
France
Council
West
Tran
U.n.’S
U.S
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Britain
China
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Khrushchev
United Nations
Chiang Kai-Shek
Bomb injures child and detectives in Singapore shop blast
A home made bomb exploded outside a Lorong Tai Seng shop before dawn injuring two detectives and a 3-year-old boy. The blast shattered a show window, penetrated an iron door, and damaged two neighboring shops.
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Singapore
UPS
Lorong Tai Seng
Athens riot as 15000 protest king and Tsirimakos
In Athens and across Crete and Piraeus 15000 demonstrators clash with police using tear gas and clubs after Constantine swore in premier Elias Tsirimakos. Antigerman and antiroyalist chants mix with property damage. Tsirimakos tours riot scene and orders arrests while seeking parliamentary confidence.
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Constantine
Elias Tsirimakos
Piraeus
Iraklion
Crete
Frederika-Gestapo
Frederika
Isle of
U.S. Information Service Library
Stadium Street
George Papandreou
Andreas
Tsirimakos
Tsirimokos
Tsirimokes
Greece
Keppel Warns Southern Schools On Integration
Washington reports that 184 school districts mostly in the South face possible loss of federal funds for the next school year for failing to desegregate under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel sent notices to districts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Jersey, and South Dakota.
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UPI
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Francis Keppel
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Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Jersey
South Dakota
Volpe Panel Formed to Probe State Job Bias
Governor Volpe organizes a Fair Practice Committee to ensure equal opportunity in state government. Lt. Gov. Richardson chairs a 25-department panel, with five constitutional officers, tasked to census departments, review hiring and promotion practices, and recommend changes to end discrimination. The group vows concrete action beyond lip service and to enforce compliance with anti discrimination laws.
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Boston
Statehouse
Elliot L. Richardson
I Volpe
California Supreme Court Upheld Insurance Tax on Out-of-State Firms
The State Supreme Court ruled California may levy a retaliatory tax on insurers from other states. It overturned a lower court ruling that the state illegally collected about 33.5 million dollars annually. A retaliatory tax targets firms whose home state taxes are higher than California’s.
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San Francisco
State Supreme Court
California
District Court of Appeals
Marines Court-Martialed For Attempted B57 Theft at Da Nang
Two US Marines accused of attempting to steal jet bombers at Da Nang last month were court-martialed. One received three years confinement at hard labor and dishonorable discharge, the other one year confinement. Both reduced in rank from private first class to private amid intoxication reports.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
da Nang
Hanoi
U.S
U.st Air
Johnson Toasts Aiken As Veteran Turns Young 78
President Johnson visited Capitol Hill to fete Senator George D. Aiken on his 78th birthday. The Vermont Republican drew praise as a great senator and American, with Johnson calling him a dear friend. Aiken joked about campaign pens and urged a rural water system bill among gifts.
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Aiken
Washington
John Son
Capitol Hill
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Senate
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Congress
Lynda Bird
House
Senate Chamber
George Aiken
Senate OKs 1.7 Billion for Military Construction
The Senate passed a 1.758 billion dollar military construction bill funding U.S. and overseas projects but excluding Southeast Asia. Sen. John Stennis noted the measure is 289 million below President Johnson’s budget, with the largest 637 million set for family housing for military personnel.
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Washington
Senate
United States
John Stennis
D-Miss
Southeast Asia
House
Stennis
Johnson
Birth rate declines again in June 1965 says Public Health Service
The Public Health Service reports June births fell to about 310,000 from 331,000 a year earlier, a rate of 19.41 per 1000 population. For the year ending June, 1965, births total around 3.808 million, down from 4.081 million in the prior year. Marriages in June dropped from 1964 figures, with 226,000 to 299,000, while the population rise yields a rate of 14.2 per 1000.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Jura
Idled Negro Teachers Considered by New York
Albany AP reports state education commissioner Dr. James E. Allen says 45 school districts and two colleges in New York have expressed interest in hiring Negro teachers displaced by integration in the South. He notes nine teachers have submitted qualifications for certification and are listed as employable.
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Albany
N.Y
James E. Allen
South
Allen
Department
Employale
Airport opens in Rangi roa to boost Tahiti tourism
Papeete Tahiti AP reports a new 6900 foot landing strip at Rangi roa 220 miles northeast of Tahiti opens to handle modern jets as part of a broader development program to promote tourism in French Polynesia.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Rangiroa
French Polynesia
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