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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1965
Page
2
New Delhi declares food rationing for the capital as grain shortages bite India. Drought and price rises drive imports of American wheat. seven died from cold in Hazaribagh. prices jump for wheat and rice. hoarding widespread. 9,000 tons bought privately in anticipation.
Non Catholic observers at the Vatican Ecumenical Council praised the effort to unite Christian churches while noting it is too early to judge outcomes. The 99 delegates from Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches thanked God for gains and urged restraint as effects on all churches remain uncertain.
The United States formally recognizes Lt. Gen. Joseph D. Mobutu as Congo’s government, clearing a path for a congressional delegation to visit Leopoldville and solidifying ties with the new regime.
A Hanoi broadcast via VNA quotes a Viet Cong appeal urging all people to resist U.S. forces in Viet Nam with guns bamboo spikes and pits uniting as one to wipe out the aggressors. The appeal dated November 21 was issued by the South Viet Nam Liberation Armed Forces political department.
Members of the European Free Trade Association will reduce tariffs on industrial imports by 1 percentage point, effective December 31, bringing current levies to 20 percent of the 1960 level. This follows a similar reduction in the Common Market effective January 1, lowering tariffs to 20 percent of the 1958 level.
Paris AP report says President Charles de Gaulle will run in the December 14 runoff after securing 44.63 percent in the first round. Alain Peyrefitte announced the cabinet’s decision as Mitterrand leads with 34.6 percent backed by Socialists and Communists. Centrist Jean Lecanuet urged a Europe friendly choice, declining to endorse either candidate.
Non farm payrolls rose by 65,000 to a record 61.8 million in November, marking the thirteenth consecutive monthly advance. The November gain defied typical year end declines, with 2.4 million more jobs than a year earlier, and manufacturing adding 119,000, construction 50,000, and trade 40,000 after seasonal adjustment.
Marine Lt. Glen Mann foster son of U S Ambassador to Thailand Graham Martin received the Gallantry Cross with palm from South Vietnam posthumously. Mann, 28, was fatally wounded while piloting a helicopter in Vietnam on November 23.
In Boston the Senate Ways and Means Committee outlined a tax program seeking over 165 million in new revenue with potential to reach 173 million if an 8 million tax on out of state investments held by Massachusetts insurers is included. The package backs a 1965 66 budget of about 700 million to be debated after the tax plan. Senate chair James Burke noted added allowances for cities and welfare reimbursements and tax rate changes aimed at shifting the revenue balance.
Prime Minister Ian Smith ordered deportation of alien workers to free jobs for Rhodesians amid Britain sanctions. Up to about 500,000 Africans could be affected including 200,600 Malawians, 9,740 Zambians, 117,620 from Mozambique and Angola, and 18,030 from other nations. Smith condemned London and urged repatriation with hardship minimized where possible. Provisions require Malawi and Zambia to prepay for goods in non pound currencies.
Bernard Fe. Donovan, NYC schools superintendent, defended showing a pre Viet Cong propaganda film to a high school discussion class. He said such films train students to distinguish factual statements from opinion or inflammatory pronouncements. Several parents protested the screening.
Phc Gene Barboza, 19, a Providence, R I paratrooper, will appeal his 20 years at hard labor for unpremeditated murder in the Santo Domingo shooting. Barboza claimed the youth Monte de Oca gestured with a bomb in a hospital area while Barboza guarded it with the 82nd Airborne. Prosecutors say Barboza shot in a rage after being spit at and cursed.
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