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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1960
Page
2
Rangoon prepares for a Chinese mission led by Premier Chou En-lai to ratify the border treaty. A 400-member entourage including performers will accompany his Jan 2 arrival, with Chou to tour Pagan and four other regions. Rangoon lights, arches, and film festivals mark the welcome.
Chiang Kai shek charged that Chinese Communist troops have entered northern Burma with the apparent consent of Burma's neutralist government. He warned the infiltration threatens pro Western Thailand and Laos linked tensions across Southeast Asia and cited Moscow conference lines on communist subversion. He claimed reports of infiltrators in the Burmese armed forces and questioned Burma's cooperation amid border stability concerns.
A blaze on the Quebec Vermont border killed 11 people in a remote farm house near Noyan Que four miles north of Albury Vermont. Mrs Marjorie Vosburg and her ten children perished trapped by the 40 minute fire. Abel Vosburg and one other child escaped unharmed. The wooden frame house stood alone with the nearest neighbor about two miles away.
Florida police and FBI probe a $400000 armored car theft described as an inside job. Thieves left moneybags with coins, while sacks of cash and checks were stolen from the vault, timed by an employee or former employee. The loss was insured in the firm's 23rd year of operation. Shostakovich recovering from leg injury in sanitarium outside Moscow.
Newport Rhode Island AP Navy today began investigation of a second major fire at the Newport Naval Base in nine days. Arson not ruled out. The post exchange sustained about 125000 damage last Dec 19. A second blaze swept senior bachelor officers quarters near the exchange. The 75 percent destroyed two story building left 38 Navy personnel and Marines plus civilians to aid. Two sailors and two civilians injured treated at the base dispensary. One civilian from Taunton Mass suffered an eye injury. the other from Bristol RI inhaled smoke and froze clothing amid near freezing conditions. The scene resembled a skating rink due to ice and water on the ground.
Rep Barratt O'Hara urged a complete divorce from colonial powers to meet Africa's independence challenges and reduce Russian influence. He said U.S. abstentions at the UN harmed its image, urged ending support for South Africa, and criticized slow U.S. aid to Ghana's Volta Dam while noting Russia's offer to take over the project.
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