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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1964
Page
2
East Germany and West Berlin officials discuss a holiday crossing plan allowing one day passes for West Berliners to visit relatives in East Berlin during Easter and Whitsun. Offices could open in West Berlin schools for rapid processing from February 25 with crossings from March 21 to 30.
Paris report says the French government plans a large port 30 miles west of Marseilles on the Mediterranean to handle rising oil tanker traffic. New industrial facilities are planned for the Marseilles area and the new port zone.
President Johnson asked Congress for a 15.5 million supplemental appropriation as the federal share of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts construction cost. The request highlights federal funding in Washington.
President Johnson stayed late at a state dinner and dance in honor of Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his wife. The First Family hosted 136 guests with 300 more later for dancing in the East Ballroom, while Douglas-Home joined but left early at 10 40 p m. Johnson kept dancing, guiding partners and seeing guests to the door before retiring.
Inter American investigators, acting under the Rio pact, say Cuba is guilty of four counts of aggression against Venezuela. The five nation panel found Cuban subversive propaganda, training of Venezuelan guerrillas, Cuban financing of insurrection, and arms dispatch to the Venezuelan underground. The 1,100 word report cites 60 Venezuelan Communist party members trained in Cuba and more than 400 Venezuelans trained in guerrilla warfare in two years. The final draft awaits distribution as sanctions discussion may follow in Washington.
The Navy selected Westinghouse International of New York as prime contractor to install a 14 million gallon daily desalination plant at Guantanamo. The project, estimated at 10.7 million dollars, includes a 12 500 kilowatt power plant and a 4 million gallon underground reservoir. The plant would move from Point Loma, San Diego, to Guantanamo and be ready about 23 weeks after contract award.
The Soviet Foreign Ministry backed North Vietnam in accusing the United States and South Vietnam of using toxic chemicals in the conflict. Tass quoted the protest calling for denouncement, withdrawal of American troops, and strict adherence to the Geneva accords.
President Romulo Betancourt moves toward completing a full five year term, a historic first for Venezuela. He has withstood assassination attempts and revolts, and his successor has already been elected as his term nears expiration next month while he winds up tours for public works inaugurations.
The Swedish firm Gotlands Slipstenbolag said it sold 20 000 grindstones to Cuba to sharpen sugar cane knives for use in the sugar industry.
Elvis Presley donated a $59,000 yacht for the third time, this time accepted for St Jude Hospital in Memphis. Comedian Danny Thomas, founder of St Jude, was to receive the yacht in Long Beach as ceremonies proceeded.
Washington reports Ghana delivers note of apology to the State Department after a Ghanaian Times accusation that Negro diplomats were Judas figures. Embassy seeks continued friendly relations despite the protest over the attack report and the raised U S flag incident.
Cairo sources say President Gamal Abdel Nasser has issued an amnesty for an unknown number of political prisoners, including at least three former followers given life terms for plotting against his regime. The decree comes on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr holidays ending Ramadan.
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