Soviet to Liberalize Family Law Endorses Equal Rights
Soviet legislators unveil a plan to replace the Stalin era family law with a liberal code. It removes public notice requirements and court delays for divorce, caps punitive fees, and extends protections to illegitimate children while enforcing paternity measures. The reform aims to strengthen mothers and child rights without stigmatizing birth records.
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Moscow
P. Kolchina
Legislative Committee
Supreme Soviet
Parliament
Soviet Union
Kolchina
Trud
Ethiopian Somali border fighting erupts after ceasefire
Heavy clashes erupted along the Ethiopia Somalia border just hours after a ceasefire took effect. Each side accused the other of violations as fighting continued at Dolo and Yet. Casualties were undetermined and reports differed on air strikes and troop losses. The dispute traces to historic border tensions between Haile Selassie era Ethiopia and former Italian Somaliland.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
UPI
Ethiopian Defense Ministry
Somalia
Organization For African Unity
Defense Ministry
Dolo
Haile Selassie
Samralia
Samali
Coexistence of Beliefs Urged in Odessa Meeting
Freder ick Nolde, head of the World Council of Churches International Affairs Commission, urged peaceful coexistence between religion and atheism at the council’s Odessa meeting. He said the right to conduct religious and atheist propaganda should be guaranteed for all and noted the Russian Orthodox church joined IWCC in 1982.
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UPI
Frederick Nolde
World Council of Churches International Affairs Commission
Nolde
Odessa
Soviet Union
Russian Orthodox Church
IWCC
Lee Radziwill Granted Vatican Marriage Annulment
Vatican's Sacred Rota ruled last year to annul Lee Radziwill's first marriage to Michael Canfield. The decision clears her to marry Prince Stanislaus Radziwill in a Catholic ceremony, since their civil marriage had not been church recognized. Msgr Brennan acknowledged he did not know the grounds for the annulment.
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UPI
Lee Radziwill
John F. Kennedy
Vatican
Michael Canfield
Msgr
Francis J. Brennan
iCatholic
Radziwill
Prince Stanislaus Radziwill
Prince Radziwill
Kennedy
Brennan
Shenandoah
Bar group bans drinks at meetings in Nottingham
The Nottingham Licensed Victuallers Association has banned alcoholic drinks at its meetings saying some members were unruly and talked through their hats. The action aims to restore order at local bar owner gatherings in Nottingham, England.
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Barmen Bar Drinks
Nottingham
Eng
UPD
Bar Owners Association
The
Nottingham Licensed Victuallers Association
One Thousand Cubans Jailed Allegedly At Santiago
United States reporters at Guantanamo Bay quote Cuban exiles claiming more than 1,000 Cubans were jailed in Santiago de Cuba last Saturday for counter revolution. Exiles say many detainees are army officers and note tightened water and food shortages, shoe scarcity, and a growing Cuban guard presence around the base.
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United States Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
United States
Fidel Castro
De Gaulle and Erhard Agree on Latin Aid and NATO Tensions
France and West Germany will jointly provide economic, technical, and cultural aid to Latin America with shared costs and coordinated programs. Washington backs such activity as a supplement to Alliance for Progress, while De Gaulle resists NATO revival efforts, raising concerns in Bonn about NATO cohesion amid Cyprus tensions.
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Erhard
Paris
France
West Germany
South America
Charles de Gaulle
Ludwig Erhard
Latin America
United States
U.S. Alliance For Progress
Heinrich Luebke
Mexico
NATO
Bonn
Cyprus
Boy awarded damages over hospital scar patch
London UPI reports a High Court jury awarded three year old Peter White 9520 for the embarrassment value of a permanent bald patch from a steam tent scald suffered at three months old in a hospital.
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London
UPI
Peter White
Peter
LeMay and McNamara clash over missile reliability
Washington AP reports secret testimony before the House Armed Services Committee showed Generals LeMay and McNamara differed on missile reliability and cited conflicting figures. The dispute drew political action as Sen. Goldwater urged more bomber funding, while the committee prepared to vote on a $16.9 billion defense bill.
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Gress
Derenice Roberts
McNamara
Air Force Chiefs of Staff
Curtis LeMay
Capitol Hill
House Armed Services Committee
LeMay
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Goldwater
Air Force Reserve
Lhis
Bilt
Rep
Samuel
Stratton
D-N.y
House
Mannequin Aide Triggers London Robbery Raid
Scotland Yard lies squad detectives raided a clothing store last week after a four man gang operated there. A detective posed as a tailor's dummy in the store window to signal the raid.
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Scotland Yard
Jin
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