Britain Bonn Move to Seal Western Disarmament Pact
London AP reports Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard pursue a British German partnership with a two day parley. Western plans call for expert studies on two major East West arms controls and a push to extend the nuclear test ban and observe deadlines, while Ulbricht invites Erhard to join a pact barring nuclear weapons from German soil, which Erhard's government rejects.
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Alec Douglas-Home
Ludwig Erhard
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Cade
Geneva
United States
Britain
Iaiy
Canada
Russia
Europe
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Ulbricht
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Power Project Halted by Reds For Chemicals
The Soviet government halted a major Siberian power and aluminum project to fund chemical industry growth. The pause affects Bratsk hydroelectric station and Ustulim project, delaying construction for at least two years. Khrushchev and leaders cited shifting emphasis to fertilizer production for agriculture.
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Moscow
Siberia
New York Times
Bratsk
Angara
Ustulim
Khrushchev
Segni Johnson End Two Day Visit With Cordial Talks
President Antonio Segni ends a two day visit marred by a snow storm and meets President Lyndon B Johnson. They issue a joint communique pledging closer Atlantic community ties and Western security measures. Johnson and Segni call talks useful and stimulating as Allied unity is reinforced.
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Washington
UPI
Antonio Segni
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Italian Reds Face Competition From New Party
Rome reports that the Italian Communist leadership acknowledged organizational difficulties in recruiting members. A looming national conference is set for March 12-15 in Rome. The party cites population shifts and new communities as causes, noting a 25.6 percent member decline since 1954 to 1,614,886. A new Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, formed by extreme leftists, could attract members and is viewed as veering further left than the Communists.
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UPL
Giancarlo Pajetta
Palmiro Togliati
Enrico Belinguer
Pajetta
Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity
PSSUP
Aldo Moro
New Party
Communists
Communist Party
Peking
Soviets on Cuba claim two large naval bases completed
Exiled Cuban Revolutionary Council citing CIA reports says Russians completed installation of two major all naval bases in Cuba. Manuel A. de Varona claims air photos by Miami Daily News reporters Tucker and Spencer corroborate the intelligence. News photos were published.
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Cuban Revolutionary Council
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William Tucker
Jay Spencer
Miami Daily News
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Het
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Donors Present 25 Mail Sacks for Kennedy Library Fund
Boston reports 25 mail sacks donated to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Fund. Richard Dobbyn notes gifts large and small from worldwide and U S sources. The $10 million library will rise on the Charles River bank near Harvard Business School.
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Boston
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Dobbyn
United States
Charles River
Harvard University School of Business Administration
Sale of Rice To Russians Authorized
The Commerce Department authorized a 7.5 million rice sale to Russia marking the first such sale since policy changes. It also issued licenses for 13 million worth of wheat to Russia and 2.5 million to Czechoslovakia, lifting total proposed wheat sales to Russia and satellites to about 286 million.
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Commerce Department
Russia
U. S
Iron Curtain
Czechoslovakia
Continental Grain Co
Missing C124 Globemaster Stranded in Pacific Search
Honolulu AP report says a week long search for a missing Air Force C124 Globemaster and its nine crew members cost over 1.4 million dollars. The aircraft vanished during a 2300 mile flight from Wake Island to Honolulu on January 1 with eight crew members and one passenger, and no sign of the plane or occupants has been found.
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Honolulu
Air Force
mid-Pacific
Wake Island
Massachusetts House group drafts presidential candidate law
Rep. Sidney Q. Curtiss filed a bill allowing residents to organize draft movements for presidential candidates. He was spurred by Secretary of State Kevin H. White closing the headquarters of a Lodge draft group. Under current law, political draft activity is restricted.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
Kevin H. White
United Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
GOP
Poli
Peabody Plans State Antismoking Campaign
Governor Kinti volt Peabody announces a statewide antismoking drive focusing on public education about smoking dangers and the link to illnesses. The plan includes tougher enforcement against minors buying cigarettes, more clinics to help quitting, and renewed youth outreach. revenue fears are acknowledged.
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Boston
UPD
Kintivolt Peabody
Alfred L. Frechette
Public Health Department
Peabody
bill would let committees support candidates 30 days without consent
Curtiss explained that political committees to promote any candidate must have the candidate's written consent. His bill would allow committees promoting candidates for president or vice president to be organized for 30 days without this consent.
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Curtiss
FAA Receives Plans for Supersonic Airliner Designs
The FAA reviews plans for a U S supersonic airliner as a 210 member panel from six agencies studies bids from three airframe makers and three engine suppliers. Results due by early March with a May 1 winner announcement and a target flight before the 1970s.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Aviation Agency
PAA
America
Gordon M. Bain
FAA
U.S
Najeeb E. Halahy
Boeing
Lockheed
North American
General Electre
Pratt Whitney
Curtiss- Wright
Soviet silence over Fidel Castro visit in Moscow
Soviet authorities lowered a blanket of silence on Fidel Castro in Moscow. The Cuban prime minister's visit was ignored by press and radio except for a brief note in Moscow Pravda from Havana stating Cubans were highly interested in the visit.
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Fidel Castro
Moscow Pravda
Havana
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