Reds stun Shastri in Kerala vote in 1960s era clash
In Kerala, pro-Chinese Reds dealt a setback to Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's bid to regain control. The Communists won at least 58 seats in the 133-member legislature, with Shastri's National Congress securing 36. Kerala Congress took 25. Many leaders jailed amid a national roundup.
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Kerala
Trivandrum
India
Peking
Reds
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Accu
New Delhi
Shaft
Congress Party
National Congress Party
Kerala Congress
Communists
Asia
China
Train Heist Fugitives Still Sought in Latin Cities
Four fugitives from Britain's 1963 Great Train Robbery are pursued by Interpol and local police across Argentina and Uruguay. Charles Frederick Wilson, Bruce Reynolds, Ronald Edwards, and James White are believed to be in Mar del Plata or Punta del Este with the loot still missing. Scotland Yard issued the alert but no sign found. the men may be using assumed names.
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Mar del Plata
Argentina
Uruguay
Britain
Scotland Yard
Punta del Este
Interpol
Charles Frederick Wilson
Bruce Reynolds
Ronald Buster Edwards
London
Wilson
Bift
French Textile Workers Demonstrate in Paris
In central Paris on Friday, about 600 French textile workers protested over jobs and pay guards. Demonstrators carried banners opposing layoffs and shorter hours as the industry remains in a months long slump.
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Paris
Use of Airplane Predicted In Expected Peking A Blast
Dr. Ralph Lapp, a nuclear physicist, speculated that Red China's second nuclear test may involve dropping a weapon from an airplane to show aerial deliverability. He cited possible plutonium or uranium-235 device, noting China may have a gaseous diffusion plant and plutonium separation facilities, with limited domestic aircraft.
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Peking
Washington
Red Chila
Ralph Lapp
Lapp
Red China
Orient
Oak Ridge
Tenn
India
Mariner 4 Brain Follows Orders From Onboard Computer
In Pasadena California AP reports the Mariner 4 mission shifted antenna use 27 million miles from Earth. The computer and sequencer issued the command at 5 02 a m to switch from low gain to high gain antenna, a preloaded instruction.
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Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner
Major Crisis Shaping Up For Wilson
London AP reports Prime Minister Harald Wilson faces a deep internal crisis as Labour left wing rebels over U S action in Vietnam. A junior minister quits, and 45 MPs backed a motion pressing Wilson to publicly renounce support for U S air strikes. Defection narrows his four vote margin amid a Commons defeat on procedure over the hanging bill.
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London
Harald Wilson
Labor Party
U.S
Viet Nam
United States
Frank Allaun
Anthony Greenwood
Cne
Allamn
Labor Peace Fellowship
Lancashire
Cheshire
Wilson
House of Commons
Labor
Mariner Flight Plans Mars Flyby with Antenna Shift
Cape Kennedy officials say a computer failure would have triggered a new command from Earth. Antenna realignment, needed as Mariner grows farther from Earth, narrows the radio beam to maintain contact. Canberra tracking station reported a signal strength boost after the shift. Mariner aims for Mars flyby on July 14 with television footage expected.
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Fla
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Mariner
Canberra
Australia
Mars
Red Planet
Hawaiian Volcano Erupts In Firery Harmless Display
Ki lauea on the island of Hawaii erupted Friday with four lava flows and 250 foot lava fountains the first major eruption since 1963. The event produced no danger to inhabited areas though a rain of cinders fell up to a mile from Makaopuhi crater. Park officials evacuated a road crew and tourists while six scientists studied the eruption and considered future sightseeing visits.
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Hawaii
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Makaopuhi
Hawaii Volcano National Park Observatory
John Nenneberger
Napau Crater
Hawaii Island
Mauna Loa
Hawaiian Airlines
R. D. Briner
Press Freedom Perils Seen By Newsman
Boston AP executive Ed Tunstall grills press pressure and yellow journalism charges at NE Newspaper Advertising Executives meeting. He faults politicians and lawyers for attacks while defending the American press as diverse, skilled, free, and reader affordable. He urges crisper, clearer writing to win reader attention.
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Boston News
New England Newspapers Advertising Executives Association
Ed Tunstall
Associated Press
Tunstall
American Bar Association
Bar Association
People of
America
Cardinal Cushing Improves After Abdominal Surgery
Boston AP report says Cardinal Richard Cushing, 69, is increasing activity in his St. Elizabeth's Hospital room after abdominal surgery to remove polyps from the intestine. His bronchial condition has eased but still slows progress.
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Boston
Richard Cardinal Cushing
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Cardinal Cushing
Flooding Claims Seventeen Indonesians Near Jogjakarta
A swollen river swept through villages near Jogjakarta in central Java this week, killing at least 17 people. Heavy rains displaced about 16,000 residents and damaged hundreds of acres of rice fields, Antara reported Friday.
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Indonesia
Jogjakarta
Java
Antara
Pentagon labor policy faces criticism from House panel
A House manpower subcommittee says the Defense Department could save up to 1 billion dollars annually by using government employees instead of outside contractors. It cites a lack of top management information, questions contracting costs, and urges tighter labor cost controls and Budget Bureau review of manpower procurement policies.
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House
Defense Department
Department
The
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
David N. Henderson
D-N.c
Bureau of the Budget Review
Union Blasts Closing of VA Hospitals
The American Federation of Government Employees opposes the planned shutdown of 31 Veterans Administration facilities including 11 hospitals four soldiers homes and 16 regional offices. The union seeks a pay raise for classified white collar workers and a new central five member wage board. AFGE honors VA Administrator William J Driver Jr while criticizing the Rutland Heights Massachusetts hospital closure.
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Veterans Administration
National Executive Council
American Federation of Government Employes
Veterans
Soldiers
Secretary of Labor
Post Office Department
Driver
William J. Driver Jr
Daniel Kearney
AFGE
New England
Kearney
Massachusetts
Rutland Heights
Mass
Billie Sol Estes Begins Sentence At Leavenworth
Billie Sol Estes started a ib-year federal prison term at Leavenworth after a El Paso jury convicted him on five of 14 counts of mail fraud and conspiracy tied to $24 million in nonexist ent fertilizer tank mortgages. He was also convicted in Texas on state swindling charges with an eight-year sentence being appealed. The Supreme Court refused to hear the mail fraud appeal.
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Billie Sol Estes
el Paso
Tex
Estes
Tyler
Dallas
Pecos
Abilene
U.S. Supreme Court
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