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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1964
Page
2
Washington reports that U S planners aim to reshape South Viet Nam's Rangers into a mobile guerrilla force. They would probe Communist areas, locate Viet Cong concentrations and support helicopterborne Vietnamese army strikes, to improve counterguerrilla effectiveness.
Dutch Colonel Antonnus Franz van Veigen testified that doomed children at Auschwitz played a death game before gas chamber executions. He recalled Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, joining their taunts and soothing them before sending them to the chambers. The trial targets 22 Austrian officials charged with mass murder.
Premier Khrushchev opened the U N World Trade Conference with a charge that the West exploits underdeveloped nations and blocks their progress. He and other issues sparked the first plenary session as China and other Communist invitees remained uninvited pending today. U N Secretary General Thant urged greater aid to developing countries while Khrushchev defended Soviet-Soviet trade and noted wheat sales as propaganda victory for communism.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman acknowledged dangers in trade with the Soviet Union but defended continued sales of consumer goods to Russia. He said such exports aid U.S. farmers and help manage market demand despite broader political tensions.
Marshal Abdullah AlSallal, president of the Yemen republic, will stay in Moscow for medical treatment and rest after an official visit that was to end Monday. Moscow radio did not reveal details of the illness.
The State Department said the United States is cutting embassy staff and U S dependents in Cambodia. Ambassador Philip D Strouse returned to the United States for medical reasons and will be replaced by Herbert D Spivack. Strouse had kidney surgery and faces at least three weeks of recovery. Tensions with Cambodia worsened after a South Vietnamese raid near the border drew protests from Cambodia and the United States.
Gov. George Wallace declared racism “evil” during a Wisconsin campaign stop for his April 7 presidential bid. He contrasted racists with segregationists and criticized a Catholic newspaper editorial calling racism a moral evil, insisting the immoral issue is a federal move to override states’ rights.
Cape Kennedy Fla AP the second stage of a two stage Thor Delta missile failed to ignite ending the Asset research vehicle test The rocket rose at 7 15 am EST and flew well through first stage then failed to ignite second stage The plan called for a 37 mile ascent and parachute landing in the Atlantic tracking ships and planes were in the landing area south of Barbadoes Island about 2100 miles southeast of Cape Kennedy Asset is aerothermodynamic elastic structural systems environmental tests The first Asset payload survived a ballistic flight last September but sank in the Atlantic when flotation gear failed.
Albany lawmakers approved a state ethics code with Senate 56 to 1 and Assembly 143 to 4 margins. The Laporte Committee faced criticism for an allegedly abortive effort while Gov. Rockefeller warned that public confidence in government is at stake. Senators claimed the bill narrows lawyer-legislator conflicts, but some urged caution about political impact.
In Florida, Negro youths attacked whites with firebombs and rocks in Jacksonville after 127 racial demonstrators were arrested downtown. A Negro woman, Tomie Mae Chappell, was killed by a gunshot. three sailors were shot, two Negroes among them. Witnesses described extensive glass injuries and a large police response as trials for unlawful assembly began at 7:00 am EST.
AULAN Italy AP reports burglars stole three paintings valued at 208000 dollars from industrialist Mario Buscini’s apartment while he attended a soccer game. The works include The Nativity by Francesco Guardi The Kane of Europe by a Flemish artist Meinz and a Flemish Utrecht school piece.
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