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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1965
Page
2
A Spanish airliner carrying 48 people crashed on approach to Los Rodeos Airport in thick fog. Eight crew and passengers survived while 31 died, including 16 foreigners. Survivors described a horrendous impact as the four engine Constellation ran off the runway and broke apart in flames.
London AP. Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labour government faced a pivotal Commons vote over plans to nationalize most of Britain’s steel industry. The outcome was seen as tight, possibly a two vote margin, with illness or travel delays potentially shifting results.
About six thousand Argentine students protested U S policy in the Dominican Republic outside Congress, throwing fire bombs at police. The unrest spread to Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Chile with clashes, arson, and injuries including 13 in Buenos Aires.
In New York the Security Council debated the Dominican crisis with insults exchanged. Soviet envoy Fedorenko accused Adlai Stevenson of nonsense, while Stevenson said he was insulated by experience from Fedorenko’s discourtesies. Russia pressed for a formal condemning resolution and immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from the Dominican Republic.
In Phnom Penh Cambodia says it will renew normal diplomatic relations with the United States if Washington ends the Vietnam War and treats Cambodia with respect. The condition was stated in a letter from Foreign Minister Koun Wick to Secretary of State Dean Rusk following Cambodia’s earlier decision to sever ties.
Washington AP US labor leader George Meany dropped his threat to pull AFL CIO from the ILO after criticizing U S consultation. An AFL CIO spokesman said Meany nominated a labor delegation for the ILO June meeting including Rudy Faupl and advisers George Harrison Ralph Reiser Miles Stanley Matthew Guidan Ed Hickey Bert Seidman with duties to oversee the delegation.
In Boston a constitutional convention approved two amendments. One lets the governor organize executive agencies subject to legislative veto. the other mandates team election of governor and lieutenant governor. Ratification by voters in 1966 is required.
UPI reporting from Boston Sen Edward M Kennedy urges neutralization of both North and South Viet Nam to end foreign meddling. In a May 3 letter publicized, he says this is not a call for war or abandonment, but a difficult responsible path. The letter, to Boston University Students for Peace, coincided with a BU teach in on Viet Nam attended by over 2,000. Massachusetts Senate has begun consideration of related bill.
A map distributed by Revolutionary Unity identifies 13 alleged Communist training camps in Cuba. Camps cited include Minas de Fund in Oriente Province near the Dominican Republic, a Trinidad area site on Cuba’s south coast, with reports that Dominicans Central Americans Haitians and British Guianese trained there.
Washington ICC tentatively approves Boston & Maine plan to extend maturity on over 48 million dollars in first mortgage bonds. Finance division allows submission to bondholders. final ICC approval after bondholder OK. Affected bonds include 6 percent Series SS due 1963 and 5 percent Series AC due 1967.
Boston AP report states Crime Commission Chair Alfred Gardner assured UMass President Lederle the final draft will omit the university. An earlier Boston Herald note claimed the university would be named in a preliminary draft. The Herald later printed an eight mission commission final report to the legislature.
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