Bolivian Strike Halts for Talks
In La Paz the military government and the labor confederation agreed to suspend hostilities and pursue negotiations to resolve a four day strike that shut down tin mines. Government troops pulled back from industrial areas while workers reinforced blockades. The walkout protested the deportation of leftist labor leader Juan Lechin and disrupted textile plants factories railroads and newspapers in the La Paz region.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Labor Confederation
Juan Lechin
Poor Nations Facing Loss of Food Production Ability
Washington report from the Agricultural Department warns the underdeveloped world is losing the capacity to feed itself. The Economic Research Service notes densely populated nations have exhausted readily cultivable land and must lift yields per acre to raise food output, as gains in North America and Western Europe came mainly from higher yields. Secretary Freeman says land and time are running out for these countries.
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Washington
UPI
Agricultural Department
Departmen’s Economic Research Service
North America
Europe
Orville L. Freeman
Salinger's Wife Sues for Divorce in Arkansas
Mrs Pierre Salinger files suit in Hot Springs alleging intolerable life and general indignities after eight years of marriage. May 10 filing disclosed midweek. Salinger, ex White House press secretary and former California senator, will not contest. He has indicated plans to wed Nicole Gillman, 26, writer for Realities.
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Hot Springs
Ark
UPI
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
White House
U.S
California
Nicole Gillman
Realties
Oahu Sinking Slowly as Geophysics Probes Island
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics researchers study Oahu sinking pace using 1100 foot core samples from Ewa Beach funded by a 99000 NSF grant. Scientists caution against alarm, noting the cores reflect ancient surface conditions rather than rapid subsidence. In Narragansett Rhode Island authorities plan New England's first surfing championships if wave conditions permit after last week's postponement.
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UPS
Pacific
Oahu
Pearl Harbor
The
Pali
Ewa Beach
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
National Science Foundation
Narragansett, RI
UPI
New England
Narragansett
Death Toll in Pakistan Cyclone Rises
DACCA Pakistan AP A cyclone that struck Fast Pakistan a week ago killed 12 033 persons with 1 300 missing as officials warn the toll could rise to 30 000 in Barisal and other coastal areas. Survivors cry for water as authorities plan water supplies and a $16 million relief effort.
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Dacca
Pakistan
Abdul Monem Khan
Barisal
Bay of Bengal
Monem
East Pakistan
Dartmouth Dean Speaks on Desalting Project
Dr Myron Tribus dean of Dartmouth College School of Engineering says the federal program for saline water is the reverse of prudent engineering for stockholders. He testified before a Senate subcommittee on an Atomic Energy Commission civilian nuclear power plan for large scale desalting. He urged delaying new demonstration plants for two years to fund basic technical studies.
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Washington (Ap
Myron Tritus
Dartmouth College School of Engineering
Hanover
N.H
Tribus
Senate Interior Appropriation
Atomic Energy Commission
Interior Department
Office of
Saline Water
More Beds in View For VA Hospital Brockton Project
President Johnson approved an 88000 dollar project to add 51 nursing home beds at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brockton Massachusetts Rep James A Burke of Massachusetts said the plan aims to ease growing patient demand at the facility
Massachusetts approves home rule and industry aid amendments
The Massachusetts Legislature gave final approval in joint session to constitutional amendments expanding home rule for cities and towns and enabling state or municipal financing of industrial development. Both measures, approved 219-39 and 159-91 respectively, head to the 1966 ballot alongside two other amendments on governor and lieutenant governor elections and executive department restructuring.
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Boston
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Berkshire
Thomas C. Wojtkowski
Pittsfield
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
Warren A. Turner
Lee
Edward
Zelaza
Adams
Andrea Nuciforo
George D. Hammond
Westfield
Roger A. Sala
North Adams
William J. Kitterman
Joel S. Greenberg
Wojtkowski
Maurice A. Donahue
D-Holyoke
Thomas F. Farrell
Dworcester
Edward P. Kirby
R-Whitman
David H. Locke
Wellesley
Death Penalty Bill Passed in New York
Albany report on the New York death penalty abolition advancing to the governor. The Assembly vote, 78 to 60 18 Republicans and 25 Democrats against, sent the measure to Gov Rockefeller who has 10 days to act. The bill preserves capital punishment for killings by peace officers and life-term prisoners. Debate noted that exc options torpedoed deterrence and moral issues. The measure marks a historic dilution of New Yorks 350 year old capital punishment practice.
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Committee On Civil Service
William S. Kitterman
Pittsfield
Washington
Kitterman
Roger A. Sala
North Adams
Warren A. Turner
Lee
Joel 8. Greenberg
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Shef
Albany
New York State
Rockefeller
Senate
Assembly
New York
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