Soviet Bid For Peking Lacks Spark
At the United Nations the Soviet Union gave a lukewarm appeal to admit Red China to the world forum, a token gesture that U.S. officials said did little to aid Moscow. Ambassador Fedorenko accused the United States of blocking Peking, while U.S. representatives warned that seating Red China would weaken the U.N. and amount to bowing to blackmail. Albania spoke for Peking with Cambodia backing Mao's regime as backers aligned on a resolution.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
China
Peking
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
United States
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Russia
Moscow
Red China
Goldberg
U.N
Albania
Cambodia
Mao Tie Tung
Capital Punishment Abolished in Britain
In London the abolition of capital punishment for murder took effect as Britain’s first full parliamentary session under Prime Minister Harold Wilson adjourned. A commission for Queen Elizabeth II signed the abolition bill alongside two other laws banning incitement to racial violence and creating a nationwide fair rents procedure.
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London
Britain
Harold Wilson
Labor
Elizabeth II
House of Lords
China U N seat contested over Taiwan claim
Diplomats report a resolution condemning Taiwan's occupation of the Chinese U N seat seeks to replace the Nationalists on the Security Council. Observers expect failure to reach the two thirds needed, though Peking may attract the most backers in the history of the China question.
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China
U.N
Taiwan
Red China
Security Council
Peking
Harvard ornithologist attacked in Ecuador while collecting birds
Raymond A. Paynter Jr. 39, curator at Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, his wife Elizabeth, and student David Norton 21 were attacked by seven drunken men with machetes while camping in Lents province Ecuador. Norton escaped to Palams for help. all three hospitalized with head, arm, and scalp injuries.
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Quito
Ecuador
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Raymond A. Paynter Jr
Elizabeth
David W. Norton
Wellesley
Mass
Harvard
Paynter
Norton
Paynters
Mexico
Guatemala
India
Kashmir
Nepal
Bowdoin College
Yale University
Weston
New Haven
Conn
Seven Million Bequest to Florida Liberal Arts College
Luca Lee Buckner, a private woman with a love for outdoors and education, left seven million dollars to a small Florida liberal arts college in her will probated in Jacksonville. The bulk of her estate goes to Florida Southern College in Lakeland, a Methodist affiliated school of about 1600 students, where she served as a trustee. Buckner died October 27 in San Remo Mary at age 62.
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Lakeland
Fla
Florida
Luca Lee Buckner
Buckner
San Remo
Mary
Jacksonville
U.N Unit Calls Ban on Atom Arms Spread
The U N General Assembly disarmament committee backed a compromise resolution urging Geneva negotiators to reach a quick treaty banning further spread of nuclear weapons. Vote 83 yes, six abstentions with France as the sole major power abstaining. US and USSR expressed continued divergence in postvote remarks. Negotiators to reconvene after year’s start.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Assembly
Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
General Assembly
France
Disarmament Committee
Curtiss Prepares to Reintroduce Volpe Tax Plan
Massachusetts state politics heat up as Rep. Sidney Curtiss signals reintroducing Gov Volpe fourth tax plan as fifth version identical to the defeated proposal faces possible House action after weeks at stalemate. Attorney General Brooke seeks $617200 for expanded criminal division amid record indictments and Crime Commission reforms. Senate and House edge budget and voting rights bills amid governance battles.
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Boston
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
Volpe
House
Curtiss
Ednott L. Richardson
Senate
Puerto Rico
Statehouse
Ways and Means Committee
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Brooke
Massachusetts Crime Commission
Commonwealth
John S. Bottomly
Alfred Gardner
Crime Commission
John A. Volpe
Attorney General
John J. Conte
Worcester
The
Legislative Research Council
Elliot Richardson
Leit
R-Sheffield
Violence flares as Filipinos vote amid killings
Manila reports say eight million voters in national elections marred by terrorism and homicide. Campaign violence climbs to 46 slayings as Liberal leader Macapagal contests Nacionalista Ferdi Marcos, with Zionist squads feared and troops ordered to shoot if needed.
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Manila
UPI
Cebu
Liberal Party
Nacionalista Party
Lao del Norte
Diosdado Macapagal
Nacionalistas
Ferdinand Marcos
Raul Manglapus
Flaviano Olivares
House
Senate
Macapagal
Marcos
Indonesians Demand Ouster Of Cabinet Reds
In Jakarta a rally of over 150000 urged removing communists from President Sukarno’s cabinet and called for martial law nationwide to aid the army crackdown. Second Deputy Premier Johannes Leimena accepted the resolution and promised to relay it, marking a rare anti communist stance from a senior aide.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
Java
Johannes Leimena
Leimena
Mass Jobs Open, Yet Workers Lacking in State
Boston UPI report quotes J William Belanger, head of the State Division of Employment Security, saying job openings are six percent ahead of last year but a shortage of qualified workers exists. Many job seekers lack the needed skills or live far from openings.
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Boston
UPI
State Division of Employment Security
J. Wiliam Belanger
Belanger
CBS Cleared of Damages In Rasputin Murder Case
A New York State Supreme Court jury ruled CBS did not invade Prince Felix Youssoupoff privacy by dramatizing Rasputin’s murder in a broadcast. The verdict found the portrayal essentially accurate and within civil rights and constitutional protections.
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CBS
Rasputin
New York
Supreme Court
Columia Broadcasting System
Prince Felix Youssoupoff
Youssoupoff
Irina
Prince Youssoupoff
Neva
Plaintff
Viet Paraplegics Arrive in US for Treatment
Fifty six South Vietnamese soldiers paralyzed from the waist down arrived at Newburgh New York for medical treatment and rehabilitation. They were flown from Saigon to Stewart Air Force Base on a personnel evacuation jet and taken to Castle Point Veterans Hospital. The group included 14 Vietnamese doctors nurses and medical corpsmen accompanying them.
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Newburgh
N.Y
Johnson
Stewart Air Force Base
Saigon
Castle Point Veterans Hospital
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