Burma Crushes Communist Party in Nationwide Sweep
Burma's military and police struck Communist Party headquarters overnight, arresting nearly all known Red leaders. Official reports say 435 detainees are in protective custody, marking the regime under Gen. Ne Win as decisive and rejecting any shift to the left after failed peace talks. The Burma Communist Party, long in civil conflict for 15 years, is described as heavily damaged with frontline organizers removed from influence.
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Rangoon
Burma
Communist Party
Ne Win
Burma Communist Party
Trygve Lie Recuperating. Expected Return Dec 1
Oslo reports former United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie, age 67, is recuperating and planned to return as Norway’s interior minister on December 1. Lie has been ill since October 21 and reportedly suffered a small blood clot. He resigned the U.N. post in 1953 and joined the government last July.
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Oslo
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Norway
Einar Gerhardsen
Lie
U.N
Twelve women trained as handball referees in Stuttgart
STUTTGART Germany UP I reports the State Athletic Association trained 12 women to work as handball referees citing scarce male referees and a female whistle commanding more respect.
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Stuttgart
Germany
UPI
State Athletic Association
U S Sergeant Ambushed By Viet Cong Forces
A U S Army sergeant was killed in a convoy ambush near the Cambodian border in central South Vietnam. About 100 Communist guerrillas attacked a road 116 miles north of Saigon, marking ongoing U S fatalities as the war widens.
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UPS
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ngo Dinh Dien
Philippines
Civic Action
Ngo Trong Hieu
Tie Diem
Diem
Isergeant
Viet Nam
East Germans Denounce Allies Over Berlin Convoys
BERLIN (UPI) East German Communists demand a German peace treaty ending Western rights in Berlin and accuse American militarists of provocations on the highway to the city. They warn a Berlin incident could trigger a third world war as articles in Neues Deutschland and Der Morgen echoed the stance and East Berlin police cited patrols endangering public order.
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Berlin
UPI
East Berlin
Neues Deutschland
der Morgen
German Democratic Republic
Dev Morgen
East Germany
Chinese artist Pu Hsin-yu dies at 67 in Formosa
Pu Hsin-yu also known as Pu Ju, a leading Nationalist Chinese artist and brother of Henry Pu Yi, died today in Formosa after a long illness. He escaped to Formosa in 1949 following the Communist occupation of Pei Ring.
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Taipei
Formosa
Pul Hsin-yu
China
Pu Ju
Henry Pu Yi
Pe-i Ring
School Board Rejects Hotel Plan for Vocational School
ATLANTA AP The Georgia Board of Education balked at approving a proposed 6.3 million vocational technical school that would teach advanced hotel management. Plans included 435 hotel rooms and a dining room. The board urged the Atlanta school board to devise a plan that excludes the hotel.
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Atlanta
Georgia Board of Education
Atlanta School Board
East Baton Rouge Board Drops Slogan on Envelopes
The East Baton Rouge Parish school board voted 6-5 to remove the slogan Say No to Federal Aid and Control from official envelopes. A member called it hypocritical to accept federal aid while opposing it.
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Baton Rouge, la
East Baton Rouge Parish
Inter-American Rule Voted For Alliance for Progress
Brazil led talks at the Inter-American Conference to create an eight member permanent executive committee to oversee the Alliance for Progress. Nineteen delegations backed the plan after five days of debate following a two week experts meeting. Bolivia abstained. The committee will report in six months on a Brazilian proposed development fund and will grant Latin American control over much of the alliance’s direction, while fund control remains with contributors including the United States.
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Saq Paulo
Brazil
inter-American Economic and Social Council
Bolivia
Alliance
Thhe inter-American Development Bank
United States
Latin America
Inter - American Economic and Social Council
Colombia
Alberto Lieras Camargo
Juscelina Kubitschek
Misprinted Stamps Bring $10,400 in NY Sale
A Bronx college student sold 5 misprinted United Nations stamps for 10 400 after buying 50 for 2 each on Feb 28 1962. Dealer Julius Stolow notes the stamps commemorate housing and community facilities but miss the left corner text and shading, creating a major error with potential near 20 000 in total sales to dealers and collectors.
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New York
United Nations
Bronx
Julius Stelow
J. & H. Stelow
Ind
Stolow
U.N
H. Alexander Fraenkel
U.S. Post Office Department
Harrison and Sons of London
U.S
Hammarskjold
Winter Visitors To Duke's Mansion Get Trading Stamps
Bedford England AP The Duke of Bedford announced he will give trading stamps to winter visitors at Woburn Abbey his stately home. He says they seem good for other peoples businesses and notes he charges admission and installed juke boxes and slot machines two years ago. He is trying to pay off a 14 million death duty on the estate inherited from his father.
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Bedford
England
Duke of Bedford
Woburn Abbey
Douglas-Home Faces First Confidence Test in Commons
London United Press International reports Prime Minister Douglas-Home faces Labor pressure to call immediate general elections. The first confidence motion targets housing and slum issues, but his Conservative majority suggests an easy win in the House of Commons.
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London
UPI
Paiiter
Atee Douglas- Homie
Labor Party
House of Commons
Douglas-home
Mure
Eisenhower urges gradual pullback of divisions in Europe
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower urged in an interview that the United States gradually withdraw five of its six combat divisions from Western Europe. He said economies there are now strong and should take on more defense duties, while pledging to support those nations.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Europe
Eisenhower
Government charged with no selective man power proposals
An other motion Tuesday alleges the government has made no selective proposals for manpower utilization.
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