Dam Disaster Sparks Italian Political Fallout
In Belluno Italy communists accuse dam technicians and authorities of delaying alarm after the Vaiont landslide caused a 3000 death estimate. Villages along the Vaiont and Piave valleys were buried by released waters four miles long, as Italian, U.S., Swiss, and French teams recovered about 700 bodies amid disease fears and mass evacuations. Premier Giovanni Leone toured the area by helicopter.
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Christian Democrat
Venice
Vaiont
Joosé
Mt. Toc
Piave
U.S
Longarone
Giovanni Leone J
Hazardous Swimming Warning From Galway Bay Club
The Iceal Sub Aqua Club ordered members to wear bright colored headgear while swimming Galway Bay to reduce the risk of being mistaken for seals by seal hunters. Two members recently swam for their lives after shots from farmers who believed they were seals.
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Galway
Leland (Ap
Iceal Sub Aqua Club
Galway Bay
Seven Nations Study Multinational Nuclear Defense
Paris report says seven nations including the United States Britain West Germany Italy Greece Turkey Belgium plan to study a possible multinational nuclear defense force as an added shield for the West. The agreement outlines a joint statement but does not bind any country to participate in a future force. Nations named are the United States Britain West Germany Italy Greece Turkey Belgium and the United Kingdom.
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Paris
United States
West Germany
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Belgium
Britain
American Couple Rescued After Vaient Dam Disaster
Rob ert DeLazzaro, 48, and Elizabeth DeLazzaro, 47, of Scarsdale New York, were rescued near Longarone after the Vaient Dam collapse. Doctors said they survived on high ground with extensive bruises and shock but were in good overall condition. Hospital aides noted rescue helicopters found them alive the morning after the disaster.
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Pieve DI Cadore
Italy
Vaient Dam
Robert DeLazzaro
Elizabeth
Scarsdale
N.Y
Longarone
Here
DeLazzaros
U S Protest Over South Korean Grain Deal
Washington protested as South Korea bought 40 000 tons Canadian wheat 25 000 tons Canadian barley and 10 000 to 13 000 tons Australian wheat for delivery this year via Mitsubishi and Mitsui on easy terms. The United States has arranged over 55 million dollars of grain to South Korea this year.
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Washington
United States
South Korea
Canada
Australia
America
Kim Hakyol
South Korean Economic Planning Board
Foreign Aid
Agriculture and ‘State Department
Kim
South Korean Agriculture Ministry
Agriculture Department
Mitsubishi
Mitsui
U.S
Cholera Deaths Rise in South Korea
In Seoul the Korea cholera outbreak claimed six more lives, raising the death toll to 64 as 35 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.
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Seoul
Korea
UPI
South Korea
United Nations condemns South Africa over racial segregation
The United Nations General Assembly, with 106 to 1 in favor and only South Africa voting no, demanded the immediate release of jailed anti-apartheid activists and the end of trials of African nationalists plotting armed revolt. Several Western powers and others shifted to yes, while the debate included warnings from South Africa's Hilgard Muller about blocking U.N. funding and Congo operations.
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South Africa
U.N. General Assembly
Nation Assembly
United States
Britain
France
Assembly
Canada
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
Panama
Portugal
Honduras
Spain
Paraguay
Hilgard Muller
U.N
Force in Congo to Be Continued to Mid-1964
United Nations budget committee approved an $18.2 million continuation of U.N. forces in the Congo through mid-1964. The vote was 69 against, 11 for, with 18 abstentions. The Soviet bloc and Cuba voted solidly against the measure. U N Secretary General U That.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Congo
General Assembly
Soviet Bloc
Cuba
U That
Japan Welcomes East West Partial Nuclear Test Ban
Tokyo reports Japan, the only country hit by nuclear weapons, welcomed the formal start of the East West partial nuclear test ban treaty. A Foreign Office statement said it hopes the pact is the first step toward a total nuclear test ban.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Foreign Office
Seven Nation Commission to Visit Viet Nam on Buddhist Claims
Assembly president Carlos Sosa Rodriguez of Venezuela announced Friday night that a seven nation commission led by Ambassador Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan will depart for Viet Nam soon to investigate alleged ill treatment of Buddhists.
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United Nations, N.Y
Assembly
Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez
Venezuela
Abdu) Rahman Pazhwak
Afghanistan
Viet Nam
Macmillan Returns to Work After Surgery
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rose from bed and resumed affairs of state within 24 hours of undergoing prostate gland removal. Doctors advised rest to aid convalescence, but he pressed on with official duties despite the instruction.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Three Canadians Seek Asylum In Boston
Three Montreal youths tied to the FLQ sought political asylum in the United States. Two asked to return to Montreal after a three hour hearing before a US Immigration Service officer. The third, Roger Tetrault, was granted a continuance to Oct 23 and ordered held at Charles Street Jail. The men faced charges in Montreal including criminal negligence causing bodily harm, conspiracy, and FLQ links after an alleged FLQ bombing killed a person.
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Boston
UPI
Montreal
United States
Canada
Immigration Service
Mario Bachand
Pierre Schneider
Roger Tetrault
Louis Goldstein
Tetrault
Charles Street
Court of the Queen's Bench
Front de Liberation Quebecois
FLQ
Quebec
Women Aren't Equal Kennedy Report Says
Washington AP writes that President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women reports women still lack fair treatment in jobs and pay. The 16 page document blames federal and state foot dragging and notes legal inequities in jury service and property rights, with several states barring women from jury duty and court judgment. The panel urges legal clarification of rights and cites women's political influence tied to voting patterns.
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Washington
Kennedy
Commission On the
Mass Offered for Disasters at Vatican City
Vatican City AP reports the daily Mass at the Vatican for victims of Hurricane Flora and the Vaiont Dam disaster in Italy was offered on Friday by the Bedi menical Council.
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Haiti
Jacques Egger
Salvation Army
Port-ant-Prince
Flora
Vatican City
Vatican Bedimenical Council
Vaiont Dam
Italy
Indian Delegate Accuses China Of War Moves at UN
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of Prime Minister Nehru, charged Red China with ongoing war preparations against India and violations of Indian air and land space. She criticized Pakistan's dealings with the Chinese regime and urged that Peking be admitted to the UN despite its actions.
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United Nations, N.Y
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
India
Nehru
Red China
U.N. General Assembly
V.K. Krishna Menon
Pandit
Pakistan
Peking
World Organization
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