Adenauer to Step Down as Bonn Leads to Erhard Rule
Konrad Adenauer, 87, relinquishes power after 14 years as West Germany’s first chancellor. Ludwig Erhard, 96, prepared to take over with promises of a cabinet of equals and a shift from Adenauer’s centralized leadership, amid doubts about reunification and economic policy.
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Dam Builder Says Repairs Can Be Made
Belluno Italy AP The man who built the Vaiont Dam says the barrier could still provide electricity after repairs. Giuseppe Torno notes the dam is not badly damaged and may resume hydroelectric power, though the reservoir would be smaller with Mt Toc partly in it. Thousands remain missing or dead as authorities seek to determine evacuation adequacy after a landslide unleashed floods in the Piave Valley. The disaster toll nears 3000 with 1809 confirmed dead in Longarone area and other villages. A government commission probes whether warnings could have averted the tragedy.
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Juliana Leaves Iran on Royal Tour to Bangkok
Queen Juliana completed an 11 day state visit to Iran and departed for Bangkok. Prince Bernhard and their daughter Princess Beatrix accompany the queen on the royal tour.
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Yoshida to retire from House seat amid science breakthroughs
Tokyo AP reports former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 85, will not seek a lower house seat in the next election, signaling retirement after a long political career. In Geneva, Sullivan notes CERN-like lab observers a potential new family of atomic particles produced by high energy collisions, tied to weak interaction forces.
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International Atomic Research Center
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New York Times
Walter Sullivan
European Organization For Nuclear Research
U.S
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Upton
N.Y
Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
Yoshida
New Family
Liberal Democratic Party
Castro claims Flora killed 1000 Cubans in Cuba
Fidel Castro told Cubans that Hurricane Flora killed more than 1,000 people and caused hundreds of millions in damage. He described floods in Oriente Province, with entire settlements covered and tens of thousands left homeless, and pledged government help to rebuild.
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Oriente
Cuba
Longshoremen End 27-Year Canada Port Tieup
Montreal Quebec and Trois Rivieres ports resume operations after a nine day strike ending Saturday. The action halted Canada’s wheat exports to Russia worth about $500 million and cost about $1 million daily in losses. A three year contract gives workers a 10 cent hourly raise each year starting retroactive to January 1 1963. Current wage stands at $2.33 per hour plus 28 cents in fringe benefits.
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Russia
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Trois Rivieres
Victory Impossible Under Diem Rule Declared
Washington AP Tran Van Chuong, former South Viet Nam ambassador to the United States, told CBS Face the Nation there is no possibility of victory over the Communists under President Ngo Dinh Diem. He cited comments by Defense Secretary McNamara and General Taylor that the war could be won by 1965, but Chuong warned the Diem regime drives the people toward the Communists.
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South Viet Nam
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
CBS
Tran van Chuong
U.S
Robert §. McNamara
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Viet Nam
Chuong
Castro recounts flood devastation and evacuations in Oriente
Castro described vast losses to peasants and agricultural workers as floodwaters wrecked highways streets and rail lines and swept away livestock and crops. He said 150000 people were evacuated in Oriente Province before and during the hurricane and credited revolutionary committees and mass organization with preventing tens of thousands of deaths.
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Oriente
Neumann Beatified in St Peter's Basilica
Pope Paul V beatified John Nepomucene Neumann, a naturalized American Bohemian born bishop of Philadelphia who helped found the U S Catholic school system. Beatification, often a step to canonization, was witnessed by hundreds of countrymen and pilgrims in St Peter's Basilica. The ceremony followed an apostolic letter and drew about 50 000 people.
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Advertisement seeks Amazon craftswoman shop manageress
An advertisement in the Times of London calls for an amazon who is also a craftswoman to fill a shop manageress post in Stratford on Avon. The notice emphasizes a combined role of female strength and skilled handiwork in a managerial position.
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