Laos Rebels Launch New Attack Amid Ceasefire Talks
Rebel Pathet Lao forces attacked Ban Keun in central Laos at dawn, with 200 fighters claiming victory in Savannakhet. Government troops of over 300 rushed to the scene. no outcome reported. Both sides back a cease-fire in principle but dispute venue for talks.
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Vientiane
Laos
Savannakhet
Pathet Lao
Ban Keun
Communist China
New China News Agency
Muong Phin
No-Man’s Land
No-Man's Land
Tass
Souvanna Phouma
Communist Bloc
Pat’ Lao
Xieng Khouang
Congo reports clash as Ghanaian UN troops killed
In Port Francqui Congo soldiers overwhelmed 60 Ghanaian UN troops trying to quell tribal clashes. Three Ghanaians were killed, others captured and later released efforts described by a UN spokesman. A British officer and three Swedes with a movement unit were also detained and reported beaten.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
United Nations
U.N
Ghana
Port Francqui
Leopoldville
Kasai
Kennedy faces choices as Laos crisis deepens
President Kennedy confronts a dangerous Laos squeeze as civil war rages. With Communist gains advancing, options include extended political settlement talks, military intervention risking wider war, or continued aid to the pro Western government under Premier Boun Oum, though officials doubt that will stop the drive.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Kennedy
Laos
National Security Council
White House
U.S
Sould
United States
Boun Oum
Kennedy weighs stronger U S role in Southeast Asia
President Kennedy and advisers discuss a more active U S stance to defend Southeast Asia from Communist advances. A Laos cease fire in 48 hours and Soviet rebel moves set a critical window as Seoul allies monitor Soviet airlift and rebel positions in northern Laos. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization convenes in Bangkok to review the crisis.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Southeast Asia
National Security Council
U. S
Laos
Security Council
White House
Moscow
Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Galveston Riots Disrupt Splash Days Police Fire On Crowd
Police and thousands of students clashed during Splash Days in Galveston. Hundreds of officers confronted rioters as gunfire ensued with several injuries reported but no fatalities. Thirteen arrests were made and 560 prisoners paid fines or posted bonds by midday.
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Galveston
Tex
Gulf Coast
Lamar Tech College
Beaumont
Houston
John Jennings
C. E. Henson
Texas
Rusk and Dulles to Testify on Cuba Invasion
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and CIA chief Allen W. Dulles agreed to tell a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee next week what the U S knows about the failed effort to topple Fidel Castro. They plan to testify on possible U S involvement in the invasion and anticipated questions from senators.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Central Intelligence Agency
Allen W. Dulles
Fidel Castro
Rusk
Ankara
Turkey
U. S
Senate Foreign Relations
Dulles
Subcommittee
Castro
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Kennedy
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Morse
Allen Dulles
Capitol Hill
Cuba
French Government Denies Plot To Assassinate De Gaulle
Paris reported the French Interior Ministry denying any plot to kill President Charles de Gaulle. Officials said no right wing activist was arrested that night, with first arrests coming the next day after the Algiers insurrection began. De Gaulle remains in guarded residence with security tightened.
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de Gaulle
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Non
Algiers
Interior Ministry
Marines Enter Guantanamo Ahead of May Day Parade
A reinforced Marine battalion with tanks and artillery pulled into Guantanamo Bay Cuba, two days before Fidel Castro’s May Day rally. A second battalion of 1,500 men was reported offshore en route to the United States. The arrival surprised base personnel after a routine transfer to Vieques Island. Castro urged six million Cubans to rally across the island.
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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
U.S. Navy
Cuba
Fidel Castro
United
States
Vieques Island
Puerto Rico
Castro
Kitty Hawk Sets Sail as Navy's Largest Carrier Commissioned
The USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned in Philadelphia on its 50th aviation anniversary. Capt. William F. Bringle accepts command as the ship, 1,047 feet long and 60,000 tons, houses 3,200 sailors and 153 officers. It departs for eight weeks of fitting out before a shakedown cruise to Guantanamo and Norfolk, to join the Pacific Fleet with 100 aircraft.
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Philadelphia
Navy
William F. Bringle
Covington
Adm
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Philadelphia Naval Base
Norfolk
Guantanamo Navy Base
Cuba
Pacific
London Police Nab Squatters
London police arrested 826 anti‑nuclear demonstrators who squatted on Whitehall near Scotland Yard in one of Britain’s largest mass rounds up. About 2,600 people lay down in the street as panting officers carried away men women and youths who refused to move.
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London
Scotland Yard
Britain
Whitehall
Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Head to Virginia Estate
President Kennedy flew to his hunt country estate in Middleburg Virginia for the weekend after a White House conference on Laos. He was accompanied by Mrs Kennedy and daughter Caroline.
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Middleburg
Kennedy
Hunt Country
White House
Laos
Caroline
Washington weighs Laos intervention over cease fire
Washington officials indicate that allied intervention in Laos may hinge on the Communist cease-fire within 48 hours. The State Department says Russia has increased airlift to Communist rebels in Laos by a considerable degree.
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Laos
State Department
Washington
Russia
U S Astronauts Get Special Prep for Mercury Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP two men chosen for Mercury pilot role are housed in a rest room and fed special meals as doctors and psychologists monitor them. The mission aims to boost a Redstone capsule 115 miles into space and return it 16 minutes later over Grand Bahama Island with a possible launch next week.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
Crabtree, Ore
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Grand Bahama Island
Maj
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
The
Space Agency
Gilruth
John H. Glenn Jr
New Concord
Ohio
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
East Derry
N.H
Cape
John Glenn
U. S
Atlantic Missile Range
Woman Held for Endangering Children in Closet Case
In Peoria Illinois a 35 year old waitress Elizabeth Lou Degan Blevins was charged after police found two children aged 12 and 8 huddled naked in a dark closet in her apartment. The third child Billy Joe 10 was healthy. A psychiatric exam was ordered with results not disclosed.
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Peoria
Ill
Elizabeth Lou Degan Blevins
Blevins
Fort Smith
Ark
Two Hambleton Men Die In Parsons Crash
State Police report a driver lost control after sideswiping a station wagon, killing Paul Lewis Cross 31 and William Harvey White 30 of Hambleton and injuring Woodrow Roy, with James Lester Simmons 63 of Bemison uninjured after his 1952 car overturns in a field near Canaan Valley. The other sedan continued, struck a barrier and fell over an embankment.
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Parsons
W. Va
Tucker County
Cpl
S. E. Tribett
Paul Lewis Cross
William Harvey White
Hambleton
Woodrow Roy
Elkins
Tribett
Roy
James Lester Simmons
Bemison W. Va
Canaan Valley
Simmons
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Lil
Western State Hospital
Steiboom
Wash
Superior Court
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New Hampshire
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France
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Kitty Hawk
London Police
Virginia
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House Space Committee
Big Rocket Center
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