Britain to reduce NATO troop level in West Germany
Britain formally tells NATO allies it will cut troops in West Germany from 80,000 to about 50,000 due to a strained economy and new nuclear strategy. French defense minister Bourges-Manoury arrives for talks. Norstad opposes cuts as dangerous.
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Milton Marmor
London
Britain
NATO
Germany
Maurice Bourges-Manoury
France
Sandys
United States
Pentagon
Norstad
Harold Macmillan
Paris
Council of the Western European Union
Heinrich von Brentano
Bonn
West Germany
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers In Europe
SHAPE
Algeria
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
WEU
Johnson predicts Senate passage of mid east plan
Sen. Johnson predicts the Senate will approve a modified Middle East resolution in the same form it emerged from the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. The plan declares U S readiness to fight Communist aggression if President Eisenhower deems it necessary and allows a 200 million dollar foreign aid program.
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Senate
Texas
U. S
Washington
Middle East
Sen
D-Tex
United States
Eisenhower
Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Mideast
Io Today
Adm
Arthur Ward
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
McDonald Ahead In Union Voting In Early Returns
UN OFFICIAL returns from 654 of 2700 Steelworkers locals show United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald leading Donald C. Rarick by more than two to one for re election. Rarick vows not to concede until the official count, likely May 1, is announced.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Donald C. Rarick
Steelworkers
Rarick
McKeesport
International
Union
Pennsylvania
Lodge
Hungary
Kuznetsov
United States
Cts
America
U.S
Soviet Union
Soviet Demand for Assembly Debate Rejected by UN
The UN Steering Committee voted 86 against a Soviet bid to debate the Eisenhower doctrine and US actions. Lodge called the charges "stupidly false" while backing airing every charge. Debates may continue when the 80 nation Assembly acts on the steering committee report.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Eisenhower
United States
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
Czechslovakia
Egypt
India
Britain
China
Denmark
Dominican Republic
el Salvador
France
Italy
Peru
Turkey
Pakistan
Prince Wan Waithayakon
Thailand
Assembly
Soviet Union
Vassily V. Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Middle East
Seaton Declines to Control Oil Prices
Secretary of the Interior Seaton said he has no power to impose peacetime price or wage controls and cannot curb recent oil and gasoline price increases. He testified before a Senate Antitrust Public Lands subcommittee amid questions over the oil lift to Europe and price boosts at home.
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Washington
Seaton
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Europe
United States
Senate Antitrust‘Public Lands
Detroit Officials Call For Early Spring After Snowfall
Detroit's Department of Public Works reports 4.6 inches of snow and warns of a tight budget with $200,000 left in the snow removal fund. At a cost of $23,000 per inch, the remaining funds cover just over 8 inches, as forecasters predict more snow tomorrow.
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Detroit
Department of Public Works
Brownell urges civil rights law to restore disfranchised voters
Attorney General Brownell told a Senate subcommittee that 4000 to 6000 Southern Negroes were removed from Ouachita Parish rolls after challenges by the White Citizens Council. He argued civil rights legislation would permit swift actions to restore voters and prevent mass disenfranchisement in time for elections. He cited North Carolina cases and urged federal court injunction powers to protect voting rights against delays.
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J. W. Davis
Washington
Gen. Brownell
Senate Judiciary
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana
White Citizens Council
Parish
Brownell
North Carolina
Carolina
Sen
Ervin
Senate
House
Michigan Police Nab Stealer Of Bridges
Muskegon police arrested 22 year old Myron G Gager after finding him dismantling an abandoned highway bridge at 1 30 a m He admitted plans to sell the bridge for scrap metal and was held for bridge stealing.
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Michigan
Muskegon
Mich
Myron G. Gager
Robert Dougan
Gager
Here
Dougan
Dr Joseph Cyr impostor found on Maine island
A man posing as Dr Joseph C Cyr and surgeon aboard the Cayuga was arrested on North Haven Maine. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr of Lawrence Massachusetts admitted to the alias and faces charges for cheating by false pretenses in obtaining a Maine teachers certificate.
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North Haven
Maine
Joseph C. Cyr
James Milligan
Millard Nickerson
Martin Danniel Godgart
Baptist Sunday School
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr
Lawrence
Mass
Demara
Coast Guard
Will
Augusta
Notre Dame
Navy
FBI
Lacey
Wash
Naval
Grand Falls
N.B
Dr. Cyr
Cyr
Senate Approves Civil Service Bill in Quick Vote
The Senate passed the civil service bill by a straight party line vote and sent it to Gov. Underwood. Democrats in both chambers claim enough support to override potential vetoes despite gubernatorial objections.
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Charleston
Senate
Underwood
House
Post Office Lease-Purchase Delayed Amid Inflation Pressures
The U S General Services Administration and the Post Office Department said lease-purchase post office projects will be deferred while inflation-sapped construction markets improve. Several projects in Grundy Franconia Portsmouth Waynesboro Abingdon Richmond Denton Baltimore Charleston Martinsburg Parkersburg Ronceverte face potential cost impacts as delays extend into a broader civil service and state government reorganization debate in West Virginia.
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Post Office
GSA
Post Office Department
Grundy
Virginia
Franconia
Portsmouth
Waynesboro
Abingdon
Richmond
Maryland
Denton
Baltimore
Senate
Department of Finance and Administration
House
Martin
D-Berkeley
Sen
Anderson
Kanawha
Carrigan
Merit
Sen. Moats
Moats
Stiesen Seer
Post Office Department Suspends Lease Purchase Program
The Post Office Department announced a temporary suspension of its lease-purchase program for obtaining new post office buildings on the long-term payment plan. A similar pause was also announced yesterday by the General Services Administration.
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Bluefield
Washington
Post Office Department
General Services Administration
Coal Shippers To Continue Exports Amid Labor Turmoil
American Coal Shipping Inc. plans to persist with coal exports despite picketing at repair yards and docks. The 50 million dollar ACS, owned by mining firms, rail coal carriers, and the United Mine Workers Union led by John L. Lewis, has shipped one cargo to Europe and another left recently. Unions Masters Mates and Pilots Assn Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn seek to staff ships. Seafarers International Union to supply unlicensed workers. ACS contracts with UMW District No 50 for officers and with the National Maritime Union for unlicensed personnel.
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Washington
Richard L. Bowditch
American Coal Shipping Inc
ACS
United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Europe
Mates and Pilots Assn
Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn
Seafarers International Union
Lewis’ Umw
National Maritime Union
Saud and Franco agree to sign friendship treaty
Spanish Foreign Ministry announced King Saud and Generalissimo Francisco Franco have agreed to sign a friendship treaty linking Spain and Saudi Arabia. The communique said they discussed the Middle East situation and agreed on objectives to assure peace and prosperity in the region through the United Nations.
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Madrid
Saud
Francisco Franco
Spain
Saudi Arabia
United Nations
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