17 Dec 1960
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1960
Page
1
Australian reports warn the West New Guinea situation is worsening despite Indonesian assurances. Gen Nasution delays Australia visit for a Moscow trip to seek more arms as Dutch reinforcement with jets and ships escalates the regional threat.
Vientiane battles between rival factions raged for a fourth day as five Americans were reported taken hostage by Kong Lae led forces. White forces reinforced from the east pressed red positions near the Bank of Indo-China while gunboats bombarded Mekong targets.
Richard Pavlick a 73 year old New Hampshire retiree was held on 100000 bail on charges he planned to turn himself into a human bomb to kill President elect John Kennedy Police found dynamite wiring in his car and hotel room Pavlick told a Secret Service man he had been treated in a mental hospital A hearing was held before a U S Commissioner Taft in West Palm Beach Florida.
A single engine high wing Norse man aircraft owned by Mandated Airlines is reported missing in the rugged mountainous region between Mendi in Southern Highlands and Minj in Western Highlands New Guinea. The plane carried a pilot and a native passenger. Two Cessnas and a DC-3 from Mandated Airlines searched the area yesterday and today.
Rebel saboteurs tried to burn a government TV station after Fidel Castro denounced the United States. The blaze damaged the top two floors and fire crews fought the four hour blaze while police captured three men with explosives in a car. Castro in a three hour TV speech accused the United States of sending high powered explosives to Cuba’s enemies.
Arrigo Benedetti, director of L Espress o, is sentenced to five months suspended imprisonment for offending the honours of the Pope over an unsigned article titled The Party of the Pope.
Coroner finds Stephen Leslie Bradley murdered Graeme Thorne eight year old Bondi schoolboy shown death asphyxia and fractured skull. Bradley, 34, Hungarian born naturalised Australian, is committed for trial at the next Central Criminal Court sittings in Sydney with bail refused.
Mr. Law of the Antarctic Research Branch seeks Tasmanian government aid to eradicate rabbits on Macquarie Island part of Tasmania. The animals were released years ago to feed castaways. Brisbane Scout Peter Bronson, 17, rode the polar ship Maga Dan to Macquarie Weather Station and returned with 13 men after a year there.
The Australian farm income for the first quarter of 1960-61 fell by 63 million pounds year over year. Reduced receipts from wood due to smaller deliveries and a 1 percent drop in wool prices mainly drove the decline, along with about 10 million in income lost from beef slaughterings.
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