Hammarskjold refuses Soviet bid to resign
UN headquarters in New York sealed as riots threaten. Congo crisis sparks embassies attacked and mass arrests. Kennedy warns against unilateral intervention while Britain accuses Soviet stance of sabotaging the UN and risking civil war. Radio Moscow holds Hammarskjold responsible for Lumumba's fate.
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Britain
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Patrice Lumumba
UN Secretary General refuses resignation amid Lumumba protests
United Nations Secretary General Hammarskjold stood firm against Soviet calls for his resignation, warning that resignation would throw the UN to the winds. Rioters disrupted the Security Council session over Lumumba’s death as protests spread from Cairo to Warsaw and Paris with African students leading actions.
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Security Council
World Organisation
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Chicco
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Cairo
Paris
Accra
Khartoum
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Prague
Lyons
Casablanca
Teheran
Ghana
Yagoslavia
United Arab Republic
Russia
Antoine Gizenga
Congo
Lumumba ‘Heran
Calcutta
Fears for Natives on Flooded Gascoyne Island
Twenty natives were last seen on a small island in the Gascoyne River as floodwaters rose. By dawn the island vanished leaving them stranded with relief drops by Mr. Eric Fitzgerald, a Mullewa grazier, reported from 110 miles from Carnarvon.
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Gascoyne
Carnarvon
Eric Fitzgerald
Mullewa
Dangerous mental case free after railway escape
A man held on house breaking charges in Wagga was being escorted to Kenmore Mental Hospital, Goulburn. He escaped from handcuffs on a moving train near Yass Junction, prompting roadblocks and warnings to truck drivers along the Hume Highway. Police described him as tall with long blonde hair and a four inch chest scar, wearing a black leather jacket.
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Kenmore Mental Hospital
Goulburn
Yass
Yass Junction
Hume Highway
Gunning
Balloon Space Venture Aims for Orbit from Wallops Island
A proposed American space project envisions a 12 percent diameter balloon launched from Wallops Island Virginia by a solid fueled rocket to reach orbit. The inflated balloon would shed its ejection stage in space and feature a dot patterned surface to reflect energy and reduce heat.
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Wallops Island
Virginia
US Lags in Space Race Says Dryden and Kennedy
Washington officials warn the United States will trail the Soviet Union in space leadership until 1965 or 1966. Hugh Dryden of NASA says booster capacity cannot catch up soon. President Kennedy notes Soviet propulsion edge but claims US power can protect militarily and hopes for peaceful progress in exploration this year.
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United States
Soviet Union
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U.S
Mystery of Airliner Crash Baffles Investigators
The wreckage instruments were sealed for analysis to reveal last minutes movements before the crash. Ninety people died including 18 American skaters. the plane’s radio went silent for 13 minutes. The U S team headed to Prague for worlds. prominent victims included Laurence Owen and Maribel Vinson Owen.
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Willem Deswarter
Ostend
Louis Lambrechts
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Prague
Kennedy
Laurence Owen
Maribel
Maribel Vinson Owen
Dallas Pierce
Diane Sherbloom
Douglas Ramsay
Dudley Richards
Stephanie Westerfield
Sharon
Daniel Ryan
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