Ban on Arms To Mid-East Is Lifted
President Eisenhower lifted the embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East, restoring licenses including 18 light tanks to Saudi Arabia. The move followed days of top-level review, with existing licenses approved and Israel awaiting a separate $50 million request. Saudi Arabia had paid for the tanks, and the U S said it remains committed to peace and stability in the region.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Robert D. Murphy
Israel
State Department
America
Russia
Middle East States
Department
U.S
Near East
Abdullah Al-Khayyal
United States
Dharhan
Britain
Hal March and Candy Torme Wed in Quiet Ceremony
Televised quizmaster Hal March and Candy Toxton Torme wed in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas. In Council Bluffs, Mrs. M. C. Hamburg died in a house explosion and fire, with investigators not yet determining the blast cause.
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Hal March
Candy Torme
Las Vegas
Candy Toxton Torme
Mel Torme
Council Bluffs
M. C. Hamburg
Malta airliner crash kills 50 including wedding plans
A chartered British airliner crashed on take off from Luqa airport Valetta killing 50 people. Among the dead were 44 Royal Air Force airmen five crew members and one unidentified person. Stewardess Jill Upham 22 who was to marry first officer Robert Garvin was among the dead. The York was chartered to ferry service personnel from the Suez Canal Zone. The war office had put fatalities at 51 earlier.
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Robert Garvin
War Office
Air Ministry
Malta
2 Neighbors Nab Man on 2 Charges
Two local residents confronted a man and detained him on two charges. Police arrived, processed the suspect, and transported him to the station for booking. Neighbors report ongoing concerns about safety and vow to remain vigilant.
Illinois man held after rear-end crash in Cedar Rapids
George R. Crego 51 of Forest Park Illinois was jailed on reckless driving and leaving the scene after his car struck a parked vehicle in front of Robert Gillam and G F Galligan homes on Third Avenue SW. Neighbors Gillam and Galligan chased and restrained him until police arrived. the pursuit followed a water leak trail from the damaged car.
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George R. Crego
Forest Park
Robert Gillam
Third Avenue
G. F. Galligan
Crego
Gillam
John
Galligan
Rockford Road
Eighteenth Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Fraternity Restricts Hazing After Student's Death
Delta Kappa Epsilon national council banned hazing and ordered initiation activities confined to the fraternity house after MIT student Thomas L. Clark 18 died after reportedly being released near a Cambridge reservoir. The council, led by W. H. Beal, offered sympathy to the family.
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New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Council of Delta Kappa Epsilon
Thomas L. Clark
Harvey
Cambridge
Mass
Institute
W. H. Beal
Philadelphia
Senate probes seek 1954 trade list to Soviet bloc
Washington reporters say Senate investigators pressed to obtain a list of 100 to 150 items the United States recommended be allowed to ship to the Soviet bloc in 1954. Chairman McClellan said the commerce department promised disclosure after months of secrecy.
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Llp
Senate
Free World
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Commerce Department
United States
Soviet Bloc
What Washington Found in His Travels During the War
Charles Mercer reflects on George Washington as a traveler who mapped early America. The piece recalls Washington’s journeys from Virginia to the Northeast and through the Carolinas, noting his endurance, weather misfortunes, and horseman skills alongside aides like Alexander Hamilton.
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Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
George Washington
America
Wrong Death List Causes Mixup in Marine Air Crash
A marine transport plane crash near Niles California killed 40 marines, but a grievous error led to incorrect death notices being sent to 32 families. The mixup stemmed from swapped passenger lists between planes 3 and 4, with correct notices for crew and a hitch-hiking marine. Ground parties recovered bodies. corrected casualty lists await release.
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Calif
Here
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W. R. Swindell
Camp Pendleton
California
R. J. Meeker
el Toro Marine Base
Alameda County
San Francisco Bay
Swindell
el Toro
Alameda Naval Air Station
Oakland
Washington
University of Madrid to Reopen Monday with Law School Relocation
The Spanish government announced the University of Madrid would reopen Monday after a weeklong student riot. Law classes will resume only in a new building, as the old law school was the flashpoint between Falange opponents and its supporters.
Quarles Sees U S Ahead in Missiles Overall
Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles testified behind closed doors that the United States is probably ahead of the Soviet Union in guided missile development overall, though Russia may lead in a few elements. He rejected claims that any current Russian weapon would alter the balance of power and warned against overreacting to missile progress.
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Donald A. Quarles
Russia
United States
Stuart Symington
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
U.S
Quarles
House
Eisenhower
Zhukov Warns Of Soviet Missiles If West Attacks
Moscow defense minister Georgi Zhukov warned that the Soviet Union has mighty guided missiles and would drop atomic bombs on American cities if attacked. In a Tass summary he said the armed forces are fully reorganized with diverse nuclear weapons and a first class jet air force, and that the USSR does not threaten but will defend its people if provoked. He framed the USSR and its allies as a vast military family ready to fight for peace and to wreck Western plans to confine hostilities to Europe.
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United States
America
Moscow
Georgi K. Zhukov
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Zhukov
Tass
Eisenhower
Germany
Europe
Greek election looms as Communist front possible
In Athens a national vote on Sunday could lead to Europe's first postwar popular front government with a Communist-supported coalition. About 300 of 800 candidates seek seats as Greeks decide between Constantine Karamanlis and George Panandreou plus allies in a race marked by pro government warnings against the Democratic Union.
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Europe
Popular Front
Constantine Karamantis
National Radical Union
ERE
Karamantis
Karamanlis
Democratic Union
George Panandreou
Union of Left Democrats
Eda
Communist Party
Broad Front
Karaman
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