McNamara: Saving $1.1 Billion Without Reducing Forces
Defense Secretary McNamara announced a $1.1 billion saving in the military supply system in the first year of the cost reduction program. He said there are absolutely no plans to cut combat forces and defended maintaining Western Europe strength, while noting gains in warhead numbers, divisions, squadrons, and special forces due to efficiency improvements.
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Washington
McNamara
Kennedy
Europe
U.S
Pentagon
West Germany proposes quarterly talks on Britain in Common Market
West Germany urged rotating ministerial talks among the seven Common Market nations to discuss economic and political issues with Britain. Dutch foreign minister Luns opposed the plan saying it does not go far enough and cautioned that ministerial presence is not mandatory. French Italian Belgian ministers supported the move, while Spaak urged scheduling progress. WEU framework would host the contacts.
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Brussels
France
West Germany
Britain
Joseph Luns
Gerhard Schroeder
Schroeder
Maurice Couve de Murville
Attilio Piccioni
Paul-Henri Spaak
Spaak
Luns
West European Union
WEU
Bowles Arrives in Indonesia En Route to India Posting
Chester Bowles the new U S ambassador to India has arrived in Jakarta on his way to assume his post. He will proceed from Indonesia to India following the border crossing ceremony and talks with Indonesian officials.
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Jakarta
Chester Bowles
U.S
India
Indonesia
Downpour Floods Hit Kansas and Oklahoma Farmlands
Torrential rains drenched drought‑parched Kansas and Oklahoma with up to 12 inches, triggering flood relief aid. National guardsmen were sent to Gypsum as Spring Creek rose to automobile depths, highways shut in central Kansas, and Potwin and Butler County saw the heaviest totals amid flooding near Enid, Oklahoma.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Western Union Rate Increase Authorized
The FCC approved immediate rate hikes for Western Union to gain about 16.5 million dollars in annual income. Increases range 10 to 20 cents on messages up to 15 words, 15 to 25 cents for day letters up to 50 words, and 10 to 15 cents for night letters up to 50 words. Rates also apply to money orders and public facsimile and some quotation services.
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Washington
Western Union
Federal Communications Commission
Sukarno Reaffirms Opposing Malaysia Creation
Indonesian President Sukarno on Wednesday night reaffirmed his opposition to the creation of Malaysia. He reiterated Indonesia's stance amid regional tensions and regional alignment pressures in Southeast Asia.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
Malaysia
Vote No Aid To Churches Over Racial Discrimination
Denver UPI reports the United Church of Christ General Synod adopted a resolution to withhold funds from churches and affiliated institutions that maintain discriminatory race policies within a year. The plan, approved 308 to 129 after earlier defeat, requires open racial policies for eligibility by July 1 1964. The denomination’s president urged members to act as “soldiers in a holy crusade” for equality, despite Southern opposition.
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Denver
UPI
United Church of Christ
General Synod
Synod
Ike and Mamie Eisenhower Visit Boone Adoring Crowd
Adoring crowds greet former President Dwight Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower as they arrive in Boone. The couple signs autographs on the lawn of Mrs. Eisenhower's uncle Joel Carlson and plan a Gettysburg farm visit. Earlier in Des Moines Eisenhower supported postponing a railroad strike and urged restraint from both sides.
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Boone
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Joel Carlson
Gettysburg
Des Moines
Rock Island Railroad
Kennedy
Carlson
John S. Doud
Denver
Colo
Doud
Booing of Queen Elizabeth shocks Britain during Greek state visit
British officials expressed fury after Queen Elizabeth II was booed by demonstrators protesting the Greek state visit. Police and Home Secretary Henry Brooke condemned the scene as royal carriages entered and exited a gala performance, while protests called for freedom for Greek prisoners.
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London
Elizabeth II
Paul
Frederika
Greece
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Prince Philip
Henry Brooke
Britain
England
Panayotis Pipinelis
Betty Ambatielos
King Paul
Tony
Ambatielos
Soviet and ChineseIDEA Talks Open Time
Soviet and Chinese negotiators failed to appear at the hilltop villa for talks on ideological differences. Western observers and Tass reported Khrushchev meeting Kadar in the Kremlin, with no details released and no comment from embassies.
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Moscow
Peking
Communist Party Central Committee
Tass
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Janos Kadar
Kremlin
Peking- Moscow
Brezhnev
Mikoyan
Racial clash erupts at a Maryland lunchroom
In Cambridge Maryland several hundred whites and Negroes fought outside and inside the Dizzyland lunchroom after six integrationists entered a segregated room. About 12 police officers intervened and made several arrests as order was restored after ten minutes. Injuries were not determined.
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Cambridge, Md
Donnybrook
Move for Legislation Opens to Avert Rail Strike
A blue ribbon panel named by President Kennedy began an 11 day study of the rail work rules dispute as Congress may be asked to pass compulsory arbitration. The panel plans to report by July 22 with legislative recommendations while railroads postponed actions to July 29.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Wirtz
Labor Department
George Meany
Sixman
George Harrison
Inland Steel Co
Joseph Block
Commerce
Hodges
Meany
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Black
Stuart Saunders
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rail Strike Would Be Blow to Cedar Rapids Plants
Hundreds of Cedar Rapids workers faced layoffs if a rail strike had gone forward, as major milling and transit plants depend on rail service. Quaker Oats National Oats Iowa Milling Penick and Ford Cargill warned shutdowns within hours without shipments, while Iowa Electric Light and Power lined up coal reserves to endure months. Postmaster Petro warned of mail embargoes affecting magazines and parcel post, with air services kept limited to first class.
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats
National Oats
Iowa Milling
Penick and Ford
Cargill
Gordon DeLay
Ingre
James Cooper
Les Liabo
John Murray
Penick and
Ford
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Marshalltown
Petro
Ozark
United Airlines
FDA Probes Morning Glory Seeds for Hallucinogen
FDA scientists analyze morning glory seeds to determine if they contain lysergic acid ethylamide. The study follows reports of out-of-season seed runs by buyers in Boston New York and California. The two varieties cited are Heavenly Blue and Pearly Gates.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Boston
New York
California
Birns Surrenders in Slaying Probe
Cleveland AP reports Alex Birns a rackets figure surrendered to authorities Thursday over the murder of investment promoter Mervin Gold. Police seek questions about Birns role in Golds death and financial dealings linking the two men.
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Cleveland (Ap
Alex Birns
Mervin Gold
Gold
Birns
Chuckle column ponders age gaps in dating
A humorous note questions when a man with a younger looking companion might actually be with his mother, poking at perceptions of age and relation in modern dating.
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