Two Syrian Physicians Named Nominal State Leaders
In Damascus a temporary Baath command named two civilian doctors as nominal rulers after a coup. Noureddin Atassi, 36, named chief of state and Youssef Zayyen, 35, appointed prime minister, replacing deposed leaders amid reports of heavy fighting and high casualties across Syria.
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Damascus
Syria
Radio Damascus
Noureddin Atassi
Amin Hafez
Youssef Zayyen
Salah Bitar
Baath Socialist Party
Hafez
Defense
Mohammed Omran
Lebanon
Beirut
Baath Party
Salah Jadid
Junder Hafez
Atassi
Zaygen
Bitar
Farhan Atassi
Zayyen
Ghana coup ousts Nkrumah as army seizes power
Ghana’s military rulers announce a takeover after Kwame Nkrumah is deposed and the constitution suspended. Officials from the Convention People’s Party are sought, communications loosened, and Accra’s regime oversight shifts to a national revolutionary council. Exiled leaders and diplomats react as Nkrumah’s supporters face arrest and ongoing political purges.
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Ghana
Nkrumah
Convention People’s Party
Accra
Ankrah
J. W. K. Hariley
Albert Adomakoh
Bank of Ghana
R. §. Amegashie
B. K. Mensah
United States
Kwame Nkrumah
Geoffrey Bing
Ghanaian Times
Accra Radio
National Revolutionary Council
Peking
Tass
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Hanoi
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Porth case witness details conflicting versions of wife’s death
Porth was a key witness in a Winston-Salem murder case. He allegedly reported his wife’s death as an accidental fall in a fashionable home then later described disposing of her body after moving it to Virginia and parking in Charleston. Another witness noted an affair with Porth. The defense questioned the murder weapon and insisted bruises could not result from a 39 inch stair fall.
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Porth
Midwest
Shore
Virginia
Weather delays at Kennedy and LaGuardia airports
Washington measured five inches of snow that melted in 40 degree temperatures. Subzero cold lingered in eastern Montana and western North Dakota while northern Minnesota stayed near zero. The Great Plains warmed after an overnight freeze reaching as far south as Texas.
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Kennedy
la Guardia
Washington, D.C
Montana
North Dakota
Miesota
Great Plains
Texas
Virginia races shift as Byrd successor prospects emerge
Amid a Democratic scramble in Virginia politics Jennings hints at a candidacy after the 1966 assembly adjourns on March 12. Howell’s withdrawal boosts Jennings against Byrd and Robertson. Norfolk and Portsmouth lawmakers back Spong, praising his education record, while Robertson’s long U.S. Senate tenure complicates a younger challenger’s path.
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Assembly
Howell
Jennings
Byrd
Byrd Sr
Virginia
Norfolk
Robertson
Spong
Portsmouth
2Nd
Edward L. Breeden
Robert J. Baldwin
Congress of the United States
Lexington
House of Representatives
Senate
Carter Glass
Banking and Currency Committee
Sukarno Bans Demonstrations and Curfew in Jakarta
President Sukarno orders dissolution of the Indonesian Student Action Front, bans all demonstrations, and imposes a curfew in Jakarta after a five mile funeral parade of 16 000 students protesting his cabinet reshuffle. Nasution has vanished. rumors of army sympathy and mobilization swirl as tension rises.
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Singapore
Sukarno
Indonesia
Jakarta
Dents
Abdul Haris Nasution
Indonesian Student Action Front
Kami
Jakarta Radio
Sukarno J
Nasulion
Flowers enters Alabama governor race with pledge for votes
Atty Gen Richmond Flowers entered the Alabama governor race in Montgomery promising to win Negro and white votes. He urged flag respect by placing the U.S. flag on the Capitol dome and said his campaign would be sane and reasoned.
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Atty. Gen. Flowers
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Richmond Flowers
U.S
Dothan
George C. Wallace
Flowers
Wallace
Lurleen
Capitol
James D.martin
GOP
Bandits Use Small Plane In Rural Kidnap Try
In Eulonia Georgia a store owner Olney Jenkins, 51, fought off a three man kidnapping attempt by armed bandits who fled in a small plane after taking about 300 dollars. Four men were captured later, three in a car near Jesup and a suspect, Shirl Sakobie, 30, of Miami was arrested at the McIntosh County airport charged with armed robbery.
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Eulonia
Olney Jenkins
Jesup
Clarence Ellis
Wayne County
McIntosh County
Tom Poppel
Mciintosh County
Shirl Sakohie
Miami
Fla
Hot Springs
Ark
Jenkins
Defector Kravchenko’s 1944 Washington mission and 1948 rescue
Soviet army captain Kravchenko defected in 1944 while assigned to a So viet purchasing mission in Washington. He later claimed Russians abroad must spy. In 1948 he announced rescuing Russian teacher Mikhail Samarino from a New Jersey chicken farm and sought protection from HUAC. He also faced libel suits and wrote about his experiences.
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Kravchenko
Washington
Mikhail Samarino
New Jersey
House Committee On
Oksana Kasenkina
Paris
Soviet Union
Andrei A
Morse charges say Viet Nam refugees driven from homes
Morse alleged that most of the more than 700000 war refugees in South Vietnam were displaced by American bombings and village burnings. He claimed women and children were killed and rice fields poisoned as he pressed for a harsher antiwar stance during a Senate session backgrounded by Fulbright, Humphrey, and Raborn.
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Morse
Viet Nam
Sen. J
Fulbright
D-Ark
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Humphrey
William F. Raborn
Central Intellgence Agency
Johnson
Sen. JW. Fulbright
North Viet Nam
State Department
Department
Pentagon
U S Moves To Bar Dockers From Boycotting Hanoi Trade
Washington moves to prevent a dockers strike against ships trading with North Viet Nam. State Department invites IL A chief Gleason, NMU head Curran, Sailors International Union leader Hall to a March meeting to discuss a government driven approach.
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Washington
APAP
State Department
Viet Nam
U.S. Maritime Union
New York
Robert J. McCloskey
United States
U.S
McCloskey
Thomas C. Mann
Thomas Gleason
International Longshoreman’s Association
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Paul Hall
Seafarer’s International Union
North Viet Nam
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Afl-Cio Maritime Trades Department
South Viet Nam
Gleason
Coun
North Vietnamese
North Viet
Assembly Passes Pork Tax and Welfare Reform Bills
The assembly sent bills to the Senate before adjournment, including a nickel per pig tax to fund pork industry promotion and a 2 cent feeder pig levy. It also approved actions to raise the big truck speed limit to 55 mph, and allow weight restrictions on federal aid highways. Senate Retirement bills to raise state employee pensions by up to 22 percent were passed as well, costing about $13 million over two years. Vote tallies show mixed support on the pork tax with 55 yes to 22 no in the House, while the sales tax measure moved on with a 30–10 roll call.
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Senate
House
del. Marion Galland
Alexandria
Ayes
Aldhizer
Ames
Andrews
Baldwin
Bateman
Bemiss
Bird
D. W
L. C
Breeden
Campbell
Cochran
Collins
Davis
Fenwick
Fitzgerald
Galleher
Gray
Hagood
Hodges
Hutcheson
Kellam
Long
Manns
McCue
Parkerson
Rawlings
Snong
Warren
Willey
Wyatt
Jet crash injures pilot at Cherry Point air station
Lt. Ronald M. Zobenica, 26, suffered a compound leg fracture when his F4B Phantom crashed at Cherry Point Marine Air Station end of runway during a night training mission. Maj. Robert D. Miller, 35, rode in the plane but was uninjured. Investigators investigated the cause.
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Cherry Point
N.C
Ronald M. Zobenica
Cherry Point Marine Air Station
Zobenica
W. T. Zobenica
Bovey
Robert D. Miller
Zohenka
Colleges debate draft ranking by class standing
Liesenfelt argues students have two chances based on class rank and a test as nationwide draft rules prompt debate. Roosevelt University's George Watson warns the system makes universities part of Selective Service while Deans from Kentucky and Georgia Tech flag potential administrative confusion and fairness concerns.
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Liesenfelt
Recorder
University of Minnesota
George Watson
Chicago
Roosevelt University
Elbert Ockerman
University of Kentucky
Law
Colleges of Commerce
James Dull
Georgia Tech
Georgia State
Goddard College
Plainfield
Forest K. Davis
Goddard
Hero Gunner Returned to Viet Nam After Wounding
A gunner in a helicopter struck by ground fire was sent home to recover but volunteered to return to Viet Nam in January. Funeral services are set for Saturday at Los Lunas High School gym, with burial at Santa Fe National Cemetery. Maj. Gen. John P. Jolly will represent Gov. Jack Campbell. Campbell, in Washington, said there are no words to ease the loss, but his heroic death saved other sons.
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Page One
Viet Nam
Los Lunas High School
National Cemetery
Santa Fe
New Mexico
John P. Jolly
Jack Campbell
Campbell
Washington, D.C
Fernandez
Viet Nam Brigade Holds Off Jungle Attack Near Saigon
A 2,500 man Viet Nam brigade including some Australians repelled a predawn assault by three Viet Cong battalions. Toll rose with 135 enemy dead. U.S. Col. Edgar Glotzbach praised his men who suffered light losses. Refugee airlift aided 276 villagers in Tam Ky area as families fled Viet Cong control.
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Saigon
Edgar N. Glotzbach
Paxico
Kan
Westmoreland
Tam Ky
Nguyen Sac
U.S
Huong Pho One
Jonas M. Platt
Cranston, R
Marine Task
Delta
Sac
U.S. Senate
Peking People's Daily
Defense
Robert 5. McNamara
China
Viet Nam
Switzerland
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
United States
Johnson
Bonn
Ludwig Erhard
Europe
Moscow
Lee Chang
Britain
Lord Chalfont
Selective Service College Qualification Tests Set Dates
The Selective Service will administer college qualification tests nationwide on May 14 May 21 and June 3 for high school seniors and college students. About a million registrants are expected to test. The 150 item exam lasts up to three hours and covers reading, verbal relations, arithmetic reasoning, and data interpretation.
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Selective Service College
Washington
Selective Service
Science Research Associates of
Chicago
Science Research Associates
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International Baath Command
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David Lancashire
Aleppo
Alleppo
Salaj Jadid
Damascus Radio
London
Khaw Amihyia
Revolutionary Council In Exile
Voice of Free Indonesia
Java
Nasution
Ibrahim Ali
Bill Williams
Eadee
Hong Kong
Lee
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