Bosch Concedes Defeat in Dominican Election
Former president Juan Bosch acknowledged defeat in the June 1 Dominican presidential race, alleging fraud and coercion by supporters of Joaquin Balaguer. Bosch’s Dominican Revolutionary party rejected coalitions, pledging a democratic opposition as Balaguer’s Reformist party secured victory with 766,137 to 525,529 votes.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
Blonday
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Joaquin Balaguer
Bosch
Balaguer
Reformist
United States
Rafael Edmundo Espinal
Soviet Leaders Seek Pact Unity Amid East Bloc Strains
Soviet leaders meet secretly with at least three Eastern European foreign ministers in Moscow as Romania East Germany and Hungary face rifts within the Warsaw Pact. Chou En-lai heads to Bucharest while Brezhnev and Ceaucescu engage in related talks and a Geneva Peace Council meeting proceeds with contentious rules.
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Europe
Romania
Janos Kadar
Kosygin
Finland
Viet Nam
Kadar
East Berlin
East Germany
Hungary
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Corneliu Manescue
Manescu
Tass
Janoss Peter
Lothar Bolz
Nicolai Ceaucescu
Poland
Chou En-Laj
Communist World Peace Council
Geneva
Switzerland
Bristol Youth Drowns at New Recreation Park
A 16 year old Bristol youth Eugene Wright Murray drowned during a lunch break at the unopen park site Clear Creek Recreation area. He was part of a Neighborhood Youth Corps cleanup group of 30 workers. body recovered by Washington County and Bristol rescue squads.
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Bristol
Eugene Wright Murray
Here
Murray
F. W. Murray
Clear Creek
Washington County
Judge signals coffee break with coded buzzer
El Dorado Kansas District Court Judge Page W. Benson uses a bench buzzer linked to the clerk’s office to summon staff. A reporter deciphered a Morse Code sequence from the device indicating it was time for the judge’s coffee break.
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EL Dorado
Kan
Page W. Benson
Bridge lesson reveals costly misguess of suit layout
In a Goren On Bridge column from 1946, East’s opening lead and South’s aggressive four hearts contract lead to a down fall. The analysis shows how a spade opening and a diamond misguess opened the way for East to gain control, and how declarer could have improved by noting North’s spade shortage and choice of plays.
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South
West
East
North
Norfolk Native Held In Death
Herbert C. Winslow a 26 year old Norfolk native and Newport Naval Base steward was arraigned in District Court on a murder charge for the shooting death of Lawrence Philyaw 22 in Newport Rhode Island. Judge Del Nero set bail at four thousand and kept Winslow at the Adult Correctional Institution. Philyaw died at Newport Naval Hospital from a left side gun shot wound after an 8 15 p m argument between servicemen. Philyaw was assigned to the destroyer Charles P Cecil. An earlier assault with intent to commit murder charge was withheld.
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Newport R.I
Herbert C. Winslow
Newport Naval Base
Lawrence Philyaw
Newport
Paul J. del Nero
Winslow
del Nero
Norfolk
Adult Correctional Institution
Philyaw
Newport Naval Hospital
Phiyaw
Charles P. Cecil
No holes barred in Lehigh as law targets doughnut holes
Dunkin Donuts of America claims a local law bans selling edible doughnut holes in Lehigh Nebraska. The chain notes its menu centers on selling holeless doughnuts and the ban could affect its product line and pricing.
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Lehigh
Nebu
Dunkin’ Donuts of
America
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