Ethiopia Dam Debate Foiled US Bid Delayed by Race for Nile Control
In Addis Ababa Drew Pearson reviews Ethiopia’s dam projects and riparian tensions. He notes US delays on Finchan and Wabi dams, Yugoslav funding of a Lake Tana project, and Soviet rapid Aswan power, framing a broader clash of capitalism and communism over Nile waters.
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Egypt
Drew Pearson
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
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J. G. White Company of
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Finchan
United States
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Lake Erie
Sudan
Voting Machines Progress in Morgan County and Decatur
Morgan County and the City of Decatur have bought voting machines for the first and second districts where about 16 000 of the county’s 20 000 voters live. Counts in districts three and four show roughly 4 000 qualified voters, and machines should be acquired soon to enable countywide machine voting. The note praises machines as near guarantees of honest elections and urges completion. The piece also cites a Commerce Department figure on Southern education spending.
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Morgan County
Decatur
English couple funds USS Alabama Memorial Park drive
An anonymous English couple living in Alabama donates generously to the USS Alabama Battleship Commission Memorial Park fund. Chairman Henri M. Aldridge commends the gift and quotes the couple expressing gratitude for Americans and Alabamians. He replies noting the strong bond between the two nations and hopes others are inspired.
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Alabama
USS Alabama Battleship Commission Memorial Park Fund
Henri M. Aldridge
Aldridge
Britain
U.S.A
Mobile
Shastri Named Prime Minister in Acclamation
The new Indian leader Shastri accepts the post by acclamation succeeding Nehru and pledges a non aligned path with capitalism or communism. He calls socialism the objective and stresses unity and responsibility amid global Cold War tensions.
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Mr. Shastri
Mr. Nehru
India
Nehru
Choices of Living Values by Arlie B Davidson
EMA By ARLIE B. DAVIDSON presents five guiding choices for personal and community well being. It urges selecting a higher level of living, pursuing new ventures, fostering useful civic loyalties, aiming for balanced personal and social progress, and choosing what benefits self and others over self desires that harm others.
Sharp European reaction to Goldwater victory
European press dismayed by Goldwater win in California sees rise of appeasement and commercialism, fears American burden and a shift in world peace policy. Analysts note dislike of foreign aid hesitations, war fatigue over Vietnam, and perceived American isolation fostered by European policy.
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Goldwater
California
Europe
John Foster Dulles
America
United States
Senator Goldwater
Rip van Winkle
Moscow
Arizona
John F. Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Free World
Congress
Climax Near in Soviet China Split as World Watches
The piece argues that Moscow and Peiping are near an irreparable rupture, with Chinese insistence on a hard line toward the West and racial polemics driving a fissure. It compares the split to historic Christian church schisms and notes a hopeful convergence of Christian and Jewish values amid global tensions.
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Red China
Asia
Moscow
Peiping
Southeast Asia
West
Washington
Russia
China
Oeta
United Feature
This Day In History June 8 Highlights Through Time
On this date events span 1758 Nova Scotia troop landings by Lord Amherst, 1809 death of Thomas Paine, 1845 death of Andrew Jackson, 1872 authorization of one cent postcards, 1915 Bryan resigns as secretary of state over Lusitania policy, 1942 Sydney harbor shelling, plus major Cold War notes and the Profumo scandal link.
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Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Lord Jeffrey Amherst
Nova Scotia
Thomas Paine
Andrew Jackson
U.S. Congress
Sydney
John Foster Dulles
United States
Indochina
Asia
Vandals Damage King’s Summer Cottage in St Augustine
Vandals smashed furniture and set bed clothing afire inside a cottage rented for the summer by Dr Martin Luther King in St Augustine Florida. King was in New York and had said he may summon a nonviolent army of whites and Negroes for demonstrations.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Martin Luther King
King
New
J. King
Southern Christian Leadership
Girls State program holds mock elections at Huntingdon College
About 250 high school girls attend the weeklong Girls State at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. They will elect state and county officers on Wednesday with 26 candidates running for governor. The mock government includes city officials and campaigns for offices at the Capitol.
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Montgomery
Huntingdon College
Thutadey
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