Propaganda Coup Seen in Tractors for Prisoners Shakedown
Kennedy aides estimate the Castro offer to swap 1,200 Cuban prisoners for 500 tractors could win world opinion and expose Castro as a benevolent dictator while challenging Soviet and Latin American critics. U S officials view the maneuver as a potential trigger for inter American action against Castro and a credibility test for Kennedy era diplomacy.
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Washington
Fidel Castro
Castro
Latin America
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Vienna
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Senate
U.N
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S
Scott
Stevenson
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Choices On Berlin Marked by Leniency or Force
West Berlin stands 110 miles inside East Germany in a high stakes dispute with Moscow. Khrushchev demands a peace treaty and demilitarization or risk tightening control. Kennedy warns against surrender of routes, signaling possible future force or compromise.
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James Marlow
Associated Press News
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Russia
Berlin
Kennedy
Khrushchev
West Berlin
West Germany
East Germany
East Berlin
Khrushny
Truman
United States
Trethal
Kushchey
Adlai Heads For Bolivia
Adlai E Stevenson, Kennedy’s ally, heads to Bolivia on a Latin American tour to promote the alliance for progress. He aims to discuss plans for an Inter‑American Council meeting in Uruguay and assess Bolivian crisis conditions amid protests and a state of siege. Stevenson meets Chilean leaders and notes USIA offices were vandalized in Santiago.
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U.S
United Nations
Stevenson
Kennedy
Sevenson
Clark
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Scott
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Santiago
Chile
Adlai E. Stevenson
Alliance For Progress Plan
Bolivia
Latin America
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Plottig
la Paza
Uruguay
Inter-American Economic and Social Council
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Washington
United States
Jorge Alessandri
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
Givio
Hovering Robotic Plane Reports City Weather Data
A compact autonomous drone plane hovers over the city to report temperature air pressure and humidity while gathering air samples for later study. It safely returns to earth via parachute after data collection.
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Computations Center Bid Filed at Redstone Arsenal
An apparent low bid of 716919 dollars was filed with Army Engineers for a computations center building at Redstone Arsenal. Dana Construction Co. submitted the bid, compared with an engineers' estimate of 730871 dollars. The article notes the first sighting of San Francisco Bay by Don Gasper de Portola in 1769.
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Army Engineers
Redstone Arsenal
Dana Construction Co
Caucasia
San Francisco Bay
Don Gasper de Portola
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