U S Aims for First Space Flight Next Week
NASA officials scheduled a man in space shot for next Tuesday morning with a 15 minute flight planned at 4 500 mph. The 3 000 pound capsule will be lifted by a Redstone missile to about 115 miles altitude. The crew member remains secret but the three finalists are John Glenn Virgil Grissom and Alan Shepard. NASA says the test is a serious step with precautions to minimize risk.
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NASA
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
Soviet Union
U.S
Space Agency
Lourse
Here
Navy
Air Force
U. S
John H. Glenn Jr
New Concord
Ohio
Virgil J. Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Alan B. Shepard
East Derry
N. H
James E. Webb
North Carolina Civil Defense Ends Mock Attack Exercise
The 19 hour alert counted 142000 deaths and 7000 injuries in a state wide drill. Brig Gen Edward Griffin praised staff and agencies for their performance as more than 200 participants ran five simulated nuclear blasts including Ft Bragg Raleigh Winston-Salem Charlotte and Greensboro with extensive evacuations. A review will be held next Wednesday at state CD headquarters to assess results.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Edward F. Griffin
Griffin
Laos
State CD
Ft. Bragg
Fayetteville
Germany
England
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Greensboro
High Point
Detention of Tshombe Continues Amid Congo Crisis
Congolese troops keep President Tshombe under virtual confinement in Coquilhatville while Katanga protests a plan to hand him and Evariste Kimba to Lumumba loyalists in Stanleyville. The unity talks fractured after Kasavubu backed a UN move to remove foreign advisers.
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Peter Grose
Coquilhatville
The
Congo
Moishe Tshombe
Katanga
Elisabethville
United Nations
Tshombe
Evariste Kimba
Stanleyville
Joseph Kasavubu
Central Congo
Leopoldville
Gizenga
Kasavubu
Joseph Mobutu
U. N
Senators Await Decision On Dulles Testifying
The Senate Latin American Affairs subcommittee awaits Allen Dulles word on testifying about the CIA role in the Cuban invasion. Morse and Bowles planned briefings, with postposed hearings for Monday, as Republicans note Dulles reluctance to testify. Kennedy reportedly plans CIA reforms after the invasion setback.
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Washington
Senate
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Dulles
Wayne Morse
Dore
Chester Bowles
Cuba
Bowles
Morse
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Subcommittee
State Department
Foreign Relations Committee
New York Herald Tribune
Kennedy
Rebels Launch Dawn Attack Near Vientiane Laos
Two hundred pro Communist rebels attacked government positions near Ban Keun, 44 miles north of Vientiane, as Royal troops rushed to reinforce. A helicopter returned with four wounded soldiers while talks for a cease fire with the Pathet Lao continued.
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Vientiane, Laos
Vientiane
Ban Keun
Luang Prabang
Phoumi Nosavan
Rightist Calls for New Uprising in Algeria
Diehard OAS settlers who hid during De Gaulle’s abortive revolt resurfaced with defi ant calls for resistance in Algiers. Within days of the generals’ revolt being crushed, tracts circulated urging a new uprising to preserve European domination, and OAS slogans remained visible on streets and walls.
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Andrew Borowiec
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Secret Army
OAS
Laos Peace Talks Deadline Set by Souvanna Phouma
Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos premier, set a 48-hour deadline for the pro-Western regime to send delegates to a peace conference. Tass said his remarks at a news conference in Vientiane cited cease-fire plans and warned nonarrival signaled a lack of interest in peace.
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London
Tass
Souvanna Phouma
Laos
Souvanna
Laotian Crisis Deepens as Kennedy Presses Freedom Policy
President Kennedy, speaking in Chicago to 5,000 Democrats, warned of an unprecedented Communist threat and defended freedom for nations ready to fight. Secretary Rusk returned from Ankara as Laos and Cuba crises loom. Johnson vowed the US would not let Laos be “gobbled up.”
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Meuntay Low Vauta
Chicago
Dean Rusk
Washington
Central Treaty Organization
Ankara
Turkey
Rusk
Kennedy
Security Council
Emissary Fails In Mission As Laos Crisis Deepens
An official envoy sent by Gen Phomi Nosavan with a white flag failed to contact Pathet Lao rebels near Vientiane. The royal government ordered its troops not to fire unless fired upon. Western diplomats question rebel willingness to talks while U S officials weigh intervention options as the Laos crisis grows.
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Ment
Pathet Lao
Luang Prabang
Vientiane
Kennedy
Viet Nam
United States
Laos
Lyndon B. Johnson
John Griffin
Cy Man's Land
Phoumi
U.S
Siho Lam
Phouthakou
Vang
Washington
National Security Council
U. S
Canada seals record grain deal with Communist China
Canada announces a new China grain agreement likely to exceed past deals and possibly set a record in Canadian history. The plan includes short term credit, with first shipments starting about June 1 and continuing through October, as Peiping expands purchases of Canadian wheat and flour.
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Canada
China
Byro Yessoyan
Hong Kong
Peiping
Alvin Hamilton
Hamilton
Heiping
Ay Union
Czechoslovakia
Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Rioting Youths Create Splash Day Nightmare in Galveston
Charles Green reports that thousands of rioting youths, many college students, flooded Galveston for Splash Day night shifts. Police, sheriff’s deputies, and firefighters faced impromptu fights, bottles, and beer can tossings along Sea Wall Boulevard. Hospitals filled with minor injuries as emergency rooms struggled with the crowd.
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Galveston, Tex
Galveston
C. E. Henson
Jwall Boulevard
The
Bay
Sheriff's Deputies
Homer Reed
John Sealy Hospital
Sunday Enterprise Features Tomorrow
The Sunday Enterprise highlights upcoming summer preparations by the city parks and recreation department, detailing park and playground readiness for the play season and inviting readers to read more in tomorrow's edition.
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Sunday Enterprise
City Parks and Recreation Department
Tough New Union Law Urged Over Cape Canaveral Strikes
Sen. John L. McClellan says costly Cape Canaveral strikes and slowdowns justify a tougher union law. He cites 109 strikes in 40 years with overtime pay up to four times regular wages, alleging planners aimed to delay missiles for overtime revenue. Palmer of Local 756 IWU is named among those cited.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Senate Investigations
Cape Canaveral Missile Base
Canaveral
Palmer
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Algeria
New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Britain
NEW Escape Hood
Harris E. Steinke
Steinke
Navy Diving Unit
By Charles Green
NEW Post Office
Denton
Braxton Younts
Enterprise
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