Kennedy Advisers Weigh Stronger Laos Involvement
President Kennedy and top advisers held urgent talks on expanding U S role in Southeast Asia to counter Communist advances in Laos The crisis centers on whether Soviet backed rebels will accept a cease fire within 48 hours and whether to intervene militarily The next Security Council session is set for Monday at the White House
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Southeast Asia
National Security Council
U. S
Laos
Soviet Union
Security Council
White House
Moscow
U.S
Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
State Department
Boun Oum
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy Faces Tough Laos Decision Amid Escalation Fears
President Kennedy faces a risky Laos squeeze as the US weighs options from seeking a political settlement to military intervention. Officials warn a move could widen Southeast Asian conflict and risk global nuclear war, while the USSR pressures rebels and Bangkok hosts talks.
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United States
Laos
U.S
Boun Oum J
Washington
Southeast Asia
North
Viet Nam
U. S
Korea
Oie
Intelligence Overhaul Aims at Joint Pentagon Agency
A McNamara study urges a single coordinated military intelligence agency for the Army Navy and Air Force. The proposed unit would be an active operating office to collect and evaluate intelligence for unified and individual commands, reducing duplicate services. Rumblings of centralization follow the Cuban crisis.
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Washington
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Central Intelligence Agency
Kennedy
Fidel Castro
McNamara
Army
Navy
Air Force
Joint Intelligence Office
Defense Establishment
Marines Land At Guantanamo Bay During May Day Build Up
Marines arrive at Guantanamo Bay with a reinforced battalion and tanks for a weekend at the base as Fidel Castro calls for a mass May Day rally across Cuba. A second battalion is reported offshore en route to the United States.
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Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
U.S. Navy
Fidel Castro
United States
Vieques Island
Puerto Rico
Marine Command
Duane L. Faw
Vieques
Navy
Caribbean
Guantanamo
Atlantic Fleet
Amphibious Squadron 8
Castro
Skeleton found in Ragged Clothing After Eviction
Police in Arles discovered a skeleton in a ragged bedclothes wearing clothing after evicting tenant Leon Rastelli for nonpayment of rent. A police surgeon estimated death occurred about eight months earlier.
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Arles
France
Leon Rastelli
Rastelli
Astronauts Flight Plan Outlined by NASA Diagram
NASA released a diagram showing an astronaut capsule from Cape Canaveral making a ballistic flight over a 250 nautical mile range with a peak altitude of 115 statute miles. After separation from the Redstone launch vehicle the capsule pitches upward to about 14.5 degrees and later to 35 degrees for retro rockets before descent with a small parachute deploying ahead of the main chute.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Redstone
Astronauts Prep for Brief Mercury Flight at Cape Canaveral
Two pilots chosen for the first Mercury mission train in a Cape Canaveral capsule mockup as doctors and psychologists monitor them. The selected prime and backup astronauts, John Glenn and Virgil Grissom, prepare for a one hour after dawn flight with the goal to reach 115 miles up and return 290 miles downrange in 16 minutes.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
Crabtree
Ore
National Aeronautic’s and Space Administration
Yur Gagarin
Earth
Space “Agency
Robert Gilruth
Project Mercury
Gilruth
John H. Glenn Jr
New Concord
Ohio
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Mitchell
Ind
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
East Derry
N.H
Dolores O'Hara
Dolores
Dee
Recovery Plan Outlines Space Capsule Recovery Network
A multi area recovery grid is prepared to recover the first U S astronaut capsule after launch. Recovery ships aircraft and helicopters will cover Cape Canaveral waters the Atlantic near Canaveral and northeast of Grand Bahama Island under Rear Adm F W H Hilles and Rear Adm G P Koch with units from the Air Force missile test center and Marines. Recovery work aims for quick safe retrieval plus a 115 mile high 290 mile downrange splash into the Atlantic.
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America
Cape Canaveral
Canaveral
Grand Bahama Island
Atlantic
F. W. H. Hilles
Air Force Missile Test Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Reds Claim Victory In Laos War
In central Laos rebels attacked Ban Keun 44 miles north of Vientiane and claimed victory in Savannakhet Province. Government troops moved to the scene with no reported outcome while Pathet Lao forces press for a cease fire and talks.
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Vientiane
Laos
Savannakhet
Pathet Lao
Ban Keun
Communist China
New China News Agency
Muong Phin
No-Man's Land
No-Man’s Land
Planned NATO airlift canceled amid Laos crisis
United States cancels 6000 troops airlift to West Germany for a 15 day NATO exercise. The move was halted after Kennedy-National Security Council talks as France and West Germany prepared to host forces and aircraft from Fort Campbell and bases in Greenville and Charleston.
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Washington
United States
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pentagon
Kennedy
National Security Council
Laos
Ft. Campbell
NATO
Moscow
U. S
101St Airborne Division
Frankfurt
Force Base
Greenville
S. C
Charleston
Tactical Air Command
France
Kennedy faces challenge of counteroffensive in cold war
In his first 100 days Kennedy battles damaged U S prestige from the Soviet man in space triumph and the Cuban invasion defeat. He seeks to hold line against Communist expansion while building a Western counteroffensive with allied unity and renewed NATO credibility.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
U.S
Kennedy
U. S
Soviet Union
Moscow
Southeast Asia
Laos
Atlantic Alliance
NATO
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
West
Kennedy engineers early 1960s coalition breach and agenda push
President Kennedy breaches Republican Southern Democratic coalition lines in his first 100 days and drives forward major New Frontier measures toward congressional approval. He expands executive action and wins key battles to advance social welfare civil rights and economic growth despite persistent Conservative opposition.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Democratic Party
House Rules Committee
House
Tshombe Is Kept Under Guard
Katanga President Moise Tshombe remains under armed guard in a Coquilhatville villa after ending a two day sit down strike at the city airport. Soldiers guard all entrances and forbid movement in or out as authorities debate his status. Tshombe had demanded cancellation of agreements with Kasavubu and expulsion of foreign advisers. Kasavubu handed over six Tshombe advisers to the United Nations, intensifying the political standoff.
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Coquilhatville
the Congo
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Villa
Tshombe
Joseph Mobutu
Congolese National Army
Unity Conference
Joseph Kasavubu
United Nations
Kasavubu
Congo
Mobutu
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Tass
Souvanna Phouma
Communist Bloc
Pathet Laos
Xieng Khoujang
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Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Byrd
Capitol Hill
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