Senate approves 47 billion higher education bill in 1960s
The Senate Labor Committee unanimously approved a 47 billion higher education bill to aid needy students and boost college construction. It expands scholarships and work-study, chartered a national teacher corps for poverty areas, and creates university community service programs. The measure totals 4.7 billion in most titles with a one year hold on increased construction aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Tion
Johnson
Sons
Gaylord Melson
D-Wis
Howard M. Kennedy
Mass
Avalanche Halts Swiss Power Site Rescue Efforts
In the Swiss Alps near Saas Fee a second avalanche halted rescue work at a power plant site. More than 1,000 workers were evacuated as ice and rock masses buried barracks and machines, with six bodies recovered and about 20 injured. Officials warned recovery could take up to two months amid renewed fears.
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Geoffrey Atkins
Fre
Switzerland
Swiss Alps
Sveria
Allalin
Meni
Saas Fee
Dominican Junta Resigns for New Regime
Brig. Gen. Antonio Imbert Barreras announced in a radio broadcast that the five man Dominican junta and the cabinet will resign to make way for a provisional government under an OAS plan. Commodore Francisco J. Rivers Caminero, the armed forces secretary, did not sign the resignation, signaling a rift over the peace formula.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American Tates
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Radiotelevision
Tribert
OAS
U. S
Ellsworth Bunker
Francisco J. Rivers
Armed Forces
Rivera Caminero
Bomber Role Increased as B52s Hit Viet Cong
In South Vietnam SAC B52 bombers attacked two Viet Cong concentrations, one in Quang Tin Province northeast of Saigon and another in Zone D near Bien Hoa. The raids marked the 15th and 16th B52 strikes, with previous attacks on the same areas cited. A government unit clashed with guerrillas 175 miles northeast of Saigon in Darlac Province, reporting ten Viet Cong killed and two captured. An outpost near An Hoa was recaptured after being overrun, while another convoy was struck near Tan An, causing light casualties. A US helicopter crash near Tan An killed one American and two Vietnamese. Navy planes from the Independence conducted four bombing missions over targets in North Vietnam.
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Quang Tin
Saigon
Zone D
Bien Hoa
Boas
SAC
Baas
Dur Lac
Thezegion
An Hoa
Quang Ngai
Asid
Tan An
U.S. Navy
Independence
North
Viet Nam
Johnson Presses For Pact
President Johnson presses Congress and the steel industry toward a settlement as negotiations resume in Washington. Senate Leader Mansfield and House Speaker McCormack urge labor and management to stay in talks, aiming to keep mills open if no deal is reached by the new eight day deadline.
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Neil G&leride
Washington
Johnson
Afl-Cio
United Steelworkers Union
America
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House
John McCormack
Mansfield
McCormack
Viet Nam
White
Bill D. Moyers
Pittsburgh
Russians Reject Nuclear Treaty at Geneva Conference
Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin told a 17 nation disarmament conference that no treaty to halt nuclear spread can succeed unless it bars West Germany from direct or indirect access to weapons. He warned Western powers pretend to halt proliferation while planning to give weapons to West German militarists. Foster countered that an Atlantic Force would not enable proliferation.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
West Germany
U.S
Willian Foster
Foster
Tsarapkin
Woster
North Atlantic
North Atlantic Alliance
West
Home Rule Petition Avoided in DC Legislation Skirmish
Washington AP Democratic House leaders after a Johnson meeting said they will not sign or vote to force a House floor vote on home rule for the District of Columbia. Speaker John McCormack and Leader Earl Alger noncommittal. bill lies in committee as petition backers seek 40 more signatures to advance.
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Washington
Johnson
District of Columbia
John McCormack
D-Mass
Ky Warns Viet Nam Students Over Draft Law Opposition
Premier Nguyen Cac Ky defends South Viet Nam draft law and warns students who oppose it. He says the government accepts criticism but will not tolerate senseless opposition and reiterates collective leadership behind decisions. Ky cites preventing a leadership crisis as a key aim amid student protests in Hue Da Nang and Saigon.
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Ronnald I. Deutsch
Saigon
South Viet
Namj
Nguyen Cac Ky
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam Press
Ba Me Thout
Hue
da Nang
Nguyen van Thieu
National Leadership Committee
Nguyen van Thieuloan
Scranton backs Bliss invitation to GOP splinter groups
Gov. William W. Scranton endorsed Ray Bliss's invitation for splinter groups to join under the Republican National Committee test in the 1966 elections. Bliss announced the move at a news conference after the Republican Policy Coordinating Committee failed to issue promised civil rights statements.
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Washington
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Ray
Bliss
Republican National Committee
Republican Policy Coordinating Committees
Scranton
GE and Westinghouse Found Guilty in Price Fixing Case
Dist. Judge Wilfred Feinberg ruled General Electric and Westinghouse Electric guilty of a price fixing conspiracy in selling steam turbine generators. Treble damages totaling 16,873,203 dollars were assessed. Plaintiffs Ohio Valley Electric and Indiana Kentucky Electric bought 10 generators in 1952 at prices above the defendants’ claimed fair value.
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New York
Wilfred Feinberg
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Feinberg
Ohio Valley Electric Corp
Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp
Desegregation Spreads Across the South in 1963
The Associated Press reports widespread peaceful school desegregation in the South. In Hayneville Alabama four Black students entered Hayneville High with 25 white onlookers present, a Black bus rider with white classmates. Across South Carolina Arkansas Georgia Texas and Atlanta integration proceeds with few incidents as King Jr. and Abernathy children attend formerly white schools and districts open desegregated classes.
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Associated Press
South
Alabama
Black Belt
Hayneville High School
Hayneville
Mansfield
Tex
Willie Pigg
South Car
Olina
Barnwell
D. C
Barnwell County
Blackwell
Arkansas
Phenix City
Alanine
Valdosta
South Georgia
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Mallmark
Mattmark
AP Witephotat
Military Chiefs of Staff
Junta
Strategic Air Command
Guan
Pact
Fe Weill
Walte, Weveren Amusements
Sine
Bulletin
Montgomery
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