New Atlantic-Pacific Canal Aims to Ease Ties With Panama
President Johnson announces U S plans to build a sea level Atlantic-Pacific canal across Central America to replace the Panama Canal. The route choice includes Panama Colombia Nicaragua or possibly Costa Rica with surveys before final decision. The move should improve U S Panama relations and modernize global shipping capacity while easing sovereignty disputes.
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Johnson
United States
Central America
Panama
Panama Canal
Oes
South America
Atlantic
Pacific
Colombia
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
U. S
Canal
Canal Zone
Panama Waterway
National plan targets killer diseases with networked medical centers
A presidential commission urges a nationwide program to cut deaths from heart disease cancer and strokes by providing advanced medical care through a system of regional centers for clinical research teaching and patient care. The proposal, about 3 billion dollars over five years, aims to extend life saving expertise to all. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey chairs the effort and cites potential cures and prevention for congenital heart disease rheumatic heart disease strokes and cancer.
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College of Medicine
Houston
Campus Students Reluctant to Stir Government, Berkeley Sit-In Debate
The piece notes American students generally avoid upheaval, cites an FBI warning to Penn State’s Eric Walker about fake students and faculty exploiting rights rhetoric, and mentions Berkeley’s University Students for Law and Order forming to counter extremism. It discusses Mario Savio and broader fears of political campus influence.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Eric A. Walker
Pennsylvania State University
University of Southern California
Berkley
Mario Savio
Overseas Press Club
New York
Universi
Berkeley
University Students For Law and Order
1964 in Review May Shape Peace and Policy
Washington Notebook surveys major events of 1964. Vatican strides toward religious harmony, Pope Paul VI tours India, Chamizal border settlement settles a century-old feud, Johnson argues for Tonkin restraint, and global policy unity grows. Khrushchev era shifts unfolded with Eastern Europe easing ties, while Cuba and Latin America pivot towardProgress. Peace Corps expansion and Sino Western strains frame a turbulent year ending with Kennedy’s hopeful Christmas remark.
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Leslie Carpenter
Washington
Ecumenical Council
Vatican
Pope Paul VI
India
Texas
Mexico
U.S
Chamizal
Johnson
Red China
Gulf of Tonkin
Great Britain
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Europe
Christmas Sermon on Humility and Light
A Sunday sermon reflects on Christmas humility and the Incarnate Gift. It stresses inner peace, unselfish love, and global brotherhood through Christ, urging prayer, service, and recognition that all humanity shares one blood and divine blessing.
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Christ
Jesus
God
Earth
Heaven
Phillips Brooks
Bethlehem
Immanuel ” Cer
Four men convicted of brutal rape in Winston-Salem case
The editorial defends the death penalty in the Winston-Salem rape case, condemns the defendants, and praises the judge’s handling while urging restraint against mob action. It also notes a funeral in Thomasville, a new High Point Mills building, a mortician Chick Green, a bequest to High Point College, and a total lunar eclipse observed during cold weather.
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Winston-Salem
Good Morning
Glen Raven Mills
High Point
Thomasville
Chick Green
Mr. Green
Chick
High Point College
Fifth Street
William A. Davies
Hillsboro
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