27 Dec 1962
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1962
Page
1
The freighter African Pilot docked at Port Everglades with 922 relatives of Bay of Pigs invaders seeking freedom in the United States. Observers noted nerves and illness aboard while refugees received meals and Coast Guard escort as tensions and excitement ran high.
The freighter African Pilot docked at Port Everglades with 922 relatives of Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners. Officials say this is only the first load and plan another ship in a few weeks. James B. Donovan will arrange the next transfer. Refugees helped clean the shelter decks while awaiting processing. A child was the first to leave the ship and two women with 10 children were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Four East German escapes to West Berlin during Christmas night raise total to fourteen. A 26 year old crossed an eight foot border wall at Neukoelln. Three men forced through barbed wire at the British sector border. a flare was fired but they reached safety. The largest group, four adults and four children, used a bus to ram barriers at Babelsberg near West Berlin. owner Hans Weidner, 40, aided the plan. The escapees rest at the West Berlin refugee center. one other escapee was a border guard in uniform with a tommy gun on Christmas afternoon.
Tass reports Soviet Moldova distillers developed a method to produce “15-year-old” brandy in three months. Experiments allegedly show aroma taste and strength surpass standard 93-year-old varieties.
In Charleston South Carolina stevedores cancelled plans to unload a seed potato cargo under pressure from top union officials amid a broad East and Gulf Coast strike by 60 000 longshoremen. The ILA raised a banana unloading challenge in Charleston prompting scrutiny by ILA president Capt William V Bradley.
President Kennedy hosts a Pentagon briefing on national defense and military spending with civilian and military leaders as Treasury officials refine the 1963 tax cut plan. He also welcomes four Bay of Pigs prisoners released from Cuba, seeking closure and renewed stance on Skybolt missile opposition.
A Scot Express rear-ended a local train at Coppenhall Junction near Manchester during a Christmas break travel rush. The disaster amid a European blizzard left at least 18 dead, 33 injured, with an American serviceman among the dead and six children among victims. Rescue crews faced icy roads and freezing winds as the storm spread across Europe.
Indian and Pakistani ministers opened Kashmir talks in Rawalpindi under strain from a Pakistan China border accord on 200 miles of Kashmir. Ayub Khan sought clarity on the agreement as Nehru vowed India would not bow to Red China.
Khrushchev in a Moscow radio letter accuses Adenauer of provoking a new war by pressuring for West Berlin tensions. He demands Allied troops leave Berlin and UN forces replace Western garrisons, while urging a pan German peace treaty. The letter, dated December 24, warns West German lawmakers of provocation and possible fratricidal conflict.
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