Keating Says Soviet Armies In Cuba Ten Times Estimated
Senator Kenneth B. Keating charges in Cuba a tenfold increase in Soviet troops since last July with missiles possibly still on the island. Defense officials and the White House question the accuracy while Keating cites ongoing evidence. He notes his情報 comes from sources other than refugees and emphasizes his civil rights stance and Army Reserve background.
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Washington
Kenneth B. Keating
Kennedy
Cuba
New York
Senate
Pentagon
State Department
Keating
Edwin Martin
ABC
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
North Carolina lawmakers set to begin 1963 session in new Legislative Building
Raleigh dispatch notes the 1963 session opens in the $6.2 million Legislative Building with Gov. Terry Sanford delivering the biennial message and budget requests in joint sessions. Lawmakers arrive, caucus, and committees form as the first session in 121 years convenes outside the old capitol.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Sanford
A.m
Clarion
Thad Eure
iState
Senate
Halifax Street
Fishermen Tie Together and Jump After Trawler Sinks
Six of nine fishermen who bound themselves with rope and jumped into a boiling sea told of a harrowing ordeal after their trawler Sea Horse sank off Bayou La Batre. Eight were rescued by Coast Guard cutter Nike. three men died, including Willard Hull Archie Wilson and Wesley Haslett.
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Gulfport
Miss
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
Gulf
Nike
Willard Hull
Archie Wilson
Pensacola
Fla
Wesley Eli Haslett
Theodore
Ala
Max Alford
John Summers
John Grey
John Tucker
David Grigg
C. G. Smith
Sea Horse
Bayour la Batre
Smith
Compulsive Eater Dies After Weighing 740 Pounds
Jacksonville, Florida AP report: Charles Steinmetz, 38, died after rapid weight gain to 740 pounds. He said he fed compulsively, weighed 68 inches tall and 76 inches around, and required 16 men to load him for hospital transfer. Doctors cited no organic disease and the autopsy pending.
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Charles Steinmetz
Steinmetz
Canadian Cabinet Collapses As Defense Minister Quits
Canadian cabinet fell apart as Defense Minister Douglas Harkness resigned. The move sparks talk of near dissolution of Parliament and an April election as Prime Minister John Diefenbaker faces pressure to restore party unity.
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Douglas Harkness
John G. Diefenbaker
Canada
Shipping order on Cuba expected this week
The U S administration expects a final order to curb Cuba bound shipments by Tuesday or Wednesday. The plan would bar U S government or government financed cargoes from ships calling at Cuba after January 1 and apply penalties retroactively. The aim is to isolate Castro and raise the cost of Cuba supply by forcing use of more Soviet ships.
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Lewis Gulick
Washington
Cuba
U.S
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Defense Department
United States
Dr Riddle On Trial Second Time In Gastonia Slaying
The second murder trial of Dr Harry Duff Riddle 44 Gastonia white physician opened in Superior Court over the hunting knife killing of Leonard Patton 27. A new venire of 100 was drawn as 19 of 40 jurors were excused for cause. Patton died March 9 after a confrontation at Patton's mother's home following abusive telephone messages.
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Gastonia
N.C
Harry Duff Riddle
Patton
William J. Bundy
Greenville
Max Childers
Donald Ramseur
F. Pat Cook
Ernest Warren
Max Holland
Riddle
Bradford Heights
Car Plunge Into Lake Traverse Ends in One Survivor
Buddies from South Dakota State College in Brookings drove onto Lake Traverse around 2 a.m. Their car broke through ice, sank to the bottom, and three men in the back seat used an air pocket to survive briefly. Jerry Hahn, 21, swam 75 feet to reach ice and then crawled a half mile to shore. Philip Anderson, 19, and Paul Vergeldt, 21, died. A skindiver recovered the bodies. Hahn, treated for shock, described the harrowing escape and freezing conditions of 10 degrees below zero.
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Jerry Hahn
Anderson and Vergeldt
Wheaton, Minn
Hahn
Rosholt
South Dakota State College
Brookings
Minnesota-South Dakota
Nicaragua vote yields four deaths amid Somoza victory
In Managua on Sunday three men and an infant were killed and eight wounded as demonstrators clashed with National Guardsmen during polling that installed Rene Schick Gutierrez of the Somoza Liberal party as president. Opponent Fernando Aguero Rocha was arrested at home after boycotting the vote. he was later freed. Schick, 53, inheriting a presidency set to start May 1, faced opposition labeling him a Somoza puppet though he pledges independence.
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Diefenbaker
Liberal Party
Harkness
House
Morris W. Rosenberg
Managua
Nicaragua
Somoza
Rene Schick Gutiierrez
Fernando Aguero Rocha
Aguero
Schick
Luis Somoza
Somozas
Four Marines Die In Route Crash Near Havelock North Carolina
Four Marines stationed at Cherry Point lost their lives when the speeding car they rode in left NC Highway 70 near Havelock, struck a tree and plunged into a canal. Pvt Donald L. Patterson, Pvt William E. Ruger, Lance Cpl Alan A. Fassler, and Cpl William E. Whitaker were identified. Lance Cpl Virgil K. Hacker was injured and hospitalized at Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital.
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Havelock
N. C
Here
State Highway Patrol
Donald L. Patterson
Rt. 2
Winfield
Kan
William E. Ruger
Fort Wayne
Ind
Lance Co
Alan A. Fassler
Davis
Calif
William E. Whitaker
Kingsville
Tex
Cherry Point Marine Air Base
Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital
Lance
Cherry Point
Highway Patrol
Bodies found in Viet Nam crash claim two Air Force captains
Search teams recovered the bodies of two U S Air Force captains and a Vietnamese observer killed when a B26 fighter bomber was shot down while strafing sampans along a canal southwest of Saigon. A government spokesman said 58 guerrillas and 10 defenders were killed in the action. Captain John P Bartley, 31, of Findlay Ohio, was named among the victims.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Eglin Air Force Base
Fila
John P. Bartley
Findlay
Ohio
San Angelo
Tex
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Dr. Riddle
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Tokyo
Browns Valley
Minn
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