Gizenga Disclaimed by Party in Congo Power Play
In Leopoldville the Gizenga faction within the African Solidarity party is disavowing his leadership as parliamentary and party pressure mounts. Parliament demanded his return from exile to answer secession charges, signaling growing leftist disenchantment and a possible move to strip him of the deputy premiership while he remains in Stanleyville.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Antoine Gizenga
Gizenga
Felicien Kimway
African Solidarity Party
Kimway
Communist Bloc
Stanleyville
Patrice Lumumba
Cyrille Adoula
Leopoldville
Congo
Whitsett School Evacuated After Carbon Monoxide Fumes
Forty seven Whitsett Elementary students were affected by carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace flue. The entire 85 pupil school was evacuated with 15 to 20 fainting. 30 received oxygen at Alamance Memorial Hospital. Principal Jerry Robertson led the evacuation and hospital transfer.
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Whitsett
N. C
Jerry Robertson
Alamance Memorial Hospital
Burlington
M. E. Yount
Robertson
Roberson
Snowstorm Moves Into Mississippi
A snowstorm with freezing temperatures moved into Mississippi crossing northern counties. The Weather Bureau forecast 1 to 3 inches of snow by Wednesday and a low around 20 degrees in Jackson tonight, prompting closures of some highways and schools.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
the Weather Bureau
Servicemen Arrive in Viet Nam to Train Vietnamese Forces
U S servicemen begin arriving in Saigon to train Vietnamese troops against Viet Cong guerrillas. Estimates put 2000 to 3000 Americans here, with pilots and ground crews among 400 in two helicopter units supporting the army. One U S serviceman was killed in a Viet Cong ambush.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
U.S. Army
Soviet Agree to Free Belgian Jet Landed in Armenia
The Soviet government will release the Sabena airliner with 27 aboard that landed in Armenia while flying from Tehran to Brussels after soviet air space protest. Passengers include 3 Americans and multiple nationalities. plane now in Grozny awaiting technical details with Sabena and Aeroflot arranging the next steps.
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Moscow
Armenia
Tehran
Brussels
Belgium
Vasilyy Kuznetsov
Hyppolite Cools
Grozny
Yerevan
Kuznetsov
Sabena
U.S
Charles Weimer
New York City
Weimer
Iran
Maria
Tunis
Fred Holden
Athens
Far East
Aeroflot
T. H. Theroy
Istanbul
Bitterest Weather Of The Season Hits Large Area
Bitter winter weather swept from Montana to Mississippi with below zero chills. Butte Montana logged 41 below, Laramie 39 below, Denver over 14 inches of snow and 19 below, Chicago 7 below. Texas saw 3 to 5 inch north central snow and 2 to 4 inches in the Panhandle while Oklahoma and Arkansas faced fresh snow as highways and schools closed.
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Associated Press
United States
Montana
Louisiana
Mississippi
Rocky Mountain
Arkansas
Alabama
Florida
U.S. Weather Bureau
Butte
Mont
Laramie
Wyo
Greeley
Colo
Denver
Chicago
Texas
Abilene
Texarkana
Fort Worth-Dallas
Waco
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Party Leaders Gather for Kennedy Policy Push
Democratic leaders in Congress forecast that most of President Kennedy’s domestic program will pass in the new session starting Wednesday. House Speaker designate John McCormack cited tax reform medical care for the aged and education aid as major goals while noting doubt about Social Security health care. The session previewed Kennedy’s State of the Union message and set January dates for the budget and economic reports. Senate leaders joined in outlining Ways and Means and Finance Committee priorities including tariff cut powers and investment tax incentives.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
House
John W. Mccormack
D-Mass
White House
McCormack
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Ways and Means Committee
Finance Committee
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Capitol
Tank Tragedy at Ft Hood Kills Four Soldiers
A head on crash between a tank and a five ton truck at Ft Hood ended in an explosion and fire killing four soldiers and injuring at least 19 others Eleven in serious condition The incident involved units from the 2nd Armored Division with names of the dead withheld Col Edward Kyle said the tank supported the movement toward a training area and the truck carried soldiers
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FT. Hood
Tex
Co. A
35Th Armored
2Nd Armored Division
Edward Kyle
67Th Armored
2Nd Armored
First Atom Spy Appointed Special Professor in Ghana
London AP reports Dr Alan Nunn May the 50 year old British scientist known as the Western world s first atom spy has been named special professor of physics at the University of Ghana. A Ghana spokesman said he will take up the post shortly. May worked on an atomic energy project in Canada during World War II and was sentenced to 10 years in 1946 for sharing secrets with the Soviet Union. He was released in 1952 after serving six years and eight months.
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London
Alan Nunn May
University of
Ghana
May
Canada
Soviet Union
Sukarno to Decide on U.N. Involvement in New Guinea Dispute
Indonesian officials said Sukarno would decide within a week whether to allow U Thant to mediate the New Guinea dispute with the Netherlands. U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones met Sukarno amid increased security after a grenade attack on his motorcade, the fourth such attempt in four years.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
U.N
U Thant
Dutch New Guinea
Subandrie
Sukarno
Netherlands
U.S
Howard P. Jones
Jones
Subandrio
New Guinea
Thant
United Nations
Thailand
Philippines
the Hague
Manila
Molotov Not Found In Vienna As Arrival Conflicts
In Vienna today V M Molotov was not present despite a Moscow claim he would arrive to join the atoms for peace agency. Soviet officials suggested he might be stopping en route in Warsaw or Prague. A Moscow spokesman said he had not yet arrived with security officials offering no confirmation.
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Vienna
Austria
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Warsaw
Prague
International Atomic Energy Agency
Molotov
Atoms For Peace Agency
Hohenau
Khrushchevy
Communist Party
Air Force Tanker With Nine Aboard Overdue
An Air Force KB50 tanker with nine aboard was reported overdue on a flight from Langley Air Force Base Virginia to the Azores. The Coast Guard tracked last position about 240 miles east of Norfolk with a track line search in a 40 by 90 mile area.
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Langley Air Force Base
Azores Islands
Portugal
Coast Guard
Norfolk, Va
Langley
Air Force
Azores
427Th
Rhode Island officials report prison conditions improved in NC
Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General F T O Halloran and Police Captain Arthur Newton on a prison tour in western North Carolina said conditions at North Carolina prisons have tremendously improved. They interviewed inmates at Ivy Bluff and Ashe County camps who described past mistreatment but agreed current conditions are better.
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Noel Yancey
West Jefferson
N.C
Rhode Island
North Carolina
F. T. O'Halloran
Arthur Newton
Fankin U County
Bluff
Cassity
O'Halloran
Grande
Ivy Bluff
Ashe County
Powell
Hammond
Newton
Charles E. Cassity
Ashland
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Luther Hodges
Commerce de
Partment
Erhard
Jfks
Shreveport
Ghana University
Alan Nunn
New York
Air
Force
Rhode Islanders
Bob Talbert
Mount Airy
Rhode
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