Americans Freed In Nicaragua After 20 Hour Uprising
A 20 hour uprising in Managua ended with 117 hostages freed, including 89 Americans. Rebels surrendered arms after negotiations with President Guerrero's representatives and U.S. diplomats present. The Gran Hotel siege left at least 21 Nicaraguans killed and over 100 wounded as National Guardsmen surrounded the hotel.
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Nicaragua
Somoza
Gran Hotel
Lorenzo Guerrero
U.S
Fernando Aguero
Conservative Party
Anastasio Somoza Jr
Liberal Party
Latin America
Aguero
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
Campus Moral Standards Attacked by Billy Graham
Evangelist Billy Graham warned Dallas crowds that American colleges risk educating savages due to deteriorating moral and spiritual standards. He cited a rising campus immorality, with studies showing widespread cheating and acceptance of immoral relations, urging a revival of Christian values and strong spiritual institutions.
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Tom Johnson
Associated Press
Dallas, Tex
Billy Graham
America
Graham
Hitler
United States
Dallas Memorial Auditorium
Dallas Baptist College
God
Christ
China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Unfolds
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan traces China’s 1958 to today's upheaval from Mao Zedong’s policies, including the great leap forward and backyard steel, the peasant surge, Soviet friction, and the onset of a violent political convulsion amid famine risk and economic strain.
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Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist Party
Lin Piao
Red
United States
U. S
Sun Yat-sen
Moscow
Communist International
Nguyen Than
Ho Chi Minh
North
Vietnam
Mao
Shanghai
Chu Teh
Chu
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Party
Manchuria
Chiang Chai-shek
Chiang
Yenan
Peitaiho
Communist Party Congress
Wuchang
Soviet Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
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