Observers See East Germany Near Berlin Crisis Revolt
Washington reports Senator Humphrey and Mayor Brandt warn East Germany stands closer to revolt than since 1953. Kennedy notes bloc tensions have worsened, Khrushchev faces constraints, as East Berlin borders potential mass escape and Soviet troop considerations loom amid Polish and Hungarian sensitivities.
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Herald Tribune
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Willy Brandt
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America
Kennedy signs 1961 housing bill for elderly units
President Kennedy signs a 1961 housing law expanding elderly housing. The measure increases FHA insured mortgage limits to 2 250 per room and 2 750 per room with elevators, and authorizes 100 000 additional low rent units via public housing authorities. It also offers direct nonprofit loans and full subsidized loans for elderly housing projects.
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Kennedy
Federal Housing Administration
New housing law boosts funds for elderly defraying care
Aimed at religious and charitable groups unions and cooperatives this provision allows non profit agencies to build and run housing developments for older families. The act raises loan authorization from 50 to 125 million dollars enabling about five thousand new housing units. Public housing adds 100000 authorized units with subsidies and rent adjustments to favor elderly tenants. A yearly subsidy of up to 120 dollars per elderly unit assists operations in high elderly percentages.
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Public Housing Authority
Senegal Breaks Portugal Ties After Clashes
Senegal announces severed diplomatic relations with Portugal following frontier clashes with Portuguese Guinea. A Dakar cabinet communique says the move stems from Portugal’s accusations that Senegal harbored Guinean nationalists fleeing across the border.
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Lon
Portuguese Guinea
West Africa
Justice Mejia Dies In Manila Fire Tragedy
Manila AP reports Associate Justice Manuel Mejia of the Philippine Court of Appeals perished with his wife and seven of their thirteen children when a blaze engulfed their home valued at sixty thousand dollars in Manila early today.
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Manila
Manuel Mejia
Philippine Court of Appeals
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