Arabs Back Kuwait as Iraq Claims Gulf State
Arab leaders united against Iraq's bid to seize Kuwait. Nasser's UAR and Saudi Arabia oppose annexation, signaling Arab League backing for Kuwait with a possible emergency meeting and Kuwaiti state of emergency. Sir Abdullah As-Salim As-Sabah leads defiance. Kuwait bows to security turmoil.
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Jordan
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Britain
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Sheik Abdullah Mubarak
Lebanon
Persian Gulf
Khrushchev Offers To Negotiate On Berlin Crisis
Premier Khrushchev told a Kremlin audience the Soviet Union is ready to negotiate on Berlin and Germany but warned the West against mobilizing forces. He said there will be no blockade and urged Western recognition of East Germany, while promising equal military parity and pursuing disarmament. He blamed the United States for Laos tensions and welcomed the Zurich agreement as a starting point.
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Eichmann Denies He Led Austrian Jewish Arrests
In Jerusalem on his seventh day on the witness stand Adolf Eichmann rejects Heydrich’s claim that he directed Austrian Jewish arrests. He says he was subordinate to the secret police and focused on organizing emigration rather than direct leadership. He notes Polish Jewish figures aided the process and cites reliance on them to advance emigration.
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Robert Servatius
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Kennedy barbs Khrushchev on Soviet race for No. 1
President Kennedy dismissed Khrushchev’s claim that the Soviet Union would soon top the United States in growth. He said U S production would outpace Russia throughout the 20th century, citing 1959 output at 39 percent of U S level and predicting robust 42 percent annual growth for the United States.
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Nikita S. Khrushchev
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Sharp Reversal as Katanga Vows Independence
Katanga President Moise Tshombe told the National Assembly that Katanga would stay independent from the Congo at all costs. His stance marks a sharp reversal from earlier pledges to Leopoldville to cooperate and integrate for revenue from the mines. Tshombe, recently released after two months in Leopoldville, said Katanga would defend its independence despite opposition.
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Tshombe
Leopoldville
GM Seeks To Head Off Cost Hike In Labor Talks
DETROIT AP General Motors told the United Auto Workers at new contract talks that excessive increases in labor costs would harm wage and price stability. Louis Seaton GM personnel chief urged restraint and a sound equitable agreement. Walter P. Reuther led the union team. He will open talks with Ford Thursday and with Chrysler Friday.
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United Auto Workers Union
Louis Seaton
Seaton
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
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Tractors For Freedom Committee
Ford
Chrysler
Brown backs action on civil rights at governors conference
Honolulu AP California Governor Edmund G. Brown signals support for a Republican plan to push an affirmative state action civil rights measure at the 53rd Governors Conference. Brown aims to vote in the resolutions committee to place the proposal before the conference, bolstering a GOP effort led by Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield. Powell tipped as likely new conference chair faces Democratic opposition as Republicans fret over party balance.
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Brown
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
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Maine
Wesley Powell
New Hampshire
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Colorado
Andrews Named Solicitor of Brand New District
Ike F. Andrews of Siler City is appointed solicitor for the new District 10-A, covering Chatham Alamance Person and Orange Counties. He will start July 1 and serve until the 1962 general election, relieving workload on Durham’s solicitor.
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Chatham County
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Person
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Durham
Durham County
Governor Sanford’s barefoot ban note to Hawaii
Goldsboro News-Argus reports telegraph to Hawaii’s governor asking to suspend the bare feet ban in public places. North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, visiting Waikiki for a governors conference, was denied entry to a nightclub for being barefoot, wearing sandals instead, then admitted after an aide intervened.
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State of Hawaii
Terry Sanford
Price
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Kennedy backs continued world textile talks amid congressional protest
President Kennedy endorsed ongoing international conferences to tackle the world textile problem. He disagreed with 166 textile state lawmakers who urged dropping the State Department plan led by Undersecretary George Ball. They criticized two proposals and urged a new approach, while the President said no solution had been devised for orderly imports from new textile producers.
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Kennedy
Congress
State Department
White House
George W. Ball
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Ball
Kennedy urges talks with Soviets on Berlin and disarmament
President Kennedy ordered a study on whether Russia has secretly tested nuclear weapons and the possibility of resuming tests. He pressed Khrushchev to accept a policeable, peaceful test ban and urged joint German discussions in Berlin. Kennedy kept the Geneva talks alive and warned against a military buildup in Berlin. He noted Soviet veto on policing a ban as troubling and questioned the duration of the voluntary ban.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Berlin
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Soviet Union
State Dept Seeks Repayment for Cuban Prisoner Defense
The State Department asked the families of six Americans imprisoned in Cuba to repay 2000 each spent to defend them in a Havana court. Officials said there is no plan to collect. The Swiss embassy funded the defense after U.S. relations with Cuba broke, and aid is normally loan-based.
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Fidel Castro
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Tobacco Firm Donates 100000 To Two NC Colleges
R J Reynolds Tobacco Co donates 100000 to two new Methodist colleges in North Carolina. Bowman Gray authorized the gift announced at the North Carolina Methodist Conference. Fifty thousand goes to North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount and fifty thousand to North Carolina Methodist College in Fayetteville for building funds. The colleges opened last September and Bishop Garber expressed appreciation.
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
North Carolina Methodist Conference
North Carolina Wesleyan College
Rocky Mount
North Carolina Methodist College
Fayetteville
Consumer words become tool for supermarket deceit says witness
Marya Mannes, New York writer and housewife, told Senate investigators that the word consumer is sometimes spelled sucker amid a flood of packaged goods. Other witnesses cited slack packaging and unclear net contents, urging clearer labeling and standardized sizes to help shoppers compare prices.
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Senate
Marya Mannes
New York Magazine
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Hart
Maurine B. Neuberger
D-Ore
Food and Drug Administration
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