Junta Claims U S Backing Of Korean Military Coup
The U S Embassy in Seoul said it notes with approval Chang Do Young s pledge to return to civilian control and to uphold free world principles. The military government replaces emergency martial law with relaxed security measures and shifts from pre publication censorship to self censorship while promising national security protections.
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Seoul
Korea
U.S
United States
Orean
Washington
Marshall Green
Kim Hong-il
Kennedy
Chang Do-young
Green
Chang
Gen
Kim
Cease Fire Violations Charged by U S at Laos Talks
The United States charged Communist led Pathet Lao rebels with at least 30 ceasefire breaches in Laos between May 13 and Friday. The American statement to the Laos conference cited dates and locations and warned of a pattern of premeditation undermining the talks. Britain seeks stronger control, blocked by the Soviet Union.
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Tom Ochiltree
Geneva
United States
Pathet Lao
Laos
Pathet Laong
Friay
International Control Commission
Britain
Control Commission
Soviet Union
Cochairman
Texans Elect Senator Today
Texans vote to decide between William A. Blakley and John G. Tower for the U S Senate seat in Texas. Tower led the April 4 primary and absentee voting nears a million. Blakley, a Democrat aligned with some Kennedy policies, has interim senate experience.
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Dallas
Tex
William A. Blakley
John G. Tower
Tower
Texas
Fairweather
Blakley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Midwestern University
Wichita Falls
Johnson
Senate
Kennedy
Ralph Yarborough
Morgan C. Hamilton
Freedom Riders Face Continuing Incarceration and Strikes
The first 27 freedom riders convicted in Jackson Mississippi chose to stay in jail rather than pay fines or post bond while six more threatened a hunger strike in Montgomery Alabama. Judges and officials deem the acts illegal. organizers vow further protests as leaders press ahead with desegregation efforts amid National Guard presence. Roy Wilkins urged students to defy segregation on southern travels this summer.
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Associated Press
Freedom
Deep South
Mississippi
Alabama
Jackson
Miss
James Spencer
Wiley Branton
Little Rock
Ark
Montgomery
Ala
Yale University
New York
Ralph D. Abernathy
George B. Smith
Yale
Abernathy
Peace Corps
Tanganyika
Philippines
Colombia
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
Khrushchev Starts Early Run-Up to Vienna Talks
Soviet Premier Khrushchev leaves by night train from Moscow to meet President Kennedy in Vienna next Saturday. He plans a speaking tour through Communist Czechoslovakia en route, potentially shaping Western reaction before Kennedy meets de Gaulle in Paris.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
West
Three Cuban Invaders To Be Executed
Havana radio reports three captured invaders condemned to death for murder of Juan Manuel Marquez, a Castro supporter. The broadcast notes the men were former members of Batista’s army and were part of the April 17 assault on Cuba amid ongoing sabotage and a warehouse fire affecting tobacco stored by the Agrarian Reform Institute.
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Key West
Fila
Cuba
Havana
Juan Manuel Marquez
Enlly
Fidel Castro
Sierra Maestra
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
Agrarian Reform Institute
Reconstruction Era Feuds Highlight Holden Vance Battle
The Sunday Enterprise previews a feature by Bonnie Moore recalling post Civil War clashes between Governor W. W. Holden and Zebulon Vance using era newspapers. The piece will appear tomorrow.
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North Carolina
W. W. Holden
Zebulon Vance
Bonnie Moore
Enterprise
Auto insurers seek 18.7 percent rate hike in North Carolina
North Carolina auto insurers ask the state for an 18.7 percent premium increase to raise about 9 million annually. The filing cites severe losses from 1958 and 1959 with $18 million in liability losses and an 11 percent rise in bodily injury claim costs plus an 8 percent lift in property claims for the year ending June 30, 1960.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina Automobile Rate Administrative Office
Charles F. Gold
W. F. Laughlin
Young Father Rescued After Night in Muddy Well Shaft
Bur gess, a 16 hour trapped prisoner and father of two, was freed from a three foot wide well after rescuers dug a new shaft and tunnel by hand. Doctors reported he seemed in good shape despite spending the night waist deep in mud.
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Burgess
Young
Setback for Castro fuels Latin fund drives for tractors
U S and Latin American fund raising groups join to buy tractors to ransom 1 200 Cuban prisoners. Reuther Eisenhower and Mrs Roosevelt head a committee in Detroit collecting cash and letters as 11 of 20 Latin American nations join the effort.
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Washington
Latin America
U. S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Havana
Walter Reuther
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Milton S. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reuther
Detroit
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Tractor Fund
United Auto Workers
Philadelphia
Brendan Sexton
UAW
Long-Awaited College Diploma For Grandma
Marguerite B. Maxfield 53 of North Hartland Vermont earned her high school equivalency then two years at Albany Junior College graduating with honors in general business. She balanced a 700 acre dairy farm and 16 grandchildren while commuting 100 miles weekly. She plans to travel to South America to improve Spanish before returning to farm life.
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Albany
N.Y
Marguerite B. Maxfield
North Hartland
Albany Junior College
Edward Sabol
Maxfield
Democrats Rally Behind Kennedy During Birthday Dinner
About 6000 Democrats gathered for a Kennedy birthday dinner with 100 per plate proceeds toward reducing the party debt. Speakers included Vice President Johnson and Speaker Rayburn as Kennedy prepares for Europe and Moscow talks before returning to Paris and London.
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Washington
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Harry S. Truman
Europe
Hyannisport
Mass
Boston
New York
Cancer Fund
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
Kennedys
London
Harold Macmillan
Two Suspects Arrested in Noted Rape Slaying Case
Police report Lorelle Parks 22 and Joseph Maxey 23 admitted a murder amid a double rape slaying of middle aged women in Plainfield and nearby. Parks signed a statement claiming he strangled Mrs Tyson while Maxey is accused in Mrs Ewell’s death, with both men denying full involvement at times. The bodies were found with the victims’ car, and tips from a Scotch Plains officer and a taxi driver led to their capture.
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Alan Levin
Plainfield
N.J
Lorelle Parks
Joseph Maxey
Dunellen
Parks
Scotch Plains
Parks and Maxey
Elliott C. Ewell
Westfield
Robert Tyson
Ewell
Mack Truck Co
Tyson
New York
Mack
Ernest Phillips
Mrs. Tyson
Maxey
Phillips
John Trembicki
Wilbur ‘Morris
Trembicki
Chevrolet
Kennedy Signs Latin Aid Bill to Help Hemisphere Prosperity
President Kennedy signed a $500 million Latin American aid fund and a $100 million Chile relief loan in a ceremony with congressional leaders and international bankers. The plan aims to spur social development, land reform, housing, water, and roads, with most loans expected soon. Former President Truman attended and praised the move.
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Washington
Kennedy
Chile
Organization of American States
Inter-American Development Bank
Harry S. Truman
United States
Latin America
Truman
White House
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Weil
Fredericksburg
Lloyd Moss
Ralph W. Burgess
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