Press study urges continued press freedom in criminal trials
The Twentieth Century Fund publishes Crime and Publicity by Alfred Friendly and Ronald N. Goldfarb arguing most felonies never reach jury, press coverage rarely prejudices trials, and threats of contempt fail. Editors say the press aids justice as public scrutiny and warns tighter controls would harm watchdog role and expose wider injustices. Montgomery Advertiser.
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Twentieth Century Fund
Alfred Friendly
Ronald N. Goldfarb
Washington Post
Washington
Supreme Court
Montgomery
Ala
Gleason Reelected President of Longshoremen Group
Thomas W. Gleason has been reelected by acclamation to a second four year term as president of the International Longshoremen's Association in Miami Beach. The 66 year old leader follows a family legacy of dockworkers from Ireland and will continue guiding the union.
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Miami Beach, Fla
Thomas W. Gleason
International Longshoremen’s Association
Gleason
Ireland
Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli Dies From Injuries
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Albert Luthuli, aged 68, died in Durban after being struck by a freight train on a railway bridge near Gledhouse station while walking the tracks. The Zulu chief and ANC president had been confined to Groutville by South Africa's white government.
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Durban
South Africa
Albert Luthuli
Stanger
Here
Gledhouse
Luthuli
Groutville
African National Congress
Brooke seeks select Senate panel on civil disorder
Sen Edward W Brooke plans to propose a seven member select committee with broad latitude to investigate causes and cures of racial rioting. He argues for immediate action to address civil disorder and urges quick adoption without committee referral to begin work at once.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
Edward W. Brooke
Senate
Massachusetts
Mike Mansfield
Brooke
Mansfield
Newark
N.d
Ectve
United States
Select
Congress
Rep. Reuss accuses gov of conflicting arms sale data
Washington AP Rep Henry Reuss says government statements on arms sales to foreign nations clash with secret testimony to Congress. He accuses the Defense Department of concealing the Export Import Bank s role in crediting large foreign arms purchases. After closed Pentagon testimony, the House Banking Committee approved extending the bank s charter and boosting its authorization by 4.5 billion.
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Washington
Henry Reuss
Congress
United States Congress
Reuss
de Wis
State Department
Congressional
Defense Department
Federal
U.S
Pentagon
House Banking Committee
Ambassador to Resign Post in Mexico City
Hai ti's ambassador to Mexico Jules Pierra Audain says he will resign his post amid what he calls a sepulcher peace prevailing in his country. Audain, dean of the diplomatic corps in Mexico, remains a friend of Haitian President Francois Duvalier but will stay in Mexico to write memoirs and continue his civil engineering work. He cites Duvalier's dictatorship as built on fear and notes his advice to relax the regime was ignored.
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Mexico City
Haiti
Mexico
Jules Pierra Audain
Audain
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Walther Appeals Job Status Over Public Service Post
Glenn F. Walther of Little Rock appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court a Pulaski Chancery Court ruling that his PSC appointment was illegal and void. The April 26 ruling by Chancellor Murray O. Reed followed a taxpayer suit by David C. McDonald Jr. of Stuttgart. Rockefeller later appointed Robert Downie to the commission.
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Livele Even
Glenn F. Walther
Little Rock
Arkansas Suspreme
Pulaski Chancery Court
Public Service Commission
Murray O. Reed
David C. McDonald Jr
Stuttgart
Walther
State Senate
Senate
Winthrop Rockefeller
Jerry K.thomasson
Rockefeller
Robert Downie
Pleads Guilty to LSD Charge in New Zealand
Mark Houghton Dawte Young, 26, a freelance writer, pleaded guilty to possessing 22 pieces of LSD impregnated blotting paper found July 11, the day after New Zealand outlawed the drug under the narcotics act. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison by an Auckland magistrate.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Mark Houghton Dawte Young
Young
Brazilian Editor Seeks Writ After Banishment to Island
Helio Fernandes legal counsel asks the Brazilian supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus after Fernandes is banished to Fernando de Noronha, following a front-page editorial attacking former President Castello Branco who died in a plane crash. The justice minister called the editorial a threat to order, noting the banishment is a residence order, not an arrest.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Helio Fernandes
Humberto Castello Branco
Supreme Court
Fernandes
Fernando de Noronha
Castello Branco
Juiz da Gama E Silva
Injunction Filed Against Calico Rock Superintendent
About 300 Izard County taxpayers sue to enjoin T. J. Silvey from serving as Calico Rock School District superintendent. The suit cites evolution textbooks, alleged illegal expenditures, district gasoline use, personal card use, and use of federal funds for remedial reading materials. An Arkansas Education Association committee investigated the district but has not released findings.
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Melbourne
Ark
T. J. Silvey
Calico Rock
Izard Chancery Court
Silvey
John J. Purtle
Little Rock
Purtle
Arkansas Education Association
New Panama Treaty Still Weeks Off
A source close to President Marco A Robles says the signing of the new Panama Canal treaties by the United States and Panama may be weeks away. Robles denied reports he would travel to Washington next Monday and said he has not decided whether to go at all. He will consult his Foreign Relations Council, the Cabinet and former Panamanian presidents before signing, with revisions to canal revenue management and possible construction of a new canal in Panama.
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Panama
United States
Marco A. Robles
Robles
Washington
Foreign Relations Council
Powell Cancels Trip To New York Black Power Conference
Rep Powell fails to appear at Newark conference and at Kennedy Airport as he retreats to a Bahamas island retreat to face a New York contempt jail term. A NAACP delegation had arranged his surrender to Sheriff McCloskey. The case stems from a 1963 libel judgment.
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Bimini
Bahamas
Adam Clayton Powell
Newark
Nat
Kennedy
New York
Harlem
British Bahamas
Powell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
John J. McCloskey
Esther James
Supreme Court
Accused Is Confined to Hospital
The Rev. Reba S. Smith, 43, of Poteau, charged in the slaying of Mrs. Mildred Oldham, 52, of Fort Smith, Ark., cannot be prosecuted until his release from Eastern State Hospital where he was committed weeks ago. Leflore County Sheriff Jess Austin said a murder warrant was delivered to the hospital but no action can be taken until release.
Nose Broken in Accident on MacKenna's Gold Set
Kanab Utah AP Omar Sharif had his nose broken when his horse reared during a scene for MacKenna's Gold. Gregory Peck and Julie Newmar also star in the desert shoot 43 miles southeast of Kanab. A Columbia Pictures spokesman said the horse lowered its head then snapped it back as Sharif leaned to reach it.
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Kanab
Utah
Omar Sharif
MacKenna
Sharif
Gregory Peck
Julie Newmar
Desert
Columbia Pictures
Area Has Know How and Will to Build Prosperous Future
Mary Anita Laseter argues Hope Arkansas can grow with strong people, strategic location, and solid leadership. She emphasizes skilled workforce, central US position within the Magic Circle, and a foundation of good principles, planning, and faith to expand state and community.
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Hope
State of
Arkansas
United States
Roger Babson
Fairer Shake Is Due for Consumers
Washington reports a push by federal agencies and Congress to shield buyers. FTC moves to require true transistor radio transistor counts in ads. FDA sets bold net quantity labeling for foods. antitrust probe into auto insurance. aviation safety hearings planned after a fatal North Carolina collision.
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Washington
U.S
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
House
Antitrust Subcommittee
Subcommittee
Reps
Peter J. Rodino
D-N,j
William T. Cahill
Ren.j
Celler
Food and Drug Administration
Harley
Stagsters
D-W
House Commerce Committee
North Carolina
Explorer 35 Alters course toward moon orbit
Cape Kennedy officials report NASA moved Explorer 35 by triggering a small gas jet to change its pointing as it travels 225,608 miles toward a planned lunar orbit. The windmill shaped spacecraft launched Wednesday and will fire a retrorocket to enter lunar orbit, with sensors studying cosmic dust magnetic fields and radiation hazards for future astronauts.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space
Vietnam Hero Is Released by Army
Marine Cpl. Robert Dean Rosegrant, 19, sole survivor of a June 15 Viet Cong attack in Quang Nam Province, would like to complete his enlistment and warn recruits about Vietnam dangers but is slated for a medical discharge. He was wounded five times, evacuated by hospital ship to Guam, and then to the United States, now at Millington Marine and Naval Hospital in Memphis.
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Little Rock
Robert Dean Rosegrant
Quang Nam Province
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Rosegrant
Eugene Rosegrant
Bettye Rosegrant
Brother of Governor to Visit State
David Rockefeller, brother of Winthrop and Nelson Rockefeller, will be principal speaker at the fifth annual Arkansas Economic Education banquet on August 2 in Little Rock. Rockefeller, president and chairman of the Executive Committee at Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, will be introduced by Rep. Wilbur Mills.
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Little Rock
David Rockefeller
Guys
Winthrop Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
New York
Wilbur Mills
Dy Ark
Battles Leave Hundreds of Communists Dead in Vietnam
Saigon AP reports fierce battles involving American, South Korean, and South Vietnamese forces killed nearly 600 Communist soldiers Friday, ending a two week lull. Two American helicopters were shot down. heavy action northeast of Saigon. American losses 37 dead and 158 wounded. Communist toll about 600 with 216 killed in a coastal plain fight near Hue.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Hue
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Long Khanh
Garbage truck driver funds church in India with book royalties
James J. Fahey of Waltham Massachusetts arrived in India to dedicate a Roman Catholic church funded from royalties of his World War I memoir Pacific War Diary. He plans to celebrate his 40th birthday at the dedication in Mettupatti Madras State and hopes the act improves Indian American religious ties.
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NEW. Dell, Dla
James J. Fahey
Waltham
Mass
India
Fahey
Mettupatti
Madras
Pve
Unconscious Boston Woman Delivers Healthy Baby Girl
Shirley M. Sweeney, 36, in a coma since a February brain hemorrhage, gave birth at Massachusetts General Hospital to a healthy 5 pound baby girl named Mary Elizabeth. Doctors call the birth a medical rarity with no prior comparable case. Francis M. Sweeney, 40, and Arthur Wise, the grandmother’s caretaker, noted the Sweeney family’s two other children.
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Boston
Shirley M. Sweeney
Somerville
Barry G. Aronson
Gama
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