03 Jul 1961
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1961
Page
1
The AMA rejected Las Vegas for a convention calling it beneath their dignity to meet there. Las Vegas delegates argued many doctors’ wives supported the trip, but the piece notes many delegates gain little from conventions unless they are active. It urges careful delegate selection and proof that travel is a good investment.
A Danish tourist bus was set on fire near Bolzano in South Tyrol as agitators hurled a bottle filled with flammable liquid at it while the driver and passengers slept in a nearby hotel. Police said arsonists, described as agitators from the north Italian area, were involved.
Hoffa blasted the Kennedy administration as conducting a vendetta against organized labor and accused the Justice Department and Labor Department of pressuring delegates as Teamsters prepare for a special convention in Miami Beach. He singled out Attorney General Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg for critique while predicting efforts to indict union officials.
Iraqi delegate Adnan M Pachachi accused Britain of armed threat to Iraq and urged immediate troop withdrawal. He said Kuwait is not an independent state but part of Iraq. UAE and Loutfi voiced concern over imperialist intervention and supported Kuwait’s independence at later UN sessions.
President Kennedy spoke by telephone with Secretary Rusk about Iraq threatening Kuwait and prepared a note to Soviet Premier Khrushchev on West Berlin. He planned to urge Taft Hartley action to halt a maritime strike and weigh Taft Hartley deployment as talks with Labor Secretary Goldberg continue. Kennedy stayed at Hyannisport for the Fourth of July weekend and took a cruise aboard the Martin with family.
The article reports disloyal actions by former State Department employees, now alleged to be in league with Soviet Russia in Berlin. It also notes Frice Johnston of the American Motion Picture Association defending the policy against employing known Communists, and lists Sons of the American Legion officers elected at the convention, William Donley Roberts of Chula Vista as captain and Alonzo S. Pitt Jr. of Lakewood as historian.
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