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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1961
Page
15
The military junta jailed 25 prominent South Koreans and closed 381 small newspapers and news agencies. A dozen wealthy businessmen 12 politicians and 5 retired officers were rounded up. Chung Jui bo head of Donghwa news agency and Sumho Textile named among arrestees.
A fresh Portuguese contingent sailed from Lisbon aboard the Nixxa to reinforce forces in Angola as fighting continued in the territory. In Southern Rhodesia, a crowd of African youths blocked the car of British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys at Salisbury airport, shouting for freedom and protesting chiefs in politics before police intervened.
A time bomb exploded at a Lisbon railroad station injuring four on the thirty third anniversary of the present Portuguese regime. A second bomb was found at Belem Palace, hours before it would have detonated. In West Berlin, travelers reported large Soviet East German maneuvers around Magdeburg near the border, with Red Army and East German troops occupying roads as maneuvers began Thursday.
Trybuna Ludi reports Warsaw police rounded up a gang accused of diverting up to 25 million zlotys worth of goods to the black market, Indonesia style.
Senator Thruston B. Morton, retiring GOP national chairman, hailed John G. Tower's apparent victory in Texas as a rebirth of Republicanism in the solid South. Morton said Tower's win signals a demolition of the century-old one party concept and reflects growing voter distaste for the administration's spending, states’ rights issues, and foreign policy.
London Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher in a television interview before retirement said the Church of England will without doubt get closer to the Roman Catholic Church. He cited his papal visit as evidence that past hostility and division should be set right and that action is needed to mend relations.
UPI reports Texas voters elected college professor John G Tower as the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in the state. Tower led Blakley by about 8,000 votes with 444,815 to 436,815 counted as polls closed. Tower praised conservative representation while Blakley offered no immediate comment.
President Kennedy announced United Nations Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson would lead a three week tour to South America. He would meet with leaders of the ten republics to discuss strengthening inter American cooperation and advance the alliance for progress program. He may urge actions to press Fidel Castro and Trujillo to release political prisoners and improve human rights compliance.
A study agreement on safety demands prompted 6,500 workers to return to Braden Copper company’s El Teniente mine in Santiago, ending a 10 day strike against Kennecott subsidiary.
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