Rebels Near Capital of Laos Report Progress Near Luang Prabang
A column of Pathet Lao rebels was reported advancing from the north toward Luang Prabang while others say the city faces no immediate danger. Reports cite gains in Xieng Khouang and Ban Ban as rebels seek a north south and east west highway link, threatening to split the kingdom.
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Vientiane
Laos
Luang Prabang
Savang Vathana
Boun Oum
Ban Ban
Plaine Des Jarres
Viet Nam
Xieng Khouang
Kong le
Pathet Lao
Soviet Union
Plaines Des Jarres
U.S
Afro Nation Chiefs Urge UN Action at Congo Crisis
Five left-leaning African leaders from UAR Guinea Ghana Mali and Morocco urged the United Nations to disarm Congo forces loyal to Mobutu and free imprisoned Lumumba. They threatened to withdraw troops from the UN command and called for a charter of African cooperation with four new commissions to report in three months.
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Casablanca
Morocco
United Nations
Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumuba
Mobutu
United Arab Republic
Guinea
Ghana
Mali
U.N
Gamal Abdel Nasser
U.A.R
France
Algeria
U S Refugees Airlifted Home from Castro Cuba
UPI reports US Navy operated emergency airlift bringing Cuban refugees to Miami. Among arrivals are Daniel Braddock charge d affaire and Bernard Femminella, with many speaking of leaving a life under Castro. Passengers describe flight from Guantanamo and distress in Cuba.
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Miami
UPI
Castro
Cuba
Navy
Havana
Daniel Braddock
U.S
Bernard Femminella
Santiago
Clyde Jewett
Caridad Oliva Wilkinson
Guantanamo Naval Base
Regents Eye $6 Million Union Addition at UWM
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents' Business and Finance Committee recommended a $6 million Student Union addition at UW Milwaukee. The first stage would cost up to $1.1 million with $1.6 million funded by a student fee and the rest by a fund-raising group. The current facility serves only about 175 to 185 diners at once. The new setup would feed about 1,500 students simultaneously.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Martin Klotsche
UWM
Klotsche
Kennedy Sets Busy Schedule As Housing Plan Proposed
President elect John F Kennedy faced a full day in Washington as a task force urged a multi billion dollar housing program and a new Cabinet department to run it. The report called for a housing and urban development department with cabinet status and a liberal FHA reforms program plus billions for college housing urban renewal and community facilities.
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Washington
UPS
John F. Kennedy
Joseph McMurray
Queens
N.Y
Caramunity Callahan
NM Wheeldeimeelaly
Vlit KY Reenla Ewl
EVID
New York
Kennedy
New York City
Dean Rusk
Henry M. Jackson
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Ernest F. Hollings
South Carolina
India
Peace Corps
Task Force On Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Navy civilian faces possible contempt charges in Senate probe
George P. Cross, Brookyln MSTS port engineer, refused to reveal income sources under subpoena as Senate investigators seek the origin of about $100,000 earned 1955–1959. He was questioned after a hearing into private contractor payoffs. Internal Revenue probes may follow. Cross made cash purchases totaling $99,993, including six cars.
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Washington
UPI
Navy
Senate
George P. Cross
Military Sea Transportation Service
Brooklyn
N.Y
Internal Revenue
Cross
Paul E. Kammerick
Subcommittee
Kammerick
Fidel Castro
Cuba
United States
Caribbean
Republic
Kennedy
Castro
U. S
Amnesia victim still unidentified in Milwaukee
A 35 year old amnesia patient remained unidentified at a Milwaukee hospital despite her photo appearing in local papers and on TV. She wandered from downtown Milwaukee after saying she could not recall her name and had been in Iowa recently.
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Milwaukee
Iowa
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Driver Sentenced For Leaving Scene In Wisconsin Crash
Ralph Zitelman a 35 year old Milwaukee man pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. He received a six month Huber Law jail term. A reckless driving charge was dismissed. His car struck two New Berlin boys as they walked home from school two months ago. One boy was seriously injured.
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Nashotah
Wis
UPD
Ralph Zitelman
Milwaukee
Huber Law
Zitelman
Berlin
Volcano erupts near Mt Trident in Alaska
A volcanic eruption at Mt Trident in Alaska sent ash as high as nearly 20 000 feet on Friday. The 6090 foot volcano produced an ash cloud prompting alerts for nearby residents and air traffic.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Mt. Trident
Cold snap grips area with snow flurries possible
The forecast calls for much colder weather tonight and Sunday with snow flurries and high winds. Lows will drop to 5 to 15 degrees while daytime highs reach the 30s tomorrow. Early readings show 40 downtown and at Southport, 42 on the West Side, overnight low 36, and Friday’s highs and lows at 45 and 29. Sunrise was 7 18 with sunset at 4 37.
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Southport
Castro says munitions parachuted into Cuba amid invasion fears
Premier Fidel Castro's office said arms and ammunition were dropped into two Cuban zones with troops and militia seizing the material. The communique claimed the supplies came from the north as Cuba readies for a U.S. invasion before Kennedy's 1961 inauguration.
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Havana
UPI
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
el Mundo
Bahia
Honda
Company memo bans vodka at lunch at Home Savings and Loan
Tom Sheridan, president of Home Savings and Loan Association in Phoenix, orders an immediate end to vodka at noon in response to reports that employees drank vodka during lunch. He adds a preference for whiskey if drinking at noon, joking that customers should think they were drunk rather than stupid.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Tom Sheridan
Home Savings and Loan Association
Sandburg Marks 83rd Birthday Busy And Productive
Poet Carl Sandburg celebrated his 83rd birthday declaring he has never felt more productive. He praised the work he is doing and the energy he feels at this stage of life.
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Hollywood
Carl Sandburg
Mrs Walter A Sheaffer Dies at 71 in Fort Madison
Mrs Walter A Sheaffer widow of W A Sheaffer Pen Co founder died Friday at her Fort Madison home. She was 71 and known for her longtime association with her husband’s business and local civic circles.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
Walter A. Sheaffer
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co
FBI arrests two on bank fraud in Terre Haute
FBI agents arrested William C. Kipple former First National Bank of Terre Haute cashier and Thomas E. Lapworth owner of City Motors on charges linked to bank shortages possibly exceeding 500000 dollars. Kipple allegedly forged loan entries while Lapworth received 6000 dollars via fictitious car loan notes. Bond set at 5000 and 25000 respectively with investigation ongoing.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPI
First National Bank of
FBI
Edward J. Powers
Indianapolis
William C. Kipple
Thomas E. Lapworth
City Motors
Kipple
Lapworth
Powers
Bank
Clinton
Vigo County
Two Die in German Taxi Plane Plunge
In Cologne near Boerlinghausen Airport an air taxi crashed after hitting a power line killing pilot Eberhardt Schumann and the sole passenger. Co pilot Briton Peter White was critically injured.
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Cologne
Germany
UPD
Boerlinghausen
Eberhardt Schumann
Peter White
Russian Christmas Services Have Element of Mourning
Arch bishop Alexei led the midnight Mass in Moscow Cathedral amid majesty and melancholy as Russia marks Christmas under the Soviet regime. Attendance skewed older, many women, with remnants of church wealth lost after the revolution. Monasteries show decay from state ownership and financial strain, making Christmas a day of mourning for what once was.
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Moscow
Alexei
All Russia
Soviet Union
Novodevichi
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