French Paratroopers Attack Bizerte Under Air Cover
French paratroopers supported by fighter planes bombard Tunisian forces outside the Bizerte naval base in Tunis. President Habib Bourguiba denounces premeditated aggression and severs diplomatic relations with France while seeking an urgent UN Security Council meeting.
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French Ministry of Information
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North Africa
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MacNamara Assigned to Civil Defense Program
President Kennedy assigns federal civil defense control to Defense Secretary Robert S. MacNamara. The shift places program leadership under the Pentagon while preserving civilian nature and seeking a name change for the mobilization office. Frank B. Ellis backs the move. Ellis will stay in the reshaped Office of Emergency Planning.
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Pentagon
Vacation Daze Promises Easy Chic Chicago Tour
A travel note extols Chicago as a top U S city with must see spots like the Natural History Museum Adler Planetarium Shedd Aquarium and Grant and Lincoln Parks urging readers to book Vacation Pac through the Kenosha Evening News. The piece shifts to Tunisian unrest with Bourguiba reporting deaths near Bizerte and Morocco pledging solidarity amid French military actions near a Tunisian base.
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US Urges Truce In Franco Tunisian Dispute Over Bizerte
The United States calls on France and Tunisia to halt fighting and peacefully resolve the Bizerte dispute without delay. Weather updates flag a 50-50 chance Grissom can proceed with tomorrow's spaceflight. Kennedy asks Congress approves 1.7 billion to boost space program and moon race. Wisconsin Madison vote authorizes Conserv ation Commission park access fee 25 cents per person. Texas Henderson report: ex convict Benson confesses his 1937 New London school explosion hoax claim.
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France
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Bizerte
Democrats Seek Withholding Plan Shifts in Wisconsin Senate
The Democratic minority floor leader says the party will push to restore their withholding version and keep exemptions in the sales tax bill while aiming to end a talkathon this week. Sen. Carl Thompson proposed a Gov Nelson style first 10 000 tax forgiveness for 1961, amid Democratic opposition to broader 1961 tax forgiveness.
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Kennedy era warning on military officers' propaganda
Washington report notes a Foreign Relations Committee memorandum warns that right wing propaganda by military officers could create important obstacles to President Kennedy's programs.
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JFK Eyes Larger Draft Quota Report
President Kennedy plans a bigger draft and stronger recruiting to meet Berlin threats. He will add three new divisions and bolster existing units to reach 20 fighting divisions for Army and Marine forces.
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Charleston Flood Claims 12 Victims Vicious Rain Sweeps City
A monsoon-like cloudburst in Charleston West Virginia caused walls of water to cascade through homes. Twelve deaths were confirmed with four others missing as Kanahwa River and nearby creeks overflowed. In Cape Canaveral NASA weighed risky weather for the Gus Grissom spaceflight with a 50 50 chance of liftoff tomorrow.
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Helen Givens
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Alex Vokres
Flood Devastation Hits Charleston as Katanga Seeks Soviet Help
In Charleston flood toll rises with five-year-old Caroline Thompson among the dead and a makeshift morgue on site. Elsewhere Katanga declares it may seek Soviet aid after Congo crisis, signaling unification of forces under Mobutu and a new Congolese air force.
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Postal Hike Bill Dead, House Panel Postpones Action
Washington UPI The House Post Office committee voted 13 to 9 to delay any postal rate rise until August 17 effectively killing Kennedy administration efforts for a rate increase this year. The plan would raise first class mail by one cent and other classes accordingly with five cents for first class and eight cents for air mail.
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Senate Post Office Committee
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Weather Outlook for Lawn and Garden Fans
The outlook remains encouraging for lawn and garden fanciers with partly cloudy skies and occasional thundershowers this afternoon tonight and Friday. Temperatures stay steady with a low tonight of 55 to 62 and a high Friday of 78 to 85. Noon readings show 74 downtown 80 at American Motors and 76 at Southport. Overnight low was 65 and Wednesday high 84 with a 67 low. Rainfall last night totaled .48 of an inch. Sunrise 5 33 sunset 8 21.
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Kennedy First Six Months Under Close Review
President Kennedy faces a stormy early tenure as crises from the Congo to Cuba test his leadership. A two writer AP team notes his rhetoric outpaced by limited troop deployments and mixed domestic promise, with Berlin and Europe shaping a wary plan for future action.
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