Pearson Seen Winning Canada Election In Toronto Fight
Canada vote today may produce Lester Pearson as prime minister with Liberals favored to win a majority. Diefenbaker faces likely drubbing after a period of slipping popularity and political turmoil over nuclear missiles.
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Toronto
Canada
Lester B. Pearson
Liberal Party
Ottawa
John G. Diefenbaker
Saskatchewan
Diefenbaker
House of Commons
United States
U.S
U.S. State Department
Pearson
Tension Rising In Laos as Rusk Warns SEATO
U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk accuses pro Communist forces in Laos of obstruction and warns SEATO tensions rise as fighting erupts between neutralist and Pathet Lao troops. He urges vigilance at the SEATO ministerial council while Laos faces a withdrawal of neutralist forces under Gen Kong Le.
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Paris
U.S
Dean Rusk
Laos
Pathet Lao
Rusk
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Plaine Des Jarres
Kong le
Weep Job Neither Steppingstone Nor Barrier To Presidency
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson says the vice presidency is neither a stepping stone nor a barrier to the presidency. In an AP interview he discusses world and domestic issues and his political stance as 1968 approaches, noting Cuba, Viet Nam, and moon goals among topics. Johnson asserts readiness to perform duties and weighs the Kennedy administration's aims.
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Job
Lbj
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jack Bell
John Chadwick
Senate
Washington
Johnson
Kennedy
Associated Press
Cuba
Fidel Castro
South
Viet Nam
Free World” Alliance
Nixon
Labor May Hold Own Fund-Raising Dinners
Wisconsin AFL-CIO leaders urged labor to hold annual fundraising dinners and limit high priced events, shielding party money from labor influence. Delegates debated allowing labor to help candidates while keeping control of contributed funds amid discontent over the Jefferson Jackson Day dinner.
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Labor
Madison
Wisconsin
Democratic Party
Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Organized Labor
John W. Reynolds
Patrick Lucey
Lucey
Milwaukee
Lyndon Johnson
Xen
John W. Schmitt
Schmitt
Cease-Fire in Laos Violated by Communist Forces
The State Department labeled the Laos fighting a serious cease-fire violation and urged Britain and Russia to act. Reports say Communist troops from North Vietnam aided an attack on neutralist Gen. Kong Le’s army at Plaine des Jarres, risking jeopardizing the Geneva accords and Laos’ withdrawal provisions.
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Washington
State Department
Laos
Britain
Russia
Red
Kong le
Plaine Des Jarres
Lincoln White
Red North
Viet Nam
Pathet Lao
International Control Commission
McNamara Warns Against Fortress America Defense Concept
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that returning to a fortress America defense would bring slow death by own action. He defended the military assistance program as essential to collective security and outlined a phased $1.4 billion request for the next fiscal year, with emphasis on eight border nations near the Soviet Union and China. General Maxwell D. Taylor joined him in presenting the defense stance.
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Canada
Diefenbaker
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Pearson
Washington
America
McNamara
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Dean Rusk
Pentagon
Far East
Free World
South Korea
China
Clay
Soviet Union
South Viet Nam
Thailand
Korea
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Pakistan
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Transfer of Trial Sought for 41 Birmingham Demonstrators
In Birmingham Alabama an New York attorney urged moving the trial of 41 Negro demonstrators from Recorder's Court to U S District Court claiming inability to obtain a fair trial. Nine arrests were for trespass and the others for protest during a sit-in and prayer marches led by Rev. Fred L Shuttlesworth and Rev A D King. Police used dogs to disperse a crowd after violence Sunday.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
New York
U.S. District Court
Recorder's Court
C. H. Brown
William N. Kunstler
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
A. D. King
Martin Luther King Jr
Shuttlesworth
Eugene
Bull) Connor
King
Albert Boutwell
Connor
George Wall
Man Held For Killing Wife in Shawano Drug? Clarify
Milton Habeck, 42, a Shawano County farmer, was jailed after his wife DeLores Habeck 34 and her mother Matilda Meyer 63 were killed in the Meyer home. The newborn and 97-year-old Emma Francisco were unharmed. Habeck reportedly admitted to the double slayings. district attorney will consider warrants.
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Shawano
Shawano County
Carl Krueger
Harold Pingle
Milton Habeck
Dist. Atty
Michael J. Eberlein
Clarence Marquardt
Meyer
Emma Francisco
Krueger
Habeck
Ducks Rescued as Oil Pollutes Mississippi River Waters
St Paul report says about 3000 ducks, live and dead, were picked up in oil pollution efforts. Some 160 National Guardsmen will stay on to build log booms at Belle Plaine, Spring Lake, Weaver Bottoms, North Lake and Sturgeon Lake. Migration continues with oil lingering in the streams.
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NATO
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Lord Home
Couve de Murville
John XXIII
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican City
UPI Radiotelephoto
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant
Mich
Afl‘cio
Paul Alfonsi
Minocqua
William Merriam
Janesville
Frank Nikolay
Abbotsford
Mee
Fortress America
Clay Report
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