U N Security Council approves Congo force
United Nations Security Council authorizes force to prevent Congo civil war after Asian African drive. Moise Tshombe rejects a withdrawal provision while Lumumba allies face executions in South Kasai. U.N. Hammarskjold seeks more troops as Mobutu masss 1,200 troops near Bumba.
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United Nations, N.Y
Security Council
United Nations
Congo
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Council
United States
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Soviet Union
France
Hammarskjold
Patrice Lumumba
Kasai
Leopoldville
Joseph Ileo
U.S
South Kasai
Stanleyville
Britain
China
Turkey
Zorin
Valerian Zorin
Adlai Stevenson
Russia
UPI
Katanga Orders Mobilization Against U.N. Action
Katanga Premier Tshombe announced mobilization to oppose the U.N. resolution in the Congo. He warned all able bodied people must stay at posts and rejected U.N. calls for Belgian withdrawal, insisting the UN cannot interfere as Congo seeks a solution.
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Elisabethville
U.N
Moise
Katanga
Tshombe
Congo
Council
Geneva
United Nations
Berdit Accepts Post at Plainfield New Jersey
Martin E. Berdit resigns from La Crosse Community Chest and accepts director post for United Community Fund of Plainfield and North Plainfield New Jersey. He is 41, native of Wilmington, formerly of Lansing Michigan, plans to leave about April 1. Plainfield population 42500, North Plainfield about 13000.
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Martin E. Berdit
la Crosse Communischool
Philadelphia
Herety Chest and Welfare Federation
University of Position
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Berdit
United Community Fund of
Plainfield
North Plainfield
New York City
la Crosse
Lansing
Mich
Michigan United Fund
Wilmington
Hands Off Whites Urged As Congo Tensions Rise
United Nations appeals to Lumumbist rulers in Congo to spare Europeans and anti Lumumbist prisoners from retaliation after six Lumumbist politicians were killed or deported. U.N. Congo mission chief Rajeshwar Dayal warned of a possible bloodbath in Stanleyville where about 1,000 Europeans are detained and 300 Congolese political prisoners are jailed.
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Leopoldville
Congo
United Nations
Patrice Lumumba
Oriental
Kivu
Stanleyville
U.N
Rajeshwar Dayal
U.n.’S
Flames Cause Minor Damage At Edgerton High School
A fire broke out in an attic at Edgerton High School causing minor damage to the old section. Students evacuated in an orderly fashion as authorities attributed the blaze to a cigarette.
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Edgerton
Edgerton High School
U S Agrees To Screen Laos Aid
The United States offers to submit all future Laos aid to screening by a neutral nations commission. King Savang Vatthana and officials discuss neutrality and withdrawal of over 100 U S military advisers with Dean Rusk in a White House meeting.
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Spencer Davis
Washington
United States
U. S
Laos
Savang Vatthana
Soviet Union
Lrust Ana Gov
Asia
Pathet Lao
Royal ‘Army
Neutral
Nations Commission
Dean Rusk
Mikhail Menshikov
Rusk
Menshikov
King Savang
Kennedy
Indochina
Wisconsin Taxes Push Two Firms to Leave Racine Area
Rae Motor Corp plans a 60 day move to a McHenry Illinois plant leaving Racine with about 100 local workers. Quaker Stretcher Co will relocate to Antioch Illinois where a 400000 building sits on 20 acres. Local officials hold a "keep industry" conference with several city leaders invited and responses received from Kenosha La Crosse Manitowoc Milwaukee Cudahy and West Allis.
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Rae Motor Corp
McHenry
Kenosha
Quaker Stretcher Co
Antioch, Ill
Rae Motor
Humble
Racine
la Crosse
Manitowoc
Milwaukee
Cudahy
West Alis
Walter Block Sr
Quaker Stretcher
Wisconsin
Antioch
Everett Hansen
Racine Hansen
Illinois
Block
Kennedy lays out 16 bills for priority program
President Kennedy sends Democratic leaders a 16 item agenda focused on extending unemployment benefits and expanding social programs. The plan includes aid to dependent children, Social Security improvements, redevelopment funds, education, health care, and federal expansion measures. Senate Democrats promise swift action after White House talks.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Senate
White House
Ways and Means
Pierre Salinger
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Iron Curtain
Strike Shuts Down Three Major Airlines
The five day strike by flight engineers crippled airline service with three major lines halted and losses pegged at about 1 million dollars daily per carrier. Pan American Eastern National Western kept limited service while Trans World American faced massive disruptions and thousands of workers laid off. White House and Labor officials pursued talks as cancels mounted in major markets from New York to Los Angeles.
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New York
Trans World
American
Eastern
Pan American
National and Western
Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
White House
Kennedy
Goldberg
Ron Brown
Flight Engineers’ International Association
Miami
Boston
Los Angeles
Flight Engineers International Union
Snowstorm cripples Texas New Mexico and floods ripple east
A severe snowstorm paralyzed West Texas and southeast New Mexico with high winds and up to a foot of snow in Lubbock and 16 inches in Lovington while rescues and National Guard aid aided motorists. Flooding followed in the Ohio Valley and along rivers from Mississippi to the Potomac with ice jams and heavy rains affecting multiple states.
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West
Texas
New Mexico
Iowa
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Virginia
Maryland
Florida
Atlantic
Louisiana
South Carolina
Clavene
Levelland
Middle
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes Region
New England
Lubbock
Lovington
N. M
Woolforth
Plains
Denver City
Morton
Hobbs
N.M
Midwest
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Calhoun
Chickasaw
Potomac River
Washington, D. C
James River
Richmond
Marengo County
Ala
Three Astronauts Picked for Final Training
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP three astronauts were chosen to begin final training for a manned Mercury flight within two or three months. John Glenn Virgil Grissom and Alan Shepard were selected after a successful test of a space capsule.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States Today
John Glenn
Virgil Grissom
Alan Shepard
Robert Gilruth
Mercury Project
Glenn
New Concord
Ohio
Marine Corps
Anna
John David
Carolyn Ann
Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Air Force
Betty
Scot
Mark
Shepard
East Derry
N.H
Navy
Louise
Juliana
Laura
Gilruth
Gordon Cooper
Walker Sc
NASA Space Task Group
Capsule Flight Tests Mercury Atlas At 107 Miles
Unmanned space capsule survived a Atlantic Ocean splashdown after a 9 10 a m launch on an Atlas rocket. Recovery showed the capsule in excellent condition, boosting hopes for an American manned orbital flight later this year.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla.ap
Missile Test Center
Puerto Rico
Robert Gilruth
Space Program
Gilruth
Lorbit
Donner
Atlantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atlas
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Liberia
U.A.R
Adlai F. Stevenson
U. N
Joseph Mobutu
Sean MacKeown
Mobutu
Bumba
Congo River
Oriental Province
Lumumbist
McKeown
Dag
George Padmore
Plainfield, N.J
Dever Lee
Loos of
Confucius
Karl Marx
Ted
Jack Humble
Labor Department
Airlines
Aaa
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic Coast States
NASA
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