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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1966
Page
3
Barry Goldwater and family spent a second day on Idaho’s Salmon River, traveling by raft with guide L. L. Anderson. The party, unconnected by radio, follows a rugged route through a remote canyon known as the River of No Return.
Beiru t Lebanon UPI New Iraqi premier Naji Taleh announced his government would recognize the peace plan with Kurdish rebels agreed last June by outgoing premier Abdel Rahman Razzaz. The 18 percent cabinet said Baghdad will develop and reconstruct northern areas and seek union with the United Arab Republic while coordinating with its armed forces. Taleh backed liberal Arab states against the Islamic alliance urged by King Faisal and paid tribute to the Soviet Union for support.
President Taleb emphasizes a government stance of good neighborliness with regional powers Turkey and Iran to ease tensions and foster regional cooperation.
The Las Vegas Sun published mornings with Sundays edition lists staff including Ruth Deskin as assistant to the publisher Bryn Armstrong executive editor Vince Anselmo managing editor and others. It notes post office entry Las Vegas Nevada and affiliations with press associations and audit bureau of circulation.
A sprawling unmanned forest fire around 60 000 acres straddled the Canada United States border 240 miles southeast of Fairbanks as Canadian crews fight a Yukon Dawson City blaze and Alaska emergency responders battle the 152 000 acre Chicken fire on Taylor Highway. Strong winds 30 to 50 knots pushed the flames, with burned area still to be updated by the Bureau of Land Management.
MT PALOMAR Calif The most unusual objects in the astronomers universe and those undergoing most intense study at present are quasars discovered in 1960 by two California astronomers.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits warned of a fierce Senate battle and filibuster over the House approved civil rights bill. He called open housing provisions controversial and urged public awareness to prevent riots while defending desegregation and threatened to withhold federal funds from non desegregating school systems.
Cairo Supreme security court sentences seven Moslem Brotherhood members to death for plotting to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser during last year’s revolution anniversary celebrations. Observers say the sentences show the government’s resolve to crush the group.
James Meredith and Stokely Carmichael urged Negroes to defend themselves with vigilante action if law enforcement fails. Roy Wilkins and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocated non-violence, with King praising peaceful marches as moral and practical.
United Arab Republic and Saudi envoys wrap two day discussions in Kuwait on Yemen’s future. They plan to return home with proposals to end fighting in Yemen though there is disagreement on key points such as the UAR’s demand to keep about 70 000 troops in support of the republican government until Imam Mohammed Al Badr leaves the country. The communique praises the talks as conducted in brotherhood and frankness.
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