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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1965
Page
6
Ethel Kennedy delivered a healthy husky boy by caesarean section at Roosevelt Hospital. The infant arrived at 1 11 am PST with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a nurse present. Mother and baby are doing well. a name had not yet been chosen.
Snow from the first major storm of the year dropped up to a foot in parts of the Atlantic seaboard. Frostburg Maryland and Hanover Pennsylvania reported 12 inches, southern New England 9 inches, with widespread cold across the Midwest and West Coast rain and snow. More than 6,500 New York sanitation workers cleared streets and 13 bus passengers were injured in Rhode Island while en route from a bingo party. A congressional committee began a tour of flood disaster zones following Christmas week floods that caused over 0.5 billion dollars in damage and at least 42 deaths.
The Brush Fire staff at the University of Nevada sought student backing to avoid censorship. Editor Judy Garwood planned a petition to trigger a student election, needing about 300 signatures. Substantial student leaders state the magazine is in poor taste and obscene, while Garwood defends it and vows to resist censorship.
Congo rebel commander Gaston Soumialot accused the Johnson administration of abominable aggression in the Congo and urged Americans to halt the perceived U S violence. He spoke at Cairo on the fringe of a meeting of Arab premiers and demanded the ouster of Moise Tshombe and mercenaries. Soumialot said rebels fight until Congo is returned to its people. He claimed rebels receive only badly needed medicines from African nations and dodged a weapons question. The Arab meeting also discussed relations with Israel and economic issues, approving a Lebanon Jordan water project despite objections to a pumping station on Lebanese soil.
United Nations officials disclosed that the Soviet Union and four other Communist members paid portions of their regular budget assessments while only Bulgaria paid enough to maintain its U N vote. Bulgaria, Nationalist China, and Hungary and the Ukraine and Byelorussia are cited with varied payments, none covering peace mission dues. A moratorium on voting has delayed any automatic loss of voting rights.
Elvis Presley marked his 30th birthday by signing a new three film deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The first project titled In My Har em is set for production this year according to MGM announcements.
In Hue the ancient capital see saw 300 student demonstrators demand Premier Tran Van Huon step down while 300 pedicab drivers paraded through the city. Elsewhere 15,000 demonstrators in Ban Me Thuot protested government policy as the Viet Cong announced a Tet truce. An American jeep was mined near Saigon wounding two soldiers.
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