Balaguer Sworn In As Dominican President Amid Quiet Hopes
SANTO DOMINGO UPI Joanquin Balaguer a pro American moderate was sworn in as president with little fanfare but high hopes for peace after 14 months of bloodshed. He defeated leftist former President Juan Bosch by 241000 votes and pledges unity and austerity as security forces oversee a staged pullout of the Inter American Peace Force.
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Bosch
Balaguer
Hector Garcia- Godoy
U.S
National Governors Conference Opens In Los Angeles
LA hosts the 58th annual National Governors Conference at the New Century Plaza Hotel. California Governor Edmund G. Brown leads the opening program with sessions on integrity of American society and federal state relations. Governors from all states attend plus territories. A fireworks salute and receptions mark Independence Day as Maine Governor Reed addresses and presides over sessions.
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Los Angeles
UPI
New Century Plaza Hotel
California
Edmund G. Brown
National Guard
John H. Reed
Maine
American Samoa
Virgin Islands
Guam
Puerto Rico
Memorial Coliseum
Brown
Reed
T. W. Abel
United Steelworkers of America
John J. Wright
Pittsburgh
De Gaulle Eyes Poland Trip After Moscow Mission
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle may visit Communist Poland later this year following a 12 day Moscow mission. He signed a joint declaration with the Soviet Union and said cooperation should be formal yet practical. No date was set, but Poland trip was under consideration after his Pacific excursion.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Moscow
Poland
de Gaulle
France
Russia
Vnukovo-2
Soviet Union
Pacific
Nikolai V. Podgorny
New York City doctors end week-long hospital walkout
New York City's striking health department doctors voted to end the walkout at 232 public health centers. They return to work as the dispute over salary and job security is referred to a three-member fact-finding panel chosen from ten proposed by the American Arbitration Association. The panel's nonbinding recommendations are to be honored by both sides.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Health Department
Doctors Association
American Arbitration Association
Paroled embezzler Burnice Geiger seeks new start in West Virginia
Mrs Burnice Iverson Geiger the once notorious Embezzler from Sheldon Iowa walked out of Alderson Federal Prison after serving five years and five months of a 15 year sentence She advised youth to stay out of trouble and said she did not plan to stay in Sheldon Her case banked close to two million in theft and the town faced a bank collapse with insured deposits mitigating losses.
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W. Va
UPI
Burnice Iverson Geiger
National Bank of
Sheldon
Iowa
Geiger
Sheldon’s Public Library
Library Board
Graham Winds Up London Crusade This Evening
Evangelist Billy Graham says London crusade shows British youth seek guidance and that now is the time to evangelize. He notes secularism may be less entrenched than expected and addresses 2,000 ministers at a West London church before an outside Wembley Stadium rally tonight.
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London
UPI
Billy Graham
Britain
North Carolina
West London
Wembley Stadium
Button Lifesaver in Street Shootout in Oakland
An 18 year old, Anthony Bell, escaped serious harm when a bullet aimed at his stomach was deflected by a button, leaving him with only a scratch. His companion, Dwight A. Dudley, 21, was in serious condition after being shot in the back during an argument with a motorist whose car allegedly brushed them on a street.
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Oakland, Calif
UPI
Bell
Dwight A. Dudley
Highland Hospital
Rusk says peace efforts in Vietnam face Hanoi’s refusal
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told Australian press leaders that the United States has mounted a May peace offensive in Vietnam but Hanoi keeps hanging up the phone. He warned a North Vietnamese military victory is not assured and that US troops could depart within 24 hours after Hanoi stops seizing South Vietnam.
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Canberra
Australia
UPI
Dean Rusk
United States
Rusk
Australian National Press Club
Asian Alliance
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Hanoi
North
North Viet Nam
Nationalize British Steel Works
The Labour government plans to nationalize Britain's iron and steel industry by placing 14 major companies under public ownership and creating a national steel corporation. Compensation uses averaging of stock exchange quotations over 61 months from April 1961 to April 1966 or six months from November 1965 to April 1966, whichever is higher, reducing previously proposed compensation.
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London
UPI
Britain
National Steel Corporation
Stock Exchange
Growth of Future Farmers of America reaches half million students
More than 450000 high school students enroll in vocational agriculture courses under the Future Farmers of America organization. The program is sponsored by the U S Office of Education across the 50 states Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and Guam. The Boy Scouts and FFA are described as the sole chartered organizations for boys.
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Washington
Future Farmers of America
U.S. Office of Education
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Guam
Boy Scouts
FFA
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