GOP Notes Gains In South West and Losses In Big Cities
Republicans report growing strength in the South and West while conceding weakness in big cities where they lost the presidency in 1960. The analysis cites gains among farmers and suburbs and notes New England and older voters resisting GOP appeals as 1964 prospects unfold.
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Michigan
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Dallas
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House of Representatives
Presen
Mississippi
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Midwest
West
Goldwater
Senate
Scranton
Romney
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Goldwater Sees Kennedy Indecisive in 1964 Race
In a wide ranging interview from Washington, Barry Goldwater argues Kennedy is indecisive and Republicans can win the 1964 presidency. He says the 1964 nomination is still open, supports a Cuba blockade, questions postwar defense planning, and cautions against nuclear disarmament.
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UPI
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Laos
Congress
Navajo Nation Begins Election Vote For Tribal Leaders
The Navajo Nation opens its first competitive election for tribal chairman and a 76 member tribal council. Polling spans Arizona New Mexico and Utah with ballots sent to major U.S. cities and results expected late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Incumbent Paul Jones seeks a third term against Samuel Billison and Raymond Nakai.
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Ariz
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West Virginia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Tex
Albuquerque
N.M
Samuel Billison
U.S. Marine
Raymond Nakai
Flagstaff
Jones
Peru Calm After Bloodless Army Coup
Lima reports a bloodless coup ousting military junta President Ricardo Perez Godoy. Gen. Nicolas Lindley Lopez becomes new junta president with pledges of civilian rule after June elections. Godoy remains under house arrest as troops guard the palace and key installations.
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Peru
UPI
Ricardo Perez Godoy
Perez Godoy
Nicolas Lindley Lopez
United States
Miraflores
Bill Would Expand Junior ROTC Ranks
Washington lawmakers push a bill to raise junior ROTC participation to about half a million high school students. Sponsor Rep. F. Edward Hebert with backing from Rep. Carl Vinson urge expansion as a tool against juvenile delinquency and to bolster military readiness. Some experts oppose McNamara’s proposed cuts.
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UPI
House
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Armed Services
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Congress
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Hebert
Jones
Native voters and tribal issues dominate reservation forum
About 90 000 are the largest Indian nation. Women are eligible to vote. The forum covered Navajo concerns ranging from jobs to the right to work. Candidates spoke on the influence of non Indian officials in tribal affairs and on peyote, a narcotic extracted from cactus, whose use is prohibited on the reservation.
Widows in Birmingham Receive Biweekly Checks
Two Birmingham widows confirmed they have received $225 checks every two weeks since their husbands disappeared during the Bay of Pigs invasion. The checks are drawn on Bankers Trust Co of New York and the senders remain unidentified. A Nashville Tennessean report noted two more Birmingham area widows also received checks. In a separate note, a Birmingham journalist said 18 Americans accepted personal invitations to participate in the attack, recruited in January 1961.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Wade C. Gray
United Press International
Bankers Trust Co
New York
Riley W. Shamburger Jr
Nashville Tennessean
Birmingham Area
Thomas Willard Ray
Lee F. Baker
Ray
Eisenhower Returns to Palm Desert After Mexican Trip
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower returns to his winter home in Palm Desert California after a two week hunting and fishing trip to Mexico. His wife Mamie greeted him at the airport on Sunday.
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Calif
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mexico
Mamie
Elizabeth Arden
Maine
Oklahoma City Man Dies in Trailer Fire
Floyd Elmore, 49, perished in a trailer house fire on the southeast edge of Oklahoma City. The cause of the blaze was not determined at the scene.
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Oklahoma City
Floyd Elmore
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