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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1956
Page
3
U S and Austrian security officials urge Vice President Richard M. Nixon to avoid the Hungarian border as he arrives in Vienna for a two day look at the refugee influx. The trip was planned with Nixon wanting to witness arrivals of refugees crossing the Austrian frontier.
Report states that Britain endorses a path to self-government in Cyprus with a constitution and self-determination while promising cooperation with Greece and Turkey. EOKA pressure and Greek Cypriot factions push for independence. refugees rise as border tensions and Soviet actions influence regional politics.
The Atomic Energy Commission chose Carnegie Tech, Case Tech, Northwestern, UCLA, University of Florida, and Union College to run concentrated pre Oak Ridge courses. Saphir said the plan doubles reactor specialist output by splitting the yearlong course: six months at the university and six months at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Don Sherwood, a San Francisco television figure known as the bed boy, married his secretary Suzanne Pierce in a brief ceremony at the Holiday Hotel on Sunday.
Rear Adm Daniel V Gallery announced at a San Juan news conference that naval activity around Puerto Rico is rising. He cited dispersion of the American fleet to relieve congestion in U.S. ports and highlighted Roosevelt Roads as an ideal base for submarine operations in the Caribbean.
Premier Nuri Said, in a Baghdad broadcast, says Iraq will resist communism and Zionism despite criticism from Moscow and Cairo. He accuses certain Arab parties of fabrications and warns against attempts to stir unrest, bombs, and assassinations aimed at undermining Iraqi sovereignty.
A report honors Rev. Fr. Flynn and U S consul Roger Heacock among a few Americans who led the Vienna refugee processing to full visas for 3,900 refugees in one month. It credits NCWC representatives and others for speeding access as 32,000 fled the Iron Curtain since Oct. 8.
A 50-year-old woman named Zarin, mother of three, was sentenced to death for killing her former lover and his fiancée six years earlier with poisoned lemonade. The story notes she later attempted the same method on a construction-site coworker, which failed, and adds crime news typically draws little attention in Russian papers.
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