SOVIET BLOC COMMITMENTS CANNOT BE MET SAYS CUBA CHIEF
Cuban Communist chief Roca blamed government plans and U S blocks for a poor sugar harvest lowering output. He cited premature land diverts irrigation problems and inexperience of cane cutters as key factors. He said Cuba aims to reorganize industry and farming despite the blockade.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
United States
Roca
Cuba
Canada
Australia
Heland
Fidel Castro
Uruguayan
Communist Party Congress
U.S
July Fourth Celebrations Across South Plains Towns
Holiday events fill the day from Webb AFB flyover to Miss South Plains pageant in Brownfield. Muleshoe hosts a large Fourth with picnic Douglass Stadium talent show and a 6,000-strong crowd last year. Lovington and Post set fireworks and swimming parties, while Buffalo Lakes plans a display. Towns close for the holiday.
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Webb Afb
Sunnyside
Terry
Brownfield
Brownfield Jaycees
Muleshoe
Douglass Stadium
Tohoka
Lovington
Lovington Lions Club
Post
Postex Cotton Mills
Buffalo Lakes
South Plains
Khrushchev fears Far East clash amid Soviet woes
Geneva sources say Khrushchev fears any Far Eastern conflict could drag the Soviet Union into war as Moscow faces domestic economic troubles. He urged no Red China ventures and offered limited aid to Peiping to ease Sino-Soviet tensions without heavy Moscow costs.
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K. C. Thaler
Geneva
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Kremlin
Russia
Laos
Red China
Soviet Union
Peiping
Far East
Europe
Quemoy
Matsu
Formosa
China
Moscow
Ben Khedda Returns to Lead Algeria Independence Day Welcome
Ben Khedda and ministers arrived from Tunis to assume power as the nationalist regime claimed control in Algiers. Abderrahmane Fares surrendered powers aligning with the merger, while crowds hailed the new government and vowed unity against dictatorship.
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Willaya
Algiers
Algeria
Rocher Noir
Ben Khedda
Abderrahmane Fares
Provisional Executive
Tunis
U.S
William Porter
Evian
France
Dissident Algerian Chief Now In Cairo
Ahmed Ben Bella arrived in Cairo by United Arab Airlines from Benghazi and Tripoli. He was greeted by Abdel Kader Hatem and UAR officials as Gamal Abdel Nasser urged unity in Algeria. Ben Bella did not appear to accept Nasser’s peace efforts amid clashes with Ben Youssef Ben Khedda’s regime.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Bengasi
Tripoli
Bella
Abdel Kader Hatem
United Arab Republic
U.A.R
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Algeria
Ben Bell
Nasser
Ben Bella
Algiers
Ben Youssef Ben Khedda
France
Plan Kept Kebab? Court Prayers Policy Blocked
Plan killed to void Supreme Court decision on public school prayers. Governors nominated Rosel lini for chair and chose an eight member executive, including Powell and Carvel among others. They postponed civil rights action 32 to 8 and rejected a strong rights proposal. They approved resolutions for tax rebates, 21 age limit for alcohol, and five year reviews of federal grants.
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Rosellini
Gov. Powell
Elbert N. Carvel
Delaware
Bert T. Combs
Kentucky
John M. Dalton
Missouri
George D. Clyde
Utah
John Anderson Jr
Kansas
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Paul Fannin
Arizona
Hollings
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Bill Hollings
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
John B. Swainson
Michigan
High Court
Congress
Congo Katanga talks fail as Bomboko meets Thant
Congolese Foreign Minister Jus tin Bomboko held a 90 minute meeting with Acting UN Secretary-General U Thant on the Congo Katanga unity talks. He said no decision was reached. Thant had placed UN forces on alert after the breakdown in negotiations to reintegrate Katanga.
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United Nations, N.Y
Justin Bomboko
U Thant
Security Council
Thant
Congo
Airlift Criticized as Laos Meo Aid Smoke Screen
Reports criticize U S air drops to Meo tribesmen fighting Pathet Lao as possible arms support. Saigon says Viet Cong infiltration from Laos near the border is a few thousand in three weeks, not 8000 as claimed. Intelligence places 10000 Vietnamese advising and fighting with Laotian Communists. Official notes aim to deter border incursions.
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Thailand
Laos
Pathet Lao
Saigon
U.S
Galveston Claims Victory in Seaweed Battle
Galveston officials say they are winning the seaweed problem that has bothered the Gulf Coast resort. Stewart Beach at the end of U S 75 remains clean as county crews work daily to keep the sand free of weed and visitors report frequent access.
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Galveston
Gulf Coast
Stewart Beach
U.S. 75
Earl Burch
Galveston Convention Bureau
Burch
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