Brazil Faces Civil Strife as Army Moves in South
Troops loyal to Brazil's interim government threaten to subdue Rio Grande do Sul as vice president Goulart allies resist. Reports from Sao Paulo say 2nd Army has not moved. Rio Grande do Sul surrounds Porto Alegre with trenches. Congress debates a parliamentary system while military action unfolds.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Rio Grande Do Sul
Joao Goulart
Jesust Goulart
Sao Paulo
2Nd Army
Osvaldo de Araujo Motta
Odyllo Denys
Congress
Rio Grande Dolo Sul
Porto Alegre
Leonel de Moura Brizzola
Goulart
Jose Machado Lopes
Ranieri Mazzilli
Brizzola
Machady Lopes
Junio Quadros
National Congress
Odylio Denys
Air Force
Navy
Brasilia
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
France
Italy
Tragic Cave Trapping Kills Three Children in Spokane
In Spokane Washington AP three children Debbie Orth 6 Larry Burns 6 and Joyce Rizzuto 4 suffocated when a sand bank collapsed on a vacant lot where they played. The coroner ruled asphyxiation after they were buried for hours. Police initially searched the area before a resident pointed to fresh excavation debris and the child bodies were found.
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Spokane, Wash
Debbie Orth
Larry Burns
Joyce Rizzuto
Ozzie Hoffman
Medicine Hat to Vote on $277,300 Brier Park Underpass Plan
City officials seek October approval to fund a $10,798 local share of a $277,300 underpass at Brier Park to serve west Crescent Heights. The project would be funded jointly by the Board of Transport Commissioners CPR Alberta and Medicine Hat with Alberta covering half of the city share. If approved construction could start soon and be finished by mid-summer 1962 as Finlay bridge repairs are planned.
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Patrick Roe
West Crescent Heights
Medicine Hat
Brier Park Railway
Federal Board of Transport Commissioners
CPR
Province of Alberta
Public Works Committee
Allan Gunter
Gunter
Board of Transport Commissioners
City of
Alberta
Sched
Finlay Bridge
Trans-Canada Bridge
Showers Dampen Fires in B C
Rain across British Columbia slowed dozens of forest fires, reducing activity and easing pressure on crews. Three major fires in the Kamloops region, covering about 70 000 acres, continued to burn out of control. Firefighting teams were scaled back elsewhere as mopping up began. Officials in Newfoundland planned a new assessment with additional aircraft arriving to support efforts.
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Interior
Kamloops
Horsefly Lakes
Newfoundland
Stuart Peters
Air Force
Thugs Hold Up Bank For $185000 Ninety Miles NE of Toronto
Four armed masked men robbed the Toronto Domin ion Bank branch at Coe Hill taking about 85 000 in cash and 100 000 in securities. Ontario Provincial Police pursued through back roads as gunfire erupted. Officers blocked all known escape routes in the wooded area as the four suspects remained at large.
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Havelock
Out
Here
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Ontario
Coe Hill
Toronto
Police Find Second Body in Ballard Case
Police in Missouri and Illinois intensified the search for a gunman after the bodies of George Ballard and his daughter Carole Ballard, 11, were found near a lakeside. A kidnapped nearby woman remained missing as authorities probed the double homicide and abduction.
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Belleville
Carole Ballard
Missouri
Ilinois
George Ballard
Anonymous ransom letter claims Goya portrait theft
A letter to Reuters alleges the National Gallery theft of a Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington and offers £140,000 for charity payment. It cites label details to prove ownership, with Jersey auctioneer Frank Le Gallais confirming the label may be genuine.
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London
Reuters
Duke of Wellington
National Gallery
Reuters News
Goya
F. le Gallais and Son
Jersey
Duke of Leeds
Frank le Gallais
Channel Island
Russia resumes nuclear testing with monster bomb warning
Moscow reports Premier Khrushchev orders scientists to test weapons up to 100 million tons of TNT amid a stated aim to press the West and secure a German peace treaty. The government asserts the United States and its allies are accelerating an arms race and vows to minimize fallout while threatening global reach with rockets.
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Moscow
Ap-Reuters
Russia
Kremlin
Khrushchev
United States
Hiroshima
U.S
France
Britain
German Republic
Soviet Union
Associated Press Moscow
Preston Grover
Kennedy affirms U S nuclear defenses are adequate
President Kennedy said the United States has a wholly adequate stockpile of nuclear weapons and delivery systems for defense of the United States and the free world. A White House statement followed talks with congressional and administration leaders amid questions on resuming U S nuclear tests.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
United States
White House
Russia
Free World
Congress
Murder Weapon Sought in Dr. Morton's Slaying
Port Arthur police and Ontario investigators search for the murder weapon used in the Wednesday shooting of Dr. Stephen Morton. Insp. Robert MacGarva and Chief William Allen say the probe is active on several angles as ballistic tests await completion and police comb brush near Morton's home for the weapon.
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Port Arthur
Stephen Morton
Robert MacGarva
Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Investigation Branch
MacGarva
William Allen
Morton
Dr. Morton
Bloody unscheduled fight ends in draw at party
Linda Christian and Edmund Purdom brawl in Ivan Desny penthouse amid The Mutiny cast. Slaps and scratches leave Purdom bleeding, witnesses say. Purdom returns to set with taped face after the late night melee.
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Rome
Linda Christian
Edmund Purdom
Ivan Desny
Desny
Anna Maria Pierangeli
Chilenine Girdaon
Mirko Ejis
Fiorella Ferrero
Purdom
Linda and
Diefenbaker Urges Renewed Efforts to Halt Arms Race
Prime Minister Diefenbaker urged renewed efforts to arrest the deadly progress of the arms race after a cabinet meeting. He warned the Moscow re supension of nuclear tests underscores the dangers facing the world and Berlin crisis. He called for negotiations with the Soviet Union and avoiding rash actions.
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Ottawa
Diefenbaker
Cominons
Moscow
Berlin
Soviet Union
UN probes Katanga minister over plot to kill UN soldiers
UN officials in Elisabethville demanded suspension of Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo after a Belgian gendarme, Andre Cremer, said Munongo ordered a unit to attack UN troops. Cremer claimed to face arrest over $39,000 he allegedly stole. Mutiny sparked prison escapes outside the Katanga capital.
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Elisabethville
Reuters
United Nations
Katanga
Godefroid Munongo
Congo
Conor O’brien
Munongo
Andre Cremer
Michel Tamberlaine
Moise Tshombe
Cremer
O’brien
Tshombe
National Survival Plan Calls for 150000 Force
Ottawa reports the army's national survival plan calls for a rescue force of 150,000 people, two thirds civilian volunteers, to defend 16 Canadian target cities from nuclear attack. It envisions 210 mobile rescue columns of 120 soldiers and 380 civilians, with 200 more in support roles, plus militia expansion and new units outside main targets. Target areas include St John’s to Victoria, with upwind headquarters 20 to 40 miles from each city.
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Ottawa
Canada
St. John's
Army
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