Gemini Flight Boosts U S Space Plan Toward Manned Mission
The United States presses ahead with its Gemini program after a successful unmanned test. A two seat Gemini craft launched on time, despite minor speed deviation, showing the team can proceed to manned flights aimed for a late 1960s window. Walter Williams, Mercury program director, leaves NASA after the launch and joins Aerospace Corp.
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Doctors Strike Fails To End In Belgium War of Wages
In Brussels, Belgium, doctors and Interior Minister Arthur Gilson met for the first time since a nationwide strike. The talks focused on operating during the walkout with both sides downplaying the meeting. Strikers in rural Flemish areas resumed visits, while leaders vow to block changes to the socialized medical law governing state insurance patients. Both sides await a move to restart negotiations.
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Belgium
Arthur Gilson
Final Journey For MacArthur To Begin Today
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur begins his final earthly journey from the Capitol to National Airport for a 2:10 p.m. flight to Norfolk where burial will take place. President Johnson leads national homage and accompanies the widow Jean MacArthur and son Arthur as the funeral train stops at Trenton Odenton and Aberdeen. The casket rides on a caisson once used for President Kennedy as military pallbearers guard the solemn procession into Union Station and up to the Capitol.
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Black Jack
Attlee calls MacArthur treachery claims nonsense
London AP report says Prime Minister Attlee rejected charges that General MacArthur betrayed Britain during the Korean War as completely ridiculous. He recalled wartime talks with Truman Slim and Bradley and warned against widening the conflict into China to avoid Russia gaining leverage.
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MacArthur
Washington
Attlee
Sir William Slim
Imperial General Staff
Harry S. Truman
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Red Victory Is Setback For Khanh
Viet Cong guerrillas overran a self defense post near Long An Province just south of Saigon killing 28 South Vietnamese and wounding 36. The attack targeted Phuoc Loi base with watchtowers blown by mines and involved suspected insider help.
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Weather warms after near freezing night and sunny day
Near freez ing temperatures eased as spring returns with a cool sunny day. The high reached 41 yesterday and a 33 low was recorded today. Tonight may dip toward a low while tomorrow trends warmer.
IC Strike Paralyzes Chicago Commuters in Sudden Halt
About 33,000 Illinois Central riders faced delays as a surprise strike halted usual routes. motorists packed Dan Ryan Expressway and buses became common, while the Bock Island line added trains to handle extra travelers. Cabbies adapted after a morning surge, with officials noting a citywide shift in travel patterns.
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Two Week Truce in Cleveland School Integration Dispute
A two week truce ends demonstrations and halts new construction as a special study group is appointed to examine Cleveland's school integration issue. The pact may extend two weeks if progress is shown after the death of Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, the bulldozer victim at Lakeview Elementary.
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Remission Of Lung Cancer Confirmed By Seattle Doctor
In Bremerton Washington a Navy guard, Joe Mayerle, age 42, was diagnosed with malignant tissue in 1959. A Seattle VA Hospital physician stated there is no evidence of cancer presently. Doctors caution against calling it a cure and note survival is uncertain beyond five years. Mayerle returned from Seattle after being pronounced cured amid public attention.
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Keyport Naval Torpedo Station
Meyerle
Veterans Administration Hospital
Hearing Set For Permanent Injunction In School Case
A hearing is scheduled for 2 p m Friday on a permanent injunction. The truce requires the school board to appoint technical experts to study school integration problems, with United Freedom Movement groups approving the names. The experts must finish the study before the convention.
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United Freedom Movement
Scranton Leaves Door Open on Presidential Bid
Pennsylvania Governor Scranton at a news conference called his push to deny a candidacy for president a final effort. He left a slim opening by saying he could accept an undirected draft if the GOP convention deadlocks but he stressed he is not pursuing the nomination for himself.
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Pennsylvania
William W Scranton
Scranton
San Francisco
Brazil Purge Law Ordered by Military and Congress
The military and congressional leaders agreed on a sweeping antisubversion measure to purge extreme leftists from Brazil's armed forces and sent the bill to Brasilia. The law, drafted after Rio de Janeiro meetings, seeks temporary suspension of constitutional rights as negotiations delay the presidential election to Friday or Saturday.
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Brasilia
Joao Goulart
Union Official Guilty Of Jury Tampering In Hoffa Trial
Henry F. Bell vice president of the International Longshoremen's Association was found guilty of attempting to buy two jurors in the James R. Hoffa conspiracy trial. Bell is the sixth person convicted of tampering with the jury in Hoffa's 1962 case. Hoffa received an eight year sentence.
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Nashville, Tenn
Henry F. Bell
International Longshoremen’s Association
James R. Hoffa
Bell
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Talks Resume Today in Emergency Rail Negotiations
Secretary of Labor Wirtz said no progress was made in overnight talks to avert a nationwide rail strike at midnight. Midmorning negotiations were to continue between Wirtz and union leaders and railroads. President Johnson urged a settlement to protect the economy from disruption.
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W. Willard Wirtz
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Johnson
Pennsylvan ia Railroad union locals vote to strike
Presidents of all 46 Transportation Workers Union locals on the Pennsylvania Railroad vote unanimously to strike to end job layoffs. The meeting occurred in Columbus Ohio with no relation to a separate ARR work rules announcement.
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Columbus, Ohio
Transportation Workers Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Association of Railroads
Union Conference Delayed by Missing Presidents
Wirtz planned continuous sessions with union and management negotiators but the meeting stalled as union presidents failed to arrive for the hastily convened conference.
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Rail labor talks stall as unions miss key leaders
After seven hours of bargaining, Wirtz noted the absence of union chiefs Charles Luna and H E Gilbert as crucial to progress. The Friday 12:01 am strike deadline looms for nearly 200 railroads and about 200000 workers if no agreement is reached on wage structure job classifications and other terms.
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Charles Luna
Aflcio Brotherhood of Railroad
H. E. Gilbert
Aflcio Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
J. E. Wolfe
Illinois Central
Rail unions push for stall-resolving talks amid rules clash
Wirtz warned the outcome will affect free collective bargaining in the country and urged resolution or a procedure to settle the dispute. Negotiations on rules changes have stalled since last year as unions sought separate talks with railroads, while the industry insists on a united front.
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Wirtz
Congress
Espionage Trial Starts In Sweden
The espionage trial of Col. Stig Wennerstrom began in Stockholm and was closed to the public within two minutes for national security reasons. Wennerstrom, former Swedish air attache in Moscow and Washington, is charged with passing military secrets.
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Sweden
Stig Wennerstrom
Wennerstrom
Moscow
Washington
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