De Gaulle Spurns Talks on Berlin With Soviets
Paris AP Charles de Gaulle reportedly resists Allied efforts for joint negotiations with the Soviet Union on Berlin. French officials say he does not block another American led attempt with Moscow. Western Allies debate a unified policy at the Big Four ministers conference. Any renewed talks would be aired in the North Atlantic Council before action. France holds veto power in Berlin, dimming chances for a compromise.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Berlin
Moscow
Germany
North Atlantic Council of Foreign Ministers
de Gaulle
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Thompson
France
U S Crafts Readied In Viet Nam
U S Army service troops began readying about 40 U S combat helicopters for Viet Cong missions in Saigon. Nearly 400 pilots and crew arrive aboard the carrier Core and expect to fly in two weeks. U S crews will transport Vietnamese troops and gear to strike rebel positions as ground forces face jungle transport limits. This marks the first time U S personnel fly such missions in country as part of new military aid.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
U. S
Middletown Area Weather for Tonight and Tomorrow
The forecast calls for a sharp chill with a low around 19 tonight and a high near 22 tomorrow. Cloudy and windy conditions with occasional rain will give way to snow flurries as temperatures stay frigid. Overnight lows last night reached 34 after a 5 degree high earlier.
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Mercury
Middletown
Plot To Kill Leader Ikeda foiled in Japan by police
Police in Tokyo and Kyushu said they halted an ultra-rightist conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and cabinet members. Thirteen men were arrested as raids yielded rifles, helmets, gas masks, and uniforms. The plot, funded by an industrialist, claimed to aim for mass murder to forestall a Communist revolution.
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Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Ikeda
Daikichi Imoto
Public Safety
Seoul
Sokyo Labor Union
Communist Party
Kyushu
The
Society For
Negro Leaders See Dawn Of New Day After Court Ruling
Black leaders hailed Monday’s Supreme Court ruling overturning 16 sit-in convictions as a start toward broader rights. Louisiana AG Jack Gremullion questioned grounds, saying Louisiana sit-in laws may still stand. The ruling left key issues like expression and equal protection unsettled. The Southern Regional Council cited thousands of arrests in the region, while the Congress of Racial Equality celebrated the decision as hopeful for Negroes.
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U S. Supreme Court
Jack Gremullion
Louisiana
Congress of Racial Equality
New York
Supreme Court
Fire victim dies in Akron house fire blaze
Akron AP reports Simon Brunson aged 54 died Monday from burns suffered in a December 2 house fire. He was sleeping on a sofa when a lighted cigarette ignited his clothing.
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AKRON
Simon Brunson
Unions Seek $1.50 Hourly in Minimum Wage Push
AFL-CIO chiefs at Bal Harbour set 1.50 an hour as labor's new goal for the federal minimum wage and urged Congress to raise to 1.25 immediately, with a plan to then reach 1.50. The resolution called for extending coverage to 16 million more workers and reducing the 40 hour week, while civil rights tensions rose as A Philip Randolph appealed against a censure and Martin Luther King defended him.
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Fla
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
Resolutions Committee
Afl-Co
Congress
Kennedy
America
Mula
Labor
Walter Reuther
George Meany
Building Trades
Reuther
A. Philip Randolph
Randolph
Martin Lutther King
UN airport in Katanga struck by bombs before dawn
Elisabethville's airport in Katanga was hit by four air raids dropping 26 bombs over five hours starting at midnight, with no U.N. installations damaged. The U.N. headquarters came under mortar fire at night. Two Indian Gurkhas were killed and one wounded at the U.N. HQ, and total U.N. casualties reach 10 dead, 37 wounded, 13 missing. Katanga casualties are unknown but estimated around 60.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Elisabethville
U.N
Katanga
USN
Headquartters
Brussels
United Nations
Moise Tshombe
Sean McKeown
Congo
Johnny and friends give up meals to aid the needy
VAN WERT Ohio AP Johnny and 31 fellow Starr Commonwealth for Boys residents abstain from one supper. The annual Christmas fast begun 47 years ago at Albion Michigan originated when a boy who slept on the streets asked to send saved meal money to charity. Last year Van Wert funds aided a local needy family. prior year aided foreign orphans.
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Johnny
Starr Commonwealth
Albion
Mich
Floyd Starr
Starr
Plan To Destroy Mines Is Found
United Nations officials disclosed that French mercenaries drew up plans to dynamite the Union Miniere complex in Katanga if U.N. forces join the Congo army offensive. The plan allegedly targets the $400 million Belgian-British firm aiding Tshombe’s regime, with dynamite stored for use if invasion occurs. Katanga and U.N. air attacks were reported, sparking calls for a ceasefire from Belgian, French, and U.N. ministers in Paris.
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U.N
Union Miniere
Katanga
Central Congo
Leopoldville
Duta
Elizabethville
Indochina
Algeria
Moise Tshombes
Kastanga
Rikhye
Bousque
Faulque
Ex-Hitler Aide Heusinger Sought by Soviets for Trial
The Soviet government demanded the United States hand over West German General Adolf Heusinger, chairman of NATO's military committee, for trial in Moscow on war crimes charges. Heusinger, once chief of operations for the German General Staff, was accused of organizing reprisals and authorizing atrocities, and is said to be quartered in the Pentagon.
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Moscow
United States
Adolf Heusinger
Permanent
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Washington
U.S. Smhenny
Foreign Ministry
Heusinger
Hitler
Soviet Union
Chuckle: Christmas Cards Reach Office Party Instead
A witty note recalls that not all Christmas cards travel by mail Some arrive at the office party bringing cheer and a lighthearted moment as coworkers read the unexpected greetings.
Santa Claus Freed In Blue Law Court Ruling
PennDel Pa AP Santa Claus, Earl Steger 58, was arrested for gainful employment on Sunday under old blue laws but released after the squire dismissed the case. Four helpers were cited. no sale of nonessentials occurred. A Bucks County ethics group noted the arrest made them look like Scrooges.
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Santa Claus
Rudolph
Santa
Earl Steger
Butch
William Riempp
Norman Rigby
Riempp
St. Nick's
Bucks County Ethical Business Practices Committee
Bar of Justice
William Dettinger
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