Cuban Raid Crash Kills Five At Las Vegas Housing Tract
LAS VEGAS AP Five people died when an F105 fighter plane crashed into a housing development near Nellis Air Force Base. The wreckage destroyed seven homes as residents hung laundry and children played nearby. Pilot Lt. Raynor L. Hebert 26 from Port Arthur Texas was on an air to air practice mission. Authorities evacuated two square blocks. two reported bodies were pets. The plane carried six small practice bombs and 1,000 20 mm cannon rounds.
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Boyd Hubbard
Nellis
Vincent Rohde
Hebert
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Lowry
Scott Green
Josephine Lowry
Nile diversion ceremony marks Soviet aid milestone
Premier Khrushchev and President Nasser trigger a 352 pound charge to divert the Nile into a granite channel at Aswan. Fireworks display the Soviet and UAR flags before 35,000 spectators as Moscow showcases its Africa aid, linked to over 270 million dollars in credits and thousands of engineers. NATO ministers fear Greece Turkey clash but seek unity to curb Soviet influence.
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Egypt
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United Arab Republic
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Africa
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Netherlands
North Atllantic Paet
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Turkey
France
NATO
Germany
Cyprus
U.N
Mediterranean
Dirk A. Stikker
McNamara Ready To Testify On Vietnam War Outlook
McNamara returned from South Vietnam and said he would report to a congressional committee on the war. The House Armed Services Committee expects him to address obsolete equipment and the war’s prospects. He warned the conflict would be a long hard war with a long path to victory.
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South Viet Nam
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House Armed Services Committee
Wife Betrays Him Trapeze Artist Lured To East Berlin
Horst Klein, a 38 year old trapeze artist, crawled a high tension line to West Berlin 17 months ago. Lured back by his wife Sylvia who divorced him and remarried, he was arrested on return to East Berlin and sentenced to 30 months hard labor. Klein had earlier escaped to West Berlin in December 1962 by leaping from a pylon to insulators to the cable.
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West Berlin
Horst Klein
East Berlin
Sylvia
Horst
Klein
Chuckle: Easy Street Disrupted by Pavement Tearing
A humorous line laments that once you reach Easy Street trouble follows as someone tears up the pavement. The quip notes a sudden nuisance interrupting a hoped for smooth path. It captures a playful urban frustration and a sense of ironic misfortune.
Civil Rights Amendments Face Senate Clash in Stalemate
Washington AP report notes Senate leaders race to muster support for compromise civil rights amendments after six Kennedy talks. Cloture hurdles loom with Dirksen needing 25 of 33 Republicans and Democrats needing 41 or 42 of 67. Southern bloc and Hill team ready to press on day 55 of debate.
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Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Everett M. Dirksen
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Clair Engle
D-Calif
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Lister Hill
D-Ala
Dirksen
Youth Admits Hoax Slashing Tale At Hofstra
John F Jadrosich an 18 year old Hofstra freshman from Westbury confessed to fabricating a story that two Negroes slashed him with razors. He said he was bored with school and inflicted the wound himself to avoid quitting. Jadrosich faces a false report charge with possible jail time and was bailed under $500.
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Long Island
Movie Stars Win Right To Testify On School Prayer
Washington AP. Acting Chairman Feighan overruled Celler and granted the Hollywood group Project Prayer permission to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Spokespersons Victor Jory Colleen Gray Susan Seaforth and Rhonda Fleming led the push as hearings proceed amid long-running feuds between Feighan and Celler.
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House Judiciary Committee
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D-Ohio
Emanuel Celler
D-N Y
Hollywood
Project Prayer
Feighan
Hollywood Group
Victor Jory
Colleen Gray
Susan Seaforth
Rhonda Fleming
Council Honors Pastor Who Died Under Bulldozer
The Human Relations Council in Hamden honors Rev. Bruce Klunder who was crushed under a bulldozer during a Cleveland civil rights demonstration. Yale chaplain Rev. William Sloane Coffin presented the award noting the clergyman did not seek martyrdom but felt deeply the indignity of inequality.
Weather forecast notes fair cool night then warming
The brief weather update says skies stay fair and cool tonight with a warming trend tomorrow under fair conditions. Yesterday’s high was 6, and the morning low was 47, making for an uncomfortable start to the day.
Brazil cuts diplomatic ties with Cuba amid Latin American shift
Brazil's new government announces severing diplomatic relations with Cuba accusing the Castro regime of spreading communism in the region. President Joao Goulart's administration had previously warmed to Cuba, leaving only Bolivia Chile Mexico and Uruguay with ties.
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Cuba
Latin America
Jogo Goulart
Goulart
Bolivia
Chile
Mexico
Uruguay
Exiles promise more raids on Cuban targets
Exile Revolutionary Recovery Movement says its first war communique details a seaborne and hillside raid that briefly captured Pilan port and set a sugar mill ablaze in eastern Cuba. Castro acknowledges an attack but says it came from a ship at sea.
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Fla
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Revolutionary Recovery Movement
Pilan
Castro
Havana Radio
Sig
Embargo Placed On Feed And Medicine Shipments To Cuba
The Commerce Department announced an embargo on selling feed and medicine to Cuba. All shipments from the United States require government approval, with the sole exception of gift parcels.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Cuba
United States
Bay of Pigs raiders claim success amid Cuban fighting
Exiles and guerrillas report tenacious combat around Pelea with a numerically superior communist force. They say 70,000 bags of sugar lost, houses strafed, a woman and a child wounded, engineers blowing charges at a mill before retreat. Manuel Artime led raiders, part of the 1,100 released Bay of Pigs prisoners.
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Castro
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U.S. State Department
Manuel Artime
Revolutionary Recovery Movement
Man Cleared After 37 Years in False Conviction
Louis Rudd, a wealthy New York manufacturer,获得 a court decree freeing him from a 1927 mail fraud conviction. Judge Jacob Mishler set aside the verdict and dismissed the indictment after prosecutors said records supported his innocence. Rudd, moved to tears, spoke of 37 years of mental torture and plans to seek reinstatement while citing a heart attack as a factor in pursuing vindication.
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