Pro-Castro Students Stage Caracas Raid
Caracas police storm Central University seeking pro Castro students amid a raid on air force headquarters. Four attackers killed a guard and wounded a passerby. one wounded. Authorities traced the car to the campus and seized two students and arms from a dorm. FALN blamed, Castro allegedly sponsors. Other actions reported include a real estate office robbery and oil pipelines dynamiting.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Central University
Air Force
Maracaibo
Syria and Israel pledge to keep peace on border
United Nations in New York reports Syria and Israel promised to uphold a cease-fire along their border after a U.N. Security Council vote on condemning Syria for the August slayings of two Israeli farmers. The U.S.-British resolution had eight votes, with Morocco and the Soviet Union opposing. Venezuela abstained. Council President Castelllorja urged continued calm. U Thant said a regional peace survey would be ready in two months.
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United Nations, N.Y
Syria
Israel
Soviet Union
U.N. Security Council
Security Council
Morocco
Arab League
Venezuela
Council
Jacinto Castellorja
Philippines
U.N
U Thant
South Viet Nam rejects Kennedy pleas for reforms
In Saigon the government dismissed President Kennedy's call for reforms as based on insufficient information while pledging continued U.S. aid against the Communist guerrillas. A government spokesman defended Diem’s domestic policies and shrugged off Kennedy’s suggestion to change personnel, notably Ngo Dinh Nhu.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem
U.S
Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Washington
Nhu
South
Viet Nam
US diplomat grants asylum to Buddhists in Saigon embassy
State Department officials say a 1939 rule normally bars asylum outside official households, but Henry Cabot Lodge approved three Buddhists seeking refuge in Saigon due to imminent danger. Two monks later left after assurances of safety. another was refused. Embassy asylum remains nonstandard and controversial.
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State Department
Richard J. Phillips
The
Times of
Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
Washington
Foreign Service
Department
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Viet Nam
Diem
United States
Hackworth
Zoo Bandits Ambushed In Attempted Robbery
New York AP report says forty police, in disguises as ice cream vendors and park staff, ambushed three Brooklyn suspects at the Bronx Zoo as they targeted a payroll truck. One robber died, another was wounded, and the third captured. the truck supposedly carried 50 000 in receipts but held little actual money. suspect Harry Potak was killed, Richard Messina was critically wounded, and Michael Viggiano was captured after a taxi disguise police chase.
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Brooklyn
Bronx Zoo
Parks Department
Harry Potak
Richard Messina
Fordham Hospital
Michael Viggiano
Wallace Enrolling Negroes at Graymont School in Birmingham
In Birmingham, two Black pupils entered Graymont Elementary, first public school desegregation below college level in Alabama. Governor Wallace did not deploy troopers on grounds, though he had sent forces to the city. white pickets observed as the students entered via a side entrance amid a tense scene.
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Birmingham
Ala
Graymont
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Montgomery
University of Alabama
Graymont School
National States Rights Party
West End High School
Steel City
Justice Department
Washington
Imbalance In Races at Malverne Long Island Schools
In Malverne New York Negro parents plan to enroll their children in two white schools Lindner Place and Davis n Avenue while a picket at Woodfield Road aims to discourage enrollments in the Negro dominated school. The board ordered not to admit children except to their assigned school and guards were hired to enforce the rule. Dr James F Allen state education commissioner ordered a desegregation plan in June to shift students from Woodfield Road to the other two schools, proposing to cut the Woodfield Road share from 81 percent to 41 percent and boost Negro enrollment in the two other elementary schools.
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Evoss
Malverne
N.Y
Long Island
Woodfield Road
Lindner Place
Davis N Avenue
Malverne-Lakeview
Boon
Bayard de Noie
Lewis Bejarano
State Supreme Court
James ‘F. Allen
Allen
557 killed in Weekend Accidents
CHICAGO AP Traffic accidents over the long Labor Day weekend killed 557 people, the holiday’s second-highest toll. The total matches last year’s record for the period, and California led with 61 deaths. Through Aug 1, national highway deaths reached 22,930, averaging about 110 daily.
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Chicago
California
Air Force ends search for 11 on KC135 mission
The Air Force abandoned a search for 11 crewmen aboard two KC135 tankers whose mid Atlantic disappearance on a Bermuda bound refueling mission last Wednesday prompted a major search. One identified crew member was 1st Lt. Melvin C. Pump, 29, whose father Franklin D. Pump resides in Ravenna Ohio.
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Miami
Fla
Air Force
Bermuda
Melvin C. Pump
Franklin D. Pump
Ravenna
Ohio
Kennedy to name neutrals for rail arbitration panel
President Kennedy is expected to announce three neutral arbitrators for a seven member panel handling locomotive firemen and train crew issues in the rail dispute. A high government source said selections would be named before Friday with a vote on procedures set for Friday meetings between Labor Secretary and union and rail officials. The panel is to decide on two key issues while negotiations continue on others. The two railroad and two union appointees already chosen leave two neutrals to be added from transportation experts and the general public as chair.
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Washington
Kennedy
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Defector Swenson Fails To Reconnect With West
In Berlin an American Army captain Alfred Swenson, 30, formerly of Scranton Pennsylvania, who defected to East Germany four months ago, tried to contact Western officials but could not be located. Reports say he contacted Reuters in East Berlin and claimed illness and mistreatment by East German police while seeking U.S. authorities.
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East Germany
U.S
Alfred Swenson
Scranton
East Berlin
Svenson
Berlin
Reuters
Army
Swenson
Sutton assumes top post of Army Reserve
Maj. Gen. William J. Sutton, a World War II veteran with service in the Army Reserve and Texas National Guard, was sworn in Tuesday at a Pentagon ceremony as the new chief of the Army Reserve.
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Washington
William J. Sutton
Army Reserve
Sutton
Texas National Guard
Pentagon
Cohn and Gottesman Indicted for Obstruction and Perjury
New York AP report: Roy M. Cohn indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to obstruct justice and commit perjury. Murray Gottesman, an attorney and former aide to Joseph McCarthy, charged alongside him for testifying falsely before the grand jury.
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M. Cohn
Cohn
Joseph McCarthy
Asst
U. S
Murray E. Gottesman
Zurich Jet Crash Kills 80 Aboard in Switzerland
An 80 person Swissair Caravelle crashed shortly after takeoff from Zurich toward Rome, killing all aboard. Four minutes before contact was lost officials reported no survivors as rescue teams found bodies scattered near Duerrenaesch. Investigators said no immediate cause. passengers include Swiss residents and 22 couples from Hamilton farm cooperative.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Duerrenaesch
Swissair
Hamilton
Emil Luescher
Storms Strike Pennsylvania and Kansas Cause Damage
Severe storms lashed the eastern half of the nation with heavy winds and rain. In St Marys Pennsylvania one bakery district suffered major property damage totaling several million dollars, with one hospitalization and multiple minor injuries. Kansas saw wind damage near Colby but with no heavy losses reported. a funnel cloud near Levant did not touch ground.
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Pennsylvania
Kansas
St Marys Pa
Regis Weinveri
Weather Bureau
St. Mays
Tees
Colby
Levant
Kan
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Rau Leoni
Democratic Action Party
Charles Sigwart
Phoenix
Ariz
Sigwart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Calif
Malcolm W. Browne
Pri
Vately
U S
By Lewis Gulick
New York
By Don McKee
Legion Field
Municipal Stadium
Ann Landers
Crane
Setae Wee
Er Saetee
Labor Department
White House
West
Bulletin
Roy
Associated Press
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Geneva
Vilage of
Ankara
Turkey
Rabat
Sud Aviation
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