Kennedy Presses Moscow Over Berlin Blockade Protests
President Kennedy and top aides held urgent talks after the Soviet blockade of U S troop convoys to West Berlin. Rusk summoned the Soviet ambassador to protest the delay, with follow up briefings at the White House and to Moscow officials as Washington warned of a potential crisis comparable to Cuba.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Russia
U.S
West Berlin
Kennedy
Quauatawes Af
Volitelaaly
Olale
Vean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
U. S
White House
Camp David
Berlin
Rusk
Dobrynin
Moscow
East Germany
Cuba
Foy D. Kohler
Tories Thrust Lord Home Into Power Struggle
BLACKPOOL England AP A powerful group of Conservative lawmakers pushes Foreign Secretary Lord Home into the fight to succeed Harold Macmillan. Richard A Butler remains front runner as leaders aim to settle the issue within about a week at the party conference.
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Blackpool
England
Lord Home
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Richard A. Butler
Lord Hailsham
Butler
Tories
Home
Dark Horse
Federal marshal serves papers in Louisiana voting suit
Deputy U S Marshal served Lt Governor Taddy Aycock with papers in the Justice Department suit challenging Louisiana voter registration laws. Named defendants include Gov Jimmie Davis Attorney General Jack Gremillion Hugh Cutter state Board director and House Speaker Tom Jewell. Suit alleges the law targets Negro voter applicants.
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Baton Rouge
Taddy Aycock
U.S. Justice Department
Louisiana
Jimmie H. Davis
Jack Gremillion
Hugh Cutter
State Board of Registration
House
Tom Jewell
Tom Grace
Aycock
Justice Department
Army Forces Fight Berbers In Algeria
Rebel Berbers clash with the Algerian army near Algiers as Hocine Ali Ahmed calls for a nationwide uprising against President Ahmed Ben Bella. Berbers incur losses at Fort National in the Kabylie region while bombardment drives forces toward Michelet amid sniper fire and evacuations.
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Algiers
Hocine Ali Ahmed
Ahmed Ben Bella
Fort National
Kabylie
Ait Ahmed
Michelet
Aii Ahmed
Ben Bella
Ali Ahmed
Associated Press
Andrew Borowiec
United Press International
Alain Raymond
UN Condemns South Africa Over Prisoners and Racial Policy
The United Nations General Assembly, with 111 nations voting, condemned South Africa’s apartheid and called for the blanket release of any prisoners held for opposing racial segregation. The assembly demanded an end to the Pretoria trial of 11 nationalists, while South Africa defended free and fair trials and warned of undermining the UN.
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United Nations, N. Y
South Africa
U.N. General Assembly
United States
Britain
France
Canada
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
Panama
Portugal
Honduras
Spain
Paraguay
Hilgard Muller
U.N
Pretoria
United Nations
U.S
Francis T. P. Plimpton
Assembly
Man of the hour Harold Lofton celebrated birthday in West Monroe
Friday in West Monroe police patrolman Harold Lofton marked his 29th birthday. The report notes the event in a light celebratory tone with no further details.
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West Monroe
Harold ‘Pearlie
Lofton
Medical Study Mentions Harvard Physicians
Monroe's Dr Mortimer Raphael is listed among 15 physicians at Harvard University in a medical study. The item notes continuation on page eight A.
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Monroe
Mortimer Raphael
Harvard University
Device Milks Bee Venom In Minutes For Research
Cornell researchers report a simple electric milking device that can be moved among hives. It yields about one thirtieth of an ounce of venom from twenty hives in five minutes, though bees often sting through a nylon barrier and become irritable.
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Washington
Cornell University
Journal “Science
American Association
Europe
United States
Barry Goldwater Calls Kennedy Policy Disastrous
Sen. Barry Goldwater denounces President Kennedy’s foreign policy as the most disastrous in US history in San Antonio. He accuses the administration of patching Soviet problems and failing to press for Cuban troop withdrawal while urging stronger US resolve abroad.
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San Antonio
Tex
Barry Goldwater
Kennedy
United States
Arizona
Goldwater
Barry
Berlin
Paris
Cuba
Africa
Children’s Day and Horse Show End Ouachita Fair
Final day features a Children’s Day with a 10 am to 6 pm low admission rate of 15 cents for youngsters and a live pony ride. A 9 am quarter horse show will include four halter classes as attendance nears 5 000, helping push six day totals toward 45 000. An auction of Future Farmers and 4 H livestock highlighted Friday’s program.
Hurricane Flora Dies In Atlantic
The 12 day old hurricane Flora weakened to 80 mph in the North Atlantic. It remains a danger to nearby ships as gale force winds extend 400 miles, with about 4 000 fatalities reported earlier.
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New York
UPI
Flora
North Atlantic
North American
Weather Bureau
New Carrier Rift Over Nuclear Power at Pentagon
In Washington the dispute over arming a new Navy carrier with atomic propulsion sharpens between Secretary of Defense McNamara and Secretary of the Navy Korth. McNamara leans against extra $180 million for a nuclear engine, while Korth protests the shift. Congress had authorized a conventionally powered carrier and the decision remains unsettled.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of the Navy
Fred Korth
Navy
McNamara
Congress
Korth
Naval
Defense Department
Earth
Fair forecast for area today with warm high
The Twin Cities area sees clear summer weather with a high near 94 and a low around 52. Winds from 5 to 15 mph shift direction, and no rain is forecast.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
U S Protest Over Korea Grain Purchases From Canada and Australia
The United States protested to South Korea over $5 million in grain bought from Canada and Australia after U S aid and trade offers. Seoul cited embarrassment as Korea’s Agriculture Ministry faced sharp talk from Kim Hakwol of the Economic Planning Board. Purchases via Mitsubishi and Mitsui included 40 000 tons Canadian wheat 25 000 tons Canadian barley and 10 000 to 13 000 tons Australian wheat with easy credit terms. The U S says it has supplied more than $55 million in grain to Korea this year, either as gifts or repayable in Korean won.
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Washington
United States
South Korea
Canada
Australia
America
Kim Hakwol
South Korean Economic Planning Board
U.S
Agriculture and
State Department
Agriculture Department
Mitsubishi and
Mitsui
Bathing Babies Declared Hazard by British Doctors
Two specialists in the Lancet argue daily baths and cold air harm babies. They say a wash of the necessary parts suffices and cold weather needs room temps of at least 70 degrees.
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London
Kerr
Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital
Arnel
Glasgow University
Department of Child Health
Cupid Aims At Heart While Gazing At Hosiery
A humorous line notes that Cupid misses often because he aims for the heart yet eyes the hosiery, blending flirtation with playful mishap.
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Cupid
Perez seeks lease for abandoned Fort St Philip stockade
Political chief Leander H Perez receives parish approval to negotiate leasing Fort St Philip as a stockade around an electrified fence to detain potential racial demonstrators. The 72 year old segregationist plans the site on Plaquemines Bend near the Miya… River, reachable only by boat or marshland. Perez hints MLK Jr may visit if trouble arises.
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New Orleans
Gulf
Fort
Perez
Martin Luther King Jr
Pierre Clement de Laussat
Ft. St. Philip
Freed Priest Held By Reds For 23 Years
The United States traded two accused Soviet spies for two Americans imprisoned by the Soviet Union. Rev. Walter Ciszek, 59, a Pennsylvania born priest, spent years in Siberia after arrest in 1940. Marvin W. Makinen, 24, a former Fulbright scholar from Ashburnham, Massachusetts, received eight years in Kiev. The Americans were en route home to New York, believed to be the last Americans held in the USSR.
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Russia
U.S
Marvin W. Makinen
Ashburnham
Mass
Walter Ciszek
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Siberia
Kiev
Idlewild
Ivan OD
Egorov
United Nations
Aleksandra
Moscow- Washington
Francis Gary Powers
Woman Killed in Two Car Crash Near Jena Louisiana
A two car collision on Louisiana Highway 8 about 10 miles southwest of Jena at 3 45 p m Friday killed Daisy Dayton 49 Whitehall and injured Robert Crook and his wife of Jena. Dayton's brakes locked sending her car into the Crook vehicle on a narrow bridge. Debra Crook, the couple’s daughter, had minor injuries. The fatality was La Salle Parish’s second of the year following a crash near Alexandria last week.
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Jena
Louisiana Hwy
Daisy Dayton
Whitehall
Robert Crook
Alexandria
la Salle Parish
Dayton
Crook
Debra
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Agriculture Ministry
British Medical Journal
the Lancet
Drs
Margaret Kerr
Gavin C. Arnell
Corm
John V
Reds
Rudolf Abel
James B. Donovan
Fidel Castro
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