Pastor Describes Torture By Reds
Washington AP report of Rev Richard Wurmbrand, a Lutheran pastor and former Romanian World Council of Churches representative, describing torture by Romanian secret police at a Senate hearing. He showed knife scars on neck chest and back, testified of prison beatings and murder threats. His wife sat nearby as he spoke of persecutions and communist threats to liquidate him for speaking out.
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Richard Wurmbrand
Romania
Senate
Internal Security
Washington
World Council of Churches
Wurmbrand
Internal Security Subcommittee
Senate probes reveal junked military supplies to aid agency
Senate investigator Joseph Lippman testified that discarded Marines equipment such as jeeps bulldozers and cranes was turned over to the Agency for International Development and could be repaired and used in Vietnam. He cited hundreds of back up items awaiting disposal including 354 three quarter ton cargo trucks needed in Vietnam with 215 disposed since last August and 181 ruled excess.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Foreign Aid Agency
Joseph Lippman
Marine Corps
South Viet Nam
Lippman
Subcommittee
Agency For International Development
Pentagon
Viet Nam
Monroe officer to undergo minor surgery at Glenwood Hospital
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT reports Monroe Police Department desk sergeant Jerry Cowart on the 2-10 p.m. shift checked into Glenwood Hospital Monday for minor surgery planned in the next days. He is in Room 432 with a return date uncertain, possibly leaving around next Monday. Sigma Tau Gamma at Northeast State College sponsors a carwash Saturday at Newcomer’s Service Station 3405 DeSiard Street from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds fund fraternity functions.
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Jerry Cowart
Monroe Police Department
Glenwood Hospital
Northeast State College
Sigma Tau Gamma Social Fraternity
Newcomer's Service Station
DeSiard Street
Fierce Viet Nam Battle Is Raging
In central Viet Nam American air cavalrymen closed in on a trapped Communist battalion as 1st Air Cavalry units fought about 300 Viet Cong near Bong Son. US pilots lost three planes with one crewman rescued, amid the largest ground action in weeks and air losses totaling 251.
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Viet Nam
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Bong Son
China Sea
Air Force
Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Navy
North Ay
Dien Bien Phu
Dong Hoi
Strategic Air Command
Guam
U. S. 1St Infantry Division
McNamara cuts B52 airborne alert in shift to missiles
Secretary of Defense McNamara ordered a reduction in continuous B52 airborne alert citing improved radar warning systems and the declining bomber role as missiles gain prominence. He said some alert remains, with about half the bomber fleet kept on strict 15 minute readiness and 50 percent on ready standby.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Defense
Chuckle: rural life blends poetry philosophy and wagon
A light columnist quips that country living needs the soul of a poet the mind of a philosopher simple hermit tastes and a reliable station wagon to carry it all. The humorous piece celebrates rustic practicality with tongue in cheek charm.
CABL Seeks Local Option Urban Renewal Law
The Council for a Better Louisiana announced a statewide drive to pass a local option community improvement law to enable privately funded urban renewal projects with federal assistance. CABL cites Louisiana's current limits and notes support from several mayors for a referendums backed approach to fight blight through private fund development.
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Baton Rouge
Council For A Better
Louisiana
Joe D. Smith Jr
Alexandria
CABL
Smith
Police Jury
City Council Commission Council
Occasional Rains Expected In Area
Cloudy skies prevail with occasional rain through Saturday and little temperature change. Highs reach 76 to 80 degrees, lows 64 to 68, as Twin Cities mark a morning high of 81 and a low of 66.
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Twin Cities
Hanoi veto blocks Red Cross aid for prisoners
Geneva reports indicate the International Red Cross cannot protect U S prisoners in Vietnam as North Vietnam and Viet Cong refuse cooperation. Harriman cites 227 missing or detained, with 33 known prisoners, and notes no access or guaranteed mail delivery. Red Cross seeks Geneva convention adherence but offers no prisoner exchange at this time.
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Geneva
International Red Cross Committee
United States
Red Cross
Samuel Gonard
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Gonard
Harriman
North Viet Nam
Viet Nam
International
International Red Cross
Averell Harriman
Brady and Hindley Convicted in British Murders
Ian Brady is found guilty of three murders in Britain’s moors killings case. Myra Hindley is convicted of two murders and an accessory charge. The court imposes life sentences with Brady receiving three concurrent life terms and Hindley seven years for the accessory count.
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Chester
England
Ian Brady
Britain
Brady
Myra Hinchery
Hindley
Legislators Pay Bills Filed In Louisiana
In Baton Rouge AP reports three bills seek pay changes for Louisiana legislators. One sets a $3300 annual salary with $250 monthly expenses plus per diem. Another proposes $9500 annual salary replacing per diem. A third envisions a flat $10000 yearly salary. Current pay totals $4250 with per diem and monthly allowance.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Spencer Myrick
Oak Grove
Myrick
Near riot quelled at VFW Hall dance in Ouachita Parish
Ouachita Parish deputies and VFW officials shut down a youth dance at the VFW Hall on Highway 80 East after a disturbance drew 200 outside and 250 to 300 inside. Offenders ranged 15 to 22 from multiple area schools. a 16 year old faced charges for resisting arrest and drunkenness. Police described beer, fights, and chaos, but said the closure prevented a riot.
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V.F.W
V.F.W. Hall
Highway 80 East
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana State College
Louisiana Tech
Neville High School
Quachita Parish High School
West Monroe High School
St. Frederick's High School
Sterlington High School
Sheriff's Office
Quachita Parish
Rowland Road
V.F.W. Fellows
Blame Placed On President of University
Sacramento California. The Senate committee charged UC Berkeley under President Clark Kerr with turning the campus into a Communist haven and a center of sexual deviation. It cites the Katz loyalty oath affair, campus vice, and approval of off campus political use of facilities, portraying Kerr as hostile to the committee.
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Sacramento
Calif
California Senate
University of California
Clark Kerr
Berkeley
Committee On Un-American Activities
Kerr
United States
San Francisco
The
Daily California
Branson
Kinsey
San Francisco Bay Area
Eli Katz
Katz
University of California At Los Angeles
Offcampus
Unemployment Falls to 3.7 Percent in April
The U S unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent in April, the second such dip this year and the lowest in over a decade. Total employment rose to 73.1 million as manufacturing gains added to a wage pressure outlook amid lingering labor shortages.
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Washington
Labor Department
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Goldstein
Johnson
United States
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