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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 16, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa These Days it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening july 16, 1958 1 7 Carrier 3w per week by mall >7.50 per year business bootlegging cease fire order is broken of Davenporte convict shoots kills police office local teaching and coaching position filled veiled threat of action by Russia bulletins Naples Italy Iti a Battle equipped american infantrymen flew into this Mediterranean staging area today in what appeared to he part of a top secret Airlift to the Middle East. Announcement was made by supt. C. A. Cottrell wednesday of the naming of Richard Wuest a Luther College graduate As a teach Washington Iti a the United states today rushed 1,600 a a my airborne troops from Germany to the Middle East. Beirut Lebanon Upit . Marines occupied port facilities and other strategic installations in Beirut itself today. Even As the marines expanded their beachhead in the crisis Ridden Middle East Russia denounced . Intervention with a veiled threat of action of its by up London a Britain assembles armed forces to Aid . Intervention if necessary aircraft car l Ier Eagle begins patrolling wat i ors off Lebanon. I Paris a France prepared to i Send troops and ships to Lebanon but pins Hopes on american Success. Airoy landings Surprise egyptians and Cairo prepared to Brand j America As no. I enemy of Arab i nationalism. Damascus a new iraqi rebel minister says Iraq will March with Nasser to realize Unity of the entire arabian world. United nations a us. Gives Russia Choice of voting for . Police Force in Lebanon or keeping . Marines there. Moscow a soviet press says Mai inc landings a a direct act of War and open Jerusalem a Israel says it plans no action in current crisis beyond Normal precautions along Borders. Amman Jordan a a Large iraqi i army Force Loyal to the monarchy j reported moving on Baghdad. Ankara a turkish pakistani and iranian chiefs of state conclude discussions on iraqi crisis May Issue communique later. Tehran a Iran a ambassador in the 10,000 iraqi troops stationed in Jordan have obeyed the rebel orders and returned to Iraq. Tehran a Iraq s ambassador in Baghdad reports King Feisal was shot and killed monday by a member of his Palace guard. Washington a an additional 1,800 marines reported landed in Lebanon bringing total ashore to 3,600. More than 5,000 expected to be ashore in Lebanon when operation completed. Washington Congress closes ranks behind president Eisenhower but some dissenting voices heard. I a cease fire ordered by rebel chieftain Saab Salem As the marines moved in was broken by a burst of gunfire and at least one bomb blast. Shooting broke out Between a lebanese army unit and rebel forces around the government Square Post office close by marines on the dockside. A bomb exploded in parliament Square Bare july 90 minutes after a Marine platoon left positions apparently occupied by letter of appreciation for flood area Ai Gross assails moving ordnance depot from Texas Richard Wuest soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko demanded in Moscow that the . Forces leave Lebanon immediately and said the soviet Union reserves the right to take a a necessary the marines who have yet to fire a shot or to have a shot fired at them moved into Beirut prop j or today. Rebel chieftain Saab Salem or j dered the cease fire from his Reb Al held Basta Headquarters shortly j after the Battle ready marines it moved into Beirut proper taking Over full control of Harbor instal i lations and moving into position at the american embassy and around the ambassador s Home. The marines part of 3,600 already ashore moved into the City aboard tanks jeeps amphibious a a ducks and trucks without a shot being fired. It was the first sign of a break in the revolt against the government of president Camille Cha Moun which began two months ago and which with the revolt in Iraq became one of two dangerous fires threatening to engulf the entire Middle East. The first direct account of fighting in Iraq came today from the Baghdad weather station in a radio Telephone conversation with Tehran. The Baghdad Weatherman said the iraqi insurgents control Only a j Small area of Baghdad despite a bloody takeover in which at least 200 persons were killed. He said the rebels seemed to control Only a Small four sided area i n Baghdad including the Central District containing the razed British embassy the residence of slain Premier Nuri is said the Baghdad hotel and the Airport. In Washington. Deputy undersecretary of state Tobert d. Murphy famed diplomatic troubleshooter disclosed that he will Fly to Lebanon. Murphy informed the Senate foreign relations committee that he is leaving for Beirut almost immediately action in ordering troops in Force onto foreign soil for the first time since Korea. The local National guard unit Battery b of the 113th a a a., battalion received an excellent rating for Field training participation while at Camp Haven wis. For two weeks of summer training according to sgt. Dorrell Goddard. Battery b was the Only one in the battalion to receive an Excel Jent rating in Field training. Syria was moving troop reinforcement s up to the lebanese Frontier to meet the Quot threat of american marines arriving by plane and ship. Reports reaching Beirut said syrian troops moved up in battalion strength to positions within a mile or so of the Border. Moscow joined the . And tiny Yemen today in recognizing the revolutionary Iraq regime. London up the Landing of american marines in Lebanon Drew generally favourable but worried reaction throughout non communist Europe today. The communists protested loudly echoing the soviet communist party newspaper pravda s charges that the action Quot is a direct act of War and open Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia appeared to be sparking a Quot neutralise Quot attempt to mobilize world opinion against the landings. Tito who has just completed a conference with president cranial Abde Nasser of the United Arab Republic. Sent a Telegram about the lebanese situation to Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru tuesday in the new discount possibility of russian intervention Washington up it a diplomatic authorities today discounted the possibility of armed russian intervention in the Middle East to counter the Landing of . Marines in Lebanon. They also doubted the marines would become involved in any fighting at All even with lebanese rebels. Officials said the rebels have shown fresh willingness to Compromise with the pro Western lebanese government now that . Forces Are in the country the impression in official quarters Here was that the soviet Union is not prepared to risk War to pull United Arab Republic president carnal Abdel Nasser a chestnuts out of tile fire at this time. President Eisenhower acknowledged his dramatic decision to Send marines to help preserve Lebanon a Independence Quot in a y have serious but intelligence sources did not anticipate any overt russian action. In a word Here us a Broad subject which cannot be washed away by vapid oratory it requires study and research. All the facts Are not available and cannot be made available except by the authority of the subpoena. Even the subpoena is not sufficient to get at data concerning secret hoards of untaxed american Money it May be necessary to take Strong diplomatic Steps perhaps to go to the extreme of breaking off commercial relations with countries that enter into conspiracies with american citizens to help them evade tax payments to our government. Hail Breaks soybean Plant former of. Pleasant resident Dies in Chi restaurant owner says he paid for peace telephoned 43 times to keep posted mrs. M. F Fraser died at her Home in Chicago july to. 1938 mrs Stella Fraser was born in of pleasant the daughter of or. And mrs. Gus Broberg and As a Young girl moved with her family to Chicago where she has since resided. She is survived by her husband a daughter. Mrs. Dorothy tingler and one grandson Washington up a Bernard Goldfine told House investigators today he telephoned presidential assistant Sherman Adams 43 times in a six month period to keep pasted on Quot general formal dinner for or Eisenhower on a fact finding tour of latin America or. Milton Eisenhower and his daughter Ruth right Chat with president Erneste de la Glaidia it. Left and his wife at a formal dinner Given by the president in Panama City. I. Eisenhower in guest of Honor in the Prophet of president Dwight d Eisenhower

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