Pan Am Jet Crashes on Montserrat Killing 30
A Pan American Boeing 707 crashed into Chance's Mountain near Plymouth Montserrat in thick mist while approaching Antigua. All 30 aboard, 21 passengers and 9 crew, perished on impact. Rescue teams found few intact bodies as wreckage scattered over a wide area.
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Montserrat
Pan American Airways
Caribbean
Sugar Island
Antigua
New York
John F. Kennedy International
Fort de France
Martinque
St. Croix
San Juan
Martanique
John McNichol
Hugh Henderson
Miami
Dennis Gibbs
John C. Phillips
Nutmeg and Mace Defined as Spices
Nutmeg is the dried fruit of the nutmeg tree and mace is the membrane surrounding the kernel. The distinction notes the two related spice products derived from the same fruit.
Defense plan shifts civilians into noncombat U.S. jobs
Secretary McNamara unveils a program to put 60,000 civilians to work in admin, supply, and medical duties now done by the military, reducing planned manpower and draft needs. The move aims to release about 75,000 officers and enlisted personnel over 18 months while trimming long-term training costs and benefits.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
McNamara
Viet Nam
United States
Congress emerges as civil rights battleground in 1963 march era
Bayard Rustin and civil rights leaders say Congress must lead the drive for school integration jobs housing and urban renewal with vast national programs and billions in funding. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's failed bid highlighted Congress as the focal point for progress. Austin of the A Philip Randolph Institute stresses unity among groups and a shift to economic policy as the movement's new front. The piece notes opposition to merging the Army Reserve into the National Guard and comments on U S aid to India Pakistan and the Dominican Republic.
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Washington
Congress
Bayard Rustin
Rustin
Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party
Austin
A. Phillip Randolph
New York
South
North
Army Reserve
National Guard
McNamara
India
Pakistan
U.S
Dominican Republic
United States
Sen. . W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Civil rights talk urges unity and voter mobilization
The speech urges Southern congressmen feel defensive over voting rights and calls for Negroes to register vote and organize locally. It warns against black bloc voting and backs unity with unions intellectuals and business leaders for concrete goals. Also notes Junior Auxiliary meeting led by President Mrs. Martin Walsh and upcoming events. Senior Americans have about 18 million people with annual income near 37 billion dollars.
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Atlanta
Louisville
Memphis
Rustin
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