Berlin Troops Train for Battle in West Berlin
U S troops in West Berlin shift from tours to a field test of combat readiness with 12th Infantry Group units. About 22,500 Big Three garrisons conduct maneuvers near the border amid quiet conditions and reports of East German youth opposition to military service.
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West
Information Bureau West
Ballenstedt
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Berlin
Bonn
Paris
Leipzig
French Foreign Ministry
Winnebago County Fair Opens With Children's Day Free Entry
The 1961 Winnebago County Fair launches a four day run with a bright forecast as Children's Day draws crowds. Up to age 12 gain free admission to the fairgrounds until 5 PM, with families and curious spectators already streaming through the gates.
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Winnebago County Fairgrounds
Winnebago County Fair
Robert J. Misky
Nelson to decide on Republican tax revision bill
Gov. Gaylord Nelson will announce Wednesday whether to veto the GOP plan tied to a three percent sales tax. He may send a decalled message outlining reasons and possible compromise proposals. The proposal faces opposition from Wisconsin Democrats who oppose sales taxes and personal property tax cuts.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Democratic Party
Nelson
GOP
Senate
Assembly
Representative Gross opposes national aquarium plan
Rep. H R Gross of Iowa criticizes a proposed 20 million dollar national aquarium. He questions its value as the nation faces a goal of three billion pounds of fish by 1980. The House, however, approved the aquarium by a 208 to 135 vote.
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Washington
UPI
H. R. Gross
Gross
House
Bachelor Rescued After 10 Weeks in Wilderness
William C. Waters 42, of Erlanger Kentucky, recovered in Fairbanks hospital after surviving ten weeks lost in Alaska. He described hiking for days, being bumped by a bear cub, and living on wild berries and plant pods as he resisted exhaustion before a fishing boat rescue by two moose hunters arrived.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
William C. Waters
Alaska Wilds
Waters
Cincinnati
Erlanger
Big Lake
Here
Army Air Corps Bank
Ohio
John C
iWaters
Met Season Rescued by Kennedy Goldberg Mediation
The Metropolitan Opera saved its 1961 62 season after President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur J Goldberg mediated a five hour meeting in Washington. The AFM had sought a pay raise from 170 to 220 dollars weekly, a dispute settled with Goldberg to issue binding pay recommendations and fact finding in New York. Leading stars Anna Moffo Giorgio Tozzi and Eileen Farrell pledged availability to perform.
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New York
UPI
Metropolitan Opera Today
Goldberg
Washington
Opera House
Bing
Union
Kennedy
Rise Stevens
White House
Anthony Bliss
Metropolitan Opera
American Federation of Musicians
Miss Stevens
Miss Stephens
Metropolitan
AFM
Opera
Anna Moffo
Gilorgio Tozzi
Eileen Farrell
Brooks Recovering From Major Operation At Bethesda
Chairman Overton Brooks of the House Space Committee is convalescing after a major operation performed at Bethesda Naval Medical Center last week. A spokesman declined to say when Brooks would return to Congress and gave no details of the separation.
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Washington
UPI
Overton Brooks
D-La
House Space Committee
Bethesda
Naval Medical Center
Tee
Goulart Move Sparks Brazil Congress Clash
Brazil’s Congress confronted the three military chiefs who defied the constitution to block Joao Goulart from the presidency. A special commission was appointed to study the action and report within 48 hours as Goulart waited in Europe for word from a delegation. In Rio Grande do Sul Gov. Brizola vowed support, ordered militia to back Goulart, and seized a radio station to urge resistance around Porto Alegre.
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Brazil
Joao Goulart
Brasilia
Rio DE Janeiro
Congress
Goulart
Europe
Rio Grande Do Sul
Leonel Brizola
Brizola
Porto Alegre
Uruguay
Algeria imposes 6 p.m. curfew after riots in Oran
Algiers reports a curfew for teenagers after violence that left several dead and at least 22 injured. The unrest followed the death of a European boy and a nationalist rebel attack, with mobs targeting Muslims and police amid chaotic street clashes.
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Oran
Algeria
Do Like Cuba Did He Urges Brazil to Take Up Arms
Fidel Castro urged Brazil to emulate Cuba in a popular uprising to thwart a supposed illegal fascist regime after Janio Quadros resigned. He claimed NATO would threaten Brazil and urged peasants workers and military to join guerrilla resistance, while offering to negotiate with the United States as equals.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Janio Quadros
Brazil
Cuba
NATO
United States
Castro
Quadros
Rusk Gromyko Likely Meeting at U N on Berlin
Secretary of State Dean Rusk may meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations around the start of the General Assembly to gauge Berlin talks. The informal parley hinges on Gromyko attending and would precede any wider negotiations.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
United Nations
General Assembly
Rusk
Kennedy
White House
New York
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Adlai E. Stevenson
Gromyko
Plane nus Cable Car Line Tragedy in Chamonix
Nine people were killed when a low-flying jet sliced the mountain cable car line in Chamonix France causing a cabin to plunge 200 yards and others to crash against Gros Rognon rock. About 90 sightseers were trapped in cabins suspended between pylons as a rescue helicopter arrived with first aid teams.
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Chamonix
France
Gros Rognon
Wife of Retired Navy Officer Barred at VA Hospital Dies
Mrs. Madsen, 49, wife of a retired Navy chief, died near Dallas after a VA hospital refused admission, citing no medical illness. She collapsed en route to a clinic, with doctors later saying hysteria may have been the cause and noting the facility lacked adequate care.
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Dallas
Tex
UPI
Carsved
Robert. Madsen
Air Force Base
Hospiel
Fort
Worth
Jance
VeteransAdministration Hospital
Madsen
Vienna
Edward Gates
Czechoslovakia
Tron Curtain
Dallas Naval Air Station
Ter
Arraignment Delayed for 2 Gunmen in Wisconsin Slaying
Sauk County authorities postponed arraignment of two Chicago area gunmen on first degree murder charges after their injuries were deemed too severe for court. William Welter and Richard Nicks, hospitalized in Madison, were captured following a six day manhunt. Lawrence Nutley was arraigned earlier and faces a Friday preliminary hearing. Targeted officers James Jantz and Robert Kohl were shot during the Aug. 21 incident. Kohl remains hospitalized in serious condition.
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Dane County
Madison
Welter
Lyndon Station
Wisconsin
Nicks
Lawrence Nutley
Chicago
Sauk County
James Jantz
Barn Sboo
Land Lake Delton
Robert Kohl
Kohl
Weller
Ihe
Posse
Nick
Kennedy to Sign Emergency Funding Resolution
Congress passed a resolution approving emergency funding for federal activities in September that were not covered by regular appropriations. The measure was sent to President Kennedy for his signature after approval by both houses.
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Washington
APJ
Congress
Kennedy
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