Demand protection for young Mississippi rights workers
About 500 youths from other states are involved as parents press top officials to shield young civil rights workers in Mississippi after three blasts in McComb. The FBI sent an explosives expert to assist the investigation amid a history of threats and similar incidents.
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Mississippi
Associated Press
McComb
Miss
California
Johnson
Edmund G. Brown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Columbia
Tenn
Filo F. Fleming
Congress
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Claude C. Bond
Maddox Receives Nationwide Support for Rights Fight
Atlanta restaurateur Lester Maddox said funds have poured in from across the country to back his legal battle after a pistol incident aimed at blocking integration. He reported a $100 cash gift from a businessman and noted growing support while awaiting trial on pistol charges tied to the 1964 restaurant confrontation.
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Atlanta, Ga
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Kennedy Transferred by Ambulance to Boston Hospital
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, injured in June plane crash, was moved by Air Force ambulance from Cooley Dickinson Hospital to New England Baptist Hospital in Boston for continued care. Kennedy, 32, smiled and told reporters he felt fine as state police accompanied the convoy at cautious speeds. His wife Joan and surgeon Dr. Thomas Corriden traveled with him.
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Northampton
Mass
Edward M. Kennedy
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston
Massachusetts
Cooley Dickinson
Kennedy
Air Force
Joan
Thomas F. Corriden
Washington
Massachusetts Turnpike
Diplomat Arias Worsens After Chest Infection
Panamanian politician diplomat Roberto Arias husband of Margot Fonteyn, has taken a serious turn for the worse from a chest infection. The former ambassador to London was shot four times in a Panama City suburb, with a neck wound affecting his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed.
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London
Roberto Arias
Margot Fonteyn
Arias
Panama
England
Margot
Italy
Spoleto
Panama City
Alfredo Jimenez
Panamenista
Jimenez
Two Senators In Wrestling Stunt Over Committee Meeting
Senators Strom Thurmond and Ralph Yarborough wrestled on the Senate Office Building floor over whether to attend a committee meeting. The 10 minute bout ended with no decisive winner and the pair later entered the room to support President Johnson's nomination of Le Roy Collins as director of the Community Relations Service under the civil rights law.
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Washington
Strom Thurmond
D-S.c
Ralph W. Yarborough
D-Tex
Senate
Yarborough
Thurmond
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Commerce Committee
Johnson
LeRoy Collins
Quebec halts $1.2 billion Hamilton Falls power project
Premier Jean Lesage said talks with Brinco are broken off over price. The plan would have sold surplus Labrador Hamilton Falls electricity to Consolidated Edison of New York. A 735,000-volt line costing $350 million would carry power from the falls through Quebec to New York.
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Quebec
Labrador
Hamilton Falls
New York State
Jean Lesage
British Newfoundland Corp
Brinco
Lesage
Consolidated Edison Co
New York
Quebec Province
Sherri Finkbine Expects Fifth Child in January
Sherri Finkbine, known as Sherri Chessen on TV, confirms she is pregnant and due in January. The 31 year old, who sparked an abortion controversy after thalidomide exposure, says she wants a healthy baby and will not comment further. Her husband Robert, 33, notes the couple already has two boys and two girls and is excited.
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Scottsdale, Ariz
Sherri Finkbine
Forming Efficient U N Peace Army Is Hard Job
United Nations faces the challenge of creating a permanent peace force with swift deployment and efficiency. A Soviet memo urged a United Nations controlled force under Security Council authority. The five permanent members on the military staff committee historically disagreed on contributions.
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U. N. Peace Army
United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
Cyprus
Congo
U.N
Security Council
Council
United States
Britain
France
China
General Assembly
Dean Kaltenborn Turns 86 as Air Force Stands by Rome Base Close
The 86th birthday of Kaltenborn is noted with reflections on a long career in radio news analysis. He discusses aging, health, family, and memories from global reporting, noting his long tenure and peak earnings during his career.
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Washington
Air Force
Rome
N. Y
General Accounting Office
GAO
Eugene Zuckert
New York
Congress
Jacob K. Javits
Kenneth B. Keating
Alexander Pirnie
Zuckert
Defense Department
Stony Brook
N.Y
H. V. Kaltenborn
Long Island
Kaltenborn
Lowell Thomas
Tibet
Olga von Nordenflycht
Radio
Milwaukee
Rudolph van Kaltenborn
America
Merrill
Wis
4Th
Wisconsin Volunteers
France
Harvard University
Harvard
Berlin
John Jacob Astor
Vincent
Wallace to address Lions convention in Toronto
In Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens a thousand anti segregation pickets were expected to greet Alabama governor George Wallace as he prepared to address the Lions International Convention. More than 800 pickets ringed the venue while 15,000 Lions gathered for the four day event. The opening featured community singing and flags from 125 nations.
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Toronto
Alabama
George Wallace
Lions International
Maple Leaf Gardens
Wallace
St. Joseph Corp
Batavia
N.Y
Sanborn Fire Company Band
Sanborn
Sparks Drive To End White Rule in Africa
Kenya Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta opened the Commonwealth leaders conference urging a united front to end white rule in Africa. He named remaining white-ruled territories and pledged to push independence discussions to address Southern Rhodesia and South Africa as the session nears Friday.
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Sparks
Africa
London
Britain
Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
Commonwealth
Kenyatta
Southern Rhodesia
South Africa
Nurse Fatally Hurt in Syracuse Collision
A city Health Department nurse Andrea McPherson, 22, of Bayetteville, was killed in a two car crash in Syracuse when the foreign made auto she rode in collided with another vehicle on Wednesday.
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Syracuse
City Health Department
Andrea McPherson
Bayetteville
Goldwater Seeks United GOP Win at San Francisco Nomination
At the San Francisco convention scene, Sen. Barry Goldwater asserts a united GOP can defeat President Johnson and clinch the first ballot nomination. Gov. Scranton campaigns to sway delegates, while party strategists claim Goldwater holds more than enough support and aim to maximize a first ballot victory.
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Memorial Hospital
San Francisco
Barry Goldwater
Philadelphia
Miss
Goldwater
United Gop
LBJ
Katharine St. George
GOP
Sen
Thruston Morton
William W. Scranton
Arizona
Scranton
Carl T. Curtis
Nebraska
Curtis
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Pennsylvania
Gold Water
Mark Hopkins
Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
der Spiegel
Statehouse
Congress
White House
Republican Party
Washington
William F. Miller
New York
Gerald R. Ford Jr
Michigan
Miller
Ford Miller
Republican National Committee
Ford
Four Men Die In Camillus Sewer Trench Collapse
Four construction workers died when a six foot trench in Camillus near Syracuse caved in three tons of earth fell, trapping men who had tried to rescue others. Victims were John Carr Jamesville Bruce Phillips Syracuse Alexander Sitnick Bridgeport Harvey Lose Syracuse and Lewisburg Pa. Authorities probe trench shoring and dirt removal practices as rescue efforts stretched for hours.
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Syracuse
Camillus
John Carr
Jamesville
Bruce Phillips
Alexander Sitnick
Bridgeport
Harvey Lose
Lewisburg
Martin F. Hilfinger Jr
Onondaga County
Donald O'Hara
Phillips
Sitnick
Carr
Lose
State Labor Department
Onondaga County District Attorney's Office
United States urges Soviet Union on nuclear arms pact
At Geneva the United States called on the Soviet Union to join a formal treaty to freeze delivery vehicles and halt production of weapons materials. Ambassador Timberlake proposed initial pact between the United States and the Soviet Union with other nations joining later. Czech negotiator did not speak.
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Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Clare H. Timberlake
Rules Group Says Baker Guilty Of Gross Improprieties
The Senate Rules Committee report says Bobby Baker was guilty of many gross improprieties during a seven month probe into his dealings with a former Senate aide. The panel left prosecution to the Justice Department and a minority GOP report alleges a cover up and missing witnesses.
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Rules Group
Baker
Washington
Senate
Bobby Baker
Senate Rules Committee
Justice Department
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
White House
Walter Jenkins
Jenkins
Don B. Reynolds
Johnson
GOP
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