River Plate Flood Destroys Homes and Disrupts Buenos Aires
Rampaging waters flood Buenos Aires causing widespread homelessness as rescue teams move through the night. President Arturo Rondizi mobilizes civilian and military forces while doctors end a strike to aid victims. Communications, power, and docks are disrupted. ships divert to Montevideo.
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Coup by Top Reds Fails in North Korea
Seoul reports a failed coup plot by top Communist officers aimed at overthrowing Premier Kim Il Sung. Lt. Gen. Chang Pyung San led the effort with the 4th Army Corps, timed for May Day, halted by an information leak and mid-April arrest waves. The plan reportedly leaned toward a labor party and de Stalinization context.
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Capital in Grip of Steel as Hussein Arrests Spread
Cyprus-based reports claim King Hussein of Jordan tightens rule with wide scale arrests across the Arab kingdom. British paratroopers reportedly landed at Amman to curb a coup timed with July 17. Bedouin forces, led by Hussein's uncle Lt. Col. Sherif Nasser, assumed security duties in Amman with arming talks centering on Bedouin tribes.
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Westerners in Iraq Now Seem Safe
Report from Baghdad notes foreigners appear safe after July 14 uprising. Uprisings killed three Americans, a German, and a Briton, but mobs were quelled by a new republican regime. Foreign troops landed with protests but no violence occurred as soldiers guarded hotels and oil operations continued normally.
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Career Closes for Mother Mary Gervase Tuffy in Dubuque
Mother Mary Gervase Tuffy 95, former superior general of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who opened 19 schools during her 12 year administration, died Sunday in Dubuque Iowa.
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Congress Faces Formidable Stack of Major Legislation
Washington reports a dense agenda as Congress nears adjournment in two to three weeks. Key items include defense funding, foreign aid, farm and tax bills, welfare reform, social security boosts, and Supreme Court curbs, with Alaska statehood, highway funding, and housing measures already approved.
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Shark Knife Edges Boy In Longboat Key Attack
An 8 year old Miami boy Douglas Lawton was attacked by a five foot shark while swimming with his parents near Longboat Key. His father carried him ashore with the shark still clamped to his left thigh. Surgeons amputated the boy’s leg near the hip and the shark’s jaws were forcibly disengaged.
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Crazed Man Shot in Police Car Attack at Union Point
Union Point Georgia 26 year old Marion Rhodes Army veteran attacked a police car with a steel chair resulting in his fatal shooting by night officer Jesse Smith after Rhodes earlier fear from his mother prompted a police lookout.
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Smith
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Bury
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Closing of Congress Before Summit Eyed
Senator Mansfield said Congress might wind up its session before a United Nations Middle East summit. Aug 9 adjournment or within a week after could be possible as Eisenhower may act freer with Congress out. Critics in the Senate note constitutional concerns over troop decisions and Eisenhower’s stance toward meeting Khrushchev.
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