U S Leading in ICBMs but Soviets Closing Gap, 1965 Outlook
The Institute of Strategic Studies projects the United States will hold a 4 to 1 edge in intercontinental ballistic missiles through early 1965, with the Soviet Union likely to close the gap afterward. It notes Soviet strengths in submarines and naval air, and ongoing Soviet bomber capability, while China’s army shows limited mobility and its air force remains largely obsolescent though its nuclear test indicates advancing tech.
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London
United States
Soviet Union
Institute of Strategic Studies
America
Strategic Air Command
Japan
Europe
China
Chou En Lais Moscow Talks End Franks Communique
Premier Chou En Lai ended eight days of talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow. The brief communique called discussions frank and comradely but gave no substantive details, signaling likely failure to resolve major Sino Soviet differences. Reports from Pravda stressed Soviet policy points angering China, while unofficial signs suggested no progress.
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Moscow
Chou En-lai
Red China
Peking
China
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Pravda
United States
India
Chou
Johnson hosts Mexican president elect at LBJ Ranch
President Johnson wraps a 27 hour Texas visit with Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and meets with two cabinet members to discuss budgets and goals. Ordaz travels to Mexico City after a luncheon. Johnson proclaims November 26 as Thanksgiving and urges nationwide prayers for peace and understanding.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Mexico
W. Willard Wirtz
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Texas
Washington
Diaz Ordaz
Rail Shop Unions Schedule National Strike Nov 23
Washington AP six unions plan a national rail strike at 8 a.m. MST on November 23 affecting over 400000 employees. Wage dispute lingers with talks led by mediators as a 30 day strike ban ends November 19. Union pay averages cited show shop crafts at 263 and non operating at 258 per hour.
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Washington
Michael Fox
J.E. Wolfe
Chicago
Presidential
Ford Starts Huge Layoffs Amid Shutdown Threat
Ford Motor Co begins a nationwide layoff of up to 160000 hourly workers as strikes by the United Auto Workers affect 90 facilities. About 24100 on strike at seven plants plus 33500 to be laid off at eight assembly operations and 16500 at manufacturing sites. A Dallas plant accord ends one strike but nine plants remain unsettled with local negotiations ongoing.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Arjay Miller
United Auto Workers Union
Ford
UAW
Dallas
Tex
Ford-Uaw
Louisville
Texas
2 000 Japanese Keep U.S. Protest Alive
About 2,000 Japanese leftists demonstrated outside the U.S. Navy base at Sasebo against the Seadragon visit while sailors were kept aboard the submarine. Police guarded protesters as a Socialist and labor unionist march circled near the base.
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U.S
Sasebo
Japan
Zengakuren
U.S. Navy
Seadragon
Navy
Pumpkin hurled from window kills infant in New York
Police say Ralph Pierro 25 hurled a pumpkin from a fourth floor window at his wife Lorraine missing her and striking their 3 month old son Ralph Jr fatally. Pierro is charged with homicide.
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New York
Ralph Pierro
Lorraine
Ralph Jr
Pierro
Israeli Planes Hit Syrian Border Site After Clash
Israeli air force planes smashed a Syrian border position after a tank and artillery clash on the front. The Israeli spokesman cited several Israeli casualties with no exact numbers. The battle began at 1 30 p m when Syrians opened fire on an Israeli patrol near the Dan and Shaar Hayishuv settlements in northern Galilee. The State Department in Washington said Tel Aviv reported the border situation quieted and U S officials noted no prior instance of Israeli airstrikes in similar clashes.
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Israel
Dan
Shaar Hayishuv
Galilee
Washington
State Department
U.S
Ball Flies to Germany to Press NATO Unity
Undersecretary of State George W. Ball travels from Frankfurt to West Berlin to meet West German leaders and participate in the Fourth German American Conference. He will press for German French accord on agricultural pricing and urge a Common Market tariff talks path with the United States.
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Germany
Washington
George W. Ball
Atlantic Alliance
NATO
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Paris
Frankfurt
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Ludwig Erhard
Gerhard Schroeder
Walter Hallstein
European Common Market
West Germany
France
Consid
United States
Road toil this year tops 315 miles by this date
A city transportation bulletin reports 315 miles of road work completed by this date this year, compared with the same date last year. It notes progress across districts and calls for continued enforcement of safety measures during ongoing projects.
Democratic Leader Henry Kiker and Wife Die in Crash
Henry Kiker Jr. Albuquerque Democratic county chairman and his wife Barbara were killed when their car was hit by a westbound vehicle driven by 27 year old Larry Keith Ehlers at the San Mateo Montgomery intersection in Albuquerque. Ehlers is in critical condition with head injuries.
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Albuquerque
Bernalillo County
Democratic Party
Henry Kiker Jr
Barbara
Larry Keith Ehlers
Albuaquerque
San Mateo
Montgomery
Soviet authorizes new travel routes and 300 million ruble tourism credit
The Soviet Union announced expanded tourist itineraries and approved a 300 million ruble official rate credit for hotels, motels, restaurants, campgrounds and service stations, said by Leonid Khodarkov, vice president of Intourist. President Johnson leads Goldwater by 15.6 million votes with most units reporting. 42,374,405 to 26,731,717. The Vatican Council may approve revised declarations on Jews and religious freedom next week though promul gation as decrees may wait until 1965 or 1966. In Temple City California police report 12 high school students accused of forming a burglary gang say they were inspired by the TV show The Rogues.
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Paris
Soviet Union
Leonid Khodarkov
Washington
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Temple City
Calif
Blind woman files court suit over guide dog access
Thelma Keitlen 42, Bonnie Prudden executive, petitions criminal court arguing state law bans discrimination against sightless persons with guide dogs in inns, carriers, theaters, restaurants and hotels. She recounts multiple refusals and seeks public awareness. case postponed.
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Richard F. Whalen
New York
Duchess
Thelma Keitlen
Mrs. Keitlen
Bonnie Prudden
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International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers
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Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
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Moscow Radio
Russia
United Fund
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Louis Pasteur
Santa Barbara
UPI
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Kai-Uwe von Hassel
Robert S. McNamara
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