Tibetan Guerrillas Clash With Chinese Forces In Tibet
Reports from Paro Bhutan describe heavy fighting in south central Tibet with Chinese troops suffering high casualties as Tibetan guerrillas resist near Gyantse. Refugees number about 400 crossing into northern Sikkim amid broader unrest, with ongoing refugee flow to Bhutan.
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Tibet
Gyantse
Lhasa
Ladkh
Bhutan
Nepal
Sikkim
Shigatse
Drong
Panchen Lama
Dalai Lama
Man Freed After 63 Years For $15 Theft
Henry Sullivan, 85, released from Logansport State Hospital after 63 years of confinement for stealing $15 worth of brass junk. Once held without declared insanity, he won release via executive order and a three month convalescent period. He will receive a $70 monthly pension, $65 of which covers board.
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Indiana
Henry
Logansport State Hospital
Sullivan
Ernest J. Fogel
Mamie Eisenhower May Stay Hospital Over Weekend
Doctors say Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower is responding to treatment and improving at Walter Reed Army Hospital. The First Lady was admitted Tuesday with acute asthmatic bronchitis and may remain hospitalized through the weekend, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty announced.
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Washington
Mamie Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois Tonight and Friday
Partly cloudy with showers likely tonight. Friday mostly fair with a high near 80 and a low near 60. Yesterday's high 84 and low 54, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. today 56. Precipitation 0.26 inches from 7 a.m. yesterday to 7 a.m. today. Sunrise 5:32 a.m. Sunset 8:24 p.m.
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Illinois
Two Boys Die In Stolen Plane Crash In Pomona
Two brothers 14 and 12 years old died when a stolen light plane crashed in a power dive near Emerson Junior High School in Pomona California after a brief flight. Police said the runaways had previously attempted to steal a plane from the same field and had read a book of flying instructions.
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Pomona
Calif
Emerson Junior High School
James A. McDonald
Thomas L. McDonald
Claremont
Archer
Walter Cabie
Air Force Purge Targets Cuban Pilots Under Raul Castro
Havana reports a purge ordered by Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro leading to mass arrests of at least 16 pilots and other air force personnel. The detainees are senior jet pilots from Batista era units amid suspected loyalties and counter revolutionary activity.
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AIR Force
Raul Castro
Cuba
Armed Forces
Expictator Fulgencio Batista
Little Grassy Lake At Spillway Devils Kitchen Lake Level
The report notes Little Grassy Lake and Devil's Kitchen Lake both at about 20 feet below their spillways. Water levels appear affected by the spillway conditions and rainfall patterns.
Khrushchev Criticizes U S At Paris Summit Fallout
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told four Democratic leaders in a May 20 letter that the United States follows an aggression driven policy not by the American people. Lyndon B. Johnson made the letter public as Paris summit collapsed on May 16, calling Khrushchev arrogant for denying facts and accusing the U S of torpedoing the talks.
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Washington
Nikita S. Khrushchev
U. S
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Paris
Johnson
United States
Presley Tour Sells 507 Round Trip Miami Excursion
Promoter Presley turns over a $23,539.66 check to Illinois Central officials for a record sale of 507 round trip tickets to Miami Beach. The weeklong tour starts June 18 and includes hotel stays, meals, a fishing pier, and a cruise, with trains joining in Carbondale to form a 15 car special. Prices vary by departure city. Southern Illinois buyers dominate the sales. Presley aimed to show locals other parts of the country and boost local sentiment.
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Wayman Presley
Miami
Makanda
Illinois Central
Fla
Carbondale
Southern Illinois
Lhe
Presley
Floria
St. Louis
Centralia
Miami Beach
Miami Beach Ocean Front
Indian Ocean
Contrasts In South Africa From Durban To Cato Manor
Saul Pett surveys Durban's modern city life and nearby Zulu reserves and the vast slum of Cato Manor. He notes white and black communities, native polygamy traditions, and past riots, warning of potential future upheaval amid tense racial divides.
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Durban
Cato Manor
South Africa
Saul Pett
Associated Press
Indian Ocean
Claridge’s
Umuazi
State cigarette tax to be reduced soon
Gov. Stratton announced the state tax on cigarettes will drop from 4 to 3 cents a pack after the Korean veteran bonus fund is met. The 1 cent increase began Aug 1 last year to fund a $1.042 million veterans bonus, with $10,374,601 already collected and more needed if claims exceed projection.
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Springfield
William G. Stratton
Stratton
Wives Leave Home Desert Families Enter Mrs America Contest
Desert families in Fort Lauderdale join the Mrs America field as 160 children were deserted this week nationwide. The event gathers 522nd annual contestants with the focus on Mrs America.
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla
States
District of Columbia
Defense Secretary Gates backs alert during Paris summit
Secretary Gates testified in a closed Senate session that there was no administration discussion of suspending spy plane flights over Russia as the Paris summit neared. He defended the Paris era military alert as essential and noted U2 flights yielded vital data on missiles, planes, ships and atomic production.
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Washington
Defense Gates
Russia
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Paris
Gates
Soviet Union
U.S
Eisenhower
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Committee
Christian A. Herter
U. S
Defense
NASA
Fulbright
Khrushchev
Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
Japanese Papers Attack Socialist Threat Over Pact Crisis
Japan's leading newspapers denounce the Socialist threat to resign from Parliament to oppose the U S Japan mutual security treaty. Editorials say the 125 opposition members' mass resignations would destabilize the government and derail the defense pact, despite recent backing for the Socialist push to oust Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.
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Japan
U. S.japan
Nobusuke Kishi
Broadway Faces First Broadway Blackout In 41 Years
Broadway theater owners and Actors Equity clash over a planned shutdown of all shows in New York. The League of New York Theaters says a one day strike will suspend performances after a prelude at the Booth Theater. Equity calls it a lockout and plans negotiations on a pension. About 600 theatergoers gathered in Shu bert Alley as shows were canceled.
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New York
Actors Equity Assn
Booth Theater
Equity
League of New York Theaters
Pelice
Shubert Alley
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Ind
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Mamie Better
Havana
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Hogue
W. E. King
Carbondale IC
Edgar R. Vaughn
The
Chicago
Kankakee
Champaign
Mattoon
du Quoin
North Cairo
IC General
Edgar R Vaughn
Asteland
Tokolosh
Kraal
Goverment
Cato
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nikita Khrushchev
National Aronautical and Space Agency
Tokyo
White Way
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