Liberal leadership race looms as Pearson retires in Canada
Ottawa prepares for a Liberal Party convention where 25 hundred delegates will choose Lester B. Pearson's successor. Nine major candidates in a 17 field, led by Paul Martin and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Pearson plans to step down, with the new leader expected to form a government by mid-April. In Nepal, a suspected Communist Chinese missile fragment was found in the Himalayas near Katmandu.
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Trudeau
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Soviet Space Hero Yuri Gagarin Lies In Red Square
The Soviet Union honored Maj Yuri Gagarin with a hero funeral in Red Square. His ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall Pantheon as leaders vow to press ahead with manned space expeditions and the space program's glorious mission.
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Valeri Bykovsky
Andrian Nikolayev
Valentina Tereshkova
Yuri
Nikolayev
Mstislav Keldysh
Academy of Sciences
Israel Faces Protracted Struggle Against Infiltrators
In Jerusalem the Israeli leadership warned of a protracted campaign to curb Arab infiltrators along the Jordan River frontier. Premier Levi Eshkol said Israel would use many methods while considering world opinion as Fatah units work with Jordanian forces amid raids that sparked regional tensions.
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New York Times Weekly Index Dips In Business Activity
The New York Times weekly index of business activity declined to 322.3 last week from 326.5 the prior week while a year earlier the index stood at 305. The following table lists the index and its components, all seasonally adjusted for long term trends.
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North Vietnamese To Release Women In Hue
North Vietnam announced it would release two American women captured in Hue during the Tet offensive but rejected any prisoner swap with the United States for three North Vietnamese sailors. The women were identified as Marjorie Nelson and Sandra Johnson, both held by Viet Cong captors for over two months in Thua Thien province.
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