June 1963
June 1, 1963
Pope John XXIII lay gravely ill early today. He had been in a coma for more than six-hours. There was no hope for the 81-year-old Pontiff's life. (1:8; P.7)
President Tshombe of Katanga was understood to have fled from Elisabethville to the Congolese interior to escape arrest by the central Government. The Government had issued a warrant for his arrest after discovering a new plot to set up an independent Katanga. (1:5)
France, which had vetoed Britain's entry into the European Common Market, again registered opposition to any British association with the market. (1:3)
The Kremlin demanded a Communist veto on the activities of the International Control Commission, which is charged with enforcing a truce in Laos. (1:7)
A "citizens court" of 2,000 Muscovites, sitting in a stadium, voted to exile three young idlers from the Soviet capital.
A two-year-old decree authorizes such "comradely courts" to expel persons who "shun socially useful labor and lead a parasitic way of life." (1:8)
Administration officials are nearing a final decision to support legislation to bar discrimination in public accommodations. They believe that in the present climate of national opinion they must fight for it. (1:1)
About 600 Negro children, some of grade school age, were arrested in Jackson, Miss, and hauled to jail in trucks. The children were marching to the downtown area. (1:2)
A State judge in Tallahassee, Fla., dismissed contempt charges against 221 Negroes and one white youth and affirmed their right to picket peacefully. (8:1)
In Philadelphia, a week of picketing ended with the hiring of four Negro workers at a school construction project. (1:2)
The Federal Communications Commission said it was satisfied that Channel 13 had not made any deal to change its programming policies because of a $100,000 grant by the National Broadcasting Company. (1:6)
Malayan bars delay on creation of Malaysia. (pg. 1)
Saudis threaten new Yemen battle. (pg. 2)
Frondizi supports election alliance with Peronists. (pg. 3)
Ecuador rejects U.S. appeal to release boats. (pg. 3)
Maryland Negroes say U.S. pledges help. (pg. 8)
Thousands of youths flock for working papers. (pg. 23)
Rep. Francis Walter, wrote immigration law died. (pg. 21)
U.S. deplores Common Market tariff increase. (pg. 24)
June 2, 1963
Indonesia and three Western companies signed an agreement that will make Indonesia's oil industry a combination of private enterprise and gradual nationalization. The oil companies will become contractors, but will retain control of production for at least 20 years. The accord was achieved after urgent intervention by Washington. (1:1)
Moscow has allowed Cuba to divert 1,000,000 tons of sugar to the world market to take advantage of rising prices. The accord is said to have brought the Castro regime $140,000,000 in foreign currency. (1:2)
Legal authorities in West Germany fear it will be many years before the last known Nazi war criminal will be tried. Despite more than 5,000 convictions, West German courts have a backlog of 644 cases. (11:1)
Segregationists in Maryland have blocked the application of the Public Accommodation Law by filing a petition to put the statute to a referendum next year. (1:3)
Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama said that not even a Federal Court injunction would deter him from trying to block desegregation at the University of Alabama. He said he would permit: no mob violence when two Negroes seek to enroll June 10, but the state would not guarantee their safely on campus. (1:4)
Laotian Reds set terms for peace talks. (pg. 2)
Leopoldville denies threat to Tshombe. (pg. 14)
Kenyatta and Kenya cabinet are sworn in. (pg. 16)
Racial-violence flares in tense British Guiana. (pg. 27)
501 Air Academy graduates to hear Kennedy. (pg. 76)
June 3, 1963
President Kennedy believes that Senate review of a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty would unleash a controversy as bitter and perhaps as fatal as the Senate battle over the League of Nations 44 years ago. But he is still strongly committed to ending nuclear testing. (1:7)
Peking appears to be using the racial violence in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere in its effort to gain the support of nonwhite peoples for its revolutionary brand of Communism rather than Moscow's "peaceful coexistence" policy. (5:1)
President Kennedy's messages asking broad civil rights legislation are expected to ban racial discrimination in business dealing with interstate commerce. (1:3)
Police security measures for Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama turned the R.C.A. Building in Rockefeller Center into a no man's land for most New Yorkers as the segregationist Governor appeared on a TV program. (1:4)
Mayor Wagner decided to speed the development of Breezy Point in Queens as a public park. (1:1)
AEC group inspects atomic plant in Russia. (pg. 3)
U.S. backs one-vote system in the United Nations. (pg.6)
Peru to vote Sunday after year of junta rule. (pg. 9)
Stabilization Fund masks U.S. gold transactions. (pg. 43)
June 4, 1963
Pope John XXIII, champion of world peace and Christian unity, died in the Vatican yesterday at the age of 81. (1:8; P.18)
A high tribute to Pope John came from President Kennedy, who led the mourning of official Washington. The President said that the Pontiff "brought compassion and understanding drawn from wide experience to the most divisive problems of` tumultuous age." (1:6-7)
"Normal diplomatic business" with Haiti was resumed by Washington. (1:4)
A sharp controversy has arisen in Moscow between the authorities and African students who have complained of discrimination. (1:5)
The United States has offered a special $2,000,000 donation to help finance United Nations operations in the Congo-and the Middle East. The contribution, with others, is expected to make up for reduced assessments assigned to underdeveloped nations. (3:1)
After a 49-year struggle with California, Arizona won a Supreme Court decision on allotment of water from the Colorado River. (1:1)
The opinion of Justice Hugo L. Black brought a sharp attack from his colleague and friend, Justice William O. Douglas, which startled the courtroom. (1:2)
The High Court held unconstitutional a desegregation plan in Tennessee that allows pupils to transfer from schools where their race is in the minority. (1:3)
The Army might make Fort Tilden available to the city-for the Breezy Point park development. The 317-acre installation is close to the development site on the Rockaway Peninsula. (1:4)
Monetary Fund to lend Brazil $60,000,000. (pg. 8)
Hearing today on anti-Kennedy move in South. (pg. 15)
Time limit to end race bars urged by CORE. (pg.28)
Seaborg appraises atomic research in U.S.S.R. (pg. 10)
Rain forces opera indoors at White House. (pg. 32)
June 5, 1963
A report from Washington that the Vatican's search for accommodation with Communist regimes in Eastern Europe was halted by Pope John's mortal illness. Another effect of his death was a postponement of United States efforts to normalize its own relations with Hungary. (18:2-3)
The United States vice chief of naval operations began talks in London aimed at proving missile-carrying surface ships are militarily feasible. The project is to give the Atlantic Alliance such vessels with mixed crews. (1:6-7)
On Haiti's side of her border with the Dominican Republic, peasants' homes were burned to end a Haitian exodus across the border. (1:5)
In South Vietnam, Government troops used gas grenades to end a new series of Buddhist religious demonstrations. (1:7)
James R. Hoffa and seven others were indicted in Chicago for fraudulently obtaining $20 000,000 in Teamster loans and using $1,000,000 of it for themselves. (1:1)
Republicans and Southern Democrats in the House voted to preclude the establishment of new executive departments under the Reorganization Act of 1949, apparently to block a new Department of Urban Affairs. (1:2)
Abolition of the Federal Communications Commission was urged by its former chairman. Newton N. Minow also said that Commission functions should be divided between an administrator and a court. (1:1-2)
President Kennedy ordered a review of Federal construction programs to prevent discriminatory hiring. He also directed Labor Secretary Wirtz to require that young workers be admitted to apprenticeship programs without racial discrimination. (1:4)
Canada to establish 12-mile fishing limit. (pg. 1)
President urges a war on hunger. (pg. 3)
Chaos is feared in Congo if U.N. leaves. (pg. 3)
Navy says Soviet planes flew near carrier. (pg. 4)
U.S. won't object as U.N. accepts Hungary. (pg. 4)
House backs extension of $100 duty-free limit. (pg. 17)
House unit votes extension of war tax rates. (pg. 20)
3 Savannah movies resume segregation. (pg. 28)
U.S. may file legal claim against trade bloc, (pg. 53)
June 6, 1963
An inter-American inquiry reported yesterday that Cuban based Communist subversion throughout Latin America had increased sharply in the last year. The eight-nation committee appointed by the Organization of American States called for a ban on international pro-Communist meetings in the hemisphere, prohibition of travel to Cuba and a system of inter-American cooperation in security. (1:8)
The Soviet Union threatened to walk out of the General Assembly if the current session votes new assessments for the United Nations forces in the Middle East and the Congo. (1:7)
John Profumo resigned as Secretary of State for War after admitting he had lied to Parliament in denying any "impropriety" with a young model. (1:3-5)
A second Negro entered the University of Mississippi with no incidents and without interference by Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (1:2)
Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama was-ordered by a Federal District Court not to interfere "by any means" with the admission of three Negroes to the University of Alabama next Monday. (1:2; P.21)
In Prince Edward County, Va., the Federal Government has quietly begun an intensive "catch up" program of basic education for about 1,500 Negro children. (21:2-3)
The graduating class of the Air Force Academy told President Kennedy that the nation would develop a supersonic aircraft for commercial use. (1:4; P.25)
U.S. and Ecuador agree to talks on dispute. (pg. 12)
Udall pledges aid to city on Breezy Point Park. (pg. 37)
Webb all but vetoes more Mercury trips. (pg. 71)
Freeman and Toynbee differ on science role. (pg. 15)
Red China steps up racial propaganda. (pg. 20)
June 7, 1963
President Kennedy expected to include in his European trip a meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan. A major reason is desire for Britain's agreement to join a proposed fleet of Polaris-armed surface ships. (1:4)
President Kennedy at San Diego Sate College assailed "the de facto segregation of the North as well as the proclaimed segregation of the South." (1:8; P.16)
More than 600 persons have been arrested in desegregation demonstrations in Jackson, Miss., in the last 10 days. At the city's request, the demonstrations were temporarily banned by a state judge. (14:3)
In New York, union spokesmen pledged to work to end my discrimination in building trades unions. (1:8)
A large rise in the number of teenagers looking for jobs in May returned the unemployment rate to nearly 6 per cent. (1:23)
The House Ways and Means Committee refused to tighten tax laws governing depletion allowances for producers of oil, gas and other minerals. (1:6-7)
Premier says Iran smashed plot to topple Shah. (pg.1)
United States accuses Soviet of space secrecy. (pg. 10)
Dillon joins bankers in opposing S.E.C. plan. (pg. 3)
June 8, 1963
Washington regards Moscow's whispered threats of boycotting the United Nations as the first, predictable signs of a major constitutional crisis in the world organization. The Kennedy Administration welcomes that crisis as the only way to establish the United Nations' right to tax its members and to maintain major peace-keeping operations. Washington is trying to isolate the Communist nations as the only delinquents in paying dues and intends to press for a showdown next year. (1:8)
Secretary General Thant announced that "a small advance party" would go to Yemen, the divided Red Sea nation, in a day or two. (1:7)
Indonesia and the Philippines eased their opposition to the proposed union of Malaya, Singapore and three British Borneo territories in a new state of Malaysia. The new policy was announced at a ministerial conference in Manila. (1:5-6)
A race riot in which a white man was killed in Lexington, N.C. also ten white men and seven Negro teen-agers were arrested in clashes that involved about 500 whites and 100 Negroes. (10:1)
Two white men accused of attacking Federal officers during racial rioting at the University of Mississippi last fall were acquitted by a Federal court jury in Oxford, Mississippi. (10:5)
An effort to hire more Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the New York area was begun by the Army Department. (1:3)
President Kennedy was given a look at virtually every weapon in the Navy's arsenal. Then, in Los Angeles, he turned from the duty of being Commander in Chief to that of party leader and attended a Democratic dinner. (1:1)
Lemnitzer asks NATO mimic control. (pg. 1)
ZaSu Pitts, comedienne in motion pictures dies. (pg. 25)
June 9, 1963
At the Kremlin's request, the United Nations Security Council will meet tomorrow to study Secretary General Thant's decision to send a peace-keeping mission to the Red Sea nation of Yemen. The Soviet delegation declared that any decisions involving peace and security should be made by the Council. (1:4)
President de Gaulle's exclusion from President Kennedy's meeting this month, according to diplomats, will strengthen the French leader's nationalist convictions. The scheduled talk between Mr. Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan is interpreted in Paris as further evidence of the intimacy between what President de Gaulle calls "the Anglo-Saxons." (1:5)
A proposal for a Federal mediation and conciliation service on civil rights received new impetus. Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, announced he would introduce a bill on the subject tomorrow. (1:6-7)
At the University of Alabama, Gov. George C. Wallace deployed about 825 state law enforcement officers on the Tuscaloosa campus and the surrounding area. (1:7)
Addressing a breakfast of 2,500 Democratic women in the Hollywood Palladium, President Kennedy sounded a vigorous call for enactment of his tax reduction program. (1:8)
U.S. will resist Spanish demands on bases. (pg. 3)
Laotian neutralists reject peace talks. (pg. 12)
Peru votes today to replace military regime. (pg. 25)
Biologists join critics of big space program. (pg. 21)
June 10, 1963
The Laotian neutralist leader, Gen. Kong Le, reported yesterday that pro-Communist forces led by North Vietnamese officers had skirted his artillery units on the Plaine des Jarres and were menacing his headquarters. Truckloads of American-made ammunition were being loaded on planes to be parachuted to the besieged forces. (1:3)
In South Vietnam, the conflict between the Government and Buddhist priests is sorely troubling American officials. They have only a limited influence there, despite heavy American aid. (1:4)
Addressing the 118th commencement of Notre Dame University, Mr. Pearson said that while United States-Canadian relations were "good" they were not always "easy," because of the two nations' vast disparity in power. (1:2-4)
Reversing a long-standing policy, the Saudi Government has permitted American servicemen of Jewish faith to be stationed in Saudi Arabia. The policy change is said to be a result of recent international developments, such as Saudi involvement in the civil war in Yemen. (1:2)
President Kennedy warned the National Conference of Mayors, meeting in Honolulu, that in this "moment of moral and constitutional crisis," in American race relations, "the time for token moves and idle talk is over." He called on the mayors to adopt a program of biracial committees, elimination of local segregation ordinances, nondiscriminatory hiring and promotion of employees, equal opportunity ordinances and a campaign to help young people of all races find jobs. (1:8)
The President's civil rights record was sharply assailed by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. (1; 8)
The American Jewish Congress called the policy of gradualism in achieving racial equality a "folly and a failure." (23:1)
Governor Wallace said to be determined to permit the admission of two Negroes tomorrow only after an overwhelming show of Federal force. (1:4-7)
Ballot fraud mars election in Peru. (pg. 1)
Kurds and Iraq prepare to renew warfare. (pg. 4)
Ben Bella asks U.S. to back African freedom. (pg. 10)
O.A.S. report will urge rights for Haitians. (pg. 12)
Blair House gets the Kennedy Look. (pg. 16)
Conflict on territorial waters causes legal chaos. (pg. 50)
Use of more U.S. vessels is urged in aid program. (pg. 61)
Kennedy sells TV rights to his "Profiles." (pg. 1)
Analysis of the Saxon-Cary dispute. (pg. 45)
Many applicants seek F.D. I.C. chairmanship. (pg. 45)
June 11, 1963
In a commencement speech at American University in Washington, on his "strategy of peace," President Kennedy announced yesterday that the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union would join soon for new talks in Moscow on a nuclear test-ban treaty. At the conference the United States representative may be John J. McCloy. (1:8; P.16)
Premier Khrushchev said that the Soviet Union has stopped making strategic bombers and surface war ships because of their vulnerability to missiles. (1:5)
The Soviet delegate at the United Nations demanded that the Security Council assume complete financial responsibility for the proposed observer group in Yemen. (1:6-7)
The Government of Iraq announced that it would resume war against Kurdish tribesmen whom it accused of beginning hostilities in the north while negotiations were going on in Baghdad. (4:4-5)
The foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaya and the Philippines were reported to have agreed on common measures to contain "Chinese expansionism" in their area. The agreement would setup a "consultative council" composed of the three heads of government. (1:7)
The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments next fall on eight cases, including six from New York, Alabama, Maryland and Virginia relating to state districts. (1:1)
President Kennedy urged Gov. George C. Wallace to stay away from the University of Alabama campus and reconsider his plan to bar two Negroes from enrolling there today. (1:2)
From Philadelphia, 46 lawyers issued a statement urging Gov. Wallace to obey the law set down by the court. They declared that the state official could not justify any interference. (21:2-3)
The House Ways and Means committee tentatively rejected the second largest item in the Administration tax bill, repeal of special tax allowances on dividend income. (1:4)
U.S. acts to keep out of Saigon-Buddhist rift. (pg. 6)
U.S. court asked to bar opening Virginia schools. (pg. 21)
Wirtz acts to delay rail-labor showdown. (pg. 23)
Solution sought to suds and pollution. (pg. 40)
June 12, 1963
The United States representative at the nuclear test ban talks in Moscow next month will be W. Averell Harriman, named yesterday by President Kennedy. (1:4)
With the Soviet member abstaining, the Security Council voted, 10 to 0, to accept a compromise measure that paved the way for a peace-keeping mission in Yemen. (1:2)
The Premier of Greece, Constantin Caramanlis, resigned after King Paul refused to call off a state visit to Britain next month. Mr. Caramanlis advised the monarch to cancel the trip because of leftist intentions in Britain to demonstrate for the release of Greek political prisoners. (1:2)
Gov. George C. Wallace stepped out of the schoolhouse door, permitting two Negroes to enroll in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Earlier, Mr. Wallace turned back four attempts by the Justice Department to enforce the Federal desegregation order. Then National Guard units, federalized by President Kennedy, arrived and Governor Wallace gave in. (1:8; P.20)
The University of Mississippi troops were withdrawn from the campus. (1:8)
On nationwide television, President Kennedy said that Negro discontent had produced a "moral crises." He called for action and promised to send sweeping legislation to Congress to speed school desegregation. (1:5; P.20)
President Kennedy called about 300 top labor leaders to a White House meeting tomorrow to discuss eliminating discrimination in employment. (1:7)
A Fire Island national seashore with more beachfront than anyone had previously suggested was called for in Washington. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall said the plan would add 2,000 acres to the 6,000-acre project. (1:3-4)
Anti-Peking pact backed by Asian lands. (pg. 1)
British train Sarawak tribesmen for defense. (pg. 3)
General election pledged by Shah in Iran. (pg. 15)
Reds burn U.S.-owned warehouse in Caracas. (pg. 17)
House G.O.P. group asks inquiry on Donovan. (pg. 17)
N.Y.U. confers doctorate on Indian President. (pg. 37)
June 13, 1963
Anti-Government demonstrations in Georgetown, British Guiana. (1:2-3)
President Betancourt of Venezuela disclosed that a new attempt to assassinate him had been foiled. (1:1)
The Kremlin made public, and Muscovites eagerly read, the text of Monday's speech by President Kennedy urging a reexamination of attitudes toward the cold war. (1:4)
A Negro leader was fatally shot in the back outside his home in Jackson, Miss., by a sniper. The Negro, Medgar W. Evers, was Mississippi field secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. The slaying touched off mass protests by Negroes in which 158 were arrested. (1:8)
Racial tension also was high in Cambridge, Md., where several persons were shot in a riot Tuesday night. (17:1)
President Kennedy talked with former President Eisenhower in an apparent effort to gain his support for new civil rights legislation. (1:7)
In New York, though policemen and civil rights demonstrators skirmished briefly at the construction site of the annex. The city threatened to halt the Harlem Hospital project unless building trades unions moved to end discriminatory practices. (1:7)
D. Brainerd Holmes, director of the multibillion-dollar program to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade, said he was resigning for "personal reasons." (1:8)
High Navy officers told the Senate they had been overruled in a contract award for a new vertical or short takeoff and landing plane. They said they had recommended a cheaper and better plane than the one chosen by the Pentagon. (1:5)
Soviet challenges U.N. doctrine on voting. (pg. 1)
Ten Cuban exiles held in U.S. after raid. (pg. 1)
Buddhists defy Government in Saigon dispute. (pg. 5)
Reds out to smash Iceland's stability program. (pg. 5)
Greek King seeks guidance in political crisis. (pg. 5)
Bolivia quitting O.A.S. in dispute on dam. (pg. 9)
O.A.S. unit proposes appeal to Haiti on rights. (pg. 10)
Mayors back Kennedy rights program. (pg. 16)
Kennedy action is top news in South Africa. (pg. 15)
Gains seen in move to integrate housing. (pg. 20)
Decor gives clue to Presidents' nature. (pg. 27)
June 14, 1963
Canada's new Liberal Government announced last night stringent measures to arrest the take-over of Canadian companies by United States owners. (1:1)
The United States has warned President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam that it will publicly condemn his treatment of Buddhists unless he acts promptly to redress their grievances. (1:2-3)
Pro-Communist forces in Laos attacked an outpost of rightist troops about 350 miles southeast of the embattled Plaine des Jarres, but were reported to have been repulsed with heavy losses. The action could-indicate a broadening of the Laotian fighting. (1:2)
A group of jeering and chanting Negro adults and teen-agers on a porch in Jackson, Miss., was charged by policemen and clubbed into submission. The incident was touched off as the police were arresting 82 Negro youths for staging a mass march to protest the ambush slaying of an N.A.A.C.P. official Wednesday. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy renewed his efforts to rally the broadest possible support for new civil rights legislation. He held meetings with Congressional leaders of both parties. He also conferred with former President Truman and he met with nearly 300 labor leaders. (1:8)
After two days of demonstrations against alleged discrimination in construction work on the Harlem Hospital annex in New York, the city suspended the work "until further notice." A committee will investigate the charges against the building trades. (1:7)
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee confronted Secretary of Defense McNamara with one of the most critical examinations in recent years of foreign military aid programs for NATO members. Senator J. W. Fulbright said the criticism was due to "changed circumstances" particularly President de Gaulle's challenge to U.S. policy. (1:2-3)
Sussex is ready for Kennedy influx. (pg. 3)
Followers of Lumumba back in power. (pg. 4)
Wilson says Soviet seeks $280,000,000 deal. (pg. 4)
U.N. Africa-Asia bloc asks assessment cut. (pg. 4)
U.S. counters Mecca denial of Jews in Arabia. (pg. 4)
Eisenhower calls on "amateurs" to battle Kennedy. (pg. 1)
Mettler in line for Holmes post in space agency. (pg. 13)
Riot averted as whites march in Cambridge, Md. (pg. 14)
Negroes demonstrate for rights at Savannah, Ga. (pg. 16)
Swimming pools in Atlanta are desegregated. (pg. 17)
Realtors oppose forced sales to Negroes. (pg. 32)
Kennedy aide proposes science high schools. (pg. 33)
Agriculture Department to study sugar trading. (pg. 39)
Common Market showdown on chickens due. (pg. 39)
June 15, 1963
The fifth Soviet astronaut to enter space, Lieut. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky, was whirling about the earth early today on a prolonged orbit flight in Vostok V. The 28-year-old former fighter pilot, who was launched into orbit yesterday, was expected to be joined shortly for a group flight by another astronaut, possibly a woman. Western observers believe the' Russians may try to surpass the record of the previous Soviet space journey of almost four days. The dark-haired, youthful officer reported he felt fine and that all systems of his craft, the Vostok V, were functioning smoothly. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev implied that the Kremlin had withdrawn its offer to allow two or three on-site inspections a year. (1:6)
France lined up with the Soviet Union in the United Nations in refusing to accept the General Assembly resolution that all members must pay assessments for peace-keeping operations. Both nations assert that only the Security Council can make mandatory decisions. (1:3)
Assembling across the street from the White House, several thousand Negroes and whites staged one of the largest and calmest desegregation marches ever held in Washington. (1:2-5)
After three nights of racial demonstrations in Cambridge, Md., the state's National Guard put into effect a modified form of martial law. Five hundred guardsmen are expected in the city by today. (1:5)
Next week, President Kennedy will continue his efforts to develop a broad base of public support for his new civil rights legislation. (8:3)
White House conferences with businessmen have caused some of them to lower racial barriers, but many refused to do so. (8:7-8)
Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric told a Senate hearing he had awarded the controversial contract for a new vertical-and-short-takeoff-or landing plane on the basis of the winning company's "competence and experience" in the face of a higher technical rating achieved by another company's proposal. (1:8)
The three proposed sites for a fourth jet airport in the metropolitan area has apparently quashed further consideration. (T:7)
Haiti requests withdrawal of U.S. Ambassador. (pg. 1)
Africans in I.L.A. lead a walkout. (pg. 5)
Common Market worried over U.S. stand. (pg. 5)
Jagan and foe weigh a coalition regime. (pg. 17)
Presbyterians get U.S. aid on 5 miners' hospitals. (pg. 24)
Kennedy offers financing plan for sonic plane. (pg. 51)
Kennedy to meet rail negotiators today. (pg. 52)
Uganda's Prime Minister at L.I.U. graduation.
Nuclear explosives urged to dig canals. (pg. 17)
Victor F. Ridder, publisher of six papers dies. (pg. 23)
Alfred V. Kidder, archeologist at Harvard. (pg. 23)
June 16, 1963
The six Soviet space launchings not reported to the United Nations are believed by experts to have been intended as deep probes to Mars, Venus and the moon. (2:4-5)
About 950 Soviet military technicians and instructors are now reported to be in divided Yemen. (1:2-3)
West Germany is providing military aid to Israel, according to Hans Merten, a Socialist member of Bonn's Parliament. (1:4-5)
Two Latin-American statesmen, the former Presidents of Brazil and Columbia, urged the establishment of a central executive agency to make the Alliance for Progress a truly cooperative undertaking rather than a United States project. (1:5)
Hundreds of Negroes rioted in Jackson, Miss., after the police arrested a group of chanting demonstrators. Some policemen used clubs and police dogs. The violence was touched off after the funeral of Medgar W. Evers. (1:8)
Negro leaders in Cambridge, Md., pressed demands for desegregation even though the town was under virtual martial law, with strict orders against demonstrations. About 500 Maryland National Guardsmen and 235 state troopers were on patrol or at a nearby bivouac. (1:7)
Defying a new city ordinance banning mass protests in Danville, Va., Negro demonstrators staged two marches through the town. They were promptly arrested. (58:7-8)
At President Kennedy's request, the nation's railroads and the five train-operating unions agreed to renew efforts until June 10, to settle their long dispute over work rules. If an accord is not reached by then, the Administration will apparently have to let a national rail strike occur or insist on a postponement until the President advises Congress on how he believes the dispute should be handled. (1:4; P.42)
The House Ways and Means Committee is preparing about $3,000,000,000 less in tax reductions than President Kennedy proposed. The committee has all but abandoned hope of agreeing on enough reforms in the tax structure to recover much of the revenue that the President's plan would cost. (1:2-3)
Governor Rockefeller proposed a national agency to coordinate all Federal functions in transportation. (43:1-2)
Brunei is preparing to join Malaysia. (pg. 14).
China opens new drive on size of family. (pg. 16)
France refuses to admit Moise Tshombe. (pg.22)
Kennedy friend to seek office in Hawaii. (pg. 40)
Sit-in pressed by CORE at California capital. (pg.56)
June 17, 1963
The first woman, Valentina V. Tereshkova, to journey into space was launched aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok VI yesterday, laughingly reported she felt fine and chatted by radio telephone with Lieut. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky, who was traveling in a nearby orbit. (1:8)
The United States has no plans for including a woman in the next group of American astronauts. (8:8)
A long letter from Peking to Moscow assailed Soviet ideological policies and outlined uncompromisingly the Chinese stand on all major points at issue. (1:1)
David Ben-Gurion unexpectedly announced his resignation as Premier Defense Minister and member of Parliament. (1:2-3)
Two Republican Senators, Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, declared that President Kennedy should postpone his European trip to deal with domestic problems, particularly civil rights. (1:4)
The city administration of Cambridge, Md., broke off negotiations with Negro leaders and asked Gov. J. Millard Tawes to keep National Guard troops in the town indefinitely. (1:6)
Russians develop "space water" for astronauts. (pg. 8)
Mrs. Nesbitt, housekeeper for two Presidents dies. (pg. 25)
June 18, 1963
The House of Commons upheld the handling of security aspects in the Profumo scandal. (1:1-3; P. 12)
Italy's Left-wing Socialist decided not to support efforts of Aldo Moro, the Premier designate, to set up a new Government. (1:2-3)
King Paul authorized Panayotis Pipinelis to form a new Greek Government and end the six-day crisis that started with the resignation of Premier Constantine Caramanlis. (7:1-4)
Space officials in Washington doubted the two Russians would be able to meet and speculated that failure to launch a third astronaut was the reason. (2:3-6)
The Supreme Court ruled that no state or local government may require the reading of the Lord's Prayer of Bible verses in public schools. (1:8; P. 28)
Reversing an earlier decision, the House Ways and Means Committee agreed to raise taxes on oil and gas producers by about $50,000,000. It accepted two of four Administration proposals. (1:4)
Solemn Negroes in Washington marched one mile from Union Station to the funeral of Medgar W. Evers for burial in Arlington National Cemetery. (23:1)
Secretary of State Rusk testified before a Senate committee that the United States may withdraw trade concessions to France and others in the Common Market unless they ease restrictions on American farm products. (1:3)
India charges nevi aggressions by China. (pg. 6)
Goulart replaces all civilians in Brazil's Cabinet. (pg. 10)
Bolivia leaves O.A.S. Council in a dispute. (pg. 11)
U.S. acts to block Mississippi trial. (pg. 23)
Gov. Wallace rejects bid by President. (pg. 23)
Negroes battle policemen in Harlem. (pg. 1)
Supreme Court bars Philadelphia bank merger. (pg. 49)
U.S. women beat Italy, 3-0 in tennis. (pg. 47)
June 19, 1963
The ten-day European itinerary for President Kennedy's tour, to begin Saturday, was announced. It includes the first speech to Ireland's Parliament ever made by a visiting official. West Germany, Britain and the Berlin wall were on the agenda, but details of Mr. Kennedy's visit to Italy were indefinite. (1:2-3)
This was partly a result of the Government crisis in Rome where Aldo Moro withdrew as Premier-designate and informed President Segni that his efforts to form a new Government were over. (1:1)
Another factor was the vacancy in the Papal See. (1:4-5)
Lieut. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky, astronaut, has been in orbit for more than four days surpassing the previous record of three days, 22 hours, (1:4)
Wide expansion of job-training and vocational-education programs were among the final touches made to President Kennedy's civil rights legislation. The bill will go to Congress today. (1:8)
Police in Gadsden, Ala., arrested more than 450 Negroes, many of them children, defying an injunction against sitdown demonstrations. (1:8)
A sympathetic speech about Negro "requests and aspirations" in North Carolina's racial crisis was broadcast state-wide by Governor Terry Sanford. (22:4-8)
The Commerce Department reported that corporate profits were down only slightly in the first quarter of 1963 and that personal income and the rate of homebuilding had hit new peaks. (33:8)
Jackson offers to meet some Negro demands. (pg. 22)
U.S. women advance in world tennis in London. (pg. 32)
3,000 Negroes boycott Boston schools in protest. (pg. 20)
June 20, 1963
Junior Lieut. Valentina V. Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Lieut. Col. Valery F. Bykovsky landed safely in a Kazakhstan desert after their twin orbital flights. (1:4)
Canada's new Liberal Government withdrew its punitive 30 per cent securities tax designed to halt the takeover of Canadian companies by United States interests. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy asked Congress for broad civil rights legislation that, he said, will "go far toward providing reasonable men with reasonable means" to deal with a national crisis in race relations. The most controversial proposals would bar discrimination in privately owned establishments like theaters, restaurants and hotels and arm the Attorney General with powers to speed school desegregation. Other major requests include more vocational and training programs to qualify more Negroes for jobs and community services to seek voluntary solutions to racial problems. (1:8; Text, 16-17)
Civil rights leaders rejected the President's request for a truce in desegregation demonstrations throughout the nation. (1:6-7)
N.A.A.C.P. leaders in New York accused city officials of "collusion" with the building trades against hiring Negroes. They warned that mass demonstrations would be held in the city unless there was immediate corrective action. (1:5)
Carmine G. De Sapio, former chief of Tammany Hall, announced he would run for the Democratic leadership of Greenwich Village, the base of his old power. (1:6)
U.S. believes Soviet has 10,500 troops in Cuba. (3)
Moscow approves agreement for "hot line." (4)
West offers India air defense units. (5)
Kennedy orders envoys to be candid on crisis. (18)
Ship tie-up grows; nationwide paralysis feared. (65)
Halaby predicts supersonic transport by 1970. (66)
U.S. and Australian women in tennis final. (39)
June 21, 1963
Government sources in Paris disclosed that President de Gaulle would withdraw French naval units earmarked for NATO forces in the English Channel. The units consist of one aircraft carrier, six destroyers and a dozen destroyer escorts. (1:1)
On President Kennedy's civil rights package the Arizona Republican seemed to hint he might support a civil rights bill provided it contained no controls over privately owned public facilities. (1:6)
The six weeks between the Birmingham racial riots and the submission of the President's civil rights message marked one of the Administration's tensest periods of concentrated activity. (12:8)
After hearing a report on the President's proposals, Negro leaders in Jackson, Miss, agreed to end racial demonstrations. The city hired its first Negro policeman. (12:6)
On June 29, Birmingham, Ala., will reopen on an integrated basis three of its four municipal golf courses. (1:5)
The steel union and industry agreed on contract revision that will insure at least two more years of peace. The main feature of the accord is a plan providing 13-week vacations every five years for half of the workers who have greatest seniority. There is no wage increase. (1:8)
A naval court found that the sinking of the submarine Thresher off New England April 10 was probably caused by a failure in the piping system that let sea water flood the engine room. (1:2)
Soviet move fails to end I.L.O. meeting. (3)
Soviet Union cautions Iraq on Kurd fighting. (5)
Kennedy hails West Virginia's 100th anniversary. (14)
House passes $100 limit on duty-free goods. (31)
Plumbers' union here to recruit Negroes. (14)
Curb on "laxities" in airliner cockpits asked. (58)
Unions allow Cuban relief ship to sail. (58)
C.A.B. rejects American-Eastern Airline merger. (37)
June 22, 1963
In the fifth ballot of a 41-hour conclave, the 80 Cardinals chose Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, Archbishop of Milan, the 262d Supreme Pontiff on the Roman Catholic Church. The 65-year-old Pontiff will rule the Church as Pope Paul VI. (3:2)
President Kennedy; who will call on Pope Paul on July 2 at the end of a 10-day European tour, sent his "heartiest congratulations." (3:1)
The semi-official French Press Agency declared that the Government "has decided to withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic." (1:5)
With the support of the United States Government, a conference of the International Labor Organization voted 135 to 3, with 57 abstentions, to expel a South African delegate. Assistant Secretary of Labor George L.P. Weaver, head of the American delegation, said he would urge Washington to work to expel South Africa from the United Nations and its agencies because of her discriminatory policies. (1:5)
The presidents of the 18 building trades unions adopted a program to eliminate discrimination in apprenticeship, union membership and work referrals. (1:15)
Many of-the nation's leading lawyers pledged to fulfill President Kennedy's request that they set up a committee designed to ease racial tensions and provide leadership on national and local levels. (1:2-3)
Negotiations in Cambridge, Md., reached an impasse. Negro leaders threatened to resume demonstrations if the city continued to refuse concessions. (10:1)
Mayor Wagner made clear he would actively oppose a comeback attempt by Carmine G. De Sapio, former leader of Tammany Hall. (1:2)
Stevenson lauds U.N.'s financial gains. (4)
Katangese seek accord with Central Government. (6)
Soviet pledges to avoid harassing of Kennedy. (8)
U.S. condemns reports of Cuban landings. (20)
House unit votes 1.9 billion defense cut. (1)
Pentagon orders study of space airplane. (21)
Negroes boycott Hempstead stores over zoning. (9)
Coast Guard reorganizing its ice patrol. (50)
June 23, 1963
Premier Khrushchev, standing proudly between the two astronauts at a mammoth welcoming in Red Square, declared that extension of the arms race into space would endanger the world. (1:5-7)
Peking's latest attack on Mr. Khrushchev's policies was made public in Rumania--an unusual action in the Soviet bloc. Western observers said that Rumania apparently was seeking more independence from the Kremlin particularly in economic policy. (1:7)
President Kennedy will arrive in Cologne today on the first leg off 10-day journey through Europe to plead the cause of Atlantic partnership. The trip to West Germany, Berlin, Ireland, Britain, Italy and the Vatican will keep the President on European television virtually all of every day. (1:4)
In Berlin, the Western allies denounced as illegal new East German restrictions barring entry to a border strip on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall. (1:6-7)
Negro leaders at a White House meeting told President Kennedy that mass demonstrations would continue until the civil rights issue was resolved. They warned that "if there is a filibuster in Congress, we will have a nonviolent peaceful demonstration in Washington." The President empowered the Government to withdraw Federal funds from any construction projects practicing discrimination. (1:1)
The Administration's conferences to reduce racial tensions have begun to show tangible results. The Government has been able to open direct lines of communication with influential moderates in many troubled Southern communities. (63:1)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of a white man in connection with the Mississippi slaying of Medgar W. Evers. The man was charged with violating the 1957 Civil Rights Act. (1:2-3)
New Judges and new doctrines moved the Supreme Court toward greater constitutional protection of the individual in the term just ended. (64:1-6)
The State Department is reviewing a controversial application of immigration policy that is threatening with deportation perhaps thousands of persons who came to this country as exchange students. (1:2-3)
The Navy had a big day with launchings of four nuclear submarines. (42:3-6)
Ireland spruces up for Kennedy visit. (7)
Terrorist group embarrasses Quebec separatists. (18)
Soviet pressing for new U.N. trade agency. (18)
Foe of Ben Bella is reported missing. (20)
Guiana seizes Shell oil storage tanks. (26)
Peasants seize estates near Rio de Janeiro. (28)
Leader of Cuban exiles resigns in Miami: (29)
Saigon to try ten youths in Buddhist riots. (29)
California passes fair housing bill. (58)
N.A.A.C.P. plans "mass" Jersey drive on bias. (58)
Negroes reject Cambridge referendum plan. (59)
White House studying morale of Negro soldiers. (63)
Public agency proposed to bar union bias. (57)
June 24, 1963
Gaily chanting "Ken-ne-DEE. Ken-ne-DEE" more than a million Rhinelanders turned out yesterday to give President Kennedy a rousing welcome to Europe. (1:7)
Despite the frequent tributes that Mr. Kennedy and Chancellor Adenauer exchanged during the busy day, their airport statements indicated marked policy differences. The 87-year-old Chancellor termed the President's visit a "political act" which he said underscored America's determination to maintain a rigid position in the cold war. Mr. Kennedy replied: "Our alliance was founded to deter a new war. It must now find a way to a new peace." (1:8; Texts, 6)
One week before Mr. Kennedy is scheduled to arrive in Rome, the Italian Communist party opened a broad offensive to topple the new Government of Premier Giovanni Leone. (1:6-7)
Five British soldiers were killed and 21 others, including four servicewomen, were captured by Yemeni tribesmen when they strayed over the border from Aden. (1:5)
United States servicemen going to South Vietnam are being instructed to avoid "gratuitous criticism" and to give to American reporters a more positive picture of events in the troubled country. (11:1-3)
Byron de La Beckwith, known as an outspoken white supremacist, was charged with murder in the ambush slaying of Medgar W. Evers, Negro civil rights leader. (1:2)
In Biloxi, Miss., 68 Negroes and three white men, two of them ministers, were arrested for trespassing when they staged a "wade-in" at a downtown beach. (20:2)
President Kennedy's civil rights bill will start moving toward Congressional hurdles this week. Tomorrow the Senate Commerce Committee is expected to open hearings on the controversial proposal to ban discrimination in privately owned public accommodations. On Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on the entire measure. Southern Democrats have scheduled a strategy meeting today. (1:1)
Katangese said to plan base in Angola. (4)
Nixon questions U.S. role on Egyptian dam. (8)
China and North Korea declare common ideology. (10)
100,000 join rights rally in Detroit. (20)
U.S. track squad of 50 named for European tour. (35)
June 25, 1963
At a news conference in Bonn, President Kennedy said that any country signing a nuclear test ban agreement should advise other nations against developing atomic weapons. (1:8; Text, 10)
Pravda, the Soviet party newspaper, said the Chinese had violated an agreement between Moscow and Peking to end "open polemics in the Communist movement." (1:7)
Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman said that an early Communist Chinese nuclear test would have little influence on world affairs. (11:5)
In the Profumo scandal, three United States airmen are undergoing questioning in Washington about rumors linking them with Christine Keeler. A Defense Department spokesman said that "security is our basic concern.' (1:6)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson survived a nonconfidence motion aimed at the antiforeign budget of Finance Minister Walter Gordon. The only support for the motion came from the Conservative Party, which is led by John Diefenbaker.
The Internal Revenue Service said that businesses and individuals who deducted business entertainment from their returns would have until Aug. 1 to start complying with the new expense account regulations. (1:1)
The Senate approved the bill to continue corporate income and certain excise taxes at present levels. (21:2-3)
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia accused President Kennedy of giving encouragement to Negro anti-segregation demonstrations. (1:3)
Steps to force cities to develop more and better housing for racial minorities were taken by the Urban Renewal Administration. (13:1)
A three-man Harlem delegation to Deputy Mayor Edward F. Cavanagh Jr. asked for a program including employment of 25 per cent Negroes on city jobs given to private contractors. (1:2)
Yemen at U.N., charges British aggression. (4)
Foes of Portugal warned by Congo on riots. (8)
I.L.O. director proposes isolating South Africa. (7)
Urban renewal agency tightens anti-bias rules. (13)
U.S. wins right to sue some segregated schools. (15)
DAR accused of abusing tax-free status. (21)
Congress passes excise tax extension. (21)
60 million asked for supersonic plane. (67)
City to get U.S. aid to train youths. (35)
Pullman Porters plan national strike July 1. (37)
Saxon discloses some details of new bank rules. (43)
June 26 1963
Before television cameras in Frankfurt's Paulskirche--St. Paul's Church--President Kennedy yesterday renewed his call for "interdependence" between the United States and a "fully cohesive Europe." Mr. Kennedy promised to risk United States cities in a commitment to the defense of Western Europe. (1:8; Text, 16)
One point the two leaders agreed on was the deferral of plans for a nuclear force of mixed-manned vessels. Because of resistance to it in Britain and Italy, they do not believe that this is the time to push ahead with it. (1:5)
French newspapers and foreign diplomats in Paris tried to play down Mr. Kennedy's pledges, which were taken to be attacks on President de Gaulle's policies. (17:6)
The President had adequately conveyed the State Department's irritation with President de Gaulle and had finally gone on record in favor of monetary changes and an allied nuclear force. (17:1-8)
At the United Nations, the General Assembly's Budgetary Committee approved two resolutions to raise $42,500,000, including donations, for operations this year in the Middle East and the Congo. (1:.6)
In Leopoldville, the Congolese Parliament struck what may be a decisive blow at Morse Tshombe, President of South Katanga Province. The province, under a bill passed by the lawmakers, was eliminated and merged with a new province, East Katanga. (1:7)
A House committee took the first bite out of the Space Agency's budget by eliminating $259,122, 000 from the manned flight program. (1:8)
Hollywood movie and television companies were threatened with national economic and legal offensives by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to end discrimination against Negroes as performers and crafts workers. (23:6-75)
The New York branch of the N.A.A.C.P. charged that Negroes were not getting their share of the better city and state jobs. (1:2)
U.S. clears 3 airmen of link to British scandal. (2}
Africans protest to Kennedy on Ellender slur. (2)
Verwoord adamant on South Africa race policy. (3)
U.S. signs pact for food aid to Algeria. (4)
India accepts inspection of atomic plant. (8)
Brazil's finance chief bars moratorium. (9)
Kennedy's tour becomes issue in Italian politics. (14)
De Gaulle said to reflect a minority viewpoint. (15)
Kennedy hails U.S. forces on guard in Europe. (17)
Dublin ready to give Kennedy warm welcome. (17)
Negroes reject Sanford's plea in Carolina. (23)
Pesticide industry scores Presidential report. (40)
Kennedy would cut aid to 4.1 billion. (4)
Stevenson links U.S. stature to Civil Rights. (22)
June 27, 1963
With cheers and tears, more than a million West Berliners accorded President Kennedy yesterday one of the greatest receptions he has ever received. He saluted the troubled city as the front line and shining example of humanity's struggle for freedom. Expressing pride in being a "Berliner" because "all free men" are Berliners, Mr. Kennedy told the crowd that "when I leave tonight, the United States stays." (1:8; Texts, 12)
As he turned to view the gray concrete of the Berlin wall, he glimpsed a small group of East Berliners, who also cheered him. (1:8)
When the President flew on to Ireland, it seemed that all of Dublin turned out to welcome him "home." Mr. Kennedy was hailed by President de Valera as the "first citizen' of the United States and by the people of Dublin as the local boy--three generations removed--who made good. (1:6-7)
A plenary session of the Soviet Communist party leadership ended with no announcement of further measures to subject liberal intellectuals to severe controls. (1:7)
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told Congress the Administration would be willing to exempt small stores and tourist homes from its proposed ban on discrimination in privately owned public accommodations. Senate minority leader, Everett McKinley Dirksen, predicted that the final bill would contain no ban whatever. (1:1; Excerpts, 18)
In Kentucky, Gov. Bert T. Combs signed an executive order banning racial discrimination in all businesses licensed by the state. The Governor warned that school districts might lose state as well as Federal funds if they did not integrate. (1:2)
A House committee cut $134,248,600 in budget funds for scientific research and exploration by the national space agency. (1:2)
The Senate passed its own bill to strengthen the distressed areas redevelopment program to fight unemployment. (1:3-4)
For the first time, the Navy appointed an academic dean for the Naval Academy as part of a program to improve general education standards there. (1:4-6)
The Consumer Price Index remained unchanged in May for the second consecutive month, but Government experts believe prices will soon start rising again. (17:3)
Kurds say Iraq fights them with British planes. (7)
France consolidates relations with North Africa. (8)
Kennedy speech hailed by all, excepting France. (12)
Gov. Hatfield warns of "hate groups." (27)
F.C.C. head would suspend equal time for '64. (67)
State troopers quit Savannah as talks start. (20)
"Cead mile failte." President Eamon de Valera of Ireland, extending "a hundred thousand welcomes" to President Kennedy in Gaelic. (13:1)
Navy ship to race Challenger Class freighter. (66)
Senator accuses A.M.A. on drug policies. (53)
June 28, 1963
A placard proclaimed: "Johnnie, I hardly knew ye" as John Fitzgerald Kennedy came "home" yesterday to County Wexford on the Irish Sea. Mr. Kennedy joined in the singing and spoke to a crowd of well-wishers on the quay at New Ross, where-his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, sailed for the New World in the eighteen-forties to become a cooper in Boston. The President then visited Dunganstown where his cousins still live on a Wexford farm. (1:3-4}
The Kennedy Administration has received encouraging signs that the Kremlin is still willing to agree to three annual inspections on Soviet soil under a nuclear test-ban treaty. Administration officials, have new hopes that some progress can be made in high-level diplomatic negotiations in Moscow next month. (1:1)
Communist leaders in East Berlin are planning a triumphal" reception for Premier Khrushchev to parallel the spectacular welcoming that President Kennedy received in West Berlin Wednesday. (2:8)
Henry Cabot Lodge, a former political foe of President Kennedy, is joining his Administration as Ambassador to South Vietnam. (1:5)
Testifying on behalf of the President's civil rights program, Labor Secretary Wirtz said that equal job opportunities for Negroes could be obtained only by achieving fuller national employment. Otherwise the cost of eliminating discrimination would mean the loss of a job by somebody else. (1:7)
The Pentagon has eliminated racial segregation from the armed forces reserves. Officials also have been using persuasion to try to effect the integration of National Guard units in the South. (1:7)
Southern delegates to the annual convention of the Congress of Racial Equality expressed concern over what they said was the imminent danger of a violent racial explosion. They said they had had to disarm Negroes who came to meetings and demonstrations with revolvers and knives. (12:5)
Warring Democrats in Greenwich Village have reached a temporary truce in an effort to block Carmine G. De Sapio's comeback attempt. Raymond Ario, one of two reform candidates in the race for party leadership in the Village, is withdrawing. (33:1)
Kennedy likely to urge A-fleet on Macmillan. (2)
Canada pledges full nuclear defense role. (2)
June 29, 1963
Thant predicts four-way division in world-power.
Slovaks rehabilitate Clementis, executed in 1952.
Khrushchev finds Kennedy shifting view. (3)
President's facts mixed on Irish at Fredericksburg.
Korean Reds reveal two U.S. fliers are alive. (6)
June 30, 1963
The Kremlin has demanded the immediate recall of three officials of the Chinese Communist Embassy in Moscow. The Soviet Foreign Ministry reprimanded the three officials and two other Chinese in Moscow for distributing copies of a Chinese Government letter to the Soviet; Communist party. The letter, which discussed ideological di4gerences, was denounced by the Kremlin as slanderous and its publication was banned in the Soviet Union. (1:8; Text, 6)
The Administration may order the first substantial cutback in the production of nuclear weapons. High officials believe that the United States' arsenal of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons is sufficient to meet its military needs. They also fear that a profusion of warheads will increase the chances of accidental explosion. (1:1)
Mrs. Vera Pigee, a civil rights leader in Mississippi, opened a drive in New York to collect food and clothing for Negroes dismissed from jobs for trying to register and vote. f42:1-6)
The Supreme Court's ruling that states must provide free lawyers for all poor persons facing serious criminal charges has had widespread effects. Since the decision, legislatures, courts and bar-groups have met or exceeded the court's requirements. (39:1-2)
Peace Corps weathers challenges in Ghana. (24)
Cairo approves U.S. plan on investments. (25)
N.A.A.C.P. annual report assails Kennedy. (40)
Malcolm X assails Kennedy at Harlem rally. (45)
CORE elects its first Negro chairman. (47)