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December 3, 1952

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Headlines from December 3, 1952

CLEARING OF SPIES FOR U. N. LAID TO STATE DEPARTMENT BY DEFIANT U. S. JURY HERE; INTERFERENCE HIT Panel Charges Justice Officials Sought to Suppress Report FURTHER INQUIRY IS URGED Jurors Say Two in Top Posts of World Group Had Soviet Link -- Stiffer Rules Asked JURY HERE ACCUSES STATE DEPARTMENT

By Edward Ranzal

US Fed grand jury presentment charges US State Dept cleared disloyal Amers for key UN posts; charges US-UN pact to bar their employment failed; proposes US body to clear all Amers employed in future; State Dept holds hiring is UN responsibility

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SOVIET KOREA PLAN VOTED DOWN IN U. N.; Demand for Quick Cease-Fire Backed Only by Red Bloc -- Assembly to Act Today SOVIET TRUCE PLAN VOTED DOWN IN U. N.

By A. M. Rosenthalspecial To the New York Times

UN Com, 45-5, rejects USSR plan demanding immediate cease-fire followed by talks on POWs and unification; 12 including India abstain; speculation on Assembly moves; US reptdly plans '2d-stage' resolution possibly urging more troops; V Vlahovic (Yugoslavia) charges USSR shifts stand by making cease-fire, not repatriation, condition for truce

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JUNTA HEAD TAKES VENEZUELA POWER IN VOTING SEQUEL; Army Names Perez Jimenez Provisional President -- He Keeps Most of Cabinet ELECTION MARGIN CLAIMED Supreme Council Gives Partial Count, Reversing Trend of First Ballot Report JUNTA HEAD TAKES VENEZUELA POWER

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 2 -- The Venezulan Army announced tonight that Col. Marcos Perez Jimenez, a member of the ruling junta, was the Provisional President of the country. The junta, of which Dr. German Suarez Flamerich and Col. Luis Felipe Llovera Paez were the other members, had resigned.

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DOCK CONCERN GETS CRIME INQUIRY WRIT; Stevedoring Company Asks Ban on Disclosing Testimony -- Hearings Start Today PIER CONCERN GETS DOCK HEARING WRIT

By George Cable Wright

Jarka Corp gets Fed ct show-cause order concerning pub revelation by Comm of testimony given in private by corp officials; corp claims data would injure its business and violate rights; Benvenga reserves decision on Bowers and Keefe motion to vacate subpoenas; strikers return to work; H E Sheridan repeats warning that trucking indus will boycott piers if ss operators do not curb strikes; union leaders fail to attend ILA meeting

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Notable Births

Don Barnes

1952Don Barnes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Richard Donald Barnes is an American rock vocalist and guitarist and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band 38 Special. Barnes performed lead vocals on nearly all of the group's biggest hits, including "Rockin' into the Night", "Hold On Loosely", "Caught Up in You", "If I'd Been the One", "Back Where You Belong", "Like No Other Night", "Somebody Like You", "Teacher Teacher", "Back to Paradise", "You Keep Runnin' Away" and "Fantasy Girl".

Benny Hinn

1952Benny Hinn, Israeli-American evangelist and author[†]

Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn is an Israeli-born American-Canadian televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day.

1952Duane Roland, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2006)[†]

Duane Roland was an American guitarist for the Southern hard rock band Molly Hatchet. He was a member of the band from its founding in the mid-1970s until his departure in 1990. After leaving the band he played with the Southern Rock Allstars and Gator Country, which included many of the founding members of Molly Hatchet.

Mel Smith

1952Mel Smith, English comedian, actor, director, and producer (died 2013)[†]

Melvyn Kenneth Smith was an English actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He worked on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones with his comedy partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.

Notable Deaths

Rudolf Margolius

1952Rudolf Margolius, Czech lawyer and politician (born 1913)[†]

Rudolf Margolius was a Czech lawyer and economist, Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia (1949–1952), and a co-defendant in the Slánský trial in November 1952.

Historical Context for December 3, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]