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Quesada says United craft was on unauthorized course, rept to Pres Eisenhower; says it failed to enter holding pattern over NJ; says 1 of 2 navigational systems aboard United craft failed; CAB sets pub hearings
US to resume mil aid to new Govt; says amt and type will be determined by tactics adopted by pro-Communists; believes Boum Oum is responsible leader and has popular support; says Communists pose only threat; repts civilian emergency supplies being airlifted into Vientiane by SEATO members
US officials were told plutonium-producing reactor was textile plant; Eisenhower briefed on issue; French, Israeli officials confirm bldg of natural-uranium reactor but for peaceful purposes only; Sec Herter asked Harmon for data in early Dec; Israeli AEC again denies arms mfr
subcom issues rept criticizing functioning of Natl Security Council
Electoral Coll casts votes, 300 for Kennedy, 219 for Nixon; Sen H F Byrd gets votes of 14 unpledged Ala and Miss electors plus vote of Nixon Okla elector, H D Irwin; Irwin votes for Sen Goldwater for Vice Pres; Hawaii's 3 votes not counted because of continuing popular vote recount; unpledged electors vote for Sen Thurmond for Vice Pres; Johnson gets 300 votes for Vice Pres; NYS electors illus
1960Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author and educator[†]
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), The Salt Roads (2003), The New Moon's Arms (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk (2001) often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
1960Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)[†]
Kim Ki-duk was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of the most important contemporary Asian film directors.
1960Vietnam War: The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, popularly known as the Viet Cong, is formally established in Tân Lập village, present day Tây Ninh province.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]