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WASHINGTON, May 23 -- President Kennedy has decided to press for a stronger program to shelter the populace against a nuclear attack.
UN Command repts junta rejects secs of draft accord aimed at ending mil forces defiance of UN comdr; says Magruder and Chung Hi Pak reached accord on a few points; Magruder renews demands that troops used in coup be returned to posts, that Korean gens be restored to commands; Chung Hi Pak says junta has no desire to change set-up dating to Korean War; Chang Do Young plans visit to US for talks with Kennedy
Kennedy reptd to have asked Mrs Roosevelt, Reuther and Dr Eisenhower to organize tractor-captive exch; White House denies it; US technicians reptdly will go back to Cuba with 10 captives to clarify Castro requirements; US support of 'blackmail' questioned by Capehart, Morse, Fulbright, others in Cong
Premier David Ben-Gurion arrived here last night en route to Canada for his first visit to that country as the chief executive of Israel. He will return to the United States Sunday to meet Secretary-General Dag Hammar skjold.
French Amb Chauvel offers 2 draft declarations proposing East and West accept internatl charter for Laotian neutrality, s, Geneva; bars all foreign troops from Laos or their passage through Laotian territory; US backs plan; Thanat Khoman proposes Indonesia and Malaya get invs to conf and be included in Control Comm; Communist China rejects French and Thai proposals but would permit inclusion of Indonesia
1961Lorella Cedroni, Italian philosopher and theorist (died 2013)[†]
Lorella Cedroni was an Italian political philosopher.
1961Alain Lemieux, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach[†]
Alain Lemieux is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Quebec Nordiques, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He is also the older brother of NHL great Mario Lemieux.
1961American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.[†]
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s. After years of nonviolent protests and civil disobedience campaigns, the civil rights movement achieved many of its legislative goals in the 1960s, during which it secured new protections in federal law for the civil rights of all Americans.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]