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visit used by USSR to increase pressure on Finland for mutual defense talks
Civil Rights Comm rept on adm of justice finds police lawlessness and brutality serious problem in US; describes recent beatings and killings by police; recommendations
Kennedy, with Natl Security Council approval, decides to strengthen S Vietnam; US will send several hundred specialists to train S Vietnam forces, planes and special equipment; will send no combat units now but does not rule them out if situation deteriorates; Kennedy and Taylor see S Vietnam able to halt Communist threat with mil reforms; Rusk details US plans to GB and France; neither object
PSC rules Consol Edison may get more revenue by charging large consumers $18 million more if it charges small consumers $8 million less; finds small consumers overcharged; other proposals
13 Ital airmen serving with UN forces in Congo (Belgian) murered by munnous Congolese soldiers Nov 11 in Kindu
1961Robert Stethem, American soldier (died 1985)[†]
Robert Dean Stethem was a United States Navy Seabee diver who was murdered by Hezbollah members during the hijacking of the commercial airliner he was aboard, TWA Flight 847. At the time of his death, his Navy rating was Steelworker Second Class (SW2). He was posthumously promoted to Master Chief Constructionman (CUCM).
1961Pat Toomey, American businessman and politician[†]
Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, from 1999 to 2005.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[†]