New US rules will allow removal of single vessels from US blacklist on foreign merchant fleets carrying cargoes to Cuba; 4 Brit cos reptd pledging to remove 7 ships from Cuba trade

U.S. REVISES RULES ON SHIPPING TO CUT TRADE WITH CUBA; Change Will Permit Removal of Vessels From Blacklist in Exchange for Pledge Diplomats Doubt Efficacy Rules Issues Feb. 6 U.S. REVISES RULES TO CUT CUBA TRADE Latin Policy Reviewed

Chartered Bank (NYC): cashier and bank officer W Scorca charged with grand larceny and forgery in embezzlement police say may run to over $1 million; wrote check, on dummy acct

THEFT FROM BANK MAY TOP MILLION; 39-Year Employe Accused in Embezzlement Here THEFT FROM BANK MAY TOP MILLION

US Sup Ct refuses rehearing of Downtown W Businessmen's Assn suit to block Trade Center; assn atty S Geller holds that lack of assurance that Govt customs service and appraisers stores will move into center puts project in doubt

Trade Center Foes Denied a Rehearing; FOES LOSE AGAIN ON TRADE CENTER Court Declines to Comment Will Try Persuasion

internatl astrophysics conf, Dallas, sponsored by SW Center for Advanced Studies, Texas U and Yeshiva U and named in hon of late Pres Kennedy; 9 immense objects representing new type of celestial phenomenon and strongly emitting radio energy observed by Brit-US-Australian group on edge of observable universe; Dr W Fowler says objects may be billion times as heavy as sun

NINE NEW OBJECTS DETECTED IN SPACE; Radio-Emitting Bodies Are Found at Edge of Cosmos 9 Objects That Resemble Stars Are Found at Edge of Cosmos Kennedy Is Honored Cut Off By The Moon More Details Forthcoming

Mins Council conf opens; Pres Johnson message; Rusk s; illus with Butler, Min Thorneycroft and Sec McNamara

RUSK URGES NATO TO SEEK ACCORDS WITH SOVIET UNION; Says Coexistence Provides Check on Peking's Policy of Militancy to West JOHNSON PLEDGE GIVEN 6 Divisions to Be in Europe as Long as Necessary, Message Declares Peking Turns to Africa RUSK URGES NATO TO SEEK ACCORDS Prevailing Impression Allied Solidarity Praised

security precautions set for Johnson visit

JOHNSON TO STRESS SUPPORT FOR U.N.; Visit Here Today Will Also Enable President to See Chiefs of Delegations Pedestrians to Be Barred JOHNSON TO VOICE SUPPORT FOR U.N. Speech to Be 20 Minutes

Premier Chou En-lai offers Communist Chinese aid to new nations without pol strings, talks, UAR

AID TO AFRICANS OFFERED BY CHOU; Premier, in Cairo, Stresses China's Common Interests With Emerging States Chou Seeking 'Contacts' AID TO AFRICANS OFFERED BY CHOU

25, including Revs R Sherard, M A Galamison and M Duffy, held for attempting sit-in at Educ Bd to protest alleged 'complete failure' of bd to present meaningful integration plan; 100 Negroes and whites picket under auspices of Citywide Com for Integrated Schools; Gross says com makes extreme demands, that what it seeks can only be achieved by involuntary bussing of children over long distances; quotes Galamison as saying demonstration was called to express com annoyance with his interim rept; Galamison comments

25 ARRESTED HERE IN SCHOOL PROTEST; 3 Clergymen Among Those Prevented From Staging Racial Sit-In at Board March Into Office 26 ARRESTED HERE IN SCHOOL PROTEST No Other Choice Pairing of Schools Studied Busing Held One Way

Repub Legis leaders reptdly will provide funds for continuation

PRESIDENT SIGNS COLLEGE AID BILL; Hails It as Most Significant Education Act in History, a Monument to Kennedy Praises Supporters PRESIDENT SIGNS COLLEGE AID BILL Land Given to States

Soviet Trims Arms Budget And Some Economic Goals; Wage Increases Deferred SOVIET REDUCES DEFENSE BUDGET

17 hostages including 4 Amers freed as Govt pledges to withdraw troops but not to free 1 leftist mine leaders; wives of 2 joined Lechin in urging hostages release; map

MINERS' CAPTIVES FREED IN BOLIVIA; 4 Americans Among the 17 --Rebels Heed Pleas Bolivian Miners Free 17 Captives; Four Americans Are Unharmed Lechin Negotiated U.S. Says Captives Well

survey of NYC situation; SLA (NYS) announcement that 2 taverns, homosexual haunts, had been closed highlights increasing concern over presence of what is probably world's greatest homosexual population; Comr Murphy comments; taverns operations described; homosexuals colonize 3 NYC areas and attract others from all over US; over a thousand held annually for pub misdeeds; many psychiatrists hold inversion can be prevented or cured and is not inborn and incurable; some holders of latter view organize to seek removal of discriminations against inverts; Matachine Soc of NY noted as orgn devoted to educ pub on problems of inverts; evidence noted of crime syndicate control of taverns catering to homosexuals; ints on problem with city officials, Dr Bieber and other drs, soc workers and homosexuals

Growth of Overt Homosexuality In City Provokes Wide Concern; Growth of Overt Homosexuality Provoking Rising Concern KEY TO PROBLEM CALLED MEDICAL Police Commissioner Finds Crime Aspect Secondary --2 Bars Lose Licenses Closed Since Oct. 29 Out of the Shadows Experts' Views Differ The 'Gay' Life Open to Entrapment Blackmail Feared The Borderline Cases Silent Partner Heterosexual Masquerade Impossible Dream Found Everywhere Not Immune to Women Religions Condemn It Family Ties Studied Hostility a Key Factor 'Homosexual Is Ill'

HR, 249-135, approves $2.8-billion appropriation; bars Fed underwriting of credit for private US trade with USSR bloc; Dem leaders, because of deal with Passman to restore $200 million in Cong conf, make no floor fight; Johnson signs $3.6-billion authorization bill; scores tendency to hamstring exec flexibility

HOUSE APPROVES $2.8 BILLION IN AID; BARS RED CREDITS; Votes Against Underwriting by Export-Import Bank --Wheat Deal Affected JOHNSON NOTES A PERIL Charges Slashing of Funds Represents a Policy of 'Weakness and Retreat' Vote Is 249 to 135 HOUSE APPROVES $2.8 BILLION IN AID Signs Authorization Many Restraints Stricken Cutback Feared

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 16--The South Korean military junta dissoved itself today after having ruled for two years, seven months and a day.  

SOUTH KOREA JUNTA YIELDS TO CIVIL RULE

Text of President Johnson's Note to NATO Meeting in Paris; A Shared Dedication What Partnership Means

Chinese progress in penetrating Africa since '58 noted

China Gaining in Africa

Union Stalls Mail in Japan

American Killed on Everest

Proceedings in the U. N.

Pres Johnson pledges US forces will be kept in Eur as long as needed, message to Mins Council

DE GAULLE GIVES RUSK ASSURANCE; Says France Is Not Moving to Recognition of Peking

USN and USAF turn over last 2 bases at Kenitra and Nouasseur to Morocco; map

Last 2 U.S. Air Bases Turned Over to Morocco

US Sup Ct refuses to rev deportation to Taiwan of 2 mainland-born Chinese, upholding US view that for immigration purposes Taiwan is China; Justice Douglas dissents, raises issue of 1st asking Govt of mainland China to accept them as required under immigration laws

A JUSTICE DEMURS ON 2-CHINAS ISSUE; Douglas Would Ask Peking First to Accept Deportees

Assembly com, 96-11, approves raising membership to 15; France and USSR opposed US and GB abstain; Charter amendment required; Fedorenko worns that USSR will vote amendment unless Communist Chinese are 1st seated

Committee Vote Backs a 15-Seat U. N. Council; Vote on Social Council

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 16--The cash outlook for the United Nations, described two months ago as serious enough to cause considerable  anxiety, has now deteriorated to the point where a critical shortage is expected in the first six months of 1964.

December 17, 1963

Headlines from December 17, 1963

U.S. REVISES RULES ON SHIPPING TO CUT TRADE WITH CUBA; Change Will Permit Removal of Vessels From Blacklist in Exchange for Pledge Diplomats Doubt Efficacy Rules Issues Feb. 6 U.S. REVISES RULES TO CUT CUBA TRADE Latin Policy Reviewed

THEFT FROM BANK MAY TOP MILLION; 39-Year Employe Accused in Embezzlement Here THEFT FROM BANK MAY TOP MILLION

Trade Center Foes Denied a Rehearing; FOES LOSE AGAIN ON TRADE CENTER Court Declines to Comment Will Try Persuasion

NINE NEW OBJECTS DETECTED IN SPACE; Radio-Emitting Bodies Are Found at Edge of Cosmos 9 Objects That Resemble Stars Are Found at Edge of Cosmos Kennedy Is Honored Cut Off By The Moon More Details Forthcoming

Billboard 200

The Singing Nun

In The Wind

The Second Barbra Streisand Album

Trini Lopez At PJ's

Golden Records Vol. 3

Historical Context for December 17, 1963