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No. 203
Tel.
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June
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Of Vicious Attacks Challenge Traffic rive Starte Is Issued Island Accident Rate For Probe
Target Of CivicGroup
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U. S. State Department yesterday
By
A.
W.
Traffie accidents in Puerto Rico will continue despite better roads and better laws,
the president
of the
Commonwealth
Public Serviee Commission
said yesterday
pends basically
El.
The
Imparcial
truck
driver
newspaper.
reportedly
of
man close
man
here
said
lotov
cocktail”
to
about
6:20
the
vehicle
at
The
driver,
Ramon
ra, reportedly
time
the
to escape
being
Authorities
said
took
at
ing
Highway
place 1.
portedly
The
thrown
in
burned.
Km.
503
on
was
re-
from
according
cial top
spokesman, and landed on of the vehicle, spreading
burning
an
gasoline
El
all
direc-
bombing
was
the
latest
two
Spanish-language
tabloid
the cruover 50
every
govern-
out
of
Traffic
the
meet-
solve -the
traffic
“crisis”
in
Puerta
Rico
were
brought
up.
Among
them
were
Bureau
and
Traffic
Standard
paring
a
driver’s
distributed
island.
and
and
type
of
manual
to
on
manual will fully
it
TRAFFIC,
VANDENBERG
AIR
polar
orbit
missile
apparently The
didn’t
12th
Air
@—The
Air
Force
XII
go -into
the
intended
announced
south
toward
polar
Recovering
a
that the
satellite
orbit.
Vital Mission satellite rocket,
Discoverer
shot
scientists
whispers
Cancio during at
the
orbit
to
of Public
Secretary
Civic Crusade
Department
of
Works
Fran-
Justice,
Hiram
for Traffic Safety meeting
of Public
for
a
with
new
space
capsule
from
is deemed
a must
for
special
try
at
orbit
a or
successful
In Space’
recovery
program.
system
America’s
against
regime
“has
the report said that
Works
yesterday.
no people
the
facts
in this
day
report to the
opportunity to
learn
situation.”
Presented
The (See
Monday
was
presented
committee
CASTRO,
by
Mon-
John
Page
C,
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Accreditation Fight Reported LikelyTo Involve Munoz Marin By attempt
by
Marin’s
Popular
Democratic
HAROLD
J. LIDIN
to get recognition at the coming Democratic
Campocrats
former
An
national convention in Los Angeles will include a strong hint that Gov. Luis Munoz was Party
might
XIl Fails To
with
affiliate
authoritatively the
Orbit
sule is
the
with ejected
in
failure—if
gear from
the
there
is
Planes chute
today
one—they
to radio performance the
whirling
earth’s
lower.
trailing as
its
jammed
satellite
until
it’s
the
the
cap-
moment
parachute
it
bursts
atmosphere.
catching wafted
have
details. from
Is
Good
devices
down
near
were
stress
supposed
to
snag
the
This a
group
split
crats
of
(Benicrats)
want.
who
statehood. are
(See
SATELLITE,
Page
20)
lifted
off
beauti-
The
declared
A. they
ex-CampoCommon-
delegation
(See
with Demo-
The
for Commonwealth
combination
island
backing
78-foot
rocket
step
led by Jose
haye
wealth.
Thor-Agena
a
is contesting
group
Yesterday’s launch from a seaside pad at this West Coast missile-space base came at 15:01, in partly overcast weather. The two-stage
such
man.
crats
Hawaii.
that
pos
national
the
with
who
a
of
notice
must first get the approval of the Popular Party central committee, of which Munoz is chair-
Benitez,
:
yesterday.
local: Democrats
the
tie-up
party,
it
party,
national
the
4learned sible
Ten previous trys have gone awry, for reasons not precisely known. The experts hope for their first success this time. But to
Start crammed
Cuban
Cuban
the
photo by Gunter Hett.)
forth
finding what's’ wrong. Man
CONFAB—Secretary
Lizardi,
analyze
Force
two-way.mission: A
cisco
said,
yesterday.
base,
instruments, vital
PRIVATE
Discoverer Calif.
cam-
half-truths
is virtually
for
But
BASE,
“intense
to international tensions Caribbean area.”
“there
in
More than two hours after the-big rocket was sent aloft from this
the
entertain
FORCE
Or-
States. Castro
falsehoods”
In addition,
20)
tried—and apparently failed—to fire the satellite Discoverer
the
the Cuban regime has ‘“‘so drastically curtailed’ the press in Cuba
This
was
Page
an
distortions,
tribute, in the
In Space Delayed
Satellite , into
be
of
of
It said
the
be
illustrated.
manual,
(See
are\pre-
to all drivers
The
color
Company
organ of
contributed and continues to con-
big-
Crisis
three-hour
to help
1. The
Peace
(See Other Story, Page 7)
cam-
of
Esso
unions, each of which has (See BOMBED, Page 20)
Man
safety
of by
the
pages
Inter-American
an
of
public
11
and outright the U.S.
at
the following:
. in a series of incidents aimed at the
meeting, officials
the
paign
Works
ing ideas and projects being car-
tions. The
yesterday
of Public
made
report
government
10
one
ried
Impar-
in
other
gest in the history sade, was attended
During
a passing
car,
met traffic
Solve
bomb-
bomb
to
all
ment agency and leading civic organization such as the Lions Club and the Knights of Columbus.
Rive-
the
a
to
tribunal
ganization of American The report accused the
through the combined efof government and civic
high
at
vehicle
launch
The
p.m.
Quilan
left
of
a
nations.
department
official
sent
organizations.
all of the after a “Mo-
thrown
crusade
paign forts
truck,
was
cent
The
the Department
which was on its way to deliver 600 newspapers in Cayey, was a complete loss and papers were burned
per
disturbing hemisphere
before
Committee,
element.”
The
injury
the
on the “hus
roads and automobiles.
bomb.
Police
The
an
per cent, he said, are due to
an
delivery
escaped
90
of the
“vicious propaganda”
charges”
Gelabert said that
to
in
of hemisphere
accidents are due to the “hu-
last night when his vehicle was completely destroyed by an in-
cendiary
with
element.”
Ramon
peace
against the U. S. It challenged Fidel Castro’s regime to take its “unfounded
tat a meeting of the Civic Crusade for Traffic Safety. Traffic safety, he said, dey
Truck Bombed On. Highway CAGUAS—
the
o
EI Imparcial
accused the Cuban
government
MALDONADO
of the Democrats
MUNOZ,
to the July Page
20)
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