Foremost among congressional critics of the use of gas in Vietnam, members of the Wednesday Club: Republican Reps. John Lindsay (N.Y.), Charles Mathias Jr. (Md.), Frank J. Horton (N.Y.), Bradford Morse (Mass.), Stanley Tupper (Me.). On the Democratic side only William Fitts Ryan (N.Y.) seemed equally shocked …. Rep. Paul Rogers (D. , Fla.) is introducing a bill to bar the use of American ports to any ships doing business with North Vietnam. Certain longshoreman locals have refused to load or unload ships that have recently put in at Haiphong, the port of Hanoi …. Boomerang: reports that the government might impose thumping tax on U.S. tourists traveling abroad have caused a quarter million person up- surge in foreign travel in first quarter of 1965. (“Let’s go while the going’s cheap” psychology.)
Italian Oltremare news agency reports Soviet technicians are in Algeria preparing to install missile bases near Calle, east of Bone. When operational the Algerian missiles could reach most West European capitals …. Algerian sources have accused Portuguese secret police of the murder of Gen. Delgado (the hijacker of the Santa Maria). Delgado disappeared in mid-February. Portuguese sources now say the Portuguese rebel was spirited out of Algeria with the connivance of the government and is now being held in Prague.




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