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...Southern Courier, a weekly newspaper devoted to news of civil rights in the south, published its first issue Friday...
...Courier, conceived this spring by several Harvard and Radcliffe students, is presently publishing a weekly devoted to news of the state of Alabama. It is printed in Atlanta, Georgia. Original plans called for a weekly edition in each of five Southern states, but the operation had to be cut back for financial reasons...
...Force was testing a new aircraft-a snappy little twin-engined Helio Courier light plane-and naturally, there was only one pilot for the job. Grinning broadly,. Air, Force General René Barrientos, 46, the more equal of Bolivia's two co-Presidents, strapped himself into the pilot's seat and roared off into the blue. After buzzing over La Paz, Barrientos flitted for about 30 minutes around the jagged 21,325-ft. peak of nearby Mount Illimani, then pushed the shuddering plane to 21,425 ft., setting a new altitude mark for that type of aircraft...
...week's end (and TIME's deadline) neared, communications became-next to bullet dodging-the major problem. Cable traffic was out, telephone service spotty. Duncan finally managed to get the copy out, mostly by courier to San Juan, thence by Teletype and telephone to New York. On Saturday, Caribbean Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold flew to Santo Domingo aboard a Navy supply plane, got his own view of the situation, picked up the final takes of the Duncan-Diederich files, and made it back to San Juan on the last plane...
Peter Cummings '66, president of the Courier, said yesterday that the newspaper will primarily print civil rights to "fill the information gap for both the Negroes and whites of the South...