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...EDGAR A. WILEY Temple City. Calif...
Died. John Cooper Wiley, 73, U.S. diplomat, whose distinguished 38-year career took him from counselor of the first U.S. embassy in Soviet Russia in 1934 (among his subordinates: George F. Kennan, Charles Bohlen) to chargé d'affaires in Vienna, where he was one of the first to warn of Hitler's Anschluss, and on to ambassadorships in Colombia, Portugal, Iran and Panama, where in 1952 he negotiated a revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty to give Panama greater benefits from the waterway; of pneumonia; in Washington...
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...demanding the death penalty for Segrest. Civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to send federal marshals to protect Negro lives and rights, and Mayor Charles M. Keever, calling the situation "very dangerous," said that he might ask for federal troops. "The murder shows," said Tuskegee Institute Instructor Jean Wiley, "that the image of Tuskegee as the ideal integrated Southern community was only a facade...
...Wiley said, "The program should give children lacking self-confidence the opportunity to speak honestly and express their opinions. It will also provide subject matter not available in public school classrooms...