Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-29
Nixon Clashes
With HeCkIer
In Siberia
Earlier Welcome
There Friendly;
Party Flies to UruIs
BY JOHN SCALI
Associated Press stan Write

SVERDLOVSK, Union Of So
Wet Socialist Republics, July
29.-Vice President Nixon took
on a series of hecklerS today
and demanded to know why
the Soviet Union sees At to
maintain troops in Poland,
Hungary and East Germany.
The clashes took place in
Novosibirsk, western Siberia,
just before the Vice President
took of for Sverdlovsk. Sew
eral thousand silently waiting
Russians greeted him in this
city in the eastern Ural noun
tainS.
Mr.. Nixon's eagerly awaited
tour of the Siberian branch of
the USSR Academy of Sciences
at Novosibirsk turned out to
be a bust. Soviet authorities
allowed him to see only a single
building which, they said, is to
house their Institute of Hydro
dynamicS.
Eventually, some 500 build
ings are to be located in the
area where many Of Russia's
top scientists will work. Mr..
Nixon learned only that some
$4,000 persons, scientists, tech
|nicianS and students will re-
side there in a self contained
community called Science City.
Insisted on Visit
Mr.. Nixon stayed there about
a half hour.
Soviet authorities only re-
luctantly allowed him the visit.
Mr.. Nixon insisted on 1t.
The overall feeling toward
Mr.. Nixon in NovoSibirSk was
warm. He received there yes
terday the friendliest greeting
of his l1-day Soviet tour.
Throngs, curious about Amer
leans, a breed they seldom see,
all but mobbed him at times.
But shortly before leaving
NovoSibirSk he was subjected
to some questions from heck
lerS. One of Mr.. Nixon's aides
said some of the hecklers APP
peared to have been planted
in the crowd.
Mr.. Nixon showed no OUT
ward sign Of being upset at
the sharp questioning which
came as he toured the huge
hydroelectric plant and big
scientific center.
But twice he challenged in
Sistent critics of American
overseas bases to "hear the
truth" by tuning in on his
farewell speech from Moscow
over television next Saturday.
Replies Sharply
And once he replied sharply
to a question, Are you really
for peace?"
What do you Think" Mr..
Nixon answered.
Il think not" said the ques-
toner, whom Soviet authorities
quickly identified as a brick
layer at the Siberian scientific
center.
Il suggest you read my
speeches again." said Mr.. Nixon,
land if you can get your gov
eminent to stop jamming the
Voice of America broadcasts
you'll get the truth. You are
not getting the truth now"
On reaching SverdlovSk the
Vice President went ahead with
a visit to a giant heavy ma
chinery plant, one of the big
geSt in Russia.
Sverdlovsk, 900 miles west of
Novosibirsk, is where the Boil
sheviks executed Car Nicholas
II in 1918.
Now a city of more than
100000, SverdlovSk has been a
leading industrial center since
the Russians moved war in
duStrieS here in World War II.
1t is $50 miles east of Moscow.
TOe-tO-TOe Exchange
The hot exchanges in
Novosibirsk came only two
hours before Mr.. Nixon and
his party left that city.
On several occasions ques-
TONERS stood toe to toe with
Mr.. Nixon, challenging him to
say why the United States will
not accept Soviet plans for
ending nuclear tests and why
it will not trade more with
Russia.
The Vice Presidents patience
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