davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1960-04-03
With Romunio.
Agreement

The United States and RO-' f.
mania on Wednesday signed a I.
significant settlement Of mu-' !.
tual claims. the first such agree, >
ment effected between the !.
United States and a Communist ,
nation.
When Romania after World
War II became a member of the
socialist camp" in Europe, ma
tionalization of industry brought
heavy claims against the Bucharest
government by foreign investors.
Last week, after four months Of
negotiation in Washington, the
claim problem was settled. The
agreement released millions in
Romanian funds that had been
blocked because of the claims.
Romanian Deputy Finance
Minister Radu Manescu, who
headed the Romanian delegation
in the negotiations, praised the.
settlement as "a positive factor in
the development of relations be-
tween our countries"
The successful negotiations
we're another indication of the
slowly warming political climate.
Similar parleys have been taking
place between the United States
and Poland. and also with Czecho-
slovakia. State Department off,
cials are hopeful that, as the re-
suit of the Romanian agreement,
better progress can be expected
with other Eastern-bloc nations.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Violence Again

In swift pre-dawn strikes We'd
nesday and Thursday, police ar
rested and jailed more than 300
African leaders. white opponents
of the ruling Nationalist Party,
and Asian leaders. Only few of
the best-known foes of apartheid
escaped the dragnet.
But despite the rigorous crack
down. the Africans for the most
part continued to stay away from
their jobs. An estimated $50 mil
lion has been lost during the week
in loss Of production alone. South
African shares nose-dived on the
London stock exchange. Under
the emergency regulations an
nounced Thursday, strikes are
forbidden and anyone failing to
work may be fined $1,400 and sem
fenced to five years in prison.
AS the week ended, the contin-
uihg violence and strikes brought
rumors of an impending political
development. johannesburg re-
ports predicted the resignation of
Mr.. Verwoerd and the formation
of a coalition government. One
indication of growing sentiment
for a relaxation of apartheid was
seen in a statement issued by nine
prominent clergymen Of the in
fluential Dutch Reformed Church.
which has in the past been con-
sidered strongly segregationist.
They asked the government to
uphold human dignity" to re-
duce friction, and to avoid actions
which eventually produce a har-
vest of hate"
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South Africa:
u. N. Action

The United Nations Security
Council voted 80 for q resolu-
tion "deploring" racial violence
in the Union Of South Africa.
The Charter of the United Ma
tionS sets forth the obligation of
the international organization
and of each member nation to
guarantee human rights and to
resist their suppression. But the
same Charter bars u. N. inter-
ference in the purely internal,
domestic affairs of member ma
tions.
On Friday the Security Council
decided in the case of South
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In Durham Friday, police bull
lets killed three more Africans
during a demonstration in the
center of that Indian Ocean port.
Two more Africans were slain in
Johannesburg, and police twice
turned back an organized march
of Negroes outside Durham to pro-
test the arrest of African leaders
earlier in the week.
The government of Premier
Hendrix Verwoerd took stringent
steps during the week to crush
the spreading opposition to its
apartheid policy. Parliament,
meeting in Capetown, voted to
outlaw the African National Con-
gress and the Pan-Afrikanist
Congress, the sole African politi-
cal groups. Mr.. Verwoerd pro-
claimed a state of emergency COW
ering most of the Union, thus
Evening star., 1960-04-03

Catholicism, Protestant Humph-
rey has been fastidiously correct.
When the issue has bubbled to
the surface, he has done his best
to push it back under. He has
done this for two reasons: %
He sincerely condemns religious
bias and ~ he can see that this
sort of thing can only help Mr..
Kennedy by solidifying the Roman
Catholic vote into bloc.
While Catholics make up less
than one-third of the population
(about 80 per cent? of Wisconsin,
they are more numerous in the
large cities, where the Democratic
Party Is strongest. In addition,
there are many Catholics in the
Republican Party who may take
advantage of the States primary
law and cross over to vote in the
Democratic race. Any harping on
the religious issue would increase
the likelihood Of such a cross
over.
Last week an advertisement ap-
peared in a small Wisconsin news
paper which, in effect, asked Prot
estants to rally around Mr.. Hum
phrey as it asserted Catholics were
doing for Mr.. Kennedy. Mr.. Hum
phrey moved fast. He called a spe-
cial news conference to condemn
the a advertise ment as ugly
bigotry."
From the beginning the public
opinion polls have shown Mr.. Ken
nedy as the probable winner in
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Cuba:
Polish Pact

Havana announced Thursday
the signing Of a trade pact
with Poland. Cuba will receive
Polish industrial plants, aircraft
including jet fighters, helicOp-
ters and ships in return for
Cuban sugar.
When the United States reject
ed Premier Fidel CaStro's request
for a number of helicopters, Mr..
Castro responded in one of his
angriest anti-American diatribes
and with a formal protest to the
State Department. He sought the
whirlybirdS "for use in agricul-
ture." he insisted, but American
officials noted that the machines
have some military uses. too.
Now it seems the Fidelistas are
to get their helicopters. but from
Communist Poland. The pact
signed last week provides for Pol
ish technical assistance toward
Cuban industrialization. Diplo-
mats observed that Castro's Cuba,
denied credits or loans by Western
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Help in Primary

II Mr.. Kennedy wins on Tues
day, it would seem to indicate
that, rather than being a handi-
cap, his religion is actually going
to help him in his bid for the
nomination. Whether this would
be true in the general election next
November is another matter.
The latest Gallup Poll shows
that the Massachusetts, Senator is
leading Mr.. Nixon, for the first
time since last August, by the
comfortable margin of SO to At.
But the polls fluctuate consider
ably, it appears, according to the
regularity with which one appears
in print or on television. Mr.. Ken
nedy has been leading in this de-
partment recently with his vig-
orous nomination drive.
One of Mr.. ,Kennedy's Demo-
cratic opponents. Senator Syming-
ton Of Missouri, stole march on
him last week when two leading
labor leaders endorsed him as the
best man for the presidency. The
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Accept Principle

The Soviet Union has accepted,
during the II months of the
Geneva talks, the principle of
inspection and control. But there
has remained a wide gulf between
the Vests ideas of adequate con-
troll and those of the Soviet
Union. Major differences exist
on such important details as the
number of inspections to be per-
mitted annually: on the compost
ton of inspection teams: on the
value of unnamed robot" moni-
toring stations.
Additionally, the Vests coun-
ter-propesal calls for a three
power scientific research program,
during the moratorium on under
ground testing. to seek ways and
means of policing adequately
those underground nuclear blasts
that might easily be confused
with earthquakes and other seis-
mic disturbances. Thus far the
Soviet delegation has displayed
little interest in such a project.
but there is optimism among the
Western delegations that this
condition would not stand in the
way of an agreement.
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Civil Rights:
M0neuYers

The Senate last week amend
ed the House-approved civil
rights bill by approving the
"Lausche amendment" making
II a crime to Obstruct all types ?
of Federal court orders.
When the House took up civil
rights legislation a few weeks ago,
it had been the hope of some DEM
ocratic leaders outside the deep
South that it would approve a bill
which the Senate would accept
quickly and without change.
If this could be done. then the
civil rights business could be fin
ished with and Congress could go
on to other important issues in
this short. Observation-Disclosures
year session. .
But efforts in the House 10
broaden section / to make it a
crime to obstruct all types of Fed
eral court orders-and not simply
those in school desegregation cases
were blocked. The Senate had
approved the broader plan, known
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Khrushckev's View

Soviet response to the Camp
David counter-proposals has been
guardedly favorable. Premier
Khrushchev. in an informal chat
with reporters aboard his train
while he toured the French prov
inces, remarked that the West
had really begun to accept its
own original proposals. Mr..
Tsarapkin, in Geneva, called the
Camp David decisions "encourag-
ing" and "a step forward" But
he cautioned that he would have
ITO read little between the lines"
and would surely have some
questions to ask"
The Eisenhower administration
problem in accepting a lengthy
moratorium is constitutional
one, which which the Russians are
thought certain to understand
A treaty, signed by the three
powers and duly ratified, would
bind any succeeding administra-
ton. But a simple agreement
could not. However, the con-
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Africa's continuing racial disor-
ders, which have brought bloody
rioting with almost a hundred
killed. that the human rights"
provisions of the Charter applied.
The resolution adopted by the
Council directs Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to make ar
rangements" with the Union gov
ernment Ito provide that the
Charter be upheld"
South Africa is not currently a.
member of the Security Council,
but her representative. Bernardus
G. Fourie. argued strongly that
"apartheid' and its results were
entirely the private business of
South Africa. In this stand he
was backed by Britain and France,
both permanent members of the
Council. Armand Berard, French
delegate, and Sir Pierson Dixon
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sensus as the week ended seemed
to be that any administration
taking office next January would
honor any such agreement, pro-
viding of course that progress
had been made on the overall
test ban treaty. There is no hkeli-
hood that a treaty. even If nego-
tiated and signed speedily at
Geneva. could be ratified by the
Senate during the current session
of Congress.
While the test ban conferees
appeared to be finding new pros
poets for success in their chamber
at the Palais de Nations. in the
room next door the donation
Disarmament Commission was
marking time. Valerian A. Zorin,
Dipef Soyiet tdelegate. praised the
Camp David announcement as
proof that Soviet initiative and
sincerity in seeking a test ban
had at last produced results. He
was promptly contradicted by
Britain's David Ormsby Gore, who
told the astute Soviet delegate
that it was Western initiative that
had brought about the test-ban
negotiations,
Evening star., 1960-04-03
> THE NATIONAL SCENE
The Seasons Biggest Political Prize

Senators Kennedy and Hum
phrey yesterday wound up the
last full week of their frantic
Wisconsin campaign, with the
religious issue seen as a factor
In the vote on Tuesday.
Senator SymingtOn last week
received the endorsement of two
labor leaders, the first to COM
init themselves to a presidential
aspirant.
President Eisenhower last
Wednesday gave Vice President
Nixon a bright green light to
campaign on his own.
Only 81 votes are at stake. This
amounts to approximately per
cent of the total t76D needed to
nominate at the Democratic ma
tional convention in July
Obviously. in itself, this block of
votes is inconsequential. But there
is more to it than numbers, and
the extravagant vigor of the can
didates underscores the point.
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The Moratorium

The Soviet acceptance, however,
was conditioned on the three
powers agreement to impose a
non-policed moratorium on these
underground tests. Informally,
Mr.. Tsarapkin had suggested a
term of -four or five years" for
this moratorium. a span of time
the West deemed entirely too
long.
But it was obvious from the
moment of the Soviet proposal
that the United States, despite
considerable and determined OPP
position from the Pentagon and
the Atomic Energy Commission,
plus Several members of Congress,
was not disposed to reject the
Moscow plan summarily. Even so,
there were doubts enough in Lon
don on the outcome of the admin
istration's internal dissension to
bring about swift trip to Wash
ington by Mr.. Macmillan.
The President and the Prime
Minister at Camp David did, in
effect, accept the Soviet proposal,
which was in itself a partial ac-
ceptance Of the previous Western
position. But Mr.. Eisenhower
made it clear that he could not
commit the succeeding adminis-
tration in the UniteE States to
an indefinite moratorium on un-
detachable tests.
Camp David's sylvan quiet pro-
duced a joint statement to the
effect that the United States and
the United Kingdom would indeed
agree to a mora torium on under
ground testing, if % a hard-and-
fast treaty were signed ending all
detectable testing by the three
powers. and 90 if the treaty pro-
vided expressly for an acceptable
system of international inspec-
ton and control to guard against
Cheating"
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Campaign Active

The prize the voters can pestow
is different for the contending
candidates, but it is critically i'm
portant in each case. For Senator
Hubert Humphrey. the 'man from
next door" Minnesota, it is as
basic as you can get in politics: A
chance to stay "alive." For Sem
ator John F. Kennedy, the man
from the industrial East" it is an
opportunity to create genuine
"bandwagon psychology. which
could overwhelm the doubters in
his party and permit him to
storm the convention.
For weeks the two Senate friends
have travelled up and down the
State which enacted the Nation S
first primary election law. after
contemplating for eight years this
exhortation from Robert M. La
Toilette in 1897:
Abolish the caucus and con-
vention. Go back to the first
principle of democracy; go back
to the people"
In the campaigning, the favored
Mr.. Kennedy has refrained from
engaging in personalities, not
even attacking Vice President
Nixon, the likely Republican
nominee. by name.
Mr.. Humphrey. as the under
dog, could not afford this luxury.
He has belted both Mr.. Nixon
and Mr.. Kennedy with unbounded
enthusiasm. He has kept his shots
above the belt while he was at it.,
. although, on occasion. one may
have suspected that he looked
upon his opponents as rather
low-waiSted individuals.
On the potentially explosive
matter of religion. that is, anti
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Toward the Summit

Great differences in attitude
marked the Disarmament Com
missions sessions, and it con-
tinued to be plain that both sides
we're marking time until the sum-
nit conference, scheduled for
next month, indicated the paths
to success or failure. The Western
delegations devoted most of the
week to challenging the Soviet
claim that an announced reduc.
ton of the Soviet armed forces,
within the next 18 months, by
2.423,000 men was "a huge prac-
tical step" toward disarmament.
Announcements" observed Fred
rick M. Eaton of the American
delegation, "are not disarma-
ment."
One important point was made
during the week by Mr.. Zorin
when he stated that certain
other States" not participating
in the Geneva donation discus
sions would have to be included
in ANY concrete measures" de-
cided upon by the conference. 1t
was clear to all that the Soviet
delegate was referring particu-
larly to Communist China, with
out whose support any disarma-
ment agreement would be con-
sidered Intellectual.
While the test-ban and dis
armament sessions dragged on at
Geneva, the French program for
full-f1edged membership in the
nuclear club went on full speed.
Even while the Soviet Premier
was still in France, but with ex-
plantations that his changed time
schedule and not defiance was
responsible, the French exploded
their second nuclear device at
their Sahara test station. Presi-
dent de Gaulle has made it clear
that France would ignore any
test-ban arranged at Geneva un-
til the worlds nuelear weapons
stockpiles have been destroyed.
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The WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
A Move to Break the Test Ban Jam

At Camp David Monday and
Tuesday, President Eisenhower
and British Prime Minister
Macmillan agreed on a quail
fed acceptance Of the latest
Soviet proposal for the me-
chanics Of a ban on further
nuclear testing.
To negotiate, says Webster. is
"to treat with a view to coming
TO terms" Such a definition pre-
supposes good faith, a real in
tention of finding q common
ground. else negotiation becomes
a mockery and a betrayal. Pres
ident Eisenhower last week voiced
his conviction, at his Wednesday
press conference, that the Soviet
Union is truly negotiating, in
Webster's full meaning. for a ces-
sation of nuclear weapons testing.
"All the signs are that the So
vietS do want a degree of disar-
mament, and they want to stop
testing" the President said. That
looks to me to be more or less
proved they have come long
way since they said we are ready
to establish these mutual systems
and so the very fact that they
have made this concession means
that they want to negotiate fur
ther; no question in my mind"
Mr.. Eisenhower and Mr.. Mac
milan. talking in the springtime
solitude of Camp David in the
Catoctins. had reached agreement
on the United States-British reply
to the most recent Soviet offer
at the Geneva test-ban confer
ence. Semyon K. Tsarapkin, the
very able Soviet delegate, had in
effect accepted Mr.. Eisenhower's
most recent suggestion that the
d there nuclear powers agree to end
all tests that could be detected
in the atmosphere. the waters. and
in space-but to permit continued
testing of nuclear devices under
ground if the explosions we're be-
low q specified threshold"
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Wisconsin. But Mr.. Humphrey
must find it ironic that his OPP
ponent's Catholicism, a factor
which has caused many Demo-
cratic Party professionals to won-
der privately about his ability to
win the White House, appears to
be gaining the bulk Of the States
Catholic voters while not alienat-
ing large numbers of Protestants.
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u. S. Backs Move

The United States voted in
favor of the resolution. which was
in final form modified and softer
version of the original draft sub
mitted by Ecuador. Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge, this months
chairman of the Council said
after the vote that the resolution
Sought to build a bridge, not
a wall" in the racial conflict.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

for Britain abstained from the
voting, although both condemned
racial segregation. France, in
volved in the Algerian rebellion,
has consistently resisted U. N.
effort to intervene; Britain, as
head of the Commonwealth, re-
Trained from a vote that in effect
censured a Commonwealth nation.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

the Presidents permission now;
perhaps he will speak out in
specifics.
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arming police and the military
with virtual martial law.
Evening star., 1960-05-11

They said Premier Michel
secret session of the National
Assembly's Foreign Affairs Com
mission.
Mr.. Debre added that if the
German question, including
Berlin, is dominant there will
be virtually no chance for sue
cess in the conference. which
opens here next Monday.
Coinciding with the commits
sion meeting in this French
capital was a session of Com
Imunist East Germany's Parlia-
ment. There Prime Minister
Otto Grotewohl demanded that
the summit conference produce
a solution Of the issue of divid-
ed Berlin.
Ask Interim Action
Mr.. Grotewohl reiterated that
the East Germans are prepared
to accept an interim solution
in the interests of world peace.
This offer, a slight retreat flom
the Communist call that West
Berlin be made a free, derlili-
tarized city, was made by Wal
ter Ulbricht, Communist Party
secretary, April IT. Among
other things, reduced Western
garrisons would remain. West
ern sources objected that the
plan still demanded concessions
from the West without offering
any in return.
In Paris, sources close to the
Assembly's Foreign Affairs
Commission said Mr.. Debre
suggested:
Instead of plunging into the
German question - on which
| there seems to be no chance
of agreement-the Big -Four
should begin with such mat
! ters as aid to underdeveloped
countries and control of arms
traffic, particularly to black
Africa.
Agreement on these points
could lead to a relaxed atmos-
phere in which the German
question could better be re-
solved.
Follow De Gaulle Line
The summit meeting should
draw the broad lines for future
talks.
Mr.. Debre's reported re-
marks followed closely Presi-
dent de Gaulle's publicly stated
position. Gen. de Gaulle has
said that it would be wrong
to start out on the German
question "for which no solu-
ton is possible now"
Gen. de Gaulle hopes that
progress can be made on dis
armament-which Mr.. Khru-
Evening star., 1960-05-11
NepuI Royalty Get
Presley Autograph

HOLLYWOOD, May IL CAP).
When royalty and Elvis Pres
ley, teen-age singing idol, met,
it was Elvis who gave his auto
graph.
How do you do, it's so nice
to meet you" the singer smiled
yesterday when introduced to
the touring King of Nepal and
Queen Ratna on a movie set.
Evening star., 1960-05-11

shchev has campaigned for
since last fall - and aid to
underdeveloped nations.
Mr.. Debre was reported to
have told the commission that
the United States, Britain and
France have agreed to propose
to the Soviet Union that the
talks be held in tight secrecy,
with no propaganda.
The sources said Mr.. Debre
expressed the opinion that the
Soviet attitude has clearly be-
come more rigid in recent
weeks. He said the West is
determined to remain united
on preserving its rights in
West Berlin.
Evening star., 1960-05-11
Bill Asks Commission
On RuruI Problems
BY the Associated Press

A bill to establish a COM
mission on problems of small
towns and rural counties was
approved by the Senate Gov
ernment Operations Committee
yesterday.
Senator Mundt, Republican
Of South Dakota, sponsored the
bill. 1t. defines a small town
as one having a population of
less than 10000 and a rural
county as one with less than
$4,000.
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will present George Kelly's
Pulitzer Prize play. Craig s
Wife" at 8:l5 pm. Friday and
Saturday in the school gymna-
SUM.
Evening star., 1960-05-11
School PIoy Slated

The Black MaSkers, drama
club of Richard Montgomery
High School, Rockville. Md,
Evening star., 1960-05-11
Khrushchev Reported
Seeking Berlin Poet

PARIS, May IL GAP).-Premier Khrushchev is exerting
Western leaders to make Germany the dominant
Big summit conference informed
today.
They said Premier Michel Debre made this report to
, 1960-08-09
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August |, 1860
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Government Secretary
, 1960-08-09
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