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Evening star., 1962-08-25

ways thought it was inconsis-
tent with the rest Of our pro-
gram. Mr.. Wirth has been try
ing to get rid of them for
years"
Maintenance Units Moved
Congress enabled the park
director to further aesthetic
aims when it gave him 81, ,800,-
900 in 1861 to build a mechan-
ical maintenance shop at SIS
New York avenue NE, in
Brentwood Park.
All maintenance services
have now been moved there.
The one building to remain will
be used as office space until
completion of the administra-
tive wing of the National Park
Service Headquarters Building
now unoer' way In East. Po-
tomac Park.
This wing will be finished
next summer. Mr.. Jett said.
Congress also has appropriated
funds for a Park police wing
of this building. This addi-
tional wing is now being de-
signed.
If all goes according to
schedule. the unsightly 5-acre
area will be transformed in
time for the convention here of
the American Institute of Park
Executives, in September, 1868,
That will be nice for Mr..
Wirth. as well. for he's vice
president Of that organization
now, and is scheduled to be
See BUILDING, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-08-25
Wild Firing
Echoes AIOnu
Berlin Wall
City Kept Edey
But U. S. Believes
Crisis Has Eused

BERLIN, Aug. IS (AP).-
Wild shooting along Berlin's
wall - which apparently hurt
no one-kept this divided city
on the alert for fresh trouble
today.
But United States officials
in Washington we're reported
Evening star., 1962-08-25
Havana She||ed by Enemy Ships
Tidal Bosin Buildings
Rozing Is Under Way
20 Park Service Utility Structures
In West Potomac Park Will Go
By ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

facoryke complex of about 20 buildings located on
acres the Tidal Basin will be demolished by mid
September
The buildings, surrounded by chan-link fence are
bounded by independence avenue Fifteenth street and
East Basin drive.
For rs years the buildings under the ursdic
Evening star., 1962-08-25

confident, barring new out
breaks Of violence such as the
anti-Soviet riots in West Ber-
lin earlier in the week, that
the peak of tension had passed
for the time being.
West Berlin police reports
indicated about 100 shots were
fired from the Communist side
of the wall in four different
places during the night.
Some of the shooting prob
ably was aimed at a 20-year-
old soldier Of the East German
Peoples Army who reached
West Berlin at $3.50 am. He
was unhurt.
Reds Capture Swimmer
Only 35 minutes later, about
a mile away, West Berlin police
looked helpleSsly on while peo-
Piles police fired tommyguns
at a man trying to swim the
Landwehr Canal to West Berlin.
He was hauled into an East
Berlin police boat only about
10 yards from the West Berlin
bank. Apparently he was not
hurt either.
Earlier West Berlin police
watching through binoculars
saw a man or about 40 beine
arrested on the other side OF
the wall and taken away in a
truck.
Moscow newspapers criticized
the Western powers for turning
a deaf ear to Soviet Premier
Khrushchev's plans for a de-
militarized West Berlin. A
Pravda writer warned that
those who threaten to draw the
sword in the event of the sign
ing of a Soviet-East German
peace treaty may perish by
the sword"
Krasnaya Zvesda (Red Starr
in like vein quoted Soviet SCI
entistS as saying that while
rockets that launched Soviet
cosmonautS into space were
meant for peace they could be
used for military purposes.
Both Sides Study Notes
East Berlin Mayor Friedrich
Ebert, in an editorial in the
Communist newspaper Neues
Deutschland, declared the
Western powers war-won rights
in Berlin already we're "a fig
leaf punched full of holes" He
repeated the standard Commu-
mist demand that the Western
powers withdraw and leave
West Berlin a neutral, de-
militarized free city" - a
See BERLIN, Page A-3.
Evening star., 1962-08-25
By GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer

BUENOS AIRES.-Argentina
has become a country where
revolution is settled by tele-
phone and conference.
This revolution" really
means military coup d'etat here,
although most people studiously
avoid saying so. For the last
four months the admirals and
generals have bitterly debated
among themselves whether it is
necessary to take complete
power.
A regular ritual has devel-
oped. Competing army gener-
als-and their naval and air
force supporters play as
signed roles with almost conf
cal precision. The result is a
tragi-comic production which
even Hollywood would have
trouble surprising.
The scene was set when all
three military services united
to oust President Arturo From
dizi at the end of March. The
timid Jose Maria Guido, then
president of the Senate, was
hastily drafted to succeed Mr..
Frondizi.
But a good part of the army
has never been satisfied with
this compromise which gives it
veto power but without COM
plete control of the government.
Act L: The Challenge
The plot has developed along
predictable lines. In the first
act one of the dissident gener-
ais suddenly and loudly pro-
claims opposition to the in
cumbent minister of war.
His public declaration comes
Evening star., 1962-08-25


that the enemy YES
sells were manned by "the
mercenary agents (meaning
Cuban exileS) recruited and
armed by it. who operate with
impunity from the coasts of
Florida" He said the attack
was staged from an area l
kilometer "a of a mile) off
the suburb, Miramar.
Responsibility was claimed
promptly by the Cuban student
Directorate (known as Direc-
torio Revolucionario Estudian-
tiD in Miami. The group said
in an interview that two fully
equipped vessels fired more
than so shots, most of them
tracer bullets. destroying the
hotel.
Rooms Damaged
Return fire from the shore
was noted, the group said, but
the ships escaped unharmed.
The crews were Cuban STU
dents between l9 and % years
of age. the group said.
In contrast to this report of
destruction, the Havana news
paper Hoy said nine rooms of
the hotel were damaged. 1t is
the l75-room lear Hostel, for
merly the Rosita de Hornedo,
belonging to the Cuban Friend
ship Institute.
The theater target was the
Chaplin. it was announced.
U. S. Not Involved
In Washington, a State De-
partment spokesman rejected
the Cuban charges and added:
Il can fatty deny any United
States involment in, or knowl-
edge of, a reported shelling Of
Cuba"
The State Department
spokesman, Robert j. McClos-
key. said that while he had no
word yet from any other Fed
eral agencies which have duties
of preventing armed attacks
being launched from this coun-
try: II would assume we would
act to prevent any initiative
from United States SOIL"
The shooting from the sea
the most dramatic move of Its
kind since the abortive Bay of
Pigs invasion 16 months ago
was reported to have lasted six
or seven minutes.
There was no mention of
casualties, but newspapers
played up pictures of the dam
age, reputed to have included
several homes.
Nearby residents said there
had been no return fire from
guns permanently emplaced at
the waters edge.
But the Cuban General Staff
showed concern. 1t ordered all
demobilized antiaircraft artil-
lerymen to report at the uni
See HAVANA, Page AS
Evening star., 1962-08-25
Castro BIames
U.S.,butExiIes
Claim Credit
Hotel Main Tureet;
Vessels Escape
After Burruoe

HAVANA. Aug. 25 (AP).-
Cuba said today a cannon bar
rage from the sea last night
damaged several buildings of
a western Havana suburb. Re-
puted targets included a hotel
housing East European tech
nicianS and a theater where
Prime Minister Fidel Castro
has made some of his flashiest
television speeches.
Mr.. Castro blamed the United
States. He implied in a COM
Evening star., 1962-08-25
WHO WILL TAKE
NEHRFS PLACE.?

WHO WILL SUCCEED Prime
Minister Nehru in lndio? EorI H.
Voss, Stor stoff writer, recently
returned from o trip TO Indio end
reports thot the 72-yeor old Premier
is oilins ond thot American observ-
ers feor the rise CT Defense Min
ister v. K. Krishno Menon. Reed
his report on Pose AS.
Have The Stor Delivered
Daily and Sunday
Diol Lincoln 5000
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Weather Forecast

District and vicinity-Partly cloudy TO-
night. low near 66. Continued cloudy to-
morrow. high near IS. High, SO at 3:15
pm. yesterday; low, "a at 4:50 am. today.
Relative humidity at IL am, SO per cent.
Full Report on Psss AZ
Evening star., 1962-08-25

Soviet Press critieizes West on Berlin
Stond. Pose A-3
Evening star., 1962-08-25

Hovono Smelling Report Tokes U. S.
by Surprise. Pooe A-3
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Evening star., 1962-10-21

and her infinite tolerance
during my many months of
self-imposed exile in the at
tic"
OF the many interesting
speculations that come to
mind as we traverse the life
of Chekhov, there is the re-
lationship of his early stories
to his late plays. The man
started his writing career in
desperate speed to provide
the necessities of life for his
parents and brothers and
sisters. A doctor by profess
sion, he did not consider the
funny stories and articles he
turned out in wild profusion
for several hungry humorous
journals as anything but
hack work. In 1886, he re-
ceived a warm letter from
the famous and venerable
author Grigorovitch, in which
he was hailed as having a
talent which places you in
the front rank among au-
thors in the new generation"
Chekhov was not only moved
and flattered by the acclaim,
he was suddenly impressed
that his writing was more
than an ephemeral meal
ticket. Heretofore he had
never spent more than a sin
gle day on a story, and he
had written as many as ITS
in a year; from this time on
he began to slow down and
extend his art beyond the
limits of the humorous story
and farcical Skit.
However, by the end of his
life, when he was one of the
most popular writers in Rus
Sia, perhaps his readers were
a bit too impressed with the
Slavic profundities, pessi-
mism, and the worldly mis-
cries that many feel are not
essential to Checkhov's style.
Stanislavsky made Chekhov's
plays world famous, but he
admitted that he did not un-
derstand them. Nevertheless
in THE Three Sisters" "The
Cherry orchard" and others
he erected a tradition for a
heavy dramatic interpreta-
ton that lives to this day.
Chekhov. however, thought
of his plays as gay" and
perhaps if they were staged
as comedies Gas was a pro-
duction of THE Three Sis
ters" in Berlin two years ago.
they would no longer be
merely esteemed, they would
be admired.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Those Campaign
Debates Come
Back to Life
FACE TO FACE. BY Edward

FACE To FACE. BY Edward
A. Rogers. Morrow, $3.50
Mr.. Rogers novel is an in
ept piece of fiction about an
arresting subject, the presi-
Dental television debates Of
1860. Having been the tele-
vision advisor of Richard M.
Nixon, Mr.. Rogers knows all
about the matter. But he has
chosen to tell it in the novel
form, in which he is not we'll
versed, and to dress up the
true drama of these crucial
confrontations with great
deal of hanky-panky and ir-
relevant romance.
His principal characters in
no way resemble the two
1860 protagonists. They are,
like his dialogue, implausible.
The novel fitfully comes alive
when he discusses in minute
detail the mechanics of elec-
tronics. Otherwise, however,
it is a dreary, humorleSS and
labored treatment of a his.
torical events.
N. A. STEERS.
Evening star., 1962-10-21

In the twilight of our CIV
ilization when the last his
torian sits down to tell how
it all came to an end, he
will say that the brief nu-
clear age did have a bright
side - it produced some
mighty exciting novels.
"Fail-Safe" is one of them.
Like Seven Days in May.
ION the Beach" and ALIAS,
Babylon" it puts our way of
life on the chopping block
and let's us watch in horrible
detail while the cleaver de-
scends. Whether the final
blow falls in "Fail-Safe" or
the execution is stayed I'm
not about to say, because es-
sentially this is a mystery
thriller. But I can promise
that you won't want to stop
reading the book.
Too Late to Stop
AS a thriller it is a first
class job. It assumes that one
of our safety devices had
failed and that the Russian
defenders have made a disas-
trous but understandable
mistake. The result is that
six American bombers are
heading for Moscow, loaded
with H-bombs, and no one
apparently can stop them.
But both sides do want to
stop them. Neither side wants
a war. The Presidents per-
feet image of Mr.. Kennedy
and a real Mr.. Khrushchev
try together to undo the
damage while both are con-
vinced that they face the
unwanted end of their civili-
cations.
Can the bombers be di-
verted? Will the war start?
Read the book and find out.
"Fail-Safe" is presented as
more than a thriller, how
ever. The heavy promotion
that has accompanied this
Book-of the Month Club Sc
lection says that this is an
important book that must be
read so that we can under
stand and correct a fatal
flaw in our nuclear defenses.
Safeguards
Judged as such, "Fail-Safe"
is less impressive. but still,
despite the outraged reaction
from the Air Force, a useful
book. It says that accidents
can happen with disastrous
consequences. This is true.
The particular accident in
"Fail-Safe" could not happen
it is frankly fictional-
but some kind of accident
could.
The book says, however.
that our defense leaders have
told us that accidents can
not happen. This is a dan
gerous untruth. Defense Sec
retary Mcnamara Just last
week said when asked about
accidents: 1--WE are not COM
placent to the dangers in
this area. Hence we have ex-
panded our research and de-
velopment efforts to make
sure that we will continue
Evening star., 1962-10-21

for the fight he says can
come.
Differs With Pentagon
He differs basically from
Pentagon strategists in that
he is convinced he can pre-
dict the course of a nuclear
war. 1t will promptly become
a deliberate contest to kill
people, he states. Professional
strategists, on the other
hand, say it may develop in
any number of unforseeable
ways. DR.. Lapp's total war
against cities is only the
worst of many possibilities.
The decision makers have
rejected DR.. Lapp's rigid
strategy and have chosen to
try for flexibility that may
permit them to save lives and
save our civilization if deter
rents fail. A flexible, con-
trolled, damage limiting war
takes more weapons, which
is why the administration
has (perhaps) Is times as
much nuclear material as is
needed only to destroy Rus
sia's cities and people.
Surely the world will never
again be without the prob
lens posed by DR.. Lapp, un-
less safe disarmament is
possible. Meanwhile, no ma
tional leaders will be able to
take DR.. Lapp's advice unless
they want to plan only for
the most anti-human of the
nuclear strategy.
RICHARD FRYKLUND.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Reading E.B. White
A Restoring Experience
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

THE POINTS OF MY COMPASS. BY E. B. White Harper
S40
To read E. B. Whites latest collection Of is
delight nothing less To praise coherenty something
else again For Mr. White is many things all good flaw
less styst who is also possessed of dazzling
and splendid of humor observer who watches
the descent of and the folly of disarmament with
equal rewards for the readers.
He be literary, rueful, reflective or screamingly
funny the occasion requires Perhaps the simplest thing
Evening star., 1962-10-21

To-Day through many new
translations and critical
studies, it may be that Chek-
hov will seem a more articu-
late writer for our time and
for the mper of our
thought.
Chekhov admired Tolstoy,
but at last became bored
with his anti-intellectualism
"War is an evil and law is an
evil, but it doesn't follow
from that that I must wear
bast sandals and sleep atop
the oven with the hired hand
and his wife, and so on and
so on" he wrote in 1894. ".
I loved intelligent people,
sensitiveness, courtesy, wit,
and as to the fact that some
people picked their corns, or
that their foot-clouts emitted
a sitting odor-l regarded
that with the same indiffer-
ence as the fact that young
ladies walk about in curl
papers of mornings"
No one would suggest that
Tolstoy's pantheism, his anti
aesthetism, and his literary
formlessness are all the as
poets of this giant, but
Chekhov's stories and plays,
perceptive, concise, material
istic, realistic, extraordinar-
lily objective and evocative,
are a welcome antithesis.
The new biography of Ern-
est j. Simmons draws it's
factual data from the VOL
luminous product of Rus
sian research during the last
few years, much of which
has never before found its
way into English. The book
attempts to interpret only
the man, not his work. It
sticks to its last of setting in
order everything biographical
that is known about the sub
ject. Unfortunately, a requi-
site for its enjoyment is a
special desire to know about
Chekhov; it is not in itself
an entertaining book. Stiff
and a trifle pedantic, unsoft..
ened by light and shadow, it
tends to be a compendium
rather than a picture. A fair
example Of Mr.. Simmons
style is that inevitable last
sentence of his preface-the
expected sentiment that every
husband tries to fashion as
gracefully as he san: Not a
conventional pat, but a heart
felt prayer of thanks goes
out to my wife for her help
Evening star., 1962-10-21

weapons, however, even
though I'VE already have
enough nuclear explosives to
overkill the Soviet Union at
least 25 times"
What TO do? I'm the pres
ent state of the world" he
says, "it would be foolhardy
for the United States to dis
arm or even give the appear
ance of disarming, since even
that would dismay its allies"
Reducing Number
What we must do, DR.. Lapp
urges, is reduce the number
Of our own nuclear weapons.
"a force sufficient to kill the
enemy's population and de-
stroy his wealth is an ade-
quate deterrent" This force
would be a few hundred
Polaris missiles.
DR.. Lapp's solution is un-
convincing, however. Despite
the fact that the jacket says
his book is "about the great
game of nuclear strategy" he
does not really analyze either
his or the alternative STRAIT
egies.
He is convinced that it is
safer for us to have fewer
weapons and he chooses his
deterrent strategy, aimed
solely at killing non-com-
battants, because 1t requires
fewer weapons.
The book in fact argues
more for unilateral disarma-
ment than for a rational
deterrenee-and-war strategy
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Senator
Mcclellan
Turns Author
CRIME WITHOUT PUNISH


MENT. By John L. McClel-
Ian Duell, Sloan & Pearce;
$4.95.)
Organized crime and labor
racketeering have been ex-
posed as a menace of enor-
nous proportions confront
ing the country. The expo
sure has come largely through
the efforts Of Senator Nc
Clellan, Democrat of Ark
anSas, and Senate commit
tees which he has headed in
wide y-publicized televised
hearings.
Senator Mcclellan n has
turned author and in Crime
Without Punishment" (in-
cidentally, a particularly fit
ting title) has recounted his
duels with the Becks, Hoffas
and other arrogant leaders of
important segments of or
ganized labor, and with some
of the Nations top criminals
brought before his subcom-
mittee.
Well Remembered
The Arkansas Senator has
become known to television
audiences for his scowling
mein and thunderous voice
in the cause of righteous as
he questioned witnesses who
more often than not sought
refugee in the Fifth Amend
ment. The Senator. who
cloaks a kindly nature be-
hind a mask of sternness, has
lost none of his indignation
against miscreantS, in labor
and elsewhere, in turning to
the pen.
His written words carry the
same somber warning as
words did over television. As
one who has witnessed
through his Senate hearings
much of the seamier side of
American life, Senator Nc
Clellan has arrived at def
mite conclusions. One is that
the country must be alert to
this menace Of which he
writes. Another is that moth
ing would be solved and the
problem would be worsened
through legalized gambling.
New Laws Needed
Many crimes go unpunish-
ed. as the Senator recites in
this book. Others such as
reckless spending of public
funds, the Senator points
out, are crimes beyond the
statute books. 1t is for these
that he reserves some of his
more acid comments and
warns: "The fundamental
principles and concepts upon
which our nation was found
ed certainly cannot be aban-
doned now with impunity."
Senator Mcclellan has
written an important book,
a book which should be
widely read and needed. He
also has written a fascinating
book which takes the reader
behind the scenes to show
the labors of Senate COM
mittees and their staffs in
preparing for the televised
hearings which reflected with
shock and dismay conditions
which many Americans never
knew existed in this country.
CECIL HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1962-10-21

to have the necessary safe
guards"
So the public has not been
deceived, and this book does
not reveal any secrets. Our
weapons are as safe as posi-
BILE, but some remote chance
of breakdown does exist.
"Fail-Safe" raises some
valuable questions. What do
we do if there is an accident?
The climax suggests one ac-
ton, not completely illogical,
but not one that the average
person would think of. The
lesson Is that we must an
ticipate unusual situations
and search for unusual but
logical solutions. MANY Of
the characters in this book
who join in the search-par-
ticularly the soul searching
general and the neurotic
civilian strategist are wildly
unreal, incidentally, but this
does not detract from the
thrillsD
The book also asks II all
of our weapons are neces-
sary. Its implied answer is,
yes, they until the Rus
slams are willing to come
here and call off the cold
war they started. Perhaps If
Mr.. Khrushchev reads Pail
Safe" he will. R. F.