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Evening star., 1962-12-14
Soviet Chiefs Speech on Cuba Missiles
Called Worst Lies Since HitIer's

means of deterring aggressors.
not as a means of attack.
Cuba was, indeed, under a
real threat of INVASION"
The Soviet Premier added:
"A very alarming situation
had arisen. Everything showed
that the United States was
preparing to carry out an at
tack on the Cuban republic,
using its own armed forces"
But in the very next para
graph. the Soviet Premier in
sisted that none of his weap-
ons sent to Cuba could be
used for offense. In recent
weeks, however, he has re-
moved some of these same
weapons because the United
States characterized them as
offensive. Everybody knows
that the missiles were capa-
BILE Of nuclear attack on cities
In the United States and that
the planes were able to carry
atom bombs and drop them
on cities in certain sections of
this country.
But Mr.. Khrushchev again
brushed aside the idea that
there was any serious military
purpose involved. He said:
"The government of Cuba
last summer asked the Soviet
government to provide addi-
tional assistance. An agree
ment was reached about a
number of new measures, in
cluding the stationing in
Cuba Of a few dozens of So
Wet ballistic rockets with a
medium range of action.
These weapons were to be in
the hands of Soviet military.
What was the aim of that
decision? OF course, neither
we nor our Cuban friends
meant that the small num-
ber Of medium-range rockets
dispatched to Cuba would be
used for an attack against
the United States or any
other country. Our only aim
was the defense of Cuba"
But it is difficult to I'M
derstand just why the de-
tense of Cuba suddenly be-
came so important to the
Soviet Union that it was
willing to spend a billion
dollars and send weapons
which were capable of ac-
tually carrying on an attack
against the United States,
with which country the So
Wet Union had professed to
be on friendly terms.
The Soviet Premier weakly
explained the dilemma in this
way:
Evening star., 1962-12-14
DAVID LAWRENCE

Premier Khrushchev has
just made a speech to the
Supreme Soviet" - or Rus
sian parliament - which at
tempts to explain publicly for
the first time why the Soviet
Union sent missiles and
planes into Cuba. It is, how
ever. the most flagrant exam
pie of deliberate deception by
the head of a government that
has been given to the world
since the days of Adolf Hitler.
The influence of Nikita
Khrushchev will inevitably
suffer. For, while he insists
that he sent m Missiles and
planes to Cuba to counter the
alleged threat of aggression by
the United States, the chron-
ology Of events actually shows
that the missiles we're en-
placed and the planes were
shipped to Cuba long before
there was any crisis in the
relations between Cuba and
the United States. Due to
censorship, this discrepancy
in dates will not be revealed
to the Soviet people.
The Premier endeavored to
assure his associates that the
main reason he sent military
help to Cuba was to assist the
Cuban people, "our brothers
in toll, our class brothers"
But it's unrealistic for any,
one outside the Soviet Union
to believe that merely an ide-
illogical comradeship caused
the Soviet Union to spend in
the neighborhood of a billion
dollars Just for the sake of
anticipating some theoretical
action by the United States in
respect to a country as far
away from the Soviet Union
as Cuba.
Though arguing for the
right of a nation to deal with
its own internal affairs, Mr..
Khrushchev contra dict
ed himself in his speech when
he said the Soviet Union felt
it desirable not only to take
control of certain important
programs inside Cuba but also
to maintain a Soviet military
organization there under di-
rect command of the Soviet
defense ministry instead of
under the Cuban government.
He said:
1T is true that, at the re-
quest of the Cuban govern
ment, we sent arms there.
But what motives guided us
in doing this? Purely humane
ones. Cuba needed arms as a
Evening star., 1962-12-14
Aluminium StockpiIing
Under Senate Probe

run for the Senate against
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, probably would have
carried more weight than the
senatorial pressures. Mr.. Nc
Kay wrote Arthur S. Flemming,
head of the Office of Defense
Mobilization on June 18, 1856,
urging a two-year extension of
the chrome subsidies. Mr..
Flemming informed Mr.. Nc
Kay in a telegram on June rs,
1856, that he was ordering the
extension that day.
BY virtue of heading the
ODM, Mr.. Flemming was the
top stockpile official. He later
became Secretary of Welfare
and now is president of the
University of Oregon.
Subcommittee spokesmen said
Mr.. Flemming probably would
have a chance to reply to this
testimony at a hearing some
time between Christmas and
Evening star., 1962-12-14
Khrushchev's Brozen Deception

Rockets were placed there
so that the American i'm
perialiSts, If they really de-
cided on invasion, should feel
that the war which they
were threatening stood on
their own frontier, and so
that they should have a more
realistic idea of the danger
of thermonuclear war. =.
Certain people depict the
matter thus: That the rockets
were placed by us for an at
tack on the United States.
This, Of course, is not sensi-
BILE reasoning. Why should it
be necessary for us to place
rockets in Cuba for this pur-
pose, when we had and have
the capability to strike the
blow from our own territory,
having available the nec-
essary quantity of intercon-
tinental rockets of the neces-
sary range and power?"
But what Mr.. Khrushchev,
despite all his conflicting
statements, did not explain
is why, If he wished to aid
Cuba, it was necessary to
send any missiles there at all.
If, as an ally of the Cuban
government, he wished to
protect Cuba. he could have
threatened to send his mis-
siles from Soviet territory.
He now claims that the
United States gave before
the whole world a public un-
dertaking not to attack the
Cuban republic and to re-
strain their allies from doing
So" But nowhere does he re-
veal that verification of the
removal Of the missiles and
planes is still being denied to
the United States and that a
mo invasion" pledge by the
United States is related di-
rectly to the establishment of
a system of international in
spection on the ground in
Cuba.
Whose side has tri-
umphed?" asks Mr.. Khru-
shchev. who has won? 1t
can be said here that it is
reason that has won-the
cause of peace and peoples
security has won."
But the difficulty is not in
deciding which side has "tri-
umphed." For the speech de-
livered by Nikita Khrushchev
shows copclusively that the
Soviet Union planned an ag-
gression against the United
States and used her stooge
the Castro government-for
the purpose of threatening
and perhaps even of making
a surprise attack on this
country.
Copyright, l96O
Evening star., 1962-12-14
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

JFK prefers teeype to a telephone between himself
and Khrushchev The Nkta gets going those four
hour yaky-yaks fellow would get his work done
survey shows married couples healthier than single
persons One reason single fellow gets sick often it
gives him better chance to marry
The proposal for private Kennedy -Khrushchev phone
is all right but few from now how would they
ever get Caroline off it?
There's always some snafu around Washington The
other day top National Security Council paper being
prepared for coumnst leaked to the Department
Evening star., 1962-12-14
CED Asks $6 Billion Tax Cut

Ways and Means Committee
took a public stand against tax
cuts in 1868 and against reduc-
tions not approximately offset
by revenue-raising reforms.
But there were reports yes
terday that Mr.. Mills was
softening his stand somewhat
After a conference with the
President on Wednesday, Mr..
Mills repeatedly passed the
word that his mind was not
completely closed to the idea
of net tax reductions effective
in 1868.
Administration officials had
said from the start that the
President and Mr.. Mills were
not so far apart. They en-
phasized that the President is
prepared to make concessions
to the conservative viewpoint
in order to push tax cuts
through Congress next year.
Kennedy Speaking Tonight
Mr.. Kennedy is expected to
avoid freezing his position in
a speech tonight to the Eco
nomic Club of New York. In
stead of committing himself
on details of his forthcoming
proposals, the President is ex-
pected to argue the economic
principles involved in his cam
paign for tax reductions and
reforms to encourage long
term economic growth.
Rejecting the administra-
tion'S optimism about the pros
poets for an acceptable COM
promise, a high official COM
mented: II am not terribly
concerned about the possibility
of reaching an understanding
with Mr.. Mills"
Senate Democratic whip
Humphrey of Minnesota issued
a statement yesterday calling
for prompt action next year to
cut individual and corporation
taxes by between SS billion and
$40 billion. He said the bulk of
the reductions should go to in
dividuals in low and middle
income brackets, and advised
against delaying tax cuts by
Evening star., 1962-12-14

arguing over reforms to close
So-called loopholes.
CED Sees Benefits
The CED said its tax cut pro-
gram would lead to higher rates
Of production, employment, in
vestment and economic growth.
The report put its heaviest
emphasis on the need to stim-
ulate business investment,
which the CED said has Jagged
mainly because of inadequate
profits.
Frazar B. Wilde, chairman
Of the CED subcommittee that
wrote the report, said the pres
ent tax system, with its high
rates in the upper brackets,
has "Marxist" features.
The CED program called for
these tax reductions in 1868,
retroactive to January /:
Reduction of all individual
income tax rates by 8 per cent,
with a cut in the top-bracket
rate from 81 to 70 per cent.
Reduction of the corporation
tax rate from So to AZ per cent.
AS soon as Congress could
make sure that Federal SPEND
ing in fiscal 1864, the year
starting next July /, would not
exceed expenditures in fiscal
1868, the CED proposed, taxes
should be reduced by another
SIS billion, as follows:
Individual income tax rates
would be cut another 6 per,
cent, and corporate rates would
be reduced another 5 per cent
age points, to AZ per cent. The
top-bracket individual rate
would be lowered from 70 to
so per cent.
Evening star., 1962-12-14
BY LEE M. COIN
Star staff Writer

An influential economic re-
search organization, the Com
mittee for Economic Develop
ment, has joined the debate
over taxes by proposing a Sc
billion tax cut for individuals
and corporations early in 1868
If the administration and
Congress stop the rise Of Fed
eral spending next fiscal year
the CED said in a report re-
leased yesterday, taxes should
be cut another SIS billion.
Tax reforms are needed, the
private, business financed group
said but reductions are more
urgent and should not be de-
layed by a battle over reforms
Byrd Firmly Convinced"
Although the CED's support
for the general principle of tax
cuts in 1868 will help President
Kennedy's drive for prompt
congressional action, the re-
search organization also gave
aid and comfort to conserva-
tives who demand restraint on
Federal spending.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Demo-
crat of Virginia, went much
further in a New York speech
to the National Industrial Con-
ference Board last night, de-
claring: II am more firmly con-
vinced than ever that sharp
reductions in Federal expendi-
lures should precede any major
reduction in tax rates"
If taxes are cut while spend
ing continues to rise, Senator
Byrd said, the resulting budget
deficits will undermine the
confidence of American busi-
nessmen and destroy interna-
tional confidence in the sound
ness of the dollar.
Mills Stand Studied
Senator Byrd is chairman of
the Finance Committee, which
handles tax legislation. The
debate over tax reductions and
reforms has picked up this week
since his House counterpart,
Chairman Mills of the House
Evening star., 1962-12-14
THIRSTY RUSSIANS
DRAIN CASTRO'S
POPULARITY

NASSAU, Bahamas
(AP).-Most Cubans who
flee their homes contend
Fidel Castro is losing
favor among their country
men. They often have
elaborate explanations as
to why.
But the latest group, IL
men who docked yesterday
at Mastic Point, Andres
Island, offered a simpler
version.
One Of them said Premier
Castro lost half his support
when the Russian troops
began arriving. The reason
he gave:
The Russians took all
the rum"
Evening star., 1962-12-14
Only z Pet. Pay Tax

MEXICO CITY, Dec. IA
(AP) Only 2 per cent of Mex
ico's 35 million people pay in
come tax, said treasury Minis
ter Antonio Ortiz Mena. He
declared newly inaugurated tax
reforms should increase the
figure to 10 per cent by the
end of 1854.
Evening star., 1962-12-14
Mckay Letter Cited

Senator symington suggested
that a letter written by Doug
las Mckay after he resigned
as Secretary OF the Interior ito
Evening star., 1962-12-14

New Years" The subcommit-
tees authority will expire when
the next Congress, convenes
January 8.
Evening star., 1962-12-14
BY the Associated Press

A defense stockpiling con-
tract which established an alu-
minum producing plant in Ore
gon comes under the scrutiny
today of Senate investigators.
The special Senate Armed
Services Subcommittee seeks to
learn why the Government did
not cancel deliveries it found
it didn't need from the new
Harvey Aluminium, Inc, plant
at The Dalles. Greg, and thus
save the difference in price
between purchase costs and
cancellation penalties it might
have had to pay.
Jackes. NickerSon, an attor-
ney in Thomas E. Dewey'S law
firm in New York, who repre-
sented the company in some Of
the negotiations. was listed as
one of the witnesses. The con-
tract was signed in 1855.
The Subcommittee planned
first, however, to receive in
closed session a report on plans
for future handling the multi
billion dollar stockpile.
Chairman Symington. Demo-
crat Of Missouri. said the meet
ing was closed to permit Off
cials Of the Defense and State
Departments and Edward A.
McDermott, director of the Of
flee of Emergency Planning. to
discuss some classified military
information.
Won't Probe Pressures
The subcommittee indicated
no disposition to seek the
names Of Western Congress
members described by Felix E.
Womser. former Assistant Sec
retary of the Interior, as hav-
ing exerted political pressures
in 1856 TO obtain an extension
Of costly stockpile subsidy pay
ments to domestic chrome min
ing interests.
Mr.. Wormser, Assistant Sec
retary in l953-57 during the
Else hover adminiStra-
tion, named only the late for
mer Senator James E. Murray,
Democrat Of Montana. but
spoke Of pressures from many
others on Capitol Hill.
Mr.. Wormser got into hot
water with Senator Symington
for reading parts Of a letter
from Senator Murray but skip
ping portions In which Senator
Murray had accused Mr.. Worm
ser OF favoring the lead and
zinc industry on stockpile
policy matters. Mr.. Wormser
was an official OF the ST.
Joseph Lead Co. before and
after serving as Assistant
Secretary.
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Radiation Role
Of PHS Ripped .

The Public Health Service
was criticized last night by
Senator Proxmire, Democrat Of
Wisconsin. for failing to shoui-
der central authority on possible
health dangers from radiation.
Senator Proxrnire is propoS-
ing legislation to give the Pub
lice Health Service primary re-,
TSponsibility for protecting the
public from radiation hazards.
In the nine months since the
Soviet Union resumed nuclear
testing there has been one
radioactivity scare after an
Other" Senator Proxmire said.
Faced with this obvious prob
lem the Federal Government
has been indecisive. -.
1.-The absence of central au-
ithority on radiation health dam
gers has created a situation of
diStrust and confusion. famed
by often ill-informed public de-
bate"
Senator Proxmire said milk
has been singled out unfairly
for criticism and economic
boycott.
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POTOMAC FEVER
BY Pete Wyms
By FLETCHER 'KNEBEL

JFK's popularity slips points in national poll That's
these bear markets for you-a selo in all glamour
stocks
Khrushchev he gets along with Romanas Red
bosses like two turtle doves" What with
the high price of Communist poultry every leader
his own eggs.
Eisenhower rakes Kennedy's programs. The farther
he gets from the White House the Ike to enjoy
politics.
Religion has vanished political issue. All hands
too busy praying together for the country.
The Government says almost 80 million Americans are
licensed to drive No other country boast
qualified marksmen
One businessman says it isn't President Kennedy he's
but Kennedys father He thinks Joe Kennedy
a traitor to his class for not voting for Nixon.
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Kennedy SchooI-Aid Stand Hit

$1,000 studied for the minis
try with CT grants.
The War Orphans Educa-
tional Assistance Act is an
other precedent. Today. tens
Of thousands Of war orphans
are paying tuition in the Ma
tion's UNCONVENTIONAL COL
leges with Federal education
grants.
President Kennedy re-
Gently strongly urged the
adoption of a vast Federal
scholarship program that
would provide direct grants
to hundreds of thousands of
college students and, notably,
direct cost of = education
grants to the schools Of their
choice. The President finds
nothing unconstitutional
about such grants to stu
dents, nor about coSt-of-edu-
cation grants to denomina-
tional schools.
IF such direct grants with
freedom of choice are legal
on the college level, they are
all the more legal on the
elementary and secondary
level. This was made en-
phatically clear by the
United States Supreme Court
in the Barnette case of
1913. Since children attend
school under compulsion,
said the court, the Constitu-
ton guarantees them greater
freedom in education than
college students whose at
tendance is optional"
Father Blum for many
years has been an outStand-
ing advocate of tuition grants
to parents as a way out OF
the dilemma of making pub
lie benefits available to chill
dren in parochial schools.
Many persons, like the writer,
are opposed to the principle
of Federal aid to education
and believe the States should
handle such matters. But
what seems puzzling is that
President Kennedy and others
argue that it is constitutional
to aid church-related COL
legeS and yet it isn't valid
to aid elementary and sec
ondary schools which have a
similar church relationship.
Consistency at least would
seem to require that existing
Federal laws which extend
aid to church-related inSti-
tutionS at the college level
should either be broadened
to include the lower schools
or else all such laws should
be declared unconstitutional
or repealed by Congress.
(CopyriEht, 1899
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Loos Cabinet Minister
AssoiIs U. S. Troops

VIENTIANE, Laos, June Is
(AP) A pro- Communist cabi-
net minister denounced the
presence Of United States
troops in Thailand yesterday
shortly after neutralist Premier
Souvanna Phouma turned
leadership of his day-old coah-
ton over to his Red-leaning
half brother.
Information Minister Phoumi
Vongvichit called a news con-
ference as soon as Prince
Souvanna's plane had left for
France. Claiming to speak for
the regime. he denounced the
United States troops as a
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threat to "the peace and
neutrality Of Laos"
THE government Of national
union protests against the
American troops landings in
Thailand," declared Mr.. Yong
vichit, a member of Prince
Souphanouvong's pro Com
munist Pathet Lao faction.
1t was not known whether
Prince Souvanna knew Mr..
Vongvichit was going to issue
the statement. The neutralist
premier had shrugged off the
dispatch of United States
troops to neighboring Thai
land as a precautionary meas
ure.
The official minutes Of yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-25
BY ALLEN M. SNIYTHE
Contributing Writer


Foreign purchases Of drugs
for American military use is
being expanded by the Perfta-
gon. the biggest customer of the
drug industry. an
The expansion is being done
by the new Defense Supply
Agency, which has been desig-
mated by Defense Secretary
Mcnamara as the sole buyer of
all defense medical supplies,
taking over that function from
the Navy.
The purchases run into many
tens of millions Of dollars a
year.
Since December 1859 the
Pentagon has paid $5.306. 900
on IS contracts to Italian,
Swedish and Danish drug firms.
The domestic price would have
been $12,S04,000. The prices
ranged from one-half to less
than one-eighth of United
States bids.
DSA officials say the high
identical bids Of United States
patented and produced drugs
justify their buying overseas,
Domestic producers have been
offered royalties Of 10 per cent
of their costs. The Controller
General has upheld this policy
1t was pointed out that the
issuance of a patent does not
guarantee a monopoly. It's
validity and infringement must
be proved.
Would Go to Court
Title %, United States code
Section 1893, states the sole
remedy to patent holders
against Federal purchases is
reasonable compensation" The
Pentagon has offered to go to
the Court Of Claims in a
friendly suit to certify any
claims. No drug company has
accepted the challenge as this
would mean revealing exact
costs.
Tetracycline, an antibiotic
was bought in Italy for $50
per 100 tablets when 1t wa
sold by American firms tt
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DAVID LAWRENCE

President Kennedy has
just come under severe at
tack for supposedly having
allowed political considera-
tons to influence him in dis
eliminating against the par
ents of 2 million children
who attend Catholic and
other church-related schools
in America. He is blasted
as being a politician" not
a constitutionalist.
This criticism is published
in Our Sunday Visitor" a
Roman Gait Ollie national
weekly. Its editor, the Right
Rev. MonSignor Joseph r.
Crowley. made available over
the week end proofsheets of
a lengthy article written by
the Rev. Virgil Blum, S. j..
chairman of the department
of political science at Mar
quette University, Milwau-
kee, Wis. Father Blum makes
an extensive analysis Of
pending legislation and cites
authorities to support his
contention that Federal aid
to all schools for the teach
ing Of nonreligious subjects
is constitutional.
Why then" asks Father
Blum. docs the Kennedy
administration insist on dis
eliminating against the Ma
tons independent school
children? Why then do most
Congressman refuse publicly
to support equality of treat
ment and freedom Of religion
for all children in a Federal
aid-to-education bill?
The answer, it seems to
me. is simple. President
Kennedy, like the Congress-
men. is a politician. Politics
is his basis of action. He is
a political realist. Hence,
political considerations. not
constitutional, are the de-
cisive factors in his educa-
ton policy.
Politics is the art Of the
possible. Mr.. Kennedy fully
realizes this. He could not
have been elected on a plat
form which promised free
dom of religion in education.
so he ran on a platform
which promised to discrim-
mate against church-related
school children. Assuming
Mr.. Kennedy believes in
equality and freedom of re-
ligion in education, an I'M
equivocals statement in sup
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Boycott Picketinq
Bon in Virginia
To Apply Friday

RICHMOND, Va. June IS
(AP). legislation enacted by
the 1862 General Assembly to
outlaw boycotting and picket
ing activities by Negro groups
protesting racial segregation
becomes effective Friday.
The principal bill bars two or
more persons from acting will
fully and maliciously" together
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Wisconsin and Western Branch:
1851 WISCONSIN AVENUE, W.
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by any means to injure another
in his reputation or business, or
to perform any act against his
will.
Another extends the police
powers Of the committee on Of
lenses against the administra-
ton of justice by giving courts
the authority to compel wit
neSSeS to answer question;
propounded by the committee
and to find them guilty of con.
tempt.
Violators would be subject tC
a fine Of up to $1,000 and 6
jail sentence up to one year.