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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
HE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
On Cuba: The Waiting Game

The Cuban Crisis moved to a
new stage last week as the So
Wet Union dragged its feet on
the question of removing its Jet
bOmbers from the island and
Castro threatened to shoot down
American reconnaissance planes.
It has been four weeks since
President Kennedy announced his
blockade of offensive arms to
Cuba and demanded that the So
Wet Union remove the ballistic
missiles and bombers it sneaked
into the Communist dominated
Caribbean island.
The missiles apparently have
now been dismantled and shipped
back to the USSR. At least, Wash
ington is inclined to believe, on
the basis of air reconnaissance
photographs of the bases and
Closeup" (but not on-boardD in
Spection Of some of outbound So
Wet cargo ships, that the medium
range rockets actually have been
removed from Cuba.
The missiles, however, are only
part of the story. Mr.. Kennedy,
in his October % challenge, men
toned Soviet jet bomberS GIL
$3.50, which he said "are now be-
ing uncrated and assembled in
Cuba"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Bomber Removal

While he did not at that time
specifically call for the elimina-
ton of the bombers, he demanded
that all offensive" weapons be
removed. Since then, it is under
stood, he has made it clear to So
Wet Premier Khrushchev and to
Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator
that he means the bombers must
be removed before the United
States and other Western Hemis-
phere states can consider the
threat of newly introduced often
sive weapons ended.
This means, of course, that the
United States is determined to
continue its blockade of Cuba
and perhaps extend it to cover
more than offensive weapons
and to withhold the guarantee
MessrS. Khrushchev and Castro
want against any United States
invasion of Cuba until its de-
mands are met.
The Soviet Union, In an ap-
parent move to convince Mr.. Cas-
tro to cooperate on Mr.. Khru-
shchev'S promise to Mr.. Kennedy,
sent its foremost trouble shooter"
Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan,
to Cuba for talks.
Mr.. Mikoyan, it seems, has been
playing a dual role. He has tried
to assist Mr.. Khrushchev's sub
sequent attempt to bargain on in
Spection and the removal of the
bombers while trying to convince
Mr.. Castro that the planes even
tually would have to go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Germany:
Ready on Berlin

Chancellor Adenauer of West
Germany met with President
Kennedy here last week for
talks on Berlin, Cuba and the
world situation.
After the Soviet Union bowed
to United States demands that it
remove its ballistic missiles from
Cuba, thereby reducing the threat
OF nuclear war, Premier Khru-
shchev declared that there was
no reason to put a time limit on
the solution of the Berlin problem.
Berlin, of course, has been for
many years the Kremlin's vehicle
for intensifying or easing the cold
war with the West, as it suited
its strategy or mood.
The apparent decision to ease
tensions on Berlin was a reversal
on Mr.. Khrushchev's part. A few
months ago, he cavalierly declared
that he would wait until after
the congressional elections in
America before pressing his de-
mands on Berlin, but then-be
ready.
This summertime threat led to
a two-day meeting last week be-
tween President Kennedy and
Chancellor Adenauer of the Fed
eral Republic of Germany. 1t was
arranged on Mr.. Kennedy'S ini-
tiative, on the common-sense
grounds that if the Soviet Union
was bent on stirring up trouble
over Berlin after the balloting on
November 6, prompt meeting
between the heads of government
of the United States and West
Germany was in order.
Mr.. Khrushchevs tactical flip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Dean Speaks Out

Arthur H. Dean, the United
States representative, told the
General Assembly's political COM
mittee on Friday that this country
is acting in accordance with
dlrectiveS of the Organization of
American States in carrying on its
surveillance of Cuba. He said:
Until the entire provisions of
the agreement between the United
States and the USSR providing for
United Nation inspection of with
drawal of offensive weapons from
Cuba has been completely and
properly supplemented, the United
States will be forced to continue to
take its own appropriate measures
to assure against the possibility
that the people Of the Western
Hemisphere may be threatened
from Cuban soil"
Washington officials made it
clear that American planes would
shoot down any aircraft and
attack any missile bases whose
weapons attempted to interrupt
our reconnaissance efforts.
At the same time, Washington
and the U. N. have been buzzing
with suggestions that if the So
Wet jet bombers are removed the
United States might be prepared
to be patient and perhaps COM
promising on its demand for on
site inspection in Cuba. There
was nothing official on this, how
ever.
There have been no statements
to the. American people by Mr..
Kennedy since his two-minute
prediction statement on the Gu
ban crisis. He has held no news
conferences for nine weeks, but
has set one for Tuesday evening.
The President has been busy
behind closed doors, however. On
Friday he met with ranking mill
tary and diplomatic advisers on
the new developments. And Ad-
lai Stevenson, our U. N. Ambassa-
dor, met frequently with top So
Wet officials at the U. N. in New
York last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Castro Demands

In the process, the Russian
backed the Cuban leaders "five
conditional demands" upon the
United States. These demands,
which Mr.. Castro has continued
to press and which we have re-
jected utterly, are:
/. Evacuation of Guantanamo
Naval Base by the United States.
2. Lifting of United States trade
restrictions against Cuba.
8, Cessation of raids against
Cuba by refugee Cuban groups.
4. Cessation of United States
directed subversion within Cuba.
5. Lifting of the United States
blockade and cessation of over
flights of the island.
This Soviet backing of the above
demands have been regarded here
perhaps optimistically as SIM
ply an effort to win a few crumbs
from losing game.
But little hard information has
been released by the Kennedy adj
ministration on it's communica-
tons with the Soviet Union on
the Cuban matter and there ap-
parently have been raft of per-
sonal letters exchanged between
Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Khrushchev.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Thanks u. S.

At the same time, the Indian
leader rather grudgingly thanked
the United States and Great Brit
ain for their prompt arms aid by
telling his Parliament that the
Western nations assistance was
dictated by their own interests.
Another controversial aspect of
Mr.. Nehru'S current attitudes,
which appears to question his
October assertion that the Chi
nese invasion had snapped him
out of his dream world, is that the
Peiping attack has nothing to do
with communism, but is simply
Chinese "chauvinism.
On this point, he has been chal-
lenged by his new Defense Min
lister, Y. B. Chavan, who COM
mented that Communist blood was
thicker than the peaceful cock
istence" water that flows between
Moscow and the Indian capital
Meanwhile, Mr.. Nehru an
nounced that he had asked the
United States to provide military
transports and machine tools for
the production of certain arms for
use in India's fight against China.
Washington said the requests
would receive sympathetic" con-
sideration. The United States has
already airlifted some so plane
loads of automatic weapons and
other war materials to India.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Castro as Factor

1t has been difficult, therefore,
to state precisely what agreements
or understandings have been
reached between the two leaders
of the superpowers,
But developments last week in
Dictated that regardless of any
United StaVes-Soviet agreements,
Mr.. Castro still has to be reck-
oned with.
Certainly. the fact that Mr.. Mi
koyan, a lofty figure in the Krem-
lin, has spent more than two
weeks in Cuba-a time during
which his wife died and was bur-
led in the USSR without any
demonstrable progress, indicates
that he has been having difficulty
with Mr.. Castro.
Then, on Friday, the United Ma
tionS released a letter from Mr..
Castro to U. N. Secretary General
U Thant in which the Cuban die
tator denounced the United States
and threatened to shoot down any
American planes which flew over
the island
He reiterated his refusal to al
low "unilateral inspection by any
body, national or international"
en- Cuban territory and again
pressed his five demands.
"A powerful military force could
annihilate us but it could never
make us yield and we should first
demand a very high price of the
pirates who dared to invade the
soil OF the Cuban fatherland," he
declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Period of Relaxation
After the Crises

With the Thanksgiving hOli-
days coming this week, the Ma
ton last week was in the midst
Of its fall harvesting season.
The season between the two
great holidays THANKSGIVING and
Christmas-is + traditionally the
low point of the year in politics,
as it is the high point of the
year in trade and sentiment. This
year the season began early; it
was in full swing last week.
The Cuban crisis had passed
without the worst happening. The
1862 elections had passed without
any great upheaval. 1t was time
for relaxation and since the really
big things no longer had to be
worried about, we could worry
about the smaller things.
In the category of happy worry
was the news that jobs are SO
plentiful that it was becoming
increasingly harder to find sales
men for the expected Christmas
shopping crowds. Some of the
Presidents advisers have found
that the economy has not made
as good an increase in the last
few months as was expected but
it apparently hasn't hurt buying
much. Further-and even more
sobering-news that the Govern
ment's deficit this year will be
around 81 billion hasn't made
much difference either. 1t was
confidence in the future that
moved the crowds in the beginning
of the holiday season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Desperate Fight

Indian troops in the area, now
equipped with American and Brit
ish automatic weapons, are fight
ing desperately to hold back the
invader. If they should fail, the
Chinese would better their posi-
ton for a strike down the Lohit
River valley and on into the rich
Assam plains.
AS the fighting continues, the
pride and martial spirit of the
Indian people has been aroused
to such an extent that Prime
Minister Nehru seems to be lag
ging, in comparison, in his de-
termination to GUST the invaders.
First, the Prime Minister had
to be presumed into firing his old
friend, V. K. Krishna Menon as
defense chief, even though the
Indian army was found to be in
poor shape to fight a mountain
war against the Chinese.
Now Mr.. Nehru is running into
increasing opposition, from poll
tlcians in number of parties,
including his own, to his attitude
that the Soviet Union is midas
great friend and will help her in
her struggle against Peiping.
Last week, the Prime Minister
said he still expected that the Rus
slams would live up to their prom
Use to deliver II MIG jet fighter
planes and a MIG production
plant to India. Then, CLOSING
over the fact that the Russians
have not given any material aid
to date, he said he took "consola-
ton" that they are still COM
municating good wishes" to
India.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Friendly Talks

Doubtless, the President re-
ferred to the Cuban crisis and
the Communist Chinese attack on
India as two of the developments
which, in his words, have pro-
duced "a time of very great
change in the world, both in the
West and in the East"
The bilateral talks apparently
were held in a most friendly at
mosphere. This helped spike re-
ports that the vigorous 86-year-
old German, who looks more and
more like an ancient Sioux chief
tain, and the 45-year-old Presi-
dent have never warmed up to
each other.
The final communique con-
sisted largely of vague generalities
another pledge to fight for Ber-
lin, if necessary. and the like
exactly as the Chancellor had pre-
dicted. But DR.. Adenauer, in a
speech and question-answer Pc
riod at the National Press Club
on Thursday. indicated what he
probably told the President in
private.
Always proponent of the hard
line, he said that Cuba has pro-
vided the lesson that we should
be firmer with the Russians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

by his firm stand on withdrawal
of the Soviet offensive weapons.
That left State issues and per-
sonalities as the fighting points
in the November 6 balloting. Most
controversial was the race of for
mer Vice President Nixon against
Gov. Edmund G. Brown in Cali
fornia. Mr.. Nixon lost. Then, in
the wake of his defeat, a more
violent controversy broke out than
any that had marked the lively
campaign.
Howard K. Smith, television
commentator, put on a broadcast
on Sunday night in which he
and guest speakers-w were to
dramatic the Nixon defeat by re-
lating it to the Californian's en-
tire career. Two decisions were
made which plunged the show into
hot water. The first was the name
of the program: 1.-THE Political
Obituary of Richard M. Nixon"
Bad taste, cried Nixon supporters.
The second was the inclusion of
Alger Hiss among the guest
speakers.
The idea that a man who was
convicted of perjury in 1850 after
a congressional investigation led
by Mr.. Nixon would be passing
judgment on him brought storm
of protest to the television net
work which sent out the program.
1t is true that the comments on
Mr.. Nixon we're both favorable
and critical-to Mr.. Smith the
favorable outweighed the unfavor-
able-but many of the hundreds
who protested felt that use of
Hiss on the program was map
propriate. Mr.. Nixon, who had
been invited to appear but had
declined, remained silent but there
were plenty to take up his de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Goodwill

The good will-exemplified so
dramatically on the front pages
in the Cuban negotiations and
in the elections-was catching on
in the inside pages as we'll.
Organized labor, where the
temptation for a good fight is
hardly ever resisted, found two
OF its feuding leaders in harmony
before the week was over.
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO, has been exercising
what critics call veto power
over recommendation made by
former CIO unions to the Execu-
tive Council of the merged union.
Walter Reuther, who was head of
the CLIO before it merged with
the AFL, and is vice president of
the merged union, threatened to
take his enormous United Auto
Workers out of the union. The
dispute arose over the fact that
Mr.. Reuther and the CLIO unions
had chosen Ralph Helstein, presi-
dent Of the Packinghouse Workers,
for a vacancy in the AFL-CIO
Executive Council.
Mr.. Meany was opposed to Mr..
Helstein and apparently had the
support of the council. The show
down was expected at a meeting
here last week. 1t failed to ma
terialize when both leaders said
they'd decided to talk some more
and to avoid break in our largest
unified labor organization.
A row involving organized labor
and a large and influential group
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
flared during the week. Mr.. Meany
long has been smoldering over
what he charges are unfair COM
ments by Herbert Hill, the
NAACPs labor secretary. Mr.. Hill
has charged that the unions have
been practicing racial diScrimina-
ton. These charges have been
hotly and consistently denied by
Mr.. Meany. Last week, when they
were made again, Mr.. Meany de-
clared that he would suspend fl
nancial aid to the NAACP be-
cause of Mr.. Hills "baseless
charges"
Into the breach stepped Mr..
Reuther with a conciliatory state
ment. Declaring that he would re-
main a member of the NAACP's
board, Mr.. Reuther declared.
THE alliance between labor, the
NAACP and other civil rights and
civil liberties groups is natural
and necessary. We must all
work together. 80"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Kennedy Praised

The Chancellor. who pleased
the President with his statement
that the American leader had won
the admiration of the free world
and the unfree world" alike for
his forceful handling of the
Cuban affair, left the mild and
friendly atmosphere of Washing
ton on Friday for a politically
very chilly Bonn.
The Der Spiegel' crisis con-
tlnueS to flare in the West Ger
man capital, where the Free Dem
ocratic Party is demanding the
custer of DR.. Adenauer's Defense
Minister, the controversial DR..
Franz Joseph Strauss.
The Free Democrats provide the
votes in the Bundestag which per-
mits DR. Adenauer to head the
present coalition government. The
Chancellor's party, the Christian
Democrats, lacks eight votes of
majority.
The Free Democrats, headed by
DR.. Erich Mende (some say by
his ambitious wife), are demand
ing DR.. Strauss removal because,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
I'm This Follow the Leader Come Who's the Leoder?"

flop on Berlin, which was prob
ably brought about by Americas
tlrmnesS on Cuba and the grow
ing split between the Soviet
Union and Communist China,
drained the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
meeting of some of its anticipated
urgency.
Nevertheless, the face-to-face
discussions allowed the two men,
who in the past had not always
agreed on the degree of firmness
to be shown the Russians, to re-
view the Berlin problem in the
wake of events which Mr.. Ken
nedy asserted on Wednesday have
led to IAN important turning
point" in East-West relations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Peiping Pressure

Red China last week appeared
to be putting the pressure on
Moscow to give up its peaceful
co-eXistence" campaign and join
Mao TSe-tung's hard line"
against the Western imperialiStS.
Peiping's rejection Of apparent
Soviet overtures for a truce and
negotiations with India was seen
as just one part of the theological
struggle which has been going on
between the two Communist
powers.
The Cuban situation is another
part. The Chinese Reds have been
blasting Soviet Premier Khru-
Shchev numerically, if indirectly.
for what they consider a retreat"
by the Kremlin-the removal Of
Russian rockets from Cuba. The
Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party went so far as
to say the Russians we're scared
stiff" of United States military
strength.
Whether this strong Chinese
Continued on Page B-2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
A Postage Stamp

A controversy where in a few
feelings got hurt erupted over a
postage stamp.
The Post Office Department is
sued Accent commemorative
stamp honoring Dag Hammar-
skiold, late Secretary General of
the United Nations. BY accident,
some sheets - not many - got
printed with the wrong color and
with the Accent identifying mark
upside down.
The existence of the rareties
quickly excited the philatelic
world. One man holding a So sheet
of so of the misprinted oddities,
thought he had $500,000 worth
of collectors item stamps. Others
were equally jubilant.
Then Teacher came back into
the classroom and the fun was
over; The department announced
that it would reproduce the faulty
stamp in masS-volume to prevent
artificially inflated value. The
collectors went back to their seats.
One stamp collector, however,
refused to go back.
Leonard Sherman of Irvington,
N. j., who had visions of a half
million windfall from the original
mistake went into the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
at Newark, N. j., and obtained
court order hating sale Of the
deliberately misprinted stamps.
This, however, did not come until
after 375,000 of them had been
sold in less than four hours in
the Philatelic office in Washing
ton.
The Post Office Department
called upon the Justice Depart
ment to try to extricate it from
this legal snarl.
The legal maneuver was the
Sherman family's second reaction.
Earlier in the week, when Mrs.
Sherman was informed of the
mass reprinting, she responded
with simple comment: IT think
it's lousy trick"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

split between the two Communist
giants?
These are questions which APP
parently no American official is
willing, at this point, to answer
publicly or to think out loud about.
The Castro note to the U. N. has
been summary rejected by the
State Department in Washington
and at the U. N. This means that
the next move is up to Mr.. Castro
if he wants to play with fire and
shoot at our planes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Some Questions

Is this tough line by Castro set
forth with the connivance of the
kremlin, or is he acting purely
on his own as a puppet who feels
he has been let down by his big
Communist brother7 Does it mean
that Castro and Cuba will side
with the Red Chinese against the
Soviet Union in the widening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Talk, Too

And meanwhile, on the sidelines,
talk, big and little. Senator
Goldwater, Republican of Arizona,
said Adlai E. Stevenson should be
fired as United Nations delegate
for being soft on communism and
soft on Cuba" Mr.. Stevenson
fired back with a request that
Senator Goldwater do him the
courtesy of reading his comments
on the Cuban situation in context.
-. James A Farley, who used to be
famous for knowing politics in
Continued on Page b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

they charge, he did not fully and
frankly explain his part in the
Der Spiegel matter. If DR.. Strauss
is not fired. or forced to resign,
the Free Democrats may with
draw support from the Adenauer
government and cause it to fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
Row Over Nixon

In politics, a broad area of
agreement on foreign policy has
existed for several years. At one
point in this falls campaign it
appeared threatened by the Gu
ban issue. Then the President
pulled the rug from under the
"get-tough-with Cuba" advocates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18

small one-offensive action since
the fighting began, the Chinese
counter-attacked IN massive num-
bers and threatened the key town
Of Walong, near the Burma border.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1962-04-27
Mrs. Sam Cohen
Heads Temple
SiSferhood

Temple Sholom Sisterhood will
hold its final meeting of the year
on Tuesday, May 1, at the Jewish
Community Center, at $3.50 pm.
Newly elected officers for 1962-63
are: Mines. Samuel Cohen, presi-
dent; Jerry Eisen, Leon Fagin,
David Gordon, Jack Sugar, vice
presidents; Irving EiSner, CORE
spending secretary; Harold Tuck
er, recording secretary; Julius
Francis, treasurer; Milton Shul-
man, parliamentarian. They will
be installed Friday evening, May
4. by Rabbi Milton Shulman.
The May 1 program will include
a "Rummage Fashion Show" for
which the entrance fee is one arti-
Gle of rummage for Sisterhood' S
rummage sale next fall.
At the Western Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods convention in
Portland. Ore, Mrs. Cohen was
elected to the executive board OF
District "a as auditor. Mrs. Sugar
was elected to the board of direct
ors. Each will serve two-year
tenure. The district includes Ari-
zona. California, Washington and
Oregon.
After the convention, Mrs, Cohen
and Mrs. Gordon visited Seattle,
Vancouver and Victoria, b. c.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1962-04-27
BITS OF NEWS

Manuel E. Bruder, representa-,
five with Lincoln National Lie, ana
Leonard A. Krell and Leo F. SroKa,
both with Mutual Benefit Life, are
listed in the 1862 Roster OF the
Million Dollar Round Table OF tne
National Association of Life Under
writer's. Every member must nave
sold at least 81 million of life IN
surance in 1861 or else have met
the stricter requirements of Life
membership. Fewer than one per
cent of the worlds life insurance
agents are Round Table members.
George Gavin is new chairman
of the Democratic State Commit
tee. He was finance chairman or
the Kennedy-Johnson Committee in
1860 and is a director of the Clt-
zens Democratic League, which
supports the county organizations
financially. Gavin, so, is an in
surance man and is a past presi-
dent of the Phoenix Association OF
Insurance Agents.