The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-10-11
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
. PLANES DOWNED
. WET NAM STUDY
Q CUBA REJECTS AID
BY
H. v. LANCASTER, JR.

and Vietnamese fighter bomb
er were reported down in cen
trail South Wet Nam Wednesday
and l3 Americans were missing
Wreckage of all three crafts
was sighted Wednesday morn
ing. but there was no sign Of
survivors. Search planes sert
into the area were pelted by
Communist ground fire One u
s. pilot was injured by flying
plexiglass and Vietnamese SOL
der aboard was killed. Last
week Defense Secretary McNa-
mara and Gen Maxwell Taylor,
Just returned from a fact-finding
trip to South Wet Nam. told the
President the military picture
there looked bright ard mos.
U. S. troops could be withdrawn
IN 1863
THE IlN GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY, has accepted South Wet
Nam invitation to send observ-
ers there to investigate its al
legged III treatment Of the Budd-
hists. This has apparently fore
stalled an Afro-Asian move to
have the world body censure the
Diem government. Meanwhile
Madame Nhu. sister-in-law of
President Diem and wife of the
head of the ration S secret po-
hce, arrived in the u. S. Monday
Tor a three-Week tour. The good
looking. oiitspoken first lady Of
South Wet Nam Diem is a
bachelor has made disapraging
remarks about U. S. troops in
her country. and Washington of-
ficials will repeatedly give her
the cold shoulder.
CUBA has rejected THE hypo-
critical offer by the u. S. to
AID victims of Hurricane Flora,
according to a radio broadcast
picked up in Miami. The Ameri-
can Red Cross volunteered 10
send workers and supplies to
eastern Cuba which was ravaged
for several days by the storm
Flora. described as the worst
hurricane to hit the Caribbean
since the time of Columbus, is
estimated to have taken 5000
lives and caused $50 million dol
lars in d a m a G e S in Tobago.
HAITI and Cuba. Premier Castro
according to one report, was al
most drowned while directing
rescue operations in Orien-e
province. The storm now poses
30 threat TO the u S. and was
expected to dlsslpate over the
Atlantic.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
Harold Macmillan entered a hos
pltal for surgery Tuesday. one
day before the annual confer
ence of his Conservative party
in Blackpool A report Tuesd ~
said the 69year-old prime min
lister had decided definitely 20
continue as head OF his party
during the 1864 parliamentary
elections, but reports Wednesday
seemed to indicate Macmillan
might step down. The confer
ence was expected to choose his
successor should he decide to re-
sign. Macmillan Will not be
fully active for two or three
months. and from all indications
the Conservatives face tough
race against the Labol-ites next
fall
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT,
Charles dc Gaulle will visit the
U. S next year. This seemed to
be the only tangible result Of
two DAYS Of talks this week be-
tween Washington officials ard
French Foreign Minister Couve
de Nurvllle. But both sides APP
peared satisfied with the discus
sions- The emphasis was on
clearing away what the State
Department called unnecessary
points of misunderstanding. De
Gaulle's policies in cent
months seem to have had The
aim of pushing the u. S. out OF
Europe or at least OF establish
ing French hegemony there.
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