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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Test Ban Witness Sees
Easy u. S. Withdrawal

The United States would
withdraw from a nuclear test
ban treaty if the Soviet Union
demanded an on-site inspection
under the Capitol building,
Congress has been told.
The inference was that it
would be absurd for anyone to
suggest the United States would
conduct a secret underground
nuclear test under Capitol Hill
Democratic Senator Pastore
of Rhode Island, chairman OF
the Joint Atomic Energy Com
mittee, suggested the "hypo-
thetical" case Of a Soviet de-
mand to drill under the Capitol
for a pocket of radioactivity
from a suspected nuclear test.
He cited such a possibility yes
terday to DR.. Franklin Long,
chief scientist of the Arms Con-
troll and Disarmament Case, at
the Joint committee hearings on
test-ban treaty negotiations.
DR.. Long answered that, If
such an accusation we're ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Revolutionary Council
Claims Full Control

A clue to the Baathist SYM
pathy of the rebel government
was seen in the fact that Bath
founder, Michael Ajax, left
Beirut for Damascus yesterday
and was allowed through the
otherwise closed border. He
was the only person known to
get into the sealed off country.
The Bath. standing for the
Arab Social Renaissance Par
ty," is anti-Communist, social
list and for Arab unity. 1t
never has defined what kind
Of unity it wants, but the Iraqi
Baathists who overthrow Abdel
Kerim Kassem February 8 APP
pear to favor union of policy
and not government. The
Iraqis are the first Baathists to
control a government.
Both Iraq and Mr.. Nasser's
Egypt have offered the rebels
full military support If they
need it, and have sent mes
sages Of warmest welcome to
the revolution.
The unity" thus may de-
velop into a close alliance OF
bloc Of Arab socialist. neutral
list states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
ARLINGTON

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instance, shows that the as
sessed valuation of real estate
in 1959-60 was $500 million and
that in the forthcoming fiscal
year it will soar above S4O1
million.
The greater OUTLAWS advo-
Gated by Mr.. johnson include
$4,000 to resurface and light
streets, $4,000 for equipment
which would double the capac-
ity Of the sanitation depart
ment to clean streets, $129. 900
for land acquisition, and $685.
900 for six additional police
men.
The budget also allows S1.2
million for pay-as-you-go cap
ital Improvements and $4,000
for Arlington's contribution to
build a mental hygiene center
for Northern Virginia.
The board will conduct a
series of public hearings this
month and next before adopt
ing Its budgets in May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Dean Hints
NewWeopon
Is Red Aim

HAMPTON, Va, Mar. 9 (AP)
The former chief United
States representative at the
Geneva disarmament confer
ence says the Soviet Union may
be working on a new secret
weapon more deadly than any
thing known to man.
Arthur H. Dean told a faculty
seminar at Hampton Institute
yesterday this could account
in part for Russia's refusal at
present to enter into a nuclear
test ban with the United States.
However, Mr.. Dean said there
may be still other reasons. He
told the gathering the Soviet
Union is behind the United
States in nuclear testing and
may desire time to catch up
with a minimum of detection.
In addition, he said, the
Russians may fear an early
agreement on a test ban would
cause intense dissatisfaction
among Com munist forces
around the world.
Nevertheless, he said, ave
must continue negotiations with
them and continue to plaI
ahead If we are to save tn
world from destruction eithe
through plan or by miscalcu
lation."l
Mr.. Dean said that, although
the world may have to accept
something short of total dis
armament, we cannot afford
to reject out of hand any pro-
posal which may lead to peace. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09

eign Office told Moscow, isn't
cricket.
The protest announced yes
terday dealt with the case of
Ivor Rowsell, AZ, a British En-
basSy staff man who returned
to England from Moscow last
Friday.
Mr.. Rowsell told British Am
baSSador Sir Humphrey Ire
velyan that Soviet agents sp-
preached him and tried to
force him into spying by
threatening to disclose Incl
dents in his private life. The
Ambassador quickly sent him
and his wife home.
It's happened before, said a
Foreign Office spokesman. He
added all Western diplomats
in Iron Curtain countries run
the risk of attacks on their
integrity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Swedes on Right

STOCKHOLM, Mar. 8 (AP)
officials figure it
will cost the equivalent of $50
million to get motorists to drive
on the right side of the road
instead of the left.
Parliament will vote in April
or May on the proposal to re-
verse a 250-year habit. If
approved, Swedish drivers will
follow the right side of the road
like everyone else in Europe,
except the British.
Costs will stem from the need
to change traffic signs, recon-
struct some highways and re-
build tramways. Swedes hope
to step into the traffic line
with Continental Europe by
1867.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
French Miners
DefyPOmpidou
Strike Appeal

PARIS, Mar. 9 (AP).-Coal
miners in Frances second larg-
est field pledged to continue
their strike and tougher their
stand today, defying a radio
television appeal from Premier
Georges Pompidou.
Mr.. Pompidou cited the ma
tional interest last night in
pleading for a return to work.
Far from easing the situation,
1t seemed only to have rein
forced the miners determine
ton to stay idle until the
government negotiates.
Workers in Frances second
largest field, the Lorraine
mining basin, responded to the
Premier's appeal in an open
letter. mo, Monsieur Pompi-
dou," it said.
The coal strike headed into
its second week with the ma
tionalized mines completely
paralyzed and no settlement in
sight on the miners demands
for higher wages and shorter
hours.
Instead, there was a grave
risk that labor strife would
spread on the heels of yester-
days token strikes by gas and
electricity workers. Metalwork-
ers were also agitating for wage
increases.
Mr.. Pompidou refused to
bulge on the unions wage
hour demands which he said
could hurl the country into a
disastrous inflationary spiral.
The Premier's assurance that
he understood perfectly" the
miners anxiety failed to con-
vince spokesman for the work.
ers.
The miners are asking for
an II per cent increase in
wages and a 40-hour week. The
government is offering a ST.
per cent package increase.
The two sides are also dead
locked on the governments
requisition of miners as es-
sential to the national economy.
Mr.. Pompidou, in his radio
television appearance, refrained
from threatening the miners
with legal action in case of
continued defiance. He pitched
his appeal on the patriotic
ground of national interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Custro's PRESTIGE
Falls, U. S. Envoy
To OAS Asserts

BATON ROUGE, La, Mar. 8
(AP).-The United States Am
bassador to the Organization
of American States, deLesseps
Morrison, said today Fidel
Castro's image in Latin Amer
lea "has taken a real nose dive
since last October"
In a talk at Louisiana State
University for the law school
lecture series, Mr.. Morrison
said, Actually Castro's decline
in prestige has been under way
for some time-but the Cuban
crisis really put it on the skids. "
This is important" Mr..
Morrison added, because as
long as stable numbers of peo-
pie in Latin America persisted in
viewing Castro as some sort of
bearded Robin Hood, effective
counteraction against commu-
nism was hampered."
AS for the Alliance for Prog
ress, he said, you may be in
terested to know that by this
summer estimates are that the
alliance will have yielded direct
benefits to some IS million peo-
pie throughout Latin America"
Despite the efforts of the
Communists-despite our &C.
casional setbacks-the so-called
Red tide is receding," he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
z Airmen Found
Dead in Auto

The bodies of two airmen
assigned to Fort Meade were
found early today in a car
parked in a driveway near
Simpsonville in Howard County.
Md, State police reported.
According TO State Trooper
Thomas E. Mullinix. a milk
man discovered the bodies
about 6:25 am. in the back
seat Of an old model sedan.
The motor Of the car was run
ming.
Trooper Mullinix said the
car was parked in a driveway
off Kinder road.
The bodies were sent to the
Baltimore City morgue for an
autopsy. Trooper Mullinix said
a broken exhaust pipe beneath
the car or its blower heater
could have allowed poisonous
carbon monoxide to seep in
side.
He said the two airmen.
whose names were being with
held pending notification of
their families. had all the win
dows in the car closed except
one in the rear which was
opened slightly.
At the Psntagon, a spokes-
man said the two men were
members Of the 6970th Sup
port Group. an Air Force OUT
1T whose Job 1t is 10 provide
housekeeping support for the
top secret National Security
Agency such as maintaining
records or driving trucks. He
denied emphatically that the
two men held any sensitive"
position at Fort Meade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09

vanced, the United States
would first check to see If its
own seismic evidence had justi-
fled any such suspicious.
If not, he said, the United
States would exercise its Sow
ereign right to say mo thank
you" and withdraw from the
test ban treaty, on the grounds
the accusation was insincere.
DR.. Long later acknowledged
that the same privilege Of
withdrawal would be open to
the Soviet Union, If it consid-
erred absurd some United States
demand for an on-site inspec-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Convicts in Plane
Make Extra Stop

Ell PASO, Tex, Mar. 9 (AP)
"A plane load of "a convicts
being moved from Alcatraz
Federal Prison in San Fran
cisco Bay TO Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., spent the night In La
Tuna correctional institution
after their plane developed
engine trouble.
The transport landed at FL
PaSo's International Airport TO
refuel after the pilot reported
engine trouble. II was decided
10 stay overnight. and the
manacled prisoners we're taken
by bus to the Federal prison
outside the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Russians Say
U. 5. Uses Gas
In Wet Nam

MOSCOW, Mar. 9 (AP)-
The Soviet Union charged to-
day that the United States
was using poison gas against
civilians in South Wet Nam anc
that hundreds of persons hao
persisted.
In Washington, the United
States Defense Department
said in a statement that I'VE
have never used poison gas
in South Wet Nam and there
is no truth in Communist
reports that we are using it
now"
GA Pentagon spokesman
recalled that similar charges
have been made in the past
and that all have been
promptly denied.)
1.-THE world has become wit.
ness of another monstrous
crime" wrote Krasnaya Evesds
(Red Starr, official organ of
the Soviet Defense Ministry
THE American interventionists
have again used poison sub
stances in South Wet Nam.
Hundreds of people persisted, a
great quantity Of cattle was
poisoned"
The newspaper said the
United States manufactured
a poison gas called "GB" at a
factory near Denver from a
formula captured from the
Nazis, and loaded it into the
warheads of rockets, bombs and
missiles at the same spot.
Charge "Hitler Technique"
THE cross-ocean strategist,
greedily grasped whatever the
Hitherto criminals didn't dare
to use," Red Star added.
The Red Star charge follows
by a day a Budapest Commu-
mist youth organization pro-
test spraying poisonous chem
icals in South Wet Nam by
the United States and the Ngo
Dinh Diem clique" Commu-
mist China also broadcast a
charge by the Red Chinese Red
Cross organization that use of
chemicals was an "inhuman
atrocity."
Weed Killer
The Communist uproar fol-
lows reports by military men
in Saigon that a weed killer
used to destroy heavy foliage
has begun to pay off in fewer
Red guerrilla ambushes. Air
planes spray the chemical
along roads and canals to
eliminate bushes the Commu-
nists use as hiding places.
Initial experiments a year
ago failed because the spray
was applied in the wrong sea-
son for maximum effect, Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent
Malcolm w. Browne reported
last month from Saigon.
Technicians also found that
the formula, similar to thai
used in killing weeds on tenni,
courts, was too weak. Will
these flaws corrected, the spray
now strips leaves from Low
bushes and scrub timber. Tree
are left standing and un
harmed, military officers said
The North Wet Nam radio
at Hanoi has charged TO
months that United Statei
planes have been dumpinI
"noxious chemicals" over rice
fields and other farm lands il
an attempt to "starve the
southern people"
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councils thinking observed, in
this connection:
Experience suggests we can
not stay on a plateau indefi-
nitely, even a slightly uptilted
plateau. Sooner or later we
have to break out on one side
or another.
THE possibility that the
breakout would he a recession
arises from the fact that a
horizontal movement doesn't
encourage industry to make
heavy investment in plant and
equipment or to build up in
ventories.
I'VE think the tax cut would
make a difference - that it
would bring us off the plateau
on the upside. In the absence
of a tax cut, a recession in 1864
or 1865 would be more natural
than not to have a recession
in 1864 or 1865"
The trend toward increas-
ingly frequent recessions al
ready has been broken. Mr..
Kennedy noted last month that
the recovery period between
the first and second post World
War II recession was As
months; between the second
and third, IS months; between
the third and fourth, rs
months; and "the American
economy is now in its oath
month Of recovery from the
fourth postwar recession"
The President apparently
cited that record to suggest that
it is time to post a lookout for
rocks ahead. His council tends
to believe that, since this re-
covery - for all its lack of
vigor - has lasted as long as
the last one, it could continue
its suffering advance for a
good deal longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Cubuns Cite
Bus, Aspirin
Tales of Woe

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 8 (AP).-
Newly-arrived refugees say trav-
cling to and from work in
Cuba is getting to be as much
Of headache as keeping meat
on the table.
And a headache can be ex-
Ipensive:
New York-born Roberto Err
nesto Otero, one of 1903 refugees
who reached Miami by plane
yesterday from Havana, said
aspirin tablets cost SO per 100
there although the bottles carry
American labels and price tags
Of SO cents.
Mr.. Otero said 1.-THE only
medicines available in Havana
from the shipments (of food
and medicine bartered for Bay
of Pigs invasion prisoners are
aspirin, settler tablets, a men,
Ithol rub and some vitamins. +"
A bottle of $50 vitamin pills
sells for $9-to-$10, reported an
other refugee, Ernesto Del Pine.
Mr.. Del Pine, a former New
ark IN. j. resident, said he and
his wife had been trying since
1861 to get permission to bring
their three children to this
country.
Hiram Montero. who once
lived in Chicago, brought his
wife and their two Chicago
oorn children on the flight. Mr..
Montero said he gave up selling
automobiles in Havana when
cars became scarce and rickety.
There are no cars newer than
1860" he said land parts are
unavailable. There are few
buses. If you get off work at
s pm, you are lucky if you get
home by $780,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09

than at PaklStan. These signs
pointed to a conciliatory atti-
tude toward Pakistan:
/. The government-controlled
All-India Radio gave maximum
publicity last night to a state
ment by is civic leaders that it
would be suicidal to let the
Kashmir talks fail.
2. Opposition political lead
ers are observing a gentleman's
agreement not to stir up tenn
pers on either side while the
talks go on.
3. Official Indian reaction to
the Pakistan-C China border pact
was contained in a mild note
sent to Pakistan four days after
a strong protest was fired off
to Peking.
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rian border and said it would
fight to prevent any interfer-
ence with the new government.
Both Egypt and Iraq warned
other countries to keep hands
off.
Mr.. Bitar. so. is one of five
known Baathists in the cabinet.
Others are Finance Minister
Homad. also repeatedly a be-
lever in union with Egypt;
Labor Minister Attrash, Com
munications Minister Dahl and
Guidance Minister Jundi.
DR.. Jundi. educated in the
United States, served as direc-
tor Of the government informa-
ton office. and DR.. Homad was
Minister of Finance of the Sy-
rian region during the union.
fOSltiOn MADE GEAR
The military leaders, with 1t.
Gen. Louay Attassi as chief Of
the general staff, made it clear,
they were running the country,
Gen. Attassi. a 39-year-old
officer promoted from colonel
yesterday, took part in a pro-
Nasser mutiny in Aleppo one
year ago. In the Middle East
tradition, he was "exiled" to
Washington as military attache
but was recalled TO Damascus
this winter TO testify in a court
martial Of others involved in
the mutiny. After testifying
that the he felt officers facing
trial should be freed. he was
arrested and sent TO Mezza
prison In Damascus.
His deputy is Mai. Gen.
Rashed Qattini, 40. also a
colonel until last week. when
he became the army's military
intelligence chief. His assump-
ton OF that powerful post may
have paved the way for the
coup.
He also is believed TO have
favored In the past union with
Egypt, but may have moderated
his views.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
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foresee some $50 unidentified
underground events inside the
Soviet Union each year, DR..
Long judges the number with
which the United States will
have to deal to be only 80.
In his estimates, he elimi-
mates the other 100 because
they occur in remote areas or
possibly under water off East
ern Siberia's shores.
DR.. Long told the committee
that too many on-site inspec-
tons per year would reduce the
effectiveness of the later probes.
At one point in his testimony,
DR.. Long may have suggested
the United States would Sur
face" an undercover agent in
side the Soviet Union to verify
a secret nuclear test violating
the nuclear test ban.
There would always be a
possibility, for example" DR..
Long said, "of 'windfall' infor-
nation such as might be pro-
vided by a defector, i.e., a
knowledgeable military man or
a scientist"
Representative Hosmer, Re-
publican of California, inquired
whether the defector could
make his way out of the Soviet
Union quickly enough to be of
help in an on-site inspection.
DR.. Long asked to give his reply
in secret session.
Senator Pastore, Democrat OF
Rhode Island, chairman of the
joint committee, announced the
hearings on the test ban would
be extended until Monday sc
the members could hear Will
liam C. Foster, director of the
Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, who has led the Ameri'
can negotiating team at Genev'
recently.
Mr.. Foster will testify in pub
lie session before the Joint com
mittee at 2 pm. Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Free Chest X-Ruys

Anyone over IS years of age
may obtain a free chest x-ray
from the d. c. tuberculosis
Association and the d. c. De-
partment OF Public Health
sponsored mobile unit on
March ~ and 10 at I'LL First
street NE. from 0 am. 10 noon
and from l2:45 10 5 pm. or on
March IA and IS at 1918 New
Hampshire avenue NV. from
10 am. 10 1880 pm. and from
ISIS 10 6 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
Warsaw Hits Talk

WARSAW, Mar. 8 APP
Poland's Communist govern
ment admits 1t is plagued with
too much talk and too many
meetings at the expense OF
work.
THE surplus of conferences
and consultations is a
sickness from which Cur adj
ministration has suffered for
a long time" says a letter which
the Council of Ministers is
circulating to government adj
ministrators at all levels.
So many meetings are being
held that they "oiten disorgan-
ize work and make 1t impossible
TO do business" the letter SAYS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-09
No Queries on Peron

MADRID. Mar. o (APl.-In-
formation Minister Manuel
Fraga Iribarne said today the
Spanish government has not
been asked about alleged politi-
cal agitation here by former
Argentine Dictator Juan d.
Peron.
He was commenting on re-
cent rumors that Argentina has
sought Peron's expulsion be-
cause Of political activity in
Spain. Peron took political
refuge here In 1860.
Fraga Iribarne said Argentina
assured Spain In 1860 that
Peron's presence was not con-
sidered an unfriendly act.
Since then there has been
nothing 10 modify this situa-
tion." he said.
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irresponsible. partisan and
political"
THAT speech was rough and
i meant it to be rough" said
Mr.. Arends in an interview.
THE American people are en-
titled to the truth and the
whole truth"
He said he'd keep laying on
the criticism until he gets a
satisfactory explanation of
what occurred during the pc
Rod before october IA, when the
President says an aerial photo
graph at last proved that Rus
sian missiles we're being set up
in Cuba.
But Mr.. Arends said he had
not been able to ask Mr.. Ken
needy about the main point of
his st. Petersburg talk because
it hadn't come to his attention
until last week during a hear
ing of the House Armed Serv-
ices Committee.
Generals Testimony Cited
He said 1t. Gen. Thomas P.
Gerrity, Air Force Deputy Chief
of Staff, told the committee
that thousands of bombs,
rockets, ammunition, troops
and equipment were moved
into Florida early in October.
He quoted Gen. Gerrity as
saying I'VE actually went into
high gear to support the Cuban
plan on the 10th of october"
But again and again, Mr..
Arends said, Mr.. Kennedy and
Secretary Of Defense Nc
Namara have maintained that
mot until October l4th was it
known that Communist Russia
had more than purely defensive
weapons in Cuba"
At his news conference, Sec
rotary Rusk praised Repre-
sentative Mahon, Democrat of
Texas. for his House speech on
Thursday denouncing loose talk
about United States intelligence
operations and secrets.
Some of the cold war strug-
gle involves some pretty mean
kinds Of fighting in dark back
alleys" said Mr.. Rusk. 1T is
not always possible or in our
interest to make all these
things public"
THE main directions of policy
|. are fully known. because
this country in the main has
to act in public but there
are some serious problems in
volved as 10 how far we go in
giving TO the other side infor-
nation which the other side
would find extremely valuable
in the details and the actual
conduct Of policy" Mr.. Rusk
added.
Other Developments
In other developments:
An Air Force general has
told a Senate Preparedness
subcommittee that Soviet MIG
fighter planes In Cuba are pri-
marily armed for defensive
missions but could be used for
ground attacks. The officer,
Mai. Gen. Robert A. Breid-
weiser. also testified the Rus
slams have built a formidable
air defense In Cuba. His testi-
mony was released yesterday by
the subcommittee.
The Defense Department an
nounced that no Air National
guardsmen from any State but
Alabama-in or out OF uniform.
on or off duty-took part in
combat operations IN the Bay
OF Pigs invasion. One OF the
four Birmingham men killed
during the assault has been
identified as an Air Guard
officer and there have been
published reports that Air
Guardsmen from Arkansas and
Virginia were also invnlved