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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
Hard Liberals

Victories in the cold war
elusive things. In the immedi-
ate wake of the crisis, the United
States had appeared to be the
winner. There seemed to be a
new respect for America around
the world, and a closing of ranks
against the Communist drive for
world supremacy.
Mr.. Khrushchev had pictured
the United States as too liberal
to fight, but suddenly he was
faced with the reality of an
America which could and would
fight if necessary. He backed
away, trying unsuccessfully to
salvage something: A deal for
abandonment of NATO alliance
bases in return for the disman-
Ting in Cuba. The United States
had the initiative, however, and
the USSR was unready for the
risks involved in standing firm.
Mr.. Khrushchev did not consult
Cuba's Castro about the dis
mantling, and Castro pictured
himself as Inundated, clearly he
was angry with the Kermlin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
Landing Ships

Thus, when the 1st Armored
was ordered to undertake amphib-
ious exercises-by battalions and
not as a divsion-the military
sea transport service had to char
ter four LISTS landing ships
tank Honduran and three
Liberian.
The United States Navy Just
didn't have the ships to spare.
To transport an armored d.
vision, by the way, on a combat
mission requires 126 LISTS. Even
If the LIST Armored had set out
for Cuba expecting to land on
some peaceful pier, it would have
required As conventional cargo
vessels. The Navy didn't have
them available either.
There was. of course, the posi-
bility of using civilian shipping.
At no time, however, was the
United States merchant fleet ever
told officially it might be needed
for the Cuban crisis.
Part of the normal defense rou-
tine, however, is the maintenance
of list of ships in United States
ports. their loading or unloading
conditions and the ships within
three days steaming of United
States ports. They could be
called quickly.
AS for the warships themselves,
they were not only engaged in
searching out Soviet shipping
bound for Cuba but in protecting
the Marines afloat.
Just to protect the Marine bril-
gade required attack carriers,
2 helicopter carriers, Is destroyers,
submarines and 4 general sup
port ships. The Marines were
embarked on IA vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20

carrying offensive weapons we're
to be admitted.
There we're 10 Soviet ships at
sea while Mr.. Kennedy was
speaking and II turned back to
Russia.
Now all that had transpired to
date was not classed as a mobili-
cation. The Pentagon says the
JOINT Chiefs got around to re-
viewing mobilization plans. in
Guiding the possible recall of re-
serves, only on October %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
Alliance Spurred

In the long run, the Unite d
States had reason to hope that
the Cuban crisis would lead to
something positive in the battle to
thwart Castro Communist ambi-
tons in turbulent Latin America.
There was cautious optimism
about the prospects for the ambi-
tious Alliance for Progress pro-
gram. The crisis appeared to have
brought about greater apprecia-
ton among Latin Americans of
the need for self-help measures to
get the program on the rails.
Few were minimizing the ex-
tremiSt threat in Latin America.
The Organization of America
States recommended measures to
combat Communist designs. Hem
isphere governments were wary
that fury over the results of the
crisis would turn CaStr o-line
Communists toward violence,
n ota bly, in areas like Venezuela,
Brazil and Peru.
But there was increasing evil
dence of confusion in the Red
camp in Latin America as a result
of the October, 1862, events and
what followed.
Castro's new" Communicates
distinguished from the orthodox,
veteran MoScow-line Reds on the
iSland-were on the side of the
impatient ones.
ErneSto (Che) Guevara, Cas-
tro'S expert on revolutionary guer-
rilla warfare, preached the Chi
neSe line: Violence emanating
from hills and countryside, aimed
at forcible overthrow of govern
ments. He scorned the Soviet no.
ton that peaceful means to revo-
luton might sometimes be posi-
BILE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
The Question Of Victory Remains
Moot Despite Apparent Gains

saved the Castro regime by ex-
acting a mo invasion" pledge
from President Kennedy.
down hard on Cuban exile at
tempts to raid and harass the
Cuban regime. The resulting con-
fusion Just about destroyed what
ever effectiveness the evile organ
izations had as an anti Castro
force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
The Element of Luck

Meanwhile, however, the luck"
was coming into play.
Since August II the Navy had
been engaged in extensive anti
submarine warfare exercises in
the Atlantic.
Early IN October a 40-ship fleet
carrying 5000 Marines had en-
barked at Norfolk, Va, bound for
routine landing exercises on the
Caribbean island of Vieques, off
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On October IA the Air Forces
tactical air command had begun
a long planned mobility exercise
in which over 1000 aircraft, IL 900
men and $4,000 tons Of equipment
were to be moved into Florida
by october 20. They were.
Now something happened on
the night Of October IL or early
October Is. Somebody came to
the conclusion that the GAS w.
surveillance operations were I'M
satisfactory. There were no
flights over Cuba on October Is.
Air Surveillance
On October IA the Air Force
took over the aerial surveillance
OF Cuba and returned with the
now famous photographs Of the
Soviet nuclear missiles.
BY October IS the White House.
the State Department and the
Pentagon were in an uproar over
what to do.
On October 10 Mr.. Kennedy's
speech writer's began putting to-
gether a draft of the statement
he was to make October %.
Indeed, the speech-writers went
to work before the JOINT Chiefs
Of Staff got around to advising
various commanders that the
Cuban situation could lead to
military action. That advice was
sent out at 8:12 am. (EST) Oc-
tober 20.
This is not to imply that the
Joint Chiefs were sitting on their
hands. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
chairman of the Joint Chiefs, fell
an emergency was IN the making
and so advised the Navy, Marines
Army and Air Force on Wednes-
day, October II.
Admiral George Anderson, chief
of naval operations, told his
Atlantic forces that it would be
just as easy to practice submarine
chasing around Florida as in the
North Atlantic.
Sometime during the night of
October 10 a rifle battalion of
the 5th Marine regiment at Camp
Pendleton, Calf, near Oceanside,
hot-footed 1t aboard waiting Air
Force jet transports and began
arriving October 20 to reinforce
the garrison at the United States
naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
BY Benz PRICE
Associated Press staff Writer

FORT HOOD, Tex.-What hap
pened to the LIST Armored Division
was typical.
Officially. the LIST Armored has
yet to be informed that there
was a crisis over Cuba IN October
1862.
Yet, it was in attendance on
the crisis as part Of a campaign Of
carefully calculated military pres
sures to force the removal of
Soviet missiles from Cuba.
These presSures, so a high-level
White House source disclosed,
began with the naval quarantine
against the introduction of addi-
tional bombers or missiles into
Cuba.
Failure to obtain the desired
result at this level was to be
met. so the source said. by a
gradual step-up In the level Of
applied force as needed-total
blockade. air assault and, finally,
invasion.
At each stage ample time was
to be allowed for the Russians to
react to what seemed to be a
clear United States determination
to rid itself Of the Cuban threat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
To Avoid Corner

fNNShN ~SN"~N
The graduated force plan was
designed to avoid backing the
Soviet Union into q corner from
which there was no escape with
out irreparable damage to ma
tional pride and prestige.
Clearly. however. Soviet intran-
sigence in the face Of the United
States determination could have
led to an undeclared Naval war,
at least, with the possibility of a
quick oscillation into q nuclear
exchange.
The exact story Of what the
United States was doing and how
well 1t was prepared to do 1t was
surrounded at the time Of the
crisis by technical evasions, OBJ
fuscations and secrecy. 1t still is
to a large extent.
What follows is a first anniver-
sary reconstruction and assess
ment Of the Cuban crisis pieced
together from non-classified ma
terial available at the Pentagon
and elsewhere, chiefly elsewhere.
The Background
In a move which caught the
United States totally by surprise,
the Soviet Union planted AZ me-
dium-range nuclear missiles in
Cuba, thereby advancing its mill
tary frontiers by 5000 miles.
But nobody ever mentioned
Cuba or crisis officially to the
LIST Armored.
The division - "Old Ironsides'
was playing at war across 81
miles Of dusty Texas plain wher
the orders came to move from
Fort Hood to Fort Stewart, near
Savannah, GA. 1t was the larg-
est single unit moved during the
crisis.
So $500 men with 59,641 tons
of equipment and supplies moved
to Fort Stewart. The move was
called a mobility exercise" and
it cost around $40 million. The
troops could only assume the
move was connected with Cuba.
In the aftermath of the crisis,
the impression is left at the Pen
tagon in Washington that the
United States military reaction
was swift and efficient.
But was 1t? Some of it, at
least, appears to have been pure
luck.
This is the way it began:
Early in August both the Air
Force and the Navy reported an
upsurge in Soviet shipping to
Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27
TEEN BRIEFS

Do vou rant to put a
notice or item in TEEN
Briefs7 Jot dotDn the iHformd-
ton and mail it TO TEEN,
The EUenino Star, Washing
ton 3, d. c. Include pour
name and telephone number.
Woodrow Wilson High stu
dent council had a busy time
before the holiday vacation. 1t
sponsored a Christmas card
delivery service. More than s.
600 cards were mailed and de-
livered, netting S28 for the tu-
berculOSis Christmas seal
fund. The council also spon-
sored a Junior Village drive.
Key Clubbers took more than
5000 cans of food, more than
1900 toys, and more than T.
300 articles of clothing plus
check for 81, 443 to Junior Vii
lage.
NOrthwOOd High students
have Joined in the SAD (Stu-
dents Against Discrimination
canned food and old cloth
ing drive for the Negroes Of
Greenwood, Miss, who lost
their jobs because they took
part in the Statewide voter
registration drive, Joan Ia
ciewsh reports.
= =
The KeyetteS at Albert Elm
stein High have added 16 new
members to the service club.
This year the club made finger
puppets for the children at
Christ Child Hospital and next
Sunday they'll have a party
for them. For the Cancer So
ciety they made bed jackets
from shirts contributed by
students. They also went car
rolling at nursing homes and
sanitariums.
The ninth grade chorus at
Nicholas Orem Junior High
sang Christmas songs at
Prince Georges Plaza and In
ion Station.
- -
The Bethesda Youth Center
will sponsor its third hooten-
amy from 8 to 1880 pm.
Monday.
- -
Northwestern High School
will hold an alumni tea for all
past members of the North
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TOP TUNES #.E.
The Voice Of The Beetles Is Heard in This Land

81 Want to Hold Your Hand"
is beautifully simple. It's Tyr
les consist of the phrase, 81
want to hold your hand" re-
peated for about two minutes
and 80 seconds. The Beatles
are fairly good thermometers,
rhythmically sound, and prob
ably In fun to watch.
But, they sound more like
the early days of rock and
roll than the young modern
beat" group they have been
publicized as being. On first
hearing the record, offhand,
one could think of 100 singers
and 1000 records that are as
good if not better. You won
der what all the noise is
about.
Disc jockey James says To-
cal teen reaction has ranged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27

major riots wherever they
have appeared.
The request to hear the re-
cord, never aired before In
this country, came from teen
ager Marsha Albert Of Silver
Spring. Carroll said he was
willing to try.
He first called the British
Embassy. who. although typic-
ally unruffled by the request,
said they could not help. Next
he turned to BoAC, the Eng
ish air lines. Every happy to
try, old boy" was the re-
spouse.
An American friend Of an
English BOAC employee pur-
chased the record in London.
1t was put on a BOAC jet for
the United States and arrived
here Tuesday morning. Tues
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Photo by Seventeen

from those solidly won over to
the BeatleS camp and the
girls who like them "in spite
of the hair-dos," to those less
enchanted, like the poet who
sent Carroll this verse:
japanese beetles are surely
a pest,
And British BeatleS are from
the same nest.
They may give the English
People a thrill, But as for
me, MAMA get Real
Kill"
The disc jockey completely
scooped the rest of the Nation
on airing the record. Capitol
had purchased the disc for re-
lease next month. Both Jack
Paar and Ed Sullivan planned
film segments on the group on
up-coming television shows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27
TOP TUNES
By JAMES LEE
Star Staff Writer

Beatlemania, a serious d.
sease causing widespread
hysteria in England, has been
brought to the United States.
WWDC disc jockey Carroll
James had the record 81
Want to Hold Your Hand" by
Great Britain'S Enthusiastically
successful new singing group,
the BeatleS, flown to this
country last week.
Carroll has introduced to
this country the hottest con-
temporary rock and roll per-
formers Of Europe whose re-
cords have out-sold all singers
including the immensely po-
pular Elvis Presley. They
have performed before capac-
ity-plus crowds and caused
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27

western Chapter Of the Ma
tional Honor Society at 8 pm.
next Thursday.
49,
Wakefield Highs student
council will sponsor the an
nual Senior Alumni Dance
from 9 to midnight tonight in
the girls gym. The semi-for-
nal dance is for 1862 and 1868
alumni, plus seniors. The Par
tymakers will provide the mu-
sic. Admission is S1.5O a cou-
pie or 81 single.
Cheerleaders at Wheaton
High have been conducting a
workshop at Randolph Junior
High to write a constitution
and new cheers.
&&&
The High Point High music
department gave vocal and
instrumental Christmas pro-
grams at Prince Georges Pla-
"a, the Agricultural Research
Center, a parent-teacher
meeting, and a student as
sembly.
Eastern High School girls
won the team trophy at the
Archery Tournament for
senior girls, held at Western
High. The team included
Cynthia Afford, GOloria Bur-
roughs, Shirley Hughes, Patri-
cha Moore, CaSandra Thomas
and Erika Middleton. Erika
was second high scorer.
Lesley Winter and Bob Coe
we're chosen as students Of
the month at High Point High
based on service to the
school.
-
Three hundred Wheaton stu
dents taking college prep Eng
lish went to the movies to
see Macbeth" as part Of
their study Of Shakespearean
drama.
+
st. Cecilia's Academy hon.
ored Shakespeare 4O0th
birthday anniversary with
IAN Evening With Shakes
peare" which featured John
Stars, Jack Miller and Pam
ella Taylor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27

day afternoon, it was played
on the air with an introduc-
ton by Marsha, a 14-year-old
Sligo Junior High student.
The Beatles, who have can
celled personal appearances
for the sake of life and limb,
are four young men from
Liverpool who dress in the
sharpest Teddy Boy" fashion
and sport long hair combed
across their foreheads in
bangs.
They accompany them
selves, when they perform, on
three guitars and drums.
Their music is unbelieveably
loud, repetitiouS and sends
their fans into a neither world
in which frenzed teen-agerS
rip off each others clothes,
battle policemen or simply
faint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27

Teen-dgers find the oppo-
site ser Intriguing, mysterious,
battling and often downright
1ggrdDdting. II you tUonder
tUhy they do the things they
do, Dorothy Ricker'S neweSt
leutlet tDiH be helpful. It's
free! Please enclose q
stamped, Selt-dddreSSed en-
Uelope With your request for
you And the Opposite Ser"
Mail to Dorothy Kicker in
care of Teen, The Euenino
Star, Washington 3, D. C.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Miscellaneous
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Observation-Disclosures

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THE PROPHETS, formerly the Rhythm
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Notices

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In heart. Call EDDIE. VIII. 6-43l3 or
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Dear Mrs. Kicker:

lear Mrs. Kicker:
l am a regular reader Of
your column and recently
you mentioned something
about it being improper for
a girl to give a boy a pres
ent first, under certain cir
Gu S an S. Would You
consider it improper for me
to give my steady boy friend
a birthday gift? This will
be his first birthday since
we've been dating, and my
birthday doesn't come up
for three months.
PHYLLIS
Under the circumstances
you describe, it would be all
right to give your steady a
birthday gift. Apparently you
have not been going steady
very long, so / recommend an
inexpensive gift-a record al
bum, a book on his favorite
sport or hobby, or something
for his room such as a desk
set, small clock or bookends.
If money is a problem, you
could make him some candy
or cookies. Wrap them attrac-
lively and add a nice birthday
card.
Do you have problems? Write to
Dorothy Kicker. in care of TEEN.
The Evening Star WASHINGTON 8,
d. C. Letters to Mrs. Kicker can
be. answered through her column
Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate
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Miscellaneous
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BOXING EQUIPMENT WANTED -
Gloves. punching and training bass
head protectors. Must be reas. RICK
S99-77l1 or oS7-C565.
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RICKER'S
MAIL
BY DOROTHY KICKER

Dear MIS-. Kicker:
I am is and have just
started dating. | get along
fine with girls but I really
sweat their parents. Quite
often when I call for a girl
she Is not ready and If /
20 to the door I'm faced with
at least one and sometimes
both Of her parents. Usual
ly they are strangers to me
and / Just don't know what
to say or how to act. Can you
please help me?
WOODY
When you have a date, never
make the mistake Of sitting in
the car and footing the horn to
announce your arrival. Walk
to the front door and ring the
bell. If you are confronted by
one or both Of the girls
parents, don't panic. If you
have not met them say, ''Pm
Woody Hanes, is Jill ready?"
The parents will invite you in
and, once you are in the liv-
ing room, stand until you are
invited to sit down. Say
Thank you," take the near
est seat and don't sprawl. The
adults will probably make light
conversation and you should
be pleasant and responsive.
Don't chew gum or smoke.
Stand up when your girl enters
the room and don't say some
thing like, "COme on Doll,
let's blast off," Say, eli, Jill,
are you ready to go?" If her
parents set a time for her
to be home agree to have her
back at that time-and do it.
Then say something like, at
has been nice meeting you"
open the door for Jill and
leave. Have no fear Of nice
parents. All they want from
you Is for you to be pleasant,
well behaved and a suitable
dating companion for their
daughter.
Dear Mrs. Kicker:
lam Is and a freshman In
a small high school. I have
been taught that boys re-
spect girls who do not 60
In for heavy nechng and pet
ting-and II Is the mice"
girls that boys want to mar
ry. / believe this to be true
but 1t Is quite apparent to
me that some Of the more
popular girls in my school
are the ones who do more
necking and petting than l
think is proper. I'm not as
popular as these girls and
sometimes l worry about it
and wonder II I am In dan
ger Of becoming a prude.
So, l decided to ask your adj
vice.
JOAN
Just because you do not
want to become too deeply in
volved with a boy does not
make you a prude. In my opin-
ion, it simply shows you to be
the kind Of girl who is intelli-
gent enough to know if she
plays with fire she is going
to get burned. There are diff
ferent kinds Of so-called popu-
larity, Joan. The kind acquired
by easy girls with loose NOR
rails is not lasting and leads
to many heartaches. This
brings up a serious question
which deserves much thought:
What kind Of popularity do
you want?
You cannot be popular with
everyone. So you must stick
to what you think Is right and
choose friends who think and
act as you do. Don't be en-
vious of the easy girls. The
price they have to pay for
their short-lved popularity is
too high to even consider, be-
ieve me.