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target Udlt lOI AlIftTlCd next
manned space flight. AStronaut
Gordon Leroy Cooper is sched-
uled to try for 80 orbits. a %
hour mission. Cooper's flight is
to be the last phase of Project
Mercury which will be super
seeded by Project Gemini. in
yolying a tWo-man spacecraft.
NASA. the civilian space
agency, announced that the air
force will participate in Genlni
by helping to bear its cost and
sending one man along to check
military concepts in space.
JAMES DONOVAN, the New
York attorney who helped ar
range the release Of some 100
Bay Of Pigs invaders, flew to
Havana Saturday to bargain for
the freedom OF about 20 Ameri-
cans still in Cuban Jails. He eX-
pressed optimism for their re-
lease when he returned to Miami
the same day. On Friday a ship
load Of ITO Cuban refugees,
relatives of the Bay of Pigs
INVADERS arrived at Port Ever
glades, Fla In recent weeks at
least two plane loads of Arneri-
can nationals were allowed to
leave the island and were flown
to Miami.
TWO SPY RINGS directed BY
the u. S. Central Intelligence
Agency from Guantanamo naval
base have been broken up, ac-
cordlng to the Cuban govern
ment The Castro regime said a
number of persons were arrest
ed and weapons confiScated.
UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR
TESTS by the u S. in Nevada
have been ordered suspended
during current negotiations with
Russia and Britain on a nuclear
test ban treaty. The move was
seen as an effort to improve the
atmosphere for these talks now
gOing on in Washington and to
avoid the Soviet charge. should
the talks break up, that the U. S.
was not negotiating seriously
The White House said no indeti-
mite moratorium, such as the
one the Soyiets violated in the
fall Of 1861, was planned and the
u S. would remain ready to re-
sumo testing at any time.
COMMON MARKET foreign
ministers were to meet Monday
in Brussels. The five whose ma
tons support Britain's e try
were reported ready to press
France for a brief time limit,
perhaps 10 days, on the study of
the status of the British apphca
ton. French president de
Gamle's opposition to British en-
try has drawn sharp criticism
from many quarters in the West
President Kennedy has warned
West German Chancellor AIDE
nauer against the formation of a
PariS-BOnn alls and has stress
| ed the need for interdependence
AN ADVISORY GROUP of &c
legislators, judges, and private
citizens to assist the Governor <
Highway Safety Committee was
proposed Saturday by Del. Bald
win G. LOcher at the winter
meeting Of the Virginia Press
Association in Williamsburg
Locher said he hopes that neX1
year the General Assembly vii
pass laws providing mandatory
| Jail sentences for drunk driving
and driving after revocation Of
the drivers license.
THE STOCK MARKET con
tinued it upward trend las
week. The APP 60-stock average
rose for the sixth straight week
closing Friday at $225.40 for {
net gain Of So 10. However, some
observers on Wall Street begar
to express doubts about the con
tinuance of the bullish trend
They pointed to the lack of news
development significant enough
to Justify the rise and to PreSi
dent Kennedy'S tax proposal.
which would take several years
to grant relief to big corpora
tons