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Evening star., 1963-02-08
-INTERPRETATION
Kennedy Spells Out
Lotin American Truths

It is "the most critical area
in the world today" he said.
Cuba as a center of propa-
ganda and possibly subversion.
the training of agents-these
are the things which we must
watch about Cuba"
But he made clear that he
is far less concerned about that
base than about the turmoil
in Latin America which that
base is attempting to use,
Both Mr.. Kennedy yesterday
and Secretary of Defense Nc
Namara in his two-hour press
conference the day before made
clear their belief that the sub
versive base is being adequately
contained.
On the other hand. the ad-
ministration is far less conf
dent that the end Of chaos in
Latin America is in sight. Yes
terday Mr.. Kennedy only
touched upon the desperate
conditions" in country after
country which produce insta-
bility with or without Fidel
Castro.
Feeding Instability
His plea TO focus attention
on these conditions and prob
lens underlines a growing
Illustration inside and outside
the Government with the limp
ing Alliance for Progress.
After l8 months and al
most 50 billion in United States
aid, the Alliance still has not
been able to mobilize popular
sentiment for far-reaching So
cial and economic reforms,
Part Of the problem is the
"oversell" by the administra-
ton at the beginning. so that
many people felt that centuries
Of stagnation were going to bt
overcome overnight in Latir
America.
The fact Is that the Alliance
! See POLICY, Page A.;
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Cooper Says He MoyFIy
More Than d Orbits
Astronout Plans on Experiment
With Spoceship Decomposition

HOUSTON, Feb Jap Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper
jr reported today that his coming orbtal flight might be
extended beyond % orbits If his condition and that of his
space capsule are good at that point in the mission.
He also disclosed that he plans at least partial de-
of his capsule ITO see how well man can
Evening star., 1963-02-08
Soviet Warned
On Missiles
By Kennedy
He Says Peace
Hinges on Barring
Them From Cubu
BY GARNETT ID. HORNER
star staff Writer

star staff Writer
Soviet leaders had fair warm
ing from President Kennedy
today that peace depends on
keeping their ballistic missiles
out of Cuba.
He coupled this warning at a
press conference late yesterday
Evening star., 1963-02-08

cOns.ssmsn Disagree With Kennedy
On cubo. Poss AS
PortioI Text Of President kennsdys
Press Conference. PoSe AT
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CeyIon Loses U. S. Aid
Pending Compensation

the United States did not then
and does not now contest the
right of Ceylon, as a sovereign
state, to nationalize private
property.
However. when such prop
erty belongs TO a citizen or a
company Of foreign country,
the payment of prompt. ade-
quate and effective compensa-
tion is required by international
law"
The Ceylon government, Mr..
Bell said. has not denied its
obligation to pay compensation
and has in fact given repeated
assurances to this effect.
Ready 10 Negotiate
However, the actions taken
by the government Of Ceylon
are not regarded by the United
States government as 'appro-
pirate steps because they do
not insure the prompt payment
OF compensation representing
the full value OF the property
as required by international
law"
Mr.. Bell said the United
States was prepared 10 consider
a negotiated settlement OF the
claims Of the two oil companies.
but in the absence Of progress
toward a settlement the admin
istration had no choice but 10
suspend aid TO Ceylon.
Mr.. Bell expressed hope that
Ceylon will pay what he called
effective compensation. thus re-
establishing "a favorable cli-
mate In Ceylon for the invest
ment Of foreign capital"
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Most Critical Area"
BY the Associated PSsss

The United States cut off
aid to Ceylon today because of
its failure to compensate two
American oil companies for
seizure of their properties.
The action was required un-
der a provision Congress put
into the 1861 foreign aid act.
The Agency for international
Development said the sus-
pended aid includes develop
ment grants, mainly technical
assistance. amounting TO $780,
900 for the current fiscal year.
and a development loan Of
more than SO million.
To avoid hardship to the
people Of Ceylon, the agency
said, the United States is ready
to continue a Food for Peace
program providing milk and
flour for a school lunch pro-
gram reaching l.847.000 chill
dren, and a nutrition program
for 10000 mothers and pre-
school children.
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SO Stations Involved

Last year Ceylon's left-lean-
ing government nationalized
SO gasoline stations belonging
to two American oil companies,
ESQ Standard Eastern, Inc,
and Caltex Ceylon. Ltd.
ESQ Standard was reported
10 have valued It's assets In
Ceylon at about SIS million.
and Caltex valued its assets at
about SIS million.
David e. Bell. aid admins
traitor, said in a statement that
Evening star., 1963-02-08

Scientists Reduce Estimates Of Spoes
Reduction Danger Pose Az
Evening star., 1963-02-08
Weather Forecast

District and vicinity-Increasin cloudi-
ness and cold tonight. lowest 10 to IS
Tomorrow mostly cloudy and cold. High,
~, at pm. today. Low, 21, at Q am. today
Full Report on Poss 81
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Congress-:
Money Bills

Both the House and the
Senate continued to mark time,
taking up smaller apprOpria-
tons bills and leaving the big
issues such as the tax cut
measure, for later.
A tired and true axiom says
that the more time you have to
do something. the more time you
need to do it.
From the beginning Of the
present session of Congress, last
January. everybody has been say
ing that this will be a long one.
Even the most optimistic have
said around Christmas" would
be the earliest possible date for
the legislators to get out of town.
So far they've lived up to these
tardy expectations.
Last week was spent in variety
OF actions, mainly fiscal:
o The House Appropriations COM
Continued on Page BE-
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Convoy Halted

A convoy Of United States Army
vehicles en- route to Berlin was
halted Thursday on the lifeline
superhighway from West Ger
many at Marienborn. Soviet
troops let the convoy continue
early Friday, then stopped it
again at the Berlin border around
4 am. Scores of East German
and Russian troops armed with
Submachine guns demanded that
the GIS dismount to be counted.
This is a familiar routine, but
the allies comply only as a cour-
tesy, not as part of any agree
ment. The magnitude of the
show, which created a 4-mile-
long traffic jam, seemed to rule
out the possibility that it was
only an accident. But why was
it ordered? Washington protested
and after few hours the con-
voys were allowed to proceed.
The second event was disclo-
sure in a copyrighted story by
The Star that a United States
Army sergeant had killed him
self last July after giving the
Soviets code secrets over a two
year period.
The dead man was Sergt. Jack
Edward Dunlap, an employe at
the National Security Agency at
Fort Meade, Md. He had re-
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For the Deal

Along with q brisk Jump in
wheat futures on the Chicago mar
ket, the news touched off political
speculation. These were the argu-
ments for the deal:
Q AS a demonstration Of Ameri-
can willingness to reduce tensions
and make q humanitarian gesture
with the SovietS, 1t represents, in
the Presidents words. zone more
hopeful sign that q more peace
full world Is both possible and
beneficial to us all"
. It is not q departure from
United States policy. We have
been selling consumer goods to
Iron Curtain countries for years.
Last year commercial exchanges
totaled nearly $416 million.
Q If we do not sell the grain to
Russia, she will buy it from some
other Western nation. The free
world sold nearly S. billion worth
of goods to Communist countries
in 1861, and more than that last
year. Russia already has bought
wheat this year from Australia,
Argentina and Canada.
Q We need the gold. Our bal
ance Of payments deficits have
cause our gold supply to drop by
nearly $40 billion in the past IA
years. We don't need the wheat;
we have more than a billion BUSH
els in surplus storage and it
costs 5000 million annually just
for the rent and handling charges.
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Britain:
TimeofChonge

Prime Minister Macmillan
last week announced he viii re-
tire due OF i'll health. A four
way power struggle erupted
among Tories, enhancing the
Labor Party's hopes for an cleo
ton victory next year.
For nearly seven years, the Con-
sentative Party has run England
with q mixture of good and
atrocious luck.
Under the hand of Harold
Macmillan, the Tories enjoyed the
prestige Of an economic boom
for several years, and were re-
turned to office in 1859 largely
because of this prosperity.
Indeed. so happy we're the times
that the Prime Minister found
himself pinned with nicknames:
"Macwonder," "Unflappable Mac"
and "Supermac."
But in 1860, the luck began to
run out. Spy scandals erupted,
the U-2 affair destroyed a sum-
NIT meeting, and South Africa de-
fected from the Commonwealth.
In defense matters, the United
States dealt the first Of several
wounds by baking on the Skybolt
missile, which would have given
the Raj q nuclear weapon. De
Gaulle last spring slammed the
Common Market door on Britain.
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Against 1t

Against these the White House
had to weigh the following:
o A number of politicians and
private organizations oppose the
wheat deal. These include House
Minority Leader Halleck, former
Vice President Nixon, West Ger
many's Chancellor Adenauer and
several voter blocs such as vet
eran groups. Some of these could
make trouble for President Ken
nedy in the 1864 election.
o Opponents say subsidized
wheat should not be sold to the
Russians at the world price of
about $1.90 a bushel. Since the
domestic rate adds a subsidy of
about SIS cents, this means the
Russians would get the grain at
IS cents less than the domestic
price.
Q Furnishing communism with
any commodity in a time of
shortages makes their system look
good, or at least balls 1t out of
trouble. As Lenin once said, Food
is a weapon"
. At the least, we should extract
something besides gold for the
deal, some insist. Senator Gold
water suggests the removal of So
Wet troops and equipment from
Cuba. Chancellor Adenauer thinks
the Berlin Wall should come down
as part of the contract.
The argument promises to con-
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More Deals Ahead?

Agriculture Department Off
Gals estimate the sale will shrink
the wheat glut in storage down
to $50 million bushels. The me-
chanics Of the deal will be sale
Of the grain by the Commodity
Credit Corporation to private
dealers, who will make their own
financing arrangements with So
Wet traders.
Meanwhile, the preliminary
questioning by lawmakers on the
sale prompted the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to schedule
a study of future trade with the
Soviet bloc.
What the panel has in mind,
said Chairman Fulbright, is posi-
BILE expansion of American ex-
ports to Eastern Europe, instead
of watching our allies grab off
all this business.
Most Of the questions con-
cerned trade policy" he COM
planned, "and the fact that we've
been financing the trade of our
friends with the Communist bloc
for years"
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Soviet:
See-Sow

Offsetting United StateS-So-
Wet progress on new cOnSulates
and air service, Russian troops
blocked an American convoy to
Berlin last week and . Soviet
spy scandal involving United
States codes was confirmed.
The oscillating pressure Of
Communist foreign policy was
never more apparent than In the
events touching Washington and
Berlin last week.
Scarcely had the wheat deal
been confirmed when Soviet For
eign Minister Andrea A. Gromyko
dropped into the White House and
quickly neared accord with the
administration on two more
items: consulates and airlinerS.
Although legal details still re-
manned, the gist Of the talks pro-
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Eisenhower Words

One notable absentee from the
Hershey function was former
President Eisenhower. who raised
many politicians eyebrows two
weeks ago with q public demand
that Senator Goldwater clarity
his stands on specific issues. The
general said he was not out to
block Goldwater," but In public
and in private he has praised a
number of other possibilities,
notably Gov. Scranton, Gov.
George Romney Of Michigan, SEN
ator Thruston Morton Of Ken
lucky, Gen. Lauris Norstad and
his own brother. DR.. Milton
Eisenhower.
In interviews last week, the
former President dlsavowed any
wish to play the liking maker"
role. Many doubted that his OPP
position to Senator Goldwater-if
it exists-would ever be publicly
expressed in a way that could
damage the Senator's chances.
If Gen. Eisenhower's ultimate
objective seemed obscure. There
was less doubt about his one
time running-mate, Mr.. Nixon.
The former Vice President was all
over the news last week, with
newspaper. magazine and radio in
terviews blanketing the field
from wheat to civil rights to Re-
publican prospects. In each state
ment. he denied steadfastly he
would be candidate again In
1864.
Senator Goldwater, for one, was
not fooled. A reporter asked him
If the sudden outburst Of COM
ment from Mr.. Nixon indicated a
revived interest In the presidency.
Revived may not to the proper
word" the Senator ssid. per
sonally. I don't think the idea
has ever left him"
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Air Service

The airline arrangement would
establish direct air service be-
tween New York and Moscow,
and is related to the consulate
matter since 1t would encourage
tourism between the countries.
Several hundred Russians visit
America annually and about 49,
900 Americans tour the Soviet
Union.
Was all sweetness and light?
BY contrast with q year ago, when
President Kennedy accused Mr..
Gromyko of deceit over Soviet
missiles in Cuba, it seemed that
way.
But even as Premier Khru-
Shchev helped along his envoy
with a personal message to Presi-
dent Kennedy urging new and
better peace moves, couple of
familiar old Red ploys unfolded.
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HE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
A New Soviet Issue

President Kennedy last
Wednesday approved the sale of
$3.50 million in American sur
plus wheat to the Soviet Union.
He called il a step to q more
peaceful world" The issue
promised to figure In next years
election.
I'VE have no hostility to the
Russian people. and no desire to
deny them their legitimate rights
and security. I hoped that Russia,
after the war should have
the freest access g.. to raw ma
terials of every kind; and that
the Russians everywhere would
be received as brothers in the
human family. That still remains
our aim and ideal. We seek moth
ing from Russia but good will and
fair play"
1t has been IA years since Sir
Winston Churchill uttered these
words in an address at NIT, but
until recent times In East-West
relations, the raw materials"
have only flowed in q trickle to
Russia.
Several things Signaled q change
In mood this year, however: The
Washington Moscow hot line"
agreement, the test ban, and a
halt in jamming of the Voice of
America broadcasts. They set the
stage for a huge business deal.
Suffering for the fifth straight
year in poor crop harvests, the
Soviet Union turned in despera-
ton this fall to the free world for
help. A delegation found Canada
quick to close deal for $500 mil
lion worth Of wheat last month.
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Gated reports he expected the
Senator to win the nomination,
he replied that he OGoldwater)
has "a trying seven or eight
months" ahead but II think he
can do It,"
As impressive as anything to
observers of the Republican race
Is the fact that in the crucial
presidential primary States OF
New Hampshire and California,
the two most powerful Repub-
hcans-Senator Norris Cotton and
former Senator William F. Know
land-already are committed to
lead the Goldwater forces. In
New Hampshire, Gov. Rockefeller
has ex-Gov. Hugh Gregg as his
leader, in California, as of now,
no one.
Still. as the President noted,
Senator Goldwater faces some
tough opposition within his own
party. A reminder Of this came
Thursday night IN Hershey, where
Pennsylvania's dark horse posi-
bility, Gov. william w. Scranton,
gave the Senator a distinctly cool
introduction at q Embarrassing
dinner and tiers of empty seats
faced the front-runner as he
spoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-13
Soviet Grain Drop

But that was not enough for
Russia's hungry 218 million peo-
pie. Tass, official Red press
agency, revealed last week that
grain production will drop IS per
cent below 1862. Rationing of
bread already has begun.
The idea Of half a billion dol
lars in hard cash going to Canada
for a product the United States
produces in embarrassing surplus
could hardly be ignored in Wash
ington. For three weeks, specu-
lation buzzed that Uncle Sam
might unload wheat too.
Last week in a press conference
President Kennedy made 1t off.
cial. He gave White House ap-
proval to an estimated $3.50 mil
lion worth of wheat sold through
private commercial channels at
the world price.
There were a few strings at
tached. The product can be used
only in Russia and its European
satellites, not in Cuba or Red
China. It must be for cash or
short-term credit. And it will
journey to Russia chiefly in
American ships.
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Fight Aheod

AS to the 1854 prospects, Demo-
cratic Party leaders who have
been samphng sentiment at re-
gional conferences were not Just
indulging In oratory when they
said 1t would take an extra eff
fort to gain Mr.. Kennedy q sec
ond term. The President him
self acknowledged the facts Of
life by telling his press conference
on Wednesday that the 1864 cleo
ton would be "a hard. close
fight"
What worries Democrats was
the accumulating evidence that
the administrations advocacy of
Negro rights may not only alien
ate substantial segmentS Of the
once-solid South but may bring
an adverse reaction from nor
mally Democratic blue collar
workers in the North, as well.
The Democrats counter strategy
was two-fold: Try to pass the
divisive civil rights bill this year,
rather than prolong the party
split INTO 1854, and redouble the
efforts to register new Negro
voters to compensate for the ex-
pected losses among whites.
On the foreign policy front,
the Republicans sensed opportl1n-
ity and moved quickly last week
to stake out their position. The
Presidents decision to sell sur
plus wheat to Soviet Russia
came under attack, not Just from
Senator Goldwater, but from for
mer Vice President Nixon and
congressional leaders Halleck and
Dirksen, too. The series Of mill
tary coups In Latin America gave
Gov. Rockefeller his cue for an
assault on the Alliance for Prog
ress, which he said the President
had bungled into failure. That
criticism, too, was supported by
the spokesman for the congress
sional Republicans.
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THE NATIONAL SCENE
Some Travel Notes
=
As "a Harbinger

The pace Of presidential pol
itics quickened In both parties
last week as prospective rivals
for the 1854 contest shaFpened
their attacks and tested public
sentiment on q variety Of issues.
One sure symptom Of campaign
fever is the politicians itch to get
away from his office and out
among the people, where there are
votes to be made. BY that yard
stick. the fever last week seemed
to be reaching epidemic proper
tons.
President Kennedy. Just back
from q 10,00o-mile tour Of the
West and side trip to Arkansas.
announced he would soon be
junketing through Texas, flying
to Chicago to see q football game
and showing himself. on one pre-
text or another, to voters In
other key areas. Senator Gold
water, the front-running Repub-
ncan, took q transcontinental
speaking tour that carried him
from Hershey. Pa, to San An
tonic to Salem, Ore, there, his
path crossed that Of Gov. Rookie
Teller Of New York, home from q
quick tour Of Europe and back
in hot pursuit Of the @. o. p.
nomination. ..".
Two factors lay behind the &C.
celebration Of the campaign. First
was the growing belief that for
eign policy reverses and the back
lash of the civil rights struggle
might make Mr.. Kennedy vulner-
able to defeat In next years cleo
lion. Second was the widespread
realization that Senator Gold
water has moved so far in front
IN the Republican race that the
next few months may determine
whether he viii 60 all the way
or be stopped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-13
Contenders

In the resulting scramble for
Conservative leadership, these
were the top contenders:
r. A. ButIer-Already in Mr..
Macmillan's place as deputy prime
minister, he leads in the behind
the-scenes maneuvers for the
position.
Mr.. Butler is so, a political
paradox who is conservative hut
supports government pensions
and health plans. He would. be
a strong ally Of the United States
both In the cold war and against
France, to whom he is unwilling
to give atomic secrets.
Lord HOme-As Britain's For
eign Secretary, the Earl of Home
pronounced Hume) is an old
line ariStocrat, seemingly above
politics. but late Friday he Joined
the PM. sweepstakes.
At so he is still young enough
(Mr. Macmillan is 69), and he
has prestige. Next to Prime Mn
lister, a Foreign Secretary Is the
British official best known to the
world. He is a dry-witted Scot,
so blunt with Communists that
they call him "the Western Molo-
tow" and a survivor Of both
Munich and Suez in serving his
party.
Lord Hailsham-A fiery, active
Minister of Science, this 56-year-
old orator was Britain's chief
negotiator in the nuclear test ban
talks. He fits into the liberal
wing of his party, is an expert
menter, and already has an
nounced he is a candidate for
Prime Minister. He will have to
resign his peerage and be elected
to Commons before he can run,
a move that will change his name
to Just plain Quintin Hogg.
Reginald Maulding - Youngest
of the trio. he Is As, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and the favorite
of many Tories in Parliament. A
tall and eaSy-going man with
flair for simplifying complex
economic matters. he earned good
marks in the mid-1950s stream
lining Britain's aviation industry
as Minister of Supply.
Cabinet members said the new
party leader may not be picked by
the time Parliament reconvenes
Continued on Page b.
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ceived about 100000 from Russia
for the information, then appar-
emily committed suicide when he
believed authorities were on his
trail.
The Defense Department later
confirmed last week that it In
deed was investigating him before
his death, and was still on the
case.
The House Committee on I'm
American Activities, already
alarmed over NSA security meth
DDS, was expected to renew its
own probe Of tine super-secreJ
agency.
Meanwhile, a swap of alleged
spies brought back a young stu
dent and a 59-year-old Jesuit
priest to this country from Rus
STA. The priest, Rev. Walter Mar
tin Ciszek, seemed like a ghost
from the dead. He had been held
in Siberia since 1910.
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tinue, and it was no secret that
Republicans were filing 1t away
for use in next years presiden-
tial race. The administration,
well aware of the political haz-
ards, had privately debated the
deal for 10 days before its de-
cision.
But there were a number of
influential voices In favor of the
trade. among them Chairman FL
lender Of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, Chairman Fulbright of
Senate Foreign Relations and the
American Bankers Association, as
well as MidweStern grain interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-13
The Leader

As to Senator Goldwater, testi-
nony on his progress toward the
nomination came last week from
both Mr.. Nixon and Mr.. Ken
nedy. The former said early In
the week that If Senator Gold
water continues at his present
pace. nobody will be able to over
take him" When the President
was asked about well-authenti-