Tass Distorted JFK Interview. Officials Say
Ev Stewart Hensley
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —American officials said today that the Soviet news agency Tass distributed a distorted, editorialized version of the interview President Kennedy granted Izvestia editor Alexei Adzhubei.
They said the agency's Russianlanguage summary omitted several major points the President made and submerged his remarks on other issues to the argumentative comments of the interviewer.
MR. ADZHUBEI STUCK BY HIS promise to publish the full text in Izvestia, the official government newspaper, which claims circulation of four million. For this the President publicly expressed gratitude.
However, the Tass summary, which is the only version available to the remaining 200 million Russians, dismayed those here who hoped Kennedy had blasted a real hole in the Iron Curtain.
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defensive against Adzhubei's skillful questions based on "concrete examples."
U. S. officials cited the following major omissions in the Tass Russian language summary for the home audience:
- The President's charge that Russia had violated the Yalta and Potsdam agreements by never allowing the people of the East European satellite countries to vote freely on what form of government they wanted.
- Kennedy's statement that the Soviet Union broke the moratorium on nuclear tests after preparing for new blasts while it was still negotiating with Britain and the United States at Geneva on a possible test ban treaty.
- His claim that the Berlin problems stems in large part from the Soviet refusal to agree to reunification of Germany.
It was assumed that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who gave permission for the publication in Ivestia, was certain that Kennedy's statements could do him no appreciable damage and the printing of the interview could be cited as evidence that Russia does not fear an exchange of controversial ideas.
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Soviet Newspaper Attacks U.S. Press
MOSCOW — (UPI) - The Soviet government newspaper. Izvestia criticized the way American newspapers reported the exclusive interview with President Kennedy it printed yesterday.
A dispatch from Izvesta's New York correspondent said the American press, "as though on orders," headlined Kennedy's charge that the Soviet Union is seeking to "communize the world."
The Izvestia correspondent said handling of the interview by the American newspapers "speaks of the desire to use the interview in the cold war."
"However," he said, "it is highly doubtful whether this can facilitate better understanding in relations between the two countries, about which President Kennedy spoke in his statement."
Daily hansan
59th Year No. 49
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, November 29, 1961
Speakers Back NSA At Regional Meeting
By Scott Payne
Ways to combat school disaffiliation from the National Student Association (NSA) were discussed at the recent Missouri-Kansas regional NSA conference at Kansas City University.
Representatives from 21 colleges and universities in the two-state area listened to Edward Garvey, NSA president and University of Wisconsin graduate, and Arthur C. Miller, Pittsburg junior and member of the former KU NSA committee, discuss various aspects of disaffiliation.
GARVEY SAID NSA has been widely criticized because of "irresponsibility" in several of its resolutions.
"NSA was criticized for protesting the sealing of the East Berlin border," he said. "It was felt in many circles that students had no business making such a protest."
Garvey said German students had wanted to hear him speak during a recent visit to Berlin.
"GERMAN STUDENTS were begging for student support from the United States. Their response was heartening when I told them U.S. students were behind them 100 per cent."
"Not because I was Ed Garvey," he said, "but because I was president of NSA.
"Our country has not been successful in fighting the Communist trend in Central and South American countries," he said.
WE MUST SHOW our concern to Latin American students who are looked to for intellectual leadership in their own countries.
Garvey said NSA has also been criticized for its condemnation of U.S. and Soviet intervention in Cuba.
"NSA is working to defeat the Communist trend in these countries. We cannot ignore this threat we have got to spend more time and energy in this area," he said.
Garvey said more time spent on NSA's international work would not create a de-emphasis elsewhere.
"I THINK ONE REASON that KU disaffiliated from NSA was that communications between that campus and the national offices of NSA were vague and inefficient," he said.
"This is one problem which I think has plagued most of the schools in the Middle West."
We're going to try to do something about it by creating the office of Midwest Affairs Program Vice President and basing this officer in Kansas City," Garvey said.
SPEAKING ABOUT THE disaffiliation issue at KU, Miller said KU was no longer part of NSA because the committee here was never given the time to inform the student body about NSA.
"We had our feet knocked out from under us before we could get anything done," he said.
"Many arguments used against NSA were not used openly," he added.
"One argument—that NSA has a four-step plan to integrate fraternities and sororites—definitely hurt us. This charge is not true but we didn't receive information to refute it until after the ASC at KU has voted."
IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS Miller said he felt there was a "reasonable chance" of KU reaffiliating with NSA.
"Since ASC elections," he said, "I think we can count on at least 10 votes which, while not a majority, is a good start.
"The issue will probably be a terrific fight and will be a very close vote. It will undoubtedly take a lot of hard work."
"LATE LAST SPRING I called several conservatives practically begging them to go as delegates to the Congress. Not one of them would go.
"If they wanted KU to vote conservatively, they should have gone to the Congress." he said.
Turning to the NSA controversy at KU itself, Miller said there was a "great personality conflict throughout the whole business which created some ill-feeling and didn't help the issue at all.
"FURTHERMORE." Miller said, "there were those who thought NSA was a Communist front organization. Between this and student apathy—KU students are apathetic as hell—the NSA committee didn't have much of a chance.
"Disaffiliation should not be based on whether or not you agree with NSA's stands," he continued. "If you disagree with NSA's policy the best thing you can do is remain in the organization, unite with other schools holding the same opinion and express your views at the National Congress."
ASC Committee Report Says Hospital Doing Adequate Job
The chairman of the All Student Council Health committee told the ASC last night that Watkins Hospital is doing an adequate job in view of its overcrowded conditions.
The ASC passed a resolution to investigate the hospital at its last meeting, Nov. 7. The committee's report was based on tours of Watkins, interviews with Watkins employees, and reports of accreditation boards on the hospital.
THE ASC ALSO heard a report on the Kansas Union. Melvin Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student and chairman of the Union committee, said more investigations are necessary before any conclusions may be drawn.
The Watkins Hospital investigation was aimed at answering three questions, Lauren Ward, Ottawa junior and chairman of the Health Committee, said.
He told the ASC that the Union's prices and payment of sales tax will be looked into in the near future.
gency room?
- Does Wetking have an emer
- Does Watkins have an operating room?
- Does Lawrence Memorial Hospital admit KU students?
Watkins Hospital does have an emergency room, he said, but it is limited for performing major emergency surgery and is "very, very small."
He said the emergency room is attended by nurses. Doctors are called in if necessary. After working hours, doctors are on call. He said the nurses estimated that it takes five to ten minutes to get a doctor on call.
is caring for the student. There is no set policy, Ward said.
Throughout his report, Ward stressed the overcrowded conditions of Watkins.
WATKINS ALSO has an adequate operating room, Ward said. The Joint Committee on Accreditations, has recommended that Watkins move the operating room away from heavy traffic, he added. At present, the operating room is on the first floor, immediately off the hallway.
IN THE REPORT on the Kansas Union, Saferstein said he was interested in finding why the University of Missouri student union pays no sales tax and why the prices of the Kansas State University union are lower than those of the Kansas Union.
Whether Lawrence Memorial Hospital will admit KU students is strict up to the physician who
"I don't think we should be paying sales tax since we're on state property. We supposedly have to do this under the statutes of Kansas, but something ought to be done," he said.
He said also that he wanted to find out why the K-State Union can get state funds and the KU Union cannot. He did not elaborate.
In an interview after the meeting, Saferstein said he was not sure about the K-State Union getting funds and wanted to check further.
Capsule Trouble Brings Chimp Back to Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — The United States rocketed a little chimp named "Enos" into orbit today and sent him whirling two times around the globe before technical difficulties developed and the space cabin was returned to earth.
At 12:42 p.m. Lawrence time NASA said both destroyers reported they were about 30 miles from the floating capsule and estimated they would pull alongside it in about one hour. NASA said it still continued to float and weather in the area was "excellent".
Mercury scientists said ground tracking stations detected increasing heat in an electrical inverter as well as problems in the attitude control system as the capsule whizzed across the Pacific Ocean toward Canton Island in its second orbital sweep.
THE FIRST ORBIT and about half of the second went fine.
The retro rockets were fired at 12:08 p.m. Lawrence time to slow the capsule from its 17,500 miles an hour orbital speed and send it on a red hot plunge through the earth's atmosphere.
The capsule was supposed to land in a target area about 500 miles south of Bermuda. A recovery force which had been sent into the area just for such an emergency stood by to recover the spacecraft and its animal passenger after their planned parachute descent into the ocean.
The capsule was detected on its downward path by the tracking station at Guaymas, Mexico, at 12:09 p.m. Lawrence time and Corpus Christi, Tex., at 12:11 p.m.
No details of the difficulties were given immediately. The inverter is a system on board the capsule for converting direct current to alternating current. Mercury officials said it was running hot.
THE EMERGENCY did not mean the flight was a failure. Scientists had prepared well for the possibility they might not make three full orbits on the first try. When recovery ships were sent out, they were strung across the Atlantic Ocean to cover pre-planned landing area where the capsule would descend in case it was brought down after one, two or three orbits.
Similar difficulties have cropped up from time to time in previous Mercury capsules but none caused any serious problems or delays.
THE ATTITUDE control system consists of a series of hydrogen peroxide jets which maneuver the spacecraft in orbit.
Enos was supposed to circle the earth three times.
Cape Canaveral contacted the spacecraft at 12:16 p.m. Lawrence time. All indications were the chimpanzee was in "good condition." Project Mercury officials said.
About two weeks ago Enos' space capsule developed a leak in the hydrogen peroxide system and had to undergo a lengthy examination and repair. But scientists checked it out thoroughly before placing it back atop its Atlas booster last week for today's flight.
Thurmond Decries 'Silent Socialists'
Long Beach, Calif. — (UPI)—Sen.
J. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., has told an anti-Communist rally in Long Beach Municipal Auditorium that the position of the United States in world affairs is being lowered by what he terms "silent socialists."
Thurmond said socialist factions existed in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, Department of Health, Education and Welfare and Department of Interior.
The Southern Democrat urged the American public to check on their representatives to see that they were "sound conservative people."
Thurmond said, "A person who believes in God cannot be a Communist. This is a battle between belief in God and atheism.