Nikita May Lift Peace Deadline
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Premier Nikita Khrushchev offered today to withdraw his year-end deadline for signing an East German peace treaty if the Western Allies "show readiness to negotiate" on Berlin.
In a marathon speech to the opening session of the 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, he also announced that Russia will end its current nuclear test series by the end of this month after setting off a 50 megaton nuclear explosion, the biggest bomb ever exploded by man.
HE TOLD the more than 5,000 delegates, Communist visitors from abroad and a handful of Western newsmen gathered in the glittering new, glass-walled house of congresses inside the Kremlin walls that the West appeared ready to settle the Berlin and German problems on "a mutally acceptable basis."
Khrushchev previously has hinted that he might not carry out his threat to sign a separate treaty with Communist East Germany by Dec. 31 if negotiations could be started. But his statement today was his first firm offer.
In announcing that the current nuclear test series would wind up this month with the massive explosion, he said that Russia already has a 100-megaton bomb.
"May God grant that we never have to explode it," he added, "because we might then blow in our windows."
KHRUSHCHEV SAID the Soviet war arsenal now includes intercontinental ballistic missiles and antiaircraft rockets for land, sea and air forces.
He said the Soviet Union also is building up its nuclear-powered submarine fleet with ballistic and homing rockets.
In offering to hold off on a separate German peace treaty this year, Khrushchev relieved the pressure of a time limit but did not change his proposals for a settlement.
"The Soviet Government as before insists on the speediest solution of the German problem," he said. "It is against putting it off to infinity.
"IF THE WESTERN POWERS display readiness to settle the German problem, the question of the time limit for the signing of a German peace treaty will not be so material; we shall not insist then that the peace treaty be signed by all means before Dec. 31, 1961."
Referring to the recent series of talks Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had in Washington with President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and in London with British Prime Minister Harold Maemillan. Khrushchev said:
"We had the impression that the Western powers were displaying a certain understanding of the situation and that they were inclined to seek a solution for the German problem and for the West Berlin issue on a mutually acceptable basis."
KHRUSHCHEV'S OFFER to relax the Berlin deadline came after he warned the United States and its Western Allies that war would mean the "annihilation" of the capitalist system.
He told his audience that West Berlin must be made a "free, demilitarized city" through the signing of a peace treaty with East Germany.
The Soviet Premier spoke for three hours and 50 minutes at the morning session, which was broken up by a short recess.
In the morning session Khrushchev also:
- Said the United Nations machinery has "grown rusty in the cold war," again called for his system of a "Troika" plan to run it, and demanded once more that Communist China be admitted to membership.
- Claimed that Communism is becoming the decisive factor in world development, and expressed confidence of Communism's victory over capitalism through "peaceful competition."
- INDICATED THAT it might be feasible to banish world wars and followed through on his familiar theme of co-existence by conceding that capitalism could survive alongside Communism in part of the world.
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59th Year, No. 23
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, October 17, 1961
Post Card Furor:
Nigerians Are Urged Against Condemning Peace Corps
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN said that while it was "perfectly right that the students . . . should be incensed and indignant, the views expressed are not shared by other members of the Peace Corps.
Reports from Ibadan today said the students who circulated the copies will be "disciplined." There was no elaboration.
The University's Student Christian Movement also urged the student body "not to be hostile" to Peace Corps members who are studying for volunteer services throughout Nigeria.
"The friendly and cordial relations between Nigeria and the U.S.A.," he said, "must not be jeopardized or affected by the foolish writings of one irresponsible student."
"Miss Michelmore must not be taken as the voice of America," the Movement said. "It is the sin of an individual person, and is a symptom of racial sin which dictates the attitude of the white races of the world toward the black races."
Miss Michelmore's postcard was intercepted, reproduced and distributed among Nigerian students at the University College in Ibadan where she was in training for service as a school teacher here.
LAGOS, Nigeria — (UPI) — The government, newspapers and a student organization today urged Nigerians not to condemn the U.S. Peace Corps because of one "irresponsible" act.
The students demonstrated and demanded the expulsion of the entire 40-member Peace Corps contingent.
The reaction was the result of the furor touched off by a Peace Corps volunteer, Margery Michelmore, 23, who referred to the "primitive living conditions" in this Negro republic on a postcard to a friend back home.
MISS MICHELMORE of Foxboro, Mass., has apologized and offered to resign. But officials involved adopted a "go slow" policy on the question of her resignation and return to the United States.
Fair and warm with increasing southerly winds today. Mostly fair tonight becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Highs today 80 to 85. Lows tonight near 50. Highs Wednesday 70s.
Newspapers also called for calm and restraint.
Weather
The West African Pilot said;
"It seems hasty to judge the whole program by the indiscretions of one, a brash little girl. The Michelmore affair is best forgotten."
The Morning Post, which supports the government, said the Nigerian students "must be advised not to take too exaggerated or emotional a view of the American administration in their fight against the rather
substantial residue of color and racial prejudice . . ."
Many responsible Nigerians were reported to feel that Miss Michelmore should remain here, but indications were that she would be sent home. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said she would be kept here at least temporarily to "avoid any precipitous action."
Ike Denies Support Of Yugoslav Jet Sale
NEWARK, N.J. — (UPI) — Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower categorically denied today that he had told President Kennedy of plans to sell obsolete jet planes to Yugoslavia.
The sale of the aircraft to Communist Yugoslavia has recently been under fire in Washington.
"I did not brief President Kennedy" on the sale of the planes, Eisenhower told a news conference here during his day-long tour of campaigning in New Jersey on behalf of former Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, the Republican candidate for governor.
Eisenhower said that the matter of selling surplus jets to Yugoslavia first arose in 1958. The question was how to dispose of obsolete aircraft, he said.
"The Military wanted to sell some of this stuff" and won the approval
Deadline Is Friday On Ticket Changes
The deadline for exchanging unlawfully held season football tickets is 5 p.m. Friday.
Roy Deem, Joplin, Mo., senior and chairman of the athletic seating board, said that pep club members who have reserved seat tickets should exchange them for special tickets admitting them to the pep club section.
He also requested that students who bought student-spouse season tickets and who are not now registered as married turn in their tickets.
Students returning the student-spouse ticket books will receive a $6.50 refund. The tickets can be exchanged at the ticket office in Allen Field House.
of the State Department on Jan. 10, 1961, the former Chief Executive said.
But the actual decision to go ahead with the sale was made in March, after he had left the White House and President Kennedy had taken office. Eisenhower said.
The New York Times yesterday quoted administration sources as saying Eisenhower gave Kennedy a "specific explanation" on the sale of the jet fighters to Yugoslavia.
$5,000 Endowed To KU Extension
The first endowment at KU for the sole benefit of Extension instruction was received today.
A $5,000 endowment has been created by the Wunch Foundation, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said.
Dr. J. W. Wunch, president of the Foundation, made the grant to the Kansas University Endowment Association to establish the Silent Hoist and Crane Company Materials Handling Instruction Fund.
Income from the endowment will be used to encourage the study of materials, handling principles and procedures and for supporting instructional programs in the field.
The materials handling courses are offered by KU Extension at the Kansas City Extension Center. N. Webster Rickhoff, Center Manager, organized the first offering, a one-day conference on materials handling and packaging in 1946.
The program consists of two phases: a materials handling analysis school, scheduled for March 5-9, 1962; and an evening class on Materials Handling methods, beginning March 26.
Class Day Will Run One Hour Longer Next Year
Class periods next year will begin one half-hour earlier in the morning and run twenty minutes longer in the afternoon, giving KUs crowded class schedule an extra hour.
This will be accomplished by beginning all classes on the half hour rather than the hour. In other words, the first morning class will begin at 7:30 a.m. and run to 8:20 a.m. By running the last period of the school day to 5:20, the extra hour is added.
CHANCELLOR W. CLARKE WESCOE announced the change this morning following a meeting of university deans last night. Dr. Wescoe referred to the change as 'sort of an academic daylight savings time."
"The reason that we're implementing this program is to try and accommodate the 10,700 students expected here next year," said Dr. Wescoe.
Asked if there was any relief in sight regarding new classrooms, the Chancellor said, "The earliest date we can expect more new classrooms is 1963 when Blake Hall is replaced."
"Heard of KU's daylight savings time?"
"WHAT'S MORE, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, added, "if we get the 41 new structures that we're due, there will be a great lack of office space. Some of that office space is going to have to come from remodeled classrooms."
Mr. Nichols pointed out that the University now has only 138 class lecture rooms with no immediate relief in sight.
Dr. Wescoe commented further:
"Each KU classroom is presently being used 35 hours plus a week. The national optimum is only 25 hours a week which puts this University about 35 per cent over the optimum."
Mr. Nichols emphasized that credits and credit hours will not be altered nor will the actual amount of time students spend in the classroom be changed. According to him, the new schedule will not affect evening classes.