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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Jan. 17, 1963
Nikita Visits Berlin Wall Near 'Checkpoint Charlie'
BERLIN - (UPI) - A laughing, joising Premier Nikita Khushevhey paid an unannounced visit today to the Communist anti-refugee wall dividing Berlin and seemed to thoroughly enjoy it.
Accompanied by East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, Khrushchev took time out from the Communist Party Congress in East Berlin to spend 5 to 10 minutes across from "Checkpoint Charlie," the American sector crossing point.
Laughing and waving with both hands to a crowd of 50 to 75 West Berliners who gathered as soon as the news spread, Khrushchev walked right up to the white line marking the border, but did not cross it.
THE VISIT WAS Khrushchev's first personal look at the wall which the Communists began building on Aug. 13, 1961.
Ulbricht lagged a few yards behind.
U. S. military policemen at the checkpoint watched Khrushchev from their control but did not wave back to him.
He paid the surprise visit at 12:55 p.m. (6:55 a.m. EST).
Khrushchev apparently went to the wall immediately after the morning session of the congress where Polish Communist Party Leader Wiladyslaw Gomulka praised him and the Soviet Union as the bulwarks of the Communist world, thus lining up with Moscow against Peking in their ideological war.
OTTIO MUELLER, manager of a jewelry store on the West Berlin side close to the checkpoint, said the visit was a complete surprise.
"Khrushchev walked right up to the border line but did not actually cross it," he said. "A crowd of about 50 to 75 West Berliners gathered as
soon as they heard he was there. They were allowed right up to the boarder only a couple of yards from Khrushchev,
Mueller said there appeared to be no special Communist police precautions.
"Anyone could have shot at him," Mueller said.
He said the whole visit lasted about five minutes, including the time Khrushchev spent inspecting the Communist border guards.
OTHER WITNESSES said Khrushchev appeared in good humor and was laughing and joking. He waved to West Berliner police with both arms raised.
U. S. military policemen standing outside the checkpoint reported his visit by immediate telephone call to U.S. Army headquarters in West Berlin.
West Berlin police formed a line across the street to prevent photographers from going crazy," as one police officer said.
However, there were no demonstrations from the western side.
Khrushchev walked up to the white line marking the border after inspecting Communist border guards. West Berlin police said if Khrushchev had wanted to go into the Western Sector he would not have been prevented from doing so.
In fact, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt had invited Khrushhev to visit the western sector during the Communist Party Congress.
KHRUSHCHEV'S VISIT to the 28-mile long wall this morning was the first time he had been seen outside the congress since his arrival in East Berlin Monday.
East German authorities announced the visit and West Berlin police immediately confirmed it.
Communist Congress Ignored by Red China
For the third day since the East German congress opened, Communist China's newspapers and radio broadcasts omitted any mention of the proceedings.
TOKYO—(UPI)—Red China today continued to ignore the Berlin Communist congress, where its hard-line policies have come under heavy fire from members of the Soviet bloc.
The Peking Press gave top billing today to the coming second anniversary of the killing of leftist Congolese Premier Patrice Lamumba.
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev underscored the Kremlin's ideological rift with Peking yesterday by attacking Red China's warlike policies before the Berlin congress. East German leader Walter Ulbricht
led off the bloc's criticism of Peking Tuesday, and Polish Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka followed up today.
China's delegate to the congress, central committee member Wu Hsiu-Chuan, was to have his first chance to fight back during a discussion period after Gomulka's speech.
China A Bomb Seen Soon
TOKYO — (UPI) — The Tokyo Shiminbun today quoted the Japanese government sources as saying Communist China probably will explode its first nuclear bomb this year. It said Japan has been putting increasing effort into finding out about Chinese nuclear experiments and that if an A-bomb is tested, it will not change Peking's military position significantly.
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Gomulka gave his solid support to Khrushchev's policy of "peaceful coexistence" as against Red China's warlike theories. He said the world was grateful to Russia and Khrushchev for the "courageous decision that saved the world from nuclear catastrophe" in the Cuban crisis.
LOS ANGELES — (UPI)—There is a strong possibility of a primitive form of life on the faraway planets of our solar system such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, a Lockheed-California Co. scientist said today.
Gomulka was the first speaker when the congress opened the third session of its six day meeting in East Berlin.
WESTERN NEWSMEN — with the exception of the British Reuters news agency which maintains an office in East Berlin — were barred and had to reply on the censored reports of Communist news agencies for accounts of the meeting.
"Although the outer atmosphere of these planets may reach some 200 degrees below zero, the surface temperatures may be at life-support level," Dr. Rainer Berger told the nation's leading space scientists at the American Astronautical Society's annual meeting.
He said this condition could result from a combination of a "greenhouse effect" — heat held within a planet's atmosphere — and heating from a warm planet's interior.
Although Dr. Berger said there was a high probability of finding low extraterrestrial life within the next decade, he predicted that man will not discover intelligent life in the solar system.
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