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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1962
Defiant Students Plan Cuban Trip
NEW YORK — (UPI) — A pro-Castro U.S. student group of "80 or more" is planning to defy the government's ban on travel to Cuba and slip out of the country to visit Havana over the Christmas holidays, it was learned here today.
Reliable sources said the group might comprise as many as 80 students, from City College of New York as well as other institutions in the New York city area, Boston, Buffalo and other U.S. cities.
PRESENT PLANS call for the students to make their own way to Montreal and there pick up a free Castro government plane ride to Havana. In Cuba, the students would be state guests.
A student leader told UPI he was "only a spokesman" for the group identified as the self-styled "Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba." He said the group was making the trip "cognizant of the fact that the government has denied us permission and does not want us to go."
He said he expected "80 or more" students to make the trip. He said they would come from Buffalo, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Chicago, Boston University, Harvard, Oberlin, University of Toronto, University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley.
A University representative said he had received no information that any KU students plan to make the trip.
He said that a group of KU students made a similar trip to Havana two years ago during Christmas vacation. He said they toured the country for a low cost. The trip was evidently subsidized by the Castro government, he added.
He said the trip was "less of a protest than a matter of exercising our rights of travel . . . we're just exercising our rights."
THE LEADER DENIED the group would be Castro government guests while in Cuba. He said the trip was being made on the invitation of the Cuban University Students Federation which, however, is a government-controlled body. He said "We will try to speak to Fidel Castro if we can."
P-T-P Needs English Pros
People-to-People is looking for students to help organize "English in Action," a program beginning next semester to help foreign students increase their English proficiency.
David Martin, Coffeyville sophomore and P-t-P special events chairman, said a committee is needed to contact interested volunteers and foreign students, schedule appointments for the foreign and American students and provide books and pamphlets.
Interviews for committee chairman and members will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday in the Kansas Union. Application blanks are available in the Union P-t-P office.
Barn Party Query Expected Tomorrow
The question of barn parties is expected to come up Thursday at the KU-Y Current Events discussion group. Emily Taylor, dean of women, will discuss social issues on campus at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the northwest end of the Kansas Union cafeteria. All students are invited to attend.
K. Claims USSR Averted War
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that Soviet officers had manned the Soviet missiles in Cuba "which were ready for launch," but did not use them, sparing the world from nuclear war.
He said the missiles were supplied as a result of a "well-founded alarm" from the Cuban government that "an attack was only hours away" on Oct. 23.
"WE SENT our arms there and placed our rockets just to avert aggression and that's why we pulled them out," he said. "That's it in a nutshell."
In a speech to the Supreme Soviet that was broadcast and televised, Khrushchev ridiculed suggestions that the Soviet Union had chosen Cuba as the jump-off point for war against the United States. He labeled the charges a "malicious fabrication."
"Had we wanted to start war against the United States we would not have agreed to dismantle the rockets installed in Cuba which were ready for launching for action," he said. "We would have brought them into play.
"We did not do that because we had no such aims."
Russia pulled out its missiles and nuclear-capable jet bombers at a demand from President Kennedy, who warned that the United States was ready to use whatever force was necessary to enforce its decision.
He said Russia's coexistence policy headed off a thermonuclear holocaust when the crisis was at its height. He added, "all sensible people profoundly welcome this triumph of reason."
KHRUSHICHEY warned that the Cuban crisis is not yet over and "it is not in the interests of peace to tarry" in ending it.
At this point in history, he said, mankind faces "either peaceful coexistence or devastating war (and) there is only one alternative; peaceful coexistence."
or foreign military. It is unfortunately customary that when cold war pressures case cracks also begin to appear in the Western allies' NATO shield.
Alliance Strains Showing
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In fact, as the 15 NATO foreign ministers gathered for their three-day meeting in Paris there seems to be more than the usual amount of bickering, disagreement and re-ermination.
The United States still feels the European NATO nations are dragging their feet in meeting defensive requirements. This applies to Denmark, Belgium and Holland and especially to France where President Charles de Gaulle flatly refused to meet NATO commitments and is suspected of deliberately weakening the alliance.
The United States continues to oppose De Gaulle's independent nuclear program but apparently has dropped efforts to persuade De Gaulle to abandon it.
THE POINT, however, remains the greatest source of friction between the two nations.
The U.S. view is that its own nuclear power is sufficient to protest the alliance and that a limited striking force such as might eventually
Former SC Justice To Speak at Dinner
Justice Whittaker is the first native Kansan to have served on the Supreme Court. He practiced law for 32 years in Kansas City before his appointment to the Federal bench as Judge of the Western Missouri District in 1954.
A former Supreme Court Associate Justice, Charles Evans Whitaker, who retired this year, will speak Friday at a Phi Alpha Delta egal fraternity dinner.
He went to the Circuit Court of Appeals in 1956, one year before joining the Supreme Court.
Attending the meeting will be alumni of the KU Green Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, members of the law school faculty, and law students.
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Believing that placing a nuclear trigger into too many hands simply increases the possibility of war, the United States nonetheless has offered to help Europe create a nuclear striking force within NATO.
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But this also meets opposition, especially among small nations unwilling to assume the cost.
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One is the belief that De Gaulle primarily is responsible for her current difficulties in Brussels negotiations to enter the European Common Market.
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More than $500 million have been spent on development of the 1,000-mile, two-stage Skybolt and the British had counted on it for their own bombers.
She also is seething over a recent remark by former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson that Britain's "attempt to play a separate power role is about played out." While Acheson spoke unofficially, his remarks brought a sharp retort from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Britain has been reported willing to spend $20 million on the missile and already has British servicemen and their families in Florida to take part in tests.
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Whether or not any of these issues arise in the formal sessions, they are certain to be the subject of private conversations among the ministers over lunch or dinner.
It is probable also that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara will come under some fire for initial U.S. handling of the Cuban crisis. Some European spokesmen have complained that the American action placed them in nuclear jeopardy without consultation.
BRITAIN also is disturbed over reports that the United States intends to drop its air-to-ground Sky-
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