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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 46
Friday, Nov. 16, 1962
Castro Threatens To Down Planes
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI)Havana Radio today disclosed the text of a defiant letter from Fidel Castro to acting Secretary General Thant in which the Cuban premier threatened to shoot down U.S. planes photographing Cuba.
Castro charged that the planes were being used to "orient
BULLETIN
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI)—Cuba told the U.S. today that "from today on" American surveillance flights over Cuba will be met with anti-aircraft fire. U.S. officials said the United States was prepared to send heavily armed airplanes, determined to shoot, to protect its reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba.
saboteurs and their maneuvers" operating in Cuba, allegedly under the direction of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
He again rejected international inspection of Cuba although Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had promised President Kennedy that Soviet missiles would be dismantled and shipped back
Chinese Hit Back After Indian Push
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — Indian troops have driven Chinese Communist forces from hill positions in the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA), triggering a massive Chinese counter-attack, an official spokesman said today.
"A fierce battle is raging," the spokesman said.
He said the Reds counterattacked in "more than two places north and west of Walong." Walong is in the easternmost NEFA near the border with Burma.
A "STRONG PATROL" of Indian troops attacked Chinese Communist positions northwest of Walong Wednesday.
The spokesman said the Chinese Communist offensive appeared to be the biggest in the NEFA since their human-wave attacks which forced the Indians to withdraw from the
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monastery town of Towang on Oct. 24. Towang is in eastern NEFA near the Bhutan border.
THE SPIKESMAN said Indian troops attacking in the mountains northwest of Walong "were able to occupy the slopes of the Chinese position despite heavy enemy fire."
"Fierce fighting is raging at this very moment," the spokesman told newsmen, "and has been since the early hours of this morning."
He said the Chinese counterattack was aimed not only at the newly-won Indian positions but "in more than two places."
HE SAID that by "massive," he meant the Chinese were in "considerably superior numbers."
The battle raged in an area which India must hold to protect the eastern gateway to the Assam valley and the Digboi oil fields.
Walong is the administrative center of the NEFAo's LaHit division, and is about 15 miles south of the McMahon line which Peiping has refused to recognize as the boundary between Tibet and India.
INDIAN TROOPS launched an offensive early Wednesday in an effort to drive out Red Chinese troops from high-ground positions above the mile-high Walong valley. Their initial success cost them 10 killed and 2 wounded and apparently triggered the Red counteroffensive.
The Reds threw an undisclosed numbers of troops with automatic weapons, mortars, and artillery into the pre-dawn blow.
Castro reiterated his "five points" for peaceful solution of the Cuban crisis, which includes U.S. withdrawal from the Guantanamo naval base.
CASTRO'S WARNING was delivered to acting Secretary General Thant by Cuban Ambassador Carlos Lechuga late yesterday.
Disclosure of Castro's five-page letter to Thant—their first communication since the bearded leader rebuffed the U.N. Chief's mission to Havana to arrange international inspection of removal of Soviet missiles and bases—was the first major break in an information blackout that has blanketed a week of intensive diplomatic talks here.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Adlai Stevenson, and his deputy,
Ambassador Charles W. Yost, discussed
the Castro letter with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov at the Soviet Embassy in New York last night in their fourth extended meeting in two weeks.
"WE WENT OVER all the questions with the Soviet Union once more," Stevenson said after the meeting. "I don't have anything to say about them."
Castro's letter drenched the optimism voiced by Thant's spokesman Wednesday after joint Cuban-Soviet proposals—still not communicated to the United States—were put before him.
"The general feeling is that some progress is being made toward a peaceful and speedy settlement of the problem," the spokesman said then.
If the bombers were taken out—and the United States has acknowledged that enough ships have been permitted to pass through the naval blockade of the island to carry out the 750-mile range planes — the United States then could turn its attention to working out a settlement with Castro.
U. S. SOURCES were skeptical that Russian agreement to remove medium - range Beagle bombers from Cuba might come quickly. They acknowledged that the bombier question, on which the White House said President Kennedy was in "continuing communication" with Khrushchev, was the major remaining stumbling block to easing U.S.-Russian tension.
KU students may see the first snow since last winter today, but nothing more than a few scattered flakes are expected.
Weather
P-T-P Plans Foreign Tours For Summer
It will continue cloudy with occasional rain. Highs today will be from 40 to 45. Lows tonight will be in the middle to upper 29s. Highs tomorrow will be in the 40s.
National People-to-People has big plans for approximately 1000 college and university students.
The organization plans to send representatives abroad on a summer "Student Ambassador Flight" program, initiated last year "to increase understanding among peoples of the world."
Mary Ann Olson of Kansas City, Mo., national P-t-P director of the Ambassador Flight, explained the program at an open P-t-P meeting and in a Kansan interview last night.
"THE AMBASSADORS will learn how it feels to be foreigners." Miss Olson said. "They will be living and traveling among foreign peoples, sharing their customs and cultures."
"Their experiences abroad," she noted, "will be invaluable in carrying out the P-t-P programs on American campuses."
- The Romance countries: Spain, Portugal and France;
- Central Europe: West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.
- The British Isles: Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.
- Scandinavia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark;
Miss Olson said tentative plans include pilot groups in the Near East (Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt) and Mexico.
"The prospective ambassador," she said, "should indicate the major area in which he would like to work. National P-t-P will try to place the student in this area.
"However," she said "we reserve the right to assign a student to his second area choice, if his first choice is already overflowing with ambassadors."
Before applying for the Ambassador program, a student must:
- Be able to communicate in the language required for the area of choice;
- Be a sophomore or junior at the University or a senior or graduate student returning to the University next fall:
- Be a member of KU People-to-People and a member of National People-to-People by Dec 15.
Miss Olson said the cost of the program varies. The student ambassador may spend as much or as little as he wants. Last year several ambassades financed their entire summer on less than $500. Others spent up to a $1000, she said.
Students may begin making applications for the program Monday
Introduction of voluntary sterilization is one way to reduce the number of families dependent on relief.
Wood To Speak On Birth Control
This is the belief of Dr. H. Curtis Wood Jr., medical fields consultant for the Human Betterment Association of America, who will speak at the Minority Opinions Forum at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
"Social-Economic Merits of Voluntary Sterilization" will be the title of Dr. Wood's lecture.
Dr. Wood believes that many children are being brought into being and reared in an atmosphere of moral and economic irresponsibility.
Dr. Wood, former president of the Betterment Association has been an obstetrician for 30 years.
Complaints Mount After ASC Election
By Linda Machin
Complaints of confusion at the polls during the All Student Council general elections began to mount Friday in the wake of newly discovered errors.
Among others, the ASC elections commissioner drew fire from at least two sectors for "uninformed poll workers."
Dan Johnson, New York, N.Y., senior and Vox candidate from the Professional Fraternities and Co-operative district said he knows of two voters from his district who were given wrong ballots.
JOHNSON, who was defeated by UP candidate Art Ogilvie by a 41-21 vote count, is contesting the election in his district.
Lee Ayres, Wichita junior and UP member of the ASC elections committee, said 12 men from Carruth-O'Leary dormitory were given improper ballots.
"In Strong Hall," said Johnson. "one voter from the Professional Fraternity and Co-operative district was given a sorority ballot." At the Kansas Union poll, another voter from my district was given an unmarried-unorganized ballot."
A voter from the sorority district told a Daily Kansan reporter she voted for a candidate in the fraternity district.
Ayres and Bob Stewart, Bartlesville sophomore and UP Greek co-chairman, said poll workers were not informed and "did not know what they were doing."
THEY SAID workers should have been informed ahead of time about election procedures. Printed instruction sheets should have been placed at the polls for the use of the poll workers. Avres added.
Ayres said "The real burden of the elections is placed on the elections chairman by the ASC elections bill. It is up to him to get the election organized. I guess Stuckey (Elections committee chairman) expected retiring poll workers to instruct oncoming workers, but it wasn't done effectively."
In reply, John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior and elections chairman, said a meeting to instruct poll workers was held the Sunday before the primary. However, very few poll workers came to the meeting, he said.
He said he left instruction sheets listing the districts into which individual houses belonged to avoid ballot mix-ups.
"MEMBERS OF the elections committee who were poll supervisors were expected to give instructions to workers," Stuckey said.
"I spoke to as many of them as I could, but because of the high turnover, I was unable to talk to all of them," he said.
Dean Salter, Garden City senior and ASC chairman, said much of the difficulty was due to the new multi-poll system.
He said it was necessary to use 30 poll workers at a time to keep all four polls open. Because workers were not officially excused from class, the staffs changed every one or two hours.
Stuckey said there will be a public meeting of the ASC elections committee Monday for anyone who wants to discuss the past elections.
SALTER ADDED, "There are always complaints about an election, and I think Stuckey did a fairly good job considering the situation."
Mexican Trip Sign-up Ends
If you want to send your Christmas cards from sunny Mexico to overcast Kansas, tonight is your last chance to sign up for the International Club Mexican trip.
Fritz Gysin, Swiss graduate student, and Helmut Bechler, German graduate student, will complete registration at the International Club meeting at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawker Room of the Kansas Union.
TAU SIGMA, campus dance fraternity, will entertain club members with a modern dance routine. Not attending the meeting will be nearly 40 P-t-P International Club members who are attending P-t-P international Festival in Wichita this weekend.
Engin Artemel, Turkish graduate student, said he called the P-t-P office in Kansas City and they are arranging for three cars to stop in Lawrence enroute to Wichita.
A bus from Independence, Mo., to Wichita will have room for 10 foreign students. Two other cars are leaving from KU Friday afternoon.
THE FESTIVAL is expected to draw 11,000 foreign students from 34 nations.
The Festival will include exhibits on art, food and nance dress.
An international ball and a Miss International Festival contest will highlight the weekend's activities.
Four groups of foreign students will represent their countries. They are the Arabs, Latin-Americans, Indians and Africans.
Concept of Love Is Topic of Poets
Love was a dominant theme at the Poetry Hour yesterday.
Sidney M. Johnson, professor of German, read an English translation of a collection of poems by Walther Von Der Vogelweide, a medieval German poet.
One poem advised "Shun love that would leave thee alone, but pray the constant kind find."
Another concerning a girl's love affair concluded with the line: "He I'm sure will never tell," underscoring the fact that there were no men's living groups in medieval days.
One of Prof. Johnson's selections sought to define love in the lines, "Love is love when giving joy, when giving pain it cannot be called loving."