Nehru Asks U.S. To Supply Planes
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today that India has asked the United States for military aircraft to bolster Indian defenses in the border war with Red China. He also asked for American machinery to produce arms in India.
The U.S. Embassy here confirmed that both requests were under consideration.
On the fighting fronts, India reported its troops had driven back two new Chinese Communist probing attacks in the northeast frontier areas during the weekend.
A DEFENSE MINISTRY spokesman said the engagements took place a few miles northeast of Jang, in the region of the monastery town of Towang, and in the far eastern stretch of the northeast frontier near Walong.
A Communist New China news agency broadcast said Indian troops shelled Communist forces heavily Saturday in both the Walong and Towang areas. New China said Indian heavy artillery fired more than 100 rounds on Chinese positions.
The broadcast heard in London also said Indians have increased their air drops of supplies as well as flights over Communist positions.
The spokesman said two Indian
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patrols contacted Chinese Red troops near Walong and fire was exchanged. He said the Chinese troops "were forced to withdraw."
THE REPORT INDICATED that both Chinese Communist troops and Indians remained active in the vicinity of Walong, 16 miles south of the disputed McMahon line frontier near the Burma border.
He said four Indian soldiers were wounded in the weekend engagements but Chinese Communist casualties were not known.
"Elsewhere in the north east frontier agency (NEFA), a Chinese patrol was seen a few miles northeast of Jang," an Indian communique said. "Our troops engaged the Chinese aggressors and they withdrew.
NEHRU ALSO SAID he had received firm assurances "recently" from Moscow that Soviet supersonic MIG 21 fighters would be delivered on schedule and that Russia would fulfill its promise to establish a MIG factory in India.
Both announcements seemed certain to create an uproar in Peiping, Communist Chinese officials already have denounced American small arms aid to India and have been feuding with the Soviet Union over the conduct of the cold war.
Nehru spoke to a group of visiting American and other newsmen who arrived Saturday.
THERE WERE no immediate details on what type or how many planes India wants from the United States.
So far the border war in the Himalaya mountains has been limited to ground action but it would be likely to take to the air if one side or the other finds itself driven too far back.
Yesterday Nehru warned that such teeming population centers as Calcutta, Bombay and New Delhi must prepare for the possibility that they
"might be bombed by the Chinese," New Delhi Mayor Huruddin Ahmend announced that air raid precaution committees would be formed shortly. Officials were reported considering 1,100 shelters for the capital.
NEHRU SAID India did not have any plans to ask that an American military assistance group establish a training and technical unit in India.
As for V. K. Krishna Menon, who was eased out of the job of defense minister and then out of the cabinet altogether, Nehru said it was doubtful he would return to his former United Nations job—"but I am not dead sure."
Nehru had been scheduled to talk to the newsmen for five minutes but
Prime Minister Nehru
he spent an hour with them.
SPEAKING AT a mass rally in New Delhi yesterday, Nehru said the country quickly is getting to a war footing and that in the past three weeks India's ordnance factories have boosted production 300 per cent.
For the first time he openly denounced the Communist Chinese repression in Tibet that eventually forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India.
"THE CHINESE swallowed Tibet 12 years ago and they thought they would also be able to grab our territory," Nehru declared. "They will see that they are wrong."
Latest reports from the northern border indicated the struggle had entered another period of relative quiet.
A defense department spokesman said there was an exchange of gunfire between patrols in the Northeast Frontier Agency over the weekend but no casualty reports had been received.
"Otherwise the situation both in the NEFA and Ladakh areas remains unchanged," the spokesman said.
Last week the Indians threw back three attacks on the extreme eastern end of the border near Burma and dislodged Chinese Communist forces which were attempting a flanking movement.
THE PRIME MINISTER told newsmen India also has asked the United States to provide machinery for the manufacture of arms, but again he did not give specifics. He said new requests are "being put forth continuously."
He said he was "quite satisfied" with the U.S. and British responses to his Oct. 27 appeal for support to nearly every nation. Both countries have sent small arms which Indian defenders badly need.
Bronze Statue Stolen From KU Art Museum
"Resurrection," a 30-inch bronze statue of a woman — valued at several thousand dollars — is reported missing from the Museum of Art.
The loss was discovered Sunday morning by Miss Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history and acting museum director. It had been removed from its stone base in Weaver Fountain Court.
Monday, Nov. 12, 1962
POLICE BELIEVE it was taken between 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday, following the Kansas-Nebraska game.
Prof. Stokstad said the price could not be pinpointed exactly because of differences in prices between New York and Germany, where it was obtained in 1959. It was a gift from Arthur Weaver, Lawrence merchant.
Her reference to Manet alluded to the theft of a $40,000 Manet painting at the end of August. She said she sees no connection between the two thefts.
The acting director said she could only estimate the loss at "several thousand dollars."
"BUT IT'S definitely not in the Manet range, by any means," she said.
"I think the sculpture was taken as a prank by someone who didn't
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He said that all offensive weapons had to be withdrawn before this country would lift its naval blockade or promise not to invade Cuba. He noted that Soviet IL28 jet bombers still are in Cuba and are considered offensive weapons by Kennedy.
Kennedy and Advisers Review Cuban Position
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy met today with his top U.N. aides and National Security Council advisers for a major review of the Cuban crisis in view of the removal of Russian missiles from the Caribbean island.
U. N. AMBASSADOR Adalai Stevenson, Charles D. Yost, U.S. Security Council representative, and John J. McCloy, Kennedy's special adviser on Cuba, were called from New York for the meeting.
The President met jointly with the U.N. group and the executive committee of the National Security Council shortly after he returned from a weekend with his family at Middleburg, Va.
Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric said yesterday that 42 Russian missiles had been removed from Cuba. This was the number the Soviet Union claimed it had sent to the island.
STEVENSON, McCloy and Yost were expected to report to the President on the progress of their talks with U.N. acting Secretary-General Thant and Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Negotiations for on-site verification of the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba was expected to be a major topic of discussion in the meeting.
But Gilpatric said that the United States had no proof that all such missiles had been removed and would never be sure unless on-site inspection was permitted.
"WE HOLD THE SOVIETS responsible for the types of military equipment which it has furnished to Castro and as of the present time we regard removal of those bombers as within the capacity of the Soviets to bring about," Gilpatric said.
Gilpatric indicated the United States would not accept any Soviet argument that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro would not give up the nuclear-capable jet bombers, which have an 800-mile range.
the three U.S. negotiators have met three times with Kuznetsov since their last conference with Kennedy a week ago Saturday.
Gilpatric's remarks were recorded 'or a television interview after U.S. warships made visual checks at sea
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Friday and Saturday of Soviet freighters taking missiles away from Cuba.
KEATING SAID it would be "perfectly easy to hide not only the missiles but the mobile missile-launching equipment, as well as nuclea warheads" in the numerous caves in Cuba.
The U.S. demand for on-site inspection got strong support today from Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, RN.Y., who warned of the Soviet missile buildup two months ago.
CRC Chairman Plans Trip to Montgomery
"It is imperative—absolutely esa Ph.D. candidate at Boston University and a civil rights worker throughout the South. The invitation followed.
Don Warner, Topeka senior and KU Civil Rights Council (CRC) chairman, has accepted an invitation to teach at a Montgomery, Alabama, conference considering nonviolent protest methods.
Warner came to the attention of the Association through a recommendation from his brother, John.
During the Institute's week-long session, Dec. 3 to 9, Warner will talk to Southern Negro college students and instruct them in non-violent protest methods.
Don Warner
The Montgomery Improvement Association — organized in 1955 by Rev. Martin Luther King — asked Warner to attend its annual Institute on Nonviolence.
CONTACTED yesterday, Warner said he is aware of the hostility which Northern whites encounter in the South.
"I realize that my knowledge of Southern life and problems is not
"However, I gathered from a letter the Association sent me that whites in the South who are willing to work actively at such work are not many." Warner added.
as complete as it might be," Warne said.
Warner said that he was willing to go since he had been invited and said he believed the experience
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sential—that we have complete inspection of this on the ground," he said in a copyright interview in U.S. News & World Report.
Keating also said he was "positive" that the information on which he based his first charge last August of the missile buildup in Cuba was available to administration leaders at that time.
"THE SOURCES WERE either (A) sources in the U.S. government, or (B) other sources—less than 5 per cent of which were Cuban refugees—all of which were verified through official sources of the U.S. government before I made any statement," he said.
Gilpatric said yesterday the Administration had acted "immediately" after receiving intelligence reports that the missile bases were being built.
To draw support from other American republics and from its allies throughout the world, Gilpatric said, the United States had to have a "hard case" for its blockade of Cuba.
"We had to have good evidence of this threat and without the kind of photography which our surveillance planes supplied beginning on October 14, I doubt that we would have had this support and that we could have been as effective in our policies," he said.
GILPATRIC EMPHASIZED that any U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba would depend on the Russians upholding their part of the agreement as established by President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
So far, he said, there had been only a "partial fulfillment" of the Soviet commitment to remove offensive weapons from Cuba. He said, "they have simply removed what they say were the missiles that we brought in."
GILPATRIC REJECTED Republican criticism that a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba would bolster the Castro regime. He said the Castro problem was there before the Soviet bases were established and would remain after they were removed.
In another television interview former Postmaster General James A. Farley said that Kennedy's strong stand against Cuba was only a preliminary step toward Castro's downfall.
Geologist Says Antarctic Causes Strange Hallucinations
Being at the bottom of the world can cause a man to do everything from dream of pastry shops to "crack-up" from loneliness, an Antarctic scientist said last night.
Edward Zeller, associate professor of geology and three time adventurer to the Antarctic, described the land with slides and then told the Anthropology Club about "Polar Madness."
A CROWDED HOUSE listened to the scientist tell about the unusual hallucinations and dreams that occur in this land of -104F temperatures.
He related experiences of past expeditions and his own experiences at McMurdo Sound and the now "closed down" Little America.
He said while he and his assistant were out on a glacier strange one day they heard strange sounds, like chirping and whistling at different times.
Zeller said that one German, who had lived through the bombing of Hamburg during World War II, "cracked-up" and became violent.
OUT IN THE open, he said, there is nothing but silence. There are no birds, animals or trees to make noise.
He had to be put under sedation for one year.
The unusual isolation of the land caused one man, who hated the place, to never leave bed except to eat. Others would work all day because of the sun circles Antarctica and never sets.
HE SAID THAT in earlier expeditions incomplete diets caused weird dreams to occur.
Because of a lack of flour and bread in the diet, men had dreams of pastry shops.
He said that during his stay in the region he developed a craving for citrus fruits.
Problems between the men also develop, Zeller said. One geologist who was always insulting the Navy men stationed at the camp found himself out on the ice with diesel fuel to use in his cooking stove.
HE RETURNED alive. Zeller said, but he and his assistants' faces were as black as the "ace of spades."
Hallucinations are often experienced by not just one man, but groups. He said that men will often think they see returning parties, which turn out to be Emperor Penguins.