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Soviet Jets Are Stationed in Cuba
Tuesday. Nov. 6, 1962 University Daily Kansan
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Soviet jet bombers in Cuba could turn out to be a sticking point in negotiations for removal of offensive weapons from the island, U.S. officials said today.
Administration sources said recent U.S. aerial reconnaissance showed there might be more IL28 jets in Cuba than were known to have been there a week ago — around 27 to 28, instead of the earlier estimate of about 20.
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Officials said no dismantled missile equipment had been shipped out of Cuba. To take them out, Khrushchev must send more ships to Cuban ports, probably some of them ships with extra-large hatches.
Negotiations to settle the Cuban crisis remained a waiting game.
KHRUSHCHEV, in his Oct. 28 letter, did not spell out what weapons he would take back to Russia, but merely promised President Kennedy to remove "those weapons which you call offensive."
These officials said there was no evidence the bombers had been assembled since Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's Oct. 28 promise to remove offensive weapons from Cuba.
OFFICIALS SAID the number had slightly increased. They said, however, this might indicate only that some of the planes had been moved out of camouflage.
U. S. officials reported that a number of Soviet vessels have been steaming about the Atlantic, sailing "various courses," apparently waiting for Red Cross inspection procedures to be set up for in-bound ships.
The bombers are capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
On the other hand, they also said there was no evidence any of the bombers were being dismantled, though dismantling of missile bases has gone ahead.
The Russians first proposed the idea of Red Cross inspections of ships bound for Cuba to check for offensive weapons. The United States agreed to the idea.
IF THE SOVIET ships proceeded to Cuba before these procedures are put into effect, the ships would encounter the U.S. Navy blockade, which is still in operation.
An international committee of the Red Cross at Geneva expressed initial approval, but asked the Castro government if it approved. Yesterday, the international committee said it had received Cuba's consent and it was sending an official to New York to work out details.
IT APPEARED that this part of inspection procedures might be agreed to fairly soon. But U.S. officials said this would solve only one-third of the problem.
Barcelona Alerted for Rain After Recent Heavy Floods
BARCELONA, Spain — (UPI) Emergency services were ordered on 24-hour alert for new rains predicted in flood stricken Barcelona province today.
Heavy rains Sunday caused three small rivers in nearby Valleu Valley to overflow, flooding the rich farm and industrial area around Barcelona, leaving 1,000 persons homeless and disrupting rail, road and telephone communications. There were no reported deaths.
The latest floods washed out much of the restoration carried on since the disastrous September floods, Spain's worst modern natural disaster, which killed more than 700 persons and caused an estimated $50 million damage.
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The United States also wants international inspection of vessels departing Cuba to see that the offensive weapons are shipped out. And it wants ground inspection of missile sites.
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It appaarged these last two points would be much more difficult to negotiate, particularly with Premier Fidel Castro.
Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said yesterday that the U.S. naval blockade and air reconnaissance flights were made.
British Guiana Talks Break Down
LONDON — (UFI) — Constitutional and independence talks for British Guiana, a key Caribbean colony now ruled by Marxist Premier Cheddi B. Jagan, broke down today.
Commonwealth and Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys ended more than two weeks of stalemate and adjourned the conference because the colony's political leaders failed to reach agreement on plans for independence.
SANDYS SAID the talks would be reconvened at some future date. Jagan, educated in the United States but now an avowed admirer of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, had held out against opposition leaders, demands for elections before independence and a change of the voting system from direct election to proportional representation.
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The opposition leaders, Forbes Burnham and Peter d'Aguiar, also objected to Jagan's plan to lower the voting age to 18 a plan that would presently benefit Jagan because of the greater proportion of young persons of Indian extraction living in the colony.
D'AGUIAR, after leaving the meeting room, said he was "at least happy that Dr. Jagan not being given the power to lead us into the paths which he wants.
D'Aguiar alleged that Jagan during the talks had made no effort to deny the charges which D'Aguiar made at the opening of the conference that Jagan was in the pay of the Communist powers.
The chief objection of Jagan by the opposition leaders is that as a Marxist they charge he would put an independent British Guiana within the Communist fold.
They have insisted on elections before independence because they believe that Jagan would be defeated.
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