Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 37
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 5, 1962
Administration Calls Cuban Crisis 'Unclear'
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy conferred today with his top advisers on latest developments in the Cuban crisis. Administration sources said the current situation could be summed up in one word—"unclear."
Tension appeared to have eased for the time being. But U.S. officials stressed that the basic problem of removing Soviet missiles from Cuba under international inspection remained unsolved.
One development today was the announcement from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva that the Cuban government has agreed to let Red Cross inspectors check cargoes of Cuba-bound Communist ships for hidden arms.
KENNEDY MET for about 45 minutes today with the executive committee of the National Security Council, the top policy-strategy
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panel for planning U.S. moves in the crisis. The President confers with the group every day.
He will fly to Boston tonight to vote in tomorrow's election and will return to Washington at mid-morning. He will then meet with the National Security Council group at 3 p.m.
Two administration officials said yesterday the United States would continue to insist on on-the-spot inspection in Cuba to make sure that all Soviet offensive weapons are removed.
PRESIDENTIAL assistant Theodore C. Sorensen said there could be no U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba until the Soviet missile withdrawn was completed under "satisfactory" arrangements.
Adequate inspection, he said, "would include on-site inspection, and both aerial and sea inspection."
Sorensen said in a television interview (Meet the Press - NBC) that any pledge the President might give on a Cuban invasion "would be in keeping with alliances" and would be "acceptable to all."
EDWIN M. MARTIN assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, said that unless there was agreement on inspection within a reasonable length of time, American officials would have to "reconsider our picture over-all."
Martin, who appeared on another television program (Issues and Answers — ABC), did not elaborate on his statement.
U. S. officials reported that three Soviet ships were headed toward Cuba, possibly to pick up dismantled offensive weapons and related (Continued on page 12)
Bonn Head Is Fired In Security Dispute
BONN — (UPI) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today fired one top government official and suspended another to save his coalition government from collapse.
State Secretary Walter Strauss of the Justice Ministry was fired. Adenauer suspended until further notice Volkmar Hopf, state secretary of the Defense Ministry.
The 88-year-old chancellor moved against the pair — both no.2 men in their respective ministries — after almost day-long talks with leaders of the Free Democratic Party.
THE FREE Democrats, junior partners in the government coalition with Adenauer's own Christian Democratic Party, had threatened to withdraw their support unless Adenauer acted. The Free Democrats had protested Strauss' and Hopf's handling of a government security crackdown on the news-magazine "Der Spiegel."
The Free Democrats had threatened to withdraw their parliamentary votes — and thus topple Adenauer's government — unless the chancellor met their demands by noon. The chancellor's action was taken several hours after the deadline.
Reports in government quarters said the morning talks involved tough negotiations. The Free Democrats had demanded Adenauer fire some officials for allegedly hiding plans for the magazine crackdown from the Justice Minister, a Free Democrat.
Negotiators declined to comment on details after the morning session. But Free Democratic leader
IT WAS REPORTED Adenauer made a series of proposals at the morning session. The Free Democrats were expected to give their reply during the second meeting.
Erich Mende, asked by newsmen if the coalition had been saved, said, "not yet."
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
The Free Democrats have announced that all five of their ministers will resign from the coalition cabinet with Adenauer's Christian Democrats—thus robbing it of its majority base—unless the chancellor punishes the Christian Democrats for the affair.
THE CRISIS centers around a police raid 10 days ago on the Hamburg and Bonn offices of Der Spiegel, a weekly West German
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Cuba Agrees To Ship Check
GENEVA — (UPI) — The International Committee of the Red Cross said today the Cuban government has agreed to let Red Cross inspectors check cargoes of Cubabound Communist ships for hidden arms.
But the Committee warned it cannot assume direct responsibility for the control action and said this "remains the direct affair of the United Nations and the nations concerned."
THE STATEMENT from the head-quarters of the all-Swiss body here said the Red Cross had been informed by the United Nations that Cuba now agrees to the control of ships coming to Cuban ports by Red Cross inspectors. The United States and the Soviet Union already have accepted such an arrangement.
It said, however, that "in the superior interests of peace" and "in a desire to save the people from the scourge of war," the Red Cross was prepared to assist in the inspection.
Approximately 30 Red Cross inspectors would take part in the operation which would last about a month, the statement said.
It said the inspection would take place "on the high seas" and it was therefore assumed that Red Cross inspectors would be operating from U.S. ships now blockading Cuba.
THE RED CROSS STATEMENT said the Cuban operation is "beyond the conventional and traditional scope of the humanitarian mission of the Red Cross."
Paul Ruegger, a former president of the committee, will fly to New York tomorrow to arrange details of the control operation with American, Russian, Cuban and U.N. officials.
The Red Cross said its "definite (Continued on page 12)
Nobel Peace Prize Held
OSLO, Norway — (UPI) — The Nobel Institute announced here today that no Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded this year.
It was the fifth time since the end of World War II that no Peace Prize had been awarded. In two of these cases, the prize was awarded the following year along with the regular prize for that year.
A spokesman for the institute said the prize committee had decided to reserve the award money for next year.
President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were reported to have been high on the list of possible Nobel Prize winners.
But the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian National Assembly said in a tense communique that there will be no Peace Prize this year and the prize amount will be reversed for 1963.
The decision was taken behind closed doors at the Nobel Institute in Oslo where the committee met under the chairmanship of Director Gunnar Jahn.
The prize money this year amounted to $50.043.
Weather
The weather today will be fair.
It will become partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Highs today will range from 45 to 50. Tonight's low will be in the lower 30s. The high for Tuesday will be in the 50s.
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has rejected Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's call for an immediate unconditional cease-fire in the undeclared border war between India and Communist China, informed sources reported today.
Red Truce Offer Rejected By Nehru
The report coincided with official disclosure of a serious setback for India on the western sector of the disputed border and the reported massive buildup of Red troops and equipment on the eastern sector.
INDIAN OFFICIALS confirmed that Nehru's reply to Khrushchev's latest letter was sent to Moscow today. They refused to reveal what it said.
But informed sources said that Nehru repeated his demand that Red troops pull back to positions held before launching the major offensive last Sept. 8 in advance of any cease-fire or peace negotiations.
Communist China recently proposed that both sides withdraw their troops 12.5 miles from the present "line of control" while representatives from Peiping and New Delhi try to resolve the border dispute by negotiations. India immediately turned down the proposal.
A DEFENSE ministry spokesman today told newsmen that Indian forces have abandoned a major outpost guarding the Karakoram Pass entry into the Indian subcontinent in Northern Ladakh.
On the opposite eastern sector of the 1,000-mile border, informed sources reported Chinese Communist troops and equipment pouring into the Indian monastery town of Towang in the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA) in apparent preparation for another major attack.
THE SPOKESMAN said the western sector post at Daulet Beg Oldi was evacuated "a few days ago" as (Continued on page 12)
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India Club to Discuss Sino-Indian Conflict
The India Club will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Union to discuss Red China's attack on India. A resolution offering moral support to the government of India from the Indian students here will be proposed.
This meeting was originally scheduled for Friday night; it was postponed because of a small turnout.
part of a "planned withdrawal" of forces from northern Ladah.
Daulet Bed Oldi was the major military command post in the Chipchap Valley. The spokesman said he did not know whether Red troops had occupied the post but added:
"If they are . . . they are in better position to control Karakoram Pass." The spokesman acknowledged that Daulet Beg Oldi was situated west
Prime Minister Nehru
of the line which Peiping said originally in 1956 was the boundary. Informed sources said it was "one of two" places where the reds have pushed across the line. Peiping revised the line in 1960 to add another 2,000 square miles to its claims in Ladakh.
THE WITHDRAWAL from Daulet Beg Oldi was seen as a serious loss for the Indians since the area could be used for airlifting men and supplies. The spokesman said there was no airstrip as such but that a number of planes had landed there. The post was only a few miles directly south of the pass, which meant that the Chinese Red forces now had a new entry into the subcontinent, the southern part of Asia which India shares with Pakistan.
The pass was used by the American Consul General in Manchuria to flee to India after the Chinese Communists overran mainland China and forced the Nationalists from the continent.
TOWANG IS at the northern end of the main jeep track leading to the Assam Valley 40 or 50 miles away. The Chinese took the town,
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Anyone who votes more than once in the campus primary elections tomorrow or Wednesday, will be fined or expelled from school, said John Stuckey, Pittsburgh junior and chairman of the All Student Council elections committee.
Court Will Prosecute Student Vote Violations
Violators of any election procedures will appear before the student Court. The minimum fine for violation by political parties is $50 and the maximum $100, Stuckey said.
The minimum penalty for individual violators is $10. The maximum penalty is expulsion from school.
"I JUST WANT anyone who may be considering fraud to know what penalties he is facing," Stuckey said. "I won't hesitate to prosecute if there is any question of a violation."
"Some people have said," Stuckey continued, "that cheating at the polls this year would be easier because of the new voting system."
There are four voting polls and three sets of deans cards. Two polls are located in Strong Hall, one in front of the Registrar's office and one in the rotunda. Other polls are in the lobbies of the Kansas Union and Murphy Hall.
After picking up their dean's cards in any one of the three buildings, students may vote at any of the four polls between 8 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday.
"IF ANYONE TRIES to vote twice by using more than one of his dean's cards he will be detected," said Stuckev.
He explained three sets of safeguards against duplicate voting.
- The student I.D. card is punched.
- Information is stamped on the I.D. card.
- The machine that reshuffles the IBM dean's cards in preparation for the general elections will indicate the use of more than one card by a student.
Stuckey reminded students that they must present their ID card to get a dean's card in order to vote. Students who wish to vote for All Student Council representatives from their district must present a party card too.
The only other office to be voted on in the primary elections besides ASC representatives is freshman class president. One of the four candidates running for that office, Stuckey said, will be eliminated for the general elections, Nov. 15 and 16.
THIRTY-SEVEN students are competing for ASC seats in the primaries. Twenty candidates are Vox Populi and 17 University Party.
Stuckey reported that 36 poll workers will be on duty. "If at any time a poll goes under its quota of poll workers, I will be forced to close the poll," stated Stuckey. "I can't have the election contested."