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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 33
Indians Hold Reds In Border Conflict
NEW DELHI, India — (UPI) — Indian troops fought the invading Communist Chinese to a standstill today and went on the attack themselves at the eastern end of the disputed border.
A government spokesman disclosed a series of "probing" attacks by the Indians for the first time since the Red Chinese stepped up their invasion of the border regions 10 days ago.
The Indian army chief of staff earlier told his embattled forces that the invaders were being held "on all fronts." Observers also noted the slowing up of the Chinese drive, possibly as the Reds regrouped for further attacks.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1962
(A Communist New China news agency dispatch to London said the Chinese forces had repulsed attacks by "invading Indian troops" since Oct. 27 and had taken several Indian strongpoints.
THE SPOKESMAN announced that the Indian forces had moved into a limited offensive action in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA). The use of heavy mortars in this and other actions marked the first time that the Indians apparently had been able to match the Chinese in firepower. Previous reports indicated that the use of heavy mortars by the Reds had been instrumental in the success of their initial drive through the Himalayan border regions.
The government spokesman's announcement indicated that the Indians now were turning the Chinese tactics to their own advantage.
("WHEN THEIR THRUSTS were blunted, the aggressive Indian troops took to their heels toward India. The Chinese frontier guards then removed aggressive strongpoints in Parigas, Karego, Sherelungma, Rato, Tsamageje and other places.")
("Invading Indian troops have repeatedly attacked Chinese frontier guards on the western sector of the Sino-Indian border since Oct. 27, according to reports from the Chinese frontier guards in the Tibet region. The Chinese frontier guards resolutely counterattacked.
"In the NEFA our troops are probing forward in the vicinity of Jang and have engaged the Chinese positions with artillery fire," he said.
Jang is about five miles east of the important town of Towang, which fell to the invaders last week.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID that in the Lohit division of the NEFA "our troops engaged Chinese positions with heavy mortar fire."
This was the first mention of Indian forces using heavy mortar fire since the undeclared war started.
The spokesman also announced that in the Siang frontier division in the Central NEFA Indian troops withdrew from one forward post following a third Chinese attack. The outpost had withstood two previous assaults, but was forced to yield on the third.
Elsewhere in the NEFA and in Ladakh on the northwestern border, the spokesman said "There has been no change in the situation since yesterday."
The spokesman denied an earlier report that Jang, which he described as merely a handful of villages, had been recaptured by the Indians.
"THE CHINESE ARE STILL there." he said.
Previously, the Indian army chief of staff told his embattled forces that the Communist Chinese invaders were being held "on all fronts."
In a special order of the day, Gen. P.N. Thapar promised the hard-pressed front line troops:
"You will get everything necessary to resume the offensive."
Weather
Generally fair today through tomorrow. Warmer today but cooler again. High today around 70 and low tonight 35 to 40.
U.S. Blockade Halted 2 Days For UN Talks
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States today both lifted its naval blockade of Cuba and halted aerial surveillance flights over the island for a two-day period at the request of acting U.N. Secretary General U Thant.
At mid-mornig, assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, said aerial flights over Cuba also were being stopped for the two-day period.
The stopping of both operations will be in effect the two days that Thant is in Cuba arranging for the removal of Soviet missile bases. The secretary flew to Havana today.
THE LIFTING of the blockade was announced last night and went into effect at dawn today.
Sylvester said the temporary halt to the surveillance flights was being ordered even though there is no conclusive evidence as yet that construction of Soviet missile bases in Cuba has stopped as directed by Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Asked whether the flights would have been stopped without evidence that construction of the missile bases had been discontinued, Sylvester said, "I would not think so."
"The time since chairman Khrushchev's message of Sunday morning is too short to allow us to expect a conclusive evidence."
BUT HE said his remark did not mean the evidence was conclusive. He issued this statement:
Three American planes made surveillance flights over Cuba yesterday in an effort to determine whether launching pad construction work had stopped and missiles dismantled as Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev promised President Kennedy Sunday.
Expert interpretation of the aerial photographs made yesterday was expected to be ready for the chief executive and his top adviser today.
AMERICAN OFFICIALS said information from Soviet diplomats relayed in informal, round-about fashion was that construction work at intermediate range ballistic missile sites had stopped.
Expert Says U.S. Slowed K's Plans
"Khrushchev's Cuba for Berlin blackmail has been delayed, perhaps destroyed," a veteran foreign affairs analyst said here yesterday.
Robert R. Brunn, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, said the Soviet timetable had been altered by American action
Cuba Raises Moral Issue
American demands to remove missiles from Cuba raises a moral question of sorts concerning similar U.S. weapons which encircle Russia, Robert R. Brunn, Christian Science Monitor reporter, said yesterday, following his public lecture.
"Our missiles in Turkey and elsewhere are there by open agreement." Brunn, who is Washington
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correspondent and foreign affairs analyst for the Christian Science Monitor, said.
"BUT THE MAJOR difference between our having missiles opposite Russian soil and the Russians having missiles in Cuba is one of intent," Brunn said.
He explained that U.S. history of non-aggressive action was known to the world and that this record,
when compared with Russia's justified our Turkish bases.
Robert R. Brunn
"Khrushchev will make a great deal of the bases which surround him, but I don't think anything will come of it," Brunn said.
BRUNN ALSO said at an earlier press conference that he believed the Red Chinese border penetration of India was the most underplayed story of the decade.
"It is unfortunate that this China- India dispute had to come just as the Cuban crisis came," Brunn observed.
Brunn added that he intended to watch events there closely and said that it would, in part, involve the United States.
BRUNN ANTICIPATES a U.S.S.R. retaliatory move in Berlin, but said our "Berlin campaign" must surely have convinced the Soviets that we mean to defend the divided city.
"Any move the Russians make in Berlin, if directed at our military access, will be aggression." Brunn said.
"The Russians know it will mean war."
Brunn said the Soviets would probably first increase their harassment of motor traffic through checkpoints.
BERLIN IS A very sensitive area and the Russians realize this," Brunn added.
Brunn said the Russian arms buildup in Cuba was related to the missile gap.
The balance of power is in the favor of the United States," Brunn observed. "We have over 200 intercontinental ballistic missiles and 144 Polar missiles. The Russians have less than 100."
By setting un missile bases in Cuba the Russians had the U.S. "pinpointed."
In addition, Brunn said, the Russians were testing our reaction and judging our will to resist.
HE LISTED four other contributing factors:
- The development of Western Europe into a third and major power through the Common Market.
- Internal strife within the communist bloc countries owing from food shortages. Brunn said that the Berlin wall was a defensive action and a symptom of an internal disorder.
- Cuba is in a highly critical position from which Russian efforts to subvert other South American
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GOP Candidates Host Coffee, Rally Today
Gov. John Anderson and other major Republican candidates will host an informal coffee for all interested students at 4:15 p.m. today in Room 366 of the Kansas Union. The coffee will last an hour.
There will also be a Republican rally at 6:15 p.m. today at the Lawrence Fairgrounds. The major candidates presenting speeches will be Gov, John Anderson, William Ferguson, attorney general, and James Pearson, U.S. Senator.
Political Outlook Is Dim for Kansas Democratic Candidates
(Editor's note. This is the first in a series of three articles on Kansas' general election Nov. 6 and 7. The next article will discuss the views of the candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.)
Kansas' political contest is in the final judging. Elections one week away find the Democrats competing against more attractive and traditional winners. Perhaps their only chance for winning will be in the new Fifth Congressional District.
In Kansas where even Democrats must be conservative, the lines of difference between the two parties in this election has become the support or the non-support of President Kennedy's programs. A current prevalent Republican tide here may indicate that Kansans are fed up with New Frontier legislation.
SEASONED POLITICIANS predict this will be a good year for Democrats in Kansas. Historically Republican, and considerably populated with conservative farming people, Kansas is habitually, traditionally and numerically Republican.
enough to indicate that Kansans will change this well-established political conviction. Only in times of disgust and distrust have Kansans turned to Democrats for a relief.
IN 1956 the Kansas people elected George Docking, Democrat, to governorship after the Fred Hall administration. But Docking's policies were perhaps even more conservative than those of the Republican governor's now.
There is no issue present strong
According to recent sampling polls, independent thinkers who had supported the Democrats three weeks before have come back to the Republican tent. Apparently the Democrats have failed in their efforts to shake public faith in their Republican opponents.
Placed on the offensive in the campaigning against the Republican incumbents, the Democrats have based their campaign largely on attack.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dale Saffells has campaigned on criticism of alleged corruption in Gov. Anderson's administration.
issue that they can accomplish the same programs promised by Gov. Anderson without raising taxes. This could be appealing to the Kansas voter, since the governor has publicly admitted he might need more money for his programs.
KANSANS, however, seem pleased with the progress made under Gov. Anderson. The question at the polls will be whether an appeal of no tax hike is greater than their faith in Gov. Anderson.
Democrats are also running on the
The only areas in Kansas where authorities see any close partisan struggle are in the new First and Fifth Congressional Districts.
To understand the political struggles in these areas, one must look back to the 1961 reapportionment which resulted in Kansas' losing one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
At this time the Kansas Legislature passed a bill to change Congressional Districts in accordance to the 1960 census. The significant factor in the change of a state's representative strength is its population in relation to the changes in the total U.S. population.
And although Kansas had an 11 per cent population increase since the last census the addition of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union and the sharp gains in the total U.S. population in the West and Southwest since 1950, resulted in a loss of one House seat for Kansas.
KANSAS, thus, had to reduce its number of Congressional Districts. Redistricting the state according to the population, the Legislature combined Robert Dole's Sixth District and J. Floyd Breeding's Fifth District.
This means that Rep. Dole, Republican, and Rep. Breeding, Democrat, are now running for the same new Congressional District.
This now vast First District, including 58 counties and stretching over nearly the western two-thirds of the state, offers certain campaigning problems for the candidates. Its
very size and dispersed population has been a politician's nightmare.
IN THE LATEST POLL taken by the Garden City Telegram, the Hutchinson News and the Salina Journal, Rep. Dole held a small margin over Rep. Breeding, a reversal of a previous poll.
The poll showed that Dole led Breeding, 2,886 to 2,218, with 367 persons undecided.
In this farming, cattle area it is hard to predict whether Rep. Dole's lead is due to his conservative stand, his tireless campaigning or partisan voting. Registered Republicans heavily outnumber registered Democrats in his old District.
But Breeding is serving his third term in Congress while Dole has just finished his first.
Breeding, an almost liberal Democrat who voted down the line on almost all of Kennedy's domestic issues, has done his share to woo Republican voters. And his old Fifth
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