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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year, No.31
Friday, Oct. 26, 1962
"State of Emergency' Proclaimed In India
NEW DELHI, India—(UPI)The government proclaimed a "state of emergency" throughout India tonight.
There was no immediate explanation of the move. But it came as an Indian spokesman announced that Communist Chinese troops have driven deeper into India, threatening the northeastern border
French Head Warns Nation
PARIS — (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle delivered a new warning to the French nation today that he will quit at once unless it gives him a sweeping "yes" vote in Sunday's constitutional referendum.
In a late radio-television appeal to the country, De Gaulle declared that without this massive vote his "historic task would at once be impossible and, consequently, terminated."
Sunday's referendum vote is on De Gaulle's politically explosive plan to change the 1958 constitution so his successors will be elected by direct popular vote of the whole nation instead of by a limited electoral college.
The political furor touched off by this plan resulted in parliament overthrowing Premier Georges Pompidou's government Oct. 5. De Gaulle promptly dissolved the national assembly and ordered parliamentary general elections, Nov. 18 and 25.
De Gaulle admitted that al France's old-line political parties have called on the nation to vote "no." He said they have done so because the "strong man" presidential rule he wants to maintain "is absolutely incompatible with the absolute and disastrous rule of the parties."
De Gaulle said the right wing extremists who want to overthrow him also have called for a "no" vote because they are "using all possible means to insure that my death or my defeat would create again the great confusion which would give them ignoble opportunity."
He expressed confidence the nation would vote "yes" as so to insure "continuity, firmness and effectiveness at the head of the state."
ASC Candidates Will Meet Sunday
A meeting for all candidates running in the fall ASC elections has been scheduled at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union, John Stuckey. Elections chairman and Pittsburgh junior, announced today.
Preceding the candidate's session will be an elections meeting from 1-2 p.m.
capital town of Bomdilla.
The disclosure of new Communist advances in the undeclared border war with India came as parliament made plans to meet in "emergency session" a week from next Thursday to deal with the Red China menace.
THE INDIAN SPOKESMAN said the advance guard of some 10,000 Chinese troops that Wednesday captured the monastery town of Towang yesterday swept five miles east of the town and clashed with Indian troops at Jang.
This is on the jeep track to Bom-dilla, the capital of the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA). Another Chinese force has driven 15 miles south from Kibitoo near the Burmese border, the spokesman said.
There was no immediate information as to the matters that would be discussed at the emergency parliamentary session.
Meanwhile the Communist New China news agency, in a Peiping broadcast monitored here, reported new victories on both the eastern and western sectors of the disputed Indian border.
NEW CHINA CHARGED Indian troops with adopting a scorched earth policy in some places while fleeing south before the onslaught.
Red China's army chief of staff has urged India to accept China's proposals for cease-fire talks. Last Wednesday, China called for both sides to pull back 12.5 miles from the "line of actual control" while delegates of the two countries met to settle the dispute peacefully.
An Indian spokesman labeled the proposal "deceptive." India has demanded that Chinese troops back up to their original positions north of the disputed McMahon demarcation line as a precondition for negotiations.
Chinese news media have blamed India for starting all the fighting. Today it said "Chinese frontier guards recovered Tungmen Pass, Mi Pass, Kang Pass, the Yung Pang Bridge, Hsiati and other places after repulsing repeated attacks launched by the Indian troops there."
INDIAN AUTHORITIES reported yesterday that Chinese forces swept into the ancient monastery town of Tawang, a major Buddhist religious center 15 miles south of the Tibetan border near Bhutan.
The Abbot of Tawang, monks from the monastery and a "large proportion of the local population were safely evacuated," an Indian spokesman said.
Blockade Might Lead to Invasion Ketzel Thinks
Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science, said our blockade might only be the first step to full-scale invasion of the island nation.
Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science, said he was "relatively confident" that Cuban hostilities would not culminate in nuclear war.
Their remarks came at the current events forum held in the Union yesterday afternoon.
BOTH MEN SAID that information was too sketchy and contradictory for anything more than preliminary opinions.
Prof. Ketzel said he could only offer possible courses the Cuban crisis might take.
"I don't know whether to be an American and swing in solidly behind the President or whether I should take a more objective look at things," Prof. Ketzel said.
"THE BLOCKADE," Prof. Ketzel said, "could be a dramatic way to get people behind the second step, which would be an actual invasion of Cuba."
Prof. Laird referred to the blockade as a "serious act of brinkmanship" and said it pointed to the "inevitable logic" of disarmament with adequate inspection controls.
Prof. Laird said he believed the Russians intended to play Cuba off against Berlin and that the Russians were also interested in splitting the Western powers.
"SOMEWHERE along the line," he said. "Cuba became a pawn."
We cannot approach the problem believing we were entirely right and without blame, Prof. Laird said.
Prof. Ketzel said that if the U.S. did invade Cuba it would be to end the Cuban missile threat, but that he saw a certain worth in Russia's having missiles on Cuban soil.
"IN THE PAST," Prof. Ketzel said,
"Russia had feelings that her deterrent power was not:invulnerable.
Cuban-based rockets might tend to stabilize the balance of terror."
Offsetting this consideration, however, is the theory that a Cuban might accidentally or purposefully send a ballistic missile winging toward the U.S. without authorization, Prof. Ketzel said.
Wiggins Will Highlight Convocation
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy skies and slowly rising temperatures are expected today and tomorrow. The high today should be in the 50s and the low tonight in the 30s.
Warren W. Wiggins, second in command of the national Peace Corps, will highlight activities of the Peace Corps Week which begins Monday.
SWAN referred to the KU-Costa
Robert Swan, Topeka junior and chairman of the KU Corps committee, explained the purpose of Peace Corps Week is to "provide all available information about and to neighbor interest in the Corps with particular emphasis on the KU project in Costa Rica."
WIGGINS, acting director of the Peace Corps, while Director Sargent Shriver is in Africa, is the author of "The Towering Task," credited as the basis for the national program.
Wiggins will speak on "The Peace Corps—Its Past and Future" at an all University convocation at 10:30 a.m.. Friday, Nov. 2, in Hoch Auditorium.
THE VOLUNTEERS who complete the eight-week session here, will travel to Puerto Rico for further physical and language training. After a brief orientation meeting at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose in February, the volunteers will begin work as teachers or library assistants in Costa Rica.
Rica Peace Corps project which is scheduled to bring about 35 Corps trainees to the University today to begin training for work abroad.
The program was developed this year by the Peace Corps and KU with the aid of the University of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry of Education.
Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history, will sponsor a reception for the trainees at 4 p.m. Sunday at the KU Art Museum. Members of Owl Society and Cwens will serve as hosts- and hostesses.
Walter Bgoy, Tanganyika, Africa,
sophomore, will discuss the Tanganyika Corps project at 4:15 p.m.
Tuesday in the Union. A film on this
project will also be shown.
THOMAS M. GALE, assistant professor of history and KU-Costa Rican project coordinator, and several volunteers will present a panel discussion on the project Wednesday evening in the Kansas Union.
Students, faculty members and Lawrence residents are invited.
The week's activities include another film, "The Peace Corps," narrated by Dave Garroway, to be shown at 4:30 p.m., Thursday in the Union. The documentary film features an interview with Corps Director Shriver.
Swan said Wiggins, the convocation speaker, is also scheduled to speak at Haskell Institute and the SUA Current Events Forum Nov. 2.
Cuba-Bound Ship Boarded, Released
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The U.S. Navy blockade force for the first time today boarded and searched a Cuba-bound vessel—a Soviet-chartered freighter—but allowed it to proceed after determining the cargo contained no prohibited war goods.
Boarding parties from two destroyers—one of them the "Joseph P. Kennedy Jr."—spent nearly three hours combing through the Lebanese freighter "Marucla," which is under Soviet contract to carry cargo from Russia to Havana.
THE "MARUCLA," a 7,268-ton U.S.-made former Liberty ship, cooperated in the search operations and readily permitted the inspection team to come aboard. The cargo included trucks and chemicals.
The incident, the second involving ships carrying Soviet cargo to Cuba in two days, came as U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson unexpectedly conferred at the White House with President Kennedy and other top officials directing U.S. Cuban policy.
Stevenson had been scheduled to meet in New York this morning with U.N. Secretary General Thant as part of Thant's plan to see if there was any room for negotiation in the Cuban crisis. But he postponed the meeting until this afternoon and came here to confer with Kennedy.
IN THIS MORNING'S high seas interception, the two destroyers halted the "Marucla" about 180 miles northeast of Nassau in the Bahamas. They had followed it throughout the night with orders to go aboard at dawn.
The boarding party reported to the Defense Department, "cooperation good, no difficulties expected."
Although of Lebanese registry, the "Marucla" was chartered by the Russians and was sailing from the Soviet Baltic port of Riga, Latvia.
THE BOARDING PARTY was still aboard at 10:20 a.m., when the Defense Department made its announcement.
Until the Navy crew completed its inspection and questioned the crew, the Pentagon said, "We cannot be sure of the composition of the cargo."
The first ship to be intercepted by the blockading task force was a Russian tanker. It was allowed to pass through the quarantine ring yesterday because its cargo was petroleum, which is not embargoed.
AT 5:24 A.M. CST the U.S. ships received instructions to go aboard, the Defense Department said.
In yesterday's case, only radio contact was made.
At 5:29 a.m. CST, the Pentagon said, the "Joseph P. Kennedy" lowered a whale boat. The boarding team was led by Lt. Cmdr. Dwight G. Osborne, of East Patterson, N.J., and Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth C. Reynolds, Coronado, Calif. Osborne is executive officer of the "Pierce" and Reynolds is the executive officer of the "Kennedy."
Three minutes after the whaleboat was over the side, the "Maruda" lowered a ladder so the New team
At 5:50 a.m., the Defense Department said, "the leaders of the boarding party stepped on the "Marucla's" deck.
TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER, the inspection team still was aboard. The Defense Department said it did not know at that time whether the crew was Russian or Lebanese.
The skippers of the two U.S. destroyers are Cmdr. James W. Foust, Greensburg, Pa., on the "Pierce," and Cmdr. Nicholas Mikhalevsky, of Staten Island, N.Y., on the "Kennedy."
Whether the ship was allowed to proceed or ordered to turn back depended on its cargo. If "offensive materials" were aboard such as equipment for missile sites — it would have been ordered to turn back.
Meanwhile, the United States kept a cordon of warships around Cuba today and gathered a mighty military force at the tip of Florida, only 90 miles from the Russian-armed island.
AT LEAST A DOZEN Soviet ships were reported still steaming for Cuba. The Pentagon said the blockading U.S. ships would stop them, search them and turn them away if they carried missiles or other offensive weapons for Fidel Castro.
At least 12 Communist ships have abandoned their route to Cuba.
At least 12 Communist ships have abandoned their route to Cuba. White House and Pentagon officials said work was continuing rapidly on the missile sites in Cuba, capable of hurling nuclear-armed rockets into the United States.
President Kennedy agreed yesterday to acting U.N. Secretary General U Thant's plea that the United States, Russia and Cuba meet to discuss the crisis. Thant was to start the talks today, meeting individually with the U.S., Soviet and Cuban ambassadors.
BUT KENNEDY STEADFASTLY refused to lift the blockade, and indications mounted that further, more direct action might be taken to halt the continued construction of the Cuban missile sites.
Troops poured by land and air for the fourth consecutive day into the Florida Keys with rocket launchers and mounds of equipment. Heavy aircraft activity has been observed around Florida Air Force bases for days.
In Chicago, Rep. Clark McGregor, R-Minn., said he was told at a State Department briefing that Cuba has 30 to 40 missiles, ready to fire at the United States, presumably with nuclear warheads.