Ben Bella Wants US Out of Cuba
HAVANA—(UPI)—Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella joined Fidel Castro last night in demanding that the United States give up its big naval base at Guantanamo in Cuba's south coast.
A communique issued a few hours after Ben Bella left for New York said the two premiers agreed on "the immediate need for the
(In Washington, a state department spokesman said the United States has no intention of giving up the base.)
troops and the dismantling of foreign military bases in other countries, including the naval base at Guantanamo."
"THE REVOLUTIONARY (Castro) government and the people of Cuba have repeatedly manifested their intention of demanding the return of the Cuban territory occupied by the base at the proper time, through the means offered under international law," the communique said.
In a speech to a mass meeting early today, Castro asked for 50 doctor volunteers to go to Algeria to deal with "epidemics" of unspecified diseases in that country.
It also was announced that Castro has accepted an invitation to visit Algeria, although no date was set for the trip.
Castro's speech, broadcast by Radio Havana, also "proposed" that the doors of Havana University be closed to young Cubans who oppose the bearded leftist's revolutionary regime.
"THEY OUGHT NOT to be allowed to enter the University because it is not fair to use the workers' money to teach . . . potential traitors." Castro said.
Ben Bella left here late yesterday after an overnight stay during which he promised support for the Castro regime and announced that his "national liberation front" had awarded the bearded Cuban a "medal of honor."
(The Algerian premier landed in New York last night. Roman Catholic Father R. C. Berenguer, an Algerian who has visited Cuba frequently since Castro came to power, said Ben Bella found his trip there "very good.")
The communique said the two leaders found they had "essentially identical points of view" on world affairs.
Among other things, they said that the "unconditional abolition of colonialism, imperialist oppression and neo-colonialism . (is) indispensable for the elimination of the catastrophic dangers of a thermonuclear war."
THE CASTRO GOVERNMENT announced also that it has recognized the rebel regime in Yemen. President Osvaldo Dorticos cabled "congratulations" to the rebels who overthrew the Yemenite monarchy.
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — U.S. officials said last night they were not too surprised by Algerian Premier Ben Bella taking Fidel Castro's side against the United States.
The government, they said, was reluctant to take Ben Bella to task while his nation is just getting established.
A state department spokesman said the United States had no intention of giving up its Guantanamo naval base, as Ben Bella and Castro demanded.
He pointed out that the United States holds the base at the tip of the island under a lease which can be canceled only by mutual agreement of the United States and Cuba.
A partial clearing of Kansas overcast skies was expected to produce sunshine and moderate autumn temperature readings today.
Thursday, Oct. 18, 1962
The clearing trend began in the West last night and has moved slowly into eastern portions by this morning.
Weather
Highs today were expected to range up to 70, with lows tonight dropping into the 40s northwest and 50s southeast.
Increasing cloudiness was expected to set in again tomorrow, with a rain area extending into parts of southern Kansas.
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An American refugee from the Castro regime last night compared communism to a rattle-snake.
"You must get a stick and beat him off before he beats you. That is the only way to get him," said Lawrence Daniels, who had his own business under Batista and Castro.
Cuban Refugee Tells of Living In Castro Regime
His talk, in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, was sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi, professional business administration fraternity.
His business and personal belongings were confiscated 10 months ago. Daniels is now a consulting engineer for a Kansas City, Mo., engineering company.
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"Some of you are liberals," he said. "But let me tell you the liberals are the first to go. The communists respect the anti-communists because they think the 'parlor pinks' are communists."
"The communist idea is to dominate not only Cuba, but also a great many other countries in Latin America.
"Why are we interested in Cuba? Because it's only 90 miles away from our coast.
"Castro is beaming radio messages 24 hours a day in four languages—English, French, Spanish and Portuguese—telling of the paradise that's Cuba.
"Cuba is wasting itself away. We used to have the finest grocery stores, but the meat they send from Russia isn't fit for a dog to eat.
"You can't get perfumes or soap. They think it is better to smell like yourself than like perfume.
"My only reason in coming here is to warn against apathy and to tell you to be on your guard.
"I am not a red herring. I don't believe in going around and accusing everyone of being a communist. That is the most stupid thing I can think of.
"You must strive to keep this country healthy." Daniels told the students. "It would help greatly if we mingled with our less fortunate brethren. We have a habit of closing ourselves up. We don't take the bother to go down to the other side of the tracks. The Latin Americans look upon us as snobs."
"The cause was a one-crop country. The workers had a job four months and were hungry eight months.
Daniels read an excerpt from a letter from a friend still in Cuba, saying that he got three-quarters of a pound of meat per week, three cans of condensed milk a month when available, and a half cake of soap.
"The hospitals are killing people like flies. The North American medicines are used by the Russians for themselves."
He said Castro was an effect, not the cause.
They use stale medicines on the Cubans, the letter said.
"Castro said he was a Marxist-Leninist last May. The reason he returned to the Communists was because he doesn't know who to trust in Cuba. That's also the reason for the shootings.
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60th Year. No.25
Two KU students and a former student, Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of burglary in an arraignment in county court on charges of burglary.
Students'Plea Is Not Guilty
James Laird, Wichita freshman, and Steven LaBoueff, Stateline, Calif., junior were released on $1,500 bond. William Rohr, Belle Plaive, who withdrew from school Oct. 11, was recommitted to the city jail because he could not pay a fine assessed in City Court.
Rhor will spend 40 days in jail.
Each day diminishes the $50 by $2.
The three were fined $50 and 15 days on charges of vagrancy. The judge suspended the jail sentences of Laird and LaBoueff upon payment of the $50.
The three were arrested Sunday outside a Lawrence service station which had been broken into earlier.
Preliminary hearings for the three have been set for 2 p.m. Oct. 29.
The names of nine KU students arrested and charged with vandalism in the wrecking of a house near Perry were released Monday by Edwin Pence, Jefferson County Court judge.
Names Released In Perry Incident
Larry Spreeer, Topeka sophomore;
Larry Peterson, Winfield junior;
Roger Ratzlaff, Rose Hill sophomore;
Bob Black, Ottawa sophomore;
Ron Rarkin, Shawnee-Mission sophomore; Stan Church,
Wichita sophomore; Fred Kauffeld,
Atchison junior; Don Ehrlich, Russell junior and Verdon Rowland,
Arma freshman.
The nine students pleaded guilty Saturday in county court at Oskaloosa to charges of vandalism following a Sept. 29 beer party at the vacant house. The students were sentenced to 30 days in jail Saturday, but were paroled Monday after spending the weekend in custody. They were placed on probation to Judge Pence.
Lawrence Woodruff, dean of students, said today that the students have appeared before the disciplinary committee and have been placed on disciplinary probation.
The students, who are listed as residents of Battenfeld Hall, are:
Nobel Prize Goes to American Chemist
STOCKHOLM—(UPI)—An American and two British scientists won the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine today for their research into DNA, the basic molecule of life.
The American was biochemist Dr. James Dewey Watson, a Harvard University professor who at 34 became one of the youngest
U.S. Launches 11th Moon Shot
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CAPE CANAVERAL—(UPI)—The United States today put a Ranger-5 spacecraft into a "parking orbit" around Earth, and then successfully ignited a second stage rocket that started the payload on a three-day flight to the moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) The United States today launched a camera-equipped Ranger-5 spacecraft on a planned three day flight to the moon.
Scientists said the flight plan called for the 755-pound spacecraft to cross the 231,500 mile gap between earth and the moon in about 70 hours. This would put it in the vicinity of the moon about midday Sunday.
The two-stage rocket thundere smoothly from its pad and climbed quickly into low-hanging clouds over the Cape. It drove steeply into space and angled toward the southeast. Within four minutes it had disappeared from sight and sound.
The gold-and-chrome plated space probe, representing America's 11th moonshot in four years, was rigged to take the first close-up pictures of the moon and to "crash land" a package of instruments on the lunar surface for a month of detailed study.
A silvery, ten-story Atlas-Agena rocket blasted from its launchpad at 11.59 a.m. EST in an attempt to hurl Ranger-5 away from earth at a speed of 24.500 miles per hour.
Within four minutes, the space agency said the booster had separated on schedule.
men ever to win a Nobel prize.
The British winners were Dr. Francis H. C. Frick and Dr. Maurice H. F. Wilkins, both internationally-known research scientists.
Watson and Frick in research at Cambridge University deduced the structure and internal arrangement of DNA, an accomplishment which has been described as one of the greatest break throughs in the history of science. Watson was 25 years old at the time of the discoveries in 1953.
WILKINS was visiting the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York when the Nobel committee of Stockholm's Caroline Institute announced that he and the other two would share the $50,043 prize.
The committee said the three men were honored for their "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and their significance for information transfer in living materials."
In effect, the award was made for a project designed to explain the heredity mystery of how, for example, the color of a person's eyes and hair is transferred from one generation to another.
"I DONT think the solution involved very profound thought or great intellectual insight," Watson told a news conference at Cambridge, Mass. "We followed three or four steps and we were lucky they turned out the right way."
Watson taught his Harvard class in biology as usual today, although he was a half hour late because of a deluge of congratulatory messages. He said he was "excited but somehow not very surprised" to learn that he and his British colleagues had won the award.
"MY FATHER was surer than I that I would get it," he said. Frick, 46, is a scientist at the Medical Research Council unit for
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Skits, Booths Highlight Show
The "Keystone Kops," comic strip characters, and two hour rehearsals have dominated the evenings of many KU students this week.
Fraternities, sororities and dormitories have been busy building 22 booths and practicing nine skits for the Saturday night SUA Carnival.
The carnival will feature cartoon characters in both booths and skits. Many of these skits will be based on some aspect of college life.
"OOPS," being presented by Chi Omega, will concern a people-to-people program involving cavemen. In the skit, one of the stone-age men makes a visit to KU.
Delta Upsilon will present "The Joiner," a skit about a college freshman who, upon entering college life, finds himself besieged by various social groups wanting him to join. Each of these groups, of course, have everything to offer.
Other skits at the carnival will feature characters from "Li'l Abner," "Dick Tracy," and "Mary Worth."
Pi Beta Phi will parody "Li'l Abner" with "Double Down Slip at Hawkpatch U." This skit is concerned with the efforts of characters from the well known comic strip to do away with their alma mater, Hawkpatch U.
ANOTHER SKIT being presented will mix two comic strips with a famous Broadway show. "Mary Worthless meets Dick Trashy" will be presented
by Phi Kappi Psi. This skit is based on "West Side Story," "Dick Tracy," and "Mary Worth." Dick Trashy tracks down a bubblegum gang which, he later discovers, is led by a character named Mary Worthless.
Other skits will be "Scot's Tale," Alpha Omicron Pi; "McGoo at KU," Kappa Kappa Gamma; "Annie's Dispair," Kappa Sigma; "Robert Rabbit Show." Phi Kappa Theta, and "Dogpatch Quandry." Sigma Nu.
CARTOON CHARACTERS will also dominate the booths at the carnival.
Lewis Hall will sponsor a booth called "Flintstone Golf." It will include a miniature golf course featuring characters from the TV show"The Flintstones."
Alpha Phi will have a booth called "Pepe Le Pew." Carnival goers will get to throw beanbags at "Pepe," the famous comic strip skunk, as he moves in front of them.
THE "SILENT ERA" of the movies will be brought back by Phi Gamma Delta in their "Keystone Kops." Persons who want someone arrested can buy a ticket at this booth, fill out a warrant for arrest and the "Kops" will put them in their red. brick jail with barred windows.
If the prisoner wants to be set free from jail and the staring eyes of spectators he must buy a ticket or be bailed out with a ticket bought by a friend.