University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 12, 1961
West New Guinea Scene of Dispute
TOKYO —(UPI)— If remote and sleepy Laos seems an off-bet location for a world crisis then Western New Guinea would be an even less likely spot for international chips to fall.
Yet the ominous indications are that boiling hot potatoes lie in this jungle country.
The dispute over the Western half of New Guinea is between Indonesia and the Netherlands. Both nations claim the territory which is about the size of Missouri. The argument has become increasingly bitter.
THE DUTCH presently occupy the area and call it "Netherlands New Guinea."
Indonesian president Sukarno, however, has made it a matter of national policy to obtain the territory which the Indonesians in turn call "West Irian."
If an actual Dutch-Indonesian conflict broke out, both Russia and the United States would almost certainly become entangled to some degree. Russia has agreed to sell the Indonesians a reported $400-million worth of Soviet arms.
THIS IN TURN has reportedly shaken a long-held U.S. faith that Sukarno would not use force. And the Kennedy administration in Washington was reported to be considering revising its previous hands-off policy.
Also increasingly concerned over the worsening Dutch-Indonesian squabble were the Philippines and Australia, Western New Guinea in roughly halfway between these two strongly anti-Communist countries The Australians, in fact, occupy the eastern half of New Guinea.
And the Philippines particularly would dislike to see a conflict erupt near her loosely-guarded southern island frontier.
The Philippines government has bent over backwards to avoid offending the neighboring Indonesians so far over the New Guinea dispute
F-1 Rocket Sets NewThrustRecord
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—(UPI)—The F-1 rocket engine, being developed by North American Aviation for the Nova Space vehicle, is capable of generating up to 1.64 million pounds of thrust, according to an announcement yesterday.
North American Aviation's rocketdyne division and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the engine gave this performance April 6 during a 13-second hold-down test firing.
The nation's most powerful single-chamber rocket engine eclipsed by 90,000 pounds a thrust record of 1.55 million it had set last Feb. 10 in a similar static test.
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HOWEVER, THE FILIPINOS are strongly anti-Communist. The near-victims of a Communist "Huk" rebellion in the early 1950s, they would undoubtedly view with alarm any Communist intrusion into a New Guinea dispute. It was recalled that the Philippines has been consistently the most outspoken advocate of stronger SEATO action against the Communists in Laos.
Barring a military tie-up with the Indonesians—a possibility emphatically denied by Djakarta—the Communists would be at a distinct disadvantage. They would not have for instance the direct supply lines they now enjoy into Laos from bordering Communist China and North Viet Nam.
In this respect, as a potential international cockpit, New Guinea more closely resembles the Congo.
"Years of Conflict," a special Centennial television program produced by the KU radio and television center, will be telecast at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. It will appear on WIBW-TV, channel 13, from Topeka.
Students Produce Historical Show
The 30-minute program of history and folksongs centers around the troublesome years in early Kansas history. It features ballads by Charles Oldfather, professor of law: Jim McMullan, Long Beach, N. Y.; senior, and Ruth Jean Spangler, Hutchinson senior. Horton Kurtis, Independence junior, serves as the narrator.
The script for the show was written by Robert D. Brooks, Topeka, former graduate student, and the production was directed by J. William Walker, graduate student, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Student Finishes Work On Spanish Art Photos
A KU junior who has spent two years mounting and cataloging 8,000 Spanish art photographs will see her efforts put into use Thursday with the opening of the photographic library at the Museum of Art.
Nancy Marsh, Meuse, France, has been engaged in the project on a $300 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation and the Kansas Heart Association.
"THE PICTURES will be used as a library," Miss Marsh said. "They will be much more useful to students in art history classes than books."
She explained that art books are expensive to stock and can serve only a few students at a time, then added that "the pictures will offer study material never found reproduced in books."
The pictures of Spanish art, only part of a collection of 45,000 art photographs, will be filed like library books, with some of them on reserve for specific classes.
MISS MARSH WENT ON to say that the pictures may be used for personal research, for seminars or for class study. Eventually, she said, photographs will be taken of all the art slides shown in classes so that students can study the photos at their leisure.
"The photographs cover Spanish art from prehistoric times to the present and include the major arts such as architecture, sculpture, and painting, and the minor arts like metal work, textiles, and ivory carving," she said.
"The collection of photographs is outstanding and only four or five universities in the country have such a complete collection of Spanish art material," Miss Marsh commented.
MISS MARSH, who last year wrote an article on the use of photographs for study purposes in the Register, published by the KU Museum of Art, is majoring in English and art history.
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Rocket Expert Tells Red Missile Power
NEW YORK-(UPI)An American rocket expert said today Russia now has or soon will possess enough power to hurl a smashing nuclear-missile "Pearl Harbor" attack at the United States and its allies.
In a new book, "Soviet Space Technology," Alfred J. Zaehringer said such an attack probably would be a "time on target," operation, with launch times staggered so that all of its targets, no matter how far from Russia, would be blasted at virtually the same instant.
ZAEHRINGER EMPHASIZED that he has no information indicating that the Russians plan such an attack.
The author, who runs his own rocket firm (American Rocket Company) in Wyandotte, Mich., has been a close student of Russian rocketry since 1952. He said Russia's operational missiles are not greatly superior to similar U.S. weapons—but 10 to 20 times as many Soviet rockets are ready for action.
Zaehringer estimated that the Russian arsenal now includes:
—100 to 200 International Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) emplaced on Soviet bases and "mostly aimed at America." Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has said 250 of these weapons are being produced each year.
ABOUT 250 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), now largely menacing U.S. allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Zaehringer says, however, that "the existence of (such missiles) . . . in, say, Cuba would pose an extremely serious threat to the United States."
—An undetermined number of IRBMS and "cruise missiles" (pilotless planes) adapted for launching from submarines. Information on this type of weapon is very meager, but Zaehringer believes the program is well advanced.
The author believes Russia plans ultimately to have 500 IRBMS and ICBMS lined up, supported by a standing army of 175 divisions, a fleet of jet and turboprop transports and a "huge" navy with hundreds of submarines.
"The IMPLICATIONS of all this vast array of missile hardware would be most telling in anv World War III.." Zaehringer said.
"For an attack on the United States, the blow would be something like this. A fleet of 300-500 submarines (both conventional and nuclear) are spread out along our coast lines. They fire both cruise and ballistic weapons.
"Say from Cuba, 100 IRBMS are fired . . . from Siberia, a fusil-lade of some 500 ICBMS is already on the way. Shortly after a strike involving say 2,000 missiles of all kinds, a fleet of turboprop and turbojet transports airlifts some 5-10 mechanized divisions to the continental United States to set up communications and transport roadblocks.
"SIMULTANEOUSLY, missiles have landed on all U.S. . . . overseas fighter and bomber bases. In addition, Europe and Britain are subjected to a fusillade of say 500 IRBMS and immediately . . . a force of 100 fully-mechanized divisions begins the push to the English Channel."
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