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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 21, 1964
Russians Say U.S. Sank Ships, Americans Report the Opposite
MOSCOW, —(UPI)— The official Soviet Tass News Agency said today it was reported that U.S. warships fired on five unidentified ships in last Friday's Gulf of Tonkin incident and "three of them were sunk."
Tass carried the report in a statement warning that American interference in Viet Nam "may lead to very dangerous consequences, the entire responsibility for which will rest with the United States."
The official Soviet agency did not give any source for its report.
U. S. authorities, in describing the incident, have never said any ships were hit or sunk in the incident off the Vietnamese coast Friday night.
"Another military incident took place in the Gulf of Tonkin on Sept. 18." Tass said. Two United States
destroyers, which were in international waters, opened fire on ships they had not identified.
"A statement issued by Defense Secretary (Robert J. McNamara on Sept. 19 admits that the unidentified ships had taken no hostile actions whatever and the United States destroyers opened fire only conjecturing that the above mentioned ships allegedly had hostile intentions
"The world public remembers only too well," Tass said, "that similar events in the Tonkin Gulf were used by the U.S. Armed Forces as a pretext for piratic actions against the shore facilities and inhabited localities (of South Viet Nam) in August this year.
Regents Survey—
"Therefore, the report about the incident in the Tonkin Gulf has
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In dozens of ways, the role of the University of Kansas in computer- age research is becoming increasingly important. New industrial and scientific research now can be done in Kansas that previously never would have been considered, said Professor Richard Hetherington, director of the KU Computation Center.
THE COMPUTER'S CAPACITY for intricate problem-solving is awesome. Its inner mechanics, however, are relatively simple in theory.
A computer isn't an electronic "brain," as many people term it, Dr. Hetherington said. A computer cannot think or reason the way a human does.
KU's new machine uses a simple binary counting system of ones and zeroes, as compared to a decimal system of numbers which uses zero to nine. A digit can be indicated by an on-off switch; on is a "one," and off is a "zero." The ones and zeroes are added or subtracted in a twinkling, over and over again, to arrive at an answer. Multiplication or division is done by repeated additions or subtractions.
The new computer will require just 16 millionths of a second to add any pair of ten-digit numbers. It will add 66,000 ten-digit numbers a second.
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corporation supplied at the equipment. Most of it is provided at 40 percent of the usual commercial rental rate.
This is the second time in two years the University has expanded its computer research services. The smaller 1620 computer now doing
physics research was originally installed in 1962 to replace a smaller machine in the Computation Center. It has been linked to the physics department's Van de Graaff accelerator for speedy analysis of nuclear research data and control of the project's progress.
The new machine is installed in its own suite of air-conditioned rooms on the first floor of Summerfield Hall, center of business and economics teaching at KU.
In addition to space for the computer and its auxiliary equipment, there are offices, classrooms, and a small library related to computer technology.
APPROXIMATELY 40 PERCENT of all KU computer projects are related to student research work, Dr. Hetherington said. There may be an expansion in courses taught in computer usage.
Experienced computer operators assist researchers in handling data processing at the Computation Center. In the first few months of its operation, the new computer will be operated on a double shift.
The smaller computer moved from the Computation Center had been working up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week. Allowing time for maintenance, that approached the maximum usage. The new computer is expected to be scheduled just as heavily within a few months.
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NEW YORK — (UPI) — Man O'Waa, one of horse racing's greatest champions, covered an average of 27 feet with each stride.
caused anxiety and apprehensions lest this is a pretext for new aggressive actions in that area."
U. S. Defense Secretary McNamara told a Washington news conference Saturday that two U.S. destroyers fired on four threatening but unidentified vessels Friday in the latest Tonkin Gulf incident.
McNamara said the night-time incident 32 miles off Communist North Viet Nam ended when the approaching vessels disappeared from the U.S. destroyers' radar screens. The marauders never got close enough to attack the American warships, the U.S. Defense secretary added.
The Pentagon has refused to speculate whether the vessels spotted by the radar as they were approaching the U.S. warships were Soviet-built North Vietnamese PT boats. These were the type of torpedo boats that attacked U.S. destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf on Aug. 2 and 4. The United States retaliated for the earlier attacks with air strikes at North Vietnamese coast bases.
In Washington, the Defense Department today said it had nothing to add to McNamara's statement of last Saturday.
The Tass report today said "The provocative actions of the American military in the Gulf of Tonkin are emphatically denounced in the authoritative circles of the Soviet Union."
Tass said it was reported from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese government "regards the new incident as an attempt to find an excuse for launching an aggression against the Democratic Republic of North Viet Nam."
The Soviet statement added:
"One thing is clear — whether or not the events at the shore of the Democratic Republic of North Viet Nam were premeditated provocation or were due to irresponsible actions of American militarists who consider themselves entitled to open fire when and where it pleases them — the government of the United States is fully responsible for the possible consequences of such incidents."
Tass reiterated a previous Soviet statement that patrolling of the gulf of Tonkin by U.S. warships is "totally unjustified and constitutes an open hostile act toward the states of that area." is demanded anew that such patrols be halted.
In a separate commentary Tass said U.S. intervention in South Viet Nam has "whipped up war hysteria . . . and appears to be wrecking the nerves of the American crews" of the 7th fleet.
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Level Picked Extension Manager
Dale A. Level is the new manager of the Kansas City Extension Center and also will hold appointment as associate professor of speech.
Harold E. Collins has joined the Center staff as extension representative, replacing Evan D. Vernon, who becomes manager of KU's Northwest Kansas Center at Colby.
Prof. Level succeeds N. Webster Rickhoff as manager of the center. The latter organized the Kansas City Extension Center in 1945 and managed it until his retirement last spring.
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