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Soviets May Take Anti-Missile Lead
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Kennedy administration's disarmament chief has said Russia might take the lead in development of an anti-missile missile if it conducted another series of atmospheric atomic tests before the United States does.
William C. Foster, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, made the statement in a letter to the Washington Post.
"It HAS BECOME clear only in the last month," Foster said, "that the Soviets achieved some substantial gains in their test series of last summer and fall.
"One more such advantage — that is another long and investive series, after a period of no testing on either side during which they extrapolated the results of these tests and, on that basis, secretly prepared for new tests—might actually give them superiority in the anti-missile or other strategic areas which their military interests would find hard not to exploit," Foster said.
Russia has threatened to resume nuclear testing if the United States decides to test in the atmosphere in an attempt to offset gains the soviets made in their latest series of massive tests.
KENNEDY HAS SAID he will decide within a month whether the United States will resume testing in the atmosphere. He said the decision would be based on whether tests in the air were necessary to offset Russian gains.
Foster said Russia may be trying
Legislating Can Be Fun
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Legislature usually puts on a stern, judicial look when it is in session—but not always.
The last session produced an above-average quota of hi-jinks, as evidenced by the number of barrels of apples purchased by miscreants.
A TRADITION in the House has been to fine minor violators a barrel of apples—which costs $27.50.
Among those who contributed to keeping the doctor away from the House were U.S. Sen. Frank Carlson, who made the mistake of sitting in a member's chair during a business session; four bachelor legislators; a proud grandfather; and a forgetful husband.
Reps. Bill Fribley, Ross Doven, John Golden and Miss Beatrice Jacquart had to cough up the apples when they couldn't explain why they were not married.
REP, TONY SCHARTZ of Great Bend fired himself a barrel of apples when he had ten grandchildren present in the balcony one day.
Rep. Tom Van Cleave of Kansas City had to dig down for the apples when he failed to introduce his wife who was sitting in the gallery.
IN THE UPPER CHAMBER where the august senators seldom participate in such pranks, one August W. Lauterbach brought the House down with a resolution.
When Sen. Lauterbach lost a fight against spending $100,000 for the proposed Prairie National Park he introduced a bill to construct a dam in his home county—which does not have a single running stream.
"in honor of my long years of service, I proposed that we call this Lake Lauterbach," the senator said.
BACK CAME A RETORT from Sen. Joe McDowell, D-D Kansas City. "I move that we amend that to call it the 'Dam Lauterbach.'"
When voting time came Sen. Lauterbach was the loudest one in the voice vote against the measure. Gov. John Anderson even got into
Asked by newsmen what he thought of a senator's plan to hike school aid by $10 per pupil, Gov. Anderson said, "sure, I talked to him, but wasn't he just kidding?"
No one knows what he can do till he tries-"Publius Syrus
to maneuver the United States into another period of no testing either under an informal agreement or a treaty lacking adequate safeguards against test preparations.
Then, he said, Russia could secretly prepare a new test series. The United States and Britian, he said, would find it hard to conduct such preparations in secret.
Russia, he said, could then seize an excuse—perhaps a French test in the Sahara—to claim the informal moratorium void, and could suddenly resume new tests, seizing the advantage.
THIS, FOSTER SAID, was the reason Kennedy stressed at his news conference Wednesday that a test ban agreement must contain safeguards against secret preparations. Foster said the object of the President's statement was to forestall a Soviet attempt to make propaganda by offering an agreement without safeguards, knowing that it would be rejected.
LONDON (UPI) — Six ban-the-bomb campaigners went on trial in the Old Bailey Court today on military "secrets" charges growing out of a mass demonstration at a U.S. Air Force base in England last December.
Six Demonstrators Go on Trial Today
One of the defendants, Michael Randle, 27, cut short his honeymoon to appear. He was married last Friday to a girl he met at the antinuclear demonstration.
All six defendants were members of the "Committee of 100," the antinuclear civil disobedience group headed by philosopher Lord (Bertrand) Russell.
All six pleaded innocent to charges of conspiring to break the official secrets act. The charge stemmed from the Committee's call for demonstrators to storm the U.S. Air Base at Wethersfield, locate an alleged atomic stockpile and stop traffic on the base's airstrip.
The demonstration fizzled when U.S. and British airmen and British police combined to stop the demonstrators from entering the base. Instead, the demonstrators spent the day on a sit-down protest outside the base.
Rough Seas Still a Problem In Glenn Orbit Attempt
CAPE CANVERAL — (UPI) Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., and his 93-foot space machine were all set today for his scheduled orbital flight around the world Wednesday but weathermen were worried about rough seas in the Atlantic recovery areas.
As the countdown for America's first attempt to put a man in orbit reached "minus 48 hours," forecasters at Miami reported "a couple of areas" in the Atlantic "that are very questionable."
The weather prospect for the Cape "looks pretty good," the Miami Weather Bureau said. But however good the weather might be at the launch site, Glenn could be kept grounded if seas were too rough for safe landing in the Atlantic recovery areas.
"THE CAPE LOOKS pretty good right now, but the Mid-Atlantic is the problem," the Miami bureau said. "There are a couple of areas that are very questionable. Yesterday it was very rough but has subsided some.
"But even in the East Atlantic
where there are no storms there are some rough seas. A high pressure area north of the Azores is causing rough seas to the south.
"The outlook for the Cape is good, but the big concern is the West Atlantic."
If the seas subside and the weather is good, and Glenn and his spacecraft and rocket remain in top shape, the astronaut will leap into orbit some time between 6:30 and 11:30 a.m. Lawrence time Wednesday.
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