Russians Demand Nossenko's Return
GENEVA — (UPI) The Soviet Union today demanded that the Swiss return defected Soviet security official, Yuri I. Nossenko, believed to have top-secret information on Soviet nuclear arms production.
Nossenko, security officer with the Soviet delegation to the 17-nation disarmament conference here, disappeared last Tuesday. The United States said he had detected and asked for political assylum.
SEMYON K. TSARAPKIN, head of the Soviet delegation, angrily charged at a news conference today that Switzerland permitted "foreign agents" to engineer Nossenko's disappearance.
He appeared to be implying the United States was behind the defection but he did not state it directly.
He said that "if it be true that Nosenko is really in the hands of the United States authorities," this shows laxness or worse on the part of the Swiss.
WESTERN OFFICIALS did not comment on Tsarapkin's charges. But earlier they had said Nossenko's information could be very valuable to the West in devising strategy for the talks.
Tsarapkin blamed Switzerland directly for the official's disappearance
Nossenko's information is believed to include whether the Kremlin really wants an agreement on general and complete disarmament.
"THE15 CAN ONLY mean that Swiss authorities not only do not provide delegates to international conferences with sufficient protection, security and guarantees, but also allow the provocative activity on their soil of foreign agents," he said.
Western officials said information possessed by Nossenko could be very valuable to the West in devising strategy for the disarmament conference. The 36-year-old deflector was an agent for the KGB, the all-purpose Russian intelligence and security agency.
NOSSENKO CAME to Geneva two days before the conference resumed on Jan. 21. He traveled from Moscow with Tsarapkin, head of the Soviet delegation. The Soviets discovered he was missing from his hotel on Feb. 4 and five days later asked Geneva police to search for him.
The State Department in Washington announced Monday night that Nossenko had asked for political asylum in the United States and that contact with him had been made before his disappearance Feb. 4. It did not disclose his whereabouts.
Tsarapkin, reading quietly but with apparent anger from a statement in Russian, charged Swiss authorities with showing "an extreme lack of desire" to help trace Nossenko.
THE SOVIET DELEGATION had been silent about the defection prior to this morning. Tsarapkin's reaction was forecast when he suddenly called an unusual news conference. There was no regular conference session today.
Tsarapkin made no open charge against U.S. officials in connection with Nossenko's disappearance, but he started his statement by noting the State Department's announcement that Nossenko had requested asylum.
He said Nossenko left for lunch Feb. 4 after the disarmment session "and disappeared." He said Swiss authorities in Geneva and Bern had been asked to do everything possible to find Nossenko.
Tsarapkin said the Swiss gave assurances "they allegedly had adopted" the necessary measures to find the Soviet expert.
"BUT UP TO NOW," Tsarapkin said, "the Swiss authorities have given no answer to the requests of the Soviet representatives. In this connection it is a matter of deep surprise that notwithstanding the seriousness of the situation, the Swiss authorities have manifested an extreme lack of desire to effectively assist the Soviet delegation in the search for Nossenko."
"It if be true that Nossenko is really in the hands of the United States authorities, this can only mean that Swiss authorities not only do not provide delegates to international conferences with sufficient protection, elementary security, and guarantees, but also allow the provocative activity on their soil of foreign intelligence agents," Tsarapkin added.
OBSERVERS SAID Tsarapkin's attack amounted to an implication that U.S. agents contacted Nossenko, arranged his disappearance, and got him out of Switzerland.
U. S. Officials refused all comment, and declined to speculate on whether the Soviet anger would hurt the work of the disarmament conference.
Cloudy skies with temperatures in the 40's are forecasted for tonight and tomorrow. Light rain or snow predicted for most of the state is expected to miss the Lawrence area.
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Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1964
61st Year, No. 81
Daily hansan
Lawrence. Kansas
Legislature Raises Tax On Cigarettes, Liquor
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Kansas legislators headed home today, happy in the knowledge that the only taxes they raised in the 1964 session were "sin taxes" and the only expenditures over the Governor's recommended budget were for education.
The only tax increases in this important election year session were
As smoke cleared from the 29-day session, budget experts estimated that the legislature had appropriated $423.1 million for fiscal 1965. It amounted to only $2.1 million over Gov. John Anderson's recommended $421 million budget.
AND THE legislators could claim that all of that $2.1 million excess—and then some—went to finance a $5 per pupil increase in emergency state aid to schools.
on cigarettes and liquor which are known in legislative circles as "sin taxes" that don't hurt anyone at the polls.
They raised the tax on cigarettes by two cents per package to produce an estimated $5.2 million in new revenue and hiked the liquor tax by 30 cents per gallon to produce $500,000.
TO FIND ANOTHER $6.5 million to help finance state operations the legislature called on another "painless" method—delaying distribution of sales tax residue to local units of government.
To further bolster themselves with the voters, legislators could correctly report that they rejected attempts to raise the state gasoline tax by 1.5 cents per gallon.
Opocensky Picketer To Speak in Forum
One of the four persons who picketed theologian Milan Opocensky Friday at the Kansas Union, will speak at a public forum, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Tom Moore, executive secretary of the KU-Y, made the announcement today.
Also appearing will be Robert I. Hatch, minister of the First Bible Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Mo. He will be accompanied by Marcus Brown, a Kansas City businessman, who will assist him in stating their views, Moore said. Brown was not present at Friday's picketing.
Moore said Hatch told him he hasn't had time to prepare a lot of documentation.
In a telephone conversation, Hatch told Moore that he is coming to speak on the basis that KU-Y representatives had invited him so that he and KU students could share views and become better acquainted.
"We see here the opportunity to engage in an exchange of views," Moore said. "My slight acquaintance with Mr. Hatch gives an indication that we can have a reasonable discussion."
In reference to Opocensky's KU-Y-sponsored appearance here last Friday, Moore said, "We felt that we were doing a good thing in bringing him here. He brought a point of view that is not easy to find on a university campus."
"We feel that Mr. Hatch can also make a contribution. We think it would be enlightening to have his point of view."
Moore, who will preside over Thursday's forum, will ask Hatch why he objected to Opocensky speaking before KU students.
Public discussion will be invited, Moore said, and the latter part of the meeting will be open to questions.
A bill adding six state lakes to the park and resources authority program was approved by the state Senate last night after being swatted back and forth in a conference committee.
The bill, which underwent a major overhaul in the unsympathetic bands of the House, was finally compromised and sent to the governor. The Senate approved the measure on a vote of 30-0. The House passed it 105-0.
INITIALLY, THE squabble started when seven Senators last week amended appropriations for their home district lakes totaling $280,000 to the major finance bill.
Among the additional lakes receiving appropriations were Webster Lake, Norton Lake, Wilson Lake, Lovewell state park, and Meade Lake.
General revenue for the parks project, as originally passed by the Senate, totaled about $1 million including the six new lakes. But a flurry of House economy amendments carved off about $300,000 from the Senate figure.
WHEN THE legislature finally quit last night, the expenditures for parks was $938,263—most of the projects which had been attacked as "pork barrel" legislation survived.
The final budget figure included an extra $18,938 to administer the increased program.
Even though the legislators headed for home with signs of relief, they were far from through with their 1964 chores.
NEXT MONDAY they return to go into special session to deal with reappointment of their own respective bodies, the House and Senate.
The legislature learned before adjournment last night that even though the cigarette tax and delay of distribution are painless to the citizenry they could be trouble to legislators.
Senators and Representatives deadlocked over both of the measures and it took five conference committees to iron out the cigarette bill and four committees to negotiate passage of the residue bill.
'Beatlemania' Invasion Brings Varied Reactions
Bv Susan Flood
The "Bird" winged out and the Beatles "wigged" into the United States.
"Beatlemania" hit this continent, transversing an ocean from a smoky Liverpool, England jazz cellar, to Carnegie Hall.
In crossing, the four-man Beatles, whose name comes from their persistent four-four beat, brought a new hair craze to an ever-hungering public.
Reaction, although varied, is definite.
"THEIR appeal is exciting in principle, but not in reality," said Delores Tutton, Wichita senior. "Their music is refreshingly wild, their hair-do nice, but not healthy."
"In collective behavior, the audience's reaction would be termed an emotional expression, the motivation of which may have been the music, the haircuts, or just the total appearance of the Beatles," a sociology major, Brown Lewis, Emporia junior, said.
Comment from the freshman residence halls seemed to indicate more revulsion for the audience's reaction to the Ed Sullivan Show than for the haircuts of the Beatles.
HOWEVER, most of the women students said they were not the screaming type themselves, nor had they been in their younger days when Elvis Presley was at the height of his popularity.
Perhaps the most obvious interest feature is the haircuts of the four.
A survey of local barbers indicated
numerous requests for imitation of the hair style.
"Some have to be refused because their hair is not long enough. We must be able to comb it forward, downward and backward from the crown," a local barber said.
"The bangs should be cut quite ragged in order to flop with a thrust of the head," he continued.
A MEMBER of a class analyzing the Beatles' appeal said, "An audiometer probably would have recorded the loudest screams when the Beatles, especially the drummer, flopped the hair out of their eyes."
However, Britain appears to be quite happy with her international claim, though some grumbling has been reported in Parliament over the extra pounds for Bobbie protection of the Beatles.
In the course, radio-television program building, it was suggested that one appeal is that the Beatles come from the generally staid, conservative British Isles.
They tried to stop this by retracting, and saying chocolate caramels were their favorites.
The Queen Mother recently showed great enthusiasm over their royal performance, and J. Paul Getty, considered one of the world's richest men, donned a Beatle wig at a party in his Scottish castle.
ALSO, SINCE the Beatles confided that "jelly babies" (jelly beans) were their favorite candy, they have had to continually dodge this British substitute for throwing pennies.
INSTANT BEATLES—"Hello, dear, how do you like my new hand-made Beatle wig?" Kerry A. Bolton, Lawrence junior, models a Beatle wig which has been the recent craze at parties.
This created a worse mess so the story goes.
Although none of the Beatles can read music two of them, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, write all the songs for the group, including the number one song in the United States, "I Wanta Hold Your Hand."
GEORGE HARRISON is the other vocalist and Ringo Starr is the drummer.
"They really got their big push when Ringo took over the drums," said a devoted British fan, Dr. John L. Barton of Leeds, Eng., who is presently on a medical fellowship at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
"They're a clean crew with an exceptionally fine beat," Dr. Barton said.
"I will admit the hair is a bit long at the moment, especially on the back of the neck.
"The British don't know what hit them, but it's great," the enthusiastic doctor said.
AT THE very least, the Beatles are fun to talk about, even here on the KU campus.
For instance, the highlight at a local party last week-end was the trying on of cut-down "Beatle" wigs.
"Say, I don't look too bad in this thing," commented Harley Catlin, Wichita junior.
"Forget it." retorted his date.
Forger it, recorded its bate.
But "Beatlemania" is here—at least until something else arrives to take its place.