Monday, May 13, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Soviets Reject Ban; US Charges Follow
GENEVA — (UPI) — The United States today charged the Soviet Union with preparing "to further disrupt" disarmament negotiations by canceling its acceptance of inspections to police a nuclear test ban.
U. S. Ambassador Charles C. Stelle compared current Soviet maneuvers at the 17-nation disarmament conference with their November, 1961, rejection of an East-West undertaking to accept international on-site inspection.
"Unfortunately," Stelle said, "the Soviet Union appears to be laying the ground for another grand retreat from the principle of on-site inspection . . . To retreat now would further disrupt our efforts to reach agreement and cast a grave reflection on the seriousness of the Soviet Union towards our efforts to reach agreement."
HE SAID the West could not believe the present "transparent Soviet ultimatum" on inspection could remain a block to agreement "indefinitely."
The British foreign office in London reported that Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had sent his answer to the joint appeal from President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to help speed an earlier nuclear test ban. Details of the reply were not immediately released.
However, Moscow radio indicated today that the Russians may carry out a new series of tests in view of the scheduled U.S. nuclear tests in
Nevada.
Stelle, British disarmament chief Joseph Godber and Soviet negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin were the only speakers at the 60-minute 131st plenary session of the conference—the shortest full-scale working meeting delegates could remember.
GODBER LAUNCHED the session by urging Tsarapkin to drop "absurd attacks" on the Western position and "propagating the dangerous idea" that the disarmament negotiations were a waste of time.
"There is one country here which refuses to negotiate, which refuses to disclose information (on on-site inspection) it claims it has, which refuses in meetings of scientists here and which refuses to ban tests on the three environments on which we are agreed," he said, directly facing the Soviet negotiator.
Stelle said Soviet acceptance of inspection last winter "brought agreement nearer" but asked if Moscow intends finally to adhere to this position.
"THE FIRST DOUBTS over their intentions arose when the Soviets refused to spell out under what conditions they would accept the (three) inspections they offered," he said.
Steele told Tsarakin to "use some of the time he thinks is being wasted" in the conference to clarify large portions of the Soviet position where are "shrouded in mystery."
The weakest part of the Soviet position is Moscow's "failure to put forward concrete proposals," he said.
Kansas Killers Denied Hearing By Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Supreme Court today denied a hearing to James Douglas Latham and George Ronald York, sentenced to die by hanging in Kansas for the 1961 murder of Otto Zeigler, 63, a railroad roadmaster.
The brief order leaves Kansas free to carry out the execution.
The state supreme court affirmed the convictions Nov. 3
THE MEN CLAIMED they were denied a fair trial because of the use of what they termed illegal confessions. They told the high court a lawyer was not appointed to help them until 40 days after their arrest.
The body of Zeigler, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad, was found June 9, 1961, close to the company's tracks near Wallace with three bullet holes in the head.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White stayed the execution last Jan. 25 to give the pair a chance to appeal.
York, 19, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Latham, 20, of Mauriceville, Tex. broke out of an Army stockade at Ft. Hood, Tex., and embarked on a killing spree that stretched from Florida to Colorado.
But the cockiness that marked their court appearances apparently has vanished behind the walls of the Kansas State Prison at Lansing where they occupy two cells on death row.
WITHIN DAYS of the scheduled double hanging the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stepped in and provided counsel at the request of Texas Sen. Ralph Yarborough, to whom Latham's family had appealed.
York and Latham came close to the Kansas gallows Jan. 31 when their state-appointed attorneys quit the case after having taken appeals to the highest court in the state.
THEY ADMITTED slayings in Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, and Colorado before they were captured at a roadblock near Toolele, Utah, in June, 1961.
A 12-man jury at Russell convicted the two army deserters of first degree murder and assessed the death penalty in November, 1961.
When they were apprehended, the two told officers they killed because the victims would be "better off than in this world." They maintained at the time that they wanted to die together.
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