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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. April 18. 1963
British 'Espionage May Reflect on US
MOSCOW —(UPI) The snow-bailing espionage case of a British businessman will bring new Soviet spy charges against Americans in Russia. Western observers predicted today.
Powers was convicted of espionage for flying his reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union May 1, 1950. He was given a 10-year sentence, but subsequently was exchanged in February, 1962, for Soviet spy Col. Rudolph Abel.
The Russians showed all signs of building the case into a show trial comparable to that of American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. No trial date was set.
Indictments announced last night said the two men are charged with being members of a Western spy ring that received Soviet scientific and military secrets. Both face possible death sentences if convicted.
THE ACCUSED BRITON is Greville Wynne, 42, a London businessman. Also involved in the case is a Russian official, Oleg V. Penkovsky.
There is no legal appeal of a death sentence in the Soviet Union, and the only chance for elemency is a request to the ruling presidium.
WESTERN OBSERVERS said preparations for the trial indicated there would be new charges and attacks against present and former U.S. Embassy personnel.
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev said in February that the Kremlin had "complete proof" against Wynne and that he worked in a "joint project started by the British, who then shared their knowledge with the Americans."
The Russian press has called Penkovsky a traitor and a "twist-mad Judas" who is fond of Western dancing.
THE SOVIETS LAST night linked Richard Carl Jacob, 26, a former U.S. Embassy staff worker, with Wynne and Penkovsky. They said Jacob, who was expelled from Russia last fall, had received official secrets from Penkovsky.
The Hungarian government disclosed that Wynne had been extradited to the Soviet Union because his alleged activities had been directed against the Russians.
The British foreign office has maintained that Wynne had no connection with British intelligence services.
The Soviets charged that Penkovsky sold secrets to the alleged Western spy ring and left them in a dead-letter box for pickup.
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI)— Members of an International Association of Machinists (IAM) local here returned to their jobs today after a one-day walkout against the Boeing Co., but officials called the return "temporary."
Boeing Machinists Await Contract Vote
However, the picket lines were pulled down by the local today while labor leaders awaited the results of a nationwide vote on the offer.
The issue remained in doubt today. The union local at Boeing's home plant in Seattle, Wash., yesterday accepted the contract by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
IAM Local 2001 yesterday had reelected Boeing's latest contract offer and had set up picket lines about one mile from the south gate of Cape Canaveral.
Still to be heard from was an IAM local at Wichita, which refused yesterday to vote on the hoeing offer. The Wichita local is now scheduled to take its vote Friday — and it appeared possible the results could tip the scales one way or the other.
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma said today that fighting has broken out in the strategic base of Phone Savan near the Plain of Jars and the situation is "grave."
Phone Savan is located between the Plain of Jars and Khang Khya, a town that was held by Gen. Kong Le, commander of the neutralist forces in the area. Presumably the fighting is between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists.
Earlier, the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces, already in virtual control of the key Plain of Jars, were reported spreading their operations in southern Laos.
Premier Reports New Laos Fighting
Informed sources said the pro-Communist capture of Ban Ban, third neutralist village to fall this week, made a shambles of the ceasefire and threatened to give the pro-Communists complete control of the Plain of Jars—a military complex that could control all of Laos.
Sources here said the Patnet Lao sized the three towns in the Plain of Jars in direct violation of a cease-fire agreement arranged only last Sunday by Souvanna.
WESTERN DIPLOMATS fear that the renewed fighting will lead to the collapse of the three-way coalition government of rightists, neutralists and pro-Communists. The government was set up last summer by the Geneva conference which guaranteed the tiny king-dom's independence and neutrality.
Pathet Lao control of Laos would open the way for Communist penetration of almost all Southeast Asia, notably Thailand and South Viet Nam.
Observers in the capital said it now is clear that the once three-sided coalition has been realigned into two rival groups—neutralist and rightist forces on one side and the Pathet Lao and dissident "neutralist" troops on the other.
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