Tuesday, March 19, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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This Week in Review
Floods Hit Ohio Valley
The news this week is a mixture of the inconspicuously significant and the potentially momentous, with no single event coming sharply into focus as THE big news.
Much of the week was occupied with concern over the flooding in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, where in several lives were lost and millions of dollars worth of damages were sustained. More than 12,000 persons were made homeless for several days, and a vast clean-up effort has begun now that the flood waters have receded appreciably.
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AMONG THE potentially momentous developments are two relating to cancer research, both occurring in Africa: In Kampala, Uganda, a British surgeon published a pamphlet reporting that there is a strong relationship between the presence of the mosquito and the occurrence of lymphoma cancer. A group of American and Scottish scientists in the same region also are doing cancer research in relation to its occurrence in East Africa.
In Southern Rhodesia, a research expert has decided that the development of lung cancer is brought on by the same manner in which tobacco is processed rather than by the tobacco itself, thus giving aid and comfort to many nicotine incorrigibles who have decided to puff their way into whatever comes hereafter.
A new policy similar to the Monroe Doctrine was announced rather inconspicuously this week when Edward M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, appeared before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Martin said the United States is prepared to give military help to any freely elected Latin-American government which requests it as a result of being overthrown by Communist subversion and infiltration. The subcommittee recommended that the aid be available to any government in any country in danger of being overthrown.
THE BRITISH, as usual lately, had their financial troubles. Selling spurts slashed the value of the pound sterling below $2.80, and it took heavy buying by the state-run Bank of England to bolster confidence and re-establish the prior value of the pound. Common Market thoughts still plague British officialdom, for Prime Minister Macmillan is considering new steps in diplomacy to "maintain initiative in foreign affairs" and to prevent Premier Charles de Gaulle from becoming the initiator of international policies in western Europe.
But De Gaulle had worries of his own: The strike of coal miners, now more than two weeks old, bears no signs of being resolved, and sympathy strikes by other workers threaten to disrupt the economy of France.
Wrangling over the test ban at Geneva has produced nothing new, except U.S. senatorial demands for closer scrutiny of whatever agreements the United States negotiators offer. Some demand what amounts to a complete inspection or nothing, and others seem to want full inspection of Russia and a continuation of full-scale atomic weaponry development in the United States.
In Cuba there was evidence of Russian departure, but several thousand so-called "technicians" debarked from Cuba to their homeland within the past week. The removal of Russians, according to President Kennedy, however, is still too slow.
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Other areas of Latin America came into the news because of Russian activity. Brazil, which asked Uncle Sam last week for one and one-half billion dollars, was attacked by congressmen who contended Brazil is too nearly dominated by Red-sympathetic officials. They do not want Uncle Sam to give Brazil much money.
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THE COUNTRIES in the Alliance for Progress seem to be making an appreciable measure of progress, with the Reds abandoning their methods of moral suasion and adopting violence as a means of gaining their goals.
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Perhaps the biggest domestic news for many persons, however, was the voting of $15.8 billion for armament and the extension of the draft for another four years.
With Secretary McNamara embroiled in a war over whether he should be given a big contract for the TFX fighter to Boeing or to General Dynamics, efforts are being made by some Republicans to discredit the Secretary of Defense and thereby embarrass the Kennedy administration.
Perhaps Hope Cooke has found a solution to the pressing problems of the living in western civilization. The 22-year-old New York socialite has boarded a plane for Sikkim, an independent mountain kingdom in the remote Asian interior, where she will marry Prince Thorndup Nangyal in a four-hour ceremony March 20. Sikkim is bounded by India, Tibet, Bhantan and Nepal, and its capital is Gangtok. Miss Cooke, an Episcopalian, will marry the prince, a Buddhist, on a date assigned by court astrologers.
Miss Cooke is playing it safe, however. She is taking with her plenty of American clothing, furniture, jewelry and other personal and household belongings. And there is regular transportation FROM Sikkim as well as TO Sikkim.
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