University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 14, 1963
Geneva Talks Hit One-Year Mark
GENEVA —(UPI)— The 17-nation disarmament conference today marked its first anniversary still locked in a nuclear stalement and under a Soviet warning that the talks may drone on for another decade.
The Russian warning yesterday deepened the gloom around the conference hall where the eight neutral delegations scheduled another meeting to work on their projected compromise proposal. No formal conference session was scheduled today.
CHANCES FOR A nuclear test ban treaty were as difficult to determine as they were on March
N.Y. Strike May End Soon
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Publishers of eight closed-down newspapers reached agreement today with a striking union and made a "final and last offer" to the New York Newspaper Guild.
The developments lifted hopes that the papers might be at newsstands again by early next week. But there was no immediate indication of whether guildsmen would accept the management offer.
THE GUILD, which is being asked to extend a two-year contract signed on Oct. 31 for five extra months, was offered a $4.13 per man per week increase for the five months. Guild executive committee members scheduled a meeting for tomorrow to discuss the offer.
Earlier today, Mayor Robert F. Wagner announced that the striking stereotypers and publishers had reached an agreement. This pact gave the union a precedent-setting fourth paid week of vacation after the first year of service.
THE COMMON contract expiration date was an issue for which the printers had bitterly fought. Bertram Powers, president of Printers' Local 6, said there could be no ratification until the Guild had accepted the common expiration date.
14, 1962, when the conference opened under the auspices of the United Nations. The Russians and the West still differ firmly on the key question of inspections to police a test ban.
Over the past 12 months, with intermittent recesses, exchanges between the eastern delegations and the Russians and their satellites have followed the cold pattern. Since the conference resumed Feb. 12 after a holiday recess, the test ban talks have degenerated into a sterile volley of time-worn arguments.
THE NUCLEAR subcommittee of the United States, Britain and Russia has not even met because of the dispute over inspections, but the Kremlin will permit no more than three on Soviet territory.
Hoping to find a happy medium, the Neutrals have been working for more than a week on a compromise. But they are sharply divided on how best to bridge the gap, and the result likely will be a weak proposal. Presentation of the compromise is not expected before next week.
The West and the Russians blame each other for stalling the conference. The West wants to get into technical discussions without waiting for a decision on the number of inspections needed, but the Russians insist on determining the number before starting the talks.
YESTERDAY Soviet Negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin, who was present at the first session a year ago, warned that American tactics could spin out the sessions for another decade.
"The United States has forced us to talk about technical matters for four years," he said. "What is the result? Zero. If we go along the same road we may discuss them for another 10 years."
TSARAPKIN rejected an American offer to let the Russians keep disarmament inspectors away from new Soviet defense establishments. The offer was made by U.S. Ambassador Charles C. Stelle in urging the Russians to get down to the how's and wherefore's of on-site inspections.
Step May Help Solve Sino-Soviet Quarrel
MOSCOW — (UPI) The Soviet Union and Red China, the two giants of the Communist world, appear to be on the verge of a big step toward patching up their quarrel, Western observers here said today.
Both countries published and broadcast an exchange of letters in which Mao Tze-Tung, leader of the Chinese communist party and ruler of the vast Chinese mainland, invited Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to pay a visit aimed at settling their differences.
While there was no indication that Khrushchev would accept the invitation, Western observers said the fact the letters were published here indicated the Kremlin at least has a visit under serious consideration.
The basic difference between the communist leaders is that the Chinese oppose Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy which says Communism will triumph over Capitalism through economic means rather than military. The Chinese do not exclude nuclear war as a means of spreading communism.
The Russians have cut off much of its economic assistance to Peking and have withdrawn thousands of technicians and teachers from China. The dispute has grown in intensity over the past year and reached a climax recently with China's long, published defense of its position and challenge to Moscow to debate the quarrel in the open.
The Chinese letter suggested that Khrushchev stop in Peking while on a trip to Cambodia—a trip that had not been announced publicly before. If Khrushchev would prefer not to visit Peking, the Chinese said, the
The letters, which were released by the official Tass news agency last night and published by all Soviet newspapers today, were the biggest move taken so far by Moscow and Peking to heal the rift that has led to vitriolic charges of "treason" and "cowardice."
Russians can send a delegation headed by "another responsible comrade," or "we can send a delegation to Moscow."
Whether the invitation would open the way of an actual reconciliation was far from clear. The Chinese made it plain they wanted any discussions held on their "hard" terms. Until now, the Kremlin has rejected these terms.
The Soviet letter has said the Russians, contrary to Peking's charges, were following the guidelines laid down in the 1957 and 1960 Moscow Communist summit documents. It admitted that differences among Communist countries could emerge, but they should not cause "a sharp conflict" if there is no artificial exagoration of the differing views.
The Chinese letter containing Mao's invitation was dated March 9 and was in reply to a Soviet letter of Feb. 21.
But despite Mao's tough-line approach, diplomats here felt the Chinese leader has offered a face-saving formula to both sides.
The Chinese originally proposed an international Communist conference, but the Kremlin countered last month with a proposal for bilateral talks "at any level" to first smooth the way. Both Peking and Moscow agreed in the letter exchange that bilateral talks should precede a summit conference.
Carlyle Smith, professor of design, will give the third in a series of six lectures sponsored by the Newman Club, Sunday.
3rd Newman Lecture To Be Given Sundav
He will speak on "The Responsibility of the Public to the Artist" at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The lecture series consists of talks by faculty members on problems of public interest.
Cuban Protestants Attacked by Fidel
MIAMI —(UPI) Premier Fidel Castro charged today that some protestant religious groups in Cuba "are used as agents" for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and State Department.
He said "conflicts" between his revolution and the Roman Catholic Church have virtually disappeared. He hit out anew at protestant groups, naming the Evangelists of Gideon, The Pentecostal Church, and Jehovah's Witnesses, which he accused of having national and class interests and of being "directed directly from the United States, because they are not directed from Rome."
Castro said counter-revolutionary talk in the Roman Catholic Church "is seldom heard," although such cases were frequent in the first period of his regime.
He also attacked criminal elements and decreed death for burglar, false policemen, and thieves who use children in their work.
Castro said he is going to recruit troops and skilled factory workmen to man the "most modern weapons" which he said Cuba now has.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The State Department says Russia's charge that U.S. Navy ships fired on a Russian trawler was "without foundation."
U.S. Denies Firing Charge
No "surface vessel" was within 12 miles of a U.S. destroyer engaged in gunnery practice as the Russians said, and a State Department spokesman added that the ship was firing ammunition with only a seven-mile maximum range.
Spokesman Lincoln White said investigation of the alleged incident 70 miles east of Norfolk on March 8 when the Russians said two missile cruisers and a destroyer fired dummy rounds at the Soviet fishing boat revealed:
The site of the alleged incident is located within "an established and recognized U.S. Navy operations area," and on the day in question, "U.S. naval vessels, none of which were cruisers, were in the area."
"Six U.S. Navy destroyers fired gunnery exercises in this area on March 8.
"The ship nearest the location of the alleged incident fired an anti-aircraft practice at a towed sleeve target. At the time of the firing this ship was 10 miles from the position which the Soviet Union reports was the location of the incident."
White said a formal reply was being dispatched to Russia by diplomatic channels.
Grines: Warning Shots Banned
HOUSTON — (UPI) — The first police manual issued by the Houston police department tells officers they can't accept rewards, cannot lie or gripe, must keep their shoes shined and must not fire warning shots at suspects.
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