Tuesday, March 12, 1963 University Daily Kansan
This Week In Review
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NY News Strike Ends
The past week's news ranged from the meeting of Pope John XXIII and the son-in-law of Soviet Premier Khrushchev, to the announcement that the New York newspaper strike has been settled.
Alexei Adzhubei, the editor of Izvestia, left his private audience with the Pope stating that he was very impressed. He said he knew of no reason why Moscow and the Vatican could not establish diplomatic relations.
News-hungry New Yorkers received word that both sides in the newspaper dispute have agreed to terms of a two-year contract that will end the 91-day strike. Terms of the agreement, suggested by Mayor Robert Wagner, represent a drastic reduction from the demands made by the International Type-setter's Union when they walked out Dec. 8.
The ITU had demanded a $38.37 money package spread over two years but the union head, Bertram Powers, accepted a $12.27 package. This is $26 less than demanded, but does lower the work-week from 36$4 hours to 35. The union members must ratify the agreement, and all papers are expected to be on the street by Wednesday.
The ruckus over the U.S. posture towards Cuba continued. President Kennedy said that Russian troops are too slow in getting out of Cuba, but he turned thumbs down on a naval blockade of Cuban oil imports as a means of applying pressure. The President said the blockade was impractical because it would be an act of war.
On the question of Russian armaments in Cuba, Congressmen were told by military intelligence sources that caves on the island are being used for storage of goods and not missiles and nuclear armaments.
Rep. Mahon, D-Tex, agreed that there is an intelligence gap in U.S. security. But, unlike other critics, he felt that the gap was—to use his words—in the intelligence of those persons who are daily revealing the secrets of the U.S. intelligence operations.
Dollar signs were mixed with the political smoke rising from Washington. GOP leaders said that from 10 to 15 billion dollars could and should be cut from the President's proposed budget of nearly $108 billion. Democratic party leaders challenged the Republicans to make specific recommendations for their proposed savings, and Republicans said they would—in their own sweet time. The most likely target for the GOP knife is the $4.9 billion foreign aid request. One billion dollars were cut from last year's request, and Republicans have hinted that the cut may reach 1.5 billion this year.
In France, another president was having his troubles. Charles de Gaulle was pondering where he could find a prison large enough to jail the 200,000 miners who continued on strike despite a presidential order threatening fines and imprisonment. The striking miners demand more money for less work.
George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, announced "I told you so," when unemployment reached 9.6 per cent of the work force. In the face of this rising unemployment, auto producers reflected a "Wno me, worry?" attitude by stepping up production.
While De Gaulle was face-to-face with the inners, Britain speared the old warhorse in the hindquarters with a television broadcast that predicted his overthrow. The prediction was made by former French Premier Georges Bidault, who is
wanted in France for conspiring to assassinate De Gaulle.
The U.S. informed the U.N. that it is tired of carrying the financial burden created by other member non-payment of costs in the Middle East and the Congo. The U.S. presently is carrying 50 per cent of expense of U.N. Congo operations, and U.S. leaders threaten to cut back to its assessed 32 per cent unless the other nations carry their share.
Tired as the U.S. may be of footing the bill in the Congo, Congress showed no hesitancy to finance its Red-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee to the tune of a record $360,000. Cartoonist Herblock of the Washington Post says the committee needs it to fight Americans who are fed up with the committee's activities.
The increase for HUAC was offset by a 40 per cent reduction of money for the House Education and Labor Committee, headed by Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Powell has been under severe criticism by fellow Congressmen for alleged high-living while on European junkets.
The latest game of musical chairs in the Middle East took place in Syria to the tune of chattering machine guns when pro-Nasser forces grabbed power. This follows by two weeks the pro-Nasser take-over in Iraq, and added to U.S. alarm that Jordan and Saudi Arabia could be the next oil-rich countries to fall. However, the U.S is expected to recognize the pro-Nasser regime in Syria as it did in Iraq.
In the U.S., the old question of permitting civilian authority to hold sway over military opinion in defense matters was spotlighted again. This time it was in regard to the TFX supersonic bomber. Civilians in the Pentagon overruled the military and awarded the contract to General Dynamics Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas, despite a lower bid and apparently superior design submitted by Boeing. The contracts, which will extend through 1969, are expected to total $7 billion.
Letters
As a closing note, it is interesting that the bane of television producers-TV rating services—may get their come-uppance during a hearing of a House Commerce subcommittee. Rumor has it that, in a stroke of poetic justice, the rating services are over-rated.
New Tennis Courts
I noticed in Thursday's Kansas that two new tennis courts are soon to be constructed on campus. These all-weather courts will, I assume, allow a relatively few KU students to play tennis during wet weather when other types of courts would be muddy.
Editor:
Also during rainy weather, large numbers of KU students walk through the muddy paths leading to the Union and to the Zone X parking area from behind Bailey and Strong Halls. Other students trudge in the mud from Murphy Hall to Lewis, Templin, and Hashinger Halls. Yet we hear no news of plans to change these situations.
I seriously question the apparent assumption by someone in the administration that it is better to have clean shoes when playing tennis than when walking on campus.
Allan W. Wicker Independence senior
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