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U.S. Has No Check On Russian Troops
WASHINGTON - (UPI) Next Friday, the Ides of March, and the day the Russians have promised to have "several thousand" troops out of Cuba, may well be a great international anticlimax.
High administration officials said today they do not expect to be able to make public on that day a "head-count" of the number of troops that have left the island.
UNLIKE LAST October and November, when Soviet officers rolled back the coverings of missiles aboard ships so U.S. planes could count them, there is no agreement with the Russians on counting departing troops.
The Soviets may try to claim some kind of "settlement" has occurred with the removal of a number of troops. But, as far as can be learned, they do not appear to be making it easy for the Kennedy administration to count the departing soldiers and justify the "settlement" to the American public.
U. S. aerial reconnaissance can count persons on the decks of ships, but must guess how many are below deck. Moscow radio this week protested what it called the "buzzing" of Soviet passenger ships on the Russia-Cuba run by the U.S. Air Force.
ANOTHER PROBLEM is whether Soviet ships arriving in Cuba are bringing replacements, and, if so, what the net outflow of personnel is.
U. S. officials say photo reconnaissance at sea alone will not produce the answer. It may take some time to come up with an estimate of troop withdrawals, based partly on observations of Soviet military camps and barracks in Cuba and on "indirect" intelligence.
The Kremlin, in a Feb. 18 note, promised to withdraw "several thousand" of its forces from Cuba. Although U.S. officials had given the impression the Russians fixed March 15 as the date, they now say the Soviet note referred only to "the middle of March."
ACCORDING TO U.S. officials, Russia recently had 17,000 military forces in Cuba, including 5,000 organized in combat units.
Unless the "several thousand" to be removed is much larger than expected, the Kennedy administration undoubtedly will be under strong domestic pressure to do something about the remainder.
The administration in recent weeks has kept quiet on the subject for fear that too much pressure might make the Russians balk and remove fewer troops than planned.
THE ADMINISTRATION has declared that a permanent Soviet military "presence" in Cuba could not be tolerated.
AWS SENATE CANDIDATES—Candidates for AWS Senate president are (left to right) Ann Leffler, Pittsburg junior, and Patricia Kendall, Holton junior. KU women will have an opportunity to vote for these and other candidates from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Polls will be in each individual living group.
Final Plans Made For AWS Meeting
Tuesday, March 12, 1963
Final arrangements are being made for the Associated Women Students Regulation Convention to be held Saturday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Delegates to the convention will be AWS House representatives and four additional women selected from each organized living group.
THE CONVENTION will be divided into two sessions: 9 a.m. through 12 p.m. and 1-4 p.m. Each session will be devoted to the various phases of regulations. The areas of discussion will be closing hours, late permission, signing in and out, visiting hours for men in women's living groups, and visiting hours for women in men's living groups.
Miss Jerilyn Williamson, Bastrop, La., graduate student and assistant resident director at Corbin Hall, will give an introductory address at 9 a.m. preparing the convention for its work. Miss Williamson is the region 3 co-ordinator in Intercollegiate AWS.
Susan Callender, Bonner Springs
senior and chairman of the convention steering committee, will preside. She will be assisted by Marilyn Mueller, Houston, Texas, senior and AWS president, and George Ann Porter, Kansas City senior and AWS vice-president.
CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS may be observed from the balcony and from the rear of the ballroom. Observers may send messages and suggestions to convention delegates via freshman women who will serve as pages.
Regulation proposals and suggestions were collected from the women's living groups last week and will be mimeographed by the AWS House of Representatives for distribution to the delegates.
The regulations adopted by the convention must be ratified by the AWS Senate and by Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, before becoming final.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The AWS Regulation convention meets every four years to consider rules and regulations governing women students.
Daily hansan
60th Year. No. 101
Republican Whip Questions McNamara's Military Policy
WASHINGTON - (UPI) House Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends today accused Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara of setting himself up "practically" as a single chief of staff for all the armed forces.
Arends accused McNamara of substituting "civilian judgment for military judgment in matters strictly military."
THE ILLINOIS Republican said that as a result, "our whole concept of a balanced and flexible military defense is endangered."
Arends voiced the charge as the House began debate on the largest military authorization bill in the nation's history—a $15.8 billion measure to provide new missiles, planes and warships.
Included in the bill was $363.7 million which the House Armed Services Committee added against McNamara's advice for further development of the controversial RS70 warplane.
French Fugitive Bargaining Over Asylum Conditions
STEINBACH Germany - (UPI)
STEINBACH, Germany — (UPI)
— Former French Premier Georges Bidault was reported "bargaining"
today for better terms of the Asylum West Germany has agreed to if Bidault will stop his attempts to overthrow French President Charles de Gaulle.
Heinrich Junker, Interior Minister of the state of Bavaria, said Bidault could have asylum if he makes a written request and pledges to foreign political activity. He said Bidault already had made an oral request for asylum.
But one of Bidault's hosts at a hilltop mansion where he is under guard, journalist Oscar Stammler, told newsmen Bidault was "bargaining" for better conditions.
Stammler said Bidault wants the right to write book and magazine and newspaper articles.
BY NOON TODAY. Bidault had made no new move to seek permanent asylum. He was taken from his guarded villa at this Alpine resort to Munich police headquarters for further questioning, presumably on his knowledge of anti-De Gaulle activity in Bavaria.
Bidault, 63, heads the National Resistance Council (CNR), an organization dedicated to overthrowing De Gaulle and seizing control of France. The CNR is linked to the Secret Army Organization (OAS) which has conducted terrorist activities against De Gaulle and his government.
Weather
Bidault's aides last night denied he had made an oral request for asylum after being discovered in this Alpine resort Sunday. There was speculation whether Bidault
The forecast for north-central and northeast Kansas is mostly cloudy through Wednesday. Light rain this afternoon is expected to change to snow tonight and to diminish Wednesday. The highs today will range from 45 to 55 with the low tonight in the 20's. The highs Wednesday will be 35 to 40.
would agree to Bavaria's conditions that he cease political activities.
In Paris, French officials said they interpreted reports that Bidault had asked for asylum as meaning he had abandoned his struggle against De Gaulle. They looked upon his possible stay in Bavaria as an adequate solution to the problem.
OFFICIALS IN PARIS believed acceptance of asylum by Bidault would get De Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer out of a tight spot. De Gaulle and Adenauer recently signed an historic friendship treaty, and Bidault's discovery in Bavaria created a sensitive situation.
Adenauer, apparently determined to preserve his new alliance with De Gaulle, yesterday sent back unopened Bidault's personal plea to an "old friend" for asylum. Adenauer and Bidault once worked together on building a European army.
McNamara Justifies TFX Contract Award
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara charged today that public confidence in top Pentagon officials had been "needlessly undermined" by a Senate subcommittee investigating the TFX fighter contract.
"We strongly believe, and are prepared to demonstrate, that the award of the TFX contract not only was proper but definitely serves the national interest," McNamara said.
THIS WAS AT the heart of the controversy. Arends said McNamara had overruled the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that development of the supersonic warplane be pressed at a substantially higher rate.
In a letter to Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark., chairman of the investigating subcommittee, McNamara asked to submit a full statement for the Defense Department. He wanted Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric to appear in his place with it, possibly later today or tomorrow.
McNamara said previous commitments prevented him from appearing before the committee immediately.
The subcommittee is investigating the award of a $6.5 billion contract for an all-purpose fighter plane to General Dynamics Corp., Fort Worth, Tex., and Grumman Aircraft, Bethpage, N.Y., over the Boeing Company of Seattle, Wash., the sole competitor.
"It is the decision of Secretary McNamara, not of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the production of bombers stop . . . and that we accordingly place all our defense eggs in the missile basket." Arends declared.
He said that "to do this robs our defense of its flexibility. We are denying ourselves an alternative. We are risking our all, so to speak, on the missile—an untried weapon."
The House was expected to pass the defense bill, however.
Military Pay Hike Tabled by House
WASHINGTON -(UPI) The House Armed Services Committee today put off a vote on the $1.5 billion Military Pay Bill.The lawmakers indicated they wanted to take another look at the increases it would provide.
The pay hike recommended by a subcommittee led by Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., would be $278.6 million more than the administration proposed.
CHAIRMAN CARL VINSON, D-,
Ga., said he, for one, wanted to reexamine increases suggested by the subcommittee in uniform allowances and retirement. Vinson said the proposal for a $53-a-month combat pay also should be given another look.
The committee's top Republican, Rep. Leslie C. Arends, Ill., said he also needed more time to study the measure.
The bill would increase the pay of the nation's 2.7 million servicemen, 900,000 reservists and 411,000 retired personnel.
THE RIVERS Subcommittee, in revealing its detailed recommendations today, said it rejected Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's proposal to do away with overseas and sea duty ranging from $8 to $22.50 a month. This action alone would add $127.6 million to the cost of the bill.
McNamara had wanted to substitute a "hardship" pay which would have reduced the number of servicemen receiving the extra money.
The subcommittee, however, agreed only to eliminate Hawaii from the list of overseas stations in determining eligibility for foreign duty pay. It rejected altogether the "hardship" pay concept.
THE GROUP ALSO reduced the proposed subsistence allowance increase for officers from $77 a month to $51. However, it approved a pay increase $30 a month higher than that recommended by the defense department for officers.
Greeks Outline Annual Week
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, a queen, and a tug-of-war are among the features of this year's Greek Week.
Chancellor Wescoe will speak at the Greek Week dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union March 21. Tickets will be $1.50 each.
THE DINNER IS the initial event of the annual Greek Week celebration by KU sororities and fraternities, which will start next week.
Banquet tickets are being sold through fraternity houses, said Ronald Daggett, Winfield junior and chairman of the Greek Week dance.
He said he expects a crowd of about 750 persons.
The Greek Week queen and two attendants will be crowned at the dinner. The queen will be chosen from 13 women representing the 13 sorority houses on campus.
**GREEK WEEK** festivities will include a tug-of-war across Potter Lake. A 100-yard rope will be used by 15 West Hills fraternity men in the contest with 15 east campus fraternity men.
Greek Week will also include more serious events.
Jim Johnston, Independence, Mo. junior and chairman of the tug-of-war, suggests each side pick heavy men, for strength will be the determining factor.
Sunday, March 24, sororities and fraternities will observe religious ceremonies.
A SCHOALSHIP TROPHY will be awarded to the sorority or fraternity with the highest over-all grade point average. Daggett said the scholarship trophy will be presented at the dinner.
A traveling trophy will be given to the sorority or fraternity showing the highest rise in its overall grade point average.
The main attraction during Greek Week will be Liberty recording star, Bobby Vee, who will perform at the dance March 23.
The dance will be open to the public. Tickets will go on sale March 20.