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Humphrey Expects Kennedy To Explain Cuban Stand
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A Senate leader said today he expected President Kennedy to spell out the U.S. campaign against Castro Cuba at the Central American Presidents' meeting in Costa Rica next month.
Senate Democratic leader Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., asserted that he looked for the President "to document fully our anti-Communist, anti-Castro effort at the Costa Rica meeting.
- Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., backed up a report by GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, Ill., that four American civilian pilots were killed in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Mansfield said the Americans, who were not identified, flew as volunteer substitutes for exhausted Cuban pilots.
"I THINK HE WILL give any clarification that is needed." Humphrey said in an interview.
Humphrey's remarks came after these other developments on Cuba:
Kennedy will confer at San Jose, March 18-20, with the presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama.
Czech Ambassador Milovan Ruzek delivered to the State Department a note from Cuba denying that Cuban MIGs attacked an American shrimp boat last week. The
note, in reply to a U.S. protest, countercharged that the United States had attacked Cuban fishing vessels.
Tuesday. Feb. 26, 1963
State Department spokesman Lincoln White said the Cuban note was "obviously not responsive to our note and seeks to further cloud the issue by gratuitously making self-serving allegations of a propaganda nature." But he said the incident was closed except for Kennedy's orders for U.S. forces to take action against future attacks.
island. The congressman declined to be identified.
- A congressman who visited the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, over the weekend said intelligence experts were convinced that Cuban pilots have replaced many of the Russians flying MIGs over the
The Kennedy documentation at San Jose apparently will be designed to bolster anti-Communist efforts by Latin leaders as well as to answer increasing GOP criticism of the handling of the Cuban problem.
REPUBLICANS continued to fire up the Cuban debate in Congress with Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., warning that efforts to silence administration critics were against the national interest.
At the same time, Dirksen said that in the interests of "historical accuracy" he was preparing to issue a report next week on the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion.
Removal of Russian Troops In Cuba Remains Uncertain
MOSCOW — (UPI) — A meeting between U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko failed to shed any light today on Russia's plans for its troops in Cuba.
Kohler and Gromyko conferred for an hour yesterday, but neither commented publicly on the substance of the talks.
KU Children's Theatre Draws Large Audience
Some of the most enthusiastic supporters of live theater in Kansas are under 12 years of age.
The large audiences attending the KU children's theater productions—as many as 1300 at each performance—are indications that children aged 8-12 enjoy the action of live drama.
Audiences in the KU area are increased each year. In 1960-61 the average attendance at each performance, including out of town shows, was 1150 and last year it grew to 1300. Children's theater director Jed Davis is anxious to see if the reception for the latest production of "Mr. Popper's Penguins." March 1-2, will be even greater.
The KU children's theater group performs two plays each year. The play is usually performed in Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita, as well as in Lawrence.
The largest theater in which the KU group plays is Kansas City Music Hall which seats more than 2500 persons. The group has drawn several full houses at performances there. Other theaters have capacities of 900-1500.
Though the Kohler-Gromyko meeting stirred a flurry of speculation that some development was imminent, informed sources said the Soviet commitment to remove the troops remained vague.
"Mr. Popper's Penguins" will play at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturday in University Theater. The play will be taken to Kansas City Music Hall for performances March 7-9, and to Wichita East High School March 20, 22 and 23.
Western diplomats said it was virtually certain that Kohler told Gromyko of the U.S. government's concern over the Russian troops' prolonged stay in Cuba, just 30 miles off the Florida coast. The issue has caused widespread controversy in the United States.
It was Kohler's first formal business contact with high Soviet officials since he returned from recent consultations with President Kennedy in Washington.
The Russians have informed Kennedy, in a note still unpublished, that plans are being made to remove "several thousand" Soviet troops from Premier Fidel Castro's island by the middle of March.
There are an estimated 17,000 Russian troops and technicians in Cuba, about 6,000 of them in combat units.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A bill before the Kansas House of Representatives today would reduce the minimum age for smoking from 21 to 18 years.
Bill Would Make Smoking Legal at 18
The minimum age for drinking beer in Kansas is 18, but it is a misdemeanor for a person under 21 to possess, buy or smoke tobacco in any form.
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The All Student Council will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
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Bomber Policy Change Seen
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The Administration was under bombardment today by congressional forces who believe a "dangerous" shift is being made in defense strategy.
This is a shift which foretells the end of piloted nuclear bombers in the nation's strategic retaliatory forces and complete reliance an ballistic missiles.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D-Ga., of the House Armed Services Committee, opened the heaviest bombardment of the current congressional session yesterday in a statement urging expansion of the hotly controversial RS70 warplane program
Vinson's committee voted, 31-5, to authorize $363 million more than President Kennedy wants for the plane in the new budget.
Vinson said he wanted no cutback on missiles, "but the committee sees a growing tendency on the part of the Department of Defense to place more and more emphasis on missiles and less on manned systems. "This is a dangerous course and one which the committee intends to do everything in its power to stop," Vinson said.
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc Namara shows no symptoms of wavering, and a head-on collision may be coming.
McNamara contends that bombers are not being foresaken. He points out that the B52 force of 630 planes is being retained through 1968, some of the planes longer, "although most of the aiming points in the Soviet target system can be best attacked by missiles.
Japanese Photos Displayed in Union
The exhibit is composed of 34 photographs of the Japanese Katsura Villa Garden. The Katsura Villa is an Imperial garden, located near Kyota, the ancient capital of Japan.
The "Gardens of Japan" photo exhibit will be on display in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union until Friday.
The photographs, taken by John Zemanek, were obtained through the Japan Society of New York.
Common Market Rejects Treaty With Africans
The failure was a foregone conclusion in Paris from the moment the Dutch and Italian governments said they were not in a position to sign the convention because of impending elections.
PARIS - (UPI) - Gaullist French officialdom today accepted philosophically the refusal of the Common Market Minister's Council to sign a treaty associating 18 African states with the Common Market.
THE GOVERNMENT-RUN French radio and the pro-government press have been saying for days that this was largely a pretext. They said the real motive of France's balky partners was to express their anger over the French veto of Britain's Common Market entry.
Last Free Drops Saturday
The fact that West Germany, Holland and Italy refrained from sending their foreign ministers to the important meeting in Brussels was sufficient to signal the failure ahead of time.
Informed sources said Belgian foreign minister Paul-Henri Spaak and Executive Commission President Walter Hallstein warned in the closed council meeting that failure to ratify the association treaty would be "a grave political error."
Both the Italian and Dutch delegations, however, accepted the convention texts which were initialed by the governments last December. This means that once the new Italian and Dutch governments are formed, ratification should be a formality.
IT WAS EXPECTED that the executive commission would work out a system whereby member governments could advance sufficient funds to keep social and economic projects in the 18 African countries going pending ratification.
Saturday is the last day students will be allowed to drop courses without penalty. Anyone who drops a course after that date will receive on his transcript either a "W," representing a passing withdrawal, or an "F," representing a failing withdrawal.