DECEMBER 7, 1961
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
DECEMBER 7,1961 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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By The Associated Press ince, declare
ELISABETHVILLE - Cannon- with the re
firing jets wiped out part of Ka pre-indepen
tanga's air force, the United Na-
tions command announced yester-
t day as both sides took to the air Cut off
in a second day of fighting in this ga's defecti
secessionist province, at a deficit
In fighting' inside this capital, Tshomb
the UN claimed to have seized an to arm 12,00
underpass controlling traffic to was stiffene
the suburbs. Katangan mortar fire fight for me
shook UN headquarters and there British, Bel
was fighting around a roadblock
leading from the city to the main
airport. At one
Denouncing United States aerial the number
operations in the war, President t u r
Moise Tshombe left Paris last volun~tarilya
night with the avowed aim of tak- insisting tha
ing over command of his army. bars of Elisa
French police announced he was They w
going home via Brazzaville, capi- army of 12,0
tal of the former French Congo. to the poin
Tshombe charged earlieri that safe in Kat
United States planes piloted by or loyalty t
Americans have carried out bomb- orlia loyat
ing raids in his secessionist Congo Belgian For
province, killing Negro women and Norbert Mu
children. mutinied in
Tshombe reported that the fight- Althoug
ing had become more general with oasis of cali
a UN attack on Manono, 275 miles not bear the
north of here. The fighting erupted
after Katanga denounced a new
UN resolution. MAN IN
Katangan Foreign Minister Eva-'
riste Kimba, ranking official in
Tshombe's absence, declared he
would never ask a cease-fire, and
asserted: ,"We shall follow a
scorched earth policy." WASHI
Thant said last week he was to orbit a m
preparing a comprehensive plan achieving th
for the Congo, but did not dis- The Na
close any details. He made the next orbit a
statement at a news conference ruling out a
prior to the outbreak of the shoot- stron
ing between UN and Katanga
forces. has been c
Opposes
UN
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Split
with
U.S.
on o: Test of Force
By LYNN HEINZERLING
Associated Press Correspondent
N-There seems little doubt the question of Katanga's
ll be settled by the current test of arms.
he beginning of its effort to end the Congo's chaos and to
d Belgian colony overcome its political immaturity, the
ons has been blocked by Katanga's attitude.
nt Moise Tshombe, dominant political leader in the prov-
ed its independence in July, 1960, and refused to go along
publican form of government he had helped fashion in
dence discussions at Brussels.
Operating At Deficit
from approximately half its normal revenues by Katan-
on, the Central Congolese government has been operating
almost from birth.
e, on his side, practically emptied the Katanga treasury
00 men. Whenever he weakened in his determination, he
d by white advisers and a group of white men willing to
oney, adventure or an ideal. They were mostly French,
gian, Rhodesian and South African.
900 Mercenaries
time there were 900 mercenaries in Katanga. A month ago
was estimated at 200. A good many were expelled or left
after September's fighting. But even while Tshombe was
at all mercenaries had left, they were in evidence in the
abethville, in Jadotville and Kolwezi.
ere the backbone of Katanga's armed forces. Tshombe's
00 is not an army in the accepted sense. It is undisciplined
t that not even whites who wish it success feel entirely,
anga. It appears to have little or no sense of patriotism
o Katanga or Tshombe. Made of the remnants of the old
ce Publique and commanded by Ja former sergeant, Gen.
ike, it is no more reliable than the ragtag army which
1960 throughout the Congo.
gh leaders in Elisabethville like to picture Katanga as an
m and order in the disorderly Congo republic, the facts do*
em out.
ORBIT:
lays Space Project
INGTON (P)--The United States dropped hurry-up plans
man around the earth this month and aimed yesterday at
his next giant step in space conquest early next month.
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration also said the
attempt in the Mercury Program will be made by a man--
ny more tests with animals.
aut John H. Glenn, Jr., Marine lieutenant colonel, already
hosen to take the ride, with Navy Lt. Cmdr. Scott Car-
penter as the backup or stand-
by pilot.
N DATI ON No firm December target date
had been announced for orbiting
ve rsa ry the first American. But United
States space officials for months
at 7:30 P.M. had been pushing to accomplish it
KA HN in this same year the Russians or-
bited their two space pioneers.
Detroit Word had been passed that the
attempt might be made as early
as Dec. 20.
D WORLD" NSA officials set no specific
January date, although there were
1429 Hill St. indications here it might be in the
first week of the new year. Unof-
ficial sources at the Cape Canav-
eral launching site reported a date
A" P /A w iof Jan. 16 had been picked.
Washington
Offers UN
New Planes
London Condemns
Forceful Activity
By The Associated Press
LONDON-The British govern-
ment declared yesterday United
Nations troops fighting in seces-
sionist Katanga province have no
"permit to try to impose a politi-
cal solution by force."
The British seemed to array
themselves opposite the United
States which last night approved
a comprehensive plan by acting
Secretary-General U Thant to
bring secessionist Katanga under
UN control.
The United States stepped up
support of UN operations in the
Congo with an offer of 21 more
huge transport planes.
Anrgy Debate
The British statement was made
by Deputy Foreign Minister Ed-
ward Heath in angry -debate in
the House of Commons.
Labor's foreign affairs expert,
Harold Wilson, immediately asked
Heath if he was aware the United
States government had publicly
stated its support for the UN
operation in Katanga.
Heath did not reply directly,
declaring Britain believes "the
United Nations should try contin-
ually to achieve conciliation be-
tween the two sides in the Congo."
He referred to Katanga and the
Central Congo government in
Leopoldville.
Opposes Action
Britain also opposed UN military
action against Katanga during
fighting there last September and
made strenuous efforts to get a
cease-fire.
The United States offer of 15
C125 Globemasters and six smaller
C130 Hercules are in addition to
six American C124's the UN is
already using in efforts to pacify
the Congo.
"The United States is very
pleased with the plan of the
Secretary-General to bring Ka-
tanga under control," Adlai Stev-
enson, United States Ambassador
to the UN, said after the con-
ference.
A Untied States spokesman said
the -plan included both the use
of force in the present Katanga
fighting, and a broad plan for
restoring peace in the Congo.
NEW HIGH:
USSR To Increase
Defense Spending
MOSCOW ()-The Soviet government yesterday unveiled a rec-
ord budget for 1962 calling for large increases in military spending.
It justified the hike in defense spending by asserting the West "is
openly threatening war.".
The over-all budget for 1962 totals 81.9 billion rubles ($90.9 bil-
lion), with 13.4 billion rubles ($14.8 billion) going for defense expendi-
tures. This is a hike of almost 50 per cent in military spending over
that originally planned for 1961. But the defense increase is not so
great considering that Premier Ni-
kita S. Khrushchevrdecreed theLeft Protests
emergency expenditure of an ex-Le t ro s s
tra $3,144,000,000 rubles ($3.4 bil-
lion) last July.
That was when he was trying to
scare the West out of Berlin. The SANTO DOMINGO ()-Broad
requested new increase indicated evidence of renewed activity by
the Russians expect the crisis to extreme leftwgers appeared yes-
continue. terday-the ninth day of a na-
Finance Minister Vassily Garbu- tionwide general strike against
zov droned out the figures to 1,- President Joaquin Balaguer's gov-
378 delegates at a joint session of reientJ
the Supreme Court or Parliament emnent.
the GprmndCoKrtonPalament This manifesto appeared as the
in the Grand Kremlin Palace main opposition party, The Na-
International SituationCi itn art rnd
"The Soviet government," he tional Civic Union, intervened to
said, "cannot disregard the real stop a sient march of protest
against President Balaguer.
international situation. The ag-
gressive NATO bloc is feverishly
building up its armed forces, im- -n
proving weapons and openly U v s
threatening war."
United States defense outlays
for the next fiscal year are ex-
pected to be from $50 billionto1
$51 billion compared to a cur-
rent $46.8 military expenditure.
There have been no firm estimates
yet of the overall United States
budget but it is expected to top
$90 billion.
Kennedy Asks
Trade Policy
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NEW YORK (M) - President
John F. Kennedy told a meeting
of businessmen yesterday that
trade barriers in all the industrial
nations of the free world "must
be brought down" to stimulate in-
ternational commerce.
He proposed the move to ease
tariffs be "led by the two great
common markets of the Atlantic,"
the United States and Europe.
A "new and bold" approach to
American trade policy, he said, "is
needed if our exports are to re-
tain and expand their position in
world markets."
Kennedy addressed a luncheon
meeting of the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers' Congress GI
of American Iudustry, a largely
conservative group, then flew to
Florida to addi'ess the AFL-CIO
there today.
The President coupled his trade Performance
proposals with a spirited denial
of what he called suggestions that
his administration is anti-busi-
ness.
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W~hite Reports
'No Changes'
In State Vote
The 1960 Michigan election
showed "no striking changes"~ in
the patterns of voting behavior
seen in recent Michigan elections,
Prof. John P. White of the poli-
tical science department has con-
cluded.
In the 1960 Supplement to
"Michigan Votes: Election Sta-
tistics 1828-1956," Prof. White
said that the Democrats "were
forced to make the long-awaited
change in top leadership, and had
to face a challenge from one of
the Republican's best vote-getters,
Paul Bagwell.
But the Democrats had the ad-
vantage of what turned out to be
a good Democratic year in elec-
tions across the country, he noted.
He also said that "the relative
stability of party strength in re-
cent Michigan elections indicates
that party competition, long ab-
sent from the politics of the state,
is very firmly established."
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The United.
States made a strong but unsuc-
cessful effort to block the recent
British sale of jet-powered air-
craft to Communist China, a gov-
ernment official testified yester-
day. Assistant Secretary of Com-
merce Jack N. Behrman told a
special House committee whichmis
investigating trade with the Com-
munist wvorld "we tried very hard"
to stop the deal.
* * *
LONDON-Britain plans to fire
is first space satellite around the
earth next spring aboard a Unit-
ed States Delta rocket, the House
of Lords was told last night. The
planned satellite launching is part
of a British-American research
project.
BELGRADE-Four submarines
were seen to enter the Albanian
port of Valona from the former
Soviet base on the island of Sas-
seno, foreign diplomatic sources
reported yesterday from Tirana.
As far asis known here, Albania
has no submarines of its own.
NEW YORK-The stock market
dipped irregularly yesterday, but
savings-and-loan stocks made a
smart recovery from recent de-
clines. The closing Dow Jones
average showed 65 stocks down
.51.
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