V 20 1963
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
United
States
Says
Cuba
To
Evacuate
Russia
Forces
McNamara Asks for Change
FREE TRADE GROUP:
Set 1966 as Year
To Abolish Tariffs
GENEVA (A)--Ministers of the seven-nation European Free Trade
Association yesterday set 1966 as the year in which they hope to.
abolish all tariffs on each other's goods.
The 1966 target date is intended to keep the organization in line
with tariff-cutting steps projected within the rival European Common
Market. Britain leads EFTA; France the Common Market. The EFTA
' ministers pledged support, in a
Kennedy Lands
Lib eral Leader
Of Venezuela
WASHINGTON OP) - President
John F. Kennedy hailed Venezue-
lan President Romulo Betancourt
yesterday as a "great enemy of
the Communists in this hemi-
sphere." 1
In a tribute to Betancourt, Ken-E
nedy referred to him as a symbol3
of liberal leadership for all the
Americas and said:
"You represent all that we ad-!
mire in a political leader."t
Pals
Betancourt, in turn, assured his
host that the peoples of Latin
America "will receive with a great
sense of friendship" whoeverl
speaks to them "in a spirit of
democracy and freedom," with an
understanding of the need for eco-1
nomic cooperation to better their
standards of living.]
The two presidents thus under-1
scored the two major topics they
wolud talk over in private today-
the problems created by Soviet in-
filtration in the Caribbean area
through Cuba and protection of
Venezuela's oil exports to the Unit-
ed States against import restric-
tions.
Kennedy indicated he would seek
Betancourt's advice on ways to
defend the hemisphere againstj
Communist-directed subversion.
Unaccidental
"it is no accident that you and
your country have been marked
number one in their efforts to
eliminate you and what You stand
for and the progress you repre-
sent," Kennedy said of the re-
peated Communist-led attacks in
Venezuela during Betancourt's
four years as president.
"If we can demonstrate in this
hemisphere that through demo-
cratic means, through progressive
means, we can solve the problems
of this hemisphere this battle will
be won.1
"We believe your counsel," he1
added.
"We value our association with
you in these critical days in the3
hemisphere."
Betancourt said he came with
his ministers of foreign relations;
finance and development to dis-
cuss, "as a friend and ally, the
problems that affect our two coun-
tries and the problems that affect
the economy of Venezuela."
communique issued after two days
of discussions, for "all practical
proposals designed to increase
world trade."
They placed their hope for the
removal of trade barriers in
Europe and elsewhere by coming
international tariff negotiations
strongly supported by President
John F. Kennedy's Administra-
ition.
Technical experts were charged
with preparing a program to stim-
ulate trade between EFTA mem-
bers. Their report will be consider-
ed by the next ministerial meet-
ing in Lisbon in May.
Sorry ...
The communique expressed re-
gret that Britain's application for
Common Market membership was
vetoed in Brussels last month by
France. The French action block-
ed, at least for the time being, any
linkup between EFTA and the
Common Market.
However, Austria's representa-
tives - Foreign Minister Bruno
Kriesky and Trade Minister Fritz
Bock-notified the others that
their country felt an urgent need
to forge an association with the
Common Market.
Special difficulties have arisen
for Austria, they said, as a result
of the restrictive farm policies of
the Common Market. Austria's
cattle and dairy industries par-
ticularly have felt the pinch.
EFTA is composed of Britain,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Aus-
tria, Switzerland and Portugal.
Finland has associate status.
Grouped in the Common Market
are France, West Germany, Italy,
Belgium, The Netherlands and
Luxembourg.
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BARRY GOLDWATER MIKE MANSFIELD
...nervous ...hopeful
PROTEST EXECUTIONS:
Soviets Rap Iraqi Revolution,
Ask Red Cross Intervention
MOSCOW (MP)-The Soviet bloc campaigned yesterday in an
effort to build up world opinion against the anti-Communist drive in
Iraq, which it calls bloody repression.
The killings and arrests of Iraqi Communists by the Iraqi revo-
Schedule
Removal
In March'
Large Garrison
To Stay on Island
WASHINGTON (')-The Soviet
Union has told President John F.
Kennedy it plans to pull several
thousand more Russian troops out
of Cuba by March 15, United
States sources said yesterday.
The renewed Soviet assurance
of military withdrawal from Cuba
reportedly arrived yesterday in a
diplomatic message handed to the
state department by the Soviet
embassy here.
Its general content was con-
firmed by Sen. John Stennis (D-
Miss) one of a group of con-
gressional leaders of both parties
who were summoned to a meeting
with the Presidenthat the White
House Monday night.
Concern
The continued presence in Cuba
of an estimated 17,000 Russian
troops and technicians has been
of major concern to the Kennedy
administration and a prime target
of Congressional and other critics
of Kennedy's foreign policy.
Main United States focus has
been on the approximately 5000
heavily armed, - mobile ground
combat troops the Soviets have
kept on the Caribbean island.
They are organized into four bat-
talions of about 1200 men each
and have been stationed at stra-
tegic points.
United States diplomats said the
Kremlin note did not specify exact-
ly how many Russians would be
withdrawn. United States guesses
on what "several thousand" meant
ranged all the way from 3000 to
8000.
No Number
Nervous
"I'm extremely apprehensive
about putting all our eggs in one
missile or nose cone basket," Gold-
water, a reserve Air Force major
general, said..
"We are in a very dangerous
position if we rely on some of the,
strategic plans that obviously have'
been drawn."
Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss), who
presided part of the time at the
hearing, told newsmen he is far
from convinced by McNamara but
he added "I'm still open to proof."
He said "I don't think we have
reached that stage yet" when all
dependence can safely be put on
missiles.
Not Much New
McNamara's statement on the
$55-billion defense program Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy submitted
to Congress last month contained
little that he hasn't said before.
But the censored version made
public contained a new plea for
unity among the NATO nations,
urged that America's European al-
Stolen Vessel
Sails for Port
BELEM (A-With Brazilian Ma-
rines reported aboard, the hi-
jacked Venezuelan freighter An-
zoategui headed last night for
the mouth of the Amazon and the
end of her drama on the high
seas.
She is due here tomorrow. A
Brazilian admiral said here nine
hijackers would be interned at the
navy base here but would be
treated as guests with the privi-
leges of political refugees until the
foreign ministry decides their
future.
ROBERT McNAMARA
... save billions
lies take over a greater burden of
their own defense and left the
door open for a separate Euro-
pean nuclear force.
The defense chief also caution-
ed that the recent missile and
bomber threat in Cuba "should
not now distract our attention
from the more fundamental and
far - reaching challenge which
WASHINGTON (A')p-Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara
got a cool reception yesterday
from some senators when he tried
to win congressional support for
plans to step up the shift from
planes to missiles.
He said billions of dollars would
be saved and the nation would be
provided more promising defensive
weapons than the scrapped Sky-
bolt airborne missile project and
the bottled-up RS-70 jet aircraft
production.
During a recess in McNamara's
lengthy presentation to the Sen-
ate Armed Services Committee,
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz)
emerged from the closed session
tdenounce the plan as "an invi-
tton to disaster."
Communism poses to the free
world." He listed the continuing
pressures against Berlin, the un-
declared war in South Viet Nam,
the Red Chinese attack on India
and Communist efforts in Africa.
McNamara said "the Commu-
nist threat in Europe is the largest
single threat we face in the world."
The peril is greatest there, he
said, "because Western Europe,
aside from the United States, rep-
resents the most important cen-
ter of free world power."
Unbalanced
"The loss of Western Europe to
the Soviet Union would drastically
alter the balance of power in the
world."
The main Red threat in Latin
America today "is that of Commu-
nist subversion and indirect at-
tack, and not overt military ag-
gression from outside the hem-
isphere.
"The real danger lies in the dis-
couragement, disillusionment and
despair of the people as a result
of the relatively slow rate of eco-
nomic and social progress," he
said.
McNamara added that the forc-
ed removal of Soviet nuclear mis-
siles from Cuba "no doubt upset
their agenda for Berlin."
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GOP Senators
Introduce .Bill
T"o Help Aged
WASHINGTON (A -Five Re-
publican Senators reintroduced
yesterday legislation, narrowly
beaten last year, to provide medi-
cal care for the aged mostly
through the Social Security sys-
tem-but to help also those not
in the system.
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-
NM), who sponsored the Admin-
istration bill last year, said he is
confident that "in its great prin-
ciples" the 1963 Administration
proposal will not differ impor-
tantly from the bill offered by the
GOP leaders.'
Russians recognized quickly after
Kassem 10 days ago, were widely
telegraphed the International Red
*Cross committee an appeal that
it "use its prestige and authority
to stop the blood bath."
A Geneva spokesman for the
all-Swisscommittee said, how-
ever, it was not clear what action
could be taken. The committee has
had no representative in Iraq since
the early days of Kassem's four
and one half year rule, which
ended in his death Feb. 9 at the
hands of his revolutionary captors.
The Soviet Peace Committee, in
a protest whose signers included
composer Dmitri Shostakovich and
writer Ilya Ehrenburg, demanded
an immediate end to the "bloody
terror" and release of the im-
prisoned Communists.
Students of the Patrice Lumum-
ba University, who are assembled
in Moscow from Asia, Africa and
Latin America, staged a protest
meeting in a hall strung with
banners whose messages included
"no to Fascism in Iraq."
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GENEVA-Negotiators for the
United States, Britain and the So-
viet Union failed yesterday to
break their deadlock over a nuclear
test ban.
* * *
GENEVA-More than 100 prom-
inent world scientists attending a
Geneva conference appealed to the
17-nation disarmament conference
Monday for rapid conclusion of
a test ban treaty and a general
disarmament pact.
* * *
VIENNA-Reliable sources said
yesterday Communist Bulgaria is
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trying to persuade African stu-
dents to stay and study despite last
week's racial incidents that pro-
voked some to leave. The sources
said the regime has told various
national groups among the Afri-
cans that all necessary steps will
be taken to protect them against
discrimination and to prevent re-
currence of the incidents.
* * *
WASHINGTON-Three real es-
tate spokesmen said yesterday that
President John F. Kennedy's tax
revision proposals would put a
cramp in the housing market, slow
construction, and harm the econ-
omy.
WASHINGTON-President John
F. Kennedy yesterday presented
the first National Medal of Sci-
ence to Theodore von Karman,
calling the 81-year-old scientist a
pioneer in developing "this new
and exciting world" of science.,
* * *
UNITED NATIONS-An 11-na-
tion committee to keep constant
watch on South Africa's race sep-
aration policies was named yes-
terday by Assembly President Mo-
hammed Zafrulla Khan of Paki-
stan under terms of a resolution
adopted by the Assembly in No-
vember.
* * *
MIAMI BEACH-Organized la-
bor's high command said yester-
day the prospect of mounting un-
employment requires sterner meas-
ures from President John F. Ken-
nedy's Administration to combat
it and alert the public to its dan-
gers.
* * *
POINT ARGUELLO-A mystery
satellite was launched by a solid-
fuel Blue Scout rocket yesterday.
The Air Force refused to give any
other details;
* * *
TORONTO - Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker said yesterday
it is increasingly apparent that
plans to arm Canadian Bomarc
anti-aircraft missiles with nuclear
warheads are "no longer effective."
* * *
LONDON-The British govern-
ment was pressed in Parliament
yesterday to accept Russian oil in
exchange for Soviet orders for
ships that could promote work in
British shipyards. "Who comes
first," demanded Laborite Frank
Allaun, "the unemployed or a
handful of American and British
oil magnates?"
WASHINGTON - The Senate
confirmed yesterday nominations
of Christian A. Herter as President
John F. Kennedy's special repre-
sentative for trade negotiations
and David E. Bell to head the
foreign aid program.
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ADEN-Abdul Rahman Bayda-
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month-old Republican regime, will
be tried for high treason and oth-
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authoritative sources reported yes-
terday.
* * *
TEL AVIV -- Demonstrations
flared in Israel yesterday for abo-
lition of military rule in Arab-
inhabited border areas.
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Stock Exchange declined yester-
day in moderate trading, with only
a few sharp gains in individual
stocks. Final Dow-Jones averages
showed 30 industrials off 2.13, 20
railroads off 0.74, 15 utilities off
0.83 and 65 stocks off 1.01.
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