GOVERNMENT &' WORLD NEWS
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k spkesnan said specifically that fi—
-ghter.-.planes will, net-’be used regularly to,;,
escort ,the larger .and acre, vulnerable, air-..',
.craft normally used on- reconnaissance unis—
sions • .. .. . . .. .
”We are not escorting.-patrcL planes, we
are not escorting commercial airplays., and
we are not escorting surface ships in an.'
of the free air and sea spaces of the
world,” he said* .. • • - v .;J.
”The attack was an act, of,lawless band
itry analogous to any other act of crirnin-,
ality—an isolated case asof now—ahd will,
be treated as such*”
The spokesman , said that;.Commanders in
^ the field may provide escorts under cer
W tain circumstances but that no general or
ders have been.issued from Washington-,-..
A defense department official said that
an erroneous impr.ssion had been created,
when Vice ADM. Wallace Boakly, Deputy chf*
of Naval operations, testified-at a secret
session of.the .house Defense appropriations...
;subcommittee last week.-p p. g .%•' j
The official said that- Beakly had.been
• informed at the time .he- testified that a
.. Marine Commander intended to send- fighter
escorts with a patrol flight the same day*
The official said, however, that .actually
„ the flight was made without escort. •
Jtep. Daniel J. Flood .(D-Pa) said he got
the some impression from Beakley that- the
Navy had been sending jet fighter .escorts
; on some reconnaissance flights ”off and on
ior some tune."
• Flood said the ;Navy statement that fi
ghters are not escorting patrol-.planes .was
contrary to what Beakley told the commit-:
too. J K.
"Either that Admiral misinformed us .or
he doesn’t bow what he’s talking about,-”
Flood told reporters., . VA a-a.
He added that he was not blaming--.Beak
ley, who is merely the Navy’s "fall- guy*,” ,.
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- :• : ..THOMAS, ?S * GATES JR
GATES AWARDED D. P.S.A .
■ .WASHINGTON (NAVNEWS) Former sec-., of the
.Navy Thomas S. Gates, Jr«, was presented
-the Distinguished Public -Service Award
last week.by Sec. of. the Navy William 3*
. Franke in ceremonies at the Marine Bar
.racks .here.-- ,
. i.-..The .award was.presented to Mr. Gates,
newly appointed Deputy Defense Secretary
in honor for his service to the Navy
during the last six years.
Mr .- Gates served -a-s Under Secretary and
-as Secretary, of the Navy from October
-1953 to June 1959.-_
' NEW PEACE PACT
OFFER.ED TO SOVIETS
.GENEVA^-Tho West.- offered Russia, a nevf
: take-it-or-leave-it Berlin peace package
• last, .week and the. United States told the
-Soviets to accept.it or break up the fo
reign ministers; conference in total fai
lure'.
Secretary of State Christian A.Herter
■ and the'other western ministers drew up
-the new manifesto after Soviet 'foreign
.minister Andrei Gomyko refused to with—
. -draw. -his. Berlin ultimatum during a . tense
private meeting with Herter at the Amer
. ican villa. - . .