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Soviets Spurn 3rd
U.S. Document on
Blockade of Cuba
MOSCOW .? — The Soviet F >r
•eig:. Ministry sent ba.-k to th«
U.S. Embassy today another offi
cial American document on tin
Cuban quarantine. It was the thirc
to be spurned.
The act of sending a note back
amounts to a rejection.
The note delivered to The For
eign Ministry today was in addi
tion to previous control orders
governing the blockade. It put
rocket fuel under the the official
U.S. ban.
Earlier, the Foreign Ministry
had returned the general procla
mation of the quarantine and a
note concerning governing orders
for submarines entering the block
ade zone.
Despite these cold moves by the
Foreign Ministry, relations between
U.S. officials and Soviet person
alities continued on an outwardly
friendly basis.
But U.S. Embassy sources re
ported the Soviet government ap
parently had imposed a ban on
travel outside Moscow by Western
diplomats.
Diplomats who were in the
cities of Tashkent, Leningrad, Kiev
and Tbilisi were ordered by the
Soviet Foreign Ministry to return
to Moscow, according to the re
ports. No explanation was given.
Hospital News
Admitted: Ceclia Aukon, Wm
Harris, Mrs. James Hemphill.
Discharged: Harry Tollefson
Frances Petravelli. Albert McIn
tyre, Mabel Seetok, Donna Mor
gan and infant.
Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill of Kot
zebue are the parents of a sor
born on Oct. 24.
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Copter Forced Down
SAIGON. South Viet Nam TP —
A U.S. Army troop-carrying heli
copter was forced down by Com
munist fire Thursday in Viet Cong
controlled territory.
An unconfirmed report said the
pilot was injured but official
sources said they had received no
report of any casualties.
The helicopter was repaired in
the .jungle and flown back to the
base.
Emergency Load . . .
NORFOLK, Va. eF — The truck
rushed up to dockside at Guantan- j
nmo. Cuba, where 1,700 military :
dependents were boarding a ship ;
for evacuation to the United States. ;
Capt. Knud Mortensen of Cliff
ton. N.J., civilian master of the
military sea transport Upshur, said
the truck brought the last load of
items loaded aboard before sailing
Monday.
It was a load of diapers.
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apparently had directed Soviet
ships carrying arms to turn back
from Cuba.
A White House authority em
phasized "then are still Soviet
ships headed toward Cuba, and
the only way this government can
get precise information on some of
these ships or the cargo they are
carrying is through the quaran
tine."
U.S. strategists believed the cli
max of the crisis was still to come
with tht issue up to the Kremlin
whether the solution would be
military or peaceful.
Demonstrations For and Against
As the peace efforts focused on
the United Nations, demonstra
tions for and against the U.S.
blockade continued around the
world.
Western Europe's newspapers
greeted with relief the willingness
•if the United States and the So
viet Union to talk. But many
feared the crisis may smoulder for
weeks.
Tnant had proposed a cooling
off period of two or three weeks
for negotiations during which the
United States would suspend its
blockade and the Soviet Union
would halt arms shipments to
Cuba.
Khrushchev accepted Thant’s ap
peal but his agreement to halt
arms shipments to Cuba was
conditional on U.S. suspension of
the blockade.
Suspend Debate
The Security Council agreed last
night to suspend debate indefi
nitely on the explosive issue pend
ing the talks. During a stormy
session. Stevenson and Soviet De
puty Foreign Minister Valerian
Zorin accused each other of lying
and trickery.
At one point, Stevenson chal
lenged Zorin to give an immedi
ate answer t :s why the Soviet Union
had put medium and intermediate
i range missiles in Cuba, When Zor
j in told him he would have to wail
until the proper time for his reply
Stevenson retorted:
"I am ready to wait until hell
freezes over.”
The exchange arose from Zorin’s
complaint that Kennedy did not
inform Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko in their talks in
Washington last week that the
United States had proof of offen
sive Soviet weapons in Cuba.
"I’ll tell you why your Foreign
Minister was not informed,” Ste
venson retorted, his voice shaking
with anger. "Because we were as
sembling the evidence. We wanted
to see how far a Soviet official
would go in perfidy.”
You can’t measure a soldier’s
patriotism by his pay. The Turkish
army is renowned for its high
morale in battle, yet a Turkish
private gets only about 32 cents
a month.
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DECEMBER
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
and 9th
i Stepovich Raps Egan
On CO Situation in State
ANCHORAGE i.T'—Mike Stepo
vieh challenged Gov. Win. Egan
today to tell the people of Alaska
"what, if anything. State Civil
Defense is prepared to do in the
event of an emergency?"
In a statement, Stepovich, Egan’s
Republican opponent in the Nov.
6 gubernatorial election, said:
"I'm not trying to alarm people.
I feel that Alaska is as safe as
as any region in the United States
since we have large units of our
armed forces stationed here, and
we are ringed by radar outposts.
"But, Gov. Egan has told us not
to worry, that Civil Defense is
ready to assist us in an emergency.
"This same Civil Defense or
ganization has been so horribly
disorganized for the past four years
it could not even produce an ac
curate inventory of the equipment
it possess.
"The State Civil Defense organ
ization has not given Alaskan even
a hazy idea what this organiza
tion is prepared to do for us in
the event of an emergency.
"Our Civil Defense, like all other
departments of our state govern
ment. has been plagued by dis
organization and a turnover of
personnel.
"I do not believe our State Civil
Defense setup is ready for any
thing. except possibly anotiiei
change in its director."
McNAMARA MAKES
PENTAGON HIS HOME
WASHINGTON itf — Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara has
made the Pentagon his home since
last Sunday when the Cuban
i crisis developed to fever pitch.
McNamara has slept near his
: office every night and rarely lias
I left the building in the past five
! days except to attend urgent White
| House meetings and other confer
ences on the arms blockade of
Cuba
j It was Robert Frost who ob
i served, "The world is full of will
ing people; some willing to work,
| the rest willing to let them.”
Merc Monkey Arrives
"Ecp, Kep,” were the first woni
' spoken by the Merc monkey or
i landing at Nome this morni>
\ after a hurry-up flight from So •
tie.
Tlie little monkey is a substitir
for the one which got away yest<«,-.
day at Fairbanks Intermit!
Airport during transfer from T
PAA to Wien plane. At last re
ports that monkey was hiding n.
j the rafters of the hangar,
i Manager Bob Smith said this
i little monkey, a capuchin, weighs
three-quarters of a pound, includ
ing his tail, and is on display at
the U. S. Merc as part of u
store's contribution to the young
sters’ Halloween celebration.
Victor Orville, credited with in
venting the crossword puzzle, d d
so to help pass the time while hr
was a penitentiary inmate Be
neath his name on his tombstone
the diagram of a crossword is
carved—to be filled out later
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