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Soviets Describe JFK's
Remarks as Realistic
MOSCOW A — T ■ S • iet i : •
approvi:, ...y described parts o:'
President Kennedy's remarks on
U.S. policy toward Cuba Saturday
as realistic.
But the Soviet Communist part;,
organ Pravda charged American
military and political circles with
continuing preparations for an
armed attack on Prime Minister
Fidel Castro's Communist regime.
Kennedy, commenting at a news 1
conference Thursday on a recent
Soviet statement of support for
Cuba, declared that a U.S. attack on
the Caribbean state would be
neither necessary or justified at
the moment.
Belgian Police Unearth
Plot to Overthrow
Government of France
BRUSSELS, Belgium i/t* — Docu
ments seized in Belgian police
raids on anti-De Gualle Secret
Army Organization hideouts in
Belgium disclosed a plot to as
sassinate French Premier Georges
Pompidou, the Brussels newspaper
Le Peiple said today.
The newspaper, which disclosed
Friday that Belgian police had
arrested members of the under
ground organization in a villa near
Spa, based its story on what it
called “undeniably authentic"
sources.
It said the documents also
showed long-range plans for a
revolution to depose President
Charles De Gualle and seize power
in France.
Never Took Medicine
MANZANARES, Spain OP — A
103-year-old woman who attributed
her long life to the fact she never
took medicine, died here Sunday.
She was Mrs. Braulia Pastor Mar
tinez, who did her own household
chores until a few days before her
death.
i ’.‘s e{' as Kj\ Worker
1 YRNKoROrGH. England u?’ —j
A niii'.'.). ;- of a Royal Air Force |
’ iTine detail said Friday he can't!
.a d scnarge because he’s class- j
ed as a key worker.
"I'm fed up with it," said Lead
ins Aircraftsman Tim Mahoney.
"How the Air Ministry can say
this is a key job beats me.
"I spend five days a week, from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., cleaning out
lavatories, cleaning windows and
polishing up the place.”
Mahoney’s enlistment has four
years more to run. His wife and
children live with him on the base,
and his wife doesn't like the
service either.
Mahoney said he had asked to
get out on compassionate grounds
"but all along the line they told
me I’m too valuable to be released.
For some reason they think I’m
a key man.”
An Air Ministry spokesman
j said he could not comment on the
j case.
| "Every consideration is given to
1 discharge applications,” he added,
| "but service requirements come
j first.”
Slayton Named Coordinator
Of Astronaut Activities
! HOUSTON l/P — The National
j Aeronautics and Space Adminis
: tration announced today that as
; tronaut Donald Slayton has been
named coordinator of astronaut
: activities.
Slayton was withdrawn July 11
I from the Project Mercury one-man
orbit program because of a minor
heart condition.
$7 Million Land Deal
CALI, Colombia (J’* — A $7 mil
lion land deal has been signed
opening the way for construction
of 2,000 middle class housing units
here. The project is one of the
fruits of the U.S. Alliance for Pro
gress housing guarantee program
in Colombia.
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Moscow Today Just About Owns
Tuba—Lock, Stock. Darrel and Heard
Editor’s Note: What is actually
i going on in Cuba'.’ Recent events
etch the pattern of Communist
control. .Just how far this has
gone is summed up in this article
bv a specialist in Communist
affairs who worked in Cuba
both before and after Castro
seized control. The analysis is
based on inside information from
; Cuba, a survey of Havana and
Moscow statements, and diplo
matic reports.
By William Ryan
! Associated Press Spenal Correspondent
Moscow today just about owns
I Cuba — lock, stock, barrel and
! beard.
Inexorably, Soviet Communism
is closing its steel grip. Challeng
ing the United States in the sensi
tive Caribbean and the Western
Hemisphere. Moscow has given the
world a lesson in imperialism.
When tlu Ru-. colonize, they
'Mm:' - good. Short of armed
inv;.: . n, toere set" s little hone
"f 1 ;' .o the Communhts out el
a 1: -se 90 mbes from U.S. shores.
T: < Sovh t fakcovt r will !v com- :
plot! vhen Prime linistei Fidel
Castro is shoved aside, along with ,
his h of July movement revolu
tionaries. This will be a slow and
. ui ore. t but si ef party
Co-, flirt are clear.
Daily. Ca-dro appears more and
more in the r< >le < •: a bumbling and
contuse-1 man, loudly demanding
everythin , his own way. but bow
ing to what he now calls the col
li -live leadership. He has lost much
popular support.
Havana reports suggest only 20
per cent of the people back him
now. This is much more than the
percentage backing the old guard
Communists, but they do not need
popular support. They have their
tight, disciplined, spy-ridclen organ- ,
ization — and they have Moscow
on their side
Communists are Patient
The Communists are patient. :
They can wait until popular disil
lusion and economic chaos make
Castro no longer important. They |
are letting him shoulder the blame i
for Cuba’s internal woes. They
are letting his entourage of new
Communists — men like Ernesto
Guevara, Fidel’s brother Raul Cas
tro and others of his Sierra Maestre
revolution following — hang them
selves with ropes fashioned of
their own confusion. The time will
come when Castro can safely be
removed.
A close examination of just how
tightly the Soviet Communist grip
has seized the Pearl of the Antilles
produces a sense of shock.
From documents and official re
gime statements, and from reports
of diplomatic travelers, this pic
ture emerges of a Cuba tightly
bound to Moscow as in Bulgaria.
The rag-tag 26th of July army
of bearded romantics who marched
into Havana Jan. 2, 1959, is no
more. In its place is a force of
about 300,000, made up of more
than 50,000 trained regulars and
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■ a heavily armed militia. The train
ing is by Communist blue officers.
The equipment is modern. The dis
cipline is strict and Soviet style.
Tiie facilities are installed and ex
panded by Russians and East Eu
ropeans.
Nail Down Parly Authority
Even now the army has political
commissars, carbon copies of the
‘■Politruk” officers of East bloc
armies, assigned to nail down
party authority. One group of 750
revolutionary instructors was grad
uated this month from a special
school and is being infused into
the army. Castro says their mis
sion is to teach the class struggle
character of the revolution to the
army.
Havana is ringed by military
hardware, manned by Russians and
Cubans. The Russians paid cash \
for former estates near Havana, .
and the belief is the areas will ! e
u e i for anti-aircraft batteries and
rocket-launching sites. Soviet radar,
Ru.-i-manned, checks all flights.
Dozens of Soviet ?Jig fighters I
have in en shipped in and the nutn
may reach 200, Cubans are i
ttouied to use them. A parachute I
corps will be sent to Russia to j
Complete training. And military j
■ iuipment pours in. along with
tttousands of technicians.
?d d iv, owns the economy. |
Fantastic numbers of trucks, jeeps ;
and other vehicles pour in from
the Red bloc, each batch making
Cuba more dependent upon Su
va * petroleum shipments.
Warren G. Harding was the only j
U.S. President whose father out- ! :
lived him. President Harding died j .
in 1923 at the age of 48, his father,
George T. Harding died in 1928 at i
the age of 84.
Senate Committees to
Draw Up Congressional
Declaration on Cuba
WASHINGTON — Secret a rv
of State Dean Husk sat (town today
with members of two key Senate
committees in an attempt to draw
up a congressional declaration on
the Soviet-supported military ex
pansion in Cuba.
“We had just a general discus
sion of the resolutions and the
problems," Rusk told reporters at
a luncheon break.
He met with the Foreign Rela
tions and Armed Services Commit
tees behind closed doors.
The committees are considering
a batch of resolutions sidetracked
to them last Thursday after first
being ottered as proposed amend
ments to a measure authorising
President Kennedy to call up
130,000 reservists, if need be, to
meet a crisis in Cuba or anyhwere
else.
The committees art? under or
ders to work out some sort of reso
lution and bring it back befon
the Sena to by next Thurso y.
Most of the resolutions • :r n
hie committee were originally of
fered by Republicans as rick o u
he reservists bill.
a a-narks Ciirl Dies from
Darns Suffered in Fire
SAN ANTONIO, Tt \ -- C .: -
bee Welch, 7, burned in a fire
it her home in Fairbanks. Ala ka.
I:ed Saturday at the surgical re
a arch unit at Brooke .Army IHedi
■al Center here.
Her mother, Mrs D. . Welch,
1', and sister, Kalina, !(). ah'
mimed in the fire, remained in
■'■ rious condition. They were flown
lore Sept. 7.
The three are civilians. An Alas
ka doctor appealed to one of the
date's senators to get them ad
nit-ted to the Army facility be
?ause no hospital on the West
f'oast is equipped to treat serious
jurn cases.
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