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U.S. Calls Off
Cuban Blockade
WASHINGTON dP* — President
Kennedy, saying there is reason for
gratitude in this Thanksgiving
week, has called off the US.
blockade of Cuba in return for
promised removal of Soviet bomb
ers from the island.
Serious problems remain, Ken
nedy emphasized Tuesday night at
his first news conference since the
C uban crisis spread jitters around
the world.
Until arrangements are made to
verify the withdrawal of Soviet
missiles and planes, preferably by
inspection on the spot, he said the
United States will do its own
checking on military activity in
Cuba.
He clearly meant that among
ot'-.er measures this country would
continue to send out reconnais
sance planes to guard against an
other buildup in Cuba, despite
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
threat to shoot them down.
Yet, with the manner of a man
reporting the worst is over, Ken
nedy said real progress has been
made — and a complete settle
ment could open the door to solu
tion of other East-West issues.
Philosophically, he added: “In
this week of Thanksgiving, there
is much for which we can be grate
ful as we look back to where we
stood only four weeks ago — the
unity of this hemisphere, the sup
port of our allies and the calm
determination of the American
people.”
ivunncay opened tne session with
the dramatic announcement that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev had i
just promised in a personal message
to pull out all IL-28 jet bombers
within 30 days.
Khrushchev reportedly had
placed 30-odd IL-28s in Cuba. He
also agreed to permit the planes
to be observed and counted as
they go.
“Inasmuch as this goes a long
way towards reducing the danger
which faced this hemisphere four
weeks ago,” Kennedy said, “I have
this afternoon instructed the Sec
retary of Defense to lift our naval
quarantine.”
Navy Patrol Planes Will
Check Ships Carrying
Bombers Out of Cuba
WASHINGTON — Navy
patrol planes received the assign
ment today of checking outward '
bound ships carrying Soviet bomb
ers out of Cuba.
And, with easing of the Cuban 1
crisis, tne United States began re- 1
turning some forces to normal
stations. i
The Air Force anounced that 1
all planes of the Air Defense ^
Command are returning to home :
stations from dispersal points 1
where they were deployed at the
outbreak of the crisis. This does *
not apply to planes at points in c
southeastern United States. <
The Navy said that the 63 ships £
of the blockade force should be r
back at home ports or other duty f
stations now and the end of this
week. r
The Navy also announced that c
the check on ships carrying the £
Soviet bombers from Cuba, as an- I
nounced by President Kennedy, v
would be made by patrol planes r
of the Anti-Submarine Warfare
Forces in the Atlantic. ii
The spokesman said the planes v
would photograph the ships. This e
checking, the spokesman said, will v
probably cover a period of about
30 days.
££ 3
Three Airlines Protest
' A s Fare Reduction Plan
| WASHINGTON UP — Three
competing airlines have filed com
plaints against a reduced fare be
tween Seattle and Anchorage and
, Fairbanks, which Alaska Airlines
plans to introduce Dec. 2.
Northwest, Pan American and !
Pacific Northern told the Civil
Aeronautics Board the fare is be- ;
low levels recommended bv the !
board and should either be re
jected outright or suspended and
investigated.
Alaska Airlines proposed a 25
■ per cent discount for groups of
passengers traveling at coach or j
tourist class fares.
Northwest and Pacific Northern
sn:d this would be a fare of $87 j
between Seattle and Anchorage, :
undercutting their current jet '
tourist fare of $104.
i Between Seattle and Fairbanks !
the iare would be S75 compared I
with Pan American's current jet :
tourist fare of $99.
Rusk Hints at Bi<*
Developments In
Diplomatic Areas
WASHINGTON UP — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk — not Presi
dent Kennedy or Premier Khrush
chev — has suddenly injected a
startling and mystifying note in
international relations.
" CU1UUUI ILtTU a
his news conference last night tha
Khrushchev had promised to re
move his jet bombers from Cuba
this was good news but it had
been expected for a couple of days.
It cleared the air a bit but not
completely.
Kennedy has wanted inspection
by the United Nations inside Cuba
to be sure all Russian offensive
weapons are removed. So far he
has not obtained agreement on this
from Fidel Castro.
But just a few hours before
Kennedy addressed the newsmen,
Rusk was talking to the Foreign
Policy Assn, in New York.
“I suspect that we are on the
front edge of significant and per
haps unpredictable events, a period
n which some of the customary
Datterns of thought will have to
3e reviewed and perhaps revised,
i process that will affect govern
nents in all parts of the world.”
He could hardly mean in this
statement what Kennedy was to
iisclose a few hours later —
Khrushchev’s promise to take his
combers home — since this had
3een expected and was just one
nore step in his Cuban backdown.
Kennedy didn’t mention at all
n his news conference this com
nent by Rusk who is not given
o make flamboyant or startling
tatements. On the contrary, Rusk
tlways operates quietly.
Rusk hinted in his New York
alk that developments in various
liplomatic areas were soon to be
xpected, saying: “Consultations
re in progress as we meet here
iow which may very much af
ect” Kennedy’s thinking.
But Kennedy was to say at his
ews conference that his letter ex
hange with Khrushchev and ne
otiations between Americans and
lussians at the United Nations 1
fere limited to Cuba and took in
0 other issues.
Rusk, whatever it was he had ;
1 mind, left it a mystery. In re- 1
iewing the Kennedy-Khrushchev
xchange on Cuba, he said hope i
’as expressed that “other agreed 1
teasures might follow to lessen 1
le tensions of the world.” i
Chinese Call For
(-lease Fire After
Spectacular Gains
NEW DELHI, India iTPt — Sweep
ing toward a cease-fire deadline
set by their own high command.
Red China’s troops scored spec
tacular gains today in twin drives
from the Himalayas toward the
flat, open country of north Assam.
The deadline was midnight
Peking time (11 a.m. ESTe
That was 10:30 p.m. by watches
of the Indians, whose leadership
viewed suspiciously and in effect
rejected Peking’s one-sided deci
sion to break off the shooting for
a general withdrawal.
There was no immediate word
as to whether Chinese guns were
truly silenced, or whether batter
ed Indian combat units accepted
the respite.
A Defense Ministry spokesman
told of sharp Indian reverses at
a news conference less than 12
hours before the deadline.
Chinese troops pouring across
the conquered Se Pass sector of
the Himalayans have broken
through Indian defenses south of
Bomdila and are plunging toward
the Assam plains, he said.
The peril to the Assam city of
Tezpur, a tea and rice center 60
air miles southeast of Bomdila,
forced its evacuation.
The Indian Army Corps head
quarters based in a hazardous spot
there, on the north bank of the
sacred Brahmaputra River, pulled
back to an undisclosed new site
, dna oou westerners — British and
I American men, women and chil
dren — joined thousands of In
dians in flight.
The Defense spokesman refused
to say what would be the Indian
army reaction to the Red Chinese
I declaration of a cease-fire.
! He left the impression at his
daily briefing that the Indians
would continue shooting at in
vaders.
MOSCOW (JP> — The Soviet
spaceship speeding toward Mars
will come close enough to take 1
pictures, radio them back to earth ;
and then continue its flight as an
artificial planet, Tass said today. :
It is now 4 million miles from
earth. ]
The spaceship, launched Nov. 1 1
on its seven-month journey, was t
reported traveling according to
schedule. The announcement did 1
not say how far it would miss 1
Mars. t
And Now ... A 1
Whale Safari to Alaska s
DALLAS. Tex. — The news- ;
paper ad offered a whale safari <
to Alaska for the man who wanted <
to “be the only Dallasite to have 1
a whale head mounted (length- ]
wise' in his den.”
It was a gag by David Wade, <
travel agency executive, but Wade 1
said today public reaction was I
serious. c
The tour was to be arranged by r
“enthusiastic academic Eskimos"
and the cost was to be $32 to l
Misery, Alaska, “location 40 de- <
grees below zero, Alaska."
Travel would be by air icicle, c
dog sled and heated canoes. 1
Wade recently advertised a ;
‘Cuban fortnight” trip featuring | c
a tour of missile bases. He says
ae got more than 200 inquiries. (
“What we’re really trying to do I
is to see just how many people s
read the newspapers and how s
:hey react, and we’re certainly
'inding out,*’ he said.
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Soviet Ship Shooed Oat
01 L.S. Territorial Waters
PROVINCETOWN, Me. ,F _
A Soviet seagoing tug discovered
yesterday within United State- tt r
litorial waters off Cape Cod was
advised by the Coast Guard it was
instde the three-mile limit and
departed.
Capt. Manuel Phillips reported
he passed within 50 feet of the
Soviet ship in his fishing craft,
the Silver Mink, in Cape Cod B tv,
near Provincetown.
He said the tug — the Slavnij,
an estimated 200 feet long and of
1.000 tons — had the hammer
and sickle Soviet emblem on its
stack.
He notified the Coast Guard,
which sent a boat to advise the
Slavnij it was within American
territorial waters.
The Coast Guard reported the
skipper apologized, but did not
explain what he was doing at the
scene, and then sailed away.
Americans W ill
Mark Thanksgiving
Around the World
By the Associated Press
It makes no difference where
Americans are — whether at home
in hospitals or stationed around
the world with the armed forces—
they’ll have a lot to be thankful
for Thursday.
Along with the feasting. Thanks
giving Day will be a day of prayer.
* xvuiucuu gavL' inis
Thanksgiving thought at his news
conference last night: “There is
much for which we can be grateful |
as we look back to where we stood I
only four weeks ago — the unity
}f this hemisphere, the support of j
)ur allies and the calm determina- J
ion of the American people.” j
There are other things the Pres- i
dent did not mention:
For one thing, the United States ;
till is a peace. Perhaps it has 1
een a bit shaky in the past several j
,’eeks, but at least there's no I r
nmediate danger of any Ameri- j i
an having to eat his turkey in ' I
bomb shelter. t
For another thing, the nation £
;ill is a land of plenty.
Americans can still pray in the S
digion of our choice — the idea ±
2hind the Pilgrims’ migration to c
iis country. f
In Plymouth, Mass., where the
ilgrims settled on Dec. 21, 1620, t
ie city will carry on its tradi- j t
onal observance of Thanksgiving j
-first celebrated bv the Pilgrims I
i 1621. | \
In another part of Massachu- ' i
?ttes, at Hyannis Port, President \
ad Mrs. Kennedy and their two c
aildren plan to spend the four
ay Thanksgiving weekend at the r
imily home with the rest of the j I
iennedv clan.
Away from home, American 11
'rvicemen will feast on 112,000 is
irkeys and all the trimmings 5
•om shrimn cocktail to after- I
inner mints, the Defense Depart- 1
icnt said.
1
OVIETS CALL OFF STATE
F COMBAT READINESS
MOSCOW UP — The Soviet gov
•nment canceled the state of com- i
>t readiness it proclaimed for its ! 1
med forces because of the Cuban j
isis. | r
Moscow radio said the Soviet j \
auncil of Ministers had ordered j z
efense Minister Rodion Malinov- s
:y to return his forces to normal s
atus because the United States t
id lifted its arms blockade of t
iba. ' a
i ho Killed W hen
ANCHORAGE .? _ Tv.-.-* men
’.'.ere killed and four others in
jured when a dena-nito-laden boat
engaged in seismie oil exploration
v oik Mew up la ’ night in Cook
Inlet.
Tne men missing and listed as
-’. .(I werf identified tentatively as
T’.ob and Allen Ifoehl. brothers
from Homer.
To v were crewmen on the 80
f'1 * (’! a t >bf r Ki-tovia, oni of three
! ' opreating 4M mil( ff Kal
bin Mend, about 100 r- !e south
" of n< re The boats were under
or to l : foe) Geophysical
C ( ■).. of Anchora
Ho pltalized here were A. C.
Ha-Oiiw .Jr., 41. and A T. Stans
:";rv- 47 Both of St■ irwbury's feet
wcr.- broken.
The skipper, James Jones, was
unhurt. The fourth survivor, Rudy
Wilson, suffered minor injuries.
The Air Force Rescue Coordi
nating Center, which flew Stans
bury and Hastings here, said the
Kctovia was dropping dynamite
charges about 8 p.m. when one
exploded prematurely. The boat
blew up and sank.
The two other boats engaged in
the seismic survey work continued
a search today for the missing
men.
Jones and the Ketovia figured
operating off Kodiak Island had
dragged and wrecked his crab pots,
U.S. Sends 12 Air Force
Transport Planes to India
WASHINGTON OP — The United
States is sending 12 big Air Force
:ransport planes, with American
-rews and maintenance men, to
ndia to help India move troops
md supplies in its fight against
led China.
The State Department an
munced this as President Ken
iedv sent a special mission to
Jew Delhi to survey India’ mili
ary needs and recommend a U.S.
ssistance program.
W. Averell Harriman, Asst,
ecretary of State for Far Eastern
difairs, who heads the mission,
onferred with Kennedy today be
ore his departure.
The Air Force planes are to
ake off from Europe for India
odav or Thursday.
State Department press officer
an coin White said he does not
■now whether the Americans fly
ng and maintaining the planes
rill wear uniforms or civilian
lothes.
oi. Kenneth Sawyer Will
lead Alaska District Engineers
WASHINGTON UP — The Army
Ingineers announced today the
ppointment of Col. Kenneth T.
lawyer as their Alaska District
Ineineer with headquarters in
tnchorage.
He will succeed Col. Christian
lanburger, assigned to Army
iviation. Sawyer has been Asst.
Alaska District Engineer since
uigust 1961.
VHAT WAS IT ? ? ?
An unidentified object which
nay have been a small vessel was
ilainly \'isible yesterday morning
nd early afternoon between the
here and Sledge Island and was
een by several people. By the
ime a plane was in that vicinity
le silvery object had vanished
ad no sign of it uns to be seen.