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NOT A CHINAMAN’S CHANCE
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Speculation Rises That Khrushchev
Is Under Great Pressure In Kremlin
ay j. ivi. noDens
Associated Press News Analyst
What’s going on in the Kremlin
has now become more important
to the world than what’s going on
in Cuba or anywhere else.
There has been some specula
tion that Khrushchev got himself
out on the last twig of a very
long limb because of pressure from
more militant segments of the So
viet official family and of the in
ternational Communists, such as
the Chinese.
This impression has perhaps
been created by the extent of his
wiggling to get off the limb, re
presenting a rapid five-day re
treat from one position after an
other.
There have been some guesses
that Khrushchev was pushed into
those Cuban missile bases by his
military advisers, and that he had
to marshal all his power for a re
turn to co-existence.
No Westerner professes to know
for sure.
Not Prepared
However, since the Soviet Union
r
point 10 me wnoie uung as a po
obviously was not prepared to
risk the ultimate in military re
sults, the evidence still seems to
laical action, and Khrushchev still
is the Soviet political prophet.
It seems very likely that he acted
against rather than with the bet
ter judgment of the pragmatic
military. It is hardly believeable
that a sane military man would
have endorsed such a risk — taking
for anything except political pur
poses in which a line of retreat was
kept fully open. The retreat oc
curred quickly when it became
certain that the Kremlin political
mind had underestimated the po
litical mind and military deter
mination of the United States.
How much depends upon wheth
er Khrushchev made the original
gambit strictly as a probing action
and in an effort to inject a new
factor into negotiations with the
United States, and whether he
withdrew only under both Ameri
can and Kremlin pressures.
Self-Created Quarrel . . •
Khrushchev has backed and
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Sen. Bartlett “Very Concerned”
About Northwestern Alaska Defense
“After my stay in Northwestern
Alaska I am more than ever con
cerned about the state of our de
fenses,” said U.S. Sen. Bob Bart
lett as he left Nome today.
As a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, Bart
lett expressed an intention to press
vigorously for a buildup in the
defense establishment here. “In my
judgment,” he said, "the crisis
calls for an immediate buildup
thoughout the state. Wo have too
little now. One does not have
to be a military expert to reach
that conclusion.”
“We Alaskans, who have con
cerned ourselves with this urgent
problem, fail to understand the j
Pentagons reasoning or lack of it— j
which has permitted the military j
situation here to deteriorate. We
know that political considerations
are not involved. We know this
policy was indicated by the Ei
filled so often at times of crisis,
particularly during tire last four j
years in the self-created quarrel ,
over Berlin, that Washington now j
figures things could be a lot worse
in international affairs with some- ;
one else at the helm in Russia. i
Do you suppose that very thing j
might be an important factor in
the minds of other members of the '
Communist regime? It certainly
seems to be a factor in Moscow
Peiping relations.
Khrushchev is in trouble on in
ternal as well as external fronts.
He has permitted the raising of
questions about Soviet dogma,
economic practice and social con
ditions within Russia and the rest
of the Communist sphere which
| hard - nosed Communists w ould
j never permit to be publicly raised.
He is trying to pose as a peace
maker because he withdrew from
| a war crisis which he created him
j self. His associates know better
j than anyone else not be taken in
j by that.
Khrushchev, therefore, is as
I suredly under great pressure to re
j establish himself at home and
throughout the Communist sphere
as an expander of the revolution.
The world has a very great stake
| in the methods he may choose.
If—---- ' " - ' —
i senhower administration and con
i tinue by the present one. We sus
i pect that one highly placed mili
1 tary officer in Washington, con
vinced that Alaska is no longer of
strategic significance, has imposed
his will upon subordinate officers
and other officials who wanted to
buildup, not tear down, the Alas
ka military establishment. In mili
tary circles it is on open secret
that Lt. Gen. Frank Armstrong
was virtually booted out of the
Air Force for continuing to insist
that missiles be installed here, and
other protective measures be
taken.”
Bartlett declared that only a
handful of men guard the entire
Bering Sea Coast and said this
fact is as well known to the Rus
sians as it is to us.
The Alaska Senator flew to Gam
bell this morning with Congress
man and Mrs. Rivers, Sen. Pete 1
Walsh, Willie Foster and M. J. !
Mike Walsh.
“It was a beautiful day,” said i
Bartlett, “and the eastern frontier
of the Soviet Union was in clear
view. From what we learned, the
Russians would have considerable
less difficulty in taking St. Law
rence Island than we would the''
Siberian Coast. It is understood!
to be well fortified.”
Bartlett said he believes it is j
imperative for the defense of the j
nation as well as Alaska that
muscle be put into the Alaska
military now and kept at strength
as long as necessary in light of
, world conditions.
“Particularly now' afer having
been in Northwestern Alaska," he
I said. “I am all the more con
vinced that our government has
an obligation to furnish protection
to our citizens here w'hich now it
is not providing.”
Moose Season Opens Tomorrow
John Burns of the Fish and
Game Dept, stated today that the
second part the of moose season
starts tomorrow and will continue
until the end of the month.
Any licenser! hunter is entitled
to one bull moose if he didn’t get
one during the first part of the
season.
7-Floor Addition
To Make Westward
Hotel Top o’World
ANCHORAGE WP> — Seven addi
tional floors of rooms, with a Top
of the World cocktail lounge on
top, will be added to the Anchor
age Westward Hotel next year at
the cost of $2.5 million.
Construction will start next
March with completion in April,
1964.
The addition will make the hotel
larger than any in Seattle except
one. It will have 450 rooms. The
hotel will be 14 stories high when
the addition is completed.
The Top of the World cocktail
lounge will feature picture win
dows ceiling to floor on three sides
for views of Mt. Kinley, all the
mountain ranges and Cook Inlet.
The lounge will seat 140 persons
and is expected to be a tourist at
traction during the long summer
evenings and a vantage point to
view the Northern Lights in win
ter.
Seven additional suites will be
included in the new section, with
two of them super deluxe with
special picture windows facing
north, cast and west below the
Top of the World.
The addition will add 118 rooms
to the hotel, giving it a total of
450. Two more high speed eleva
tors will be provided for the move
ment of giiests.
With the new investment, the
hotel will represent a $5 million
investment which has been made
in the last three years.
Decision to proceed with the
new construction was made at a
semi-annual meeting of the di
rectors in Seattle.
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VOTE FOR
TED STEVENS
FOR U.S. SENAT03
When Stevens' opponent was running for the U.S. Senate four
years ago, he promised in the Nome Nugget on Nov. 24, 1958:
1. A ROAD PROGRAM connecting all cities and towns in Alaska.
RESULTS — NONE.
2. CIVIL RIGHTS on basis of equality.
RESULTS — He voted AGAINST civil rights in the U.S. Senate
(Vote number 210 January, 30. 1962 and vote
number 247, May 15. 1962.)
3. PUBLIC POWER through Federal Dams.
RESULTS — While Gruening was campaigning in Alaska early
in October of this year. Congress cut $100,000 from
funds to investigate Rampart Dam and deleted
the money to start Bradley Lake Dam.
TED STEVENS PROMISES:
1. To stay in Washington when he is needed to help get Alaska
legislation passed.
2. To do everything in his power for the good of ALASKA.
TED STEVENS STANDS FOR:
1. Realistic exemptions on Federal Income Tax to offset Alaska's high
living costs.
2. Incentives to industry to provide year 'round jobs.
3. "Pioneers for Progress" — an extension of the Peace Corps to help
train native Alaskans.
4. Legislation to define and satisfy our Alaskan Indian. Eskimo and
Aleut aboriginal rights claims.
5. A strong vocational training program throughout Alaska.
6. Cost of living allowances added to civil service retirement, social
security and veterans benefits.
7. A STRONG STAND AGAINST COMMUNISUM. AGGRESSIVE
ACTION AGAINST RUSSIAN BASES IN CUBA.
vote for TED STEVENS F0B u.s. senator
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