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6.-’rt! \ car No. 126
NOML, ALASKA, WLDNi SDAY, OCTOpi R 2 i, 1962
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Khrushchev Says He Won’t Make \nv
Reckless Decisions or Be Provoked
MOSCOW (jP>—Premier Khrush
chev, commenting on the U. S.
arms blockade said today the So
viets will not make any decisions
which would be reckless nor “be
provoked by unwarranted actions
of the United States.”
"We will do everything in our
power to prevent war from break
ing out,” he said in a message to
the British philosopher, Bertrand
Russell, who had sent Khrushchev
a plea for Soviet efforts to avoid
a nuclear war.
At the same time Khrushchev
suggested a summit meeting. He
expressed belief that a “meeting at
the highest level would be useful
to discuss all questions that have
arisen and to eliminate the threat
of nuclear war.”
(In Washington, there was no
immediate reaction from the State
Department, as officials hurriedly
scanned news reports of Khrush
chev’s statement.
(Privately, cautions was expres
sed against jumping to any im
mediate conclusions.
<It was noted that one of the
most important developments is
still unknown—whether the Soviet
ships steaming toward Cuba will
get any orders not to try to break
the blockade.
(In the absence of clear indica
tion of what kind of actions
Khrushchev would undertake to
follow through on his words, the
possibility remained the statement
from Moscow was Red propaganda
designed to ehlist support for
whatever course Khrushchev
might pursue.
(One source cautioned against
any hasty conclusions based on the
lack of an encounter between U.S.
Navy blockaders and Soviet ships
headed toward Cuba.
(While it is possible the Rus
sian ships have been ordered to
turn back, he said, there was a
number of other possibilities —
among them that the Russian
ships had received orders to form
a convoy or to await Soviet naval
protection.
(Sen. Thomas Kuchel of Califor
nia, assistant Republican leader,
told a news conference Khrush
chev’s statement was not made on
Russian Youths Stage
75-Minute Demonstration
MOSCOW UP) — About 100 sign
carrying Russians youths staged a
75-minute demonstration outside
the U.S. Embassy today to protest
American actions against Cuba.
Police dispersed the demonstra
tors, who were mostly of high
school and grade school age.
Embassy officials had feared the
demonstration would swell into a
violent outburst by thousands, as
has occurred before. They batten
ed down the lower floors of the
nine-story building and moved all
employes to upper floors.
The students shook their fists
and carried signs reading “Hands
Off Cuba” and “Stop the Aggres
sion.”
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a basis to which President Ken
nedy could make any reply.
(“If Mr. Khrushchev wants to
demonstrate that Russian protesta
tions for peace are genuine, he has
an opportunity to demonstrate it
in other ways immediately,” Ku
chel said.)
Before the Cuban crisis arose
President Kennedy said he would
welcome talks with Khrushchev
if the Soviet leader went to the
United States for sessions of the
United Nations General Assembly.
Diplomatic sources in Washing
ton suggested the initiative for
possible summit talks had come
mostly from Moscow.
There were reports in London
today that Prime Minister Mac
Millan was considering a flight to
Washington to confer with Ken
nedy.
Khrushchev coupled his appar
ent call for a summit conference
with repeated calls for the United
States to back off from its naval
blockade of arms shipments to
Cuba.
He warned that the situation
could get out of control and a war
might break out, adding:
“We fully realize that if war
should break out that it would be
a nuclear war from the very first
hours. This is very clear to us. But
evidently it is not clear to the gov
ernment of the United States ol
America.
Defense Dept. Releases
Photographs of Soviet
Missile Sites In Cuba
WASHINGTON — The De
fense Department released today
14 aerial photographs of what it
said were Soviet missile sites,
bomber fields and patrol boats in
Cuba.
The photographs were made
public hours after some of the pic
tures had been released in London.
Some had been displayed by
Secretary of Defense Robert Mc
Namara when he briefed newsmen
on the Cuban crisis Monday night
after President Kennedy an
nounced an arms quarantine of
Cuba.
There are three pictures of mer
chant ships which the Defense De
partment said were Soviet ships
bound for Cuba carrying light jet
bombers in crates visible on the
decks.
One high-altitude shot the Pen
tagon describes as of a major air
field and notes in an enlarged por
tion a jet bomber almost assembled
and 18 crates containing more of
the IL-28 bombers.
In another, seven Soviet PT
boats are pointed out moored near
an airfield. The Pentagon said the
boats are armed with guided mis
sile launchers.
Among others were air photos
of what the Pentagon described as
an intermediate and medium
range missile base, surface-to-air
missile sites, a missile assembly
depot and MIG 21 jet fighters at
a Cuban airfield.
jCastro Calls U.S.
I Arms Quarantine
|An Act of Piracy
HAVANA (/P> —- Asserting he has
the weapons to “repulse any ag
ression." Prime Minister Fidel
Castro rejected any limit on Cuba’s
j arms buildup last night and called
| the U.S. arms quarantine an act of
j piracy.
"Our arms are defensive,” Castro
declared as he defied a U.S. pro
posal for the United Nations to
send in an inspection team to in
vestigate P r e s i d e n t Kennedy’s
charge that Soviet missile bases
are planted in Cuba.
Anyone trying to carry out an
arms inspection in Cuba “better
come ready for combat,” the beard
ed revolutionary leader told the na
I tion in a 90-minute television ad
dress.
Castro scoffed at Kennedy’s
warning in his speech Monday that
the flow of Soviet arms to Cuba
was a menace to the Western
Hemisphere.
He ridiculed the Organization of
American States for its solid sup
port of the U.S. quarantine of
Cuba. He called the oragnization’s
inter-American defense pact a scrap
of paper only “valid for those
following in the flock of imperial
ism.”
Castro, w h o had mobilized
Cuba’s military forces right aftei
Kennedy’s blockade announcement
was 30 minutes late for his address
President O s v a 1 d o Dorticos
dressed in a militiaman’s uniform
and other high government offi
cials sat in the studio. An an
nouncer said the Prime Minister
was speaking “at a particularly
delicate moment in the history of
the world.”
Castro emphasized he would
tolerate no outside interference on
the questions of arming Cuba and
implied it was the United States
that had forced him to arm.
“We will acquire the arms we
feel like acquiring,” Castro said,
“and we don’t have to give an ac
counting to the imperialists.”
Soviet Missile Installations In Cuba
Caught U.S. Experts By Surprise
WASHINGTON UP> —The Soviet
Union’s installation of nuclear mis
siles in Cuba caught U.S. experts
by surprise and demolished, al
most overnight, their carefully
constructed estimate of Soviet
strategy in the Western Hemis
phere.
Until evidence of the introduc
tion of atomic striking power be
came available to President Ken
nedy eight days ago, the belief
of officials here had been that the
Soviet Union intended to use
Cuba only as a base for a politi
cal and guerrilla offensive against
Latin America.
That strategy did not require
nuclear weapons in the Caribbean
island. It required only that Prime
Minister Castro be armed de
fensively against any new limited
I Believe Soviet
i Vessels Have
Altered Course
WASHINGTON t/T — The De
fense Department announced today
some Soviet bloc vessc Is which had
been moving toward Cuba “appear
to have altered course.’’
“Other vessels are proceeding
toward Cuba,” a Pentagon spokes
man said.
“No intercept has \ been
necessary,” he added.
The spokesman declined to ex
pand on the terse announcement in
any way.
His announcement came shortly
after a Defense Department new.
conference had disclosed that no
Russian ships to Cuba had been
stopped. But that announcement
left an air of mystery about w heth
er some ships may have turned
back.
Assistant secretary, Arthur Syl
vester, in charge of Public Infor
mation, told questioners that “we
have not stopped any” Russian
ships in the quarantine which
started at 9 a.m. EST today.
But he declined to comment on
whether any ships had turned
back, or whether there had been
“contacts or intercepts” of Russian
ships headed toward Cuba.
Asked why he declined comment
on the question of intercepts
Sylvester said “I have been di
rected not to.” He did not ela
, borate.
FRANCE BACKS U.S. STAND
PARIS UP) — France today ex
pressed full support for the United
States’ position in Cuba.
In a communique after a cabi
net meeting the government ex
pressed its understanding of the
American position in the face of
“recent and growing installations
of Soviet offensive armament in
Cuba.”
The cabinet statement said the
reciprocal pledges of the North
Atlantic Treaty are and remain
the basis of French policy.
I invasion attempt or an internal
j uprising.
I The disclosures which President
Kennedy made to the nation Mon
day night wrecked the theory that
the Soviets were supplying arms
to Castro only for his own pro
tection. They showed that Cuba
was being converted into a Soviet
military base with a destructive
potential unequaled by any known
base on the Communist side of the
world conflict except installations
in the Soviet Union itself.
In the light of this bold and un
expected thrust into U.S. security
territory thousands of miles fron
the Soviet Union, the Kennedy ad
ministration presumably is reas
sessing Soviet strategy not only to
ward the Western Hemisphere bu
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Advances In India
NEW DELHI — Sweeping
advances by Chinese Communist
troops — ranging up to 37 miles —
were admitted by the Indians to
day but they claimed heavy casu
alties were being inflicted on the
invaders.
Prime Minister Nehru rejected
overtures for cease-fire talks on
Pciping’s terms even though a
spokesman acknowledged the mili
tary situation at points along the
flaming frontier was "not va ry
cheerful."
Falling back on several fronts,
the Indians said they were taking
a heavy toll among the Chinc-e
hut gave no figures. The Indians
were believed al.-o suffering big
losses.
A government spokesman said
: at least 13 outsposts in Ladakh
; were feared lost. No word has
1 been received from the Indian
| garrison in the Galwan Valiev of
I Ladakh region since the Chinese
: launched their offensive last Sat
; urday, and 12 other places are
known to have fallen.
In the face of these reverses, the
I Nehru government rejected the
; Chinese proposal for a cease-fire
1 under which each side would pull
back troops 20 kilometers 112.5
I miles' from their present battle
! positions.
“Advancing 40 to 60 kilometers
■ 125 to 37V'i miles by blatant mili
1 tary aggression, and offering to
withdraw 20 kilometers provided
I both sides do this, is a deceptive
1 device which can fool nobody,”
j an Indian Foreign Ministry spokes
man said.
j Other high Indian officials said
j a Peiping proposal for a summit
| meeting between Nehru and Red
China’s Premier Chou En-Lai to
settle the dispute along the 1,400
mile Himalayan border was “pure
hypocrisy.”
Tax Relief for Persons with
Heavy Medical Expenses
WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy has signed a bill to ease
taxes for persons with unsually
heavy medical expenses and to en
courage private pension plans to
| add medical benefits.
I The bill retains the present basic
| limitation which permits tax de
ductions for medical expenses of
only those expenses in excess of
3 per cent of income.
It raises some over-all ceilings
now in effect. For single persons,
it sets a deduction limit of $10,000
instead of $5,000. For married
couples, the deduction ceiling is
raised to $20,000, and the deduc
tion for dependents is increased to
$5,000.
Disabled persons over 65 are al
; lowed deductions of $20,000 in
| stead of $15,000 for single persons,
• and $40,000 instead of $30,000 for
r married couples.
i The new law permits combined
- administration of private pension
- and medical plans for retired em
- ploves. The old law required that
t medical plans be administered se
. parately.