TUESDAY. MARCH 7. 1961
Four U.S. Ships
Await U.N. Call
WASHINGTON (/P) Four U. S. Navy ships have been
diverted from a goodwill tour to stand by in case United
Nations forces need help in the Congo.
The State Department yesterday said the task force was
turned back from a voyage to Cape Town, South Africa, and
Anemia Looms
As New Threat
To Liz's Life
LONDON {IP) Elizabeth Tay
lor, gravely ill with pneumonia,
faced another threat to her hold
on life—anemia.
Doctors reported late last night
that her condition is "still grave.”
The complication developed
only a short time after she ap
peared to be rallying against
pneumonia.
Hope for the star brightened
earlier in the day, when Dr. Carl
H. Goldman announced a “silght
improvement” in her condition.
Her husband, singer Eddie
Fisher, is at her bedside in the
London clinic. Her British-born
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Taylor, went to see her twice
yesterday.
A tube has been inserted in her
windpipe to help her breathe.
Surgeons had to make an incision
in her throat to insert the pipe.
The tube is connected to an
other piece of equipment—an elec
tronic lung.
"If she takes even a small
breath this machine makes her
take a bigger one,” Goldman ex
plained.
Miss Taylor is being fed intra
venously and is being given
antibiotics.
Miss Taylor, who reportedly is
being paid a million dollars to
play in “Cleopatra,” was to have
started work last Oct. 14.
Bad weather stalled filming
then and on Oct. 18 she fell ill.
She was in and out of the hospi
tal twice.
Fight Over Matadi Threatens
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Con
go (/p)_The United Nations
command warned yesterday it
will recapture the key port of
Matadi from the Congolese
army by force if negotiations
fail. A U.S. Navy task force sped
toward the area to help the U.N.
if needed.
U.N. officials said privately
U.N. headquarters in New York
had ordered a standstill in any
military operations to retake Ma
tadi until 8 p.m. today at the
earliest. A spokesman denied re
ports published abroad that Mor
occan troops were marching on
Matadi, pointing out that most
Moroccans already have left the
Congo.
In the most humiliating de
feat the Congo mission has suf
fered, the 135 Sudanese soldiers
garrisoning Maladi laid down
their arms Sunday after more
than 24 hours of battling with
rifles, machine guns and mor
tars with more than 1,000 Con
golese soldiers.
The defeat was a crushing blow
to U.N. prestige at a time when
Congolese forces appear itching
for a showdown against the troops
they accuse of seeking to disarm
them.
The terms of the cease fire im
posed by the Congolese troops
acknowledged that U.N. troops
factory authorized
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was heading for Congolese wat
ers. It is due there Friday.
The Navy said 500 Marines are
aboard in addition to the ships’
regular complement of about 750.
The vessels are the destroyer
Gearing, the dock landing ship
Hermitage, the tank landing ship
Graham County and the Navy
tanker Nespelen.
The destroyer Vogelgesang,
which completes the five-vessel
goodwill task force, is contin
uing on to Cape Town. It is
scheduled to rejoin the task
force after picking up mail,
fuel and supplies.
The Vogelgesang carries a crew
of 274.
The five ships, which have
been making calls at West Afri
can ports, have been used pre
viously to support U.N. opera
tions in the Congo.
Lincoln White, State Depart
ment press officer, recalled they
were used to evacuate 738 Gui
nean soldiers last month when
President Sekou Toure ordered
them home.
They also have unloaded food
and other supolies for the U.N.
forces at the Congo supply port
of Matadi. Congolese soldiers took
control of Matadi this last week
end after bitter fighting.
In saying the four vessels had
been ordered back to Congolese
waters. White said the ships were
available for the United Nations
if needed.
The action was "our idea,"
While said, and was not a re
sult of a U.N. request.
He noted that it is U.S. policy
to assist the United Nations in its
efforts to restore peace and order
to the Congo.
“We attach no particular sig
nificance to this order,” White
said.
have the right to return but said.lese launched the attack,
the Congolese should be consult-! The U.N. troops blazed away
ed on the nationality of troops; with rifles and machine guns
sent there. while mortar fire ripped into
A U.N. spokesman said nego- their camp. The fighting pe
titions are now going on but tered out at dusk Saturday but
added: "If the United Nations resumed again after daybreak
fail io get back by peaceful Sunday.
means, it is empowered to use With the ammunition running
force as a lasi resorl if neces- low, the Sudanese entered into
sary." ceasefire talks at noon.
Without waiting for a U.N. re-j While the tlks were still going
quest, the United States turned!on, the Congolese opened up with
around a goodwill task force of;a concentrated blast of firing
four ships bound for Cape Town'j which the U.N. described as “ah
and sent it back toward Congo-j attempt to force the hand of the
lose waters. j cease-fire negotiators.”
Foreign Minister Justin Bombo- After this the Sudanese gave in.
ko issued a statement accusing Triumphant Congolese troops
U.N. troops of causing the trouble:marched into the railroad station,
at Hatadi. He said U.N. troopsjstacked the U.N. arms beside the
had opened fire first in everyjtracks and bundled the Sudan
case. The U.N. insists the Congo-iese off on a train to Leopoldville.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Four Killed
As Twisters
Hit Midwest
By The Associated Press
Tornadoes—grim harbingers
[of spring slashed through
parts of the Midwest yester
day killing at least four per
sons, injuring more than a
jdozen others and causing
heavy property damage.
Heavy snow plastered wide
spread areas north of the storm
belt, closing scores of schools and
tying traffic in knots.
Freezing rain slicked highways
in central and western Lower
Michigan, making driving treach
erous.
Colliding masses of warm and
cold air, a sign that spring’s not
far away, triggered violent weath
er from the Mississippi River Val
iev eastward into Virginia.
A line of intense thunderstorms
moved eastward over Ohio, while
a second batch boiled up over
parts of Tennessee and Missis
sippi.
The twisters hit in Tennessee,
Indiana and Illinois.
Three persons perished in the
wreckage of their collapsed homes
when a sneak tornado blasted the
tiny community of Freedonia,
near Stanton, in western Tennes
see.
Then the small twister struck
again about 20 miles northeast,
badly damaging two houses and
unroofing several barns.
One Indiana storm toppled eight
big smokestacks at Austin, in the
southern part of the state. An
other swept along what is known
as tornado alley in north-central
Indiana.
A rash of twisters and wind
storms struck at widespread
points in Southern Illinois caus
ing considerable damage, but
only two minor injuries were re
ported.
Hardest hit points in Illinois
were- Litchfield, Jerseyville and
'Effingham.
U.S.-China Relations
To Stay Tense
LONDON (/P) Dean Rusk, the new U-S. secretary of
state, declared last night there seems slight chance that rela
tions between Washington and the Red Chinese capital of
Peiping will improve in the near future.
In a recorded television interview with the British Broad-
casting Corp., Rusk said: “We
have seen no indication of any
fresh thinking on their side that
has any bearing upon anything
dike normal relations. They have
! continued a most vituperative
jcampaign against the United
: States and against America,
j "They have shown themselves
j to be the most aggressive lead
j er, apparently, of the Commu-
I nisi bloc in the doctrinal dis
| cussions between Peiping and
Moscow.
‘'They have insisted that no nor
mal relations are possible unless
the rest of us all yield Formosa
to them.
“So I would suppose that the
prospects for normal relations are
not bright.”
! The question of relations be
tween the West and Red China
is a British-American sore point.
The British government of con
servative Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan has come around to
the view, in iccent months that it
is fruitless to go on excluding
Miss Jane Boyd
An eighth semester L.A. with a major in bacteriology, Jane
still finds time for her favorite sport, skiing. After a visit to
Russia this summer, she'll be getting married.
If ATO's generosity was emulated by all house's we'd never
get to other parties on time. Being highly solicitous concern
ing our thirst, some benevolent ATO's, at Saturday's pledge
dance saw to it that 'twas impossible to beg leave till said
thirst was quenched twice not withstanding our weak
complaint on the difficulties of camera focusing for the next
party at Phi Kappa Tau.
Yet, with misty eye we were able to detect the beauteous
misses Katy Johnson, Rita Novacita and Lorraine Kerr. Of
course, the pledge class was photographed in COLOR.
Amongst the new (finally) portraits on display downstairs
will bu a selection of beauties picked from sittings since
December
Yes, we are doing fraternity composites
■starting within the next 2 weeks.
Rusk
Peiping from the United Nations.
Rusk’s statement, on the other
hand, appeared to show that the
[United States still feels Red China
[deserves to be kept in the diplo
matic wilderness.
Hitler Remembrance
Twenty-five years ago today
Adolf Hitler plunged Europe into
crisis by sending the German
army goosestepping into the
Rhineland.
A few years before, the French
army undoubtedly would have
challenged the German dictator.
It was the most powerful in Eu
rope. But nothing happened,
Hitler carried off a gigantic
bluff, and concluded that the Al
lied powers which defeated Ger
many in World War I no longer
had the unity, will, or capacity to
oppose him.
; Hitler was on the wav to World
'War 11.
bill coleman
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