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NEW YORK (TP) Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko conferred for four hours yesterday on the Berlin crisis, then announced they will
meet again Saturday,
Rusk, leaving Gromyko’s headquarters at about 5 p.m., declined to say whether any
progress had been made in arriving at a formula to start detailed negotiations on a possible
DEAN RUSK
McCone Picked
By President
To Head CIA
NEWPORT, R.I. (/P) —.Presi
dent Kennedy chose Republican
John A. McCone, former chair
man of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, as the new director of
the nation’s highly secret Central
Intelligence Agency.
The President called a special
meeting with newsmen yesterday
to announce the appointment of
the wealthy West Coast business
man and shipbuilder to the
$21,000-a-year job.
Kennedy introduced McCone
and the man he is succeeding,
Allen W. Dulles, as two who
have made personal sacrifices
to serve their country.
Both said they regarded service
to the nation a privilege.
McCone and Dulles flew from
Washington to nearby Quonsel
Point Naval Air Station and shut
tled by helicopter to Hammer
smith Farm whore the President
is spending a week’s vacation
with his family.
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said the final
decision to appoint McCone
was made in the morning. The
two visitors met for half an
hour on the patio outside the
farmhouse before going by boat
to the Naval War College audi
torium for the announcement.
McCone is to join Dulles in the
CIA in about two weeks and is to
take over when Dulles retires in
November.
After the doomed Cuban in
vasion attempt last spring, the
CIA was criticized for its intelli
gence-training role hut Kennedy
did nothing to make Dulles the
scapegoat.
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Gromyko Confer
Hours on Berlin
Berlin settlement. He would say
only, “We'll see, we’ll see.”
The two men and their advisers
met at I p.m. Rusk said they had
“a very good lunch and a very
good talk.” Gromyko, who had ac
companied him to the sidewalk,
said, “Our conversations are not
concluded.”
After Rusk left, Gromyko was
asked whether he thought it
would be possible to wbrk out a
compromise on the problem of
naming a temporary successor to
the late U.N. Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold.
Referring to some reports that
the Soviet Union has proposed
the appointment of four seere
tarys-general, Gromyko said he
had made no such proposal. What
he has in mind, he said, is to
select four persons, one of whom
would be considered as a chair
man. The other three would be
deputies.
Western diplomats consider
this a slightly disguised form of
the Soviet "troika" plan which
calls for three men to hold the
office of secretary-general joint
ly. For an interim period, Gro
myko is willing, as he made
clear again yesterday, to have
the "troika" at the level of
deputies or under-secretaries.
Asked whether there would be
a veto in this interim arrange
ment, Gromyko in effect affirmed
that there would, although he did
not use the word. He said the
four persons should work as a
team and do their utmost in as
sociation with the U.N. Security
Councii to “solve questions on the
basis of understanding.”
Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. am
bassador to the United Nations,
who was among the advisers
present, left at about 2:30 p.m.
to attend a U.N. meeting.
To questions from newsmen,
Stevenson said: “It was a very
agreeable luncheon. It was a love
ly lunch, and we spilled no blood.”
Asked if there were signs of
progress, he replied: “I live in
hopes.” w
Escapes Continue
From E. Germany
BERLIN f/P) East Germany’s
Communists turned more of their
side of the Berlin border into a
forbidding no-man’s land yester
day but fugitives continued to
find holes in the city’s Iron Cur
tain.
Even as the Reds demolished
houses, dug trenches and leveled
ground fo help border guards
tighten the grip on parts of the
25-mile border, at least 10 per
sons ' escaped into the Western
sector of the divided city.
An East Berlin family of three
attempted an escape through
barbed wire in the northern part
of the city, Red police spotted
them and opened fire. The man
got through but his wife and child
were caught and led away.
Another man escaped into the
French sector under a hail of
Communist bullets.
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Fuel Endangered
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (jT»>—
The broken hull of an $B-million
Navy tanker continued to burn in
Morehead City Harbor yesterday,
a short distance from 10 million
gallons of stored aviation fuel.
One crewman died, one is miss
ing and 23 other persons were in
jured when leaking fuel which
coated the harbor waters Tuesday
night ignited and engulfed the
tanker Potomac.
The ship, berthed to unload four
million gallons of aviation gaso
line and jet fuel, was consumed
by flames which touched off a
huge explosion, followed by a
series of lesser blasts. Captain
and crew scrambled to safety,
many leaping overboard.
A Coast Guard fireboat hurled;
tons of water and 1,500 gallons
of foam on the burning ship dur
ing the night.
‘‘lt didn’t do much good,” said
George Lawrence, assistant fire
chief at the nearby Cherry Point
Marine Corps base. “We couldn’t
get close enough.”
ANDREI GROMYKO
In Tanker Fire
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87th Congress Ends
Session With Coll
WASHINGTON
ly after 6 a.m. yesterday a
long-distance telephone call
routed President Kennedy out
of bed.
It was a U.S. Senate Committee
calling to tell him Congress was
about to adjourn unless he had
other ideas.
Thus ended, at 6:16 a.m., the
session that began last Jan. 3
and lasted longer than any since
the Korean War year of 1951.
The President said “Thanks,"
reported Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-
Mont., after the call to Newport,
R. 1., where Kennedy is vacation
ing.
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-111.,
the other half of the two-man
committee assigned to make the
call, assured the Senate: “We did
get the President of the United
States out of bed.”
Mansfield and Dirksen are the
majority and minority leaders
respectively and they were car
rying out an American tradition.
Kennedy’s “Thanks" was for
what Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson called a session “which
can fairly be characterized as suc
cessful” from an administration
standpoint.
Despite a number of reverses
at the hands of a Republican-
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1961
Southern Democratic coalition.
Democratic leaders said they were
well-pleased with the record and
predicted that many Kennedy
proposals that failed this year will
be passed in 1962.
The windup came at the end of
a 19-hour session that produced
fireworks between the two cham
bers and left the Senate crying
out in frustration against the
House.
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