TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1961
U.S. Protests Action
By German Police
BERLIN (iP)—The U.S. command in Berlin protested to
the Soviet Union yesterday the halting of a top State Depart
ment official by East German police.
Blaming the Americans
East Germany announced tha
AFL-CIO Sued
For Slander
By Teamsters
DETROIT, Mich 6 1 11 • A
million-dollar libel and slander
suit was brought by James R.
Hoffa and his Teamsters Union
yesterday against President
George Meany and most of the
AFL-CIO top leadership.
Hoffa, president of the Team
sters, accused Meany and 24 AFL
CIO Executive Council members
of making "wicked and malicious"
statements about the Teamsters
in a conspiracy to raid the Team
sters' ranks of members.
However, the suit said the ac
tual purpose of this was to
make a "smoke screen" to con
ceal what it called the AFL
CIO's "true condition as a
tottering house of labor."
The AFL-CIO "has all it can
do to keep its own ranks from
falling to pieces," the suit said.
At Washington, Meany brushed
off the suit. He called it "very
amusing." That was the extent
of his immediate comment.
The suit, brought the federal
court with Hoffa and his inter
national as copiainstiffs, charged
that Meany and his codefend
ants falsely had tried to por
tray Hoffa as "4 perpetrator
of a fraud" on American labor
for the purpose of causing
`hatred' of the Teamsters and
holding them up to "public
scorn, contempt, aversion, odium
and ridicule."
Named defendents were the
bulk of the members of the AFL
CIO Executive Council. The suit
was based in part on a statement
attributed to Meany after the.
Oct. 10 meeting of the AFL - -CIO
council at which a proposal to re
admit the Teamsters was over
whelmingly voted down. The
AFL-CIO long ago threw out the,
Teamsters on charges of corrup
tion within thQ union.
U.N. Hears Agreement
On Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (fll—
Soviet Union and the United
States neared agreement yester
day on installing a temporary
U.N. secretary-general to replace
the Late Dag Hammarskjold.
Their progress came in an
hour's conference of Soviet Dep
uty Foreign Minister Valerian A.
Zorin and U.S. Ambassador Adlai
E. Stevenson, who long ago agreed
that U Thant of Burma sifould get
the job.
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or the incident, Communist
henceforth all Allied person
nel in civilian clothes must show
identification papers to East Ger
man police upon entering East
Berlin.
U.S. military police began look
ing into Soviet military vehicles
for the first time in apparent re
taliation for the harassment of Al
lied personnel.
And West Berlin police an
nounced their border guards
are being armed with tear gas
and submachine guns. This re
quired permission of the West
ern Allied occupying powers.
The halting Sunday night of the
car of E. Allan Lightner Jr., dep
uty chief of the U.S. Mission,
brought tension to a high pitch.
Eight U.S. military police with
fixed bayonets finally entered
East Berlin to insure passage
of his car. East Berlin police
did not interfere. Following Al
lied procedure, Lightner had re
fused to show his identification
card to East Berlin police.
The protest to the Russians was
made by Maj. Gen. Albert Watson
11, the U.S. commandant, to Col.
Andrei I. Solovyev, the Soviet
commander in East Berlin, a U.S.
spokesman said. A protest also
had been made on the spot to a
Soviet officer when the East Ger
mans halted Lightner's car.
The Russians are expected to
reply with a protest of the U.S.
military incursion into East Ber
lin, the first under the occupation.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA
Soviets Develop
'Deadly Accurate'
Rocket Defense
MOSCOW (/P) —Defense
Minister Marshal Rodion Y.
Malinovsky declared yester
day Russia has developed a
deadly accurate defense against
rockets supposedly an anti
missile missile.
He also boasted the establish
ment of a new armed service
,branch of rocket and nuclear
'armed troops "capable of inflict
ing a crushing defeat upon the
aggressor."
"The problem of destroying
'rockets in flight has been success
fully solved," Tass quoted Malin
lovsky as telling the 22nd Soviet
'Communist party congress in a
'report on antiaircraft and anti
;rocket defenses.
Informants attending the closed
congress session said Malinovsky
also announced that Soviet scien
tists had "controlled" a 50-mega
ton nuclear lest bomb. There was
no explanation of precisely what
this meant.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion in Washington reported the
Soviet Union set off two'nuclear
explosions Monday—one possibly
as high as 50 megatons but more
likely about 30 megatons. the
equivalent of 30 million tons of
TNT. Scientists in Sweden, France
and Japan said the first explo
sion probably was a 50-megaton
bomb.
Premier Khrushchev announced
last week that Russia would test
a 50-megaton bomb at the end of
October.
Malinovsky reiterated a Khrush
chev claim that Russia has a 10-
megaton bomb.
Countess Venga-Prontu Borghese
IF YOU were in our studio last week you undoubtedly met
this femme fatale, currently the toast of Paris, who graced
us with a visit of several days. Her late husband Count
Borghese was fatally injured last June, details of which
seem to be obscure but the Elsa Maxwell set mentions the
occurance of some fracas with his girl friends' husband on
the boudoir fire escape or something to that effect. I men
tion her late husband_ in light of my introduction to the
countess. At the time I had been doing a photographic
essay for LA VACA, a Parisian weekly, on the way of life
of a present-day Count. Through his embarrassingly sud
den demise, I had the good fortune of meeting the Countess.
In a simple discussion concerning American women, I
invited her to State College to observe for herself, never
really believing the point would be taken seriously. You
can imagine my delight of her acceptance of this chance
remark.
STAYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS, and visiting five sorori
ties, the Countess made many observations, some of which
might interest you. Of course the Countess is still under
a strain (this not being the vintage year for Bellefonte
wines).
SHE WAS AMAZED by the success of the sorority system
where the girls have graduated from togetherness to "one
ness" or 'same-ness." She commended on their adherence
to the holy sneaker, and those adorable but practical little
boy like hair cuts which promote a speculative type of
sport—he? or she?
"IN EUROPE," she complained, "the male is too stubborn
and much to masculine to embrace the bovine domesticity
of togetherness and the woman with her foolish pride will
have nothing to do with it."
WHILE THE FRENCH are the world's greatest lovers, at
]east you have what no other nation has—the split level,
the Ivy League look, togetherness, groovology, Froth, the
Lion Shrine, auto fins, your Campus Queens, planned
obsolescence, panty raids and the twist."
THE -COUNTESS who is presently touring American
Campii promises to indulge herself in further observations.
She is expected to return soon and while we would be
pleased to publish these observations, the chance that we
would be offending the independents is to be comidered.
THAT OUR READERS may guide us, be good enough to
drop us a line indicating your desires for the continuance
of the Countesses' quotations.
MAY WE doff our hat to Kptie Johnson, a delight to have
worked with and a credit to KD. Her gray Vespa often
parked at TKE indicates her being entertained at the
Delt house.
FIRST PARTY PICTURE in color for the season ... the
Theta formal at the Beta house.
TEN ORGANIZATIONS will have their 1932 composites
ready and hanging by next weekend.
WHAT'S THAT MY GOOD MEN? You lament that some
traveling photographer promised April delivery. Fret not—
at least you'll have it for the summer.
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—bill coleman