PAGE TWO West Threatens War—°K'; Tanks Jockey in Berlin MOSCOW (/P)—Soviet Premier Khrushchev accused the Western powers yesterday of threatening war over Berlin even though, he said, the Soviet nuclear weapons arsenal is stronger than the American. Insisting he wants only peace, he told the 22nd Soviet U.S. Claims Soviets Admit Commitments WASHINGTON (AP) While U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each' other on the border of East and' West Berlin, the Stale Depart , - ment said yesterday the appear ance of the Soviet tanks was an acknowledgement of Soviet com mitments in the city. "The movement of Soviet tanks, into East Berlin is a belated ad-' mission of the responsibility of the Soviet government for what' goes on in that sector of the COY," press officer Lincoln White de cla red. White, reading an official state ment, reiterated that the Soviet. Union cannot transfer its obliga tions in Berlin to the East German Communists by its own actions. ' If Moscow seeks a peaceful solution, as it claims to be doing, then "it should insure that uni lateral actions are not taken,". White said. He accused the Soviet Union. of "hiding behind the back" of the East Germans and of "looking the other way" while the East! German Communists make trou ble on the border. The Soviets, White continued, "cannot ignore their responsibil ity, they cannot pretend that this responsibility no longer exists or is the responsibility or someone else." Space Countdown Simulated At Canaveral for Newsmen CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (iP) —ln the brightly lit room, eight men sat around a large table topped by banks of electronic con soles, listening intently into head phones, their eyes fixed on dials, flashing lights and other indica tors. A rangy Pennsyhjanian with glasses and sandy hair barked commands into a microphone. "Twenty-five minutes and counting," he seicl. "Verify ground measuring voltage." A technician at one of several rows of instrument panels 20 yards away replied that voltage was all right, and the countdown continued. More than6o men, most of them in shirtsleeves, moved crisp ly about the large room but with out a show of excitement. That was the way it looked in the Saturn`launch control cen ter several days ago when news men witnessed the final 30 min utes of a simulated countdown for yesterday's first firing of the big rocket. Newsmen were not present for the real thing yesterday, but the scene was undoubtedly much the same. On the basis of a river of in formation, the specialists can tell whether the launch should be de layed or called off, whether the flight is going according to plan, Last Chance Tonight "LEAVE IT TO JANE" Book and Lyrics By Musk By GUY BOLTON and P. G. WODEHOUSE JEROME KERN Directed By JOE SERVELLO State College Senior High School Auditorium Curtain Time, 8 p.m. AU Coeds Named Jane Admitted Free STATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY THEATRE Communist party congress the Soviet Union would never try to dictate its will to other nations. He reiterated he would not in sist on a Dec. 31 deadline for a showdown on Berlin. But he warned a German settlement can not wait indefinitely and the West must show - willingness to negotia ate. He gave no hint of yielding on Soviet positions. President Kennedy was pic tured as "faced with the ardu ous task" of overtaking the So viet Union in the field of nu clear weapons. The Soviet Union was forced to resume nuclear tests "in the face of direct threats and the danger', of a war," the Premier asserted. He said Soviet scientists were do ing everything to reduce the harm , ful aftereffects of the tests. Referring to Western protests against East German controls over Allied traffic in East Ber lin, the Premier said the Western powers "want us to insure, like traffic police, the transportation to West Berlin of their military freight, spies and saboteurs." "Who do these gentlemen take, us for?" he asked. "Do they ac-1 cually believe that they can do• anything they want and that they! can make us act against our vital interests, against the interests of world peace and security?" In a wide-ranging address, end ing two weeks of speechmaking before the party congress, Khrush chev also declared the Soviet' economy •was so strong "that] from the heights we have reached we can now challenge the most ' powerful capitalist country, the United States of America, to a peaceful economic competition." whether action is needed to de stroy the rocket. The launch team is a veteran outfit, most of the men have worked together for years. The rangy man calling the shots is test conductor Bob Moser, 33-year-old native of Johnstown, Pa. I He had similar assignments in the launching of America's first satellite, Explorer I, and in the suborbital space flights of astro nauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. Grissom. All information is funneled to Moser. He keeps the countdown going or calls a "hold" if some thing goes wrong. If major trouble develops, the ultimate decision is left to Dr. Kurt Debus, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's launch operations directorate. Jury Convicts Scarbeck Of Revealing Secrets WASHINGTON (AP)—Standing erect and stone-faced, former dip lomat Irvin C. Scarbeck heard a jury yesterday pronounce him guilty of revealing embassy secrets to Polish. Communist agents. Scarbeck, 41, a short, broad shouldered man with a tall shock of• wavy, greying hair, showed no emotion as each juror was polled and answered "guilty" to three of the four counts involved. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA BERLIN (IP) 'U.S. and Soviet tanks, barely 200 yards apart, aimed their guns at each other across the explosive Berlin sector border last night in a tense dem onstration of rival power. For 2 hours and 20 minutes, West Berlin's 6,500 U. S. garrison troops stayed on battle alert. The general alert was canceled in midevening but an official said "an adequate force is being kept on continued alert." In a battle of nerves centering on Allied rights of free movement throughout -Berlin, the American and Russian tanks in turn rum bled up, withdrew, then rolled up again to the border. The, development took place as Washington and Moscow traded protests over the tense border situation. U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson delivered in Moscow an oral denunciation of a demand that. U.S.. officials in Berlin show identification of documents to East Germans. The State Department in Wash ington charged that the appear ance of Soviet tanks in Berlin was a belated admission of Soviet re= sponsibility for East German har asment of Allied personnel enter ing East Berlin. Taylor to Leave Thailand Today BANGKOK, Thailand (Al Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor all but wrapped up his fact-finding mis sion in Southeast Asia yesterday, and a U.S. diplomat described him as impressed by the deter mination of Thailand and South Viet Nam to remain free of Com munist domination but somewhat pessimistic about the military sit uation in South Viet Nam. President Kennedy's special mi litary adviser, preparing to start for home today after a week in this troubled area, held final conferences with military officials of Thailand, ambassadors of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion and top American represen tatives based in nearby Laos. 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Despite the complete success of the initial flight, Saturn will not soon erase the Soviet lead over the United States in booster power. Under the pres ent schedule, it will be at least three years :Jefore Saturn is ready to hurl a three-man Apollo spacecraft into orbit around the earth. And it will' be 1966 before the rocket, which then will have a thrust of three to four million pounds, will be able to propel Apollo into orbit around the moon. Yesterday's pefformance does not mean that this program can be accelerated, scientists said. It is being held up by development of the second stage, which will not be ready until 1963. However, Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German scientific ace who was instrumental in building Saturn, said informa tion obtained yesterday will bring improvement of the rock et before the next flight next March. To plug the gap until Saturn is ready, the Atlas will be mated with a hydrogen-powered second stage next year. This booster, to be called Centaur, will match the weight-lifting power of Soviet ve hicles and will be able to drop exploratory instruments on the moon to prepare the way for manned landings. Nova, which is scheduled to 11111111111111111M11111111111111111111111111E 55c a dozen SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1961 succeed Saturn in the program, will be used to place men on the moon with its 20-million-pound thrust. 'This could come as early as 1967, well before• the decade's end. TONIGHT 8 P.M. CAVE DWELLERS WEEKENDS Through DEC.- 2 Vig Last Day: "Thunder of Drums" C 17 - 1/4 UM . . . 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