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US. Fires Missile
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(/P) — A Minuteman missile
sprang from a pit yesterday
anct streaked 3,000 miles in a
major success which gave the
United States a big boost to
ward pushbutton war capa
bility.
This was the first successful
firing of the missile from the
steel and concrete hole similar
to those which will enable opera
tional Minutemen to survive a nu
clear attack and strike a retalia
tory blow.
Brig. Gen. Sam Phillips, Air
Force Minuteman program di
rector, described the shot as “to
tally successful. It completely
verifies our confidence in the
Minuteman design."
An official of fhe Boeing Co.,
Minuteman test and assembly
Congo to Investigate
Gizenga Mutiny Role
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (IP) The Congo govern
ment agreed yesterday to joint measures with the United
Nations to punish the mutinous army murderers of 13 Italian
airmen and to investigate whether leftist Antoine Gizenga
played a role in the butchery.
U.N. troops were flown
Rockefeller, Wife
Plan Separation
BULLETIN
NEW YORK (AP)—Republi
can Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller, a potential presidential
candidate in 1564. has left his
wife of 31 years and they plan
a divorce.
The couple already is living
apart and it was announced
yesterday that they have agreed
to a legal separation.
"It is anticipated that the
terms of the agreement will be
incorporated into a subsequent
decree of divorce," said a
statement from the family of
fices in Rockefeller Plaza.
The Rockefellers have five
grown children.
The announcement said that
a properly settlement has been
agreed to, but did not specify
details.
Mrs. Rockefeller will live in
New York, while the governor
will share hia lime between the
executive mansion in Albany
and the New York apartment
of his brother. Lawrence S.
Rockefeller.
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manager, was less restrained,
exclaiming: "Thanks giving
came early this yearl"
His exuberance was understand
able. The first attempt to fire the
missile from a silo failed last
August when the vehicle exploded
after clearing the hole. The fail
ure' raised some doubt whether
the weapon would meet its com
bat-ready deadline of next sum
mer.
But yesterday’s success pul the
program back on schedule, and
Phillips said the test-firing tempo
will accelerate sharply.
Storable indefinitely without
attention, Minuteman can be
fired in salvos by the simple
turning of a key in a control
center miles away.
Minuteman is the first U.S. in
tercontinental-range rocket pow
ered by solid fuel, which also is
used in the Navy’s Polaris. This
easy-to-handle propellant provides
'in to reinforce the 200-man
garrison already at Kindu in Kivu
Province where about 80 mutin
ous Congolese got beyond control
last Saturday and killed the un
armed airmen. The Italians were
on a U.N. transport mission.
U.N. orders were to seal off the
Kindu area and disarm the 1,000
or so Congolese troops who once
formed part of Gizenga’s army
when he set up a Soviet-supported
rebel rule at Stanleyville in Orien
tal Province.
The encirclement and disarma
ment was to permit a “fair in
vestigation and stern punishment”
of the guilty, the United Nations
said.
Diplomatic sources have re
ported and the Congo govern
ment fears that Gizenga, the
political heir of the late Premier
Patrice Lumumba, stirred up the
troop rebellion in new and open
defiance of the central govern
ment and the United Nations.
Government sources said he was
in Kindu last Tuesday before it
was known the Italians had been
killed. Whether he had been there
when the mutiny broke out on
Saturday is not known positively
by officials.
The government has reports,
however, that he left Stanley-,
ville by road last week and could
have been in Kindu.
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an escape from much of the com
plexity that has forced the liquid
fuel Atlas and Titan ICBM’s to
their huge size. Minuteman’s nu
clear warhead will be smaller
than Atlas or Titan, but will com
pensate for this in numbers and
greatly-reduced cost.
All three missiles have a range
of more than 6,000 miles.
A mushroom of flame and
smoke preceded the missile out
of its 90-foot-deep silo. The nose
of the 58-foot projectile poked
through the smoke cloud and
streaked into the sky. All three
stages fired as planned.
In the pit, the missile rested
on a hydraulically operated rig
which hung suspended on metal
straps 17 feet from the bottom
of the shaft. This system will
permit Minuteman to remain
pointed on its intended
trajectory even though a near
by nuclear blast knocks the silo
slightly ajar.
The operational silos will be
topped by a 10-ton steel and con
crete door designed to withstand
all but a direct atomic hit. The
lid is moved back by remote con -
trol signal before launching.
The Air Force said a major
purpose of the test was to deter
mine how the missile reacted to
temperatures, pressures, noise,
vibration and shock when it ig
nited in the silo.
Rayburn Lies in State in Bonham
BONHAM, Tex. (AP)—The body
of Sam Rayburn lay in state yes
terday in a magnificent marble
library, and the friends and neigh
bors who idolized him most filed
past solemnly in a parting,
mournful tribute.
There were tight-lipped men,
women dabbing at their eyes,
youngsters out of school all
honoring the man who served asj
speaker of the House for the,
longest span in history. |
There were the people from|
Rayburn’s home town and the
rich black countryside in the con
gressional district he served for
48 years.
Today, President Kennedy will
lead a pilgrimage of many of
the nation’s notables to the fu
neral at 1:30 p.m. for the speaker,
who died of cancer Thursday. He
was 79 years old.
Yesterday was the day for the
humble folk and the people of
Bonham and their neighbors.
Rayburn’s body was taken from
the funeral home in the morning
to lie in state for 24 hours in the
simple, Georgian-style Sam Ray-j
burn Library which now will be
Red Economists Visit Cuba
HAVANA (AP) —An economic
mission from Red-ruled East Ger
many has arrived to negotiate
wider economic relations with
Cuba.
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Directive Sent
To Nonskeds
WASHINGTON (JP)Seere
tary of Defense Robert S. Mc-
Namara has directed non
scheduled airlines to submit
to strict military safety inspec
tion if they want to carry troops
in the United States.
McNamara's directive yesterday
came nine days after 74 Army re
cruits perished in an Imperial Air
lines plane crash near Richmond,
Va, .The new order is effective
immediately.
This means nonscheduled air
lines moving
troops within
United Sta
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lines have had to
meet regulations only of the Fed
eral Aviation Agency and Civil
Aeronautics Board.
McNamara told a news con-
a Rayburn memorial. Friends and
associates, who will be the pall
bearers, served as an escort.
In the first hour nearly 700 per
sons walked past the plain, gray
casket in the library foyer. Most
of them paused a moment to sign a
register before leaving.
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ference that. In addition to safe
ty. MATS will concern itself
with nonscheduled airlines' fi
nancial stability and ability to
meet schedules.
That appeared aimed at some
of the 29 nonscheduled airlines
which are reported in shaky finan
cial condition. Officials said a
line’s financial condition influ
ences its ability to maintain its
planes properly.
McNamara did not, as some
had expected, rule out the use
of nonscheduled airlines for
military troop movement nor
did he even mention any spe
cific nonscheduled airline.
However, he did rule that de
fense personnel traveling as in
dividuals at government expense
will use only the regular sched
uled airlines.
In a wide-ranging news con
ference, his first in two months,
McNamara said also:
• The United States has speed
ed military aid to Communist
beleaguered South Viet Nam and
is discussing possible further ac
tion with the Saigon government.
• The Berlin crisis military
buildup is going along “very satis
factorily," with 300,000 men add
ed and about 45,000 reinforce
ments sent to Europe.
“We have no plans at the pres
ent time for calling additional
large forces to active duty," he
said.
Vulture Attacks Airplane
TEHRAN, Iran (AP)—A huge
vulture smashed into the wind
shield of a chartered oil company
plane flying at 4,009 feet, it was
reported recently. Flying glass
cut an arm of the copilot and an
eye of the steward. A passenger
fainted.
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