TUESDAY. JANUARY 8. 1963
.N. Troops Gain Control of Katanga;
Central Regime tiles Civil Affairs
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(AP) The United Nations' mili
tary takeover of Katanga rolled
on yesterday and the Congo cen
tral government set up civil con
trol over the secessionist province.
It was the first time Katanga
President Noise Tshombe has
been superseded politically in the
capital of his mineral-rich do
main.
Swedish U.N. troops seized the
railroad town of Kaniama, 360
miles northwest of Elizabethville,
and neutralized its airfields with
out a fight, the United Nations
announced.
THE ACTION tightened the
U.N. grip on north gatanga and
further boxed up Tshombe's bat
tered forces at Kolwezi, his
emergency headquarters 150 miles
northwest of Elizabethville.
U.S. Air Force Globemasters
flew in technical supplies as the
United Nations continued its mili
tary buildup for a possible strike
at Kolwezi and a push southeast
Albania, China Hit
For Kremlin Attacks
MOSCOW (IF) In a major
propaganda broadside, the Soviet
Communist party demanded yes
terday that Red China and Alban
ia stop attacking the Kremlin's
policy of so-called peaceful co
existence.
An editorial covering . nearly 2 1 / 2
pages of Pravda ended, however.
with what sounded like a plea for
an ideological peace conference.
"The Communist parties," said
the party newspaper, "have a
tested method of settling conten
tious issues by way of collective
discussion. Our party has always
advocated this method."
It came only a week before the
leaders of the Communist world
assemble in East Berlin for the
sixth congress of the East Ger
man Communist party.
U.S. experts said yesterday they
expect the growing Moscow-Pek
ing rift to be a central issue at the
Berlin Communist meeting.
They figure Khrushchev may
also pave the way for a later
shakeup in the high command of
the East German Communist re
gime.
Khrushchev may well pay lip
service once more to the long
standing Kremlin program for
neutralization of West Berlin and
ouster of Western troops. But
Washington specialists report no
hard evidence pointing to a ser-
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MOISE TSHOMBE
ward along the border of North
ern Rhodesia.
Moving in behind the U.N. take-
ious revival of the Red push on
West Berlin just now.
Buttressing the assessment that
the Moscow-Peking row will be
a principal order of business at
the East German party conven
tion opening in East Berlin Jan. 15
is the rising tempo in the bloc—
dividing public dispute.
Soviet and Red Chinese propa
ganda organs accused each other
of betraying the Communist cause
and playing into the hands of im
perialism.
Although neither. the Moscow
newspaper Pravda nor the Chi
nese "Red Flag" magazine men
tioned the other side by name
directly, in their rival editorials,
it was clear who they were strik
ing at.
Strategists Feel Taxes
May Be Cut by June
WASHINGTON (/P)—A tax cut
on part .of 1963 income is pos
sible if the House can vote on the
issue by June, highly placed
strategists calculated yesterday.
The chances for a reduction in
volving 1963 income, which Pres
ident Kennedy is expected to ask,
were not rated exceptionally high
by congressional sources closest
to the problem. But neither was
such a possibility being written
off.
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over, the Leopoldville government
named an administrative head of
Katanga to secure economic and
political victories for the central
Congolese government.
There seemed little choice for
Tshombe but to accept defeat and
console himself with a measure of
power as a provincial leader or
to fight a guerrilla war that few
believe he could win.
DIPLOMATIC informants told
AP correspondent Dennis Neeld
in Elizabethville, the Katanga
capital, that the United Nations
probably will present Tshombe an
ultimatum demanding that he sur
render Kolwczi without a fight.
Secretary General U Thant has
made clear through a New York
spokesman that he now wants
action, not words, from Tshombe
toward making effective Thant's
plans for reunification.
If he agrees, the informants
said, Tshombe's chances of re
maining provincial president of
south Katanga in a reunified Con
go are good. If he refuses, U.N.
forces will attack Kolwezi, they
said, and .Tshombe would be dead
politically.
U.N. undersecretary Ralph
Bunch, who flew to the Congo on
a special mission over the week
end, said he had no plans to meet
with Tshombe. He said the time
for negotiation is over.
LONDON (AP)—Strong denials
in London and Washington of pub
lished reports that British bomb
ers pierced North American de
fenses in mock H-bomb attacks,
two months ago raised some ques
tions yesterday.
Did Britain's high-flying, swift
Vulcan bombers actually break
through in the big North Ameri
can defense drills of 1961, whose
results remain secret?
And were the stories of the Vul
can's reputed successes, splashed
in four London newspapers de
signed to bolster the argument
that the Skybolt miss,ile, aban
doned by the United States, might
still be a weapon in the nuclear
arsenal?
The Vulcan was to carry the
Skybolt in Britain's nuclear deter
rent force before the United
States decided to drop develop
ment of the air-to-ground missile.
ALONG WITH the Defense De
partment, the British Air Min
istry denied the newspaper reports
that four of the delta-winged
Vulcan bombers slipped through
the North American defenses two
months ago and flew over New
York, Washington, Chicago and
Los Angeles,
However, an Air Ministry
spokesman did say that the Vul
cans took part in Operation Sky-
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'rules
Fight
WASHINGTON (A)—President
Kennedy's legislative leaders will
tell him when he returns from
Florida today that they are opti
mistic about winning a crucial
battle over the House Rules Com
mittee.
Kennedy is openly concerned in
the outcome of this battle, which
will be . decided right after Con
gress convenes tomorrow at noon.
But he is staying out of a fight
to change the Senate antifilibust
er rules. This struggle could
plunge the Senate into a filibuster
before it even starts on legislative
business.
SENATE DEMOCRATIC Lead
er Mike Mansfield of Montana
clashed cold water on hopes voiced
by some members that Kennedy
would jump into the Senate scrap
too.
"The President is taking no part
in this and should not," Mansfield
told a reporter. "This is entirely
a Senate matter."
Mansfield spoke after Sen. Hu
bert H. Humphrey of Minnesota,
the assistant Democratic leader,
said he and other supporters of a
drive to adopt a stronger rule
against prolonged debate hoped
the President "would be as inter
ested in the rules of the Senate
as he is in those of the House."
Mansfield said he hopes to post
pone the Senate fight, with its
shield II in October of 1961.
U.S. and Canadian planes also
participated in Skyshield 11, an
exercise designed to lest the de
fensive system of the North
American continent, including the
radar network.
ITS RESULTS never have been
made public. Informants pointed
out that detailed results of such
war games constitute important
defense secrets.
If British planes made a major
penetration in 1961 their action
would tend to bolster two con
troversial strategic concepts, it
was said. These are:
o That there are many years of
useful life ahead for the manned
jet bombers as a delivery vehicle
for the nuclear deterrent.
And that Skybolt also has a
future if its guidance and other
problems could be worked out.
U.S. sources rejected the sug
gestion that rethinking might be
necessary on the manned bomber
and Skybolt questions.
We address this to the young man who
"borrowed" sixteen beautiful object;
on the night of December 6.
Deer Friend—
Your grinning face with beer bottle in
hand has been captured for posterity. In
breaking the glass you triggered off an
infra red camera located in the white box
above our entrance way.
While we may not recognize you in the
picture, certainly others will, If the objects
-"borrowed" are not returned by this
evening your picture will be in the hands
of the Dean of Men by tomorrow
morning.
This leniency is extended to you merely
because we assume you were intoxicated.
Co mittee
threat of a filibuster by Southern
opponents of• a rules change, un
til after Kennedy has delivered
his annual State of the Union
message. This is set tentatively
for next Monday.
Kennedy has said in effect that
"We are through if we lose" the
fight to prevent the House Rules
Committee from reverting„ to 12
members. This lineup in the past
has enabled a conservative coali
tion of four Republicans and two
Southern Democrats— Chairman
Howard W. Smith of Virginia and
Rep. William M. Colmer of Mis
sissippi—to dominate the com
mittee.
House Speaker John W. McCor
mack, D-Mass., told newsmen he
is optimistic about prospects for
making permanent a temporary
increase in the committee's mem
bership to 15, which was approved
by a 217-212 vote two years ago.
Robena Miner
Blasts Conditions
CARMICIIAELS, Pa. (AP) A
mine worker, in a dramatic out
burst yesterday, told investigators
of a coal mine explosion which
killed 37 men that safety condi
tions at the stricken Robena No.
3 mine were neglected except
when inspectors were due to visit.
Testifying in the fourth day of
a public hearing at nearby
Garards Fort, Joseph Baron, a
shuttle-car operator in the U.S.
Steel Corp.'s nearby Robena coal
mine complex, said the only time
Shuttle-car roadways are spiked
to hold down coal dust is "when
the inspectors are coming."
IN ANSWER to questions,
Baron said that when it is known
that inspectors are coming "they
rocicdust thoroughly, sprinkle the
roadways with water, and make
sure all the proper seals are on
the machinery."
Safety control by supervisory
personnel inside the mine was
"nothing but a big joke," he said
in answer to questions.
Baron also added some support
to the testimony of miners who
said earlier that methane gas was
found in the Rohena No. 3 mine
the day before the Dec. blast,
contradicting testimony by an as
sistant foreman.
Fred Spoljarich, operator of a
continuous mining machine, testi
fying Saturday and again yester
day, said he had detected gas and
reported it.
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