January 1962
January 1, 1962
President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev exchanged New Year's greetings. In the messages, made public yesterday, the two leaders acknowledged that their nations bore a grave responsibility to humanity and assured each other of a firm resolve to seek a durable peace in 1962. (1:8)
Lebanese government crushes Right-wing coup d'etat. Soldiers from the garrison at tyre, commanded by a captain, tried unsuccessfully to seize several Government buildings. (1:7)
In troubled Berlin, U. s. military policemen were halting Soviet Army vehicles to determine the identity of officers driving into the American sector. The measure was being taken to insure that the Soviet Commandant in Berlin and his chief adviser did not circumvent a u. s. order barring them from the sector. (1:7)
The State Department appeared to be moderating charges made by two of its highest officials that opposition to the United Nations operation in Katanga had been spurred by a well-financed propaganda machine. Under Secretary of State George C. McGhee said that the two speeches last week "were not cleared at the highest levels of the Department." (1:4)
South Vietnam, which has been aided by a build-up in United States Military support, was preparing a strong counter-offensive against Communist guerilla forces. (1:8)
On the eve of a new calendar year, the Administration was also looking toward the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Despite a growing emphasis on conventional ground forces, it is proceeding with a vast increase in its long-range nuclear forces through the defense budget of that year. About $4,100,000,000 will be sought for the Minuteman ICBM and the Polaris submarine programs. (1:6)
Severe attacks against the United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization were said to have been resumed in many parts of the country. A revival of attacks similar to those of the early nineteen fifties appears to be linked to a resurgence of ultraconservatism and isolationism. (1:1)
Poultry problems vex Common Market negotiators. (26)
January 2, 1962
Foes of Salazar regime unsuccessfully attacked an infantry barracks at Beja in Alentejo Province early yesterday morning. The Lisbon Government said the uprising was swiftly crushed, but the Portuguese Under Secretary of State for the Army was fatally wounded by machine-gun fire. The rebels' young, Left-Wing leader, Capt. Joao Maria Paulo Varela Gomez, was reported seriously wounded. (1:1)
Congo gripped by continued warfare. (6:4)
Meanwhile, the u. s. was trying without immediate success to persuade Union Miniere de Haute Katanga -- the big Belgian-controlled mining concern in Katanga -- to give positive backing to Congolese Premier Adoula's pact with Mr. Tshombe to end the Katanga secession. (1:2)
Washington also was involved in a dispute between two other Governments. President Ydigoras of Guatemala asked President Kennedy to fulfill what he said was a promise of American diplomatic aid in the Guatemalan attempt to gain British Honduras from Britain. (1:2)
United States sources said that two more infantry battle groups would be flown to West Germany this month in a "training drill." The overseas airlift of some 4,000 troops will be the first by the Strike Command, a new Army-Air Force unit designed to rush forces to any trouble spot. (1:1)
President Kennedy believes that the balanced budget he will submit for the next fiscal year was made possible by deficit spending under the current budget. According to sources close to Mr. Kennedy, he thinks the spending helped to stimulate the economy and thus produce tax revenues needed to balance the new budget. (1:3)
Attorney General Kennedy reported that the Justice Department was getting results in its intensified war on crime. He said the Criminal Division had quadrupled its efforts in terms of man-hours expended and he noted that racketeers were fleeing to Canada. (19:4)
Benjamin F. Fairless, towering figure in the steel industry for more than two decades and a former chairman of U.S. Steel, died at the age of 71 after a long illness. (1:3-4)
Mayor Wagner's third-term inauguration. (21:1)
Kennedy hails Wilkins for leadership. (23)
January 3, 1962
The U. S. asked the Soviet Union yesterday to state its terms for a Berlin settlement in an effort to find a "reasonable basis" for East West talks. Ambassador Thompson made the request to Foreign Minister Gromyko as they sat at a coffee table in the Soviet official's Moscow office. It was understood, however, that the meeting produced no substantial change in either side's position, although further talks were planned. Later, at a reception marking the Cuban revolution's third anniversary, Mr. Gromyko said it was too early to comment on the results of the discussion. (1:1)
Fidel Castro celebrated the third anniversary, saying he would call a mass anti-imperialism rally on Jan. 22, the same day the inter-American foreign ministers will meet to discuss the threat of Communist subversion from Cuba. (1:2)
Washington denied Guatemala's assertion that she let Cuban rebels train on her soil in return for an American pledge of diplomatic aid in Guatemala's dispute with Britain over control of British Honduras. (1:3)
In another territorial controversy, the Dutch eased their stand on the question of Netherlands New Guinea. The Premier told Parliament that the Govt. had dropped its demand that the principle of self-determination for the Papuan people be accepted by Indonesia as a basis for negotiations. (1:2-3)
In Laos the Rightist Government of Prince Boun Oum is resisting a united states supported plan for formation of a coalition regime that would include neutralist and pro-Communist leaders. Sources said the American Ambassador virtually had to force an audience with the Vice Premier in order to present Washington's view. (1:1)
President Kennedy began reviewing plans for a major reorganization of the Army. One plan would give the Secretary of Defense a firmer grip on his department and cut deeply into the traditional authority and power of the chiefs of the Army's technical services. It was reported that this proposal would create a materiel development and logistics command with broad responsibility for procurement. (1:4)
Rep. Richard Bolling of Mo. reportedly has decided to drop out of the race for majority leader of the House. This would leave Carl B. Albert of Oklahoma as the only avowed candidate. The majority leadership will be vacated by the probable election of John W. McCormack of Massachusetts as Speaker. (1:4-5)
ADA urges President Kennedy to be more aggressive in obtaining progressive legislation from Congress. (38:1)
Roy Wilkins expresses disappointment in the Kennedy record and said the Administration has made a mistake in not pressing for civil rights legislation. (14:3)
u. s. - Soviet exchange pact allowed to lapse. (2)
January 4, 1962
In Berlin, the Russians rejected American protests over East German restrictions on access to East Berlin. The Americans then announced that the Soviet Commandant and his political adviser would remain barred from the American sector. (3:1)
Representative Richard Bolling of Missouri withdrew from the race for House majority leader, thus assuring the election of Carl Albert of Oklahoma. (22:1)
F. T. C. condemns deceptive advertising on TV. (22)
Slogan dispute arises with Post Office. (23)
January 5, 1962
The Council of the Organization of American States lifted diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Dominican Republic. The sanctions were imposed in 1960 and were stiffened last year. The decision was based on a resolution declaring that the Caribbean country had "ceased to constitute a danger to the peace and security of the continent." (1:4)
The united states has offered to assist six countries in studying their health and social welfare problems. The project, the first of its kind, will be financed by foreign currencies derived from the sale of agricultural surpluses and credited to this country. (14:3-4)
Copyright in error on book of Kennedy's speeches. (20)
Fred Korth is sworn as Navy Secretary. (10)
January 6, 1962
A war of nerves was being waged in the Laotian capital of Vientiane. The disagreement was between the United States Embassy and the Right-wing government of Prince Boun Oum. The embassy is pressing for officials to drop demands that have forestalled formation of a coalition government. (2:6)
The Defense Department also issued a directive aimed at eliminating job discrimination among its own civilian employees and those hired by private defense contractors. It specified that persons seeking jobs would have equal opportunities for jobs, promotion and training programs. (13:4)
The American Stock Exchange came under attack from the Securities and Exchange Commission in a 127-page report criticizing many of its administrative practices. The S. E. C. told the exchange to move quickly to end "manifold and prolonged abuses" of trading rules. The Commission did not specify how the changes would be accomplished. (1:2-3; Text, 22)
U. S. Reds expel "pro-Albanian" group. (2)
Clay, in u.s. denies rift with Rusk. (5)
January 7, 1962
Speaking at a dinner in honor of Governor DiSalle, the President said his proposals to help college students pay for their education and to defray the cost of medical care for the aged through the Social Security system were major aims. (1:1)
The Administration also plans to ask Congress for a $50,000,000 program to wipe out adult illiteracy. It will be part of a $3,525,000,000 educational package to be pushed this year by Secretary Ribicoff. The group also includes aid to higher education, quality secondary education, medical education and educational television. All are in addition to a $2,300,000,000 general school aid bill, which is not considered likely to pass at this session. (1:6-7)
Rusk joins Clay in denying clash on Berlin. (1)
u.s. resumes ties to Dominican Republic. (32)
u.s. mediators cramming on maritime industry. (87)
Ex-Senator John Hoblitzell Jr. of west Virginia died. (88)
January 8, 1962
President Kennedy met yesterday with Gen. Lucius D. Clay and announced later that they had reached full agreement on handling any future crises in Berlin. The general, who is Mr. Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, had previously been reported to be disturbed by limitations allegedly placed by the State Department on the American military commander there. But his talks with the President, and with Secretary Rusk Saturday, apparently settled whatever dispute there may have been over how to initiate American emergency operations in Berlin. (1, Column 8)
The Soviet union has offered West Germany a vague lure of reunification and huge Soviet markets if it will negotiate a bilateral accord. West German officials predicted firm rejection of the proposal, which was viewed as a double effort to sow distrust between Bonn and its allies and to play on Western fears of a Soviet-West German deal. (1:6-7)
A secret report to President Kennedy on foreign economic policy warns that Congressional refusal to permit 50 per cent cuts in present tariffs on whole categories of imports could lead to "disintegration of the free-world economy into separate trading systems." Any failure by the united states to take the lead in trade liberalization would put American exporters at a "formidable" disadvantage to the European Common Market and would also have "most serious" political consequences, the report declared. (1:4)
Justice Department officials said that Congress would also be asked to resolve the conflict-of-interest problem confronting many Government scientific advisers who serve industry as part-time consultants. (17:1)
January 9, 1962
Moscow's durable Vyacheslav M. Molotov was sent back to the job that most people thought he had lost. The Soviet Foreign Ministry said that the former Foreign Minister had returned to Vienna as representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Last fall he was accused by the Soviet hierarchy of having played an active role in the Stalin era purges. (1:2-3)
Soviet MIG's apparently forced a Belgian jet airliner to land inside the Soviet union on a flight from Teheran to Istanbul. Belgium requested release of the plane and the twenty-seven persons aboard. (1:8)
January 10, 1962
In Bonn, it was learned that a major theme of a recent Soviet memorandum was that West Germany's allies were forcing it to dissipate its resources in an arms race. The document said former President Eisenhower had persuaded Bonn to rearm in order to weaken its chances against the united states in world trade. (1:2)
Laos indicated that the united states was bringing intolerable economic pressure for creation of a coalition with neutralists and pro-Communists. But Prince Boun Oum's Rightist regime said it preferred austerity to yielding. (1:2)
A Laotian neighbor, South Vietnam, has a reasonably good chance to be saved from communism without large-scale use of American troops, Washington now believes. But a long and bitter struggle is forecast. (3:1)
Congress will convene today with the Democrats striving for a show of party harmony despite splits over major parts of President Kennedy's program. Mr. Kennedy went over the agenda at a breakfast meeting with Democratic Congressional leaders. Publicly, the participants tried to gloss over their conflicts on such issues as old-age medical care and liberalized foreign trade, but the prospect for party strife persisted. Later, House Democrats chose John W. McCormack of Massachusetts as Speaker and Carl Albert of Oklahoma as majority leader. The two then agreed to name Hale Boggs of Louisiana as party whip, or assistant majority leader. (1:8)
At the White House breakfast, the President revealed that the national debt was likely to press too close to its $298,000,000,000 ceiling and that an increase would be asked. The requested ceiling probably would be above $300,000,000,000. (1:6-7)
Secretary of Defense McNamara named a group of leading citizens who will assess controversial troop indoctrination programs. The announcement, made in advance of Senate hearings on the subject, was assailed by Senator Thurmond as an admission of "shortcomings." (1:7)
A high State Department officer, Carl T. Rowan, has been denied membership in Washington's distinguished Cosmos Club. Mr. Rowan is a Negro who enjoys a national reputation as a reporter and writer. The action led Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith to resign from the club. This in turn had the effect of canceling President Kennedy's membership application, because Mr. Galbraith was one of his sponsors. (1:5-6)
u.s. fires underground atom test shot. (11)
Protestants praise Kennedy church-state stand. (15)
White House dinner party to honor Stravinsky. (18)
January 11, 1962
The Eighty-seventh Congress opened with the election of John W. McCormack of Massachusetts as Speaker of the House, succeeding the late Sam Rayburn. (1:8)
A basic difference within the Administration over what to do about the farm surplus was disclosed in a report to the President. The report said that the State department and another agency wanted to use more food as foreign aid than the Department of Agriculture believes is justified. (1:7)
u.s. reaches aid accord with Dominicans. (14)
Kennedy backs Coast dam; to speak in California. (16)
u.s. concern bilked by officers in brazil. (1)
u.s. envoy deplores honor to Swiss ex-convict. (22)
Fawzi el-Mulki, Jordan's chief to U.N. delegate, dies. (33)
January 12, 1962
A confident President Kennedy asked the Eighty-seventh Congress yesterday to give him new authority to reduce tariffs, cut personal income taxes in an economic emergency and strengthen the welfare programs of the nation. In a 6,000-word State of the Union Message he made thirty-four legislative requests including a proposal for a new five-year trade act to promote a low-tariff trade partnership in the non-Communist world. The President spoke for nearly an hour and laid special emphasis on economic and welfare issues. (1, Column 8; Text, 12-13)
Civil rights legislation drew more attention from Mr. Kennedy than had been expected, but it was still doubtful that he would press Congress for action in this session. (12:7-8)
The President declared that "our strength and our hope" in keeping the peace "is the United Nations." As he urged Congress to support his request to purchase up to half of a $200,000,000 United Nations bond issue, united states and British officials conferred in Washington on United Nations activities. (1:2-3)
An entire village in Peru and most of its 500 residents were buried when a forty-foot-deep mass of ice, boulders and mud slid down the side of a mountain. Peruvian officials feared that the final toll might be as high as 4,000. (1:2-3)
The United States Air Force broke a world record in a demonstration of its latest flying missile-launcher, a B-52H super-bomber that flew 12,519 miles nonstop from Okinawa to Madrid without refueling. Its average speed was 575 miles an hour. (1:3-4)
The State Department will announce today new regulations that bar passports to members of the Communist party but allow anyone accused of party membership to confront and cross-examine his accusers. This is believed to be the first time that the Government has provided such an absolute right to confrontation in any internal security program. (1:4)
The Administration is abolishing its center for coping with crises abroad because of continuing dissatisfaction with it. (14:5-7)
Minow urges more television stations. (1)
January 13, 1962
After a three-hour conference yesterday with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, United States Ambassador Thompson said he could say nothing about the contents of the talks. He said he would probably meet with Western ambassadors to give them a report and added that more meetings with the Foreign Minister would take place. (1:1)
Full-scale economic aid to Laos will be resumed immediately. Announcement of the resumption of payments came two days after Prince Boun Oum, the pro-Western Premier, agreed to meet with neutralist and pro-Communist leaders for unity talks. (1:2)
At the United Nations Pakistan called for a Security Council meeting, charging threats to her security by India over the long-disputed area of Kashmir. Pakistan asked that it be held as soon as possible. (2:8)
The united states and the Common Market were reported on the verge of a final agreement in Brussels on a major tariff-cutting arrangement. The arrangement involves reductions of 20 per cent on hundreds of tariffs on both sides and is expected to be signed today or tomorrow. (1:6)
Next week the Army will announce plans for a major reorganization. The General Staff will be revamped, the posts of chiefs of the Ordnance and Chemical Corps will be eliminated and other technical service chiefs will be downgraded, except the Chief of Engineers and the Surgeon General. The Pentagon expects a Congressional battle and considerable protests. President Kennedy shared Secretary of Defense McNamara's enthusiasm for the move. (1:5)
The State Department has advised foreign diplomats to obey laws in this country, including traffic laws, despite diplomatic immunity. The warning came after an automobile accident in Washington involving a Belgian Embassy officer and an American couple. (2:4-5)
A merger of the nation's two largest railroads--the Pennsylvania and the New York Central--was approved by directors of both companies. (1:8)
u.s. - British conferees study strengthening U.N. (5)
Goldberg calls for airline contract settlement. (46)
u.s. trade position outlined in new handbook. (25)
u.s. halts sales of surplus crude rubber. (25)
January 14, 1962
Clashes broke out yesterday in the Congolese city of Stanley Ville between Government forces and troops loyal to Deputy Premier Antoine Gizenga. (1, Column 8)
Another obstacle of the European Common Market was overcome when the six-nation council reached full agreement on farm policy at a meeting in Brussels. (1:6-7)
W. Averell Harriman flew to Geneva to help convince the three feuding Princes of Laos to agree to one of the most unusual "cold war" arrangements ever devised by the great powers of East and West. The Assistant Secretary of State will seek final agreement on a formula for a neutral and independent buffer state of Laos. (1:5)
In Washington, three Democratic Senators warned the Administration against extending aid to those newly independent African nations that do not respect "basic rights and freedoms." In a report on a fifteen-nation "Study Mission to Africa," the three Senators expressed particular doubt about support for the Volta project in Ghana. (1:4-5)
A warning to new members of the United Nations against actions that would impair the work of the organization was issued by the United States after a three-day American-British conference. (1:7)
The Administration will ask Congress this week to appropriate about $5,500,000,000--about a twentieth of the total Federal budget--for civilian and military exploration of space. This request, included in the Budget Message to be presented on Thursday, would make the space program the fifth largest Federal commitment, surpassed only by the defense, veterans and agriculture programs and interest costs on the national debt. (1:1)
Defense officials, girding themselves for Senate hearings on mounting charges of military "muzzling," plan to stand firm on the Pentagon's power to censor speeches and articles by military men. (1:1)
Ernie Kovacs, comedian of the theatre, screen and television, was killed in an auto crash in Los Angeles. His age was 42. (1:6)
Property assets of U.S. rise to $282.9 billion. (45)
Harrison inaugurated as Governor of Virginia. (50)
U.S. to scrutinize rail merger plan. (66)
January 15, 1962
At least thirty-six persons, most of them Moslems, were killed in communal clashes and acts of terrorism in Algeria's large cities. (1:7)
Hardening Republican opposition to the United Nations bond issue is threatening the Kennedy Administration with a major Congressional battle. Republicans who normally support the United Nations are arguing that the bond issue is financially unsound. (1:6-7)
The United Nations General Assembly will begin the second part of its sixteenth regular session today with the likelihood of bitter debate over the Portuguese territory of Angola and the future of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi. (1:6-7)
The National Science Foundation made public a comprehensive study that describes Soviet leaders as convinced that education offers them the key to victory over the West. The three-year study of Soviet education reports that Moscow has scored a dramatic success in educating scientific specialists but is faced with serious shortages of youthful skilled labor. (1:4-5)
The Federal Government indicated concern over improving the relations of Americans overseas and their foreign hosts. It is distributing a revised edition of "Americans Abroad," which offers official answers to provocative questions about United States policies and customs. (27:1)
The first debate of the new Congressional session is scheduled to get under way today. The Senate will take up a bill designed to soften the effect of the Supreme Court's decision that the du Pont Company must dispose of 63,000,000 shares in General Motors. (13:1)
Albania is placed outside the Red fold. (2)
U.S. fears Brazil may turn to Leftist rule. (3)
Kennedy ideas supported in money report. (35)
January 16, 1962
The United Nations was disturbed by news of a clash in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea. Dutch destroyers sank three Indonesian torpedo boats near the island. Acting Secretary General Thant promptly appealed for a settlement without fighting. (1:6-7) President Kennedy warmly backed Mr. Thant's efforts. (1:7)
Washington sources said that the European Common Market had agreed to make tariff concessions on American agricultural exports that were valued last year at from $600,000,000 to $700,000,000. However, United States negotiators were dissatisfied with concessions offered by the Common Market on another group of more competitive farm commodities with an export value of about $400,000,000. The United States served notice that it would insist on its "historic share" of the European market for farm exports. (1:8)
At a news conference, President Kennedy called for early agreement on a new wage contract in the steel industry to avoid the upsetting uncertainty of a possible strike. He said Secretary of Labor Goldberg would be available to give whatever help he could to seek a pact well before the June 30 contract deadline. (17:1)
Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club, which Mr. Kennedy had sought to join until it denied membership to Carl T. Rowan, a Negro and a high official of the State Department, overwhelmingly went on record in opposition to racial religious or ethnic discrimination in the admission of members. (1:5-6)
U. S. urges Cuban sanctions if Red ties persist. Page 4
U. S.-Soviet accord on Laos problem affirmed. Page 10
U. S. opposed sale of British planes to Peiping. Page 11
Kennedy urges wider study in scientific fields. Pg. 16
January 17, 1962
After a day of rioting in Santo Domingo, President Joaquin Balaguer resigned and a civilian-military junta took over the Dominican Government. (1:8)
With treads clanking, fifteen American tanks lumbered away from a camp near the Berlin wall as the United States began withdrawing the force that had guarded the border at the Friedrichstrasse since October. It was described as a gesture to the Russians, whose tanks remained nearby, to "normalize" the Berlin situation. Some westerners called it "the end of General Clay's policy in Berlin." (1:5)
The West also pulled back from a diplomatic position. In Geneva, the United States and. Britain offered to put the future of their deadlocked nuclear test talks with the Soviet Union up to the new eighteen-nation Disarmament Committee. The step paralleled a Soviet proposal to merge the nuclear and general disarmament negotiations. (1:6)
President Kennedy sent Congress a drastic and possibly controversial plan to reorganize Army headquarters. Devised by the Army itself, the plan would downgrade or abolish some top-level jobs, such as Quartermaster General, create two new administrative commands and revamp the General Staff. (14:4)
Stiffening G. O. P. opposition raised new doubt that the President's proposal to set up a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing would be approved. (1:3)
Richard J. Hughes was inaugurated as New Jersey's Governor. (1:2-4)
Chinese Reds assail Kennedy as "Fascist." Page 4
President is honorary member of restricted club. Page 15
Schlesinger will resign as Harvard professor. Page 17
January 18, 1962
The United States was fearful that the Dominican Republic was heading into another military dictatorship, probably led by the Chief of the armed forces. In an effort to counteract such a development, Washington is considering severe political and economic pressure on the new Dominican regime. State Department officials said this might involve withdrawal of recognition from that country and the United States' refusal to buy about $45,000,000 worth of Dominican sugar. (1:8)
In an effort to resolve the dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, Acting Secretary General Thant offered to confer with Dutch and Indonesian leaders. (1:7)
President Kennedy and liberal-trade advocates in Congress pressed a drive to win support for broad new Presidential powers to cut tariffs. (1:6-7)
A nation-wide insurance program of uniform surgical and medical-care benefits for persons 65 years of age and over was announced by the National Association of Blue Shield Plans and the American Medical Association. Coverage would cost about $3 a month a person. A spokesman called the program Blue Shield's answer to proposals to "socialize" medicine. (1:2-3)
January 19, 1962
President Kennedy presented to Congress yesterday his first complete budget. Mr. Kennedy's budget was balanced, as he had pledged, and it provided for further enlargement of the New Frontier and the highest spending of any peacetime year. The President estimated that in the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1, the Government's books would show these totals: spending - $92,537,000,000, and revenues - $93,000,000,000. (1:8)
On taxes, Mr. Kennedy proposed repeal of the 10 per cent Federal tax on travel by rail, highway and water and a reshuffling of taxes on air transportation. He also recommended stiffer taxation of building and loan associations and mutual savings banks. (1:7)
The most spectacular "growth" program is space exploration. In the coming year the Government will spend more than $12,000,000,000 on the accelerating program of scientific research and development. (19:8)
The budget reduced the emphasis on the separate roles of the Army, Navy and Air Force by viewing the composition of military force in terms of broad missions. (1:6-7)
The deposed ruling council in the Dominican Republic recaptured control of the Government from the junta installed by General Rodriquez Echavarria. (1:1)
The Inter-American Peace Committee accused Cuba of violation of hemispheric principles and agreements by tying herself to the Communist bloc, depriving her people of human rights and conducting "subversive activity" against other American nations. (1:1)
Tension in Berlin eased when the Soviet Army withdrew a formation of a dozen tanks from the heart of East Berlin, half a mile from the intracity border. The withdrawal was made about forty-eight hours after the United States Army began pulling back a tank task force from a camp about 500 yards from the border barricades. (1:2-3)
Secretary of State Rusk vigorously defended the United States' Support for the United Nations' role in the Congo. He suggested that events had justified Washington's policy. (1:2)
Kennedy to confer with Thant here today. Page 3
U. S. expected to reverse anti-Dominican steps. Page 6
January 20, 1962
The quick overthrow of the Dominican junta was heartily welcomed by the Kennedy Administration, which stepped up preparations for a loan of more than $20,000,000 to the Caribbean nation. (4:3)
President Kennedy flew to New York for a two-hour discussion of United Nations problems with Acting Secretary General Thant. The discussion in this, their first meeting, was apparently comprehensive, although no details were made public. The President later conferred with Mayor Wagner and went to the theatre with friends. He plans to return to Washington today. (1:5)
President Kennedy, who led Administration officials in launching the Government's 1962 bond campaign, urged business and labor leaders to exercise restraint to avoid price increases. (1:6-7)
Mrs. Katie Louchheim has been named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. The post is the highest rank ever held by a woman in the department. (1:7)
Wagner and Kennedy confer on urban problems. Page 2
U. S. to stock shelters in 14 cities. Page 7
Kennedy seeks to end bonuses on sugar imports. Page 8
January 21, 1962
The Soviet Union has asked Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to visit Moscow on his world tour next month. President Kennedy and the State Department are trying to decide whether to accept the Soviet bid, viewed as an attempt to ease East-West tensions. Secretary of State Rusk and the Attorney General discussed the invitation at length Friday, but delayed a decision. They are getting conflicting advice from Administration officials, based on different interpretations of growing dissension in the Communist world. (1:8)
A Bulgarian MG-19 jet fighter carrying high-altitude photo equipment crashed near Bari, Italy, after having flown over a NATO missile base. The injured pilot was questioned by Italian military authorities. (1:7)
Cheers from more than 5,000 Democrats echoed through Washington's barn-like National Guard armory at President Kennedy's words. The Democratic Party, he told them, would win the 1962 elections if run "as a party of progress as it has always." The occasion was a $100-a-plate party dinner in the armory honoring the President's first year in office. (1:4)
The Administration served notice that its own proposals would not be changed by a new plan for medical care for the aged worked out by the Blue Shield and American Medical Association. Secretary Ribicoff said the plan failed to answer the main problem - hospital care for the aged. (1:2-3)
The Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed four convictions on income-tax evasion against former teamster union President Dave Beck. But the court upheld Beck's conviction on two counts of filing false union returns. (1:2)
High officials of the Kennedy Administration and the national labor federation took a dim view of the five-hour work day that 9,000 electrical construction workers in New York have won for themselves. (1:1)
January 22, 1962
In the summer atmosphere of the South Atlantic beach resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay, the American Foreign ministers held intensive consultations yesterday for their conference on the Cuban problem. The meeting to seek a formula to counteract the dangers of Communist control of Cuba begins today. Secretary of State Rusk said that the success of the Alliance for Progress program depended on the security of the hemisphere against outside interference. His arrival statement, which made no direct mention of Cuba, appeared to reflect Washington's intention to give a full hearing to divided Latin-American opinion before working out a unified position. (1:8) Unlike the other delegations, the Cuban delegates remained in self-imposed isolation at a down-town beachside hotel. (4:3)
Firm adherence to the Atlantic alliance was expressed by West Germany's Defense Minister, Franz Josef Strauss. His statement that Bonn would not allow itself to be "driven or lured away" from its allies was seen as a reply to renewed Soviet efforts for direct talks between Moscow and Bonn. (1:6)
The world Communist movement is in ferment with long-standing differences over objectives, policies and tactics bursting into the open. Reports from correspondents throughout the world indicate the dissension involves not only a bitter rivalry for leadership between Moscow and Peiping but also the fragmentation of what has been called "the bloc" and increasing demands for "independence" by Communist parties in all continents. (1:5-6)
Moscow's avowed policy of "peaceful co-existence," which is opposed by Peiping, was reflected in an article in Pravda that appears to call for an alliance with the West to prevent thermonuclear war and to insure economic progress. (1:7)
Secretary of Labor Goldberg believes that the last year has seen a thaw in the "cold war" between management and labor that augurs well for the future. He is pictured as believing that "both groups have tacitly adopted a more moderate, non-ideological stance in collective bargaining. (1:2)
President Kennedy faces an important test in the House Rules Committee this week over the creation of a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. The legislation has run into the racial issue, and some sources are gloomy over the bill's prospects. (1:3)
McCone upholds activities of C.I.A. Page 12
Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel, Kansas Republican, died. Page 23
January 23, 1962
A $25,000,000 "emergency credit" to shore up the Dominican Republic in its balance-of-payments crisis was announced by President Kennedy, who also said he was encouraged by that country's steps toward orderly democratic government. (1:2-3)
Attorney General Kennedy rejected an "informal invitation" to visit the Soviet Union. He said he could not alter the schedule of his coming world tour. State Department officials were known to have opposed the visit. (1:5)
In Moscow, a Soviet economic report on 1961 claimed new successes in peaceful competition with the United States. Selected production figures for steel, electric power and oil were used to show more rapid Soviet growth. (7:4)
President Kennedy issued an Economic Report. He told Congress that the nation's economy was responding well to the Administration's efforts to spur growth. But he noted that the country had spent seven of the last fifteen years making up for four recessions and that unemployment had generally been more than 4 per cent. Calling for defense now against future recessions and setting forth "guideposts" for non-inflationary wage rises, he also said economic growth could be increased to 4 1/2 per cent annually in the Sixties. (1:8)
The President's Council of Economic Advisers made its own report, which laid down a general guideline for wage and price restraint. The council said the rate of wage increase in each industry should not exceed the productivity rate trend for all industry. (1:6-7) Analysts found the council's report the first in some years to return to the human concept of unemployment. (15:7)
Secretary of Defense McNamara's plan to start supplanting manned bombers with missiles met resistance in the Senate, where Senator Russell said that bombers were proved weapons while the nation's missiles fell short of 100 per cent reliability. (4:6)
U. S. pledges aid to Manila on peso decontrol. Page 3
Kennedy asks end of silver-backed currency. Page 17
U. S. accuses New Rochelle Civil Defense chief. Page 17
Protestant magazine praises Kennedy record. Page 18
January 24, 1962
The United States fought yesterday for support of a new plan for hemispheric action against Cuba at the inter-American foreign ministers' meeting at Punta del Este, Uruguay. Washington's proposal was to suspend Cuba from the Organization of American States - a shift from the earlier bid for diplomatic sanctions. But the United States still insisted on economic sanctions. The new plan's fate was uncertain. (1:1)
In Berlin, the British commandant has received Allied approval to approach his Soviet counterpart with a proposal to "normalize" relations between the four powers. The aim of the proposal is to restore free movement for the commanders and their civilian political advisers in all parts of the city. (1:6-7)
The censorship question came up again at a FCC hearing. Chairman Minow said his agency did not plan to invade the program function of broadcasters. (1:5-6)
In the House, the Ways and Means Committee shied further away from the President's plan to end tax deductions for business entertainment. The panel settled on a general rule that half such costs should be deductible. (1:7)
The House tentatively approved the Administration's bill to increase first-class mail rates from 4 cents to 5 cents. The total raises would increase rates by $700,000,000 a year. (1:5)
The Administration was preparing to send Congress a massive food and farm program. There was no price tag on the over-all cost, but experts hoped the program would cut price and income supports from $2,500,000,000 this year to $1,300,000,000 by 1967. (1:6-7)
One farm product--milk--is so delicious and nutritious, said President Kennedy, that it will be served at all White House meals from now on. He assured the public in a speech that its milk supply had "no hazards," either from radiation or cholesterol. Then, he toasted his audience--with milk, of course. (1:5-6)
A plan to create the world's largest airline by merging American and Eastern Airlines was approved by their directors. (1:8)
Kennedy suggests Kashmir mediation by Black. (7)
Senate approved du Pont Tax-relief bill. (1)
January 25, 1962
A new plan that originated in France and that would radically alter the present system of world trade in wheat and other foods is under study in major Western capitals. Under the plan, poorer nations would get surpluses from wealthier countries at almost no charge. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy has invited Premier Khrushchev's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mme. Aleksei I. Adzhubei, to lunch with him at the White House next Tuesday. Mr. Adzhubei interviewed the President last November in his capacity as editor of Izvestia. He and his wife will interrupt a trip through Latin America to keep the date. (1:2-3)
Twenty-eight East Germans staged the most successful mass escape to West Berlin since the Communists' border closing last August. The group included a 71-year-old paralyzed woman. (1:2)
The Soviet Government has asked that Soviet citizens be given eighty key positions on the United Nations staff and that promotions be given to at least twenty of its citizens already in the Secretariat. (1:4)
Republicans and Southern Democrats teamed up in the House Rules Committee to kill President Kennedy's bill for creating a Cabinet-level Department for Urban Affairs. By a vote of 9 to 6, they refused to send the bill to the House. Minutes later, at a news conference, the President moved to turn the action into an election-year weapon against Republicans among urban and Negro voters. He announced that he would act under his reorganization powers to create the department by executive decree, and that he would appoint Robert C. Weaver its head. (1:8; Text, Page 12)
In an unusual episode for a news conference, Kennedy vigorously defended two State Department employees against a reporter's charge that they were security risks. (1:6-7)
The projected merger of American and Eastern Air Lines was confronted with powerful Congressional opposition and a strike threat. (1:7)
U. S. plans conflict code for scientific advisers. (1)
Robert Kennedy says racketeers deal in stocks. (1)
Labor dispute looms at American Export Lines. (62)
U. S. agents seize dietary additive and best-seller. (26)
U. S. restricts fish flour to cleaned fish. (28)
Kennedy war saga stirs publishers' court battle. (33)
January 26, 1962
Secretary of State Rusk spoke yesterday before the American foreign ministers assembled at Punta del Este, Uruguay. He urged the conference to adopt a plan designed to protect the hemisphere from the dangers of aggression from the Soviet bloc through Cuba. Mr. Rusk's proposals include declaring Cuba incompatible with the inter-American system, excluding her from inter-American organizations, breaking off all hemispheric trade with her and creating a special security committee to study measures to combat Communist aggression. In a sharp reply, Cuba's President Dorticos charged that the conference was designed to prepare "conditions for a new physical and military aggression" against Cuba. (1, Column 1; Text 4).
Mr. Rusk's remarks were paralleled in a Washington speech by Teodoro Moscoso, who is in charge of the Alliance for Progress program. But he warned that the "leader class" in Latin America, still had not accepted the need for social and economic reforms as the alternative to Castroism. (1:2)
Also in Washington, a consortium of nations has agreed to grant Pakistan's request for $945,000,000 in credits. The consortium is composed of the United States, five other nations and the World Bank. (1:8)
In a special message to Congress, President Kennedy asked for bargaining powers to clear the way for a vast expansion of United States' trade with the rest of the non-Communist world. He sought general authority to reduce this country's tariffs by as much as 50 per cent in return for comparable reductions by other countries. He also requested special authority to negotiate the reduction or elimination of most tariffs on trade with the European Common Market. (1:8; Text, Page 10)
The President coupled these requests with proposals for an "adjustment assistance" plan for American business men, workers and farmers who might temporarily be hurt by rising imports. The plan would provide special Federal aid. (1:6)
In the civil rights field, the Administration has unexpectedly decided to press for legislation this year. The decision was signaled by the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, who introduced a bill to curb voter literacy tests. (1:7)
U. S. against attack on Vietnam Reds' corps. (2)
F.A.A. announces 189-million airway program. (14)
January 27, 1962
At the 352d session of the Geneva conference on a nuclear test ban, the Soviet Union again reversed itself by refusing yesterday to refer the issue to an eighteen-nation conference on general disarmament. Moscow informed the United States and Britain that the deadlocked three-power talks must continue instead on its own terms of an agreement without controls. The Soviet announcement caused Washington and London to give up their attempts to negotiate a test-ban treaty for the time being. (1, Col. 1)
Decision by the NATO nations to bar all but a few East Germans from their territories in retaliation for the Communists' wall in Berlin. (1:2-3)
The national space agency failed in an attempt to send a complex, 727-pound spacecraft to the moon. The gold-and-silver-plated spacecraft, known as Ranger 3, was given "excessive velocity" by the two-stage Atlas-Agena B. rocket. As a result it was expected to miss the moon by about 20,000 to 30,000 miles. The craft was designed to take close-up television pictures of the moon and to land the first instruments on it. (1:8)
The Consumer Price Index last year showed its smallest annual increase since 1955. The Government also reported that the average factory worker's purchasing power had reached a record, showing a 7 per cent gain last month over the December, 1960, level. (1:6-7)
To protect Government tax claims, eighty Federal agents armed with tax liens seized the industrial empire of Bernard Goldfine. (1:5)
Common Market welcomes Kennedy tariff plan. (2)
January 28, 1962
The deep differences at the Punta del Este conference pointed up the increasing assertion of independent foreign policies by a group of Latin-American nations. (38:3-4)
In Washington, the United States and the Soviet Union will begin on Wednesday what promise to be long and difficult negotiations for a new cultural-exchange pact. (27:1)
A frustrating week for United States' plans for space exploration ended with the postponement of the nation's first attempt to propel an astronaut into orbit around the earth. The effort was initially held up by minor technical troubles and then blocked altogether by a leaden cloud deck that moved in over Cape Canaveral. (1:8)
Congress is expected to receive tomorrow President Kennedy's controversial plan to establish a new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. The plan, which was killed in the House Rules Committee last Wednesday, will now go to the Capitol under the President's power to reorganize the Executive Branch. (1:5)
On Feb. 21 Congress is expected to receive an Administration plan that is said to be the largest and most ambitious conservation program ever proposed by a President. The emphasis reportedly will be on recreational facilities. (1:6)
The White House had advised officials of four states served by the New Haven Railroad that they should work out a plan to save the carrier. A letter expressed "deep concern" over the line's plight and outlined contributions the Government had made to the nation's ailing railroads. (1:2-3)
January 29, 1962
The United States appeared assured yesterday of the support of a wide majority of the American foreign ministers for a plan to exclude Cuba from participation in the inter-American system.
The Soviet Government has indicated it would like to broaden the negotiations over Berlin to include a possible withholding of nuclear arms from West Germany. (1:6-7)
The Ranger 3 spacecraft, designed to hit the moon, missed it by about 23,000 miles and fell into a permanent orbit around the sun. An intricate last-minute effort to have the craft send television pictures of the moon back to the earth failed because a transmitting antenna malfunctioned. (1:5)
President Kennedy has evolved a plan to solve one of his hardest administrative problems--how to get good men to work for the Federal Government for less money than they can earn in private industry. The recruiting formula involves mass invitations, an all-day briefing and "soft sell." (1:4-5)
Justice Department sources reported that official segregation at bus and railroad terminals in the South had virtually ended. They said formal segregation was gone in all but a few terminals. (1:3)
Salinger in Paris to meet Soviet press aide. (1)
January 30, 1962
The three-year-old Geneva talks on banning nuclear weapons tests have ended in failure. The indefinite suspension of the negotiations was forced by the United States and Britain after the Soviet Union's repudiation of all international controls had left no common basis on which to talk. (1:7; Text, 3)
The Government outlined a new look in welfare at a Washington conference of state welfare officials. The policy was disclosed by Abraham A. Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The new program would encourage mothers in welfare families to earn money for the education of their children. Under the old policy, job earnings of a mother on relief had to be deducted from the monthly welfare grant. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy was urged to act promptly with Federal aid to save the New Haven Railroad from possible shutdown. The request was made by fourteen New York and New England Senators. (1:3)
Cuba uses Angola debate in U.N. to score U.S. (7)
President briefed on Asian Red guerrillas. (13)
Dell changes title on Kennedy book. (31)
U.S. eyes Common Market patent plan. (35)
January 31, 1962
The United States and thirteen other American nations voted last night to exclude Cuba from participation in inter-American affairs. (1, Col 8)
The United Nations Security Council failed to decide whether to place on its agenda a new Soviet complaint about Congo policy. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy asked Congress to provide $100,000,000 to buy half of a planned U.N. bond issue. (1:7; Text, Pg. 7)
At the U.N., the General Assembly called on Portugal by a 99-to-2 vote to cease "repressive measures against the people of Angola." A stronger Soviet-bloc resolution asking all countries not to aid Portugal and suggesting sanctions was defeated. (1:5; Text, Pg. 6)
Pierre Salinger, the White House press secretary accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet Union this spring for talks on improving news and information exchanges. The invitation came from Premier Khrushchev's son-in-law at a luncheon given by President Kennedy. (1:8)
The President sent Congress a plan to reorganize the Housing and Home Finance Agency as a new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. The agency's present head, Robert C. Weaver, would become a Cabinet member, the first Negro to hold such an office. Unless either the Senate or House rejects the plan within sixty days, it will take effect automatically (1:1; Text, 12)
In the House, a $1,500,000,000 program to help colleges build new facilities was approved by a bipartisan vote of 319 to 79. A broader measure including scholarship grants is pending in the Senate. (1:2-3)
U.S. weighing new balance of payments moves. (15)