August 1962
August 1, 1962
Indonesian and Dutch negotiators have agreed on a plan to give Indonesia administrative control over Netherlands New Guinea, where the Dutch have been fighting Indonesian invaders. Diplomats said yesterday that the accord covered all "essential" points for shifting control from the Netherlands to the United Nations and then to Indonesia on May 1. Indonesia promised to give the colony's Papuan natives a choice by 1969 between independence and annexation. Both Jakarta and the Hague now must ratify the plan. (pg. 1:8)
Some Indonesian neighbors including Malaya, Singapore and the rest of Britain's former Southeast Asian empire will become the Federation of Malaysia, under an agreement signed in London. (1:7)
Deputy Premier Ben Bella of Algeria released one of his chief antagonists, Deputy Premier Boudiaf, who had been seized Monday. Mr. Boudiaf was to be flown to Algiers for conciliation talks. (1:5)
James M. Gavin to resign in a few days as Ambassador to France. (1:6)
The United States has suspended most of its economic aid to Haiti. However, a more open expression of displeasure with President Duvalier's virtual dictatorship is being considered. (11:1)
Meeting seventy visiting Brazilian students in the White House garden, Mr. Kennedy said he cared more about political freedoms in other countries than about their economic systems. (1:6-7; pg. 10)
Another demonstration against the Communist-sponsored Youth Festival in Helsinki was broken up by Finnish police firing tear-gas bombs and swinging truncheons. (1:3-5)
The United States will spend more than $200,000,000 this fiscal year for Gemini, a two-man space craft in which American astronauts will take the next giant step toward the moon. In Gemini, they will orbit as long as two weeks to learn the basic skills of living and working in space. (1:2-4)
The Administration announced tentative plans to prolong the Pacific nuclear tests, which were scheduled to end later this month, to set off two high altitude blasts repeatedly delayed by rocket failures. (1:4)
Early returns in Arkansas showed Governor Faubus winning an easy majority in his race for fifth term Democratic nomination. (7:2)
498,000 have fled Algeria to France. (pg. 4)
Austria and Italy reopen talks on Alto Adige. (pg. 8)
Lemnitzer a foe of one-chief plan. (pg. 8)
Celebrezze sworn as H.E.W. Secretary. (pg. 15)
Kennedy aide to study Scottish geography. (pg. 11)
Mother will seek abortion outside Arizona. (pg. 19)
August 2, 1962
President Kennedy said that the United States was willing to accept a system of national control posts, subject to international supervision, for monitoring a nuclear-test ban. He said this major revision in policy was made possible by technical advances in detecting underground tests. (pg. 1:8; pg. 8)
U Thant has suggested that Union Miniere, which paid $40,000,000 to the Katanga Provincial Government last year, withhold further payments until the Congolese constitutional dispute is resolved. The company would deposit further payments in Belgian bank, where it would be held in escrow until a settlement is reached. (1:7; pg. 5)
A bomb was thrown at the car of President Nkrumah in Ghana. Mr. Nkrumah escaped unhurt. (3:6-7)
Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist chief flew to Moscow. The trip was viewed as another move in Moscowís long heralded plan to sign a peace treaty with East Germany. (2:2)
The State Department has notified Argentina of its concern over recent anti-Semitic incidents in that country. (1:6)
President Kennedy said that he could not understand why city officials in Albany, Ga., would not sit down with Negro citizens to work out racial problems there. (1:1)
The President recommended stronger laws to protect consumers against possibly harmful drugs such as thalidomide. Steps should be taken to strengthen regulations on the experimental use of drugs. (1:2)
The President also suggested that enactment of stand-by authority to cut taxes might settle the question whether to enact a tax cut this year. (1:2-3)
The controversial communications satellite bill was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee for public hearings. The Committee was ordered to report the bill back by Aug. 10. (1:2-3)
Some day before 1971 three Americans will poise on the verge of mankind's greatest undertaking, a trip to the moon. They will attempt to go on a 500,000 mile two-week journey to the moon and back. (1:5-7)
The space port for the manned lunar flight will be spread out along twenty-five miles of the Florida coast north of Cape Canaveral. (10:5)
Intensive preparations are also under way for a tracking and communications system. (10:8)
India seeks U.S. atomic power plant. (pg. 1)
House approves Philippine war damage bill. (pg.3)
U. S. - Japan military panel resumes talks. (pg. 6)
Malaysia charter formed and outlined by group. (pg. 6)
Rumors on military strategy irk Kennedy. (pg. 7)
Kennedy seeks more funds for ambassadors. (pg. 7)
Goldberg hails wage pacts as noninflationary. (pg. 13)
Many civilian soldiers being discharged. (pg. 2)
Grand jury investigating teamsters pension fund. (pg. 53)
Unemployment rate cut to 53% in July. (pg. 13)
Gen. H. Bennett, led Australian forces in Malaya. (pg. 25)
Fairbanks Morse chief said to have resigned. (pg. 33)
August 3, 1962
Accord in Algiers in which Vice Premier Ben Bella and his allies retained full control of the political bureau that will have broad power to run the country and the nationalist party organization for the time being. In exchange, they agreed that elections for a Constituent Assembly would be held this month and that the nationalist parliament would be called into session a week after the election to re-examine the composition of the political bureau. (pg. 1:1)
Britain and the six members of the European Common Market agreed to offer associate membership in the Market to British Commonwealth countries in Africa and the Caribbean and almost every British colony. Associate status would give these territories the right of tariff-free access to the Market if Britain joins it. (1:3)
The United Arab Republic has agreed to pay claims by Britons for property seized in Egypt after the 1956 invasion of Suez. (3:1)
Britain refused to grant political asylum to Dr. Robert A. Soblen and instructed El Al, the Israeli airline, to return the convicted spy to the United States. (1:8)
Thant pledged that the United Nations force in the Congo would protect the property of Union Miniere if the company stopped paying taxes to the secessionist Katanga Government. (1:4)
Secretary of Labor Goldberg fears that the continued high level of unemployment will cause unions to press harder for a shorter work week. (1:7)
President Kennedy reflected concern for needy families in announcing an extension of the Federal food stamp plan to twenty-five areas in eighteen states. The President said 223,000 more persons would be aided. (7:4)
In the next few days the Government will order stricter controls on drugs being tested on humans. (12:1)
Drug manufacturers are moving to increase safeguards. (12:2-3)
J. Vincent Keogh, a State Supreme Court justice for eleven years, was sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to fix a Federal court sentence. Keogh's two co-defendants, former Assistant United States Attorney Elliot Kahaner and Antonio Corallo, a labor racketeer were given the same sentence. (1:5; pg. 9)
Many prominent architects joined a march outside Penn Station to protest the proposed razing of the neo-classic structure. (1:5-6)
Czechs announce defection of U. S. Army deserter. (pg. 2)
Finnish leader apologizes for anti-Red protests. (pg. 2)
Laos chief tacitly admits Vietnam Red aid. (pg. 4)
Thant seeks solid support for new term. (pg. 4)
Goulart opposed on bid to widen powers. (pg. 5)
Congress group backs new U. S. test-ban plan. (pg. 1)
Bill would reopen G.I. insurance for veterans. (pg. 2)
Oil independents ask protection in trade bill. (pg. 7)
Clement appears victor in Tennessee primary. (pg. 7)
Reservists bitter after year of active duty. (pg. 1)
Foreign tourists on increase in this country. (pg. 25)
Hugh Miller, lawyer and Panama Canal expert. (pg. 23)
Treasury pleased with refinancing results. (pg. 27)
August 4, 1962
A noisy, tumultuous welcome was accorded to Mohammed Ben Bella, Algeria's victorious Vice Premier, on his arrival in Algiers yesterday. The celebration bridged the end of a leadership struggle in which Mr. Ben Bella had compelled his fellow ministers to accept a new governing bureau. (pg. 1:8)
A team of battle-hardened jungle fighters from Australia arrived in Saigon to train South Vietnamese in guerrilla warfare tactics. (4:3-5)
El Al, the Israeli airline, refused to comply with British order to take Dr. Robert A. Soblen to New York. (7:1-6)
Britain and the Common Market agreed on measures to avoid economic harm to India, Pakistan and Ceylon if Britain joins the market. The negotiators in Brussels then took up the key question of food imports from Canada, Australia and New Zealand the issue on which British membership in the market may hinge. (1:7)
The Government of Venezuela is being baffled, if not defeated, by twin pressures from the Right and the Left despite a vast dollar income, a vigorous reform program and mass support. (1:6)
The nation's space industry has brought about an economic boom and is changing the patterns of living and labor for a thousand miles along the southern crescent of the United States. A dominant program is Project Apollo, the effort to land men on the moon. (1:5-7)
Some scientists and public figures, are concerned that the fast-paced program will hurt other projects. (8:8)
President Kennedy's endorsement of the satellite communications bill was strongly backed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The President's brother said that the measure contained adequate safeguards for both the Government's and the public's interest. (1:4)
The President asked Congress to rescue his civil defense program. The House sharply curtailed the fall-out shelter programs last Monday. (2:1)
On Aug. 17, the President will begin a three-day trip to South Dakota, California and probably Colorado, where critical campaign battles are under way. (1:6)
A Texas grand jury has indicted Maynard Wheeler, president of the Commercial Solvents Corporation, Billie Sol Estes and other business men on state antitrust charges. (1:3)
Strauss asks clarification of strategic concepts. (pg. 2)
Finland's President to visit Soviet Union. (pg. 2)
U. S. - U. N. Katanga policies denounced by Dodd. (pg. 6)
Economist urges prompt tax cut of $10 billion. (pg. 30)
Robert Kennedy confers on racial strife. (pg. 11)
U. S. stages pill-by-pill hunt for thalidomide. (pg. 20)
British journal warns on contraceptive pill. (pg. 20)
Another Fairbanks, Morse officer quits. (pg. 23)
August 5, 1962
Secretary of State Rusk expects to start soon another round of Berlin talks with the Russians that will let the first anniversary of the Berlin wall pass without another "crisis". Washington does not believe the Russians will conclude a threatened peace treaty with East Germany in the foreseeable future. (pg. 1:8)
Arthur H. Dean returned to Geneva with the Kennedy Administration's new proposals for breaking the East-West deadlock over a nuclear test ban. (1:4)
Forty-four Ceylonese delegates have withdrawn from the World Youth Festival in Helsinki. They accused Communist managers of the meeting of having "systematically exploited" them and discriminated against them in favor of the Communist members of the Ceylonese delegation. (1:7)
A recess until autumn was taken in the negotiations for British entry into the Common Market. The problem is assuring members of the British Commonwealth that Britain's membership in the market will not cause sharp cuts in Commonwealth farm exports. (1:6-7)
Britain, the United States and Belgium are expected to pledge a massive aid program to a unified Congo soon. This is part of a plan of inducements and pressures to persuade secessionist Katanga Province to accept a Congolese federal constitution. (1:6-7)
In contravention of the accord the country's new leaders put off elections for a Constituent Assembly by one week. (1:5)
The impasse between the Administration and some Democrats in Congress over filling vacancies on the Atomic Energy Commission was resolved by President Kennedy's selection of James T. Ramey to fill one of the two vacant posts. Mr. Ramey has been executive director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. (1:2-3)
Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, who kept the drug thalidomide off the United States market, will receive on Tuesday a gold medal and a citation, the highest award for Federal civilian service. (1:2-4)
The Administration is seeking a Negro "moderate" to serve as coordinator of the President's committee on equal job opportunity. (57:1)
In the desegregation campaign in Albany, Ga., the emphasis is shifting from mass demonstrations to legal action and voter registration. (56:3)
Bonn party urges four-power peace parley. (pg. 3)
Leading Soviet nuclear physicist is killed. (pg. 5)
Manila expels Stonehill, U. S. industrialist. (pg. 13)
West Germans said to aid Cairo on rockets. (pg. 18)
British extend Soblen deadline to Wednesday. (pg. 19)
Two satellite bill foes hint at compromise. (pg. 32)
Many tasks face Celebrezze in new post. (pg. 50)
Returning reservists vow revenge at polls. (pg. 30)
F.A.A. disapproves Eastern engineer training. (pg. 68)
Minneapolis papers end long strike. (pg. 80)
F.A.A. planning uniform airport towers. (pg. 82)
Foreign students finish a year in S.S. (pg. 69)
Students tutor pupils from minority groups. (pg. 69)
Mother flies to Sweden to seek an abortion. (pg. 64)
August 6, 1962
With a powerful explosion high above the Arctic early yesterday, the Soviet Union resumed atmospheric nuclear testing. The detonation appeared to be in the forty-megaton range and the second most potent nuclear blast ever achieved by the Russians or any nation. The United States expressed the hope that Moscow would cooperate in seeking an effective test-ban treaty. (pg. 1:8)
The Kremlin withheld news of the test from Soviet citizens as it did last fall when it broke a test moratorium. (3:1)
The key position in Algeria's powerful Political Bureau, Secretary General, was awarded to Mohammed Khider, Mohammed Ben Bella's closest ally. (1:6-7)
Political power along tribal lines is reasserting itself in the Congo. This trend, essentially federalist, apparently marks the failure of the nationalist movement. (1:8)
The island of Jamaica became independent, with dominion status in the British Commonwealth. (1:4-6)
Representatives of Britain and the Common Market adjourned the talks for British membership in the market. (4:3-4)
President Kennedy named two new members of the Atomic Energy Commission, John G. Palfrey, dean of Columbia College, and James T. Ramey, executive director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. (l:5)
The President proposed a series of "essential" amendments, including one to enable the Government to move faster to remove from the market any drug suspected of being a hazard. (1:4)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is planning a major legal assault this fall on discrimination against Negroes by unions. (1:2-3)
Plane's return in film incident defended in Soviet. (pg. 2)
Eisenhower meets Gavin and Norstad in Paris. (pg. 3)
California Republicans vow unity for Nixon. (pg. 11)
Battle for reapportionment spreads over nation. (pg. 23)
Ship lines and labor back foreign-flag curbs. (pg. 42)
Soviet preparing extended orbital space flight. (pg. 2)
Hodges against U.S. interference in business. (pg. 29)
August 7, 1962
Moscow's disarmament negotiator, Valerian Zorin, told the Geneva conference yesterday that he saw "no great hope" that the new American proposals would break the stalemate on nuclear test ban. His talks with Arthur H. Dean led him to believe that Washington had not changed its position "in principle." (pg. 1:8)
The Soviet Union was said to be relying more on its economic power and relatively less on its ideological influence to maintain its control in the Communist world and compete with Communist China in Asia. (1:5)
Peiping has approved India's proposal to settle their border dispute in negotiations based on a joint report made by their officials in 1961. That report generally supported the Indian side. (1:7)
All flights over Katanga except by the United Nations were banned by request of the Central Government. This viewed as pressure to end Katanga's secession. (1:6)
The British Home Office said it would not deliver Doctor Soblen to any Israeli airliner that it suspected would take the convicted spy to Israel instead of the United States. El Al is under orders from the Israeli Government to carry Soblen only to Israel. (1:4)
The nation's railroads moved to force the creation of a Presidential emergency board. The carriers withdrew their recent proposals, which were based on recommendations by a Presidential panel. In their place, the railroads substituted an older and more stringent plan that would eliminate 40,000 firemen from Diesel locomotives and sharply change wage systems. (1:1)
Eastern Airlines planned to step up operations Thursday despite the flight engineers' strike. (1:2)
Former President Eisenhower has assailed the Administration's "crash program" to put men on the moon. (1:1)
President Kennedy told a youthful concert audience on the White House lawn that more Americans went to symphonies than baseball games. What he meant was concerts of all kinds. (1:2-5)
The President of the American Bar Association denounced the Supreme Court for decisions giving "inordinate weight" to individual rights. (7:1)
In New Orleans, a Federal court ordered greater desegregation of the city's public schools. (1:3-4)
Protesters for peace marched to a rally and vigil at the United Nations Plaza commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, seventeen years ago Sunday. (1:5-7)
U.S. expects to resume links with Peru soon. (pg. 1)
Algeria now has three governments. (pg. 10)
Clergymen ask Kennedy to act on Albany, Ga. (pg. 18)
August 8, 1962
The Congolese Government sought yesterday to put an economic squeeze on Katanga and to isolate the rich secessionist province. Premier Adoulaís regime said it would cut off Katangaís communications and regulate flights to the province. The effectiveness of the measures remained to be tested. (pg. 1:8)
Algeria's Provisional Government under Premier Ben Khedda officially surrendered its powers to Deputy Premier Ben Bella's Political Bureau. This formalized a transfer that had actually occurred Sunday. (1:6-7)
Chancellor Adenauer warned neutral nations not to endorse or sign the separate peace treaty that Moscow has threatened to make with East Germany. West Germany would halt development aid to any nation that did so. (1:5)
United States Government experts saw signs that China's economic deterioration was leveling off. (1:6-7)
The struggle between the nation's railroads and five operating unions over featherbedding reached a showdown. A Federal judge refused to balk the railroads' plan to adopt new work rules that would wipe out the jobs of 40,000 firemen (1:1)
Representative Yates is attempting to unseat Senate Republican Leader Dirksen in Illinois. Press Secretary Salinger said the President had already scheduled a campaign visit in Chicago and would probably go to Illinois again before election day. (19:4)
Stevenson confers with Spain's Vice Premier. (pg. 3)
Italian town ready to welcome Mrs. Kennedy. (pg. 3)
U.S. medical teams staff Algiers hospital. (pg. 4)
Colombia swears in a new President. (pg. 10)
Havana charges provocations by troops at base. (pg. 11)
Brennan proposes world court on human rights. (pg. 12)
Robert Kennedy rebuts critic of Hoover. (pg. 13)
U.S. seeks to fly Soblen on Pan American. (pg. 15)
Two accused of fraud in U.S. aid project. (pg. 9)
Bar praises Kennedy's bench choices. (pg. 18)
U.S. gets complaints over steel imports. (pg. 39)
U.S. recording team returns from Soviet. (pg. 34)
August 9, 1962
Shortly after the United States reported another Soviet nuclear explosion in the atmosphere yesterday, Secretary of State Rusk met with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin in an effort to persuade Moscow to accept Washington's new proposals for a nuclear-test ban. (pg. 1:1)
Because of recent progress in detecting underground explosions, the United States is ready to cut the proposed number of world-wide monitoring stations from 180 to "something like eighty." (1:2)
Gen. Juan Bautista Loza resigned as Argentina's Secretary of War and Commander in Chief of the Army. The rebel general said he was taking over as Commander in Chief. (1:3-4)
Almost all of the 2,500 residents of the small, clifftop resort of Ravello, Italy and many tourists turned out to greet Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her daughter Caroline on their arrival for a vacation. (6:3-5)
A trip by Vice President Johnson late this month will include Italy, as well as Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Iran. (6:6)
The Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing Albany, Ga.'s request for an injunction banning further protests against segregation. (1:8)
President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers told a Congressional committee that present income taxes were a brake on the economy and they left the impression that they favored a cut now. Nonetheless, it is believed that the President would not ask for a tax cut this year. (1:3; pg. 12)
Nepal reports battle with rebels. (pg. 2)
West Berlin is thriving a year after the wall. (pg.3)
Peru asks Latins to oppose U.S. stand on Junta. (pg. 10)
Freeman gives up hope of new wheat bill. (pg. 1)
Five more industries attack trade plan. (pg. 4)
Satellite plan is assailed as a "giveaway." (pg. 8)
Kennedy backer wins Tennessee primary. (pg. 22)
Suit asked to reduce Idlewild noise. (pg. 27)
Mrs. Duncan executed in gas chamber on Coast. (pg. 53)
Common Market trims Soviet Oil imports. (pg. 33)
August 10, 1962
The Soviet Union flatly rejected yesterday new United States proposals to break the nearly four-year deadlock in negotiations for a nuclear test-ban accord. The Soviet delegate at the Geneva disarmament conference termed Washington's compromise proposals "only a tactical maneuver" designed to deceive world opinion. (pg. 1:8)
The United States submitted to the United Nations a revised plan to persuade secessionist Katanga Province to accept a federal union with the rest of the Congo. Washington would boycott Katanga's products if it rejected a federal constitution. Britain and Belgium did not agree to cutting off trade with Katanga. (1:6-7)
Union Miniere said it had no choice but to continue paying taxes to the secessionist province. (3:6)
President Kennedy will meet with six of his top advisers for a last-minute review of the economics and politics of a tax cut. (1:1)
David E. Bell, Director of the Budget, said that tax cuts and budget deficits did not necessarily go together. (1:1)
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor's nomination was approved in committee and then confirmed by the Senate. (1:5)
Inquiry into Latin aid is pressed in Senate. (pg. 1)
Link to Common Market is set for Greece. (pg. 2)
Paris delays aid until Algeria regime is stabilized. (pg. 3)
Argentine military meeting in crisis. (pg. 4)
Mrs. Eddie Cantor, wife of stage, screen star. (pg. 19)
S.E.C. reform bill goes to President. (pg. 23)
August 11, 1962
A feud among Argentine Army generals threatened last night to plunge Buenos Aires into military chaos. The dispute was heightened by the swearing-in of a new Secretary of War. (pg. 1:1)
The Council of the Organization of American States rejected a proposal for immediate foreign ministers' conference on anti-democratic coups d'etat. The resolution was prompted by last month's military coup in Peru. (1:2)
Algeria's Political Bureau ordered army units to stop collecting money from civilians and to stop requisitioning food, cars and buildings. (5:1)
The Soviet Union rejected as too limited the United States plan for a progressive system of international inspection to verify compliance with disarmament pledges. (1:2-3)
Britain has canceled her plan to produce a tactical nuclear weapon for close army support. This decision coincides with Washington's new emphasis on strong conventional forces in Europe. (1:1-2)
Former President Herbert Hoover observing his eighty-eighth birthday proposed the formation of a "Council of Free Nations" to act to preserve peace whenever the United Nations failed to do so. (1:4; pg. 2)
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was freed from jail in Albany, Ga. (1:6)
A Federal judge in Chicago granted five railroad unions a temporary injunction against a management proposal to change work rules drastically. (1:5)
Russians getting more news from West. (pg. 3)
Britain orders Soblen flown to U.S. today. (pg. 4)
Dutch protest to U.N. on Indonesian landings. (pg. 4)
Belgium willing to back U.S. on Katanga. (pg. 5)
President signs bill giving military 48 billion. (pg. 4)
U.S. Bar backs new law on voting for President. (pg. 18)
Flight engineers ignore Easternís "final" offer. (pg. 41)
Pierre Salinger writes on music (pg. 1-5)
Ted Husing, sports announcer and disk jockey dies. (pg. 17)
August 12, 1962
The Soviet Union launched its third astronaut in orbital flight, yesterday on what was expected to be a prolonged flight. There were indications that the space ship Vostok III, piloted by Maj. Andrian G. Nikolayev, would stay aloft longer than did the second Soviet astronaut, who orbited the earth seventeen times in twenty-five hours on Aug. 6 and 7 last year. The main objectives of the new flight were to obtain more data on the effects of space-flight conditions on man and to study his work capacity in weightless condition. (pg. 1:8)
Millions of television viewers in the Soviet-bloc countries saw major Nikolayev in what was called a direct transmission from the Vostok III. (25:3)
Conversations in voice and code between the Vostok III and Russian trawlers off Long Island were monitored by a tracking station at Southampton, L.I. (1:6-7)
Washington assured compliance with a Soviet request to refrain from high-altitude nuclear testing while the astronaut was aloft. (1:7)
In similar notes to the United States, Britain and France, Moscow asserted that West Berliners' activities hostile to the Soviet bloc were being staged in advance of the first anniversary tomorrow of the erection of the Berlin wall. (1:4; pg. 21)
The crisis in Argentina eased when President Guido named a Secretary of War suitable to the dominant military leaders. (1:1)
President Kennedy designated Charles E. Bohlen as Ambassador to France. Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr., who recently resigned as Ambassador in Moscow, is expected to succeed Mr. Bohlen as Secretary of State Rusk's special assistant on Soviet affairs. (1:2-3)
Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth, who returned from an anti-submarine warfare inspection tour, said that the problem of defending the nation against submarine-launched missiles was "staggering but not insoluble." (38:1-2)
Senators investigating stockpiling will hear testimony from George M. Humphreys, former Secretary of the Treasury. He will be questioned on the profits made by his companies in supplying nickel to the Government. (39:1-5)
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York again urged the Senate to refuse to confirm the appointment of Irving Ben Cooper to a Federal judgeship. (67:1)
Eisenhower to stay at castle of old Kennedy clan. (pg. 3)
Mrs. Kennedy visits Italian island by boat. (pg. 3)
British offer changes in Congo unity plan. (pg. 9)
U.S. to lend Brazil 15 million for power plants. (pg. 14)
America's press studied by Panama's newsmen. (pg.17)
Tito proposes U.S. take steps to end atom tests. (pg. 22)
Soldier's death sentence draws Korean indignation. (pg. 32)
Nixon calls in Chotiner to aid campaign. (pg. 45)
Negro candidate seeks to upset Mississippi victor. (pg. 47)
Big U.S.-California water project begins. (pg. 60)
Libraries and parks shut in Albany, Ga. (pg. 1)
Pacifist groups demonstrate here on tests. (pg. 28)
Seven CORE pickets arrested in Brooklyn. (pg. 82)
Pay gains are shown by Negro women. (pg. 43)
August 13, 1962
Two Soviet spaceships on extended flights hurtled around the earth early this morning in adjacent orbits while their pilots talked with each other by radio telephone. Lieut. Col. Pavel R. Popovich, the second astronaut in the "group flight," was launched in the Vostok III twenty-three and a half hours after Maj. Adrian G. Nikolayev was shot into space in the Vostok III. Major Nikolayev, in his orbital flights, has already traveled more than double the distance from the earth to the moon (pg. 1:8; pg.10)
Western officials now believe that the goal of stopping the flight of refugees to the West was secondary to the aim of dismembering Germany. (12:4)
The Political Bureau of Algeria agreed with local military commanders to transform nationalist guerrilla forces into a national army. (1:5)
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are expected to be given more responsibilities in strategic planning and military command under the new chairman, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. The Administration is also planning to seek an increase in the size of the staff that works directly under the Joint Chiefs from the present 400 to perhaps 1,000. (1:2-3)
NATO exercise includes U.S. carrier Enterprise. (pg. 6)
Soblen's lawyers seek writ to fight deportation. (pg. 17)
President names Ambassador to Tunisia. (pg. 15)
Negroes attend white churches in Albany, Ga. (pg. 13)
Four U.S. players gain in Moscow tennis. (pg. 29)
August 14, 1962
The pent-up wrath of West Berliners erupted along the Communist-built wall that cut their city in two a year ago. Crowds hurled stones, taunts and beer bottles across the barricades. East Berlin guards replied with jets of water and tear gas. (1:3)
Acting Secretary General Thant plans to send 1,000 to 1,500 troops to Netherlands New Guinea to keep order in the transition period before the territory is annexed by Indonesia. (1:5)
In a broadcast, President Kennedy rejected immediate tax cuts as unjustifiable. Thus, he dismissed the strong advice of many of his aides and stuck to his original plan to propose basic tax reforms, including cuts, for next year. (1:1; pg. 20)
The AFL-CIO rebuffed President Kennedy by planning a major drive for a thirty-five-hour work week. (1:2)
Senate investigators reported that a company headed by former Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey had exploited a mountain of nickel-bearing ore at the Government's risk and expense, Mr. Humphrey took office four days after the contracts were signed. He resigned from the company but kept his stock. (1:2)
India insists Chinese troops quit disputed area. (pg. 4)
Trieste debates plan for autonomy under Italy. (pg. 6)
Gross national product rises to record rate. (pg. 20)
Albany Ga., court convicts five in sit-in. (pg. 16)
Pegler and Hearst syndicate part company. (pg. 19)
Herter backs trade expansion bill as "minimum." (pg. 5)
Urey wants scientists in U.S. lunar crews. (pg. 15)
Justice White named winner of football award. (pg. 40)
August 15, 1962
The two Soviet astronauts Major Nikolayev and Colonel Popovich, landed safely from their orbital voyages. The men came down within the target area set for their return, Major Nikolayev after completing sixty-three orbits, Colonel Popovich, who spent almost three days in space, landed at 3:01 A.M. after his forty-seventh orbit. The men were said to be "feeling fine" after experiencing prolonged weightlessness. Each had traveled more than 1,000,000 miles. The welcome due conquerors was awaiting them both. (pg. 1:8)
President Guido of Argentina faced a new crisis as fears of a military coup or armed clash between rival army groups mounted. (1:5)
Washington appeared finally ready to recognize Peru's military junta after a long delay. (2:6)
Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak, had been pierced by a vehicular tunnel, the world's longest. It will provide an all-weather route through the Alps and cut the Paris-Rome road distance by 125 miles and many hours of hard driving. (1:6)
An unusual team of Republicans, Southern Democrats and Democratic moderates voted to silence a liberal Democratic minority's filibuster against the Administration's communications satellite bill. The measure, which the liberals attacked as a "give-away" will probably be passed this week. (1:3)
Congressional leaders had breakfast with the President and promised to do their best to win passage of his six economic "must" bills. The reaction to the President's economic broadcast, in which he barred a quick tax cut, included Republican heckling, Democratic praise and 2-to-1 approval in telegrams received at the White House. (1:1)
A Government accountant testified that a company headed by former Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey until he took office had subsequently made a profit before taxes of 457 per cent under Government nickel stockpiling contracts. (1:4)
69-year-old man off for Peace Corps job. (pg. 4)
Dutch protest to Thant on New Guinea. (pg. 11)
Kennedy blocks walkout at Pan American. (pg. 18)
August 16, 1962
A thirteen-year dispute between the Netherlands and Indonesia was settled last night with the signing of an accord to transfer the administration of Netherlands New Guinea to Indonesia next May 1. The United Nations will assume administration of the territory for an interim period beginning Oct. 1. (pg. 1:8; pg. 6)
The accord signaled the end of Dutch sovereignty in Southeast Asia after more than 350 years. (8:4)
Italy joined the non-aligned countries in calling for an immediate ban on nuclear tests in the atmosphere and under water as a first step toward prohibiting all nuclear tests. (1:6)
The outlawing of strikes and lockouts was urged by Marriner S. Eccles, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In testimony before the Senate-House Economic Committee, Mr. Eccles also called for an immediate cut of 5 per cent in personal income taxes to stimulate the economy. (1:4)
Turks report two attacks by Iraqi planes. (pg. 1)
East German slain at wall. (pg. 3)
Soviet prestige found raised by space feat. (pg. 11)
Laotian reports shooting down of U. S. plane. (pg. 12)
United States policy shift on Estes denied. (pg. 14)
Victor E. Anderson, former Nebraska Governor dies. (pg. 27)
AUGUST, 17 1962
Despite the views of Soviet and some United States officials, both the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations have regarded space battles with manned satellites or arms launched from other planets as a long way off. (5:1-2)
Acting Secretary General Thant has decided to ask Malaya to provide the 1,000 troops the United Nations will use in its seven-month administration of Netherlands New Guinea. (1:2)
The first anniversary of the signing of the Alliance for Progress comes today against a background of instability in Argentina and Brazil and serious unrest elsewhere in Latin America. The political upheavals are placing the program in serious jeopardy. (1:5)
George M. Humphrey's performance in the art of thinking big, said it was simply preposterous that the Senate should think a man of his means capable of worrying about a $25,000,000 business deal with the Government. (8:7-8)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was honored by Congress for a military career that spanned fifty-two years and three wars. The 82-year-old soldier was presented with an engrossed resolution of gratitude in a ceremony on the Capitol steps. (1:2-3)
150,000 "guests" from Algeria burden Marseilles. (pg. 1)
Pro-Red Laotians free five Americans. (pg. 1)
U. S. will not return Loeb to post in Peru.
Dr. Baumgartner to get United States post. (pg. 1)
Freeman aide drafted plan to legalize Estes deals. (pg. 9)
President leaves on tour of West today. (pg. 9)
Four babies in study by U.S. are born deformed. (pg. 12)
U.S. delegate sees coffee parley as success. (pg. 27)
S.E.C. proposes curb on telephone sales. (pg. 27)
August 18, 1962
A month-long attempt by the United States to show its disapproval of the new military Government in Peru ended yesterday with a resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Peruvian junta has already been recognized by nine Latin-American nations and about twenty other countries. Washington was withholding military aid for the time being. (1:3)
Five Americans and a Filipino who were held for more than a year by the pro-Communist forces in Laos were described in Vientiane shortly after their release. They were gaunt, bearded and weary. The sergeant said, "they keep us in cages. They tried to drive us crazy'". (1:5-6)
Border guards of Communist East Germany shot down a youth fleeing toward West Berlin and left him to lie dying for an hour at the foot of the Berlin wall. (1:2-4)
The Indian Government has agreed to the production of Soviet engines for Indian planes in India, beginning next year. (1:8)
The Senate's battle over the Administration's communications satellite bill ended with passage of the measure, 66 to 11. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy, speaking in Pueblo, Colorado, on the first day of a "nonpolitical" tour, called on Congress to write this year "a conservation record second to none." (1:5)
United Nations warns Katanga to halt attacks. (pg. 1)
Senate unit's right to steel cost data disputed. (pg. 11)
African students find many obstacles here. (pg. 31)
Maritime chief sees end to ship subsidies. (pg. 42)
Telstar used in news facsimile transmission. (pg. 5)
Nigeria scores lack of United States investment. (pg. 23)
August 19, 1962
The United States is considering endorsing a limited "first step" treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere. Washington has been insisting on a comprehensive treaty banning all nuclear tests. (pg. 1:8)
Premier Khrushchev called for the replacement of Allied forces in West Berlin by a "temporary" garrison of United Nations troops. (1:6-7)
The United States commandant in Berlin called on the Soviet commandant "to restrain the East German Government from acts of terror". Indignation has stirred among West Berliners over the death of a fleeing youth, who was shot by East German guards and left unaided near the wall. (1:7)
Californians stood on the dusty slopes of the San Joaquin Valley to watch President Kennedy set off a charge of TNT. The charge formally started the construction of a huge earthwork dam designed to relieve the area's perennial water shortage. (1:5)
The Administration's efforts to remove ineligibles from the nation's public relief roll have been prompted. Federal officials have ordered a nation-wide examination of local relief rolls. (1:3)
The Administration is being urged to emphasize compulsory rather than "voluntary" approaches to ending discrimination against Negroes in employment by Federal contractors. (1:4)
Mrs. Robert Finkbine was operated upon successfully in Stockholm. The 30-year-old mother of four healthy children was informed that the unborn child was deformed. She had inadvertently taken the drug thalidomide. (69:3-5)
The independent butcher, baker and candlestick maker are vanishing from the New York scene. The 1960 Federal census show that there are now 66,474 proprietary officials in retail trade in the metropolitan area, while there were 153,763 in 1950. (75:1)
U. S. to retain military headquarters in Thailand, (pg. 2)
Friction arises between U. S. forces, Vietnamese. (pg. 3)
Alliance for Progress problems shown in Brazil. (pg. 31)
Puerto Rico weighing its ties to United States. (pg. 65)
Polaris submarine launched as pacifists protest. (pg. 1)
August 20, 1962
Twenty-five former Stalinist leaders have been expelled from the Hungarian Communist party by Janos Kadar, the party's chief. The Hungarian purge was more severe than that directed by Premier Khrushchev against Stalinist elements in Moscow, who apparently have not been stripped of their party membership. (1:8)
A Soviet troop bus was stoned by a screaming crowd in West Berlin in a new demonstration of anger over the shooting last Friday of a young refugee. (1:7)
South Vietnam will embark on a large-scale program of deficit financing. The new policy, which will require substantially increased United States aid, was hailed by United States officials as vital to the flight. (2:6)
The United States is studying ways to provide aid to troubled Algeria. Washington believes that Western failure or delay in providing assistance could turn Algeria toward the Communist bloc. (1:6-7)
Dr. James A. Van Allen declared that a new radiation belt created by a United States high-altitude nuclear test in the central Pacific July 9 had "increased the potential danger for manned space flights." (1:4)
Governor Rockefeller put in five hours of strenuous campaigning to capture the city in the fall elections. (1:3)
City, state, Federal and World Health Organization officials sought to track down anyone who might have had contact with a youthful traveler sick with what has been diagnosed as smallpox.
The 14-year-old victim arrived at Idlewild Airport Aug. 11 from Brazil and boarded a night train for Toronto. (17:2)
Castro will take over the farms of peasants. (pg. 1)
Red China reviving birth-control effort. (pg. 1)
Katanga units disperse Congo army forces. (pg. 1)
Kennedy presses new theme of unity. (pg. 1)
August 21, 1962
United States officials said tracking data indicated the two Soviet space ships were never closer to each other than 100 miles. (5:5)
Fifteen Soviet ships of the conventional sort docked in Cuba late in July, Washington said. They included five passenger vessels, but officials scouted Cuban refugee charges that the ships carried Communist troops. (12:5)
The United Nations has asked Pakistan for 1,000 troops to keep order in Netherlands New Guinea until its transfer to Indonesia May 1. (1:5)
Lists of candidates for the assembly that will write Algeria's constitution were published. They showed that more than a third of the members would be military officers. Candidates are certain of election because voters can only approve or abstain. (1:7)
A Senate decision on the nomination of Thurgood Marshall, a Negro, as a Federal judge was postponed again when South Carolinaís Olin D. Johnston recessed subcommittee hearings indefinitely. (1:2-4)
Russians oppose partial nuclear test ban. (Page 5)
Turks halt patrols by jets at Iraq border. (Page 6)
Kennedy considers a tour of big cities. (Page 14)
Kennedy labor advisory group drops study. (Page 16)
Rays no hazard to astronauts, Russian says. (Page 4)
Martin-Marietta builds Titan III rocket. (Page 45)
August 22, 1962
Secretary of State Rusk urgently requested the Russians yesterday to agree to four-power talks among the Berlin military commandants to avert further incidents at the Berlin wall. He reminded the Russian of Moscow's responsibility for the cruel acts of East Berlin border guards. (1:8)
The Russians, whose vehicles were stoned Monday, used three armored cars instead of a bus to carry soldiers to the Soviet war memorial in the British sector. (1:7)
Major Nikolayev and Colonel Popovich disclosed that their Soviet spaceships were about five kilometers apart at one point in their orbits last week. They told Moscow newsmen that no coupling had been planned or attempted. (1:4)
Winston Churchill went home after a fifty-four-day convalescence from a thigh fracture. (1:3-5)
The Government's so-called "leading" economic indicators were pointing up more than down last month for the first time since February. Their generally downward indication until July had been a big factor in recent talk of a recession. (1:1)
President Kennedy pressed Senate leaders for a foreign trade expansion bill substantially like the one passed by the House. Democratic leaders pledged themselves to that goal but a delay until September was likely. (11:1)
Portugal renews threat to quit U. N. (Page 7)
Deputy manager of Monetary Fund named. (Page 10)
Cuba suspends five industrial chiefs. (Page 13)
Murphy held responsible on Estes' deals. (Page 20)
Nixon and Brown clash on TV debates. (Page 2)
Air-transport conference to study supersonic jet. (Page 66)
August 23, 1962
The Soviet Government severed relations between its commandant in Berlin and his three Western counterparts. Moscow abolished the office of the Soviet commandant yesterday and transferred administration of the Soviet garrison in Berlin and control over Western access to the city to the commander of Soviet troops in East Germany, whose headquarters is in Potsdam. The Kremlin termed the action favorable to the conclusion of a German peace treaty and the end of Allied occupation of West Berlin. (1:8)
After the Soviet orders took effect the United States military cars were sent into East Berlin. They were allowed to proceed without delay. (10:7-8)
President Kennedy told his news conference that he "would hope" to confer with Premier Khrushchev if the Soviet leader attended the fall session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (1:6-7)
Delegates at the Geneva conference on disarmament voted to recess from Sept. 8 to Nov. 12 and let the United Nations try to find a solution. (1:8)
The Hungarian regime was said to have smashed a revolt by Stalinist elements in high positions in the Government and the military. Informants in Vienna said the conspirators had tried to enlist Chinese Communist aid in the plot against Premier Kadar. (1:5)
President de Gaulle emerged unscathed from an assassination attempt in a Paris suburb. (1:7)
The rivalry between Algerian military commanders and the Political Bureau headed by Vice Premier Ben Bella approached a showdown. He canceled a speech at an Algiers rally when only 2,500 people appeared. An aide of Mr. Ben Bella accused Army commanders of having prevented crowds from attending the rally. (1:6)
Two United States nuclear-powered submarines have made a rendezvous at the North Pole. The submarines carried out antisubmarine maneuvers and surfaced together Aug. 2 through a small opening in the ice. The "historic rendezvous" was announced by President Kennedy. (1:3)
The President acknowledged that the United States was "well behind" the Russians in the space race, but he believed that it would forge ahead of them "before the end of this decade." (1:4)
Mr. Kennedy urged Congress to act favorably on the "many bills of great importance" that will come before it soon. Among the bills he cited was the new farm measure. (1:2)
Although the bill falls short of the production controls sought by the President, he did not appear to be dissatisfied. (1:1)
Spain found to be undergoing vast changes. (Page 1)
Johnson leaves on 19 day visit to allies. (Page 1)
Indonesia frees U. S. flier serving life term. (Page 3)
Argentina again makes shift in military post. (Page 3)
Khrushchev tells Tokyo group U. S. is asleep. (Page 11)
Attorney General minimizes identical bidding. (Page 21)
Hanna misrepresents nickel costs, Senator says. (Page 1)
Ohio school plans to use the Lord's Prayer. (Pg. 31)
Dr. Giora Josephthal, Israeli Cabinet member, died. (Page 29)
Kennedy's prediction on steel profits held faulty. (Page 37)
August 24, 1962
The Western Allies yesterday rejected the Soviet move to transfer authority in East Berlin to the East German regime. A joint communiqu’ by the United States, Britain and France declared that the Soviet Union had no power to abridge their rights in Berlin or to shed its own responsibilities as an occupying power. (1:8; Pg. 2)
East German border guards shot down a 19-year-old railway policeman trying to escape to the West. Bleeding profusely, he crawled a few yards into West Berlin and died. (1:6-7)
The coalition Government in Laos agreed on three exit points for the evacuation of foreign troops from the country. About 800 United States advisers are among the troops that will leave. (1:7)
The Senate approved 78 to 0, a bill designed to assure Americans of getting safer and more effective drugs. The Senate vote represented a victory for Senator Estes Kefauver. (1:1)
House appropriations managers are planning a cut of at least $1,500,000,000 in the $4,672,000,000 foreign aid program authorized earlier in the session. Administration officials acknowledge there is little they can do about the strategy, which involves "loading" the program with items that would usually be handled in other appropriations bills. (1:2-3)
The Administration was accorded a victory by the Senate Finance Committee in its first vote on the trade bill. A House provision to deny most-favored-nation treatment to Poland and Yugoslavia, was deleted.
Johnson visits Beirut on foreign tour. (pg. 1)
Visit by U.S. aide stirs Israel on Mideast policy. (pg. 3)
Teachers from world over meet the President. (pg. 6)
August 25, 1962
The Russians accepted without challenge a United States regulation that Soviet armored vehicles in West Berlin must be escorted by American military policemen and that armed soldiers remain out of sight in the vehicles. (1:6-7)
Soviet equipment and technical personnel --military and civilian--are pouring into Cuba, according to United States officials. At least twenty cargo ships and an unspecified number of passenger vessels have arrived at Cuban ports since late July. (1:4)
The Senate completed Congressional action on a bill authorizing $73,000,000 in war-damage claims by the Manila Government. President Kennedy expressed "great satisfaction." (1:7)
Acting Secretary General Thant left New York for a four-day visit to Moscow and then shorter visits in Warsaw, Prague and Vienna. Mr. Thant and Premier Khrushchev are expected to discuss Berlin, United Nations finances and the Congo. (2:5)
Mr. Thant's proposals for ending Katanga's secession from the Congo call for a 50-50 split in Katangaís revenues and the reunification of the Congolese and Katangese armies. (1:5)
The first guerrilla training base for Angolan rebels in the Congo is being set up a few miles from the provincial capital of Thysville. So far, there are no barracks for the first 200 recruits, no transport and no communication with the world except for a pocket-size transistor radio in a palm leaf lean-to that serves as a headquarters. (1:6)
The State Department announced that Japan would reduce or halt temporarily her exports of some cotton goods to this country. Tokyo acted at Washington's urging under an existing agreement. (1:2)
Ecuador's Cabinet resigns in wake of riot. (pg. 1)
Greek ties with Market are formalized. (pg. 4)
Johnson, in Iran, hails Shah as ally of U. S. (Pg. 5)
August 26, 1962
The governing Political Bureau of Algeria headed by Vice Premier Ben Bella announced a decision to postpone indefinitely the elections scheduled for Sept. 2. In a bitter proclamation, the Bureau declared interference by army commanders had made it impossible for it to fulfill its responsibilities. At the same time, it became evident that there were deep conflicts among the Bureau members themselves. (1:8)
Beach-front buildings in suburban Havana, including a hotel housing East European technicians, were damaged by shell-fire from the sea. (1:6)
The State Department said the raid was a "spur-of-the-moment" affair not involving the United States. The two boats used were impounded in Florida. (l:7)
The United States is expected to propose in Geneva tomorrow a treaty to ban nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and under water, but not underground. (1:5)
Premier Khrushchev reiterated his political objections to the structure and policies of the European Common Market, but held out the possibility that the Communist bloc might seek to collaborate with Western Economic communities. (1:4)
The elections in California are regarded as the pivotal battleground in the Kennedy Administration's quest for a "workable majority" in the House. (45:3)
President Kennedy named Jack C. Corbett, a bank officer in Rome, to be the United States director of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Corbett will succeed Frank Southard, Jr., who has been appointed deputy managing director of the fund, an international post. (40:1)
U.S. gives full backing to Thant's Congo plan. (pg. 1.)
Sen. Byrd launches attack on Warren court. (pg. 43)
August 27, 1962
The military commanders controlling Algiers called yesterday for a meeting of the National Revolutionary Council to supplant Algeria's present civilian leadership. The officers declared that the Council, the nationalist movement's highest authority, had now become Algeriaís "only legal institution." The declaration was viewed as an effort to turn Saturday's "semiresignation" of the Political Bureau into a full-scale abdication of power. (1:8)
The Russians hold up American convoys on the autobahn outside Berlin. (1:7)
Vice President Johnson, on a tour of the Middle East, was hailed by 80,000 Turks on his arrival in Ankara. (8:3)
After lengthy hearings, a House subcommittee told the Pentagon to scrap most of its reserve plan and to develop by next Feb. 1 something better to cure weaknesses exposed by the limited call-up in the Berlin crisis of last year. (1:1)
Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee resigned as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board "for personal reasons". Mrs. Lee, a Republican, had been appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. (13:1)
Public schools in nine Northern and Western cities are scheduled to end racial segregation next month. (1:1)
Peiping accuses India of border attacks. (pg. 1)
Anti-Cuban stand is urged in Brazil. (pg. 2)
Greeks assail end of U. S. Grant-in-aid. (pg. 7)
Justice Department looking at bidding practices. (pg. 31)
Truce of Federal Reserve and Treasury examined. (pg. 31)
August 28, 1962
The United States and Britain offered the Russians a choice of full or limited nuclear test bans yesterday at Geneva. The total ban, which the West said it preferred, would be enforced by international inspection. The other would be an uninspected, "first step" halt in all air, space and undersea blasts until a pact is reached to include underground testsóthe hardest to detect. The Russians indicated they did not like the inspection elements in the first plan and charged that the second would simply legalize underground tests. (1:8; Text, pg. 2)
Acting Secretary General Thant denied reports that he was soliciting Soviet support for re-election to his United Nations post. He said he would discuss the subject with his Russian hosts only if they mentioned it. (3:1)
Another traveling statesman, Vice President Johnson, was greeted warmly by ragged Anatolian peasants and urban Turks alike as he arrived in Ankara on his 54th birthday. Later he pledged American aid for Turkey's economy and defense. (10:3)
Algeria's national election might be postponed a long time. Deputy Premier Ben Bella's ruling Political Bureau is attempting to set up local political units in place of regional military commands before the election. The army commanders want the election first. (1:7)
Mariner II, a 447-pound American spaceship crammed with instruments, hurtled toward Venus at 8,000 miles an hour. The craft will pass within 10,000 miles of Venus in early December and transmit the first close observations of earth's mysterious, fog-shrouded neighbor. (1:2-5)
The satellite communications bill was sent to the President after the House accepted all Senate amendments. (l:1)
The House also gave final Congressional approval to a constitutional amendment to outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections. The measure now goes to the states. (1:2-3)
The Post Office Department put up its biggest reward ever in hopes of recovering $1,500,000 seized from a Cape Cod mail truck Aug. 14. It offered $50,000--all its available reward money. (22:5)
Briton to discuss defense role with McNamara. (pg. 2)
Edward Kennedy attacked on TV debate. (pg. 1)
Robert F. Kennedy's book on trip is reviewed. (pg. 29)
August 29, 1962
Washington sources said yesterday that the Soviet Union had given hints of a belated interest in four-power talks on Berlin. Officially, Moscow had been adamant against repeated Western proposals to discuss ways of easing tensions in the divided city. But the Soviet Foreign Ministry was said to have shown its interest by asking at what level the talks might be held. At this stage, the sources said, Washington would rule out summit talks only. (1:8)
French economic aid terms for Algeria were defined by agreements signed in Paris. They included conditions for joint exploitation of the Sahara's mineral wealth. (4:4)
The Kennedy Administration won the first Senate test of its tax revision bill when a $1 billion tax credit for equipment modernization was approved, 52 to 30. (1:1)
The House Ways and Means Committee rejected a plan to extend jobless pay for thirteen weeks. (1:2)
The Administration's bid to fight unemployment with a $900,000,000 public works speed-up was embroiled in a close contest on the House floor. (34:1)
Consumer prices rose again last month by two-tenths of 1 per cent to set a new record on the Government's index. (1:3)
The Government started a broad effort to open Mississippi's voting rolls to Negroes. It asked a Federal court to strike down state constitutional sections that require voting applicants to interpret any part of the State Constitution to the satisfaction of voting registrars and to show their "good moral character". The suit charged that these and six statutes were used to keep Negroes from voting. (1:4)
Thant and Ulbricht hold talks with Khrushchev. (pg. 2)
Latin trade bloc imperiled by Cuban issue. (pg. 2)
Johnson mingles with crowds in Turkey. (pg. 5)
Democrats praise Murphy in Estes inquiry. (pg. 12)
Kennedy acts to bar strike on North Western. (pg. 10)
U. S. monetary gold supply off $34,000,000.
August 30, 1962
The fighting broke out in the Casbah between troops of the Algiers military region and forces commanded by a leading follower of Vice Premier Ben Bella. (1:1)
The Kings of Saudi Arabia and Jordan announced a broad merger of their military forces and coordination of economic policies. (1:2)
The Soviet Union submitted to the Geneva disarmament conference a plan for an unpoliced moratorium on all tests, to take effect next Jan 1. The Soviet proposal was speedily rejected by President Kennedy. (1:2)
The President announced that the foreign ministers of Britain, France, West Germany and the United States would meet in advance of the UN General Assembly session, which begins Sept. 18. The main topic will be Berlin. (11:5; Transcript, Pg. 10)
After 23 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Felix Frankfurter has retired. The announcement was made by President Kennedy, who also disclosed he would appoint Secretary of labor Goldberg to the vacancy. (1:8; Texts, pg. 14)
Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles S. Murphy testified that his decisions in the Billie Sol Estes case had been guided by a desire to protect Mr. Estes' rights as well as the Government's interests. He told a Senate inquiry that he had showed no favoritism toward Mr. Estes. (1:4)
President Kennedy took issue sharply with Congressional advocates of heavy cuts in his $4,672,000,000 foreign-aid program. He found it ironical that those who make the strongest speeches against communism "are the ones who want to cut this program the hardest." (1:5)
The House passed a $900, 000, 000 public works bill designed to relieve unemployment in economically depressed areas. A similar bill was passed by the Senate last May. (1:6-7)
The Senate rejected, 66 to 20, the President's proposal for withholding personal income taxes on dividends and interest. The House has approved the provision. (1:7)
Despite a slow erosion since World War II, the American's shopping dollar is holding up about as well as any of the world's major currencies -- and better than most. (36:4)
Frost and Udall arrive in Moscow. (pg. 2)
Kennedy is seeking new education chief. (pg. 27)
10,000 deformities laid to thalidomide pills. (Pg. 33)
August 31, 1962
The Algerian Political Bureau asked loyal army commanders in the interior yesterday for help against "rebels" in the capital. The local commanders controlling the Algiers region replied that they would "defend" the territory they are holding "at all costs." Most observers believed that major fighting would be averted. (1:1)
Washington concerned with the economic plight of Algeria, announced food grants totaling $24,200,000 for the country. (2:1)
Objections by President de Gaulle and a British conflict of dates may rule out a projected conference of Western foreign ministers on Berlin before the United Nations General Assembly convenes Spt. 18. General de Gaulle believes the ministerial conference might encourage Moscow to raise the Berlin issue in the General Assembly. (1:2-3)
Berlin, as well as other international problems, have been discussed by Acting Secretary General Thant and Premier Khrushchev. Thant said the Soviet leader was favorably disposed to a meeting with President Kennedy if the need should arise. (2:6)
East Germany's new commandant in East Berlin announced plans to strengthen the "military defense" of the Communists' border wall. He said that additional units of the East German Army would join two border brigades already on duty at the wall. (3:1)
W. Willard Wirtz, was appointed Secretary of Labor. Mr. Wirtz and Mr. Goldberg were in Chicago -- characteristically trying to settle a labor dispute -- when President Kennedy telephoned Mr. Wirtz to tell him of his appointment. (1:8)
The labor dispute in Chicago involved 1,000 telegraphers and the nation's third largest railroad, the Chicago and -North Western. Talks to avert a strike failed and the line had to suspend operations. (1:6-7)
The President's selection of Irving Ben Cooper as a Federal District Judge was approved by a Senate subcommittee after five months of investigation. (1:5)
President praises Peace Corps volunteers over 60. (pg. 1)
Executives of four steel concerns defy Kefauver. (pg. 1)
U. S. reviewing its pesticide control program. (pg. 9)
Ex-law professor escapes jailing in tax case. (pg. 45)
Teamsters weigh accepting flight engineers. (pg. 44)