September 1962
September 1, 1962
All day groups of 500 to 1,000 demonstrators in Algiers shouted their desire for peace and their opposition to a civil war. A rally of about 20,000 unionists vowed to call a general strike in the event of armed clashes. (1:8)
The Russians tried to guard their armored personnel carriers with their own escorts. The Soviet move failed and Allied military policemen continued to provide the escort for the changing of guards at the Soviet war memorial, in the British sector. (1:6)
The Soviet Union made an unsuccessful attempt to launch a space vehicle toward the planet Venus last Saturday, according to United States sources. (1:8)
The White House announced that a United States Navy plane, flying a training mission fifteen miles off the Cuban coast, had been fired on by two naval vessels believed to be Cuban. Washington warned of counter-attack. (1:7)
The Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee recommended that four steel companies and nine of their principal officers be cited for contempt. The companies have refused to-submit data subpoenaed by the subcommittee for an inquiry into the industry's pricing procedures, and the executives refused to appear at a hearing. (1:1)
Near Albany, Ga., volleys of rifle fire poured into four homes of Negroes involved in a voter registration campaign. (20:1)
Reporting threats of violence, church officials closed the First Roman Catholic school to be desegregated in Louisiana. (1:5)
The Chicago and North Western Railway, a major carrier of grain and other freight was struck Thursday. (1:1)
President Kennedy flew to Rhode Island to welcome his wife and daughter home from their trip to Italy. (8:3-4)
United States gives up idea of Berlin parley. (3)
Vice President in Athens for aid talks. (4)
Head of Peace Corps cites gains in Asia. (5)
President Kennedy signs the satellite bill. (1)
Senators reject proposal to amend tax bill. (8)
September 2, 1962
The United States announced that the new radiation belt created by its July 9 high-altitude nuclear test might last for many years. It had knocked out transmissions from three satellites but would not constitute a threat to manned space vehicles. (1:3)
President Kennedy replied softly to Republican charges that his Administration had done "little or nothing" to make the world aware of the Communist "wall of shame" across Berlin. Mr. Kennedy set forth in detail what the United States Information Agency had done "to insure world-wide understanding" of the meaning of the wall. (1:6-7)
Willy Brandt declared: "It is an unsatisfactory state of affairs that the West does nothing but wait for Khrushchev's moves." (1:7)
The United States is considering major new military aid to assist neutralist Cambodia in battling Vietnamese Communist guerrillas infiltrating border areas. The aid would include helicopters and amphibious armored personnel carriers. (2:5)
Robert Frost, in Moscow under a cultural-exchange program, spoke to Soviet children. (1:3-4)
"I would educate you if I only had time." Robert Frost, said, speaking to children in Moscow. (1:3)
The National Farmers Organization, seeking higher meat and grain prices, started a moratorium on market shipments in fifteen states. (1:2)
Singapore voters favor joining Malaya. (1)
Argentine minister calls Peron chief problem. (13)
Alabamans pick candidates in reapportioned areas. (35)
SEPTEMBER, 3 1962
The Soviet Union announced last night an agreement to provide Cuba with arms and military advisers. Soviet economic and industrial aid was also included in the accord. (1:8; Text 2)
The Soviet-Cuban accord was a result of talks in Moscow between Soviet leaders and Ernesto Guevara, Cuban Minister of Industry. (2:6-7)
Soviet-bloc equipment has become the logistic backbone of the Cuban armed forces. (1:7)
In an apparent effort to decrease the Soviet presence in West Berlin, the Western powers told the Russians to stop bringing relief guards for the Soviet war memorial through Checkpoint Charlie. (1:6)
Georgia's former Gov. Marvin Griffin has pledged to lead the state back to the hard-core segregationist camp if he wins on Sept. 12. (13:1)
Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma said he expected the Kennedy Administration to pledge action to block excessive imports of specific items, including textiles, before its trade bill came to a Senate vote. (1:3)
For five and a half hours the skies over the United States and Canada were the exclusive domain of about 1,600 bombers and fighter aircraft. It was the third annual staging of Operation Sky Shield, a huge exercise to test continental air defenses. (1:2-4)
In a holiday statement, President Kennedy praised the achievements of American workers and recounted their economic blessings. (1:1; Text, 31)
Kennedy calls world parley on manpower uses. (1)
Johnson expounds U. S. aid policy on tour. (2)
U. S. to aid new U. N. World Food Program. (3)
Rickover calls for U. S. tests to rate pupils. (17)
U. S. economy reacting well to market crash. (21)
Tax agency seeking to standardize audits. (21)
September 4, 1962
Algerian troops loyal to Deputy Premier Ben Bella's Political Bureau were moving on Algiers from the south. Mr. Ben Bella said the advancing units had orders to wrest Algiers "at any price" from the troops of Willaya 4, one of the two commands that oppose him. (1:8)
Acting Secretary General Thant conceded that the influx of so many former colonial states into the United Nations might have created a "crisis of confidence," but he opposed any move to change the voting system to offset them. (1:6; Text, 14)
Bolivia withdrew from all activities of O.A.S. Bolivia is annoyed by the O.A.S. Council's failure to enforce a solution of her dispute with Chile over the Lauca River. (1:8)
A threat to request troops from Communist China, if no one else would guarantee Cambodia's frontiers against her neighbors, was made by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He said Western recognition of Cambodian neutrality was not enough. (2:5)
The West prepared to enforce its order that Soviet convoys travel through the British, rather than the American, sector of Berlin to reach the Soviet war memorial. (1:4)
The Senate prepared to resume debate today on the Administration's tax revision bill. (1:1)
In a Labor Day message, President Kennedy urged boys and girls who have quit high school to return or risk a life of hardship. (20:1)
Roman Catholic schools around New Orleans were to open today in the South's first major parochial school integration. (27:4)
Cost of Cambodia aid project far above estimate. (2)
Borneo Leftists fight Malaysian merger plan. (3)
Monroe Doctrine faces new challenge in Cuba. (9)
Kennedy bids parley study test-ban impasse. (17)
Adenauer urges Germans to welcome de Gaulle. (19)
Latin trade group set to reject Cuba. (48)
September 5, 1962
President Kennedy warned yesterday that the United States would use "whatever means may be necessary" to prevent Cuban aggression anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. (1:8; Text, 2)
The Havana press praised Moscow's aid as a step toward socialist plenty and simultaneously reported that shoe and clothes rationing was being studied. (2:3)
The Kremlin charged that another American U-2 had flown over Soviet territory. (Sakhalin Island) last Friday night. (1:6)
Washington admitted that Soviet airspace may have been "unintentially" violated. It said the ban on reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union still stood. (1:7; Text, 4)
Soviet troops bowed to an Allied order by passing through British, rather than American, checkpoints in trips to and from the Soviet war memorial in West Berlin. The Russians sent up fighter planes to harass three Western airliners over the city. (1:7)
President de Gaulle arrived in Bonn for a state visit, as the keystone for a united Europe. (1:6)
Algerian leaders announced that a ceasefire had been worked out to halt fighting between military units supporting and opposing Deputy Premier Ben Bella's Political Bureau. (1:5)
The Senate voted to allow tax deductions for lobbying expenses by companies and individual business men. (1:2)
American scientists reported success in correcting the course of the Mariner II spacecraft when it was 1,500,000 miles away. (1:4-7)
Robert M. Morgenthau resigned as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to seek the Democratic nomination for Governor. He will lead the ticket against Governor Rockefeller in November. (1:1)
India invites China to discuss border talks. (1)
Johnson receives a warm welcome in Rome. (11)
Udall party inspects big Volgograd Dam. (9)
U.S. acts to spur Indian tribes' economies. (80)
September 6, 1962
In new notes to the United States, Britain and France, Moscow declared that the Berlin problem "is not a question of discussing incidents or consulting." Instead, the Russians declared, it is time for the Western powers to sign a German peace treaty on Soviet terms and withdraw from Berlin. (1:8; Text, 2)
The Kremlin termed the U.S. explanation of the off-course U-2 plane a clumsy subterfuge. (1:6-7)
Secretary of State Rusk informed nineteen Ambassadors from Latin-American countries that the United States was determined to prevent the export of communism from Cuba. The Peruvian Ambassador, speaking for his colleagues, said there was "full unanimity" with Washington's policy. (1:4)
The United States announced that the Russians had made six attempts in the last two years to send space probes to Mars and Venus with only one of the launching a partial success. Washington disclosed that the latest Soviet failure in sending a payload to Venus was last Saturday. (1:8)
The convicted spy Soblen is to be flown from London to New York today. (32:3-7)
Thirty-one countries pledged $86,000,000 in cash and commodities to help ease the hunger that grips half the world. The United States contributed $50,000,000 to the new World Food Program. (1:7)
The Senate put aside, by a 45-to-41 vote, a proposal for tax deductions on income invested in private retirement plans by self-employed persons. (1:1)
President Kennedy will spend next Tuesday and Wednesday surveying military and civilian space installations. The White House said that the trip would include Cape Canaveral, Fla., Huntsville, Ala., Houston, Tex. and St. Louis. (16:3)
Night riders fired three shotgun blasts into a house in Dawson, Ga., where seven voter registration workers were staying. (1:1)
The second day of parochial school desegregation in the New Orleans area was marred by angry demonstrations. (22:1)
Johnson signs space research accord with Italy. (7)
President Kennedy to tour space facilities. (16)
Kennedy and McCormack resume debate. (21)
Four Teamster aides indicted on Coast. (32)
September 7, 1962
The State Department confirmed reports that Soviet troops opened fire Tuesday on an American military vehicle on a routine mission in East Germany. None of the occupants was injured. (1:1)
Soviet military personnel in Cuba are said to be organized in compact, self-sufficient units with their own transport, supplies and weapons. Clad in civilian sports clothes or khaki fatigues without insignia, about 4,000 Communist-bloc soldiers perform the functions of "service troops" and individual advisers to Cuban military units. (1:1)
Soviet penetration of Cuba is expected to be discussed in New York late this month by the foreign ministers of nineteen Latin-American nations and the United States. (5:3)
Shortly before Dr. Robert A. Soblen was to be deported from Britain, he took an overdose of barbiturates. (1:6-7)
An uneasy cease-fire prevailed throughout Algeria. (1:5)
The Soviet Union submitted its own plan for ending Katanga's secession from the Congo within a month. (1:2-3)
The Senate passed a diluted version of the Administration's tax revision bill. The House bill goes much further toward carrying out President Kennedy's proposals. (1:6-7)
A bill to give installment buyers and other credit users a clearer view of the cost of credit was rejected by a Senate subcommittee. (15:1)
The Tariff Commission rejected the textile industry's plea for a special extra duty on imports of cotton goods. (1:4)
Argentine Congress dissolved; elections Oct., 1963. (1)
Udall has "friendly" talk with Khrushchev. (2)
U.S. industry plans to cut overseas outlay. (37)
September 8, 1962
General de Gaulle told officers at the West German War College that France and Germany had finally recognized "the absurdity" of their incessant wars through the centuries. He proposed "organic cooperation" between the armies of the two countries to help make them the nucleus for a larger European union. (1:6)
On the last day of a six-nation goodwill tour, Vice President Johnson had a forty-minute private audience with Pope John. The talk ranged over many problems, including school desegregation. (1:7)
Udall reported that the Soviet leader had challenged the United States to a race in power-resources development. The Soviet Premier also received Robert Frost and had what Tass described as a "warm talk" with him. (1:7)
President Kennedy asked Congress for stand-by authority to order 150,000 reservists to active duty for a year because of the critical world situation. His request was made against a background of rising Republican criticism of him for not taking measures to counteract the Soviet arms build-up in Cuba. (1:8; Text, 2)
Republican Congressional leaders, in fact, proposed that Congress authorize the President to use United States troops if necessary to defeat the menace of Cuban communism. (2:4; Texts, 2)
Dr. Arthur F. Burns endorsed in principle two counter-recession measures sought by Mr. Kennedy. They are stand-by authority to cut taxes and an extension of unemployment compensation benefits. (20:2-3)
The year-old nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals cleared its biggest hurdle--the Senate Judiciary Committee. (1:2-3)
The Senate completed Congressional action on a bill giving the Justice Department new power to obtain documents from business concerns in civil antitrust inquiries. The President's signature is assured. (9:1)
A Government report on birth control research that the Surgeon General had ordered quashed will be revised and made public. (1:5)
U.S. set at U.N. to counter Soviet on U-2. (3)
Peiping organ rejects Indian terms for talks. (5)
Dutch Parliament approves Indonesian pact. (6)
Sir Claude Corea, former Ceylonese diplomat, died. (19)
September 9, 1962
The Western powers are considering asking the Russians to transport their guards to the Soviet war memorial in West Berlin by bus instead of armored vehicle. An allied Spokesman said yesterday there was no valid reason now for the continued use of the armored cars. (1:7)
Vice President Johnson said the tour of Middle East and Mediterranean countries showed that United States aid was successful in combating Communist subversion. (1:5)
Speedy Congressional action is assured on President Kennedy's request for stand-by authority to call up 150,000 reservists for a year if the world situation warrants it. Administration spokesmen said Mr. Kennedy
had no plans to invoke such authority now. (1:8)
Approval of the first seventy projects to train unemployed workers under the new Manpower Development and Training Act was announced by the Labor Department. (1:2-3)
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sharply denied that his enforcement of the antitrust laws has been either too harsh or too soft toward big business. (44:4)
He hailed the peaceful desegregation of more Southern schools last week. But he noted that in three states--Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina--not a single school has been desegregated. (70:2-3)
At a White House luncheon tomorrow, former President Eisenhower will give President Kennedy a first-hand account of his recent six-weeks in Europe. (42:1)
Russians seen in Cuba near U.S. naval base. (1)
Italy expels Bidault, enemy of de Gaulle. (1)
Udall group is praised by Soviet official. (5)
Kennedy weighing appearance at U.N. (6)
Nehru concerned about British market link. (8)
Vietnam to receive more U.S. helicopters. (26)
September 10, 1962
Communist China asserted yesterday it had shot down a Chinese Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane over eastern China. The Nationalists acknowledged that one of two U-2's bought from a United States manufacturer was missing over the mainland. (1:8)
Cuban exile leaders are urging the United States to allow them to launch large-scale subversive activities from this country to overthrow the Castro Government. The exiles call such a policy "the most sensible solution" to counter the presence of Soviet military personnel in Cuba. (1:7)
Urgent and insistent appeals for United States aid are being made by the leader of the Kurdish rebellion in the mountains of northern Iraq. He is offering, in return, to overthrow the Iraqi Government and transform the country into the West's strongest ally in the Middle East. (1:3-6); Pictures, 15)
The rebellion is the latest chapter in a long fight by the Kurds to survive and to establish an autonomous state. (14:5)
United States officials, said aid to the Kurdish revolt would constitute interference in Iraq's internal affairs. (14:8)
The head of the National Popular Army arrived in Algiers. Ahmed Ben Bella, leader of Algeria's de facto government, welcomed the arrival. (1:5)
Leaders of the fifteen British Commonwealth Governments are in London, on whether Britain should join the European Common Market. (1:4)
Robert Frost, home after a visit to the Soviet Union. The 88-year-old poet expressed the view that the Russians were relaxing a little. (8:1-4)
Two Negro churches in the Sasser, Ga., area, one of them the scene of weekly voter registration rallies, were destroyed by fire. F.B.I. agents examining the ruins of one church were pummeled by a white man. (1:3)
A program for the voluntary sterilization of mothers unable to pay their medial bills was denounced as immoral by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington. Sixty-three women have been sterilized in Warrenton, Va. (25:2-3)
Bomb near Nkrumah's palace kills two. (1)
Keating opposes "horse trade" over Cuba. (6)
Soviet agriculture minister arrives for U.S. tour. (9)
September 11, 1962
Soviet Union said in the United Nations that there could be no international cooperation in outer space without first agreeing on the basic legal principles governing its use. (3:1)
The Navy announced in Washington that it would build a Polaris submarine support base on the Pacific island of Guam, about 1,850 miles from Communist China. (1:6)
President Kennedy's request for stand-by authority to mobilize military reservists got speedy approval in the Senate Armed Services Committee. (1:3)
The Senate gave final Congressional approval to a bill to authorize $900,000,000 for public works projects in depressed areas. To keep from delaying the bill by sending it back to the House, the Senate accepted a draft containing a clerical error, opening a question to its legality. (1:4)
Dodd calls on U.S. to curb Cuba now. (12)
Donovan hopes to trade Cuban captives for food. (13)
Brazilian says army backs President Goulart. (15)
White House plans parley on fiscal issues. (40)
Children's hero is U.S. President. (35)
91-day U.S. bill rate dipped in week. (46)
September 12, 1962
The Soviet Union warned yesterday that a United States attack on Cuba or upon Soviet ships bound for the island might set-off a nuclear war. The official statement accused President Kennedy of preparing for "an act of aggression" against Cuba when he asked Congress for authority- to order 150,000 reservists to active duty. (1:8; Text, 16)
A broadcast from Havana charged that a "pirate vessel" had entered a Cuban harbor and had fired on a British freighter carrying sugar and a Cuban ship loaded with molasses. An anti-Castro group in Miami said the raid had been carried out by refugees. (1:7)
Dr. Robert Soblen died in a London hospital. (1:3)
The Senate approved the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to a seat on the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy visited the nation's rocket centers. Dr. Wernher Von Braun showed the President a model of the Saturn C-5 rocket that will be used for the lunar shot. (1:5)
The Protestant clergy of Houston, who debated religion with President Kennedy two years ago, report a change of feeling about their fears of a Roman Catholic in the White House. (19:1)
Udall sees peace hopes in a "liberalized" Soviet. (8)
Gov. Powell beaten in New Hampshire primary. (1)
Hayden renamed to Senate from Arizona. (25)
President won't attend center debut here. (32)
Mrs. Kennedy unveils arts-center model. (32)
September 13, 1962
Cuban Air Force pilot, who defected to this country last week, said that more than 200 MIG jet fighters have been given to Cuba by the Soviet Union. (1:2)
The United States indicated to the leading nations of Europe that it no longer was prepared to give "bail-out" loans to Latin-American countries in debt to European creditors. (5:1)
Russians are ready to comply with an Allied request to use buses rather than armored vehicles to bring their guards to the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin. (1:4)
President Kennedy told Rice University students that "no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations" can afford to lag in the exploration of space. (1:1; Text 16)
A special satellite designed to study the unexpected radiation zone created in space by an American high-altitude nuclear explosion in July is being prepared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (1:1)
Three steel concerns and two industry executives pleaded no contest to an antitrust indictment. (30:3)
Mexican profit-sharing measure goes to President. (1)
Shah acts to help Kurdish and Turkish groups. (13)
Nixon revives Communist issue in Coast race. (19)
Copper companies, officials indicted as trust. (33)
U.S. premier of "Spartacus" dance by Bolshoi. (32)
September 14, 1962
Mr. Kennedy deplored "loose talk" in this country that gave "a thin color of legitimacy to the Communist pretense that such a threat to invade Cuba exists". (1:8; Trans. 12)
A leader of the anti-Castro group, which machine-gunned three ships in Cuban waters Monday, said five more strikes were being planned. (13:6)
Premier Ben Khedda and fifty-two others were purged from the official list of unopposed candidates for election to the country's National Assembly. The purge was carried out by the de facto Government, headed by Vice Premier Ben Bella. (1:7)
Leaders of almost every party except the Gaullist Union are hostile to the President's proposal to have his successor elected by popular, instead of limited, suffrage. (3:1)
The burning of two Negro churches in Georgia last Sunday provoked President Kennedy to issue a strong denunciation. He pledged that all citizens who wanted to vote would be protected by force and additional legislation, if necessary. (1:1)
The President also told his news conference that, somewhat like Lazarus, Congress had come to life again. He said he expected passage of bills on tax revision, aid to higher education, farms and foreign trade. (1:4)
The Senate Finance Committee revised the Administration's foreign trade bill to give the President broader powers than he is seeking. One amendment, adopted over Administration objections, would broaden provisions
authorizing cuts up to 100 per cent in tariffs on some goods. (5:6)
Carl J. Miller, an Agriculture Department official who was demoted in the Billie Sol. Estes inquiry, has been offered his old post. (1:2-3)
Former President Eisenhower opened his 1962 political campaigning on behalf of Charles Halleck. (22:1)
Tshombe asserts United Nations plans attack. (1)
Brazil Cabinet and Premier resign. (1)
Telstar to beam Hammarskjöld tribute. (63)
President asks space concerns to accept union shop. (1)
Barnett defies integration at U. of Mississippi. (1)
September 15, 1962
The President's handling of the Cuban issue was sharply assailed by Senator Barry Goldwater as a "do nothing" policy. Mr. Kennedy had virtually promised the Communists the United States, "will take no action to remove the threat of Soviet armed might in the Western Hemisphere". (1:7)
With Moscow's tacit approval, the Communist party of Iraq is seeking a "national front" with the Kurdish rebels to overthrow the Government of Premier Kassim. (1:7-8)
The United States' spacecraft Mariner II was estimated to be more than 3,000,000 miles from earth in its 6,463-mile-an-hour journey toward Venus. The flying laboratory continued to send steady radio signals on its nineteenth day in space. (5:4-5)
A 14-pound steel object that fell in Wisconsin was exhibited at the United Nations by the United States, which said it was probably a fragment from the Soviet, satellite Sputnik IV. This is tangible evidence of the need for early consideration of practical problems of space law. (1:4-5)
The President's proposal to lend $100,000,000 to the United Nations was approved by the House and Senate, which has passed a similar measure. (1:1-2)
The President signed a bill which authorizes $900,000,000 for public works projects in economically depressed areas. (1:2)
Last night, the President and Mrs. Kennedy were honored at a dinner in Newport, R.I., given by the Australian Ambassador on the eve of the America's Cup yacht races. (11:2-4)
Brazil President urges calm as Leftists strike. (1)
Soviet pressing ties with Saudi Arabia. (2)
U. S. indicts two Texans for "piracy" of oil. (13)
2,700 pupils in Louisiana get tuition aid. (13)
September 16, 1962
The fourteen independent Commonwealth nations were said yesterday to be cooperating in preparations for the next round of negotiations on Britain's entry to the Common Market. The members were said to be convinced that Britain is determined to join the market and are now seeking to obtain the best arrangements. (1:8)
Britain and the United States have agreed to expand joint research and development of weapons. The United States also is making more nuclear weapons information available to its NATO Allies. (1:7)
The United States has had little success thus far in efforts to persuade its Allies to do less business with Cuba and to withhold ships now being chartered for Soviet shipments to Cuba. (1:5)
Two Soviet citizens who had been employed by the United Nations were dismissed by the U.N. after Washington reported their "illegitimate intelligence activities". (1:4)
The Soviet Government announced that Iran had pledged that no foreign rocket bases would be set up on her soil. Moscow urged other neighboring nations to take similar action. (20:1)
A former French army officer, who served in Algeria, named as the organizer of the attempt to kill President de Gaulle Aug. 22, hanged himself in his Paris cell. (1:6)
The chairman of the House Administration Committee has demanded that seven of Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr's twenty part-time employees on the House Education and Labor Committee be dismissed. (1:2-3)
"This [wilderness] bill is so bad that it is worse than no bill at all. It is a retrogression from the whole concept of wilderness. It is a hunting license for Western mining interests". Spender M. Smith, a conservationist, commenting on the bill voted by a House Committee. (56:1)
Mende urges Adenauer to resign by fall of '63. (1)
Two U. S. aides to leave Common Market posts. (4)
U. S. publisher sees Soviet shift on copyrights. (13)
U. S. is urged to end payments deficit. (35)
Housing gains by non-white families reported. (69)
Negroes in South Jersey fight segregation. (74)
Controversy over use of DDT erupts in Detroit. (41)
Encephalitis laboratory is set up in Tampa. (47)
"Giselle" danced by Ekaterina Maximova. (86)
September 17, 1962
The exodus of East Germans to the West has dwindled to a comparative trickle since the Communists erected the Berlin wall in August of last year. (10:4)
Membership in the U. N. now stands at 104 -- more than double the original 51 members in 1946 -- and four new nations have been recommended for admission. Eighty-nine issues are on the agenda and a dozen others are likely to be added. (1:2-3; Proposed Agenda, 14)
The Americanization of Saigon has increased markedly in the last year with the arrival of thousands of American troops to aid the South Vietnamese fight against Communist guerrillas. (1:6-7)
Leader of the steel worker's union chided President Kennedy, holding that he had not acted forcefully enough to reduce unemployment and promote economic growth. (1:5)
The President accepted the resignation of William P. Daniel, Governor of Guam. Mr. Daniel said the success of legislation giving Guamanians the right to elect their own Governor would be enhanced if a Guamanian was serving while it was pending. (16:3)
Trustees of the University of Mississippi will choose today between compliance with Federal Court desegregation orders and the defiance urged by Governor Barnett. The controversy over the entry of James Meredith threatens a serious conflict between state and Federal power. (22:2-7)
Kennedy's plan to visit Brazil is reassessed. (1)
Foe of Ben Bella refuses to run in Algeria. (1)
Iran renews contract for Khuzistan project. (11)
Three Powell aides say they did not get pay. (17)
U. S. forms panel to encourage inventiveness. (33)
Big Iowa corn impresses Soviet minister. (24)
September 18, 1962
Moscow revived its demand for changes in the United Nations structure. Reorganization of the Secretariat urged on the so-called "troika" principle -- under which representatives of the Western, Communist and neutral groupings would share the U. N. administration. (1:1)
The Soviet Union rejected the Western view that it had no right to abolish the office of Soviet Commandant in East Berlin and charged that the three allied commanders in West Berlin represent NATO. (1:3; Text, 5)
The House Appropriations Subcommittee recommended a cut of $1,500,000,000 in President Kennedy's request for $4,752,000,000 in foreign aid money. Even military assistance, which has been spared deep slashes in the past, would be reduced by $500,000,000. (1:5)
Senate-House conferees agreed on a $2,350,000,000 measure to aid the nation's colleges and universities. (1:3-4)
The Government's first suit to end racial segregation in public schools receiving Federal aid was filed by the Justice Department, in Prince George County, Va. (1:4)
The Washington Post published -- and denied -- the widely circulated rumor that President Kennedy once was secretly married. (21:1)
Robert M. Morgenthau was nominated today on the second ballot as the Democratic candidate for Governor at the party's convention in Syracuse. (1:8)
Engineer admits he led plot on de Gaulle. (9)
Duvalier takers full control of Haiti's economy. (12)
House-Senate conferees offer new farm bill. (1)
Kennedy urges arbitration in railroad strike. (36)
September 19, 1962
United Nations delegates convened yesterday at the opening of the 17th session of the General Assembly. In a harmonious meeting, Muhammad Zafrulla Khan of Pakistan was elected President for the session, which is expected to be long and complicated by Soviet demands for U. N. structural changes. (1:1; Text, 16)
Four new members--Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and the nation of Trinidad and Tobago--were admitted to the U. N. by acclamation, raising the membership to 108. (16:3)
President Kennedy's $4,752,000,000 foreign-aid request was slashed by almost a fourth and sent to the House by the Appropriations Committee. (1:5)
After defeating restrictive amendments, the Senate prepared to pass the President's foreign trade bill today. (1:2)
Edward M. Kennedy, the President's 30-year-old brother, won a landslide victory over Edward J. McCormack, Jr. in the Massachusetts Democratic Senatorial primary. (1:6-7)
Thailand scores U. S. on Cambodia aid. (5)
U. S. denies complicity in bombing in Ghana. (15)
September 20, 1962
Congress is expected to adopt today a joint resolution pledging the use of force if necessary to defend the Western Hemisphere against Cuban aggression or subversion. The text, approved yesterday by two Senate committees, was worked out by leaders of both parties and is acceptable to the Administration. The compromise resolution also pledges the nation to work with the Organization of American States and "freedom-loving" Cubans for the "self-determination" of Cubans. (1:3-5; Text, 14)
In Germany, the Russians held up for more than three hours a United States Army troop convoy bound for Berlin. An Army spokesman said there had been "a misunderstanding on procedure," which was believed to involve the Russians' asserted right to count the soldiers outside their vehicles. (1:7-8)
At the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Britain proposed a dramatic plan to strengthen the world's money system. Under the plan, nations would deposit their extra foreign currencies in the fund rather than send them to the country of origin for gold. (1:7)
By a one-sided vote of 78 to 8, the Senate passed the Administration's foreign trade bill. It carries out in full President Kennedy's request for extensive new tariff-cutting powers and marks his greatest victory in Congress this year. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference for reconciliation with a version passed by the House last June. (1:8)
The President moved speedily to try to restore the $1,124,000,000 cut in his foreign aid program by the House Appropriations Committee. He warned that the group's "irresponsible action" threatened "free world security" and he strongly urged the House to restore the funds. (1:6)
The Air Force and Navy, seemingly blocked in the Pentagon, went to Congress to urge development of a nuclear ramjet missile as a potential intercontinental weapon of the next decade. Air Force officials said the nuclear missile, with its global range, could provide a counter-measure to Soviet development of a defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles. (21:5)
Bill to guard U. S. secrets blocked in House. (20)
Caroline Kennedy's kindergarten class integrated. (27)
Kennedy inaction on rail merger seen. (21)
September 21, 1962
In a grief, sharp skirmish, a rebel column of 40 tanks moving toward Buenos Aires yesterday clashed with Government artillery. The battle saw the first shedding of blood in the latest phase of Argentina's military crisis. (1:1)
A stronger United Nations was urged by the United States, which described the world as a "powder keg." A United States policy statement before the General Assembly was delivered by Adlai E. Stevenson, who warned that the Assembly must provide the money for the Congo operations and other peacekeeping machinery or "doom our organization to impotence." (1:2; Text, 10)
The House approved the foreign-aid appropriation bill without restoring any of the $1,124,000,000 urged by President Kennedy. By a 249-144 vote, the measure was sent to the Senate after the Democratic leadership decided not to risk deeper cuts in a floor fight. In earlier voice votes, the House shouted its approval of three amendments to cut off aid to any county that permits its ships to transport goods to Cuba. (1:8)
A resolution endorsing the use of arms, if necessary, to prevent Cuban aggression or subversion in the Senate, 86 to 1, after three hours of debate. The House is expected to adopt the resolution today. (1:6-7)
On two other bills, the House dealt the Administration a defeat and a partial victory. It rejected a compromise $2,345,000,000 college-aid measure, 214 to 186, apparently ending prospects for such legislation this year. (1:7)
But part of the President's request for stiff farm production controls was salvaged in a vote of 202 to 197. (12:3)
The President opened his 1962 campaign with a call for a "progressive Congress." He spoke at a party rally in Harrisburg. (1:6-7)
Gov. Ross R. Barnett, defying Federal court orders, denied the admission of James H. Meredith, a Negro to the University of Mississippi. The Justice Department moved immediately to obtain contempt citations against university officials. (1:5)
Kennedy bids nations share U. S. burden. (1)
Cooper confirmed for court post by Senate. (14)
U. S. reassures New England on textile imports. (37)
September 22, 1962
The Soviet Union issued a new warning that any United States attack on Cuba would precipitate a nuclear war. The threat was made by Foreign Minister Gromyko in a tough and uncompromising policy statement to the United Nations General Assembly. (1:4; Excerpts, 2)
The State of Mississippi won a legal victory in its efforts to prevent a Negro from entering the University of Mississippi. A Federal District judge dismissed contempt charges against three university officials, declaring that Gov. Ross R. Barnett had assumed personal charge of the case. (1:2-3)
The Justice Department said it would move today to include the three officials in contempt proceedings before a Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans. (12:3)
Deputy Secretary of Defense Gilpatric announced three major agreements for European purchases of United States arms to help offset American gold losses abroad. The accords are with Bonn, Paris and Rome. (1:5)
Signs that help predict the general direction of the nation's economy were still mixed but showed a slight downtrend. Of 17 indicators just made public, 9 point down, 7 point up and one is unchanged. (1:2)
Kennedy says Soviet aid dooms Castro. (3)
September 23, 1962
Striking with jet fighters and tanks, Argentine forces supporting President Guido took control of Buenos Aires last night and virtually sealed a victory in their five-day revolt against military control of the Government. (1:8)
The Soviet Government protested the confiscation by Puerto Rican authorities of a shipment of Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union. The protest, submitted to the United States Charge d'Affairs in Moscow, demanded release of the shipment and compensation for damages. (41:1)
The pentagon is considering increases in the regular armed forces to avoid future emergency calls on the military reserves. This possibility was mentioned in House testimony by Secretary of Defense McNamara, who said that in some ways the world situation was more critical today than at any time since the Korean war. (1:1)
"It can be said, I believe, that Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves, but that, in this century since, our Negro citizens have emancipated themselves." President Kennedy. (50:8)
Kennedy praises stand of Berlin People. (4)
Kennedy message hails links of Paris and Bonn. (5)
Presidential council maps consumer study. (78)
September 24, 1962
British reluctance to place a total embargo on trade with Cuba was among a large number of issues that were discussed in New York by Secretary of State Rusk and Britain's Foreign Secretary, the Earl of Home. The 50-minute talk was the first of a series of conferences in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly session. (1:7)
The Soviet Communist party has warned revolutionaries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against "undue haste" in seeking to transform their countries into Communist states. Moscow's warning appeared to be opposed to the more militant tactics favored by Communist China. (1:7)
On Capitol Hill this week, the Administration will work to restore at least half of the foreign aid funds cut by the House last week. President Kennedy renewed his appeal for a stronger foreign aid program by declaring that "this way we can defeat Communism." (1:1)
A new era in New York's concert life began with a glamorous, glittering opening of Philharmonic Hall, the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. (34:6)
September 25, 1962
Secretary of State Rusk met yesterday with the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Halvard M. Lange, in an effort to win cooperation in blocking shipments of strategic goods to Cuba. They conferred in New York where Mr. Rusk has been making similar appeals to other allied diplomats. Italy and West Germany were said to be responding more favorably than Britain and Scandinavia. (1:1)
The University of Mississippi's trustees bowed to a Federal court and agreed to admit a Negro, James H. Meredith, by 4 P.M. today. The decision was announced after the eight-judge court told the trustees they had willfully violated its order to admit Mr. Meredith when they turned the matter over to Governor Barnett. Mr. Barnett had then rejected the Negro's application. (1:8)
Earlier yesterday, the Governor ordered the jailing of any Federal official who tried to arrest state officers for defying desegregation orders. (1:7)
The House passed and sent to the White House the specially limited Reserve mobilization powers that President Kennedy had requested. The bill enables him to call up to 150,000 ready reservists and extend the active duty of servicemen, if he finds it necessary. (1:4)
Kennedy, Ayub see continued threat to peace. (1)
September 26, 1962
The Western Big Three spoke with a single voice yesterday in branding the Soviet Union "unreasonable" for refusing to discuss Berlin. In identical notes to Moscow, the allies accused the Kremlin of seeking to maintain tensions in Berlin and of responsibility for the "wall which divides the city and the brutality of the East German regime toward its inhabitants." (1:4)
Washington was prepared to send airborne troops to enforce the Federal court's order specifically barring the Governor from interfering with James H. Meredith's court-ordered admission. Mr. Barnett, vowing to go to jail rather than allow the Negro's enrollment, had commanded hundreds of state troopers to resist Federal authorities (1:8)
The Governor openly defied the court's non-interference edict by personally preventing Mr. Meredith from registering. (1:6-7)
For this, the court cited him for contempt and summoned him to a New Orleans hearing Friday morning. (1:7; Texts, 22)
The Senate gave the Administration some of the controls it sought to curb costly surplus grain crops. It voted final Congressional approval of a compromise farm bill. Republicans were solidly opposed. (1:5)
The Consumer Price Index neither rose nor fell in August from its record high level in July. (52:1)
Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round last night in Chicago to win the world heavyweight championship. (1:1)
The American sloop Weatherly won the America's Cup.
Panama attacks U.S.-Canal treaty at U.N. (11)
Wirtz takes oath: Goldberg is confirmed. (20)
"Mr. President" attended by Mr. President. (36)
TV comedians poke fun at the Kennedys. (79)
September 27, 1962
The United States, in a reversal of long-standing policy, has agreed to sell short-range defensive Hawk missiles to Israel. State Department officials said yesterday that the new policy was designed to offset the offensive weapons recently furnished by the Communist bloc to Israel's Arab neighbors and to try to maintain a balance of power in the Middle East. (1:1)
The House of Representatives completed Congressional action on a declaration of the United States' determination to oppose with force, if necessary, Communist aggression or subversion based in Cuba. The House approved the joint resolution as anger and concern mounted in Washington over Moscow's plans to help build a port in Cuba for Soviet fishing trawlers. (1:2)
Moscow portrayed the project as a routine agreement for aid to the Castro regime. (10:4)
Ways to guard against Cuban-based aggression and subversion were discussed in New York by Secretary of State Rusk and foreign ministers of the Latin-American nations. One proposal is the establishment of a Caribbean military organization. (1:3)
The Algerian National Assembly named Ahmed Ben Bella Premier of the first regular government of independent Algeria. (1:1)
For the third time, Gov. Ross R. Barnett and his aides flouted Federal court orders to desegregate the University of Mississippi. A chief Federal marshal tried to shoulder his way through 20 Mississippi highway patrolmen and scuffled repeatedly with Lieut. Gov. Paul B. Johnson. But the marshal's efforts to enroll James H. Meredith, a Negro, at Ole Miss were in vain and Mr. Meredith was flown back to Memphis. (1:8)
A Federal marshal who tried to deliver the contempt citation to Governor Barnett's office in Jackson was thwarted by Mississippi patrolmen. They stood in front of the locked office, blocking the mail slot. (28:8)
Attorney General Kennedy reiterated that the Federal Government would do "whatever is necessary" to carry out the court desegregation orders. Officials have made clear they are prepared to use troops in Mississippi if necessary. (29:2-3)
In a defeat for the Administration, a Senate-House conference committee voted to impose stiff trading sanctions against Yugoslavia and Poland. The action came as the committee agreed on the final version of a foreign-trade bill that in all other respects carried out Administration requests. (1:4)
Kennedy and U.S. reviled by Red China. (6)
Kennedy appeals for understanding by business. (30)
September 28, 1962
Turley has responded to United States efforts to halt Soviet-bloc shipments to Cuba by announcing a suspension of all shipping to Cuba in Turkish vessels. (1:1)
The United States emphasized that it had no intention of trying to maintain permanently a military balance of power in the Middle East. State Department spokesmen said that plans to sell defensive missiles to Israel were intended to deal only with the present situation. (1:2)
An army faction in Yemen announced it had seized power and proclaimed the kingdom a republic. (1:2-3)
Defying Federal authority, Gov. Ross R. Barnett ringed the University of Mississippi campus with 200 club-carrying policemen. (1:6-7)
The Governor's move caused the Justice Department to abandon a fourth attempt to register James H. Meredith, A Negro, at the University. The department said that Mr. Meredith and an escort of 25 deputy Federal marshals had turned back to Memphis to prevent "major violence and bloodshed." The department ordered "several hundred" more marshals to Memphis to make another attempt today to carry out the desegregation orders of the federal courts. Attorney General Kennedy conferred with a high Army official about plans to move in troops if necessary. (1:8; Texts, 22)
In New Orleans, Mr. Meredith's lawyers expressed disappointment that the Federal Government had not moved more boldly. (22:6)
Responding to appeals by President Kennedy, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a foreign-aid program totaling $4,422,800,000 this year. It thereby restored $792,400,00 of the cuts ordered by the House and also struck down House mandates against aid to any country whose ships carried goods to Cuba. (1:4)
Voting 72 to 3, the Senate passed a bill to increase postal rates and raise the pay of 1,600,000 Government workers. The measure now goes to the House, which has approved much larger rate and pay increases. (1:4)
A bill to tighten drug laws sped through the House after four hours of debate. A Senate-House committee is expected to have little trouble working out a compromise with a similar Senate version. (1:5)
The President opened a two-day White House conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse. He urged 400 experts to prepare guidelines for a comprehensive Federal narcotics program. (19:1)
U.S. offers aid to Spain in flood disaster. (13)
President signs new agriculture legislation. (13)
Kennedy makes political talk in West Virginia. (24)
September 29, 1962
Within hours after returning to Washington yesterday from a two-day inspection trip to Germany, Secretary of Defense McNamara hurriedly held a news conference. He solemnly warned that the United States was ready to use nuclear arms to protect its vital interests in Berlin. His statement was apparently intended to erase any doubts that Washington would hesitate to use force in a Berlin showdown. (1:1)
The grave Federal-state conflict over the desegregation of the University of Mississippi was focused on New Orleans, where a Federal appeals court found Governor Barnett of Mississippi guilty of civil contempt of its orders. He was ordered to purge himself of interference with the registration of James H. Meredith by 11 A.M. Tuesday or face arrest and fine of $10,000 a day. Eight judges agreed to the contempt ruling, but three dissented from the judgment imposing the fine. Mr. Barnett did not appear for the hearing. (1:8; Text, 8)
The integration crisis dominated the front pages of European newspapers. (1:7)
During a 25-minute talk at the White House, President Kennedy promised to aid Robert; M. Morgenthau's campaign for Governor with at least two visits to New York State. The President is expected to attend a major Democratic rally in New York City, probably on the Columbus Day weekend, and also make a trip upstate. (1:6-7)
Tonight "My Fair Lady" ends a more than six-and-a-half-year Broadway run. (15; 4-5)
Rep. Kathryn Granahan named U.S. Treasurer. (6)
Senate votes pension plan for self-employed. (6)
September 30, 1962
The increasingly tense situation in Berlin and other international issues will be discussed today by President Kennedy and top United States and British officials. The President's luncheon guests at the White House will be Secretary of State Rusk; David K. E. Bruce, the United States Ambassador in London; Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, and Sir David Ormsby-Gore, the British Ambassador. The four will fly to Washington from New York, where they are attending the United Nations General Assembly session. (1:1)
Yesterday the President sent "warmest congratulations" to Ahmed Ben Bella, Premier of Algeria's newly formed Government. Mr. Kennedy's message coincided with the State Department's announcement of formal diplomatic recognition of the Algerian regime, which has pledged a "neutralist and non-engaged" foreign policy. (1:2)
Just before midnight, President Kennedy committed the full weight of the Federal Government to end Mississippi's defiance of Federal authority in refusing to admit James H. Meredith, a Negro, to the University of Mississippi. The President called the state's National Guard into Federal service, sent regular Army troops to Memphis, Tenn., to stand in reserve, and issued a proclamation calling on Mississippi to abandon its challenge to Federal authority. Tonight at 7:30 Mr. Kennedy goes on the air to explain the situation to the nation. (1:8)
The United States demanded the recall of two members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations for taking part in an espionage conspiracy with an American sailor. The two diplomats were picked up by F.B.I. agents Friday night when the agents arrested Yeoman 1st Cl. Nelson C. Drummond near a diner on the Boston Post Road in Larchmont. The 33-year-old Yeoman was charged with treason. (1:4)