January 1963
January 1, 1963
Secretary General U Thant warned secessionist Katangese President Tshombe to negotiate integration into the Congo within two weeks or face "other measures". (1:8)
Efforts by the White House to discourage the public from sending gifts to the First Lady and her two children are having very little success. They received twice as many gifts and cards this Christmas as they did last year. (1:6-7)
Any gift estimated to be worth $15.00 is returned to the sender. Others are sent to the Children's Hospital, orphanages and similar charitable institutions with Junior Village receiving the majority this year. (1:6-7)
The Interstate Commerce Commission, in an 8 to 3 decision, approved the application of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to buy control of the ailing Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (1:5)
President Kennedy, in Palm beach, held a late afternoon session yesterday with staff assistants on the Legislative Program he will submit to the new Congress. (2:4)
President Kennedy's Congressional liaison chieftain, Lawrence O'Brien, declared that the pending House Rules Committee battle will determine the fate of the President's legislative program. (2:6-8)
January 2, 1963
President Kennedy is reported to be finding prospects for peace better in 1963. He sees the Communist appeal dimmed in neutral eyes by Cuban setback, but he warns of new pressures. (1:6-7)
President de Gaulle told the French Armed Forces that 1963 would see "the appearance of our atomic force". (1.7)
In a policy statement in the form of an editorial in a Communist-Chinese official party newspaper, Peiping defended its hardline policy and ruled out co-existence. (1:6-7)
President Moise Tshombe of Katanga called on the U. N. today for an immediate cease fire in Katanga and the start of the negotiations on the secessionist provinces relations with the Congo's central government. He said he would return to Elizabethville if his safety was guaranteed. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev requested a settlement of the Berlin situation and reassured Cuba of its support. Also, Khrushchev talked about the need for peaceful coexistence. (1:5)
A tax incentive to induce private industry to increase its research and development activities is expected to be among the Administration's forthcoming tax reform proposals. (1:2)
Senator Robert S. Kerr, Democrat of Oklahoma, died at the age of 66. (1:4-5) In Palm Beach President Kennedy expressed shock at the death of Senator Kerr.
January 3, 1963
Secretary General U Thant rejected today the request by Tshombe for meeting with the United Nations representative. Mr. Thant said that he wanted "actions by Mr. Tshombe and not words written for all".
General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, former chief of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, assumed command of the NATO force in Europe today. General Lauris Norstad stepped down after six years. (1:5-6-7)
A one package program of tax reduction reform, with the effective dates staggered to reduce the impact on the budget, will be President Kennedy's top priority legislative item in 1963. The tax reduction and reform is seen as essential in gaining employment increases. Part five of his proposal is foreseen. Medical care and education aid have also been emphasized by the Administration and a civil rights bill is also possible. (1:1)
In Vietnam Communist guerillas armed with automatic weapons inflicted a major defeat today on U. S. helicopters carrying troops into an operation in the Mekong Delta. Five helicopters were shot down. Three Americans were reported killed. (1:4)
In Cuba Castro ridiculed the U. S. today for paying what he said was "indemnification" to Cuba for the abortive invasion of April, 1961. "For the first time in history imperialism has paid war indemnification" said Mr. Castro. He also denounced President Kennedy. (1:5)
The Kennedy Administration has undertaken an important and delicate dialogue with France through diplomatic channels. Depending on the outcome, the Administration will seek to satisfy many of France's requests for nuclear assistance and a Kennedy-de Gaulle meeting may be arranged. (1:6-7)
Congressional auditors said that combat preparedness of United States Military Units had been "seriously affected" by inability to retain repair parts and other supplies even though such material was readily available. (1:1)
The Longshoreman's strike is in its tenth day. James Reynolds, Assistant Secretary of Labor, is heading the government mediation team. (1:2-3-4-5)
January 4, 1963
France will make no immediate decision to accept or reject the United States offer of Polaris missiles. While discussions proceed she will continue to build an independent atomic striking force. (1:7)
United States expressed shock and concern today over three bombings and strafing attacks against Saudi Arabian settlements by aircraft of the United Arab Republic earlier this week in connection with the fighting in Yemen. (1:5)
President Kennedy will ask Congress this month to enact an $8,000,000,000 tax cut with the first reduction in individual income taxes scheduled for July 1, Congressional experts predicted today. It is also anticipated that the Kennedy plan would include a reduction in the 27.5% gas and oil completion allowance. (1:4)
Secretary of Defense McNamara announced today that he would ask Congress for an average 14% pay increase for the armed forces starting next September 30. (1:2-3)
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman met with President Kennedy today at Palm beach. They discussed various farm issues such as the critical need for favorable vote in the ë63 wheat referendum, farm sales and the common market. (1:1)
The Pentagon award of an Airplane Development contract to the General Dynamics Corporation may be investigated by Congress. Senator John L. McClellan, Chairman of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee said today that members gathering information as a result of certain complaints to determine whether full scale investigation was warranted. (1:2)
A Presidential board severely criticized the Boeing Companies attitude toward Union Security Day, today, and called on the Air Space firm to "abandon its stubborn insistence" on its views. (1:1)
Movie and TV stars Dick Powell and Jack Carson died today of cancer. (1:4)
The Federal Trade Commission has questioned the radio and TV ratings of three national companies. The three companies have agreed to some changes after the Federal criticism. (1:6)
January 5, 1963
The United States called on President Tshombe of Katanga to "make himself available" to the United Nations to assure "promptly" the integration of his problems in the Congo. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev will head a high powered Soviet delegation of eight to the Congress of the East German Socialist Unity party opening January 15. (1:6-7)
West Germany has offered Communist East Germany a two year credit of 400,000,000 deutsche marks, equivalent to $100,000,000 if West Berliners are permitted to cross through the Communist built wall into East Berlin. (1:5)
President de Gaulle and the United States Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, discussed offer of Polaris missiles to France by the United States. De Gaulle gave a lukewarm response. (1:7)
Juan Bosch, President-elect of the Dominican Republic, conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Bosch will be received by President Kennedy early next week. He has received an unusually warm welcome from the Administration in hopes that his Government will serve as a model democracy in the Caribbean. (1:2-3-4)
Brazil has protested the refusal of the United States to continue aid. The Kennedy Administration has held back aid because of the failure of the Brazilian Government to control inflation. (1:1)
Two United States Communications Satellites both of which had been presumed dead, restored television contact with Europe. (1:2)
The United Nations has dropped its news broadcasts in Hungary that have long been a target for Communist attack. United States officials informed of the sudden decision by the Secretary General's Office were said to be indignant. The United States plans to ask immediately for the resumption of the weekly shows. (1:5-6)
Ambassador Arthur H. Dean, who has for the last two years attempted to negotiate an atomic test ban agreement with the Soviet Union has submitted his resignation as Chief United States Negotiator. The White House has not yet acted upon the resignation but it is expected to be accepted. (1:8)
January 6, 1963
Ralph Bunche is being criticized from all sides in the Congo for the U. N. slowdown in the Congo offensive drive by the U. N. Bunch denied issuing the order to halt the Drive. (1:8)
President Kennedy met in Palm beach with Secretary of State Rusk and Thomas K. Finletter, U. S. Ambassador to NATO to help set the scene for the United States and its NATO Allies to convert the Pact of Nassau into a reality. (1:6-7)
The Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans ordered Mississippi Governor Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Johnson to show cause February 8 why they should not be held in criminal contempt for blocking Negro James H. Meredith admission to the University of Mississippi. (1:5)
Peru's ruling Military Junta claimed a nationwide state of sieges today to break-up what it called a revolutionary plot hatched in Moscow and Havana. (1:6-7)
Two Spokesmen for the Conference of Governors expressed the belief that most States will accept a new one-step Army plan to shape the National Guard - and the Reserves - on the same pattern as the regular Army. (2:1-2)
January 7, 1963
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche flew to the Congo to complete United Nations arrangements with local military and civilian-leaders for ending the secession of Katanga Province. (1:8)
Ghana has-warned against "dangerous international consequences" if Togo gives "shelter and encouragement to anyone conspiring against Ghana while in the pay of foreigners". The warning was given to prevent Togo from helping exiles of Ghana who plot against Nkrumah. (1:7)
A commentary in Pravda accused West Germany of aggravating the tension in West Berlin and risking war. U. S. Officials doubted that a new crisis was in the making. (1:6-7)
The fighting in Yemen between Nasser and Saudi Arabia is likely to go on despite U. S. moves to mediate the dispute. (1:4)
Federal mediators brought the striking dock workers and their employers together yesterday but the meeting broke up in a half hour without progress and in an atmosphere of gloom. (1:3)
President Kennedy is expected back in Washington tomorrow in time for the unveiling of the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery. (1:1)
The Federal Civil Rights Commission has postponed a public hearing on racial discrimination in Mississippi at the request of the Justice Department because of court cases pending in that state. (1:2)
First class and air mail postage went up today. (1:2-3-4)
The Peruvian military junta was reported to have arrested as many as 800 persons as it continued its roundup of alleged communist. Communists were accused of planning to take over the country later this month. (1:6-7)
January 8, 1963
The Central Government of the Congo took its first major steps today to regain control over Katanga Province. (1:8)
The Soviet Communist party warned today that the international Communist movement was verging on an open split. It urged inter-party talks to reestablish unity. (1:6-7)
In a partial shift of policy the United States agreed today to lend Brazil $30,000,000 for 90 days to provide her with emergency aid for necessary imports. Other money is still blocked. (1:5)
House Speaker McCormack said today he was optimistic over prospects of retaining control of Strategic Rules Committee of the Kennedy Administration. (1:2)
President Kennedy conferred yesterday with Vice President Johnson and prepared to meet today in Washington with Congressional leaders of both parties. Mr. Johnson's unexpected arrival at Palm beach raised the possibility that Civil Rights might be included in the President's legislative recommendation. (1:1)
Tax reduction and reform seem to be on top of Congress' agenda which meets Wednesday. (1:1)
James H. Meredith said that he would not attend the University of Mississippi next semester "under the present circumstances". (1:5-6)
January 9, 1963
The 88th Congress convenes tomorrow with procedural fights eminent in both Houses. On the eve of the opening the majority of Democrats lined up behind the drive by Administration leaders to retain control of the pivotal Rules Committee of the House. In the Senate, Southern Democrats made plans for a protracted battle if necessary to prevent any liberalization of the anti-filibuster rule. (1:8)
President Kennedy attended the unveiling of the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery of Art. (1:8)
President Kennedy is planning an appeal to the new Congress for Federal funds to help schools, hospitals and welfare institutions build fall-out shelters. (1:7)
President Kennedy will see a special representative of Premier Khrushchev tomorrow in Washington. The Russian representative is Vasily V. Kuznetsov, a First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. No special agenda is planned for the meeting. (1:5)
The Air Force has announced that success of Commando Operations in South Vietnam has prompted the Air Force to increase its Air Commando Training operations. (1:4)
Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak said that the United States had given powerful help to make the policy of conciliation succeed in the Katanga Crisis. (1:2-3)
President Tshombe returned to Elizabethville and hinted that the threat of sabotage still hangs over mines and utilities in Katanga. (1:1)
President Kennedy publicly reaffirmed his support of the Royalists Government of Saudi Arabia, which has been offended by United States recognition of the Republican regime in neighboring Yemen. (1:2-3)
January 10, 1963
President Kennedy and his Democratic leaders won the battle for control of the House Rules Committee. The House voted 235 to 196 to continue the key committee at 15 members, 10 Democrats and 5 Republicans. The effect was to retain tenuous control of the panel to the Administration forces. (1:8)
President Kennedy met with Russian Minister Kuznetsov. The talks were described as primarily a courtesy. (1:2-3)
The United Nations has put Tshombe under United Nations House arrest in his Presidential Palace at Elizabethville. His threat to destroy Katanga mining installations was cited as a "criminal act". (1:1)
The United States Delegation to the United Nations has orders to fight a $3,000,000 agricultural experimental station that the United Nations maintains in Cuba. (1:2)
The Kennedy Administration is thinking seriously of asking Congress to try to end the Longshoreman's strike on the Eastern Gulf Coast and impose arbitration of the disputed issues. (1:5)
National Academy of Sciences, in a report to President Kennedy, found that the United States was in a relatively favorable position, both in supply and in the use of natural resources to help the world build its own national resources. (1:6-7)
The Kennedy Administration has put a priority tag on an eight-year $600,000,000 Federal-State program to buy park land and develop other outdoor facilities for recreation. (1:7)
A Federal Court Jury in New York acquitted J. Truman Bidwell of income tax invasion. Mr. Bidwell is a former chairman of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange. (1:3-4)
January 11, 1963
Izvestia urged settlement of the Berlin dispute through a "reasonable compromise". The commentary was seen by Western observers as another indication that Moscow would soon ask the United States to enter into a new round of talks on the Berlin settlement. (1:4)
The Government announced a new retirement bond for persons instead of tax deductible pension plans under last year's legislation for the self employed. (1:2-3)
The Space Agency dropped plans for Venus Space Craft for 1964 and will concentrate instead in sending an instrumented payload to explore the planet Mars. (1:2-3)
The White House announced that President Kennedy had held a secret "background conference" with reporters at Palm beach on December 31. Reporters attending had been instructed not- to disclose the meeting and not to quote Mr. Kennedy directly. Over the weekend, however, direct quotations attributed to .the President appeared in the Times of London and the London Sunday Times. This set off loud protests among American reporters who had written only paraphrased versions of views that many had said they got from "friends of the President.'" (1:5)
The Administration is expected ask Congress soon for $21,000,000 to make a start on the country's first extra high voltage direct current transmission line. (1:2)
Under Secretary of State George W. Ball presented to French officials in Paris the American point of view on defense coordination. (1:7-8)
The Bureau of Customs announced today that because of "widespread abuse" it intended to reduce from $10 to $1 the duty-free exemption for gifts sent into the United States from other countries. (1:1-5)
January 12, 1963
The United States opened for its Atlantic allies the possibility of some form of participation in a common nuclear force by non-nuclear powers. (1:6-7)
The United States and the Soviet Union will begin another round of private talks about a nuclear test ban treaty in New York next week. (1:5)
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioned Secretary of State Rusk intensely on the Cuban crisis. Meanwhile the United States warned several nations whose ships are still trading with Cuba that they are running the risk of losing the United States aid unless its trade ceases. (1:4)
Negotiations are underway in Algiers to convert the massive U. S. food relief effort there into a "Food for- Work" program. (1:3)
Secretary of Labor Wirtz is going to begin a new round of mediation today in New York to end the New York paper strike. (1:1)
At the prompting of the United States the United States Mediators Secretariat is exploring the possibility of mediating the Arab power conflict in Yemen. (1:6)
31 independent nations of Africa gave formal assurance of their full support to the U.N.'s effort to unify the Congo. (1:7)
University of Mississippi officials suspended a student and imposed stern new disciplinary policy on the campus to curb anti-Meredith protests. (1:6-7)
January 13, 1963
Tshombe fled from Elizabethville to Northern Rhodesia and was allowed by British-Colonial authorities to charter a plane believed destined for Kolwezi, the Rebel holdout in West Katanga. Dynamiting in Katanga is now feared. (1:8)
35,872 people visited the Mona Lisa yesterday at the National Gallery of Art, breaking all attendance records there. (1:5)
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, one of the top Communists in the Cuban Government, who talked of Cuba's powerful National Institute of Agrarian Reform, is seriously wounded as a result of an assassination attempt in Havana. (1:4)
President Kennedy will recommend that the District be brought under new Federal Aid program in his Budget proposals to be sent to Congress Wednesday. (1:1)
President Kennedy selected John W. Douglas to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of Civil Division of the Justice Department. (1:2)
January 14, 1963
For the first time since World War II some budgetary constraints are being placed on the military's requirements for atomic weapons. The President is expected to weigh AEC data on outlay as well as the Pentagon request. (1:4)
A membership meeting of the New York Typographical Union voted unanimously to continue the city newspaper strike until a "just and reasonable" settlement is achieved. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy will deliver his State of the Union message to Congress tomorrow. The message is to stress defense, foreign aid, tax reform and care for the aged. (1:1)
New York Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler agreed today to introduce and support the Administration's measure to outlaw literacy tests as a bar to Negro voting in the South as a simple law requiring only a majority as opposed to his previous view to submit it as a constitutional amendment. (1:2)
Kennedy Administration hopes to start a domestic unit of the Peace Corps, by February 1. (1:2-3)
January 15, 1963
In his State of the Union message President Kennedy proposed a net tax cut of $10,000,000,000 over the next three years. He was confident of the Nation's domestic and foreign prospects. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev said on his arrival in East Berlin that the Soviet Union would not go to war to establish communism in any country. (1:4)
President de Gaulle virtually wrote off today Britain's chances of winning membership in the European Economic Community. At the same time he turned down, in effect, a United States proposal for an integrated Atlantic Nuclear Force. (1:1)
The British Government will reject President de Gaulle's offer of associate status in the European Economic Community. (1:2-3)
Chancellor Adenauer told the United States that West Germany would participate in setting up a multilateral nuclear force within NAT0. (1:2)
The Kennedy Administration is turning from its fight on literacy tests to other methods of backing up the Negroes right to vote in the South. The other methods, not yet worked out in detail, would expedite action on law suits brought when Negroes are blocked in their attempts to register. (1:5)
Liberals backed by organized labor captured two coveted seats on the house ways and Means Committee today with the help of ultra-conservative Southern Democrats. Winning Representatives were W. Pat Jennings and Ross Bass of Tennessee. The losing candidate was Phil M. Landrum of Georgia. (1:7)
The Supreme Court struck down a Virginia statute restricting the activities of the NAACP and affiliated lawyers. (1:5-6)
JANUARY16, 1963
President Tshombe offered to end succession under amnesties. (1:8)
A United Nations spokesman announced that political amnesty has been promised to Mr. Tshombe and his supporters by leaders of the Central Congolese Government. (1:7)
Other Common Market nations expressed disapproval of President de Gaulle's remarks to bar Britain. A meeting of the six Common Market countries broke up without any solid "coalition" against France. (1:6)
The United States is pressing on with its plans for a joint nuclear striking force of the North Atlantic Nations despite President de Gaulle's abrupt dismissal of the idea. (1:5)
The first full-scale Communist criticism of Communist China's attack on India was delivered today by Walter Ulbricht at the opening of the East German Communist Party Congress. Premier Khrushchev sat near-by nodding approval. (1:3-4)
A foreign aid authorization totaling nearly $4,950,000,000 will be specified by President Kennedy in his message to Congress this week on the new budget. The budget message will specify $1,000,000,000 more that this year's appropriation. A fight in the House is likely with Congressman Passman slated to direct the opposition. (1:1)
President Kennedy disclosed that he would send his tax message to Congress January 24. Democratic leaders however were at odds as to how long legislation on tax cuts would take. (1:2)
The battle over the Senate filibuster rule began today in the Senate. (1:3)
The Soviet Union has informed the Kennedy Administration that it is ready to consider some International inspection of its territory in a nuclear test ban arrangement. (1:6-7)
A Federal Aviation Agency Advisory Group reported on prospects for super-sonic airlines and recommended that the United States start developing the plane immediately. The program would cost $1,000,000,000 for development and the planes themselves would cost about $20,000,000 if 200 were built. The airliners would travel at about 600 m.p.h. (1:4)
A United States Grand Jury in Mississippi indicted four people for the campus riots in September. Former Army-Navy General Edwin A. Walker was among those charged but was not indicted. (1:1-2)
January 17, 1963
Premier Khrushchev, speaking in East Berlin, asked for truce with China on their ideological battling. Khrushchev defended his coexistence policy and his Cuban withdrawal. He again proposed that the U. N. take a role in Berlin but set no treaty deadline. (1:8)
President Kennedy met with Premier Fanfani of Italy at the White House and announced that he would visit Italy later this year. (1:6-7)
Administration analysis found Premier Khrushchev's speech given in East Berlin as being milder toward the Western powers and the Chinese Communist than any one had expected it to be. (1:7)
The fight to liberalize the Senate's anti-filibuster rule was losing what steam it had fast. (1:1)
President Kennedy has urged Premier Cyrille Adoula of the Congo to attempt to make the apparent capitulation of Tshombe a "decisive turning paint in Congo development". (1:2)
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Clemson College in South Carolina to admit a Negro student. A first for Clemson or any white school in South Carolina. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy appointed a special 3-man board today to try to mediate a settlement of the Eastern Gulf Coast Longshoreman's strike. (1:6-7)
January 18, 1963
President Kennedy sent the budget to Congress. The budget sets gut an 11.9 billion dollar deficit. The total budget is 98.8 billion of which half is for defense. These are record figures and criticism has been voiced from both parties. However, the President says that this plan will release a break on the economy. (1:8)
President Kennedy outlined a record peacetime military spending plan today with the observation that "there is no discount price on defense." Major increases in the military budget provide for some small combat forces as a means to cope with limited wars. Contained in the $51,000,000,000 program is a high nuclear outlay. (1:6-7)
Theodore C. Sorenson, President Kennedy's special counsel, told Democratic state officials that passage of the Administrations tax bill this year was vital to Democratic prospects in the 1964 Presidential campaign. President Kennedy has proposed to Premier Fanfani of Italy a United States Jupiter missile in Italy be replaced with a Polaris missile submarine in the Mediterranean. (1:2-3)
The Government of Communist China has lodged a "serious protest" with Britain against the forcible redevelopment of the so-called Kowloon wall city, a mainland enclave in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong and resettlement of its residents elsewhere in the Colony. (1:1)
Attorney General Robert. F. Kennedy argued his first court case today in the U. S. Supreme Court. He took the position to invalidate charges in the county unit system of voting. (1:3-4-5)
January 19, 1963
President de Gaulle's Government is prepared to hold out against mounting allied pressure for a more flexible attitude on Britain's entry into the European Economic Community. (1:7-8)
Pakistan has appealed to the United States and Britain for diplomatic intervention to persuade India to change her position on Kashmir. (1:5)
President Kennedy will call on Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn, after his visit to Italy in May or June, the White House announced. The trip will include no other stops except possibly West Berlin. (1:4)
The Commerce Department reported that personal income in 1962 hit a record of 440.5 billion dollars. The U. S. total rose 24 billion dollars or 6%. (1:3)
Hugh Gaitskell, leader of Britain's Labor Party for seven years, died tonight of a kidney, lung and heart infection at the age of 56. (1:2)
The Justice Department asked Federal Court to desegregate the public schools in four counties in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana that get Federal help because their schools have large registration of children of servicemen and other federal employees. (1:1)
Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina called for an end to employment discrimination against Negroes and set up a state panel to fight discrimination. (1:2)
Pierre Salinger, White House News Secretary, called for the creation of an impartial board to make a study of the "difficult problems" of current newspaper economics. (1:1)
An International Telephone and Telegraph Company subsidiary in the Bank of Brazil signed a compensation agreement today for expropriation of the companies' telephone properties in Rio Grande De Sul State. (1:3-4)
The United Nations has set Monday morning at 10:00 as jump-off time for the long awaited occupation of Kolwezi, the last faction of the secessionist Province of Katanga. Tshombe pledged no resistance. (1:6-7)
January 20, 1963
Seven cities - Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlantic city and Baltimore - are trying to secure the 1964 Democratic Convention. (1:8)
Last minute American diplomatic intervention by Ambassador Galbraith was widely credited with a major role in averting a break-off of Indian-Pakistani discussions on Kashmir. (1:6-7)
A Presidential Board disclosed it would give striking Longshoremen and waterfront employers an "or else" settlement proposal. It is thought that Congress might act on the strike if the Board proposals fail. (1:5)
An Associated Press Photographer gave an eye-witness account of how Tshombe, a few hours after Tshombe prepared to surrender unconditionally to United Nations, personally directed the firing of a gun that destroyed a nearby power station. (1:1-2-3-4)
A Cabinet-Level Task Force has recommended that the President seek Congressional authority to establish a domestic Peace Corp. (1:2-3-4-5-6-7-8)
January 21, 1963
Shipping men and their waterfront employees in the 29-day Longshoremen's strike received a proposal for settlement from President Kennedy's mediation panel headed by Senator Wayne Morse. (1:8)
Representative Otto E. Passman, Democrat of Louisiana, who heads the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that he will seek an aid cut far greater than a billion dollars. (1:6-7)
The Turkish Government has responded favorably to proposals of the United States to remove its Jupiter Missile bases. Mediterranean submarines with Polaris missiles would replace the land bases. (1:5)
Chancellor Adenauer announced tonight that France and West Germany were to sign an agreement this week ending four centuries of conflict between the two countries. (1:2-3)
France announced an extensive program of financial aid to Algeria for 1963. (1:2)
The Soviet Union has offered to allow two or three inspections of Soviet territory a year for enforcement of a nuclear test ban treaty. In an exchange of letters between Khrushchev and Kennedy and supplementary talks in New York last week, Russia has also offered to allow the installation of three automatic Seismic stations - so-called "block boxes" - on their territory. U. S. officials were reported as being "encouraged" but doubted that a treaty will be signed soon. (1:1)
A captured document in Vietnam revealed that Communist guerillas underestimated the depth of United States' intentions in Vietnam. (7:6)
President Kennedy will give Congress two tax messages this week to detail plans. Today he will give an economic report to Congress and Thursday a program. (1:7)
January 22, 1963
In his annual economic report to Congress, President Kennedy saw a "moderate" rise in the economy. However, he found the move to fill employment slow. (1:8)
The Administration will ask Congress soon for funds to promote and disseminate technological advances for civilian industries. (1:7)
The Administration has given up hope of bringing the two war international flow of dollars into balance by the end of this year. (1:7)
The Special Mediation Board in the Longshoremen's strike reported to President Kennedy that the International Longshoremen's Association had accepted the Board's formula but that the New York Shipping Association had not yet replied. (1:6)
Argentina sought to convey to the United States today her strong views for prompt and effective collective hemisphere action against the Cuban regime of Premier Castro. (1:5)
The United Nations peacefully took control of Kolwezi in Katanga Province. (1:4)
In Paris, President de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer concluded a treaty between France and West Germany aimed at a permanent reconciliation and an end of the historic rivalry between the two countries. (1:2-3)
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko declared that it would be impossible to sign a nuclear test-ban agreement without the participation of France.
The Department of Justice dismissed charges against former Major General Edwin A. Walker and six others arrested in the investigation of the rioting at the University of Mississippi. (1:7-8)
January 23, 1963
Atlantic Coast Shipment agreed to an end of the Longshoremen walkout. Gulf Coast shipment must still act on the proposal. Ships are expected to move by the end of the week. (1:8)
Sweeping curtailment of individual deductions will bite deeply into the income tax savings to be proposed by President Kennedy in his special tax message to Congress on Thursday. (1:6)
France and West Germany sign a treaty of cooperation today. (1:5)
United States officials are hopefully watching the Shah of Iran's program to change his country's political and economic life with a reform program of revolutionary proportions. (1:4)
Soviet Forces in Cuba were reported to be working round-the-clock on the construction and improvement of highly sophisticated ground and air defenses for the Island. (1:2-3)
Representatives of United States, the Soviet Union and Britain met in Washington today to seek a way out of the inspection impasse that for years has blocked a test-ban treaty. (1:1)
Premier Khrushchev has pledged to a group of West Berlin Church officials that the Soviet Union has no intention of "swallowing" West Berlin. (1:2)
The Justice Department sued today to end voting discrimination against Negroes in Sunflower county, Mississippi, the home of Senator James O. Eastland. (1:7)
The Gemini two-man space craft will be flown by military astronauts as well as those of NASA under an agreement announced today. (1:8)
January 24, 1963
The United States is encouraging the Common Market to complete negotiations for the admission of Great Britain. Officials doubt that this tactic will gain the British early membership, but they feel will demonstrate that only President de Gaulle's political ambitions for France have blocked agreement on European unity. (1:6-7)
The United States and Algeria have reached general agreement on new aid program. (1:4)
In the first nationally scrutinized ballot test since the November election, a San Francisco Republican beat a Democratic candidate for Congress. (1:2-3)
Longshoreman from Maine to Texas began balloting today on terms to settle the month old Longshoremen's strike. (1:1)
Even before it could unveil it Aid-to-Education Program, the Administration found its plan being challenged from an unexpected quarter - the Scientific Community. Their argument was based on the assumption - not shared by scientific policy makers within the Administration - that the number of federal fellowships already available is exceeding the supply of competent graduate students. (1:2-3)
The costly and secret Midas detection satellite program is in technical trouble and may be dropped for a successor. (1:3)
More than 1200 members of 11 non-operating unions went on strike against Florida East Coast Railroad. The walkout closed more than 57 miles of the railroad, which serves the Governments Space Center at Cape Canaveral. (1:2-1)
The Turkish Government announced today plans for the dismantlement of the United States Jupiter Missile Bases in Turkey, a sore point in the Cold War. (1:7-8)
Senator Barry Goldwater introduced a resolution calling for investigation by the Armed Services Committee of the Bay of Pigs invasions by Cuban refugees in April, 1961. (1:5-6)
January 25, 1963
President Kennedy gave Congress his first tax plan. The President says passage this year is essential. A thirteen point $6,000,000,000 was proposed with new limits put on some deductions. (1:8)
Democratic Congressional leaders are sharply divided on President Kennedy's proposal to combine tax reduction and reform in a single bill. (1:6)
Republican members of the House Education and Labor Committee jumped the gun on the Kennedy Administration by advancing a limited aid to education bill of their own. (1:7)
A strike has been called for tomorrow at the Boeing Company effecting 40,000 workers at Southern plants. However, President Kennedy has already taken steps to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. (1:7)
President Kennedy pleaded for unity in the Western Alliance as the only reliable answer to Communism. President Kennedy opened his news conference with a carefully worded statement that, without mentioning President de Gaulle, defined unity as more important than "personal or even national differences". But the President closed the conference with a stiff rejoinder to the French leader's view that the United States might not always be ready to honor its defense commitment to Europe. (1:1)
Premier Fanfani's Cabinet approved today the replacement of American Jupiter missiles in Italy with Polaris missiles mounted on submarines in the Mediterranean, but not necessarily in Italian water. (1:1)
At the Indian Government's request, United States, Britain, Canada and Australia are studying plans to move interceptive squadrons into India for her air defense in case of another attack by Communist China. (1:3)
A meeting of world Communist leaders to debate ideological differences between the Soviet Union and Communist China will be announced soon. (1:4)
The Administration invoked new secrecy measures for space activities today by dropping its public listing of United States military satellites in orbit. (1:6-7)
January 26, 1963
The Soviet Union is scheduled to send specialists to India "in the very near future" to assist in the construction of a plan that will produce mig-21 fighter planes. (1:7)
The Administration moved today to make good its pledge of economic aid to the Congo. President Kennedy appointed a special group to study the Congo's need and ways to finance assistance. (1:7)
Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, following a high level briefing, that the Soviet fill-up of defensive weapons in Cuba is continuing. (1:6)
Five Negroes were admitted today to Tulane University at New Orleans. (1:6)
Commissioner Howard Morgan, an Oregon Democrat, of the Federal Power Commission, released today a copy of a letter to President Kennedy asking that he not be considered for reappointment when his term expires next June because he feels his fellow Commissioners lack objectivity in public utility regulations. (1:4)
The Federal Government secured an injunction for several days against the anticipated strike at the Boeing Company. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy's proposal to curb itemized tax deduction has drawn the most immediate criticism of all the proposals in his big tax bill. (1:1)
Striking Longshoremen at East and Gulf Coast ports were directed to cease picketing and to return to work. (1:2)
Senator Ribicoff has introduced a bill to strengthen air pollution laws to permit federal action against violators. (1:1)
January 27, 1963
President Kennedy ordered a suspension of underground nuclear testing in Nevada to avoid impairing current American-British-Soviet negotiations on Atomic Test Ban. (1:8)
Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn was assigned to pioneer the United States Moon Shot Program. All 16 astronauts were assigned particular duties. (1:5-6-7)
Reports heard in Washington were that three French leaders will soon visit Spain. This opened up far-reaching vistas, not only of radical changed in the relations between France and Spain, but also in the relations between France, Europe and the United States. (1:4)
The Kennedy Administration is moving to set aside the deterrent policy of manned bombers for a concept known as Nuclear Stalemate, a policy holding that within a few years bombers will be no longer necessary, that land and sea based missiles aimed at specific targets across the world will be enough to forestall nuclear war. (1:2-3)
Congress may make Winston Churchill an honorary citizen of the United States. (2:3-4-5)
January 28, 1963
Britain has rejected the United States request for a $43,000,000 contribution toward the further development of the Polaris missile, with which Britain's nuclear submarine fleet is to be armed. (1:6-7)
France has notified Secretary General U Thant that she will not pay her share of payments of principal and interest on United Nations bonds. (1:5)
The Department of Labor will undertake this week a major internal reorganization of its manpower, activities. The object is to give new coherence and status to programs that departmental officials feel must succeed if the nation is to cope with the problems raised by swift technological changes. (1:4)
Secretary of Treasury Dillon explained today why the Administration's tax reduction proposal was spread over three years in separate annual stages. This was in answer to queries by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. (1:1)
President Kennedy will ask Congress this week for five year education program expected to cost about $6,000,000,000. (1:2)
The Atomic Energy Commission has taken the unusual step of officially prodding a seemingly reluctant Defense Department and Navy to start converting the surface to nuclear power. (1:3)
A Presidential fact-finding group recommended today that the United States drastically revise its policies if Western Europe refuses to share more of the burden of Europe's defense. (1:6-7)
The Spanish Press in Madrid indicated that Spain wanted to broaden her defense pact with United States into a political alliance. The papers also hinted that Spain's entry into NATO would be the condition for continuation of U. S. bases in Spain. (1:7)
The Government-interrupted strike against the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, the Nation's largest defense contractor appeared settled tonight. (1:1-2)
Voters in Iran have overwhelmingly endorsed the Shah's reform. (1:4-5-6)
January 29, 1963
At Common Market talks in Brussels, France held firm to a position that negotiations for British entry into the Common Market should end. (1:8)
The Defense Department emphasized today that Britain would have to share the development costs of any advanced Polaris missiles that it might buy from this country. At the same time, Administration officials sought to minimize reports that a basic misunderstanding had developed between the two allies over the Nassau agreement for sale of Polaris missiles to Britain. (1:6-7)
Clemson College in South Carolina peacefully admitted Harvey B. Gantt, a Negro, to the college. (1:4)
The General Motors Corporation reported a profit of 1.4 billion dollars for 1962 - the largest annual profit ever reported by a corporation. (1:1)
It appeared that France and Spain might be seeking a "new relationship". (1:7)
President Kennedy told Congress that 1962 has been the countries most successful year in space exploration. The United States made more progress than the Soviet Union, he said. U. S. Satellites exceeded the Soviet's 4-1. (1:1-2)
A report to the Senate yesterday that President Kennedy had exercised virtual one-man direction of Government action in the Cuban show down questioned whether this would be satisfactory in a prolonged security crisis. (1:4-5)
Britain has alerted its troops for Brunei, a British protectorate in the Far East, on reports of "possibility of outside interference". (1:7-8)
January 30, 1963
France vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market and has wrecked the current talks on the subject. A blow to European unity is seen as a result. (1:8)
Administration officials declared that President de Gaulle's veto of British membership had merely postponed the inevitable. (1:6)
The Soviet Union welcomed the split in Western unity. (1:7)
England is bitter over France's veto. (1:5)
Secretary General U Thant said that the United States and other countries were now free to supply bilateral assistance to the Congo without going through the United Nations. (1:4)
Robert Frost died at the age of 88. President Kennedy was among government and literary figures paying tribute to Mr. Frost. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy asked Congress for a new education program that he promised would have something in it for every American. His message called for a package bill cost 1.2 billion dollars in the first year. The total was put at 6 billion. The funds would help states in building schools and raising teachers pay. (1:1)
The Bell Telephone System agreed to cut rates sharply on long distance calls made between 9:00 P.M. and 4:30A.M. starting April 1. The maximum cost would be $1.00 telephone anywhere in the United States for three minutes during those hours. (1:2-3)
The Interior Department will increase soon the fee it charges livestock producers for cattle and sheep grazing on a public domain in three Western states. The increase has a twofold purpose: 1. It would yield more money to help rehabilitate millions of acres of the public range, and second, it would establish the principal that people who use the public domain should help pay the costs, whether for grazing or for recreation. (1:2)
President Kennedy signed an executive order allowing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to inspect the tax returns of all non-diplomatic representatives of foreign governments in the United States. (1:1-2)
President Kennedy will send to Congress within the next few days an ambitious national program to fight mental illness that afflicts an estimated total of 22 million Americans. (1:4-5)
Secretary General U Thant warned today that the Borneo area in Southeast Asia could become a major trouble spot that would require United Nations action. (1:7-8)
January 31, 1963
Prime Minister Macmillan accused President de Gaulle of "trying to dominate Europe and of jeopardizing all the achievements of the Western World since World War II. (1:8)
The French Government announced its complete satisfaction with the retention of a six-member Common Market by the exclusion of Britain. Some observers view the French action as aimed at the United States. (1:6-7)
Secretary of Defense McNamara gave the House Armed Services Committee a defense-status report that would generally be confident. The Report to the House Committee noted that the Soviet Union is pressing its military build-up. (1:5)
A Presidential study group has agreed in principal that foreign aid spending can be reduced significantly without affecting national security or a non-Communist world political and economic stability. The unit seeks more direct ties between spending abroad and American needs. A complete report is due in March. (1:1)
The House Rules Committee voted unanimously for a tight reign on Congressional junketing. (1:2-3)
United States is preparing to offer proposals to partition Kashmir if negotiations between India and Pakistan fail to yield concrete results. The British Government has been consulted on the American thinking. (1:4)
The Atomic Energy Commission reported that its underground tests in Nevada had proved "quite successful" in the development of new atomic weapons, particularly smaller ones. (1:2)
The Kennedy Administration has put aside all thought of trying to punish President de Gaulle for barring Britain from the Common Market. (1:6-7)
West Germany is beginning an intensive diplomatic effort to find a new way of bringing Britain into the Common Market. (1:7)
James H. Meredith announced that he will complete his education at the University of Mississippi. (1:4-5)
Secretary of Labor Wertz said it would be well for the country if people thought of the unemployment rate as 12% instead of 5.6% - the overall December figure. The rate is 12% among young people, racial minority groups and the unskilled. (1:1-2)
Prime Minister Macmillan said that an independent nuclear deterrent was necessary for Britain to be able to make her own decisions without fear of "nuclear blackmail". Macmillan defended his recent national agreement with President Kennedy. (1:7-8)