April 1963
April 1, 1963
The 114-day New York newspaper strike, the longest and costliest in the city's history, ended yesterday. (1:8; P. 20)
In the midst of a Presidential campaign, the Government of Guatemala was overthrown and an anti-Communist military government took over. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes was taken into custody at his fortified residence, Casa Crema, and then allowed to fly to Nicaragua. (1:1)
Washington moved to enforce its policy of preventing Cuban refugees from organizing or launching raids against Cuba from the United States. (1:2-3)
In Sebul, civilian leaders agreed to discuss a plan for a temporary coalition Government with the country's military rulers. (1:2)
President Kennedy seemed on the defensive. Serious setbacks in the last three months for his "grand design" for economic growth at home and "partnership" with Europe have engendered a mood of frustration and stalemate in the Administration. (1:5)
The 88th Congress has produced virtually no legislation of significance in its first three months. (42:3-6)
Syria bans pro-Nasser agitation; rift grows. (pg. 1)
Peronist confers with Brazilian President. (pg. 4)
Court to hear U.S. plea for Mississippi Negroes. (pg. 15)
Action expected on Kennedy bills in Congress. (pg. 42)
Negro is one of fifteen in space course. (pg. 48)
Kennedy expected to curb railroad strike. (pg. 18)
Kennedy to create Advisory Council on Arts. (pg. 1)
India gets $67,500,000 loan for railroads. (pg. 60)
50-mile hiking fad gets nation on move again. (pg. 56)
April 2, 1963
Bahamian police and British sailors yesterday seized an anti-Castro raiding party bound for Cuba to attack a Soviet ship. The British action was the first result of an agreement between Washington and London to cooperate in preventing raids on Soviet ships near Cuba. (1:1)
The United States is consulting with Latin-American governments on the question of recognizing the military regime in Guatemala. (1:6-7)
In Argentina there were indications of another threatened political crisis that could result in the overthrow of the present interim government of President Guido. (11:1)
In Syria the ruling revolutionary government clamped an 18 hour-a-day curfew on the country, signaling new tensions. (1:5)
Assassins shot and killed Laotian Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena in Vientiane. (1:8)
A political crisis was brewing in Israel over the presence of German scientists in the United Arab Republic. (1:7)
The Bureau of the Budget has inaugurated a special "gold budget" that is to be applied to all Government agencies. The bureau has issued instructions requiring all agencies to report overseas spending and income and are to set targets for reducing the money gap. For the past five years, dollars have moved out of the country at a faster rate than they have come in. (1:1)
On President Kennedy's youth conservation corps the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee improved two programs to provide work and training to unemployed youths between the ages of 16 and 21. One measure would create a youth conservation corps similar to the C.C.C. of the 1930's the other would create at-home work. A House committee has approved similar measures. (24:1)
The 22-orbit flight set for next month for Astronaut Leroy Cordon Cooper will provide an earthbound audience with a TV look at Cooper and itself from 100 miles in space. (1:4-5)
France rejects Soviet protest on pact with Bonn. (pg.2)
Moscow seeking to revitalize ties to Arab world. (pg. 5)
Powell million-dollar libel trial opens. (pg. 26)
Collins rejects curb on TV commercials. (pg. 95)
April 3, 1963
An anti-Peronist revolt against the Government of President Guido broke out in Argentina yesterday. The rebels apparently abandoned their positions and seemed to be failing in their announced goal of upsetting what they called a fraudulent and undemocratic government. (1:8)
United States authorities announced that another Cuban rebel raiding boat was seized in Miami Sunday just as an armed raider was captured by a British force in the Caribbean. (1:8)
The launching of a fourth lunar rocket that is expected to reach the area of the moon in three and a half days was announced by Moscow. The probe was said to have been placed in a "parking" orbit around the earth and then fired toward the moon. (1:5-6)
Premier Khrushchev turned down an invitation to visit Peking. Instead the Soviet leader asked Mao Tse-tung to come to Moscow in the next few months to discuss the ideological rift between the nations. (1:5)
French warplanes stationed in West Germany will shortly be armed with nuclear warheads under United States control. French participation in the nuclear-armed fighters in Western Europe had been scheduled for sometime, but was delayed because of French nuclear weapons policies. (1:7)
In a letter to General Chung Hee Park's head of government, from President Kennedy was a friendly warning against the perpetuation of unconstitutional government. It was sent in response to a long and plaintive letter from General Park that tried to explain his reneging on a promise to restore civilian rule by summer. (1:6)
President Kennedy urged Congress to authorize $4,525,090,000 in new foreign aid funds and tax incentives to spur private investment in developing nations. The President sliced his January budget estimate by $420,000,000 in the response to the proposals in the recent Clay report. (1:3; P.34)
In the current investigation of news leak in the TFX controversy, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester said he had refused to make a sworn statement "as a matter of principle." (1:4)
The United States Steel Corporation and six other concerns were charged by a Federal grand jury in New York with having conspired to fix prices and rig bids on specialized steel products. The indictments outlined a story of secret meetings similar to the stories told in the electrical price-fixing case two years age. (1:1)
Communist China to free Indian soldiers. (pg. 9)
Mayor Daley of Chicago wins third term. (pg. 21)
Minow seeks binding self-regulation. (pg. 95)
Indecision marks preliminary tariff negotiations. (pg. 59)
April 4, 1963
The Argentine Government announced yesterday that a two day navy revolt had bean smashed. The fleet commander flew to the capital and began truce talks. (1:3)
President Kennedy reported that about 4,000 Soviet troops left Cuba in March in addition to the 5,000 who left last November. Mr. Kennedy said this "still leaves some thousands on the island" and "we hope they are going to be withdrawn." (1:3; P.10)
The Securities and Exchange Commission, after a 17-month study advised Congress that "grave abuses" exist in the securities markets and that "additional controls and improvements are much needed." The report, prepared by a 65-man staff headed by Milton H. Cohen, recommended more than 30 changes in the rules of the commission and of various organizations in the securities industry, including the New York Stock Exchange. (1.8; P.40)
President Kennedy said the former President's economic record was "not a record we plan to duplicate if we can help it." Mr. Kennedy told his news conference that a $12,000,000,000 budget cut for 1964, as suggested by the General, would result in an economic decline and would impede defense. (1:4)
President Kennedy appointed an emergency board to try to mediate a settlement of the work-rules controversy. The action put-off for 60 days any strike by the five train operating unions. (1:8)
A White House directive rang down the curtain on a Pentagon investigation into a news leak in the TFX-airplane contract controversy. (1:5-6)
U.S. to reduce economic aid to South Korea. (pg. 1)
Soviet rejects protests on airplane firing. (pg. 2)
U.S. opposes spread of atom arms to Mideast. (pg. 9)
Military in India scores U.S. report on arms aid. (pg. 15)
France gives pledge to defend Southeast Asians. (pg. 17)
Asian common market being mapped. (pg. 17)
Plan gives Congo 65% of Katanga funds. (pg. 21)
John L. Lewis says farewell to coal industry. (pg. 1)
Jacobsson bars world parley on monetary fund. (pg. 67)
U.S. agency helps fill bank credit gap. (pg. 67)
April 5, 1963
500 Europeans, most of them West Germans, are working in the United Arab Republic as aircraft designers and technicians. About 10 of the scientists are developing ground-to-ground rocket designs. (1:2)
The recent Soviet economic reorganization and the crackdown on intellectuals have prompted rumors that Premier Khrushchev is in political trouble. (6:4-6)
The Senate approved the first major Administration bill to pass either house of Congress in the three-month-old session. It is a$750,000,000 Federal aid program for an urban mass transit project. (1:8)
The Labor Department reported that unemployment had dropped by more than 400,000 to total of 4,501,000, and that employment had risen by 800,000 to 67,148,000, a record for March. The effect was to bring the jobless rate down from 6.1 per cent to 5.6 per cent. (1:1)
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who was declared a security risk by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, will receive the $50,000 Fermi award, the highest honor the commission confers. (1:2-3)
The Senate Armed Services Committee cut $407,300,000 from President Kennedy's military authorization request. The House, in contrast, has approved more for defense than the Administration asked. (10:3)
Argentine negotiators reach basis of a truce. (pg. 1)
Malaya agrees to join the talks on Malaysia. (pg. 3)
Senator Case presses for Congress reforms. (pg. 24)
S.E.C. speeding stock proposal to Congress. (pg. 35)
April 6, 1963
At the Geneva disarmament conference there was an agreement between Washington and Moscow to set up a "hot line" between the two capitals. (1:8)
Under pressure from Washington and his political opponents, the head of South Korea's military regime decided to allow elections for a civilian government this fall. (1:6-7)
To stem the tide of Cuban raiders operating from the United States, the Coast Guard strengthened its sea and air patrol (1:8)
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer made a fervent plea for freeing science from unnecessary secrecy under the guise of security regulations, the public was often misinformed and misled. (1:2-3)
For more than three hours, Secretary of State Rusk tried to convince Congress that any cut in the Administration's foreign aid bill would help world communism. Mr. Rusk was told any appropriation over $3,500,000,000 should be viewed as "absolute velvet." (1:6-7)
The House appropriations Committee turned down a $500,000,000 request to complete an anti-recession public works program. (1:5)
The General Accounting Office was asked by Senate investigation officers to make a study of "cost standards" used by the Pentagon in the TFX-airplane contract award. (1:4)
If the weather is good next Tuesday, a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, transmitted to England by the Telstar satellite, will make Sir Winston Churchill the first "honorary citizen" of the United States. (5:3-5)
Senators bid Kennedy act on German scientists. (pg. 1)
France assails Algeria for seizing properties. (pg. 3)
President's burden called atom-age danger. (pg. 1)
Kennedy at work on '64 race here. (pg. 1)
C.A.B. willing to discuss international fare move. (pg. 46)
April 7, 1963
United States-British accord would enable Britain to remain a nuclear power beyond the nineteen-sixties. The technical agreement provides for Britain's purchase of Polaris missiles, without warheads, for-a fleet of British nuclear submarines that start going into service in five years. This is an act of expression of the Nassau accord in which President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan worked out a substitute for the scrapped Skybolt missile program. (pg. 1:8)
The atomic potential of Bonn's armed forces is increasing its first battalion of troops equipped with Sergeant Rockets, trained in Texas, will return to West Germany in a few weeks.
Dr. Manuel Urrutia, the first President of Cuba during the Castro regime, declared the Cuban people were anxiously awaiting outside aid to help them overthrow Premier Castro. (1:5-6)
At issue in Canada's election is the bitter anti-American campaign of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. (15:1)
Diefenbaker is using a secret United States document which was reported to contain an unflattering reference to Mr. Diefenbaker in President Kennedy's handwriting. (1:6-7)
Lunik IV hurtled past the lunar surface at a distance of 5,300 miles. (38:1)
Western scientists believe the 3,135-pound vehicle failed its mission. (39:1-2)
Chester Bowles will replace Ambassador J. Kenneth Galbraith, who is resigning to return to Harvard. (1:7)
The impact on corporations of one of the President's tax proposals is expected to be softened by the House Ways and Means Committee. The committee may decide to make a lesser cut in individual taxes than Mr. Kennedy asked. (1:6-7)
The President urged Congress to reverse another House committee's program. (1:5)
Daley's victory in Chicago a help to Kennedy. (pg. 50)
Consumer groups dissatisfied with Kennedy. (pg. 66)
Rusk discusses Clay report on U.S. aid. (pg. 82)
April 8 1963
On the eve of SEATO and NATO meetings in Paris, France evinced for the first time in months a bit of interest in Washington's proposals four a NATO nuclear force. Foreign Minister Couve de Murville asked Secretary of State Rusk questions about the projected allied force under PLATO control de Gaulle has declined to take part in such a force. (1:8)
The Yugoslav Parliament adopted unanimously a new Constitution, which makes Marshal Tito President for life. (1:6)
The Navy has proposed that all naval vessels of 8,000 tons or more be built with nuclear-powered engines. It has accepted the opinion of Vice Adm. Hymn G. Rickover, the Atomic Energy Commission and Congressional leaders that nuclear power is not prohibitively expensive. (1:1)
U.S.-Soviet circus exchange is planned. (pg. 34)
President to toss first ball in Senator's opener. (pg. 40)
April 9, 1963
Lester B. Pearson's Liberal party won a plurality in Canada's general elections, but apparently failed to obtain a majority in the House of Commons. (1:8)
The United States took a strong stand against "a serious violation of the cease-fire" in Laos. Also, there were "indications" that Communist North Vietnamese troops were supporting attacks by the pro-Communist Pathet Lao movement against the neutralist Government's army. The Soviet Union balked at a British suggestion to join in counseling the neutralist leader. (1:1)
President de Gaulle's nuclear project completion dates have been delayed from I8 months to three years. (1:6)
Secretary of Defense McNamara told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that on the basis of value received, it would be better to cut the money requested for his own department than for overseas aid. (1:2-3)
The President opened the baseball season by throwing out the first ball, and Mr. Wirtz scored an assist by intervening in a strike of the food-and-drink venders who had formed picket lines. (1:5)
Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover will stay in the Navy's nuclear program after his compulsory retirement next year. (1:7)
U.A.R., Syria and Iraq agree on union. (pg. 1)
Common market plans Latin-American aid. (pg. 1)
April 10, 1963
Moscow warned that disarmament talks would be held up for 10 years if the Atlantic Alliance got a nuclear force. The Russians charged that the reason for establishing such a force was to placate West Germany, which would then use its weapons to retake territories lost in World War II. (1:8)
SEATO wants to bring pressure on the North Vietnamese forces that have joined the Pathet Lao's fight against the, neutralists. (1:6)
The United States has agreed to sell Polaris missiles - but no warheads - to Britain. The agreement goes to Parliament and Washington hopes France will also appreciate her dependence on American nuclear power. (3:2-4)
Almost a year to the day after Government pressure turned back a steel price rise Wheeling Steel Corporation said its prices would go up an average of $6 per ton. (1:2)
The foreign aid director, David E. Bell, would not say "yes" or "no" on the question of a large loan to India for a Government-owned steel mill. A report by the Clay committee recommended a "no" but Mr. Bell told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the precise wording of the recommendation "is subject to interpretation." (1:3)
Sir Winston Churchill became an honorary American citizen during a White House ceremony - and watched the whole thing on television in England. (1:2)
Ten Americans freed by Cuba arrive in U. S. Page 9
Senate votes wilderness bill, 73 to 12. Page 1
Barnett case will go to Supreme Court. Page 29
U. S. school aid to low- income states urged. Page 24
Joseph N. Pew, Sun Oil chairman, died. Page 39
April 11, 1963
NATO Council disclosed that French squadrons would be included in a planned allied nuclear force. (1:1)
The Navy's atomic submarine Thresher, with 129 men aboard, appeared to be lost in the Atlantic. The craft took a test dive in water 8,400 feet deep 220 miles east of Boston, and was then silent. At such a depth, according to the Chief of Naval Operations, "rescue would be absolutely out of the question." (1:8)
The House approved an appropriation of $450,000,000 for a public works program. (1:4-5)
Gen. Lucius D. Clay urged a bigger cut in Foreign aid pruned from his January estimate of $4,900,000,000. (1:4)
The Senate approved the Administration's program for providing jobs for unemployed youths. (15:1)
President Kennedy on the Wheeling Steel price increase conferred with the same aides who drafted the Administration's counterattack on the United States Steel Corporation's price increase exactly a year ago. (1:7)
New U.S. helicopters aid Vietnam raid. (pg. 5)
Egypt, Syria and Iraq to merge in federal state. (pg. 7)
Democrats planning purge in South. (pg. 13)
Bronx President cuts pay; tax revolt widens. (pg. 24)
April 12, 1963
Struck down by an assassin's bullet, Algeria's 33-year-old Foreign Minister, Mohammed Khemisti, lay near death last night. (1:7)
The State Department tried to allay Israeli fears of West German rocket scientists' projects in the United Arab Republic. (3:1)
Despite French objections, United States officials in Paris continued to press for the creation of NATO nuclear force.
U Thant pointed an accusing finger at those nations that had promised to maintain Laotian neutrality but were still sending arms to the warring faction. (1:5)
The British rejected a demand by the all-white government of Southern Rhodesia for early independence. Instead, the British suggested further talks. (1:8)
President Kennedy told the steel industry that it could take a few steps here and there toward higher prices. But he warned that he was still as opposed as ever toward its taking the giant step, an across-the-board increase. (1:8; P.9)
After a closed session debate on missile defenses the Senate voted 58 to 16 against authorizing the installation of Nike-Zeus anti-missile batteries. The secret meeting had been demanded by Senator Thurmond of South Carolina in a bid for approval of the Nike-Zeus program. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy's bill to create a domestic Peace Corps would cost $5,000,000 and cover 1,000 youths the first year; it would be called the National Service Corps. (13:1)
Moscow restores Yugoslavia to bloc membership. (pg. 1)
Javits assails proposed tax office move. (pg. 12)
Southern Democrats defiant on "purge" report. (pg. 14)
April 13, 1963
"No basic change" was reported yesterday after the United States and the Soviet Union talked about Berlin for the 25th time in 20 months. As often before, the Russian was informed of American concern over renewed fighting in Laos. (1:8)
Mr. Dobrynin was told that Washington opposed the reconvening of the 14-nation Laotian peace conference as a means of restoring peace in Laos. (1:6)
American military advisers cast doubt on the will of the South Vietnamese Army to press Communist rebel forces in combat. (4:3)
Canada's Liberal party, led by Lester B. Pearson, was assured the parliamentary majority he needed to form a Government. Support came from six defecting members of the Social Credit party. (1:7)
The Navy said it would proceed with construction of 22 more vessels like the Thresher, however, it will make a new study of the structural design of the class. (1:1)
In honor of the 123 men lost aboard the Thresher, President Kennedy ordered flags flown at half-staff. (2:2-4)
Yevtushenko, under attack, cancels U.S. trip. (pg. 5)
Congo Government to release Antoine Gizenga. (pg. 6)
Cuban agents are reported infiltrating the U.S. (pg. 41)
Galbraith backs U.S. funds for India steel mill. (pg. 28)
April 14, 1963
In thick woods 30 miles west of London hundreds of ban-the-bomb demonstrators clashed with policemen. The demonstrators were looking for a secret Government command post that, a pamphlet had informed them, would be used after a nuclear attack on London. (11-2)
The NATO ministerial conference in Paris held out little hope of reconciling differences about the structure and purpose of the Atlantic alliance. President de Gaulle was described as preferring a loose partnership and explicit negotiation of every cooperative effort. (24:3-4)
The armed services balloting switched two parliamentary seats from the Conservatives to the Liberals, and Mr. Diefenbaker acknowledged his defeat was irreparable. (1:3)
The neutralist army commander in Laos warned that his troops would counterattack against pro-Communist forces unless they accepted the International Control Commission truce. The commission hurriedly sent inspectors there. (1:4)
The President directed Government offices to speed benefits to the submarines' families. (80:5-6)
Since the new foreign trade law went into effect last October, the Tariff Commission has rejected, by unanimous vote, six appeals for help against foreign competition. (1:7)
The legislatures of 10 states have approved a constitutional amendment to give the states a free hand in apportioning their legislative districts. (1:6-7)
Finns disturbed by growing political split. (pg. 31)
Iraq rebuffing Kurds' demand for autonomy. (pg. 8)
Peron increases political activity in exile. (pg. 36)
5,000 pickets near U.N. ask nuclear test ban. (pg. 63)
Soviet admiral says Thresher contaminates sea. (pg. 81)
Kennedy to speak at Boston College Saturday. (pg. 62)
William E. Delaney, sank Japanese battleship. (pg. 93)
April 15, 1963
A battlefield truce in the rugged Laotian Plain des Jarres was worked out yesterday by Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist Premier of Laos's coalition Government. Although Washington considered the cease-fire precarious, officials believed Moscow now wanted to help end the fighting. (1:8)
The training and reorganization of the Congo's armed forces will not be entrusted exclusively to Western Governments and Israel. Because of strong objections by Moscow, Cairo and other African capitals, the Congolese Government will revise the list of nations to participate. (1:7)
Moscow announced it had sent a team of experts to Algeria to help rid the country of hundreds of thousands of land mines left from the eight-year Algerian rebellion. (6:3-5)
Lukens announced increases of $5 and $7 a ton on some items, effective today. President Kennedy withheld comment, but a White House study was under way to determine if the increases were within the "selective" pattern to which he gave partial approval last Thursday. (1:6)
In Montgomery County, Md. recently elected Republicans seek to repeal a "model" anti-discrimination law passed by Democrats (13:1)
In Birmingham, Ala., when Negroes protesting the arrest of anti-segregation leaders, several were clubbed by policemen trying to hold in check a crowd of about 2,000. (1:5)
Europeans cool to U.S. chicken problem. (pg. 45)
April 16, 1963
Despite a truce pledge, fighting continued yesterday on Laos' troubled Plaine des Jarres. (1:1)
The Soviet Communist party called on Africans to stop the French from testing nuclear weapons in the Sahara. Pravda said foreign bases must be eliminated because they were "springboards of aggression" against the Communist bloc and potential revolutionary movements. (1:2)
Two more steel producers announced price increases. They were the Republic Steel Corporation and the Pittsburgh Steel Company. (1:6)
The Palm Beach White House announced that Mrs. John F. Kennedy would give birth to her third child in August. (1:6-7)
Ester is sentenced to 15 years in prison. (pg. 1)
Kennedy calls Revolution as a guide to D.A.R. (pg. 7)
April 17, 1963
On the second anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion yesterday, cooperation was at a new low between the Cuban Revolutionary Council in Miami and the Kennedy Administration. The Administration is ready to cut off its annual $2,000,000 subsidy to the Revolutionary Council. (1:8)
Embattled neutralist troops suffered more setbacks at the hands of Laotian pro-Communists. (1:6)
In the neighboring civil war within South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem broadcast an offer of clemency to the pro-Communist guerrillas. (1:6-7)
The Russians said that they would submit to the United Nations their own proposals for governing space that appeared similar to offers the United States has already turned down. (1:1-2)
George C. McGhee was designated as Ambassador Walter S. Dowling's successor In Bonn. (10:1-2)
Steel Services were increased by United States Steel. Jones & Laughlin and Inland and Armco Steel also announced a rise in prices. (1:4)
Administration officials said there were no plans for counteraction. (19:1.-’7)
The Civil Rights Commission urged President Kennedy to think about cutting off Federal funds to Mississippi until the state ends its "subversion of the Constitution." (1:5)
President and wife delay state visit to Italy. (20)
Fair employment order being flouted in Atlanta. (21)
E.V. Robertson, former Wyoming Senator, died. (41)
April 18, 1963
The Soviet Union informed British officials that it favored increasing the effectiveness of the International Control Commission in Laos. Concern in London that the military position of neutralist forces in Laos has been weakened beyond restoration. (1:8)
Pro-Communist troops in Laos were said to have opened a road for Red troops all the way from the North Vietnamese border to Pathet Lao military headquarters. (2:3)
The United States announced recognition of the new military government of Guatemala after obtaining a tentative promise that it will hold elections in 1965. (1:5)
Premier Ahmed Ben Bella formally took over leadership of Algeria's ruling party after forcing the resignation of his chief political rival, Mohammed Khider. (1:7)
President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam has qualified his offer of clemency to Communist guerrillas who lay down their arms. He believes that card-carrying Communists must be destroyed. (3:1)
The Mississippi advisory committee to the Civil Rights Commission backed the recommendation for drastic action by President Kennedy. (1:1)
Adoula broadens base of Congo regime. (9)
Chilean liberal calls U.S. aid program ineffective. (13)
Private agency to spur Latin aid. (15)
Robert Kennedy cross-examined at trial. (18)
Kaiser is last holdout to lift steel price. (49)
April 19, 1963
Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, and five members resigned from the 17-man Cuban Revolutionary Council. (1:2-3)
Secretary Rusk upheld the Administration's Cuban policies against renewed criticism from Senator Kenneth B. Keating. (1:1)
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that $7,100 was contributed to the campaign funds of 20 members of Congress in the 1960 campaign. The lobbyist was John A. O'Donnell, a former member of the Philippine War damages Commission. (1:4)
Labor Secretary Wirtz said that Governor Rockefeller was "not just wrong, but irresponsible," in forecasting unemployment figures. (1:7)
Russians caught in zoning dispute over embassy. (2)
Senators ask ban on aid to Mississippi. (12)
Pan Am seeks to acquire all of Panagra. (67)
April 20, 1963
At an editors' convention in Washington yesterday, President Kennedy denied that anyone in his Administration had ever pledged to mount another invasion of Cuba. (1:8)
Some intelligence experts believe there may be 30,000 to 40, 000 Soviet troops in Cuba--about the same number as last fall. The estimates reinforce assertions by Senator Keating of New York that the troops are being rotated, not withdrawn. (4:3)
President Kennedy's scheduled "working visit" to Bonn in June is being expanded into a major demonstration of United States-West German friendship, because of Paris' policies of independence. (1:6)
President de Gaulle exhorted Frenchmen to follow a long, hard road to nuclear, economic and political independence. (1.5)
President Tito has assured President Kennedy by letter that Yugoslavia is and will remain "independent, socialist and nonaligned." (1:7)
President Kennedy said he was more concerned about the possible psychological effect of the steel industry's raising some of its prices than he was about the size and range of the increase. (1:1; Text, 10-11)
The President said that he did not have and did not want the power to deprive Mississippi of Federal funds. (1:2)
The gross national product rose to an annual rate of 572,000,000,000 in the first quarter of 1963--more than 2,000,000,000 higher than forecasts. (1:2-3)
Dr. A. Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University died of cancer at his home on the New Haven campus. (1:4-5)
High Haitian officer killed in reported escape bid.
U.S. now offering aid on population growth. (1)
Earthquake is laid to atom bomb explosion. (6)
April 21, 1963
The pro-Communists had driven neutralist troops from their airport stronghold in the strategic Plaine des Jarres. (1:8)
The United States began an intensive diplomatic effort to prevent Laos' neutralist Government from crumbling under the Communist offensive. Secretary of State Rusk urged the three nations charged with supervising Laotian neutrality to redouble their efforts. (1:6-7)
Amid violent popular demonstrations demanding that Jordan join the United Arab Republic, Premier el-Rifai resigned. (1:6-7)
Gen. Lucius D. Clay to tell Congress that the Administration's reduced foreign-aid request can be pruned at least $300,000,000 more. (1:2-3)
At centennial observances of Boston College, President Kennedy praised Pope John's encyclical "Pacem in Terris." "As a Catholic," Mr. Kennedy said, "I am proud of it. As an American I have learned from it." (64:1)
Governor Rockefeller charged that the nation's economic growth was "far behind the expectations and requirements of the people." (1:2)
Sukarno supports Red China's Asian policies. (2)
U.S. is helping India on a vital highway. (3)
Moscow and Peking sign trade agreement. (30)
G.O.P. optimistic on gains in the South. (73)
Federal base areas bowing on pupil segregation. (67)
Kennedy statement opens Library Week. (83)
April 22, 1963
Premier Khrushchev warned that the West's insistence on international nuclear inspection might cause Moscow to withdraw its offer to allow even two or three inspections a year on Russian soil. (1:8; Excerpts, 12)
Attorney General Kennedy urged Cuban exiles to unite in a single organization so they could speak with one voice and have meaningful discussions with Washington. The last group of Americans imprisoned in Cuba is expected to arrive in Miami today. James B. Donovan announced he had secured their release. (1:6-7)
King Hussein of Jordan dissolved Parliament and ordered a general election to be held within four months. (1:7)
To bolster the Laotian Government, the United States may soon order naval units to start maneuvers in the Gulf of Siam. (1:7)
The selective price increases made by the steel industry, have opened the way for the steel union to request contract changes. (1:4)
President Kennedy, in a message to the Warsaw Ghetto ceremonies said that "the people of the Warsaw Ghetto affirmed that a few men who honor their freedom can speak for all men." (1:2-3)
Curb on Filipino war damage claims pushed. (14)
Pan American plans Yugoslavia flights. (54)
U.S. takes 3 gold medals in games at Sao Paulo. (34)
Kennedy seen abandoning firm control of economy. (37)
Tax-credit list expanded to include most machines. (37)
April 23, 1963
United States officials said the exercises in the Gulf of Siam did not necessarily mean new landings in Thailand, Laos' neighbor. The possibility of a landing similar to the one a year ago was not ruled out. (1:8)
The Kennedy Administration has yielded to Britain and agreed to sound out the Soviet Union on holding high level Big Three talks on the stalled nuclear test ban negotiations. (1:5)
Chancellor Adenauer finally agreed that Ludwig Erhard would succeed him as head of the West German Government. (1:4)
The Supreme Court ruled that states can make interstate airlines stop racial discrimination in hiring practices. (1:1)
Three Cubans and a Cuban-American were released from New York prisons in return for Americans held in Cuba. (1:6-7)
Governor Rockefeller signed a bill that he claimed will give the state the most comprehensive statute in the country to deal with discrimination in housing. (1:1-2)
Izhak Ben-Zvi, Israel's President, dies. (1)
U.S. aide testifies 2 Congressmen sought favors. (38)
Kennedy starts special World's Fair clock. (33)
More U.S. control of banking is urged. (1F7)
April 24, 1963
The State Department said yesterday that the cease-fire in Laos can be effective only if pro-Communist forces there withdrew from the ground they have taken in recent fighting. The department also called on the Pathet Lao movement to let truce teams of the International Control Commission enter the area of the fighting in the Plane des Jarres. (1:8)
The Organization of American States gave its council the power to investigate Cuban subversion within the borders of its members--with or without permission. (1:7)
France was given a chance to join an "inter-allied" nuclear force within the Atlantic Alliance by Dr. Dirk U. Stikker, the alliance's secretary general. (5:2-3)
George F. Kennan, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia, will give up his post by summer. (6:3-5)
John M. Bailey, the party's national chairman, said the leaders now feel William H. McKeon, the state chairman, has replaced Mr. Wagner as the leader in New York, and that much Federal patronage in the state will be cleared through him, (1:1)
Navy's largest Polaris submarine joins fleet. (18)
Kennedy picks new general counsel of N.L.R.B. (17)
Brazil devalues cruzeiro to unify market. (47)
U.S. swimmers take 4 gold medals in Brazil. (28)
April 25, 1963
Premier Khrushchev rebuffed a Western effort to put new life into the nuclear test-ban negotiations. President Kennedy, at his news conference, warned that "time is running out" for a nuclear treaty. (1:8)
President Kennedy announced that W. Averell Harriman would go to Moscow to remind Soviet leaders of Premier Khrushchev's pledge to uphold the neutrality and independence of Laos.
Washington said that three agents of the Central Intelligence Agency were among the 21 Americans who returned to the United States recently after they were freed by Cuba. (1:7)
On the Negro voter registration drives in the South, the President promised to use every "legislative, legal tool" at his command to insure the rights of citizens. (1:4; Text, 16)
The President's Committee on Youth Employment pointed to the increasing number of young people and a reduction in the number of jobs open to them. (1:5)
Senate Republicans, at hearings on the budget, who objected to developmental work performed by the Government space agency rather than private industry. (14:3)
Liberals fight confirmation of satellite directors. (11)
Kennedy would give nations birth control data. (15)
Publishers bid Kennedy bar slanting of news. (17)
Mail service cut in economy move. (34)
Soviet reports gain in harnessing H-energy. (1)
Treasury to refinance 9.5 billion in issues. (41)
Brazil repaying 200-million loan to U.S. banks. (41)
April 26, 1963
President Kennedy's special envoy on Laos received a cool diplomatic reception yesterday in Moscow. W. Averell Harriman was met by a minor Soviet official. (1:8)
The House Foreign Affairs Committee was told how it could cut 200,000,000 more from President Kennedy's reduced foreign aid request. Gen. Lucius D. Clay estimated that some 1300,000,000 in Alliance for Progress funds would not be spent because some countries would not meet aid prerequisites. (1:7)
The Senate confirmed the nominations of 14 founding directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation despite opposition from liberals led by Wayne Morse. (1:8)
The Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing asked the President to ban the location of new military bases, space installations and other Government facilities in segregated areas. (16:2-4)
Governor Rockefeller proposed that the Western European nations set up "a combined European nuclear force" which would work in "genuine partnership" with the United States nuclear force. (1:6-7)
Alabama Governor rebuffs Attorney General. (1)
Emerging U.S. University seen as model for world. (18)
Hodges urges new techniques for exports. (47)
U.S. wins 8 gold medals in Brazil wrestling. (45)
April 27, 1963
Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed that Laos should stay neutral and unified. A joint communiqué to this effect was issued by the Soviet leader and W. Averell Harriman, representing President Kennedy. There were no indications that the Soviet Union would take a hand directly. (1:8)
Secretary of Sate Rusk will visit Belgrade next week at the invitation of President Tito. Both sides were expected to dramatize Yugoslavia's contention that she is sufficiently unaligned for the United States to grant particular trade concessions. (1:4)
Cuban Premier Castro arrived in the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Premier Khrushchev. (1:7)
Officials of an N.A.A.C.P. committee in Washington scored the President for not yet naming non-Governmental members of a special committee to enforce the order banning discrimination in Federally assisted housing. (1:1)
The Administration's appointment of Southern segregation to the Federal bench was defended by Attorney General Kennedy. (9:3-4)
Cuban "spy" killed embroils U.S. Marines. (pg. 1)
April 28, 1963
In Laos, a charge came from the pro-Communists that the United States flew 17 planeloads of rightwing troops to the embattled Plaine des Jarres as neutralist reinforcements. (3:5-6)
An ex-Marine lieutenant, William A. Szili, said he had helped in 1961 to retrieve the body of Cuban employee shot by a Marine captain at the Guantanamo naval base and to secretly bury it. The employee was accused of being a spy for the Castro regime. (1:3-5)
Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., said the Administration was "slowing up" in the rights field and cited President Kennedy's rejection of the Civil Rights Commission's recommendations to stop aid to Mississippi. (1:2)
A report to the Agency for International Development prepared by the United States Steel Corporation questioned whether India should get a Federal loan of $512,000,000 to build a Government-operated steel mill. (1:6-7)
Dr. Rusk discusses aid for American Indians. (pg. 76)
April 29, 1963
The Dominican Republic charged Haiti with "aggressive policies." The Council of the Organization of American States persuaded the Dominicans to hold off military action. Haiti said "diplomatic relations were being broken off. At issue was "a series of provocations" culminating last Friday by Haitian occupation of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. (1:8; P.2)
For some time, Washington has hoped and worked to rid Haiti of President Francois Duvalier's regime. (1:6-7)
The Teamsters Union of James R. Hoffa turned back the greatest challenge to its man power since 1957 as four locals voted nearly two to one to retain the union as bargaining agent.
An insurgent group supported by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which ousted the Teamsters six years ago, fell far short of their losing vote margin of last November. (12:5)
Commercial television's influence over non-commercial was at issue as the Federal Communications Commission prepared to investigate the National Broadcasting Company's donation of $100,000 to WNDT, the city's educational station on Channel 13. (1:1-2)
U.S. stepping up foreign trade missions. (pg. 41)
U.S. takes 22 gold medals in Sao Paulo games. (pg. 36)
April 30, 1963
Haiti gave in to the Dominican Republic yesterday by agreeing to remove her forces from the Dominican Embassy in Port-au-Prince. The move came after Dominican troops, armor and warships had deployed along the border. (1:8)
The State Department said 30 Marines who had been training Haitian forces would be withdrawn at the request of President Francois Duvalier's Government. 9(1:6-7)
The Soviet Union said that the Geneva disarmament conference had become a "waste of time." (1:7)
In incomplete returns, the Christian Democratic party of Premier Amintore Fanfani of Italy was winning in the fourth post-war general elections. (1:3)
Secretary of State Rusk arrived in Karachi, Pakistan, for a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization Council. The biggest issues are expected to be Kashmir and arms aid to India. (11:3)
Five Latin states ask nuclear-free zone. (pg. 1)
Jordan declares state of emergency on borders. (pg. 1)
White House invitation to former marine stands. (pg. 7)
Turkey apprehensive on future of Kurds. (pg 10)
U.S. to seek tariff concessions on farm goods. (pg. 14)
Bailey says Major is state's top Democrat. (pg. 34)
Whites and Negroes to resume postman's walk. (pg. 21)
Edward S. Corwin, authority on the Constitution. (pg. 35)
Anderson of U.S. wins rifle title in Brazil. (pg. 39)