February 1963
February 1, 1963
As a result of the French veto of Britain's membership in the Common Market there is now some expectation among British officials that President Kennedy's European trip this spring will be extended to include London. (1:8)
Ambassador Walter S. Dowling has been summoned to Washington for consultation on the state of relations between the United States and West Germany. (1:7)
The United States had indicated to NATO its willingness to train European crews for Polaris-firing submarines. (1:6-7)
Secretary of Defense McNamara appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to continue his detailed exposition over fundamental national strategy. The battle concerns charges emanating chiefly from the Air Force, that the Administration is abandoning the so-called counter force policy for a dangerous one of nuclear "stalemate". (1:5)
The House Republican leaders have made a party issue of the nuclear test-ban negotiations by questioning whether the Administration is leading the nation into a risky, unenforceable treaty. (1:4)
Senate liberals fighting to tighten the Senates anti-filibuster rule suffered a setback in a test vote of 53 to 42. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy presented in outline today the new legislation aimed at curing Agriculture's economic and social ills. But he turned over to Congress the task of putting it into shape. (1:1)
Kennedy has asked Congress to approve new controls for cotton, feed grains and milk. His wheat surplus plan was called essential. The Administration pledges aid to exports of the wheat. (1:1)
Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker voiced indignation at the United States on the ground of "unwarranted" interference in Canadian affairs. The outburst was provoked by a statement issued by the U.S. State Department yesterday, taking issue with the Prime Minister's statement on defense policy. (1:2-3)
Nine Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a civil rights bill with a new feature, a provision to direct the Bureau of the Census to compile registration and voting statistics in every state by race, color, and national origin. (1:2)
President Kennedy appointed Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to the post of Under Secretary of Commerce. (1:3-4)
February 2, 1963
President Kennedy is ordering resumption of preparations for underground nuclear testing in Nevada after the collapse of three-power test-ban talks with Russia. (1:8)
The Soviet Union and France have signed a new trade pact. (1:7)
Christian A. Herter, President Kennedy's special envoy on trade negotiations, conferred with British officials in London today to discuss how to pick up the pieces from the wreckage of Britain's bid to join the European Common Market. One of the purposes of Herter's talks is to discuss the current status of GATT, the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade. (1:7)
Secretary of State Rusk sought to calm the public wall between the Government of the United States and Canada over the Canadian contribution to the defense of North America and NATO. Rusk rejected the tone of his statement, but still called Ottawa slow in building up its arms. (1:6)
In a speech, Secretary of Labor Wirtz said that Labor-Management relations were at a fork in the road. He talked about the possibility that the public may demand compulsory arbitration. (1:3-4)
West Germany's leaders sought to reassure the United States of West Germany's fidelity to the Atlantic Alliance and its ties with the United States. (1:8)
February 3, 1963
The United States is studying the danger that the disarray in the Western Alliance may tempt the Soviet Union to shift its foreign policy to try and capitalize on the split. (1:8)
West Germany's chief negotiator on British entry into the Common Market has resigned in protest over the French veto. It was the first evidence of a Cabinet split over Britain's failure to gain membership. (1:6-7)
G. Mennen Williams, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, arrived for his first official visit to independent Algeria. (1:5)
President Kennedy announced his intention to appoint Archibald Stephen Alexander of New Jersey as Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to deal with any economic upheaval that might result from complete disarmament. (4:2-3-4)
February 4, 1963
The Soviet Union today attributed the failure of the nuclear test-ban talks in New York to what it described as the intransigence of the United States and Britain on the inspection issue. (1:5)
Queen Elizabeth is presently in Fiji on her Pacific tour. (1:2-4)
Senator Stennis, head of the Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee, will begin an intensive investigation of the Cuban situation in about two weeks. (1:4)
Secretary of the Interior Udall has ordered a study of helium contracts that the General Accounting Office says will yield for the Gas and Oil companies $155,000,000 in "unjustified" profit. (1:1)
A French mission is currently in Madrid seeking military bases. (1:6-7)
France has agreed to redeploy some of her armed forces in West Germany to a NATO request of moving them eastward. (1:7)
Congressional supporters of Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover are trying to prevent the Navy from retiring Rickover. (1:4-5)
February 5, 1963
Canada's Defense Minister Douglas S. Harkness resigned asserting that Prime Minister Diefenbaker's views on nuclear arms for Canada were irreconcilable with his own. An early Canadian election is likely, with U.S. "interference" on the issue of nuclear warheads to be a factor in the campaign. (1:8)
Secretary of State Rusk went before a Senate Subcommittee to explain the State Department's role in the dispute with Canada over nuclear defense. (1:7)
Dirk U. Stikker, Secretary General of NATO, said he had "good hopes" that an international nuclear force for the protection of the NATO area would be set up despite the lack of interest shown by President de Gaulle. (1:5-6)
In Washington, Hervé Alphand, the French Ambassador, sought to reassure the United States that France intends to "preserve the alliance with America, and safe-guard the future of European cooperation." (1:4)
The Federal Government revised downward today its early estimates of the life and intensity of the artificial radiation belt that was created by a high-altitude nuclear explosion last July. (1:2)
George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State, told a Senate committee that under proper circumstances lobbyists in this country for foreign governments and interests "can serve a useful role". (1:3)
February 6, 1963
Prime Minister Diefenbaker lost a vote of confidence in the Canadian parliament. An early election will be set. (1:8)
President de Gaulle revealed that Britain's choice of a Polaris pact with the United States changed the tenure of his news conference of January 14 that probably led to France's rejection of British entry into the European Common Market. (1:7)
The Soviet Union warned President de Gaulle that he had posed a threat to world peace by concluding a treaty of cooperation with West Germany. (1:6)
President Kennedy is expected to reappoint William McChesney Martin Jr. as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board when his term expires in eight weeks. (1:3)
President Kennedy outlined a new approach to mental illness and mental retardation using "new-medical, scientific and social tools and insight." The President will ask Congress to approve plans to stimulate state and private efforts and to urge health centers. Limited aid to communities would cost 400,000,000 over a 4 or 5 year period. (1:1)
February 7, 1963
Secretary of Defense McNamara showing a remarkable series of intelligence photographs to support his statement assured Americans that "'beyond any reasonable doubt" all Soviet offensive weapons had been removed from Cuba last fall. The Secretary rebutted congressional critics. (1:8)
President Kennedy ordered that Government-financed cargoes be denied to foreign merchant vessels engaged in trade with Cuba. (1:6-7)
Canadian elections are set for April 8. (1:7)
France and Spain have agreed on a program of military collaboration. (1:4)
The Administration has told congressional Republicans that an atomic test-ban would work to the advantage of the United States by preserving this country's superiority in nuclear weapons. The Administration also has informed Congress that improvement in seismic detection methods made it possible for the United States to reduce its inspection demands. (1:2-3)
Secretary of the Treasury Dillon opened the case for the Administration's tax program with a strong plea for major reforms as well as reductions this year. (1:1)
Chancellor Adenauer pledged his Government to intimate cooperation with the United States. He said that West Germany could not survive without American support. (1:4-5)
February 8, 1963
President Kennedy said that the presence of Soviet forces in Cuba was "unfinished business" with Moscow. However he rejected suggestions that those forces were now an offensive threat to the nations of this hemisphere. (1:8)
President Kennedy said it would be a "disaster" if the United States and Western Europe were separated over nuclear defenses and British entry into the Common Market. (1:6-7)
Chancellor Adenauer said that President de Gaulle had promised him to make Britain's entry into the Common Market the first subject of consultation under the new French-German Treaty of Cooperation. (1:7)
The French Government decided not to allow the televising of a talk by Premier Khrushchev that he had prepared for French television because Khrushchev had attacked West Germany and the French-German Treaty. (1:5)
Republicans mounted a heavy attack on President Kennedy's proposal to curb tax benefits of persons who itemize their deductions. (1:4)
Senate liberals lost their fight to change the Senate filibuster rules. They lost 54 to 42. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy sent Congress the Administration's across-the-board plan for improving American health. He urged medical insurance for the aged, and federal aid to relieve manpower shortages and to improve health facilities. (1:1)
President Kennedy said that he did not think the bargaining in the New York newspaper strike had been "a particularly responsible." (1:1)
The Soviet Union offered trade and sympathy today to troubled Britain. (1:8)
February 9, 1963
Premier Kassim of Iraq was overthrown by a pro-Nasserite coup d'etat led by the Iraqi Air-Force. (1:8)
The United States resumed underground nuclear tests after two months delay in which it made an unsuccessful attempt to reach a test-ban agreement with the Soviet Union. (1:2-3)
Lawyers for Governor Barnett requested the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to grant a jury trial on the criminal contempt charges. (1:1)
The Justice Department has charged 18 Minnesota banks, a bank holding company and a clearing house with violations of the Antitrust Laws involving interest rates on loans and deposits. (1:3)
The 16 astronauts of the space agency have been offered $3,000,000,000 for their "personal stories" of future space flights. (1:1)
Igor Cassini, a New York Society columnist and international publicity agent, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for "willfully and unlawfully" failing to register as an agent for the former Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. (1:3-4)
February 10, 1963
The United States prodded the Soviet Union to remove its combat troops from Cuba, and the Russians promptly reacted by saying the units are only a training mission. (1:8)
Iraq's Rebel leaders sent fallen Premier Kassim to the firing squad today and ordered the annihilation of Communist Asia. (1:5)
Governor Rockefeller made a slam-bang attack on President Kennedy yesterday, accusing him of being "ruthless" with America's allies in a way that has "shaken" their confidence in him. (1:1-2-3-4)
Two more Cabinet Ministers deserted Prime Minister Diefenbaker's caretaker government today, charging his defense policy endangered Canada's security and seriously harmed relations with the United States. (1:6-7)
Last night President and Mrs. Kennedy attended a performance of the play "Beyond the Fringe" in New York. (1:2-3-4)
Governor Louis Munoz-Marin of Puerto Rico told President Kennedy at the White House that the voters of Puerto Rico were eager to explode the Communist charge that their Commonwealth status was "colonialism in disguise". (2:1)
Attorney General Kennedy spent yesterday walking out his older brother's physical fitness program by taking a 50-mile hike toward Camp David. (2:5)
February 11, 1963
The Administration began to show signs of exasperation with continuing doubts in Congress over its Cuban policy. At the same time diplomats stepped up negotiations for the prompt withdrawal of Soviet troops from Cuba. (1:8)
The Soviet Union rejected the concept of a rapprochement with the West as sacrifice of its alliance with Communist China. (1:6)
Authoritative officials have informed the French Government that Germany will not switch its military procurement program to France from the United States. (1:5)
The President spent a 24-hour "completely private and social" visit to New York. (1:2-4)
The Kennedy Administration was in a quandary in the face of Republican charges that it was failing to protect the nation in trying to negotiate a treaty for an atomic test-ban. Administration officials acknowledged that they could not make public the test-detection research. (1:1)
France intends to ship most of her Navy from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic by 1965. (1:6)
There were indications that the Communists were resisting the new revolutionary government in Iraq of President Abdel-Salam Arif. (1:7)
February 12, 1963
Acting in consultation with Britain, the United States recognized the new regime in Iraq. (1:8)
The British Government has decided to accept imports of oil from the Soviet Union provided the Russians in return place enough firm orders in Britain's ship building industry. (1:7)
The West indicated it was willing to reduce the number of international on-sight inspections it has demanded for the policing of a nuclear test-ban treaty. (1:7)
The Republican leadership of Congress charged the Kennedy Administration with damaging United States prestige among its chief allies "inept conduct of our foreign affairs." (1:5)
President Kennedy conferred with Vice Admiral Rickover at the White House. They discussed the nation's Polaris missile program. (1:3)
President Kennedy is expected to give a program of aid to idle youth priority in his message to Congress due this week. (1:2)
President Kennedy is expected to send to Congress this week legislation proposing a federal and state investment of around $4,000,000,000 in outdoor recreation areas and facilities during the next ten years. (1:2-3)
A suit designed to eliminate racial-discrimination in urban renewal housing has been filed in the Federal District Court in Nashville, Tennessee. (1:5-6)
President Kennedy asked Congress to establish a National Academy of Foreign Affairs to provide "new preparation for the multitude of tasks which wait our Government personnel everywhere in the world". (1:8)
February 13, 1963
The Disarmament Conference resumed in Geneva. The Soviet Union has asked that a curb be put on Polaris missiles and missile bases. (1:8)
The British Government will go beyond its original commitment under the NASA pact and is prepared to provide trained personnel or port facilities for submarines of the North Atlantic Polaris Squadron. (1:6-7)
A United States Fact-finding Mission in the Congo has recommended a massive multi-nation aid program for the Congo. (1:4)
A Northwest Orient Airlines jet with 43 persons aboard crashed in the Everglades soon after take off from Miami for Chicago. (1:1)
Civil rights leaders reported to President Kennedy that "the last battle for equal rights" for the Negro may have to be fought in the North. The United States Commission on Civil Rights submitted a 246 page report. The report cited the medial status of the Negro and curbs on housing. (1:2)
$75,000,000 of gold is potentially available to the United States under the "pool" established late in 1961 by the United States, Britain and leading western European nations. (1:2-3)
Secretary of Commerce Hodges warned that unless the nation channeled more money in man power into industrial development and research, it would lose ground in foreign trade competition. (1:1)
The Kennedy Administration is conceding the failure of its defense to get Soviet troops out of Cuba without public protest to Moscow. (1:8)
February 14, 1963
President Kennedy and his advisors have begun a series of "stock-taking" meetings on American relations with Europe in light of the set back dealt by President de Gaulle to the concept of Atlantic partnership. (1:8)
The United States had indicated its willingness to sell France a large amount of plutonium for fueling advanced types of atomic plants. (1:7)
West Germany assured the United States that the joint concepts worked out by the two nations on military strategy and procurement would continue despite the recent French-Germany of cooperation. (1:7)
The eight neutrals participating in the disarmament talks appear to be leaning toward the United States position on banning tests. (1:6)
Malaya is to strengthen her armed forces to counter the "threat to security posed by Indonesia's hostility to the proposed Federation of Malaysia." (1:5)
The United Nations Special Fund reported that it was preparing to open an Agricultural Experimental Project in Cuba despite public objections by the United States. (1:4)
Secretary of State Rusk reaffirmed today that the Armed Forces of the United States and other hemisphere nations would prevent any arms in Cuba from being used outside the island. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy met in the White House with California Governor Brown and representatives from Chili in what was called a "pioneering effort". California will send agricultural experts to Chili as part of the alliance for progress. Hugo Fisher, Administrator of California's resources agency will head the delegation. Governor Brown has asked the President to appoint William Bennett of the California Public Utilities Commission to the Federal Power Commission. (1:1)
February 15, 1963
The Western Allies were assured by President Kennedy that American troops would remain in Europe as long as they were wanted there. Kennedy pledged that all the allies would have a voice in the nuclear arms but he cited the difficulty of multi-national control. He also warned on the defense costs. (1:8)
The United States has informed its major allies in NATO that an alert strategy in defense of Europe can be effective only if they are willing to prepare their forces for a 90-day campaign. (1:7)
Venezuela called for naval help from United States and five Latin American neighbors in the hunt for a Government freighter seized on the high seas by communists warring against President Betancourt. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy urged Congress to set up two types of work corps to help stop the growing problem of youth unemployment. He asked for a national corps and a home town corps. He also requested a bigger peace corps. (1:1)
President Kennedy revealed the Administrations main line of rebuttal to those who oppose his tax bill on the ground that it would enlarge the Federal budget deficit. He warned that without the tax cut the chance of a recession is much greater.
The first attempt to launch a satellite into a "stationary orbit" high above the earth ended in failure today when radio contact was lost with a syncom communication satellite. (1:4-6)
February 16, 1963
French police broke up a plot to assassinate President de Gaulle. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev declared that the Soviet Union and Communist China would join in the final act of burying capitalism. (1:7)
The Soviet Union raised the possibility that negotiations for a nuclear test-ban treaty would remain stalled for some time on the basis of limited inspection. (1:6-7)
Communist pirates have pledged to sink the Venezuela ship instead of giving up. Venezuelan officials reported that the ship was being shadowed by United States and Venezuelan patrol planes. But Venezuela's Ambassador to Washington denied the report after a call at the White House. (1:4)
The collective bargaining system in the railroad industry appears to have broken down as a result of dwindling business and technological change. (1:2)
The merged labor movement attacked the economic program of the Kennedy Administration as far too conservative to meet the nation's needs. The labor organization proposed higher pay and a trim in hours. (1:1)
The State Department is seeking extra money to help the African students who are angrily leaving Bulgaria. The students had charged racial discrimination in the Eastern European Communist nation. (1:1)
February 17, 1963
United States Navy planes intercepted the high jacked Venezuelan freighter and fired rockets across its bow. But the ship's pro-Communist captors ignored the signal and refused to change course. (1:8)
United States and Britain will open up new talks in Washington Monday to speed up plans to put some nuclear striking power in their outline of NATO Atomic force. (1:6-7)
Leon H. Keyserling, former President Truman's chief economic advisor, labeled President Kennedy's 10.3 billion dollar net tax reduction program as a "pigmy sent out to do a giant's job" and a "lawyer's skylark". (1:1)
The United States will supply four Nike-Kajum Rockets and nine Nike-Apache Rockets to help India's Atomic Energy Department conduct upper-atmospheric studies this year. (1:1)
The first attempt to launch a Titan II missile from an underground silo failed when the rocket blew up a few seconds after it left the pad. (1:8)
Six Ethiopian students left Communist Bulgaria, as twenty Ghanaians did yesterday, and Britain announced that its legation in Sofia, Bulgaria is helping to arrange the departure of a group of Nigerians. (1:6-7-8)
The United States offered military training, conducted in the Spanish language, to Cubans who participated in the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion 16 months ago. (3:1-2)
February 18, 1963
Mayor Willie Brandt won an unexpected landslide victory in West Berlin's city election. (1:8)
West Germany has decided to push ahead with its own multimillion dollar tank construction despite its pact with France. (1:6-7)
Senator Fulbright declared that France rather than Cuba now represented the most serious defeat to United States Foreign Policy. (1:7)
In Washington the United States and Britain begin a new round of talks designed to speed creation of a joint nuclear striking force for NATO powers and head off French plans for an independent deterrent. (1:5)
Two United States destroyers are currently pursuing the seized Venezuelan freighter. (1:3)
The Pentagon faces a broad shakeup in its major posts. Among the offices affected will be Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Chief of Air Staff, the NATO and Atlantic Command, and Command of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. It appears that Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy is at odds with other high officers. The new accent on youth is also a factor. (1:1).
February 19, 1963
President Kennedy called an extraordinary meeting with congressional leaders of both parties. The meeting which began at 6:30 last night lasted forty minutes and included a group similar to that summoned just before the Cuban blockade action. (1:8)
Senator Goldwater requested a new blockade of Cuba. Other Congressmen, both Democratic and Republican also criticized the Administrations Cuban policy. (1:6-7)
Adlai E. Stevenson criticized President de Gaulle for "divisive nationalism". (1:5)
The United States accused the Soviet Union of stalling the attempt to reach early agreement at the Disarmament Conference. (1:4)
The Supreme Court struck down two Federal Statutes that take away the citizenship of Americans who leave the country to avoid military service. (1:2-3)
The General Motors Corporation showed its confidence in the national and international economic outlook by announcing plans to spend about 1.3 billion dollars in 1963 for capital, equipment and special tools. (1:2-3)
The Venezuelan pirates have asked for asylum after anchoring their ship off of Brazil. The United States followed the ship by air and sea. (1:6-7)
February 20, 1963
President Kennedy has received a promise from Moscow that several thousand Soviet Troops will be withdrawn from Cuba by March 15. (1:8)
President Kennedy welcomed President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela. Kennedy hailed him as the symbol of democracy. (1:6-7)
The seven countries of the European Free Trade Association tentatively agreed to abolish all tariffs in trade between themselves in industrial products by the end of 1966. (1:5)
Leaders of the real estate industry told the House Ways and Means Committee that proposals for tax deduction, depreciation and capital gains in President Kennedy's tax bill would sharply reduce home building and sale. (1:2-3)
Republican liberals jumped in ahead of the Administration by offering their own program of medical care for the aged under social security. The Administration's plan will be outlined in a special message Thursday to Congress by President Kennedy. (1:1)
The Administration ran into unexpected criticism on Capitol Hill for proposing Government research assistance in the development of a privately owned communications satellite system. (1:2)
A new Administration move to reduce United States inspection demands for a treaty to ban atomic testing became known today. Considerable opposition against the move has developed on Capitol Hill. (1:7)
February 21, 1963
The Soviet Union countered today United States' appeal for negotiations for a treaty to ban nuclear testing by offering a non-aggression pact between the Western and Communist military alliances. (1:8)
The United States and the Soviet Union plan new talks on Berlin. (1:7)
The United States suggested that the nuclear force proposed for the Atlantic Alliance be equipped with missile-carrying surface ships rather than Polaris-armed submarines--"at least initially." (1:7)
President Betancourt of Venezuela urged the United States and its Latin allies to "restrict" air and sea access to Cuba to check her attempts to export subversion to rest of Latin America. (1:6)
President Nasser is planning an early withdrawal of most of the estimated 20,000 Egyptian troops in Yemen. (1:5)
Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. presented the space capsule Friendship VII and his space gear to the Smithsonian Institution. (1:2-5)
The Atomic Energy Commission reported major advances in atomic power and said that it can be used as an economical source of electrical energy. (1:1)
President David Ben-Gurion's Government narrowly avoided defeat on the issue of military government over the Arab minority in Israel by one vote. (1:8)
In a news conference Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. defended his personal and official conduct as Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor. (1:5-6)
February 22, 1963
A rocket attack by Cuba-based MIG fighter planes near an American shrimp boat brought an order from President Kennedy to the Armed Forces to "take all necessary action" against a repetition. (1:8)
India's Prime Minister made clear today that India was interested in Western military air assistance in the event of a new Communist Chinese attack. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy asked Congress for nearly a $10,000,000,000 program to provide medical care and other services for the nation's older citizens. The name of the program has been changed to "Hospital Insurance". (1:5)
President Kennedy urged New York Newspaper publishers and striking printers to submit their dispute to "independent determination". (1:4)
The Administration's proposal to establish an independent nuclear force within NATO has run into critical opposition from the joint congressional committee on Atomic Energy. (1:1)
The French Government will remain aloof from the projected negotiations on Berlin between the Soviet Union and the United States. (1:2)
The United States and Western diplomatic officials discounted reports that the United Arab Republic would begin withdrawing its military forces from Yemen before March 1. (1:7-8)
The Air Force is urging quick action to provide military defenses in space. (1:1-2)
February 23, 1963
The Soviet Union warned the United States that an attack on Cuba would mean world war. (1:8)
The United States has demanded that Cuba give a "prompt and unequivocal" explanation for the jet fighter on an unarmed American shrimp boat. (1:6-7)
A special security committee of the Organization of American States has proposed an intensive inter-American campaign to combat Communist subversion in Latin America. (1:7)
The Soviet Union refused outright to resume direct negotiations with the United States and Britain for treaty to end nuclear testing, except on its own terms. (1:5)
President Kennedy announced that award of the Medal of Freedom would be converted into a civil honor system recognizing and rewarding those "who contribute significantly to the quality of American life". (1:2)
The top leaders of the merged labor federation have decided to seek a meeting with President Kennedy to tell him privately what they do not want to say publicly--that they think he must lead the nation more forcefully on the domestic front. (1:1)
A Libya town has suffered a severe earthquake and the United States and Britain have begun a big airlift to bring supplies and take out the injured. (1:3-4)
United Nations troops have put down an uprising by Katangese Gendarmes in the north Katanga city of Katanga. (1:6-7)
February 24, 1963
A week long search by United States and Britain for a formula to create unity on nuclear policy inside the Atlantic Alliance has been unsuccessful. The two Nations agreed to continue talks in the 15-Nation NATO Council. (1:8)
Former President Truman, in a syndicated column, wrote that the United States must find a way to liberate the Cubans. (1:6-7)
In Palm Beach, Aids said that the skin blemish on President Kennedy's left cheek is clearing up. (1:2-3-4)
Four busloads of Russian soldiers were barred by U. S. Authorities from entering West Berlin today, delaying a wreath laying ceremony with high ranking Communists at the Soviet War Memorial. United States made the soldiers use a British check point which was the shortest and most direct route to the Memorial. (1:6-7-8)
Arthur Krock, prize winning newspaperman, accused President Kennedy of managing the news with a cynicism, boldness and subtlety unmatched in peace time history. (7:1-2-3-4-5)
February 25, 1963
A four-man Senate study group headed by Senator Mansfield warned that the struggle for Vietnamese independence was fast becoming an "American war" that could not be justified by present United States security interests in the area. (1:8)
The United States Army in Europe will begin to barter grain for foreign goods put in American PX's. Thus there would be no loss of gold. (1:7)
The United Arab Republic and the Iraqi Government have pledged "positive steps" to link the capitols of four 'liberated" Arab countries to close political association. (1:5)
Defense Minister for West Germany Kai-Uwe von Hassel is on his way to Washington to talk with President Kennedy on the creation of a multi-national nuclear force for the defense of Western Europe. (1:4)
President Kennedy has lost the support of Republican liberal Javits in his drive for tax reforms as well as a 10.3 billion dollar tax reduction. The President will go before the American Bankers Association tomorrow in a new effort to gain public support for his program. (1:2-3)
The A.FL.-C.I.O. defended President Kennedy's Cuba policy against Republican Congressional critics. (1:2)
A strike of railway clerks against the Southern Pacific Company has been authorized by the Brotherhood. (1:2-3)
February 26, 1963
The United-States has offered Europe the twin concept of national and multi-lateral nuclear forces operating side-by-side within NATO. (1:8)
Political circles in Britain report that Britain's proposed fleet of four or five Polaris submarines will never be built. (1:7)
Prime Minister Nehru said that India would not recognize the border agreement to be signed by Pakistan and Communist China fixing part of the boundary of that part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. (1:6-7)
Cuba denied United States charges that her MIG jet fighters had attacked an American shrimp boat. (1:4)
President Kennedy told the Bankers group in Washington that "nothing should stand in the way" of a major tax reduction this year, not even the tax reform program he has also proposed. (1:3)
The Senate refused decisively to enlarge key committees for the declared purpose of improving the chances of the Kennedy Administration's program in Congress. (1:1) Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the President's brother joined those voting against the proposal to increase the finance committee. The other committee sought to be enlarged was the Appropriations Committee.
The Supreme Court reversed the conviction of 187 Negro students who marched around the South Carolina State House to protest segregation. (1:2)
February 27, 1963
The Democratic leaders of Congress said that this year's tax bill, as finally enacted, will include some tax reform. (1:8)
Five Cabinet members turned out in an extraordinary show of support for a bill to establish a Youth Conservation Corps. (1:4-7)
A spot check of opinion throughout the country on the Cuban situation, conducted by correspondents of the New York Times, indicates that the public is not as worried about developments there as the politicians are. (1:5-6)
The death of four Americans in the abortive Cuban invasion of 1961 and a report of the bureaucratic dispute over the last fall surveillance fights kept the political controversy over Cuba alive. (1:5)
A California State Court enjoined the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks from striking against the Southern Pacific Company. (1:3)
The Administrations effort to establish an allied nuclear force is being hampered by differences in Washington and major political problems in other Western capitols. The United States wants its allies' advice but no veto on a response to a nuclear attack. (1:1)
Doctor Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations top Middle East negotiator, has been sent to Yemen in an effort to head off the new and deepening crisis in the Arab world. (1:1)
Joseph B. Charyk, Under Secretary of the Air Force, has resigned to accept the post of President and Principle Operating Officer of the new Communications Satellite Corporation. (1:3-4)
February 28, 1963
The Soviet Union is understood to have advised the United States that it tends to retain indefinitely in Cuba a "residual" military force after the early withdrawal of several thousand troops. (1:8)
The United States offered its North Atlantic allies participation in a sea-based force armed with Polaris missiles. Paris still appeared to be cold to the NATO aid force but Bonn was favorable. (1:4)
Secretary of the Treasury Dillon testified that the Administration still hoped and expected to win approval of tax reforms as well as reductions this year. (1:1)
Civil Rights leaders were angered at the disclosure that the Health, Education and Welfare Department was taking steps that would result in a "salt-and-pepper" system at six military installations. The salt-and-pepper desegregation plan has been legally discredited by two Circuit Courts of Appeals. (1:2-3)
Commissioner Howard Morgan told congressional investigators that the Federal Power Commission had declined to investigate some cases "because it would disturb industry". (1:2)