March 1963
March 1, 1963
President Kennedy, in a Civil Rights message of unexpected sweep, called for new measures to protect Negro rights in voting, schools and jobs. The most novel and significant proposal concerns the Ballot. He asked Congress for Legislation, to expedite voting suits in the Federal Court and to let temporary referees register Negroes while the suits are pending. (1:8)
The New York Post announced that it would resume publication on Monday. The Post-resigned from the Publishers Association and is going to resume publication under the terms of the old contract with the Printers Union. (1:6)
The latest round of polemics between Moscow and Peiping has the views of experts in Washington that the risks between the two giant Communist Nations is not likely to subside in the foreseeable future. (1:6)
Secretary of Defense McNamara announced that Soviet long-range reconnaissance planes recently flew over the United States air craft carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific. He cited four incidents. He indicated that these reconnaissance flights offered no threat and that their practice was routine. (1:1)
Secretary of Defense McNamara indicated that the United States would not tolerate the use of Soviet troops to put down a popular uprising in Cuba if one occurred. (1:2)
More than half of the North Atlantic Alliance now supports the United States project for the creation of a nuclear force armed with up to 200 Polaris missiles. (1:2-3)
The Senate Interior Committee opened public hearings on the Wilderness Bill. It heard challenges to the Executive Powers of the President over who can set aside public land. (1:7)
March 2, 1963
CIA Head McCone, in testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House on February 19, said that at least 1,000 to 1,500 persons from Latin American countries went to Cuba in 1962 to receive training in guerrilla warfare and subversion and more are in training this year. (1:8)
Political developments in Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany may complicate and perhaps delay their decisions on participation in a NATO Polaris Fleet. (1:7)
The Soviet Union bluntly refused to engage in any form of detailed negotiations for a treaty for the cessation of nuclear weapons tests. Until the West accepts an inspection quota it will continue to test. (1:5)
Communist China accused Soviet Union of jamming Peiping radio to prevent the Soviet people from hearing the Chinese side in the ideological warfare between the two powers. (1:3-4)
Senate Investigators said that Eugene M. Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force, had used the wrong set of figures in justifying the award of the big TFX Fighter-Plane Contract to General Dynamics Corporation. (1:2)
Joseph C. Swidler, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, told Congressional Investigators that the White House had never attempted to influence him. (1:1)
The Administration hoped that a dozen nations will help it supply the Congo with $175,000,000 in military, technical and development aid next year to begin the conversion of the former Belgian Colony into a valuable nation. (1:8)
The United has rejected a Soviet complaint against the Western ban on the shipment of "big inch oil pipe to the Soviet Union." (1-5-6)
March 3, 1963
Another group of Russians, several hundred strong, pressed Cuba yesterday. They were apparently civilians. (1:8)
The United States and the Soviet Union are facing a new round of Berlin talks, however both lack enthusiasm. (1:6-7)
Communist China and Pakistan signed an agreement defining the disputed 300 mile long frontier between China's Sinkiang Province and the Pakistani Control section of Kashmir. (1:6-7)
March 4, 1963
Prime Minister Diefenbaker said that the United States was a fickle and unreliable partner in its alliances where weapons were concerned. He cited the fact that the United States had "pulled the rug" from under the British who had relied on the Sky Bolt missile and that the United States was withdrawing its rocket-launching sites from Italy and Turkey to replace them with sea borne Polaris missies. Canada, Mr. Diefenbaker said, would accept atomic warheads for her-own carriers in war time or in an emergency, but in the meantime he would not have the country used as a "storage dump for nuclear weapons." (1:8)
General Godoy, Senior member of Peru's ruling junta, was ousted in a bloodless squabble among the nation's military chiefs. His successor, General Lopez. (1:5-6)
Republicans in the House will start a drive tomorrow to cut the Administrations budget. (1:3)
The Department of Justice announced it had negotiated a settlement in its long, complicated dispute with a Swiss holding company over the ownership of General Aniline and Film Corporation. The government seized the company in 1942 contending it was an enemy asset. The government is expected to receive over half of the $200,000,000 price to be received from a public selling of the corporation. (1:1)
The Pentagon released its official explanation of its award of a contract to produce the daringly designed TFX fighter-plane. In summary, the explanation said there was little to choose between the competitors but that the winners, General Dynamics Corporation, teamed with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation had offered a more "creditable and less costly development program than the Boeing Company. (1:2)
Every two weeks each of the widows of the four Birmingham airmen lost in the 1961 Invasion of Cuba receive an envelope from the Bankers Trust Company of New York enclosed with a check for $225 with no message. (1:6-7)
March 5, 1963
The Supreme Court upheld the legal right of the Nation's railroads to make sweeping changes in work rules to eliminate featherbedding unnecessary jobs. (1:8)
Walter Hallstein, President of the Executive Commission of the European Common Market, visiting President Kennedy, urged that the United States policy be directed at further developments of the European movement rather than at recriminations for its recent setback. (1:2-3)
Dr. William Carlos Williams, a leading American poet for half a century, died in his sleep at the age of 79. (1:3-4)
Senator Keating praised the Nation's intelligence agencies for producing "accurate information" on Cuba and then criticized the Administration's policy makers for not believing it. (1:1)
March 6, 1963
100,000 miners in France joined 60,000 other French miners already on strike in the defiance of President de Gaulle's orders not to strike. (1:8)
The British Government asserted that Britain must keep a nuclear deterrent because no one knew what the United States, would want to do a decade from now. (1:7)
The Soviet Union Press was silent on the tenth anniversary of Stalin's death. (1:6)
A survey by the New York Times across the country showed that the public was skeptical about the Administration's proposed tax cut because of the size of the national debt. (1:2)
The House Subcommittee recommended that 4000 of Adam Clayton Powell's House Committee on Education and Labor Appropriations be cut. (1:1)
Cuba sent a list of complaints against the United States, the United Nations Secretary General U Thant disclosed today. Cuba accused Washington of planning an attack on Cuba that would engulf the world in thermo-nuclear war. (1:1)
The Ohio River is currently flooding three States. (1:4)
March 7, 1963
President Kennedy returned to an insistence on "important elements" of tax reform as part of the Tax Reform Bill he wants from Congress. (1:8)
A charge by Governor Rockefeller that President Kennedy had appointed "segregationists" judges in the South was rejected by the President today. The President said at his news conference that the men appointed to judgeships were doing a "remarkable job" and denied that they were "segregationists." (1:6-7)
President Kennedy said that an allied Nuclear Force was not necessary for the defense of Europe and that his sponsorship of it was only a response to European suggestion. (1:5)
President Kennedy said that the United States will not accept a nuclear test-ban treaty that did not provide "every assurance that we could detect a series of tests underground" in the Soviet Union. (1:4)
President Kennedy said that the United States was urging Latin American governments to curb the flow of people to Cuba for training in guerilla and subversive activities. (1:1)
The House accepted the recommendation of its Subcommittee on cutting funds to Representative Adam Clayton Powell's committee and also limited his authority as Chairman. (1:7)
The United States served notice that it would make a drastic reduction in its payments to United Nations peace-keeping operations unless other members pay their assessments. (1:8)
March 8, 1963
The United States has warned President Nasser that the United Arab Republic is jeopardizing its relations with this country by increased bombing of cities in Saudi Arabia. (1:8)
Premier Khrushchev's son-in-law met with Pope John XXIII at the Vatican. (1:5-6-7)
The Justice Department joined Congressional forces today in public opposition to a space agency proposal to turn over ownership of Government-financed inventions to private industry. (1:3)
Former Senator William Benton of Connecticut has been chosen to be the Chief United States Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He will have the rank of Ambassador. (1:2)
The jobless rate went up to 6.10, the highest since 1961. The worsening of the unemployment situation is expected to be used as an argument for President Kennedy's proposal to cut taxes to stimulate the economy. (1:1)
Secretary of the Treasury Dillon reported that the 1962 gold outflow topped 832.9 million dollars, with France the largest buyer of gold. (1:2)
West Germany has approved key elements of the United States blueprint for a multilateral Allied Atomic Defense Force. (1:6-7)
Soviet-Cuban relations appear to have settled down to a cautious working agreement. It includes new large-scale credits to Cuba to finance economic projects this year. (1:7)
Poland and West Germany signed a new trade agreement that opens a small hole in the wall of political non-recognition the two Governments have raised between them. (1:8)
March 9, 1963
Newspaper publishers and striking printers agreed to the terms of a new contract proposed by Mayor Wagner however the 91-day-old New York paper shut down was not expected to end before the latter part of next week at the earliest. (1:8)
President Kennedy asked Congress to provide free council to those who cannot afford to defend themselves adequately against federal criminal charges. (1:7)
Prime Minister Macmillan predicted the eventual realization of the Europe post-war dream of unity in "proud and honorable" partnership with the United States. (1:5)
The missile-firing ship of the proposed NATO Nuclear Fleet will be manned up to 406 by West German seamen and also West Germany will put up with the United States at least 750 of the money and manpower for the fleet. (1:4)
A Communist Chinese has notified the Soviet Union that Premier Khrushchev's attacks are "reopening" old and dangerous territorial disputes between them. (1:2-3)
The United States has been assured by President Nasser that the United Arab Republic will suspend its military attacks against Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Rusk said that Russian troops are now moving out of Cuba and there were enough Soviet ships in the area to evacuate "several thousand" by next Friday, as promised. (1:3)
March 10, 1963
Seven of the Counselors as Cedar Knolls, the District of Columbia School for Delinquents, charged that the school is a finishing school for criminals more than it is a rehabilitative institution. The School's Administration has rebutted this charge. (1:8)
Governor Rockefeller said President Kennedy's tax program "is doomed to failure" and called for an income tax cut proposal of his own. (1:6-7)
Syria's new military junta, apparently determined to wipe out all resistance, sent tanks and armored cars through the capitol to round up enemies. (1:4)
President Kennedy attended a dinner of the Gridiron Club and watched skits poking fun at the New Frontier. (1:1-2)
An Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile exploded at Vandenburg Base shortly after it was fired in the test launching. (1:5)
March 11, 1963
Premier Khrushchev warned against wrongly interpreting his denunciation of Stalin. He said it should not be interpreted as meaning that "the reigns of Government have been relaxed." (1:8)
The United States is thinking about a control council or "directorate" of four countries for multilateral nuclear fleet it is discussing with its allies in NATO. (1:7)
The Iraqi Revolutionary Council proposed a formation of a joint military command embracing Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria. (1:3-4)
Representative Emanuel Celler accused Governor Rockefeller of endangering bipartisan support for President Kennedy's new Civil Rights Legislation. (1:1)
Secretary General U Thant has decided to open a special campaign to collect overdue assessments for United Nations Forces in the Congo and the Middle East. (1:4)
March 12, 1963
West German authorities indicated that Georges Bidault, former Premier of France, would be granted asylum in West Germany if he promised to quit all political activity. The asylum was granted by the Bavarian Interior Ministry, which is the legal authority to act on an asylum plea. Adenauer has refused to accept a personal plea for asylum from the foe of de Gaulle. (1:8)
The Soviet Union told the Geneva Conference that the United States demand for inspections was made in its own military interests. The Soviet Union said that it could explode a nuclear bomb "behind the moon" with impunity. (1:5)
A decided coolness toward any, major British financial contribution toward the costs of a multilateral nuclear fleet was evidenced in England on the eve of British-American talks on United States fleet proposals. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy told Congress that unemployment was the country's number one economic problem and was wasting an "intolerable large" part of its human resources. (1:1)
President Kennedy reviewed the delicate state of the United States Brazilian relations at a lengthy White House conference with finance Minister Dantas. (1:2-3)
The British Government has agreed in principal to develop a Communications Satellite system in cooperation with a consortium of private British companies. (1:2)
March 13, 1963
The House responded favorably to the Administration's request for authorization to procure more than $15,000,000,000 worth of planes, missiles, ships and other military hardware. But a debate over the RS-70 reconnaissance bomber broke out among the members before the final vote on the measure was taken. (1:8)
Secretary of Defense McNamara said that the Senate investigation of TFX plane contracts had-, "needlessly undermined -public confidence" in the Pentagon's highest officials. He asked for a chance for the Defense Department to tell its side of the story. (1:7)
President Kennedy and sixteen labor leaders discussed the state of the nation's economy at a lunch at the White House. (1:5)
The Joint Economic Committee of Congress said that President Kennedy's tax cutting program was about right in size but too drawn out for maximum effectiveness. (1:4)
The United States and British officials met for a first round of discussions on the possibility of building a multi-lateral nuclear fleet. (1:1)
The Soviet withdrawal of troops from Cuba that was promised last month by Premier Khrushchev began last Saturday, when 560 men sailed from Cuba. (1:2-3)
State Department officials were surprised by reports from London that the British Government had agreed in principal to establish an independent space communications system in cooperation with a consortium of twelve British companies. (1:6-7)
March 14, 1963
The Chinese Communist party has invited Premier Khrushchev to visit Peking for talks on their ideological differences. The Soviet Union disclosed that it was scraping its seven year plan, which it said was out of step with the times. A new economic policy is to be drawn up for the last two years of the original period ending in 1965. (1:6-7)
The Soviet Union charged that American war ships had fired four non-explosive shells near a Russian fishing vessel seventy miles off the coast of Virginia. The United States is investigating the report. (1:7)
Britain endorsed today the United States idea of a mixed-manned nuclear-armed fleet and expressed hope that this country would participate in the project. (1:4)
The United States spelled out to the disarmament conference in Geneva its views on how on-site inspections should operate under a treaty to ban nuclear testing. (1:3)
The House voted appropriations for two RS-70 airplanes. (1:2)
President Kennedy told a group of businessmen that they must divert a new recession similar to the one in 1957-60. (1:1)
In a thirty-two page letter to the Senate investigating subcommittee Secretary of Defense McNamara defended his choice of contractors for the TFX airplane. (1:2)
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Railway Clerks Union have broken off talks over the issue of job security for forty thousand firemen. President Kennedy has asked both sides in the dispute to submit the issues to a three-man arbitration panel. (1:1)
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that President de Gaulle could not expect to have American protection for Europe that excludes American influence. (1:5-6)
March 15, 1963
In Moscow 1,500 demonstrators marched before the Iraqi Embassy in protest against the Baghdad regimes anti-Communist drive. (1:7)
A proposal by the Netherlands and Belgium to establish a limited customs union within the Common Market to include Britain has been dropped. (1:5)
The Administration maintained that it had been managing the deficit in the Federal budget in a non-inflationary way. (1:2)
A major criminal antitrust action by the Department of Justice against the General Motors Corporation was dismissed by a Federal judge. (1:1)
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks have accepted a proposal by President Kennedy to submit the unresolved issues of their contract dispute to arbitration. (1:3-4)
March 16, 1963
In Cairo, Syrian and Iraqi delegations pressed their proposals for federation of the new revolutionary regimes with the United Arab Republic. (1:8)
The United States said in Geneva that the installation of a direct and sure communications link between Washington and Moscow "would immediately reduce the danger of accidental war." (1:6--7)
French rail traffic was almost completely paralyzed by a 24--hour strike. (1:5)
President Kennedy flew to Florida for a weekend of relaxation and preparation for next week's conference with Central American leaders in Costa Rica. (1:3)
The Senate approved a 4-year extension of the military draft law. (1:2)
The Federal Reserve Board reported that the economy is standing still. (1:1)
President Kennedy is expected to appoint Paul H. Nitze as Deputy Secretary of Defense to replace Roswell L. Gilpatric, who has announced he will leave the Government within a few months to return to private law practice. (1:1-2)
March 17, 1963
The United States charged that two Soviet Reconnaissance planes penetrated 30 miles into American Airspace over the southwestern quarter of Alaska. American jets were sent aloft but no shots were fired. (1:8)
Military Junta Chairman-General Chung Hee Park of Korea banned all civilian political activity and called for extension of his military rule for another four years. (1:7)
Pentagon officials feel they were either double crossed by Senate investigators or under cut by military officers in the bitter and expanding TFX war plane controversy. They said that leaders of the Congressional investigation had told them that the inquiry would be short and perfunctory and they cooperated. Now they are fighting back. (1:5)
Southern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks agreed to a "full and final" settlement of their five-year dispute over automation. The Union and Management have agreed to let President Kennedy name a third neutral party to settle other problems. (1:2-3-4)
Russian Combat troops withdrawn from Cuba in the last thirty days have reached a total of approximately 2500. During the same period up to 500 Soviet "technicians" arrived. (1:3-4)
The third Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic missile in the past 24 hours was launched from Vandenburg Base in California. The Air Force said all three were "routine training launches. (1:2)
President Kennedy joined the National Historical Publications Commission in urging a $15,000,000 program to preserve America's major historical documents.
March 18, 1963
Algeria is considering whether to limit or ban atomic tests in the Sahara. (1:8)
President Goulart of Brazil faced an uprising of his leftist supporters who demanded the removal of United States Ambassador Lincoln Gordon. (1:5)
The striking New York Printers have rejected an agreement that would have paved the-way for an early resumption of publication. (1:3-4)
United States officials are awaiting a reply from the Soviet Union to a protest against two flights over Alaska by Soviet reconnaissance aircraft. (1:4)
Government economists expect that the figures for the first three months of 1963 will show the economy growing more slowly than in the last three months of 1962. (1:1)
March 19, 1963
President Kennedy was welcomed in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he received the largest turnout within-Costa Rican memory. He is meeting with the Presidents of six Latin American countries. President Kennedy declared "We will build a wall around Cuba--not a wall of mortar or brick or barbed wire, but a wall of dedicated men determined to protect their own freedom and sovereignty." (1:8)
A flare-up between United States-Brazil on the diplomatic level has been resolved. (1:7)
Britain strongly endorsed the West German concept on how Europe should be defended against a Communist attack. A concept, which involves the swift use of nuclear weapons, is widely believed by Europeans to be opposed by the United States. (1:5-6)
The House Republican leadership asserted that the Administration's proposals for an atomic test ban would leave a "big hole" for undetectable cheating by the Soviet Union. (1:5)
The Supreme Court by a vote of 8-to-1 struck down the Georgia County Unit System, used to give rural voters extra weight in choosing Governors, Senators, and other state wide officers. (1:2)
The Supreme Court unanimously overruled its own 1942 decision and held that States must supply free lawyers to all poor persons facing serious criminal charges. (1:1)
The Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free world reported to President Kennedy that foreign aid contributed materially to the United States security and to the political and economic stability of the world. (1:3-4)
March 20, 1963
President Kennedy and the six Presidents of the Central American States signed a declaration covering the economic and political aspects of their two days of discussions. The wording of the declaration was restrained in respect to Cuba and the Soviet aggression in the Western Hemisphere. (1:8)
President Kennedy expressed his satisfaction with the beginnings of the Alliance for Progress and the State of Political Democracy in Latin America. (1:7)
The Kennedy Administration's master plan for large-scale international tariff reductions has run into difficulties primarily over questions of what will be and what will not be negotiated. (1:6)
The Algerian Government announced that France had set off a nuclear test explosion under ground in the Algerian Sahara. (1:4)
The Senate Manpower Subcommittee approved the creation of anew youth conservation corps to relieve unemployment. (1:2-3)
Newspaper officials accused the Government of "lying" to the public in times of crisis, thereby causing, at present, "a really serious crisis in the credibility of Government pronouncements". (1:1)
Doctor Leland J. Haworth, an Atomic Energy Commissioner, has been chosen to direct the National Science Foundation. (1:3-4)
In Moscow Western officials said that it was likely that the recent flights of Soviet reconnaissance planes over United States Air Craft Carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific had been staged as reprisals, (1:6-7)
March 21, 1963
The Soviet Union has reaffirmed its wish to discuss the Berlin problem with the United States, but it has simultaneously indicated a loss of interest in Berlin and other East-West negotiations. (1:8)
Premier Ben Bella of Algiers called on France to negotiate a ban on further atomic testing in the Algerian Sahara. (1:7)
Britain has promised to work for unity through NATO. (1:6-7)
Britain is planning to seek more trade with the Soviet bloc. (1:5)
In Costa Rica, President Kennedy said that the United States did not accept "A yielding up" of Cuban sovereignty to the Russians. He said the Western Hemisphere "can never be secure it until the Soviet Union leaves Cuba and "indeed it must and will." (1:3)
The House Rules Committee sidetracked President Kennedy's $237,000,000,000 aid program for medical schools and students by a 7-to-7 vote, with one Administration supporter absent because of illness. (1:2)
Representative Passman, one of the most powerful voices in Congress on the fate of foreign aid appropriations, demanded that President Kennedy's request for $4,945,000,000 in the year ahead be cut in half. (1:1)
The TFX Airplane Contract controversy centered on Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric on the grounds that his law-firm has as its client the General Dynamic Corporation and also that he had leaked news to the press. (11:2)
Israel demanded that West Germany put an immediate end to the collaboration of Germany Scientists with the United Arab Republic and the development of atomic, bacteriological, and chemical-warfare weapons. (1:5-6)
Doctor Gerald F. Tape, president of Associated Universities, Inc., has been picked by the Administration to be the new scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission. (1:1)
March 22, 1963
Back in Washington, President Kennedy said that he had returned from the conference in Costa Rica with increased confidence that "We will continue to live in a hemisphere of independent, firm and faithful friends." (1:8)
President Kennedy said he would continue to press the Russians for agreement on a nuclear test-ban treaty to prevent the spread of atomic weapons to as many as ten nations by 1970. (1:7)
The deficit in the United States balance of International payments for the first three months of.1963 is running relatively high. (1:6)
The Administration, as a long-range step toward complete private development and ownership of atomic power, has asked Congress for legal authority to end the present Government monopoly over ownership of nuclear fuels. (1:3-4)
President Kennedy said that the economic outlook is more encouraging than it was two months ago, but he regards this as all the more reason for tax cutting in time to head off any future business downturn. (1:2)
Secretary of Defense McNamara and Deputy Secretary Gilpatric testified before the Senate Committee investigating the TFX contract. President Kennedy backed Secretary of Defense McNamara in his choice of the General Dynamics Corporation.
The Government has licensed two vaccines against measles in the hopes of eradicating the number-one childhood disease. (1:1-2)
The Federal Prison on Alcatraz Island has been closed. (1:4-6)
West Germany Government said that it has no legal means to prevent German scientists from working in the United Arab Republic. (1:8)
March 23, 1963
The Soviet Union is demonstrating growing preoccupation with Latin America to offset Chinese Communist ideological gains made in Latin America. (1:8)
Premier Castro unexpectedly upheld Washington and contradicted Moscow regarding last falls' missile crisis. Castro said that the Russians were seeking a strategic advantage quite apart from their interest in the defense of Cuba. (1:7)
The Soviet Union's oil offensive suffered a setback in Italy with the signing of a major new agreement between Italy and an American oil firm. (1:6)
West Germany has asked Switzerland to expedite two alleged Israeli agents on charges of attempting to assassinate a German rocket expert last month. (1:4)
A power struggle is mounting in South Korea. Washington is warily seeking a compromise in the tension created over the military regime. (1:3)
White House Press Secretary Salinger disavowed that he was managing the news but accused news editors of "news management." (1:2)
President Kennedy sent telegrams to twenty-three governors urging them to seek ratification this year by their state legislators of the amendment to the Constitution barring poll taxes. (1:2)
In discussing the Administration's program for education, Congress has found that it is very confused and scattered by current Government supported education projects which range through more than forty executive agencies. (1:1)
Hungary appeared to have taken a giant stride toward heeding United States conditions for the resumption of normal diplomatic and commercial relations by Premier Kadar easing political curbs. (1:6-7)
March 24, 1963
A Presidential Commission headed by General Lucius D. Clay reported that the Foreign Aid Program is essential to the nation's security but should be substantially reduced in size and sharpened in objectives and administration. The Commission urged a $500,000,000 slash. (1:8)
Brazil declared its disapproval of a Communist Congress to be held in Brazil later this week in an effort to prevent a rumble of indignation that was building up on Capitol Hill that any proposal for new United States aid to Brazil would hit a wall of opposition over the Communist Rally. (1:6-7)
President Kennedy said in Chicago that unemployment is the Nation's No. 1 domestic problem for the Sixty's and that a vast effort including tax cut must be made to meet it. (1:5)
A medium size Soviet ship sailed from Havana with several hundred "technicians" believed to be aboard. (1:8)
Striking printers in New York will vote today to decide whether to end the New York Newspaper Strike. (1:1-2)
March 25, 1963
The toughest foreign aid fight to Congress in more than a decade was shaping up in Congress, after an advisory group report to President Kennedy that this Government was trying to do "too much for too many" and should retrench. (1:8)
Striking printers approved a new contract but deadlock negotiations between the publishers and photo-engravers remained uncertain when the New York newspapers would resume publication. (1:5)
President Kennedy's request for a stop-gap extension of the $306,000,000,000 debt limit has encountered obstacles that are likely to delay Congressional action until after Easter. (1:6-7)
The United States, fearful of chaos and civil war in South Korea, is trying to help patch together some form of temporary coalition between the country's military rulers and a bitterly angry civil and political opposition. (1:2-3)
The United States has agreed to provide Brazil with $398,500,000 in financial assistance to help insure her economy in 1963. (1:1)
Poland has agreed informally to the return on a humanitarian basis of token numbers of Germans to its western territories taken from Germany in 1945. (1:1-2)
March 26, 1963
Adlai E. Stevenson declared that the United States determination to defend Europe cannot be questioned. Mr. Stevenson was challenging French doubts on the subject. (1:8)
The Soviet Union accused the United States in Geneva of bad face in pressing for more than 3 annual arm-site inspections as a means of enforcing a nuclear testing ban. (1:6-7)
Two Government information officers told Congress that the flow of official news sometimes has to be slowed in the interest of national security especially during a crisis. (1:5)
The State Department press officer Lincoln White broke United States silence on Korea's political crisis with a statement of policy that carried President Kennedy's approval. He said that a prolongation of military rule in South Korea "could constitute a threat to stable and effective government." (1:4)
The University of Alabama Huntsville Center formally rejected two Negro United States technicians from entering the University. (1:2)
Walter W. Heller, Chairman of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors, said that the pace of the economy so far this year is in keeping with the Administration's forecast for "continued moderate expansion" in the year as a whole. (1:1)
American and Soviet Scientists have agreed to establish a direct communications link between Moscow and Washington. (1:6)
Professional featherweight boxer Davey Moore died of an injury he received in the ring when he was knocked out. (1:3-4)
March 27, 1963
Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin reopened private and informal diplomatic talks in Washington with little evidence and enthusiasm or hope for negotiations of their most important differences. (1:8)
Under strong pressure from the 'United States, South Korea's military regime was forced to offer civilian politicians a private compromise in place of its plan to impose four more years of military rule. (1:4)
President Kennedy planned to cut about $500,000,000 from his foreign aid budget estimate of $4,900,000,000. (1:1)
Officials in Washington denied that Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, the President's Science Advisor, had given the Russians advance assurance that two or three annual arms-site inspections under a nuclear test ban would satisfy the United States. (1:3-4)
March 28, 1963
The striking photo-engravers union rejected a settlement proposal by Mayor Wagner that would have ended New York's 110-day-old newspaper strike. (1:8)
In the first major test of the section of President Kennedy's anti-discrimination housing order, William J. Leditt, a leader in the home building industry, has refused to sell houses in his Bowie, Maryland, project to Negroes. (1:6-7)
The Director of the Space Agencies manned space flight program said that the latest estimate on the cost of landing the first manned expedition on the moon was $20,000,000,000. (1:7)
Former California Governor Goodwin J. Knight opened Rockefeller-for-President Headquarters in Los Angeles despite the disapproval of Rockefeller. (1:5)
Attorney General Kennedy intervened today "just as a friend" in the controversial TFX fighter-plane inquiry. (1:4)
The Soviet Union denied the United States contention that two of its reconnaissance planes flew 30 miles into American Air Space in Alaska on March 15. (1:3)
The Kennedy Administration fears that its big push to establish an allied nuclear force is losing momentum and that national and political friction-in the West may destroy the project. (1:1)
King Hassan II of Morocco arrived in Washington for a two-day State visit with President Kennedy. (1:2-3-4)
March 29, 1963
Two unidentified jet planes fired shots near an American vessel in International, waters off the North coast of Cuba, the State Department reported. (1:8)
France and West Germany are near agreement on a new plan for mutual tariff reduction by the United States and the European Common Market under the American Trade Expansion Act. The plan is not what the Kennedy Administration originally had in mind and will probably not be wholly welcomed in Washington. But it may be the best the United States can hope for in the bargaining which is due to begin next year. (1:6)
A group of Senate Republicans attempted to put the Kennedy Administration on the spot by advancing their own package of Civil Rights legislation. (1:4)
Secretary of Defense McNamara told the Joint Congressional Subcommittee that military resistance to his economy policies was due to "ignorance." (1:2-3)
Federal Communications Commission moved to limit the amount of advertising on radio and television. (1:1)
Congressional investigators produced a confidential statement that the A. C. Nielsen Company wished to withhold information that might reveal "vital" weaknesses in their broadcasts rating services. (1:2)
Billie Sol Estes was convicted of mail fraud involving the swindling of a dozen major finance companies in mortgage deals involving $24,000,000. (1:3)
The State Department termed "unsatisfactory" a Soviet note rejecting U. S. assertions that Russian aircraft violated American Air Space. (1:8)
Policemen in Greenwood Mississippi set a snarling dog at the heels of 42 Negroes as they marched homeward after having applied to register as voters. (1:5)
March 30, 1963
Both Cuba and the United States moved quickly to prevent incidents in the Caribbean from getting out of control. Castro hastily apologized for shots fired by two of his MIG fighter planes at United States merchant ship in International water. It said the planes "probably fired in error" and had no intention of doing so. Simultaneously, the Kennedy Administration worked out a plan to dissuade and, if necessary, to prevent Cuban exiles from attacking Soviet and other shipping in open Caribbean waters. (1:8)
The Soviet Union warned the United States that it was considering "appropriate measures" to protect its shipping in the Caribbean following armed attack by Cuban exiles on two of its freighters. (1:6-7)
An Air Force Colonel has testified that he "reluctantly signed" a memorandum that had the effect of supporting the Secretary of Defense in his controversial award of the TFX airplane contract. (1:2-3)
Former President Eisenhower has proposed "major surgery" on the Kennedy Budget. (1:1)
The major portion of business expenses for travel and entertainment will remain deductible on the tax returns but the proposed new regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service. (Page 1, 2-3)
Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, said that the United States had been neglecting the people under its care in the Pacific Trust territory. (1:6)
For more than three weeks last fall, Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba went undetected because United States U-2 planes were photographing the wrong end of the Island, although Intelligence Reports had indicated their location. (1:7)
President Kennedy reaffirmed the United States pledge to withdraw military forces from four bases in Morocco by the end of 1963. (1:8)
Goodwin Knight closed the Rockefeller for President Campaign office in Lost Angeles at Rockefeller's request. (1:2)
March 31, 1963
The United States announced its determination to make certain that anti-Castro raids on Cuba "are not launched, manned or equipped, from American soil." A joint statement by the State and Justice Departments said the Administration would "take every step necessary" to prevent attacks against Soviet ships and other targets in Cuba. (1:8)
The United States Government suddenly restricted prominent Cuban exile leaders to Day County (Miami) Florida. (1:6-7)
The Federal Government has filed suit asking that officials of Greenwood Mississippi halt alleged intimidation of Negro voter applicants. (1:5)
The first Negro has been selected for possible participation in future U. S. manned space flights. (1:5-6)
New York striking printers vote today on the publishers' final offer. Cash gains were made at the expense of fringe benefits in an attempt to win contract approval from rank and file photo engravers. (4:1-2-3)