September 1963
September 1, 1963
The Administration decided to pursue diplomatic efforts to reform the Saigon Government instead of relying on the chances for an internal military coup. (1:8)
With four days left to end the fighting, United Nations peace-keeping efforts in Yemen headed toward a crisis. The resignation of the mission's commander became effective, and United Nations sources said that the announcement of it by U Thant indicated internal disagreement. (1:6)
A dispute over Indonesian observers to accompany United Nations teams in Sarawak and North Borneo was settled as the British granted visas to four of them. (3:6)
Georges Braque, one of France's most noted modern painters and decorators, died in Paris at the age of 81. (1:4-5)
President Kennedy will make a five-day trip to inspect the conservation program in 10 states, in late September. (1:4)
In an article, Mr. Kennedy wrote that Government and business should work together, specifically on taxes, exports, prices and hiring of minority groups. (1:5)
At his annual Berryville, Va., orchard picnic, Sector Harry Byrd asked his guests whether President Kennedy really needed all his land, air and sea vehicles. He noted approval by a House subcommittee of two jet helicopters for the President costing $1,125,000 apiece. (1:3)
Guy Burgess, Soviet spy dies in Moscow. (pg. 1)
Belgium and Congo sign pact on technical aid. (pg. 15)
U.S. forces evacuate bases in Morocco. (pg. 15)
Panamanians honor departing U.S. envoy. (pg. 25)
Statehood movement gains in Puerto Rice. (pg. 20)
Court orders redistricting in New Mexico. (pg. 50
Haitian exiles find life here hard. (pg. 35)
September 2, 1963
The continuing, deepening chaos in the Cuban economy and society was reported yesterday to have touched off serious political differences between Premier Castro and his orthodox Communist party allies. This was the reason for last week's military alert. (1:8)
Political differences between Peking and Moscow also continued unabated. The Chinese denounced Russia for disclosing Communist-bloc defense secrets. (3:1)
One Soviet ideologist said anti-Communist propaganda hard reached a new high in quality and quantity. (1:6-7)
Officials in Saigon believe President Diem's closest political adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, agrees with President de Gaulle's call for national unity in divided Vietnam. (1:6)
State troopers and sheriff's deputies used tear gas to disperse 1,000 Negro marchers, who had defied a Federal Court ban on demonstrations in Plaquemine, La. Earlier, they appealed to Attorney General Kennedy for marshals to protect them against police brutality. (1:2-4)
Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana said that an effort would be made from the Senate floor to attach a reservation to the pact. The reservation would allow the United States to use nuclear weapons if it felt his vital interests were endangered, a reservation the Administration says is not needed. (3:5-6)
The Federal minimum wage goes up to $1.25 an hour tomorrow. The Labor Department said that the increase will be felt the most in the South where wages are generally lower than the rest of the nation. (15:1)
Khrushchev visits U.S.-aided plant in Yugoslavia. (pg 3)
September 3, 1963
President Kennedy told a television interviewer that South Vietnam's Government could not win its war against the Communists unless it recovered popular support. While the President indicated that the Government had time to regain popular support, he said it could be done only if there were changes in policy and perhaps in personnel. (1:8)
International diplomats feel that United States prestige in Asia will be profoundly affected by the outcome of the impasse between Saigon and Washington. (2:3)
In Moscow, a visiting vice president of the West German Bundestag was told by Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko that the wall should be made a border between sovereign states. He suggested that the wall be sanctioned by a German peace treaty. (1:6-7)
Apparently referring to China and Rumania, Premier Khrushchev frowned on Communist countries that follow independent economic policies. (8:3-7)
Syria and Iraq announced an agreement to establish "full economic unity" and to form joint military committees to strengthen their defenses. (1:6-7)
State troopers sealed off Tuskegee High School, halting the admission of 13 Negro students and thus preventing the start of public school desegregation in Alabama. The troopers acted under orders from Gov. George C. Wallace, who said the school's opening was being postponed for a week "to preserve the peace." (1:1; P.26)
In a 3,000-word statement sharply critical of President Kennedy's economic policies, Governor Rockefeller called for an immediate tax cut, "more realistic" monetary policies, marked reduction in the overseas dollar drain, and the development of a vigorous export drive. (1:4)
The President, in his television interview, agreed at least in part with the Governor, staging that a tax cut was the most important of all the measures he had proposed to reduce unemployment. He said an $11,000,000,000 tax cut and other economic stimulation might reduce unemployment significantly in two and a half-years. (1:6)
Indonesian admits training Borneo rebels. (pg. 5)
Peking aides precede Bail to Pakistan. (pg. 6)
Soviet accuses Albania of attempted theft. (pg. 9)
Japan is urged to oppose isolation of China. (pg. 14)
September 4. 1963
Casting its 101st veto in the United Nations Security Council, the Soviet Union defeated a Western resolution that would have condemned the "wanton murder" of two Israeli farmers by Syrians. (1:8)
American and Soviet scientists will collaborate later this year in Antarctica in an unusual investigation of how cosmic rays vary in energy, time and location as they come into the earth's atmosphere. (1:1)
Under Secretary of State George W. Ball expressed to Pakistan United States concern over the current drift of Pakistan's foreign policy toward Communist China. Officials reminded Pakistan of her alliances with the United States and the more than $3,000,000,000 in aid she has received. (1:6)
India indicated that she would break an agreement with the Voice of America for a high-powered radio transmitter in Calcutta unless the broadcasts conformed to India's nonalignment policy. (4:3)
Officials in Washington denied South Vietnam's charge of an American plot to overthrow President Ngo Dinh Diem. In Saigon, it was reported that the President might resign to allow his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu to take over. (1:7)
The Federal Government is prepared to send troops or marshals into Alabama if they are necessary to open the schools there to Negro students. (1:1)
Haiti asks U.N. to hear case against Dominicans. (pg. l)
Kennedy appeals to Nehru on Kashmir. (pg. 3)
Indonesia says Malaya undercuts U.N. (pg. 6)
All-Congo route for copper exports restored. (pg. 7)
East Germany and China to expand trade. (pg. 10)
Mission to stay in Yemen; it appears futile. (pg. 15)
Sweden welcomes Vice President Johnson. (pg. 16)
Gen. Taylor expects Soviet to cheat on test ban. (pg. 17)
Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, ex-Premier of Iran. (pg. 39)
September 5, 1963
The United States Senate was asked to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty in a 26-page report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (19:3-8)
Violence flared at Birmingham following the peaceful registration of two Negro children at a previously all-white school. (1:8)
Governor Wallace's decision to refrain from interfering in Birmingham was prompted by supporters who feared that a Federal-state clash might set off violence. (20:3)
The former Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. George W. Anderson, expressed concern that a lack of confidence and trust was developing between the military and civilian echelons of the Defense Department. Admiral Anderson said there was a tendency among civilian officials to "downgrade" the advice of the military. (1:5)
U.S.-Pakistan differences still unresolved. (pg. 8)
Albania and Yugoslavia share tense border. (pg. 16)
10,000 Philippine war claims ready for action. (pg.3)
Kennedy expected to drop India aid plan. (pg. 9)
Roy Cohn indicted by U.S. for perjury. (pg. 1)
U.S. skippers finish 1, 2, 3, 4, at Oyster Bay. (pg. 38)
September 6, 1963
The State Department disclosed yesterday that travel to South Vietnam by American officials and departments has been limited. Citing "the unsettled situation there," the department also said it was discouraging tourist visits. (1:1)
In separate interviews, Mr. Nhu and his brother, President Ngo Dinh Diem, declared that Mr. Diem was still head of state. (2:5-6)
Americans in Saigon believe that Mr. Nhu's palace coup has been successful and that U.S. efforts to unseat him and his wife are unlikely for the time being. (2:1)
Under Secretary of State George W. Ball left Rawalpindi without formal assurances that Pakistan would end its "drift toward greater intimacy with Communist China." (1:1)
Barry Goldwater urged postponing the nuclear test ban treaty until Soviet nuclear weapons are withdrawn from Cuba. The Arizona Republican's suggestion was immediately denounced from both sides of the aisle on grounds that if the Senate agreed to such a reservation, the three-power pact would die. (1:2)
President Kennedy named three labor relations experts as the neutral arbitrators on the pixel to settle the rail dispute. (1:4)
By 41 votes, Carmine DeSapio lost his bid for a political comeback in the city primary. In heavy voting, he lost Greenwich Village's district leadership to Edward I. Koch, the reform Democrat. (1:3)
French deny effort to play role in Vietnam. (pg. 2)
Afghan King gets wet U.S. welcome. (pg.3)
Students who visited Cuba seek hearings. (pg. 3)
Johnson speech on bias disappoints Swedes. (pg. 14)
A.E.C. urges sale of uranium in India and Europe. (pg. 9)
"States Rights party" vows Alabama fifth. (pg. 14)
Aleksandr Zasyadko, former Soviet official. (pg. 29)
September 7, 1963
Contrary to allegations from Peking, Washington officials estimated yesterday that from 50,000 to 70,000 Moslem nomads fled a Chinese province last year in an anti Government rebellion. The Kremlin was preparing a strong, denial of the Chinese charges that it coerced the nomads to move away. (1:1)
The South Vietnam Government made a formal demand that the United States turn over three Buddhists who received Embassy refuge, and the State Department turned it down. One of them, 41 year-old Thich Tri-Quang is considered the mastermind of the Buddhist religious protest. (1:2)
In a published note to Britain, Moscow called for an investigation into charges that the United States illegally delivered military planes to the right-wing faction in Laos. (2:1)
A reduction in technical assistance to the Congo has been ordered by U Thant. (1:2)
A United States team will leave today with Hood plasma and food for 300,000 prisoners reportedly made homeless by fires in Brazil. (1:4)
For the second time in a week, Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace used state police to prevent public school desegregation. The troopers barred most white pupils from four schools in Huntsville, forced by court order to accept one Negro each. (1:3)
A slightly steeper drop in unemployment than was expected for the season, about half a million last months, was reported by the Labor Department. (1:5)
New benefits for the unemployed were passed by the Senate, which approved a two-year $200,000,000 expansion of the retraining program. (7:1)
Soviet ready to reopen space talks with U.S. (pg. 3)
Ezra Pound hopes to visit the United States. (pg. 4)
Finns warmly welcome Vice President Johnson. (pg. S)
Havana blames U.S. for bombing attack. (pg. 6)
U.S. issues rules on discrimination ban today. (pg. 9)
Cox sees danger in states rights bills. (pg. 48)
Kennedy at Cape for father's birthday parley. (pg. 22)
Cultural season begins at the White House. (pg. 11)
September 8, 1963
The Kremlin, through the Government newspaper Izvestia, defended Peking as the only legal Chinese Government and attacked it for misinterpreting the signing of the nuclear pact by Nationalist China. (8:1)
President Tito of Yugoslavia will meet with President Kennedy this fall, probably in Washington or at the United Nations. Washington sources said the meeting would probably take place next month after Marshal Tito's trip to Latin America. (1:2)
The Administration planned to tell American industry, in a sharp beak with past procedures, that tariffs on almost all products will be subject to large drops in next year's bargaining with the common Market. The notice will come with publication of a "preliminary list" of the items subject to negotiation. (1:3)
On Cape Cod, the White House said that President Kennedy would meet tomorrow with Senators of both parties as debate begins on the nuclear treaty. The possibility was thus raised of a bipartisan resolution to ease the fears of those who might back the pact's opponents. (9:1-5)
Former President Eisenhower went on record against restricting the treaty to the point of forcing its renegotiation. (7:1)
Seoul Opposition leader taking six-month trip. (pg.3)
Another former U.S. soldier leaves China. (pg. 4)
Kennedy and Afghan King outline views. (pg. 5)
10,000 cheering Finns swamp Johnson and family. (pg.16)
Rusk reaffirms U.S. support of SEATO. (pg .19)
Trinidad would like U.S. aid funds. (pg. 33)
Reform gains are seen for Peru and Ecuador. (pg. 38)
Costikyan proposes removal of De Sapio. (pg. 43)
Fallout in milk at a record level in June. (pg. 84)
September 9, 1963
Aware that it might injure the military capacity of South Vietnam, the Administration was understood yesterday to have decided on "selective" cuts in aid to the Saigon Government. The decision was based on the conviction that the war against Vietnam guerrillas could not be won unless the Administration of President Ngo Dinh Diem was radically changed. (1:1)
Meanwhile, $250,000 a month in aid continued to go from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Special Forces troops in Saigon responsible for the attacks on Buddhist pagodas. (1:2-3)
Charging large-scale "planned espionage and subversion," Pakistan asked India to withdraw four members of the Indian High Commission. (1:3)
A plan to ease relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was said to have been accepted by President Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic. Haiti's reaction was not yet known. (1:1)
Relations between Hungary and the United States are stubbornly knotted and refuse to disentangle. The impasse involves echoes of the 1956 revolt, the long confinement of Cardinal Mindszenty. (1:2)
Allies want Berlin access tied to nonaggression. (pg. 3)
Gomulka denounces Peking for first time. (pg. 3)
Algerian Constitution approved by majority. (pg. 6)
Castro calls Kennedy "Batista of his time." (pg. 9)
Indians vote on U.S. offer for seized lands. (pg. 29)
Radiation device to hunt air luggage bombs. (pg. 54)
Group sees plot for revenge on Cohn. (pg. 54)
September 10, 1963
South Vietnamese Government troops inflicted heavy losses on a Vietcong battalion that attacked in the Mekong Delta. (1:1)
President de Gaulle's recent comments on Vietnam appear now to have been just a tug on Uncle Sam's whiskers and not a serious attempt to get involved in that divided country. France appears to be backing away as swiftly and as discreetly as possible from any serious physical commitment. (3:1)
President Kennedy said in a television interview, that a reduction in United States aid to South Vietnam might collapse the anti-Communist effort there. Therefore, he said, although changes in Saigon are desirable, such a penalty would not be helpful now. (1:2-3)
Moscow charged that Chinese railroad employees tried to smuggle "prohibited literature" into the Soviet Union across the Chinese border. When the attempt was foiled, the Russians said, the Chinese trainmen refused to let the train continue, raised red signals, obstructed traffic, tied themselves together and resorted to "hooliganism. (9:1)
The strained relationship between India and Pakistan worsened as the two countries exchanged spy charges and expelled advisors in Karachi and New Delhi. (1:2)
Gov. George C. Wallace called out the Alabama National Guard after five Federal judges enjoined him and his troopers not to interfere with school integration. (1:8; P.28)
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the minority leader, voiced his unqualified support of the nuclear test ban treaty and called a reservation proposed by Senator Barry Goldwater "ungermane." (1:3)
Competence, nationality and-political alignment all played a part in President Kennedy's selection of John A. Gronouski of Wisconsin to be Postmaster General. His appointment reportedly angered Senator
Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin Democrat. (21:6)
Donovan to seek "hostage" exchange. (pg. 3)
Ghana cautions U.N. on Rhodesian military plan. (pg. 4)
Stevenson urges Kennedy to address U.N. (pg. 5)
Hungarians rejoice in lifting of restraints. (pg. 12)
Co-op head urges U.S. power pool. (pg. 19)
Adm. William P. Robert, ex-naval architect. (pg. 39)
September 11, 1963
President Kennedy is reported to be receiving conflicting advice about how to deal with the South Vietnamese Government; as a result, it is said, his policy is flexible. The President left the door open to cuts in aid if Saigon does not reform its policies. (1:4)
To check the inflation that is weakening the French economy, the Government announced a "stabilization plan." It hopes to cut some spending, tighten credit, maintain prices and limit wage increases. (1:4)
The Soviet Union made known an offer to sell to British Guiana farm chemicals at half price and to supply a long term loan for farm equipment. This aid was offered, the Russians said, to break an "imperialist blockade" against Premier Cheddi B. Jagan. (1:6)
The Russians were also said to have told the Cuban people by way of radio broadcast that they would not tolerate American encouragement of further exile raids on Cuba. The State Department said the United States had received no Soviet warning. (2:5)
After the federalization of 425 National Guardsmen, who remained in their armories, 20 Negroes attended previously white schools in Alabama. The resistance of Governor Wallace was thus overcome, as he said: "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands." (1:8)
The United States has expressed "deep regrets" to Ghana for the beating of three Ghanaian students by a gang of white men in Alabama. Shortly after the students took photographs of segregated rest room signs they were overtaken by several cars, driven to a dead-end road and beaten. (33:1-2.)
A bill providing top-to-bottom cuts in income tax rates for individuals and corporations emerged from the House Ways and Means Committee. The measure in its present form would provide a total of $11,060,000,000 in annual tax relief when fully effective in 1965. (1:1; P.26)
The House approved a $238,000,000 program to combat mental retardation through grants for construction, research and facilities. (1:2)
An executive order signed by the President has the effect of halting the draft of all married men into the armed forces.
U.S. Air Force plane takes food to Brazil. (pg. 2)
Peking sharpens attacks on Khrushchev. (pg. 3)
South African aide denounces Kennedy aides. (pg. 6)
Yemen's civil war appears stalemated. (pg. 9)
A.C.L.U. requests jury trial for Gov. Barnett. (pg. 32)
Electric union urges U.S. to indict Wallace. (pg. 28)
King of Afghanistan welcomed by city. (pg. 34)
Tuskegee school is integrated calmly. (pg. 31)
900 of 955 pupils boycott Jersey City school. (pg. 33)
Italian monopoly gets U.A.R. oil concession. (pg.57)
SEPTEMBER 12, 1963
Washington officials said that Ngo Dinh Nhu's ouster was recommended last Monday by Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington's new Ambassador to Saigon. They also said that Mr. Lodge warned President Diem of new Congressional pressure that might result in cutting economic and military aid. (1:8)
Vietcong guerrillas inflected heavy losses on Government troops in two district capitals in South Vietnam. Troops later reoccupied the towns against light resistance. (1:7)
Arriving in Yugoslavia, Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu said her brother-in-law's Government would satisfy Washington's request for personnel changes in Saigon "if we can." She added, however, that they awaited further details. (1:6-7)
President Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, arrived in New York for private talks with Cardinal Spellman. (3:1)
The French Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, will meet in Washington next month with Secretary of State Rusk. (1:8)
The Soviet Union revived its proposal that the six nonpermanent seats in the Security Council be changed to reflect increased African membership in the United Nations. The proposal would take seats from a Latin-American nation and from a British Commonwealth member. (1:6)
U Thant will ask the General Assembly to decide whether United Nations troops should remain in the Congo after Dec. 3. (8:4-8)
President Kennedy said that, through underground testing, he would maintain the development of nuclear weapons after the ratification of the test ban treaty. In a letter to the Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders, the President gave assurances that the United States would resume atmospheric testing of nuclear arms should the Soviet Union do so in violation of the pact. (1:5; P.20)
An Air Force organization warned that the Administration's policy was leading to a "nuclear stalemate" that "invited" Soviet aggression. (21:3-6)
Continuing white boycotts and peaceful acceptance were the reactions to school desegregation in four Alabama cities. Without arrests, demonstrations took place at two Birmingham high schools, the only threat of serious disorders. In Huntsville, Tuskegee and Mobile, slow adjustment was being made by whites as school attendance was generally on the rise. (1:4)
Without dissent, the House voted to begin a year-long investigation of how $14,900,000,000 in Government research money is spent. (1:2)
Through a speech by its housing adviser, the Kennedy Administration began its campaign to press Congress for new low-rent public housing funds. Robert C. Weaver said that 1964 was the year for decision. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy confers with Chiang's son. (pg. 5)
Nigerian Opposition head is guilty of treason. (pg. 9)
Mrs. Kennedy's art to appear on Christmas cards. (pg.39)
Europeans oppose U.S. plan for cut in far. (pg. 74)
September 13, 1963
Secretary General Thant said yesterday that the "chaotic" situation in South Vietnam was going from bad to worse. (1:8)
In Belgrade, President Diem's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, charged that six persons, including a New York Times correspondent, were plotting against the Saigon Government and the Kennedy Administration. (3:1-2)
President Kennedy warned Saigon that U.S. pressure for internal measures necessary to win the war with the Vietcong would continue. (1:6)
The President said that the would address the United Nations General Assembly this fall and confirmed that he will meet with President Tito of Yugoslavia on Oct. 17 in Washington. (1:6-7)
The President said that he doubted the formation of any military alliance between Pakistan and Communist China because it might endanger Pakistan's ties to the West. (1:8)
President Kennedy paid a tribute to Southern leaders who showed "courage and responsibility" in communities where schools were integrated this month. He said that emotion then had given way to respect for the law (1:5)
Mr. Kennedy said that any future amendments to the nuclear treaty would go to the Senate for ratification despite opponents' fears that they might be made by executive order. (1:7)
The Senate approved and Administrations educational bill. The lawmakers sent to the White House a $236,400,000 program to increase teaching facilities for physicians and dentists and provide loans for students in the professions. (1:4)
A bill banning foreign fishing vessels from operation in this country's territorial waters was passed by the Senate Commerce Committee without dissent. The committee also sought to extend U.S. jurisdiction to waters of the Continental Shelf, 180 miles off the Atlantic shore. (1:7)
The State Supreme Court was asked by Carmine G. De Sapio to order a new primary election in the First Assembly District South. (1:1)
Thant finds peoples back Malaysia merger. (pg. 4)
Tank units crush troop mutiny in Brazil. (pg. 5)
Nigeria's leader arrives in Congo for talks. (pg.6)
Kennedy opposes military action against Cuba. (pg. 10)
Legion supports test ban treaty. (pg. 13)
September 14, 1963
In the Security Council, Britain cast her third veto. It defeated a resolution asking her to stop a proposed transfer of governmental powers to Southern Rhodesia. Africans have demanded that Britain replace the colony's constitution, but London has maintained it cannot interfere. (1:3)
In Belgrade, Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu gave her side of the crisis to Senator Edward M. Kennedy in a lengthy and unexpected meeting. (1:5-7)
Communist China has accused the Soviet Union of 'flagrant violation" of their 1950 friendship and alliance treaty. It charges Premier Khrushchev with supporting opponents of' Mao Tse-tung and with an attempt in 1958 " to bring China under Soviet military control. (1:4; P.6-8)
An official announcement was expected that Canada would sell to the Soviet Union $500 million worth of wheat and bring sales to Communist countries close to $1 billion this year. (1:7)
Algeria's Foreign Ministry said that Moscow had agreed to give Algiers a $100 million long-term loan involving credits for Soviet-made equipment and materials. (1:7-8)
A broad hint that some Soviet satellites have been spying on the United States came from a White House space adviser, Dr. Edward C. Welsh's comments served to bring out practices that both countries use but do not want to admit openly for fear of forcing their end. (2:7)
Two underground nuclear explosions, one perhaps as large as 1,000,000 tons of TNT, were set off in the Nevada desert. (5:3)
On the subject of the nuclear treaty, Senator John Stennis said he thought the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not really favor the pact. He suggested that the Administration had pressured the officers to accept the treaty against their military judgment. (4:3)
Communists lead protest by 50,000 in India. (pg. 2)
Soviet relaxes space stand at United Nations. (pg. 2)
U.S. to check on Russian bases in Antarctic. (pg. 4)
Hoffa to press nationwide drive. (pg. 51)
Kennedy hails rights role of Negro clergy. (pg. 28)
Bruch Mitchell, painter of landscapes. (pg. 25)
Charles N. Pray, Federal judge 33 years. (pg 25)
Mohammad Ikramullah, Pakistani diplomat. (pg. 25)
September 15, 1963
Reliable sources said yesterday that Saigon was also taking civil servants, lawyers aid military officers into custody. President Ngo Dinh Diem announced that martial law--imposed Aug. 21--should be lifted tomorrow, but there was no word on the lifting of press censorship. (1:5)
President Diem's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, declared in Belgrade that a halt to U.S. aid to the Saigon regime would imperil Washington's nearly successful effort to defeat the Vietcong. (6:1-8)
The Soviet party newspaper, Pravda, criticized the United States position in South Vietnam by accusing Washington of "gross violation" of the 1954 Geneva agreements. (1:4)
The police in British Guiana raided homes and offices of political opposition leaders and said that several were being held on charges of conspiracy to commit sedition. (1:6)
President Kennedy has ordered a virtual ban on new programs not already submitted to Congress. Due to such items as the space allocation, expenditures will be up despite the policy but less than the recent rises of $5,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000. (1:8)
A Transit navigational satellite, powered entirely by atomic power, is being readied by the Navy for a launching soon in California. (75:3)
Malaysia achieves statehood tomorrow. (pg. 3)
Cairo's aid is called vital to Yemeni regime. (pg. 7)
Tito is expected to court Latins during tour. (pg. 30)
Rumanians, defying Soviet, industrialize. (pg. 31)
Venezuela unifies police to curb terrorists. (pg. 33).
Cuban refugees uneasy on island off Yucatan. (pg. 35)
Itinerary given for 11-state tour by President. (pg. 52)
Kennedy to dedicate Pinchot Institute. (pg. 78)
Civil rights linked to U.S. prestige abroad. (pg. 72)
Robeson dispute with Reds is denied. (pg. 73)
M.A.T.S. Atlantic seamen get N.M.U. contract. (pg. 88)
September 16, 1963
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko arrived in-New York City. He will meet kith President Kennedy, Secretary of State Rusk and the British Foreign Secretary, the Earl of Home. Mr. Gromyko will also attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. (1:1)
A new flag is flying over Southeast Asia. The four territories joined under it--Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo--held ceremonies inaugurating the new Federation of Malaysia. (1:2)
Indonesia said she would withhold recognition of the Federation of Malaysia until the United Nations had made "corrections" in its survey of North Borneo, now Sadah. (3:4)
Diplomats returning from the Caribbean said that Haiti had granted safe-conduct passes to 20 of the remaining 40 political refugees in Latin-American embassies in Port-au-Prince. (1:2)
Four Negro girls were killed by a bomb that wrecked a church in Birmingham, Ala. Two Negro boys were shot to death in racial rioting that followed. Gov. George C. Wallace called out 500 National Guardsmen and 300 State policemen. (1:6-8)
The Federal Government responded by dispatching 25 F.B.I. agents, including bomb experts, to the scene. To keep Attorney General Kennedy informed, his civil rights assistant, Burke Marshall rushed to Birmingham. (1:6-7)
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who rushed to Birmingham, sent a telegram to President Kennedy saying he would "plead with my people to remain nonviolent." (26:6-7)
In a message to a labor meeting in Unity House, Pa., President Kennedy called on leaders to accelerate progress toward equal opportunity for Negroes. (18:4)
Indonesia rejects Malaysia Federation. (pg. 3)
Chinese head of state courts North Koreans. (pg. 4)
Nigerian offers troops to Congo if U.N. leaves. (pg. 9)
Cuba downs plane and questions pilot on raids. (pg. 39)
10,000 school dropouts dissuaded by U.S. (pg. 37)
Union peril seen in Hoffa national pace plan. (pg. 19)
September 17, 1963
An optimistic mood generally prevails as the United Nations General Assembly beings its 18th annual session today. The United States is expected to agree to early consideration of a complaint by 14 members that South Vietnam violated human rights in actions against Buddhists. (1:1)
In Saigon, the Government announced the end of-martial law, imposed Aug. 21, and the lifting of press censorship. But soldiers still guarded high schools that were centers of anti-Government demonstrations. (1:2)
Only hours after the four-member Malaysia federation became the world's youngest country, violet protest demonstrations erupted in neighboring Indonesia. (1:3-4)
Analysis feel internal and external attacks on Malaysia are likely to intensify, with Indonesia supporting guerrilla warfare there. (3:5-6)
In the largest grain sale over transacted for delivery in one year, Canada agreed to send 198 million bushels of wheat and 29.5 million bushels of wheat flour to the Soviet Union by July. 1964. The Soviet Union in turn, will deliver some of it to Cuba. The agreement will tax Canada's flour mills, pose serious logistic problems and lower reserves to about the safety level. (1:5).
Racial tension continued to grip Birmingham. Negro leaders urged President Kennedy to occupy the city with Army regulars and halt racist terrorism that resulted in a church bombing and the killing of four Negro children. (1:7)
President Kennedy expressed a "deep-sense of outrage and grief" over the Birmingham killings and suggested that Gov. George C. Wallace was responsible. The Administration, meanwhile, withheld further Federal intervention now in that "very, very take" city pending more official reports. (1:8)
A school bell silent for four years rang in Farmville, Va. as a free school system opened, ending academic poverty for 1,700 Negro children. Teachers were visibly moved by excited youngsters, many of whom had never seen the inside of a classroom. (26:5)
New Hampshire is shaping up as the site of a dramatic Republican primary battle as the state's youthful former Gov. Hugh Gregg, agreed to lead Governor Rockefeller's campaign in the state. (23:1)
Texas is reported abuzz with enthusiasm for Senator Goldwater, waning in support of President Kennedy and generally in political ferment. (22:1-6)
The Senate foreclosed any amendments to the text of the nuclear test ban treaty amid indications that fewer than 20 Senators would oppose ratification. (1:3)
U.S. hopes for gain in Canada's wheat sale. (pg. 13)
Military aid still mostly costly, Kennedy reports. (pg. 5)
Parents of dead girls are sad but not bitter. (pg. 24)
September 18, 1963
Despite shouts from anti-Castro Cubans who ran among the delegates, the 18th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened yesterday "in an auspicious atmosphere." That description, reflection optimism over the treaty for a partial nuclear test ban, was offered by Dr. Cados Sosa Rodriguez-of Venezuela after he was elected President of the Assembly without opposition. (1:8; P.16)
The trend in the United Nations, according to the Secretary General, U Thant, is toward peace-keeping operations performed by small states, without the involvement of the big powers. (1:7)
The Secretary General's pleas for financial support for the United Nations operations in the Congo was given prominent display in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. By implication, he took issue with Soviet foreign policy since Russia has opposed paying for operations in the Congo and the Middle East. (16:3-4)
Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder of West Germany called for amore active Western policy toward the Soviet Union to avoid possible erosion of the Allied position in Berlin and Germany. He added that nothing should be- done in talks that would hurt the chances of reuniting Germany. (1:6)
During a day of ceremonies and festivities marking its founding, Malaysia severed diplomatic relations with Indonesia and the Philippines. Indonesia had refused to accept the merging of Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah with Malaya; the Philippines had asked that its embassy in Kuala Lumpur be reduced to a consulate. (1:5)
Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia called for a law making it a court-martial offense for any serviceman to carry out a Defense Department order banning off-base racial discrimination. Mr. Vinson, a Democrat, said that the department was baying to use the Armed Forces to "impose a new social order." (1:1)
The prospects brightened in the House for the proposal to outlaw racial discrimination in places of public accommodation. A ranking Republican, Representative William M. McCulloch, of Ohio, said he favored the legislation, and frequently as he goes, so go many other Republicans. (24:1)
Their patience exhausted, Negro leaders in Birmingham said they would definitely go ahead with a march on Montgomery, the state capital, to deliver a black wreath to Gov. George C. Wallace. The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth charged that white business leaders had no improved job opportunities for Negroes, as pledged. (1:2)
President Kennedy and members of his Administration urged businessmen to export more goods so that the nation's deficit in bal-lance of payments could be overcome. (1:4)
The Senate Appropriations Committee defeated two economy moves then passed a $47,371,000,000 defense appropriations bill. (1:3)
In the House, approval was given to a $175,000,000 program to build 10,000,000 fallout shelters in a year. (1:2)
As the unofficial count of Senators favoring the test ban treaty rose to 79, Senator Richard B. Russell took the floor to call it "a step toward unilateral disarmament. (1:8)
Johnson reports to Kennedy on trip. (pg. 18)
Mrs. Kennedy to visit Greece for rest in October. (pg. 20)
September 19, 1963
Martial law was imposed in Jakarta last night following the burring of the British Embassy by a mob of thousands of Indonesians. The rioters were protesting the formation of the federation of Malaysia. (1:1)
In London, the British Government was said to be considering a break in diplomatic relations with Indonesia. (1:2)
The Senate has decided to take its vote on the nuclear test ban treaty-next Tuesday, after leaders gave up on efforts to end debate by Friday, when President Kennedy is scheduled to speak at the United Nations. Ratification of the document appeared certain opponents of the treaty, it was said, may not be able to count on more than 15 votes. (1:5)
General de Gaulle's policies were described as "lethal danger for both European and Atlantic unity." The description was offered by Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of State, in a speech in the Netherlands. De Gaulle was also criticized for his view of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (1:2-3)
A United Nations committee urged the world body to consider new measures to combat the racial policies of the Union of South Africa. The committee charged "new and harsher methods of repression" by South Africa against her opponents. (1:4)
Also at the U.N., the General Assembly's Steering Committee turned back on efforts by South Vietnam to block discussion of Saigon's differences with Buddhists. (6:4-6)
President Kennedy went to the nation on television to appeal for support of a tax reduction that he said was "insurance for prosperity and insurance against recession." The program, he said, offers hope of more goods to the consumer, higher profit to the businessman and more jobs for the unemployed. (1:8; P.14)
Before the President's speech, House Republicans endorsed a plan to bar any tax reduction unless Federal spending is cut. The G.O.P. will try to attach the anti-spending proposal to the Administration's tax- bill. (15:4-5)
President Kennedy will meet with Negro leaders today to discuss the racial situation. The leaders will ask Mr. Kennedy to send Federal troops to Birmingham. (1:7)
Three of the young girls who died in Sunday's bombing in the Alabama city were buried today at services attended by several hundred persons. (17:1)
Governor Rockefeller was endorsed for the Presidency by James R. Hoffa, head of the 1,700,000-member Teamsters Union. (1:7)
Senators to hear Valachi on organized crime. (pg. 19)
September 20. 1963
The Soviet Union called on President Kennedy and 16 other heads of government to join Premier Khrushchev for a summit conference in Moscow next year to negotiate a treaty for "general and complete disarmament." In a conciliatory speech before the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko held that the nuclear test ban treaty and the peaceful settlement of the Cuban crisis last fall had created a "favorable wind" for the 18th Assembly session. (1:7-8)
Washington's immediate reaction to Mr. Gromyko's disarmament proposal was that it contained nothing substantially new. Moreover, State Department officials saw little prospect of any new breakthrough on disarmament during forthcoming talks at the United Nations. (1:7)
Informed sources in Paris reported that the French Government was independent, neutral countries outside Europe. It was said the West would benefit more from neutral states than from countries where Communist and Western interests have collided, as in South Vietnam. (1:5)
In Saigon, high American officials were considering the question of limited United States aid cuts. (2:1)
The Soviet Union bitterly blamed the Chinese Communists for the tension on the border between China and India. (1:5)
President Kennedy named Earl H. Blaik, former Army football coach, and Kenneth C. Royall, former Secretary of the Army, as a two-man committee to help both sides ease the racial unrest in Birmingham. White House sources said the committee would concentrate on restoring communication between Negroes and whites. (1:1)
Senator Barry Goldwater said he would vote against the test-ban treaty because it offered only an illusion of peace to weigh against damage to American military strength. The Arizona Republican's statement on the Senate floor put some life back into the lagging ratification debate. (1:6)
The Administration and leading American wheat producers were showing considerable but guarded interest in the possibility of following Canada's lead by selling wheat to the Soviet Union. But, thus far, there have been no Russian offers to butt. (1:8)
In the Wheat Belt, farmers apparently have changed their minds and are now ready to sell to the Russians. (10:3)
President Kennedy arrived from Washington last night for a 24-hour visit that will see him address the United Nations General Assembly this morning. The President touched down at Idlewild Airport in his special jet airliner at 6:58 P.M. He was to spend the night in the Presidential suite at the Carlyle Hotel. (1:2)
Gen. Lucius D. Clay was skeptical of moves to make him a possible Republican Presidential nominee. The general said he would not seek the nomination and discounted talk of a draft. (1:3)
U.S. assails Indonesia attack on British. (pg. 3)
Kennedy avoids Portland, Ore., housing dispute. (pg.21)
Kennedy assailed at Harlem street rally. (pg. 21)
President pleads for aid to retarded. (pg. 31)
September 21, 1953
Punctuating his remarks with gestures of the right hand, President Kennedy told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that he saw a "pause in the cold war." He suggested to the delegates in the vast blue and gold auditorium that the United States and the Soviet Union send a joint expedition to the moon; and further steps be taken in the disarmament field; that Germany be reunited; that the United Nations force be kept in the Congo longer, and that racial and religious discrimination be eliminated everywhere. The Soviet delegate joined in the applause that followed the President's speech. (1:6-8; P.6)
Many officials in Washington were reported to be surprised by the President's proposal for a joint expedition to the moon. Speculation was that the declaration was prompted by the cost of the moon project and the unlikelihood of achieving a lunar landing by the planned date of 1969. (1:6-7)
Later at the United Nations, all of the African and most of the Asian delegations walked out of the General Assembly when the South African delegate began to speak. They said they were protesting the "bloody stain of apartheid." (1:8)
In a formal statement issued in Moscow, the Soviet Union rejected as "absurd." a Communist Chinese charge that the treaty for a partial nuclear test ban had betrayed the interests of the Communist bloc. (1:5)
Indonesia announced she was taking over all British Companies in the country. The Government said that it was not nationalizing the companies but acting for their safety and to insure continued production. The British were unhappy. (1:4)
The United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge is not being given the full cooperation of all American agencies there, according to Senator Mike Mansfield. The Senate Majority Leader said that if this continued the United States would be "face-to-face with a disaster." (1:6)
The six members of the Common Market were reported to have agreed to reduce by 10 per cent the community's tariff on poultry exports from the United States. The cut could lead to a quick armistice in the trans-Atlantic chicken war. (1:1)
The chief Republican spokesman on taxes accused President Kennedy of "playing Russian roulette with our destiny." In a television address, Representative John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin derided the President's call for a tax cut. He said the President was taking an unprecedented gamble by proposing to cut taxes without reducing spending. (1:2-3)
Senator Barry Goldwater announced formation of a 23-member committee in California to help him decide whether to enter the state's Presidential primary. Its head is former Senator William F. Knowland, who said the Senator would defeat Governor Rockefeller thereby 500,000 votes. (12:1)
After a 20-minute talk with President Kennedy, Mayor Wagner denied that there was a rift between him and the President but he confirmed that they had disagreed on a few little matters. (1:13)
Much of the area around the United Nations was in constant uproar yesterday as hundreds of civil rights pickets marched on the building, only to be driven back by the police. (1:2)
Kennedy pauses to hail U.N.'s American aides. (pg. 6)
September 22, 1963.
Secretary of Defense McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are going to South Vietnam tomorrow, a trip viewed as the result of a sudden decision. They will stay a week reviewing the military effort against the Communists and trying to determine what effect the political problems there have had on the fighting. (1:8)
The White House said that President Kennedy originally suggested that the United States and the Soviet Union make a joint expedition to the moon more than two years ago. He remarked to Premier Khrushchev: "Let's go to the moon together." The Premier was noncommittal. (1:2-3)
The Canadian Government wants to reduce the imports of automobiles and automotive parts from the United States by about $200,000,000 to combat its trade problems. It has expressed this view to the United States which has in turn voiced its serious concern on-the effect such an action would have on the American economy. (1:1)
The nation's two largest farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Grange, said they were opposed at present to the sale of government subsidized wheat to the Soviet Union, but would review their positions. (1:2-3)
President Kennedy's special representatives to Birmingham will begin their delicate mission on Tuesday, following meetings with the Attorney General today and the President tomorrow. The representatives hope to iron out racial problems in the city. (71:1)
To help improve the academic quality of Negro colleges in the South, several leading universities are planning to initiate faculty exchanges and curriculum reforms with Negro colleges. The program, still under study would be supported by foundation grants. (75:1-5)
Indonesia breaks trade tie with Malaysia. (pg. 2)
United States bars a truce in "chicken war." (pg. 38)
Freeman "show" a hit in the Midwest. (pg. 45)
September 23, 1963
Chancellor Adenauer disclosed that even after he retires next month he would still meet periodically with President de Gaulle. Diplomats in Paris felt the announcement would surprise and perhaps dismay Dr. Adenauer's successor, Dr. Ludwig Erhard. (3:1)
The French Premier, Georges Pompidou, criticized opposition to President de Gaulle's proposed nuclear force, saying that it came from the United States and from former Nazi collaborators in France as well as practical opponents of the President. (2:3)
The Unites States in understood to be ready for basic military discussions about a nuclear-armed fleet manned jointly with the Atlantic allies. Discussions are said to have reached the stage where technical planning is feasible. (1:1)
Officials connected with space flights have serious doubts that a joint East-West moon landing could be successful by 1970. They reportedly feel that the most practical way to carry out the project would be simply to include Russian and American astronauts in the first lunar-flight crew, no matter whose vehicle was used. (1:8)
Western observers in Moscow analyzing the latest Soviet attack on Communist China are struck by its toughness and cold anger. It is viewed as the biggest step yet by the Soviet toward a formal break with the Chinese. (1:2; P.14:2)
Congress faces major decisions this week on the nuclear test-ban treaty, tax reduction and civil rights. The voting could largely determine the kind of legislative record the President will present to voters, in 1904. (1:8)
Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire has agreed to lead the Presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in New Hampshire's primary next March. (1:6)
Democrats at a meeting in Utah figured that chances were slim the party in 1964 could amass more than 10 of the 85 electoral votes in the 13 states of the West, including Hawaii. That's haw many the Kennedy-Johnson ticket got in 1960. (17:3)
Still beset by serious labor problems with the five train operating unions, the nation's railroads are preparing for negotiations with 11 non-operating unions. The coming talks are expected to be difficult since unions representing skilled workers want to widen the wage spread between their members and the unskilled rail workers. (1:7)
A group of prominent Americans announced a fund drive to rebuild the recently bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and other damaged churches in that area. (1:4)
Strong and often bitter denunciation of President Kennedy's civil rights role was voiced at Foley Square during a memorial ceremony for six Negro children killed in Birmingham. (1:3)
United States less fearful of a wheat surplus. (pg. 12)
September 24, 1963
After a 32-minute conference with President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Saigon yesterday. (1:5)
In Jakarta, British officials entered the security area of their ruined embassy in time to find uniformed Indonesians at the door to the strong room with tools in hand. Documents and code material had been left there last week when a fire set by rioters burned out the interior of the building. (1:4)
President Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria warned that a new French nuclear test in the Sahara would result in an acceleration of socialism in his country. Asked what his reaction would be to a new test, he grinned and replied: "I would be against it, but would not go to war over it." (1:6)
After a grueling day of cut-and-thrust debate and roll-calls, the Senate cleared the way for a final ratification vote today on the nuclear test-ban treaty. All proposed reservations to the pact were rejected. (1:8)
While stating that the treaty must be ratified, former Vice President Nixon said it would mark the beginning of the "most dangerous period in the cold war." His comments were the first of many he said he intended to make because the Republican position "was not getting through completely." (1:8)
President Kennedy begins today an 11-state cross-country trip dedicated to conservation but tinged with politics. (32:2-5)
President Kennedy expressed the belief that Birmingham leaders working with a two-man team he has appointed could solve the city's racial problems at the local level. His two envoys, Earl H. Blaik, former West Port football coach, and Kenneth C. Royall, former Secretary of the Army, to the Birmingham today. (1:2-3)
A Federal Grand Jury in Birmingham indicted eight white men on charges of interfering with race- integration in the schools there. And a Federal judge said there were attempts to intimidate or influence the jury and similar efforts directed at him. (1:1)
A fleet of Air Force transports will carry 14,500 combat ready troops from Fort Hood, Tex., to bases in Germany next month for temporary training duty. The Defense Department said it would be the largest transoceanic military airlift in history. (1:6)
September 25, 1963
The State Department announced last night that it had barred, at least temporarily any further economic aid to Indonesia. It indicated that the United States was reserving judgment on participation in a $250-million stabilization program until Indonesia's intentions toward Britain and Malaysia were clearer. (1:5)
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Saigon to investigate what effect the political problems in South Vietnam have had on the military situation. They are expected to visit the-country's four military regions. (3:1)
A compromise plan that would keep 5,000 United Nations troops in the Congo until mid-1964 at a cost of about $20,000 was reported to have been agreed upon by the United States and Secretary General U Thant. The plan is given a fairly good chance of approval in the General Assembly. (1:6)
In London, officials made it clear Britain wanted no part of a joint European nuclear-weapons effort that would be isolated from the United States. (14:3)
A team of American private grain traders is reportedly discussing a hug e sale of American wheat to the Soviet Union. The team is said to be taking to Russian officials in Canada. (1:7)
The Senate, by a vote of 80 to 19, ratified the treaty outlawing nuclear tests-in the atmosphere, in space and in the waters of the earth. It took only, six minutes for the vote but a great deal of bipartisan political skill to get the measure approved. (1:6-8)
The President will sign the original document--500 pages bound in red Russian calf--and then it will be deposited in the State Department's Treaty Affairs Office. (14:4-5)
The President set out on an involved 11-state "conservative" tour during which he made a strong plea for support of virtually his entire domestic program. His trip started near Milford, Pa., where he stuck to the theme of conservation while standing under a towering purple beech and large elm with rusty leaves. (1:3)
Mr. Kennedy's two representatives to the racially torn city of Birmingham arrived there, were met by an all-white delegation that promptly told them their mission was purely advisory and further that the city's tension had been stirred by "outsiders." A Negro leader said his group had not been told the time and place of arrival. (1:3-4)
The University of Mississippi's only Negro student, Cleve McDowell, was expelled for tarring a pistol on the campus. Appearing before a five-man group, the 21-year-old law student said he had feared for his life. (1:4)
Seventy-seven Senators unanimously approved a $74,339,707,000 defense appropriations bill, sending it along to a Senate House conference committee, where it will be adjusted with a less costly House measure. (1:2)
Meanwhile, the civilian space budget was cut by a House Appropriations subcommittee to $15,100,000,000. (1:1)
As House debate began on the Administration's tax bill, Republican efforts to attach an anti spending provision appeared to be faulting. Democratic leaders were cheered by the party loyalty of Southerners. (1:1)
General Greene named to head Marine Corps. (pg. 1)
President signs medical aid bill. (pg. 26)
September 26, 1963
A pre-dawn coup toppled the 7-month-old Government of President Juan D. Bosch yesterday in the Dominican Republic. Led by chiefs of the nation's armed forces and police, the coup was carried out with little public disturbance and caused no casualties. Military leaders described the deposed Government as "corrupt and pro Communist." In seizing power, the military chiefs overthrew the island nation's first legally elected President in a generation. (1:1)
Reaction to the coup in Washington was swift. The United States halted all economic aid to the Caribbean republic less than six hours after news of the action reached the capital. The Administration also suspended diplomatic relations. (1-:2)
Indonesia's President Sukarno told a large crowd in Central Java that the new federation of Malaysia was endangering his country. Indonesia, he declared, would have to "fight and destroy" the nation since it had been created "to corner Indonesia." (1:5)
The possibility that Britain's security interests were breached in the recent Profumo scandal has been discounted in a published investigation of the case. The report absolved the Macmillan Government and the security services of any major faults in handling the controversy. (1:3-4; P.14-15)
The United States will open talks with Soviet officials in Moscow today at which the Americans are expected to ask for permission to open consular offices in cities other than the Soviet capital. Both this country and Soviet Union have had no consulates outside their respective embassies since 1948. (1:7)
The Kennedy Administration's tax bill was passed by the House by a vote of 271 to 155. The move was described by the Democrats as a major legislative victory. The bill, if enacted in its present form, would give individuals and corporations and annual tax relief of 11 billion dollars. Tax reductions would take place in two annual steps starting next January. (1:8)
As the House voted on his bill, the President was brainstorming through the nation's heartland on his "nonpolitical" tour. At Yellowstone County Fairgrounds, near Billings, Mont., Mr. Kennedy, in his final speech of the day, outlined that accomplishments of his Administration in Conservation and urged that the state support there pending conservation programs. (1:8)
Eight homes and an automobile were damaged when two more bombs exploded in a Negro neighborhood in Birmingham. There were no injuries. The latest bombings came shortly after the President's emissaries began conferring with leaders in an effort to ease tensions. (1:7)
The second sailing of the luxury liner America as canceled in a continuing inter-union dispute over alleged racial discrimination. The decision to cancel the Oct. 4 voyage was made 10 days after the first such action and only an hour after an arbitrator had ordered crew members back to work. (69:1)
Soviet offers to buy American wheat. (pg. 4)
Soviet ratifies atom test-ban treaty. (pg. 5)
Robert Kennedy noted grave rise in crime. (pg. 1)
September 27, 1963
Henry Cabot Lodge, the new United States Ambassador in South Vietnam, yesterday called the statements by Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu against young American officers, "shocking and cruel." Mrs. Nhu accused a number of junior officers of plotting against her brother-in-law's Government. But Mr. Lodge said that some of these officers were risking their lives every day and should be thanked, not insulted. (1:4)
Riot police battled students in Santo Domingo as a three-man civilian junta took power in the Dominican Republic. The civilians were installed by the military leaders of the coup that toppled the regime of President Juan D. Bosch. Scores of students demonstrating against the take-over were arrested. (1:2-3)
In Washington officials regarded the junta as a "front" for Gen. Antonio Imbert Barrera, the country's new strongman. (4:4)
The political battle over the Profumo scandal erupted again in Britain. The Laborites charged that Lord Denning's report on the scandal proved there had been a breakdown in military security. (1:2)
An unusual alliance of conservative and liberal members of the Senate Finance Committee is working quietly in an effort to sidetrack President Kennedy's tax bill, at least until he submits his budget next January. But the bill's supporters hope to win out and send the bill to the floor for an early vote. (1:8)
In Salt Lake City, the President marked the third day of his 11-state tour by asking Americans to reject a foreign policy based on "black-and-white choices of good and evil." (1:5)
The Labor Department reported that automation was' taking 200,000 jobs a year away from workers. If true, the report indicated that automation, was beginning to have a greater than ever impact on jobs. (1:7)
A high State Department security officer was charged with violating regulations in dealing with the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. He is Otto F. Otepka, chief of the, Division of Evaluations of Security Information since 1954. (1:b)
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said his Southern Christian Leadership Conference would call for a nationwide boycott of Christmas shopping. Some delegates to the conference's annual meeting in Richmond were confident the boycott would cripple business. (30:5)
Kennedy urges against space budget cuts. (pg. 3)
Kennedy pulls switch at Utah dam today. (pg. 12)
Valachi talks to Senate Investigations panel. (pg. 14)
September 28, 1963
While no dramatic developments are expected in East-West talks beginning today, the United States, Britain and West Germany agreed yesterday that a Soviet proposal to guard against surprise attack offered the best opening for improving relations. (1:1)
The United States is reported to have angered President de Gaulle by offering to share the use of some of its military supply bases in France with West Germany. Washington's aim is said to be to tie the Germans to American military power to keep Bonn from turning to Paris for a nuclear deal. (1:3)
General de Gaulle continued to speak out for a France independent of both the Soviet Union and the United States. His remarks led political observers in Paris to believe that he was planning a new position for France as a leader or only member of a third force in international affairs. (1:2)
In South Vietnam, Arthur Sylvester, an Assistant Secretary of Defense, was pointedly less optimistic about the military situation there, stating he did not want to "plaster things over with a pretty look." He is the spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who will visit the Mekong Delta today. (1:1)
The Dominican Republic's new Government announced formation of a coalition cabinet made up of representatives of the six political parties opposed to the government of the deposed President, Juan D. Bosch. At least 700 persons had been arrested since Wednesday in Santo Domingo. (1:2)
American officials are reported encouraged by a Soviet proposal for international allocation of radio frequencies for a communications satellite system. (1:5-6).
Early today in Montgomery, Ala., the office of Gov. George C. Wallace announced the arrest of two persons "in connection with the Birmingham bombings." It withheld their identities in "the interest of the continuing investigation" and gave no further details. (1:3)
The Kennedy Administration made it clear that it has no desire to delay until next year the battle over civil rights legislation in Congress. The Senate is facing a legislative jam, and Senator Goldwater suggested the Administration would have to choose between a tax cut or a civil rights bill. (1:5)
The Mayor of Cambridge, Md., urged residents to adopt an amendment that would prohibit racial discrimination in restaurants and hotels. Unless it is accepted in tomorrow's referendum he said in a television address, Cambridge will "become a city of the very old or the very young." (20:3-4)
After a five-day Western tour, President Kennedy has been left with three impressions--that the test ban treaty was attractive to the people; that the impact of far-right groups in the West may be overrated; and that he's still popular. (15:2-7)
Financial officials of the non-Communist world will meet in Washington this week and on their minds will be the United States' chronic deficit in international payments. (35:1)
Dominican envoy expected to seek recognition. (pg. 9)
September 29, 1963
Speaking to a cheering crowd at Lyons, President de Gaulle asserted that France would not be bound by the United Nations, the North Atlantic Alliance or the United States in anything that concerned her interests. Instead, the President said, France will continue to develop her own power and personality. (1:3; P.40)
The United States and Pakistan signed a $70 million loan agreement for iron, steel and other American products. Earlier this month the United States had postponed a loan because of Pakistan's flirtations with Communist China. In signing the agreement, Pakistan made it plain that her policy toward Communist countries had not changed. (1:4)
Pope Paul VI inaugurates the second session of Ecumenical Council Vatican II in Rome today. In it the Roman Catholic Church will make an effort to bring its organization, institutions and procedures up to date. (1:7)
The Orthodox Church, meanwhile, decided to propose a dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church in a move that could lead to their reconciliation. An Orthodox conference left it to Patriarch Athenagoras to work out with the heads of 14 other Orthodox churches the details of the dialogue. (1: 6-7)
Juan D. Bosch, deposed president of the Dominican Republic, was forced into exile last night. He was placed aboard a frigate at Santo Domingo destined for Port of Spain, Trinidad. United States Ambassador John Barlow Martin flew to New York. (1:5)
The Pentagon is expected to announce shortly that the Navy's next attack aircraft carrier will be conventional rather than nuclear powered. This decision coincided with one to reduce the use of the carrier in general nuclear warfare and increase its use in limited warfare situations. (1:1)
In a garishly lighted Senate caucus room, a chain-smoking Joseph M. Valachi told of murder, extortion, assault and other crimes committed by the underworld in the more than 30 years he was a member of the syndicate, Cosa Nostra. Occasionally nervous, but mostly jaunty, he told of incidents in prison, of syndicate operations and how he had been given "the kiss of death." (1:8)
Entering the homestretch of his tour of the West, President Kennedy announced new Defense Department and Coast Guard installations in Oregon; pulled a switch activating generators at the Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah; spoke to a roaring crowd in Tacoma, Washington, and spent the night in a cabin in California. (1:8)
The President's trip to North Dakota appeared to stimulate enthusiasm among Democratic Party workers there. The most frequent comments in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin were "he showed the people that the Administration cares" and "he put the spotlight on the needs of this region." (7:2)
A move to slash the civilian space budget 25 per cent, back to $4,200,000,000 has deadlocked a House Appropriations sub-committee. The issue goes to the full committee, where cuts are more likely to be approved. (3:1)
Wheat sale talks with Soviet end in Ottawa. (pg. 3)
U. S. indicts 4 here over trips made to Cuba. (pg. 5)
A score of marshals stay close to Valachi. (pg. 6)
Kennedy visits dam; part of vast water program. (pg. 7)
September 30, 1963
Amid the majesty of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Paul VI reopened Ecumenical Council Vatican II yesterday by asserting that its long range aim was the complete and universal union of all Christians. In his historic discourse, three days after his 66th birthday, the Pope spoke, precisely and with few gestures, about reunion with the "separate brethren" and the patience necessary for "perfect reconciliation." (1:8; P. 14)
Non-Catholic observers at the Ecumenical Council said they were impressed by the warmth and broad sweep of the Pope's appeal for Christian unity. Spokesmen for the United States Protestant denominations termed the speech "helpful" and "encouraging. (1:6-7)
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Supreme Commander of NATO, has urged the Kennedy Administration and the NATO Council to approve the installation of medium-range ballistic missiles in Western Europe. He is said to feel they would diversify and strengthen the alliance's capabilities. (1:3)
Almost all Indian political organizations, from Communists to conservatives, are plagued by dissension. Most observers in New Delhi attribute the internal rifts to Prime Minister Nehru's wavering authority following the Chinese invasion and the state of emergency in effect since the attack. (6:3)
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor conferred in Saigon with President Ngo Dinh Diem for three hours, but a spokesman refused to give any details on the talk. (1:2-4)
The President said that Senator Barry Goldwater might win the Republican Presidential nomination for 1964, but he did not predict that John F. Kennedy would be his opponent. (1:7)
Peking rules out diplomatic break with Moscow. (pg. 1)
Hussein says Jordan may seek Soviet arms. (pg. 7)
Ben Bella meets Moroccan on Sahara dispute. (g. 10)
Argentines find foreign oil pacts illegal. (pg. 11)
Kennedy assails Latin military coups. (pg. 13)
Kennedy denies agreement on weapons in space. (pg. 16)
Wheat deal seen hurting Kennedy politically. (pg. 20)
Johnson Act bypassed in ruling on wheat sale. (pg. 21)
Louisiana police hurl tear gas into Negro church. (pg. 30)
NASA discounts criticism of component flaws. (pg. 17)
Alfred J. Fisher of car-body family dies. (pg. 41)
Dixon attacks quality-stabilization program. (pg. 59)