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Khrushchev Pictures Himself On TV
As Peace-Loving Old Grandfather
(Editor’s note: John Scali, who
wrote the following account of
Premier Khrushchev’s TV-radio
interview Sunday night, is a vet
eran AP diplomatic correspond
ent. He was a member of the
AP staff covering Khrushchev’s
U.S. tour last year.)
By JOHN SCALI
NEW YORK, W — Nikita S.
Khrushchev, the tough-tempered
Soviet premier, has drawn this
self-portait: He is a peace-loving
old grandfather who would never
threaten war or grab an inch of
anyone’s territory.
Furthermore, he said he is con
vinced that the storm over U2
plane flights will subside in time
for the next U.S. President to
meet at the summit with him in
friendly fashion.
This is the folksy image
Khrushchev sought to project
across American TV screens and
on radio last night during a two
hour question and answer ses
sion.
Except for a few brief blow
ups, Khrushchev soft-pedaled the
campaign threats and denuncia
tions he has waged since arriving
three weeks ago to lead the So
viet delegation at the United Na
tions.
Khrushchev pictured himself
as the elected leader of a nation
who wants nothing more than to
help his people realize their
dream of being friends with the
American people.
“We don’t ask to get anything
from you. We only want friend
ship and peace, that is all,” he
said.
Khrushchev played the lets-be
friends theme, however, without
backtracking from his latest de
mands. In softer language, he
still wanted the West to get out
of Berlin, overhaul the U.N. ac
cording to Moscow’s specifica
tions, disarm now and talk about
inspection later.
He said the Soviet Union would
have no alternative but to shoot
down further spy planes.
Khrushchev was interviewed
by television producer David
Susskind on the WNTA-TV pro
gram “Open End.”
The show touched off protests.
[ Hundreds of viewers phoned the
j studio to protest Khrushchev’s
appearance. Others called to com
plain about spot announcements
during the program which ex
tolled the work of Radio Free
Europe and the North Atlantic
Pact.
Khrushchev “just got rigid”
I with anger when an aide passed
i him a note during the show tell
ing him about the Radio Free
Europe announcements, Susskind
said later.
But in a few seconds the Soviet
leader calmed down.
“Well, do anything you like.
We will win. We will win,” he
told Susskind.
Trial of Cuban Insurgents
Will Start Tomorrow
HAVANA, MV-Fidel Castro de
clared today Cuban counter-revo
lutionaries are stronger than
were the forces of Fulgencio Bat
ista, but will be defeated.
He accused “the Yankee State
Department, and Central Intelli
gence Agency and the warmonger
ing Pentagon” of directing the
battle against his regime.
As the bearded prime minister
appeared before the closing ses
sion of a congress of municipal
education boards and on televi
sion, assembled teachers held up
copies of the newspaper Revolu
cion picturing groups of insur
gents captured over the weekend
in the Escambray mountains. The
teachers shouted “Paredon” to
the firing squad in a demonstra
tion which lasted 10 minutes.
Some of the teachers sat silent
but most joined in the demonstra
tion, which seemed to be setting
the stage for Tuesday’s trial of
insurgents captured in Las Villas
province.
A communique said 127 persons
captured during the operations
would be tried by a military tri
bunal beginning Tuesday.
X15 GETS NEW ENGINE
LOS ANGELES, OP) — The X15
rocket ship, fastest and highest
flying manned aircraft, will test
next week a new engine that goes
4,000 miles an hour. The flight
will be at Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif., with the date to be
set after ground tests. Scott Cross
field will be at the controls.
Goldfine Found In Need
Of Psychiatric Treatment
BOSTON, UP)—A federal judge
disclosed today that three psy
chiatrists agreed that industrialist
Bernard Goldfine is not able to
stand trial for income tax eva
sion and is in need of further
psychiatric treatment.
The 70-year-old textile manu
facturer was ordered kept in the
custody of a U.S. marshal and re
turned to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.
Goldfine was scheduled to go
on trial last Monday for indict
ments charging evasion og $791,
745 in personal and corporation
income taxes.
Huge Lumber Barge
Makes Kindling Wood
Of Los Angeles Yachts
LOS ANGELES, UP)—A 328-foot
lumber barge rammed with a
tornado-like roar into moored
yachts and cabin cruisers in pre
dawn darkness Saturday, smash
ing many to kindling.
The Los Angeles Harbor De
partment said at least six craft
were known to have sunk.
Capsized boats and tangled de
bris littered the harbor surface
for more than 500 yards.
A barge named Foss 200, a con
verted LST carrying two million
board feet of lumber from Cres
cent City, Calif., was being moved
by a tug, the Justine Foss, toward
the Consolidate Lumber Co. dock
at 3:45 a.m. when the crash oc
cured.
“Those boats were piled up like
kindling," a Coast Guardsman re
ported.
New York City’s
“Sunday Bomber”
Strikes Again
NEW YORK, WV-The “Sunday
bomber” struck again at another
of the city’s famed public places
Sunday—this time the New York
Public Library.
The blast, heard over a wide
area, shattered numerous win
dows, showered dirt and debris on
parked cars, uprooted shrubbery
and dug a foot-deep hole in the
earth.
No one was injured, although
an estimated 1,000 persons were
inside the library. Many rushed
into the street.
It was the second Sunday that
a midtown area has been rocked
by a bomb blast. Last week seven
persons were injured when an ex
plosion shook the Times Square
area, a few blocks away.
Police said the bombings were
similar and occurred at almost
the same time—shortly before 5.
Chief Inspector Michael Mur
; phy said police would operate on
j the assumption that a crank is on
| the loose, and would increase po
l lice details in midtown public
places.
State Welfare Dept,
j Spent $320,939 For
Medical Services in 1960
JUNEAU, UP)—The State Divi
sion of Public Welfare paid out
$320,939 for medical services and
hospitalization for patients certi
fied or approved by the division
during fiscal 1960, Paul L. Win
sor said today.
Winsor, State Commissioner of
Health and Welfare, said checks
totalling $68,685 were sent to 11
hospitals last week to pay for
medical expenses of welfare pa
tients other than straight hospit
alization.
Hospitals previously had been
paid $234,410 in flat per diem
rates for hospitalization of a
monthly average of some 80 pat
ients who received treatment in
Alaska hospitals through division
of public welfare programs.
Kennedy In Georgia
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., UP)—Sen.
John Kennedy came to this shrine
of former President Franklin D.
Roosevelt today and got a friend
ly, shouting greeting from his first
Deep South audience of the cam
paign. Speaking from the front
porch of the little white house
where Roosevelt spent so many
hours and where he died, Ken
nedy said he was proud to be
carrying the banner the New Deal
president raised.
The Massachusetts senator de
scribed it as a banner “that sum
mons all Americans, in every sec
tion, in every walk of life, in
every race and creed.”
He recalled the many federal
programs which Roosevelt started
and declared, “The protections of
our government in every field
must be extended without regard
to artificial distinctions.”
He added: “Full participation
in our national life must be open
to all.”
Many thousands were on hand
for his speech here. Some came in
motorcades from distant parts of
the state.
Pirates Become 4-1
Favorite to Win Series
NEW YORK, UR — The Pitts
burgh Pirates, who were 5-1 un
derdogs after the third game of
the World Series, today were
made the 4-1 favorites to beat
the New York Yankees following
their 5-2 victory in the fifth game.
The Pirates now lead three games
to two in the best-of-seven series.
The Yankees, however, were
made the 6-5 favorites to win the
sixth game at Pittsburgh Wednes
day if Bob Turley faces the Pi
rates Bob Friend in a battle of
right-handers. Turley beat Friend
in the second game of the series.
Hurricane Kit Heads
Toward Red Island
HONG KONG, UR — Typhoon
Kit roared slowly across the
South China Sea toward the Red
Chinese island of Hainan today,
leaving more than 100 persons
dead and another 100 missing in
the central Philippines.
Earlier reports had said the
storm, with 92-mile center winds,
was heading for this British col
ony. But the Royal Observatory
later relocated Kit 240 miles south
of Hong Kong and said it should
miss Hong Kong and slam into
Hainan, some 300 miles to the
west, Tuesday.
With Nixon In Montana
BILLINGS, Mont., GW — Vice
President Richard Nixon today
told a shivering but enthusiastic
western audience — whom he de
scribed as a “go-ahead people”—
that his program will provide
more progress for America than
anything the Democrats offer.
Nixon chose the incredible hour
of 7:40 a.m. to begin the four
weeks in which he. thinks this
election will be won or lost.
Police Chief R. L. Wilson esti
mated that 5,000 were standing in
38-degree weather in the street to
hear Nixon.
Nixon pointed out that he’s a
westerner, too, from California.
“We’re a go - ahead people,”
Nixon said. “We never want to
stand still.”
Nixon is expected to step up
his attacks on Sen. John Kennedy
in the last month of this cam
paign.
He got in a few practice licks
on this chilly morning —it felt
more like attending a football
game than a political rally.
He said Kennedy’s program sup
ports the idea that “the federal
bureaucrats solve all our prob
lems.”
And Nixon used a line that al
ways got a laugh from his Re
publican audiences: “Remember
it’s not Jack’s money hes going
to spend, but yours.”
Early risers were startled to
see the Vice President moseying
bareheaded in the cold and the
rain, peering into shop windows.
This was all the more surprising
because Nixon has a slight cold.
As he was leaving his room,
Nixon noticed he was shy of cash
and borrowed two silver dollars
and a fifty-cent piece from Den
nis Holm, a local detective as
signed to watch him.
Holm said that the debt was
promptly repaid.
President of Guinea
Back K’s Proposals In U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., WV
President Sekou Toure of Guinea
today supported Soviet attacks on
the U.N. peace-making machinery
and demanded revision of the
world organzation’s structure to
permit equitable representation
for Asia and Africa.
Premier Khrushchev and a
full strength Soviet delegation
was on hand and enthusiastically
applauded the appearance of the
white-robed African leader on the
U.N. General Assembly rostrum.
Khrushchev has just reminded
the world of his view that the,
United Nations “will die” unless
it agrees to his demands for re
organizing the secretariat. He
wants a presidium of three mem
bers —Communist, Western and
neutral —each with veto powers
over the U.N. peace-making de
cisions.
T *e went down the line in
suppo of most of the Soviet pro
jects outlined during this 15th
session of the Soviet Premier.
Cuban Fighter Plane
Buzzes American Sub
28 Miles Off Key West
WASHINGTON, UPI — The
United States protested today that
a Cuban air force fighter plane
buzzed a U.S. submarine for 37
minutes Friday only 28 miles off
Key West, Fla.
A note delivered to the Cuban
embassy demanded Fidel Castro’s
government take immediate steps
to prevent the repetition of any
such incidents.
State Department press officer
William Blair said the U.S. sub
marine Balayo together with an
unarmed S2F plane were jointly
engaged in peaceful maneuvers
when a Cuban Sea Fury fighter, a
British-made propellor-type air
craft “suddenly dove on them
and made repeated low-level
passes.
The buzzing incident occurred
at midday in an area regularly
used for U.S. Navy training ex
ercises.
Lodge In California
SAN FRANCISCO, (ff>—“I would
like to see a Negro in the cab
inet; I am for it," Henry Cabo#
Lodge, Republican vice-presiden
tial nominee, said Sunday.
He was answering a panelist’s
question on the nationally tele
ised “Face the Nation” program.
Lodge expressed belief that
Vice President Richard Nixon, the
GOP presidential nominee, show
ed “a much greater sureness of
touch” in discussing foreign pol
icy in Friday’s TV debate with
Sen. John Kennedy, the Demo
cratic presidential candidate.
“Senator Kennedy has shown a
tendency to take what Khrush
chev has to say at face value,”
Lodge asserted. “Mr. Nixon has
more talent, more maturity on
foreign policy questions.”
Lodge, former ambassador to
the U. N., said the United States
had won repeated victories in the
international organization.
The Republican nominee said
he saw no difference between
public school students and those
of private or parochial schools in
sofar as federal aid is concerned.