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PRETTY BIG TO PUSH AROUND
State Dept. Asserts
Cuba Amasses
Huge Arsenal
WASHINGTON, Iff) — U.S. of
ficials pictured Cuba as building
up a huge arsenal of Soviet bloc
military weapons to arm revolu
tionary movements throughout
the Caribbean area.
The State Department announ
ced Friday night that according
to the best available information
the government of Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro already
has imported 28,000 tons of arms
from the Soviet bloc, including
tanks, guns and eight MIG jet
fighters. The department said
shipments also included about
6,000 tons» of assorted ammunition
in addition to almost 46 million
rounds of rifle, machinegun and
artillery ammunition previously
obtained by Castro from non
Communist sources.
According to the department s
figures, Castro has received a to
tal of 93,000 automatic rifles, in
cluding 45,000 from Communist
Czechslovakia; 10,000 submachine
guns; a variety of heavier wea
pons and 10 Soviet helicopters.
The State Department said Cas
tro now has the largest army in
Latin America. His militia was
put at 200,000 persons and of
ficials estimated that his regular
army totals 40,000.
The Soviet Union and Red
China are cooperating in the sup
ply of arms to Castro, the State
Department said, because they
“apparently desire to contribute
to Caribbean tensions by burden
ing the Cuban economy with ex
cessive arms purchases and by
supporting the aggressive policies
of the Cuban prime minister.”
Washington officials expressed
the hope that disclosure of the
Cuban arms information, evident
ly obtained from intelligence
sources, would alert other nations
throughout the hemisphere to the
dangers of serious Communist
directed trouble making by Cas
tro which are foreseen here.
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Many Communities
Vote Down Fluoridation
NEW YORK, UP) — Fluoridated
water went down the drain last
week for most communities vot
ing on this controversial dental
health issue.
Sponsors of such legislation say
that fluoride added to the water
supply helps safely to prevent
tooth decay, while opponents say
the procedure is unsafe, or doubt
ful in results, represents mass
medication, or raise other objec
tions.
An Associated Press survey
found 14 communities on Nov. 8
rejected proposals to fluoridate
water. The survey did not find
any towns voting in favor.
The largest city defeating fluor
idation at the polls was Cincin
nati, where the measure failed
for the second time in 7 years.
As of Aug. 2 this year, Public
Health officials reported nearly
44Vfc million persons were drink
ing fluoridated water in 3,835
communities, compared with
about lVt million in 10 commun
ities 10 years earlier.
Fluorides had been added to the
water in 1,932 communities serv
ing 37 Vt million persons, while
the rest had naturally fluoridated
water.
TAIPEH, Formosa, <Jfi — Police
are investigating the medical
practice of Wang Ti-Ching, 70,
who claims miraculous results for
patients drinking water mixed
with the ashes of burnt cloth. One
patient died after consuming the
ashes of 60 square yards of cloth.
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This doesn’t mean however, that
the current anxiety over Uncle
Sam’s persistent loss of gold is
misplaced. The simple fact is that
foreigners could cause a major
crisis merely by exchanging a
relatively small portion of their
dollars for gold in the span of
a few days.
If foreigners bought $1 billion
of U.S. gold in a single week, this
would be taken as a vote of “no
confidence” in the dollar. Per
haps even a lesser amount would
turn the tide.
It is this possibility which last
week prompted President Eisen
hower to impose unprecedented
restrictions on spending abroad
under the military and foreign
aid programs. His aim was to
lessen the number of dollars mov
ing into foreign hands; dollars
that could be used to buy Ameri
can gold.
Since July 1, foreigners hgve
been buying American gold at the
rate of $3.8 billion a year. Since
Aug. 1, they have been ordering
at an annual pace of $4.1 billion.
Since Sept. 1, the rate has risen
to $4.7 billion. Since Oct. 1, the
flow of bullion has hit a spec
tacular annual rate of $5.9 billion.
Compare this buying with the
remaining U.S. gold supply: $18
billion of which $11.5 billion
must, by law, remain in govern
ment hands as backing for part
of the money supply.
It wouldn’t take long to use up
the cushion available for meeting
foreign orders. And once Uncle
Sam had to turn away customers,
the dollar would no longer be as
good as gold.
At this point, large gold pur
chases over a short span of time
would add to the existing uncer
tainty — would threaten to un
leash forces that could shatter
the free world’s financial system.
And why would friends ever do
such a thing, especially since they
would suffer too, in the end.
Why did millions of solid Am
erican citizens run trembling to
their banks after 1929?
Putting it plainly, they lost con
fidence in the banking system.
It was to butress confidence that
Eisenhower acted last week. He
wanted to show the world that
the United States is aware of its
problem and is not afraid to do
something about it; that it will
defend the free world’s stake in
the stability of the dollar.
OTTAWA, (41 — Abe Morris’
auto, stolen a year ago from a
parking lot, was returned to the
same spot with 18,000 additional
miles showing on the speedo
meter.
Everyone has to live his own
life and find by experience what’s
best for him. On his 70th birthday
Mark Twain warned, “Don’t try
to reach old age by another man’s
way.” Two things he felt had
helped him attain the biblical
span: He “never smoked more
| than one cigar at a time” and for
130 years he limited himself to
two meals a day—breakfast and
dinner.
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Angry Cameroon Delegate
In U.N. Ae 'uses Ghana
Of Working For Russia
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., <£)—
An angi’y representative of Cam
eroon, one of the new African
countries, today accused Ghana of
working with the Soviet Union to
set up a Communist regime in
the Congo.
The delegate, Charles Okala,
told the 99-nation General As
sembly that the Communists were
using Ghana as a brideghead in
Africa. He warned that the Con
go problem was “a purely African
affair.”
Ghana’s Alex Quaison - Sackey
retorted that his country did not
take dictation from anyone —
either the Western powers or the
Soviet Union.
He accused Okala of “bad taste
and unparliamentary” behavior.
Okala had taken the floor to
reply to charges by Soviet Dep
uty Foreign Minister Valerian A.
Zorin that Cameroon was the
lackey of some unidentified
power.
The Cameroon delegate told
Quaison-Sackey that when he had
addressed some remarks to Ghana
he had expected an answer from
an African, and not from the So
viet Union.
“Your master spilled the beans”
Okala said.
The aim of the Ghana-Soviet
efforts, he said, is to set up “Zor
in- Quaison-Sackey Incorporated,
with headquarters in Leopold
ville, and I leave it to you to
determine who will be the boss.”
The exchange took place dur
ing a debate on recommendation
of the Credentials Committee that
the Assembly seat a delegation
headed by President Joseph Kasa
vubu. The opposition was making
a last ditch effort to block such
action.
An athiest is a man who has no
invisible means of support.
Robert Kennedy May Be
Nest Attorney General
NEW YORK, MB — The New
York Times said Saturday that
President-elect John F. Kennedy
“is giving serious consideration
to the appointment of his younger
brother Robert as Attorney Gen
eral.
A Palm Beach, Fla., dispatch by
W. H. Lawrence added: “No final
decision has been made and none
probably will be until the bro
thers have had an opportunity to
talk out the matter fully.”
Robert Kennedy, 34, already
has a national reputation as coun
sel for Senate investigating com
mittees. Among them was the
Senate Labor Management Com
mittee which investigated Team
sters’ head James R. Hoffa.
If selected as Attorney General
Robert, who managed his bro
ther’s successful campaign, would
be the first brother of a President
to serve in that President’s cabi
net.
Hardly Worth the Trouble
TOKYO, LT)—A man who made
a racket out of teasing dogs into
biting him and then collecting
damages from their owners was
sentenced Friday to a year in jail.
The Tokyo district court found
Yoshio Itsuki, 35, guilty of col
lecting a total of $73.33 from nine
dog owners this year. The 10th he
tried his racket on called the
police.
Can you explain it? Men driv
ers outnumber women drivers
to 1, but they are involved
in eight times as many fatal traf
fic accidents.
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