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U. S. differs Costly, Humiliating Defeat
In Cancellation of Ike’s Visit to Japan
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, OB — The
United States suffered a humiliat
ing and costly defeat Thursday in
the collapse of President Eisen
hower’s scheduled visit to Tokyo.
The Soviet-Chinese Communist
bloc won a victory of menacing
proportions.
It was the second time in ex
actly a month that a great inter
national event has gone against
the wishes of Eisenhower and
along lines charted toy the inter
national Communist leadership.
At Paris May 16, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev killed the Big Four
summit conference in its first
meeting, leaving Eisenhower and
his British and French allies to
survey the wreckage of their
hopes for some improvement in
East-West relations.
Thursday’s debacle in Tokyo is
potentially more damaging to the
United States and its allies, and in
the long run poses a greater
threat to the balance of U. S.-So
viet relations and therefore to
world peace, than did the break
down in Paris.
The immediate problem before
Eisenhower and Japanese Prime
Minister Kishi, in fact, is how to
handle the situation to minimize
the injury to U. S.-Japanese
structure throughout the Far
East.
The great difference between
the May 16 breakdown at Paris
and the Jvine 16 disaster in Tokyo
is this:
The explosion of the summit
conference coupled with Khrush
chev’s violent personal attacks on
Eisenhower forced the Western
Allies closer together and streng
thened their resolve to resist So
viet threat and bluster. Cancella
tion of Eisenhower’s trip to Tokyo
threatens to undermine a vital an
chor point of the system of anti
communist alliances in the Far
East. ,
Kishi’s government, being com
pelled to confess its inability to
maintain order, appears now to
have no choice except to resign,
which is what the riotous leftwing
students have been demanding.
U, S. officials are convinced
that the Soviet Union and Red
China were behind a ruthless and
well-financed campaign to exploit
anti-war sentiment in Japan, to
turn the student and left-wing
labor demonstrations into violent
rioting where possible and to
overthrow the pro- American
Kishi government by any pos
sible means.
No Bids Received for
Anchorage Airport Paving
JUNEAU, OB — The State Pub
lic Works Department prepared to
open bids Thursday for paving of
a proposed addition to the aircraft
parking area at the Anchorage In
ternational Airport.
There was only one hitch.
No bids were submitted. Public
Works Commissioner Richard
Downing said he couldn’t explain
the lack of bids for the project,
expected to cost in the neighbor
hood of $200,000.
Downing said he planned an in
vestigation to find out what the
trouble was. The bid invitations
had been advertised for three
weeks, he said.
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Pentagon Quiets
Public Fears of
Atomic Accidents
WASHINGTON, UPl — The Pen
tagon has launched a campaign to
calm public worries over atomic
accidents.
As a step in the campaign, offi
cials of the Defense Atomic Sup
port Agency gave newsmen Wed
nesday a detailed account of
safety measures and the reasons
why they say nuclear detonation
cannot — or at least should not —
occur accidentally.
The briefing obviously was re
lated to several developments:
the burning of an atomic-tipped
Bomarc missile in New Jersey last
week, the expanding program for
installing atomic antiaircraft mis
siles near many cities, the possi
bility that a continuous airborne
alert may keep thermonuclear
loaded bombers of the Strategic
Air Command aloft over cities
and countryside.
The DASA officials used sev
eral past accidents including the
New Jersey fire as examples in
insisting that atomic detonations
do not result from plane crashes,
fires in missile launching bases or
the inadvertent dropping of
bombs.
From experience with atomic
weapons handling in the past 14
years, a DASA official said, “We
beileve that the statistical prob
ability of a nuclear accident is
essentially negligible.”
The major hazard in accidents
involving nuclear weapons is that
the conventional explosives used
to trigger the fission reaction may
blow up, DASA said.
The amount of conventional ex
plosives in nuclear weapons varies
with the weapon, ranging from a
relatively small amount to many
hundreds of pounds.
The impact of a crash or fire
may set off the conventional ex
plosives. But because of the trig
ger design of the bomb, this can
not create the inward explosion
necessary to cause atomic detona
tion, the DASA experts said.
106 YEARS OF HEALTH
TABANTUM, Pa., UPl — Mrs.
Marion Erbe of Tarentum is in
the hospital for the first time in
nearly 106 years. Mrs. Erbe, who
will be 106 on July 7, entered Al
legheny Valley Hospital last week
suffering from a circulatory ail
ment.
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