A reliable diplomatic source said tonight that all parties were “near agreement in principle” on a peace‐keeping force for Cyprus after a hectic day of negotiations in which 10 delegates talked with the Secretary General, U Thant. All 11 members of the Security Council and also the parties involved in the dispute, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, would have to approve the agreement. The major point of disagreement was said to be Soviet insistence that any group named by the Security Council to supervise the peace arrangement include all 11 members of the Council. Mr. Thant had proposed that three members be chosen for this purpose. The Cypriote delegation conferred with Mr. Thant and his aides for almost five hours.
The points the Secretary General presented in a memorandum to the Council early week were these:
There must be a resolution approved by the Council that would allay fears of the Cypriote Government about partition of the island and at the same time avoid repudiating the treaty that guaranteed the right of intervention to protect the rights of groups in the island.
An advisory group of three members of the Security Council should be appointed to supervise the peace‐keeping work.
An emergency peace‐keeping force should be set up by the Council.
A mediator should be named to try to bring the parties together for a permanent settlement.
One point reliably reported to be causing delay is the composition of the peace‐keeping force. The Soviet bloc has objected to the idea of a force from North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries only. The problem is which others should be included. Brazil, Morocco and Norway have been widely reported to be the countries considered at present for the advisory group on Cyprus. This could not be confirmed tonight, but it was known that the Soviet Union was demanding representation for all members of the Security Council.
President Johnson once again pledged the United States today to the pursuit of peace and the support of friends and allies. He spoke at the 96th Charter Day anniversary celebration of the University of California at Los Angeles after having met President Adolfo López Mateos of Mexico, who with his wife is visiting the United States. Both Presidents received honorary doctorates of law from the university and the Mexican leader also spoke.
Mr. Johnson also suggested the possibility of increased intervention in South Vietnam, where the United States and the Communist world come most directly into conflict. “The contest in which South Vietnam is now engaged,” he said, “is first and foremost a contest to be won by the Government and the people of that country for themselves. But those engaged in external direction and supply would do well to be reminded that this type of aggression is a deeply dangerous game.”
South Vietnamese Communist guerrillas, in a sharp upsurge of attacks reported today, raided a strategic hamlet police headquarters after capturing the officer in charge. In another engagement guerrillas shelled South Vietnamese troops with their own mortars. A United States military spokesman reported the flareup of Viet Cong assaults. The United States Pacific Forces Commander, Admiral Harry D. Felt, said today that most of the 1,800 dependents of United States servicemen and civilians in Saigon had decided to stay in defiance of terrorist attacks.
The military spokesman said the raid on the strategic hamlet took place in Kiến Hòa province. A Viet Cong band ambushed and captured a police officer from the hamlet, marched their prisoner back to the hamlet and ransacked his office after defenders let them in by mistake. Viet Cong forces in Hậu Nghĩa shelled South Vietnamese mortar positions with four rounds from their own 60‐mm. mortars yesterday. Viet Cong guerrillas also launched an attack in Chương Thiện Province, about 100 miles south of Saigon today.
An attempt to assassinate Turkey’s Prime Minister İsmet İnönü failed after the gunman missed three times despite being only 12 feet away from the premier. İnönü was sitting in his limousine in front of his office in Ankara when Mesut Suna fired at him with a revolver. Earlier in the day, Suna had visited the premier’s office and asked for an appointment to discuss a private matter, and was told that İnönü was booked all day long. An hour later, when İnönü climbed into his car in order to go to the Meclis, Turkey’s Parliament, Suma rushed out of the building entrance and began shooting before being overpowered by security guards.
President Mohammad Ayub Khan offered Pakistan’s “good offices” today to bring about “some sort of agreement” between the United States and Communist China. The Pakistani leader said at a news conference that such an agreement “will serve the interests of Asian peace — it will serve the interests of world peace — it will have a bearing on our own security.” Field Marshal Ayub added that the Chinese Communists were “reasonable” and “peaceful.” He held the news conference after a meeting of three and a half hours with the Chinese Communist Premier, Chou En-lai.
France has vetoed the accreditation of Nationalist China to the European Common Market. As on the occasion of the French veto of British membership 13 months ago, France thus found herself isolated from the five other Common Market nations. West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg had approved the accreditation. The French veto came during a stormy session last night of the Brussels‐based permanent representatives of the member states. The French Embassy confirmed tonight that France would not approve the accreditation of Tchen Hiong‐fei as Taiwan’s Ambassador to the European Economic Community. Dr. Tchen is Taiwan’s Ambassador to Belgium. A French spokesman made clear that no other diplomat from Taiwan would win French approval either. Accreditation requires the unanimous approval of the six member states.
The Chinese Communists have hinted that they may tolerate continued rule of Taiwan by the Chinese Nationalists if United States influence is removed from the island. The suggestion, advanced in Hong Kong, differs from public insistence in Peking that Taiwan must be “liberated” from the control of President Chiang Kai‐shek. Wen Wei Pao, a Hong Kong organ of the Chinese Communist party, held out a possibility of an understanding with Taiwan in an editorial that has elicited considerable attention from Western analysts here. The analysts doubted that the Communist paper’s proposal would evoke any favorable reply from responsible officials in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
An attempt to curb strident nationalism in Panama is expected to get under way next week. The immediate objective is to create a favorable atmosphere for a reconciliation between Panama and the United States. The country’s leading newspaper publishers have agreed to meet at the Presidential Palace Monday with President Roberto F. Chiari to discuss ways of softening the “hate America” campaign being carried on in the Panama press. President Chiari, who counts publishing among his many enterprises, has welcomed the idea although La Prensa, which he owns with his brother Ricardo, has been one of the most virulent critics of the United States.
East German demolition squads blew up three tenement houses on the border with West Berlin today to hinder further the flight of refugees to the West. The five-story buildings were bricked up in 1961 after the Communists had built the Berlin wall.
France is developing facilities to manufacture tritium, a necessary ingredient for hydrogen bombs, informed sources reported today. Informants said the French Atomic Energy Commission would use laboratories in several localities. All of them will contribute to the complicated manufacture of tritium. France is preparing a test site in the South Pacific for hydrogen bombs. The first tests are expected to take place in 1965.
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Rules Committee indicates that Robert G. “Bobby” Baker has pledged more than a thousand shares of stock he does not actually own as collateral for a personal loan from a Washington bank. The pledged stock, according to a financial statement prepared by Mr. Baker a year ago, is 1,500 shares of District of Columbia National Bank. The same statement indicates that it had been pledged as collateral for a $13,000 loan from the American Security and Trust Company of Washington. A colleague of Mr. Baker’s, Fred B. Black Jr., told the Rules Committee Monday, however, that Mr. Baker’s holdings in the bank stock never exceeded 450 shares.
Republicans forced postponement of the farm bill in the Senate today. The maneuver further complicates consideration of the Administration’s civil rights proposals next week. Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Democratic leader, accepted Republican objections to taking up the farm bill “with distress” but with good grace and said that he would try again on Monday. The objection was entered by Senator John J. Williams, Republican of Delaware. He pleaded for time to study the bill and the Agriculture Committee’s report on the new wheat and cotton plans. He was adamant in the face of appeals by Mr. Mansfield and Democrats and Republicans from major wheat states that the farm bill must be approved by March 1 to attack the sliding farm income problem and to help reduce surplus production this year. Senator John G. Tower, Republican of Texas, also opposed consideration of the bill. He and Mr. Williams told the Senate that they could not assure Mr. Mansfield that they would not object on Monday.
The Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee was urged today to bring the transportation industry under the antitrust laws controlling discrimination in pricing. Captain A. C. Ingersoll Jr. of St. Louis, chairman of the executive committee of the Common Carrier Conference for Domestic Water Carriers, said the industry had long been concerned with the prevalence of discriminatory pricing. The Common Conference is a trade organization of the leading regulated water carriers in the domestic, intercoastal and noncontiguous trades, the Great Lakes and inland waterways.
A report to the White House states that “It is of great economic importance to the nation” to develop a supersonic airliner. “Failure to do so might well leave our important airline and aircraft industries in potentially dangerous competitive situations,” the report says. This strong endorsement for the development of a passenger jet in the 2,000-mile-an-hour range comes from Eugene R. Black, former president of the World Bank, and Stanley de J. Osborne, a partner in Lazard Frères & Co., investment bankers. They were asked last year by President Kennedy to survey all aspects of the present supersonic program — not just the economic aspects, as has been widely reported.
The Senate minority leader, Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, appointed seven Republican Senators today as captains to assist him in the consideration of the civil rights bill when it is called up for action. The captains are Kenneth B. Keating and Jacob K. Javits, both of New York, Norris Cotton of New Hampshire, Clifford P. Case of New Jersey, Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska, John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania.
Sargent Shriver, describing himself as an “inexperienced politician,” fielded to President Johnson today all inquiries on the Vice‐Presidential spot on the Democratic ticket next fall. In an appearance before a capacity audience at the National Press Club, Mr. Shriver refused to discuss his interest in the Vice‐Presidential nomination. Mr. Shriver, who is director of the Peace Corps and in charge of the Johnson Administration’s anti‐poverty campaign, declined to say whether he wished the nomination, would accept it or would agree that it should go to his brother-in‐law, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Mr. Shriver has been mentioned as a possible running mate with Mr. Johnson next November, as have Mr. Kennedy and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota.
The majority of a three‐judge panel in United States District Court in New Haven, Connecticut upheld today the State Department’s ban on travel to Cuba effective since January, 1961. Judge T. Emmet Clarie wrote the majority opinion that denied the argument by Louis Zemel of Middlefield that he was unlawfully prohibited from getting his passport validated for a proposed trip to Cuba in March, 1963. Zemel, operator of the Powder Hill Ski Area in Middlefield, had named Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a defendant in his suit for a declaratory judgment. Mr. Zemel contended that his constitutional rights were abridged when the State Department denied his application for a passport.
President Johnson and President Adolfo López Mateos met for 40 minutes in Palm Desert, California tonight with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the meeting in General Eisenhower’s cottage at the Eldorado Country Club was over, the General characterized it as “just an evening with old friends.” General and Mrs. Eisenhower are spending the winter in Palm Desert. Presidents Johnson and López Mateos are holding a two‐day series of meetings in Palm Springs, about 20 miles away. The two Presidents flew here from Palm Springs by helicopter. They arrived shortly after dark and a pathway from the landing area to the Eisenhower cottage was lighted with flaming torches.
While the Presidents of the United States and Mexico conferred in Palm Springs today, their wives promoted amity between the two countries during a Los Angeles tour. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Eva Samano de López Mateos worked as a team at a luncheon, a visit to a public school in a Mexican section of Los Angeles and an exhibition of Mexican art. Mrs. Johnson also met with some women active in political circles in California. The wives of the Presidents took their trip shortly after ceremonies at the University of California at Los Angeles this morning during which President Johnson and President Adolfo López Mateos received honorary doctor of law degrees and delivered speeches.
The Freedoms Foundation announced tonight that 923 individuals, schools and organizations would share its 15th annual awards for contributions to the American way of life in 1963. The Foundation’s highest honor, the George Washington Medal and $5,000, went to Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., the astronaut, for “personifying the American way of life by sincere patriotic words and deeds in our country’s hours of challenge.” Colonel Glenn, who is seeking the Democratic Senatorial nomination in Ohio, and the principal winners in each award category will receive their honors tomorrow afternoon at a ceremony commemorating the 232d anniversary of the birth of George Washington. The ceremony is to take place at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
President Johnson is seeking to correct a growing public impression that he has abandoned the permanent White House library started under President Kennedy. The President let it be known this week through his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, that he and Mrs. Johnson were determined to carry the project to completion. It has still a long way to go About 1,500 of the 1,780 titles originally chosen for inclusion in the collection have been acquired and about 20 titles have been added. The death of President Kennedy and the departure from the White House of Mrs. Kennedy, who actively directed the project, produced unexpected and opposite results. For a few weeks the office of the White House curator was swamped with donations of books and money. Then donations dwindled to a trickle.
While 4,000 youngsters screamed with delight, the Beatles departed from Kennedy International Airport last night for their native Britain. The police had to call for reinforcements to contain the youngsters, who crowded on an observation deck overlooking the airport. The Beatles arrived just after 7 P.M. from Miami and left at 8:30. They were scheduled to hold a press conference before leaving for London, but it was called off cause of the crowd. While the British quartet was changing planes, admirers surged against the police barricades and 100 airline mechanics and baggage handlers were called upon to reinforce the already augmented police.
The UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to the US.
Cassius Clay today finished the sparring phase of his preparations for Tuesday’s fight for Sonny Liston’s heavyweight title. Then, in the presence of his mother, his father, his manager, his trainer and reporters from three continents, he expressed more fervently than ever his belief in his invincibility. “It is impossible for me to lose,” he declared in low, slow spoken words that conveyed a sort of evangelical passion. “It is written for me to be successful. It was a prophecy for me to be successful.” It is no secret that most of Clay’s bragging has been calculated publicity, great fun and youthful enthusiasm. This time, however, he seemed more serious, even though the words were familiar.
“This is going to be the biggest upset in the history of boxing,” he said. “I’m actually tired of talking about it—I’m ready to shake up the world. Liston’s not a champion, I am. He’s got my job. He’s too ugly to be champion.”
The former heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, watched young Cassius Clay in his final boxing drill today and said: “He’s got to be kidding! He can’t be that bad!” Louis, who is attached to the camp of the heavyweight champion, Sonny Liston, predicted that Liston “will kill him” in their title fight Tuesday night “if that boy keeps pulling back from punches and making a lot of other mistakes.”
Born:
Mark Kelly, American astronaut (NASA Group 16, 1996; STS-108, STS-121, STS-124, STS-134), Navy captain and politician (Senator-R-Arizona 2020-), husband of Gabby Giffords, in Orange, New Jersey.
Scott Kelly, American astronaut (NASA Group 16, 1996; STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M [Expedition 25/26], Soyuz TMA-16M/Soyuz TMA-18M [Expedition 43/44/45/46], ISS year-long mission) and Navy captain, in Orange, New Jersey.
Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner, born in Wakefield, United Kingdom (d. 2007).
Mike Witteck, NFL linebacker (New York Jets), in Queens, New York (d. 1990).
Died:
Luis Martín-Santos, 39, Spanish psychiatrist and writer, was killed in a car accident.
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