Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet Union’s Prime Minister, was on vacation at the Black Sea resort of Pitsunda in the Georgian SSR, and would recall later that he realized he had a problem when he didn’t receive a telephone call to inform him about the details of the Voskhod launch. He called the deputy premier, Leonid Smirnov to demand why he hadn’t been kept fully informed Khrushchev was able to make his customary phone call to cosmonauts on a new mission and was heard on national television to joke, “I warn you, you managed quite well with the gravity overloads during takeoff, but be ready for the overloads which we will arrange for you after you come back to Earth. Then we’ll meet you in Moscow with all the honors you deserve.” It would be the last time that Soviet citizens heard him on television.
In the evening, Leonid Brezhnev, the Second Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, called Khrushchev and told him that he was needed at a meeting of the Party’s Central Committee “to discuss agriculture and ‘some other matters’”.
United States military sources said today that a Communist Việt Cộng battalion left 55 men dead on the field yesterday and retreated with 12 oxcarts filled with dead and wounded after a battle near Gò Dầu Hạ 40 miles northwest of Saigon. Vietnamese Government forces, which captured 11 prisoners, listed losses of 28 killed, 38 wounded and 32 missing in the action.
The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit with three cosmonauts at 1:30 p.m. local time (0730 UTC), marking the first time a spacecraft was launched with more than one crew member. After determining that the capsule was adequately pressurized, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov requested permission to continue the mission without their space suits, and became the first persons humans to go into space without special gear. The flight was cut short and landed the next day after 16 orbits. Feoktistov was the first engineer to travel into space Voskhod 1 was the first manned spacecraft to use an ion thruster rather than a conventional rocket engine.
The Soviet Foreign Ministry summoned a United States Embassy official today to repeat espionage charges against four United States and British attachés. An embassy spokesman said the American official denied that the four diplomats had engaged in espionage while traveling on the Trans‐Siberian Railroad. In turn, he accused the Russians of having violated the men’s diplomatic immunity. The spokesman said the talk between the acting deputy chief of mission, Malcolm Toon and Mikhail Smirnovsky, head of the ministry’s American section, had ended “inconclusively.”
The Soviet Union unveiled today a monument commemorating all Soviet space shots since the first unmanned Sputnik was launched October 4, 1957. It shows a rocket 315 feet above the ground, mounted on a sweeping arc representing its thrust. Eventually the monument will house a space museum, expected to open to April. The monument is made of steel and coated with titanium, a material used in Soviet spacecraft. Two reliefs in brass cover the sides of the base, showing scientists, workers, space equipment and Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin, the first astronaut.
Leftist kidnappers in Caracas, Venezuela, released Lieutenant Colonel Michael Smolen tonight after having held him captive since Friday. The Air Force officer, who is deputy chief of the United States military mission here, was put out of a car blindfolded in the eastern part of Caracas. A passing patrol car found him on a corner soon after he removed the blindfold. He was taken to a police headquarters in the borough of La Cotiza for questioning. Wearing his Air Force uniform without a coat or necktie, he arrived at the crowded United States Embassy shortly after midnight. He said that he felt fine, but he appeared tired. Reliable sources reported earlier tonight that Venezuelan policemen had arrested 11 suspected terrorists, including two who they said had participated in the kidnapping of Colonel Smolen. One of those arrested was described as a professional dancer who was a girl friend of one of the alleged kidnappers. One suspect was identified as a high‐ranking member of the outlawed Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro‐Castro organization.
South African mercenaries fighting near Boende in the central Congo have mutinied against their German captain. The mercenaries’ field commander, Major Michael Hoare of South Africa, has gone to the scene from Kamina, the main mercenary staging center in the Katanga region. Two other mercenary commando units have been diverted from an offensive outside Lisala, on the Congo River, to reinforce the Boende unit. The mutiny was described here by several mercenaries, who denied they were “deserters.” They said they had refused to fight under Captain Siegfried Mueller, a World War II German combat officer and holder of the German war service medal, the Iron Cross. They called him “incompetent.” “We announced we were breaking our contract,” a corporal said, as spokesman for the group. “All we want to do is go back to South Africa.” The corporal gave the following account: Twenty‐four men walked out last week. They left Captain Mueller behind with only a few noncommissioned officers and a Belgian lieutenant. The 24 drove 90 miles from Boende in a truck before being stopped by a Congolese gendarme. They were not allowed to continue the 200 miles to Coquilhatville, which is the nearest airport to Boende.
The second conference of nonallgned nations is viewed by diplomats in Cairo as a demonstration that nonalignment is drifting leftward and is sadly lacking in leadership or in a sense of a role to play between East and West. The general consensus among Western diplomats, as they looked back at the proceedings was that any maturity about world problems reflected at the first such conference in Belgrade three years ago had been dissipated by the Cairo conference that just ended. The preoccupation at Belgrade with world peace, disarmament, and the ending of nuclear tests was replaced by a revival of African and Asian concern over Western colonialism. “What happened to nonalignment?” one Western diplomat asked. “This was much more of another Bandung Conference lining up against colonialists than a continuation of Belgrade.”
Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol said today that the Arab leadership had shifted in its anti‐Israel campaign from wild nationalist slogans to thorough preparations for a trial of strength. As a result, he said, the threat to Israel has increased. Mr. Eshkol spoke at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset (Parliament) ina Jerusalem. He discussed the recent conference of Arab leaders in Cairo, at which the Arabs decided against an immediate showdown with Israel. The Premier said realistic Arab leaders recognized, that Israel could hold her own because of qualitative superiority. They therefore are playing for time to develop their own “calculated process designed to transform quantity into quality,” he said.
A wildcat strike on London’s subways injected a new element into the British election campaign today, only three days before polling. Defying their union leaders, most of the subway system’s 3,500 motormen and guards refused to work according to new time schedules. There was chaos at subway stations during the rush hours, and tens of thousands of Londoners were late for work and late returning home. The strike was a sharp blow to the Labor party, poised on the eve of voting with the best chance in 13 years of winning national power.
Canada’s national capital gave Queen Elizabeth II the largest and warmest welcome of her Canadian visit today. The turnout contrasted with a cool reception in Quebec, the center of a separatist movement among French Canadians. To mark the Queen’s eightday visit, which ends tomorrow, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced that Canada would build a 150‐inch reflecting telescope. It will be installed in British Columbia or Alberta at a $10 million complex to be called the Queen Elizabeth II Observatory. The telescope will be second in size only to the 200‐inch instrument at the Mount Palomar Observatory northeast of San Diego. A cheering, flag‐waving crowd of about 25,000 ringed Confederation Square as the Queen arrived for a memorial service. Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, laid a wreath at the foot of the National War Memorial as the band played “Abide With Me.”
[Ed: The effort to build a world-class telescope in Canada on Mount Kobau in British Columbia soon faltered under economic and weather concerns — viewing conditions would likely be far better at other locations — and was cancelled in 1968.]
A group of cardinals from Europe and the Americas has petitioned Pope Paul VI to resist conservative pressures for modification of declarations on the Roman Catholic attitude toward the Jews and on religious liberty. Their action and the interventions by conservative cardinals and bishops have put the future course of Ecumenical Council Vatican II squarely up to the Pope. Informed sources said the Pope would now have to intervene. They believe he will either have to let the Council continue on the progressive course supported by most of the 2,500 prelates at the Council or back efforts by conservatives to block what they consider dangerous changes in the church’s attitudes on modern problems.
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan met today for the first time and took tentative steps toward easing tensions in South Asia. After nearly five hours of talks, they said in a joint statement that relations between their countries “needed to be improved.” The statement said the way to achieve this was through promotion of better understanding and settlement of disputes “on an honorable and equitable basis.”
The Soviet launching of a three‐man spacecraft was described by United States officials today as “a significant space accomplishment” providing further evidence of the Soviet lead in manned space flight. Whether the launching meant that the Soviet Union was widening the lead was difficult to judge on the basis of the information supplied about the flight. The first United States flight with even two astronauts aboard is at least four months away, and one matching the current Soviet flight by three men will not be flown until late 1966 at the earliest. The flight was greeted calmly and with an air of resignation by American space officials. For several weeks they had been expecting another major space launching by the Soviet Union. They were resigned to the fact that with its rocket‐booster power, the Soviet Union was in a position to accomplish something spectacular, such as launching the first multimanned spacecraft.
The obvious immediate concern of Administration officials was over the potential political impact of the Soviet flight on the Presidential campaign, either in provoking criticism of the pace of the $5‐billion-a-year space program or in giving support to the argument of Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican Presidential candidate, that the space program should be reoriented toward military applications.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to hear an argument that the Secretary of State was exceeding his powers in limiting travel to Cuba. Only specially validated passports are now good for trips to Cuba, and it may be a crime to go without a passport. The State Department permits trips to Cuba by bona‐fide journalists, businessmen with interests in Cuba and other special cases. Until now the power of the Government to limit or forbid travel to certain areas of the world had been widely considered settled. The Supreme Court in 1959 refused to review decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals sustaining the power. In addition to Cuba, Communist China, Albania, North Korea and North Vietnam are now on the forbidden list. All of these restrictions may be at stake when the Supreme Court considers later this term the general question of area restrictions.
Four white men have been indicted by the Pike County grand jury in Magnolia, Mississippi on charges of bombing a Black woman’s home at nearby McComb, it was revealed today. The indictments, returned Friday, were made public when the four were called for arraignment today before Circuit Court Judge W. H. Watkins. The four were among a group of 11 white men arrested during the last two weeks in a drive on racial violence in the McComb area. The grand jury, in recess this week, is expected to consider evidence against the seven others next week. The four were indicted on charges of violating a state law against illegal use of explosives in the bombing of the home of Aylene Quin, a Black cafe operator, on September 20. The statute carries a possible death penalty. Those indicted were: Paul D. Wilson, 25 years old; a cousin, Billy Earl Wilson, 22; Jimmy P. Wilson, 38, and Ernest F. Zeeck, 25.
President Johnson equated the John Birch Society with the Ku Klux Klan today, and mentioned them both together for the first time in the campaign. “I predict if I am elected,” the President said in a speech before an early‐afternoon, indoor rally here, “that the extremist groups that have infected this country — that the spotlight of publicity will be put on them and the Klan and the Birch Society and those others who preach hate will have their robes pulled open where the American people can see them.” He did not elaborate.
Early in the campaign, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican Presidential candidate, rejected support from the Ku Klux Klan. He has never repudiated the John Birch Society, however, although he has attacked the society’s leader, Robert H. W. Welch Jr., for suggesting that former President Dwight D. Elsenhower was either an agent or a dupe of the Communist conspiracy. On the society itself, the Senator has said that he will not repudiate it, for while he disagrees with many of its objectives he believes it acts constitutionally.
Senator Barry Goldwater asserted today that his public opinion polls showed he had at least 40 percent of the voters in every state and that he could close the gap fast enough to upset President Johnson on November 3. Mr. Goldwater also said he personally believed “we will never engage in nuclear war, and even if we got into war, I don’t think the Russians or ourselves would be stupid enough to devastate cities that we couldn’t afford to rebuild.” In an interview with the National Broadcasting Company, Mr. Goldwater contended that “defected Republicans” were returning to his banner at a rate of 6 to 8 percent a week. He said his own poll, conducted by Opinion Research Inc., of Princeton, New Jersey, and given to him yesterday, showed “we are over 40 now in all states.”
Richard M. Nixon returned today to his old home state, the scene of political triumphs and bitter defeat, to appeal for votes for George Murphy, the former movie actor now campaigning as the Republican nominee for Senator. Mr. Nixon, now a New York voter, told a news conference here at the start of a long day that Mr. Murphy “has definitely picked up and has a good chance to win.” Mr. Murphy, now a film executive, is challenging Senator Pierre Salinger, the former White House press secretary who was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of a fellow Democrat, Senator Clair Engle. Mr. Murphy joined the conference with the former Vice President at the St. Francis Hotel after Mr. Nixon had talked to a group of Republican women campaign workers at breakfast. The two then flew to appearances at Claremont College, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Mr. Nixon said the Republicans had the same factors going for them that President Truman had in 1948. He explained it this way: In the Truman campaign, Mr. Nixon said, the Democratic candidates for the Senate and House were “stronger than the notional ticket.” This, he asserted, holds true for the Republicans this year, whereas “the Democratic candidates are hurting their national ticket.” Mr. Nixon said that the Republicans nationally had “fielded an exceptionally fine team” of Senate and House candidates who should help “close; the gap which seems to exist between Goldwater and Johnson.”
Five and one‐half million Black voters had been registered in 34 states and the District of Columbia by October 1, and the total may reach 6.5 million before Election Day, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced today. The organization has been conducting an intensive registration drive among Blacks, independently of the two major political parties. Its interim report, released today by the national headquarters of the N.A.A.C.P. in New York, is based on information received from its state representatives, “and others in the field.” The report states that no returns have yet been received from 16 states, and that additional registrations are still to be recorded in many of the other states where the registration books have not closed. If the N.A.A.C.P. estimate proves correct, it probably would forecast a reeord turnout of Black voters at the polls this year. The overwhelming majority are expected to cast their ballots for the Johnson‐Humphrey ticket because of the Black’s intense interest in the civil rights issue.
President Johnson explained to Jack Dempsey today why he mingles with the people in campaign crowds. “If the President gets out of his car and talks to a colored boy in New Orleans, or a widow woman in Kentucky, or a banker in New England, they feel pretty important,” Mr. Johnson said. “It’s good for their morale, and this is an important part of democracy.” Mr, Johnson gave his reply when Mr. Dempsey expressed concern about his safety in crowds.
President Johnson, bandages on three fingers of his right hand after six days of cross‐country campaigning, is doing his best to avoid Western handshakes. Flying into Casper, Wyoming to address a crowd from the steps of the County Courthouse, Mr. Johnson tilted his right hand downward as he went along a receiving line. Thus, those who waited to greet him could only grip the hand and not the bandaged fingers. When a local dignitary managed a full‐fledged handshake, a Secret Service agent stepped forward quickly to break the grip.
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson returned to the White House today after publicly deploring the heckling she met during her Southern whistle stop campaign trip last week. “I’m afraid some of them were the unsuspecting victims of hate organizations, whose vehemence the President and I have met before,” she said in a letter to John M. Bailey, Democratic National Chairman. Mrs. Johnson urged fellow Democrats to ignore such acts and to stand on “high principles and good manners.”
The 16th Audio Engineering Society Convention, where Dr. Robert Moog demonstrated his prototype Moog synthesizer, opened in New York City.
American Don Schollander swims an Olympic record 53.4s to beat Briton Robert McGregor by 0.1s and win the 100m freestyle gold medal in Tokyo; first of Schollander’s four gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Games.
Tim McCarver’s 3-run home run pins a 5–2 loss on Pete Mikkelsen and gives the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 World Series lead. The game was scoreless in the top of the fifth inning when the Cardinals plated two. Pitcher Bob Gibson led off the inning with a single. Center fielder Curt Flood hit a grounder to second base that Bobby Richardson fumbled. Instead of a potential double play, the Cardinals had two runners on. Lou Brock, hitless in his previous 14 at bats, singled in Gibson. Flood scored on a Bill White ground out after Phil Linz made another misplay, throwing a ball into the dirt at first on what should have been the back end of a double play. The Yankees were still down 2–0 when they rallied in the ninth inning. Mantle reached base on an error by Dick Groat. With one out and one on, Joe Pepitone smashed a bouncer off Bob Gibson’s leg, the ball ricocheting towards the third-base line. Gibson recovered quickly and threw to first, and the Cardinals were one out away. With two out, though, Tom Tresh crushed a long drive into the right center field bleachers and the game was tied. The game went to extra innings, and it was the Cardinals who seized the initiative. With two on and one out and lefty hitter Tim McCarver up, Berra stuck with right-hander Pete Mikkelsen rather than using lefty specialist Steve Hamilton. McCarver delivered a three-run home run in the tenth inning to send the Cardinals back to St. Louis with a 3–2 lead in the series. Just 22 years old at the time, McCarver would go 11–for–23 (.478) in the series. For his entire career McCarver would hit .271. This was the last postseason game at Yankee Stadium before its renovation following the 1973 season. The Yankees now face elimination and must win two in St. Louis to win the series.
NFL Football:
St. Louis Cardinals 27, Baltimore Colts 47
Though the Baltimore Colts lead the Western Conference of the National Football League and the St. Louis Cardinals are tied for the lead in the Eastern Conference, only the Colts acted like a first‐place team tonight as they trounced the Cards, 47–27. The rout was thoroughly enjoyed by a capacity crowd of 60,123 at Memorial Stadium. At one point the Colts held a 47–13 lead as they rolled up the most points scored against the Cards in six years. The Colts charged into a 17–0 advantage in the first 12 minutes. The charge included the first of four field goals by Lou Michaels, a 5‐yard scoring run by Lenny Moore and one of 10 yards by Tony Lorick. Before the game was over, Johnny Unitas passed 6 yards to Ray Berry for a touchdown, Unitas ran 6 yards around his left end for another and Tom Matte, on a draw play, scooted 80 yards for the last Baltimore touchdown. Michaels kicked 5 extra points for a total of 17 points in the game. Baltimore scored each of the first four times it had the ball, and five times in the first half as it moved into a 27–7 lead. Everything went perfectly. For example, the left‐footed Michaels never missed a field‐goal attempt as he connected from 35, 44, 42 and 37 yards.
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Born:
Odessa Turner, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 25-Giants; New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers), in Monroe, Louisiana.
Karl Bernard, NFL running back (Detrot Lions), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mark Irvin, NFL defensive back (Miami Dolphins), in Miami, Florida.
JoAnn Willette, American actress (Constance – “Just 10 of Us”, “Real Genius”), in Lewiston, Maine.
Died:
Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, American painter romantically linked with President John F. Kennedy, murdered by an unknown gunman.
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