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Ol'llAlWiA (OP) — Parliament Ywill open Jan. 15 with heavy work ahead and the prospect of mid fights on unemployment and lateral fiscal policies.
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He gave no details but from other sources it was learned the program may include legislation ' to provide crop insurance, more x extensive farm credit, more money for housing, greater fed- eral control over Canada's gas industries, aid for ex- ports and possibly federal rail m to ease freight rate in the western ' and the Maritimes.
MORE SPENDING LIKELY
, All this would mean a heavy . [ovemment spending program.
; Opposition forces, though small innumber, have been critical of . the government’s handling of the
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on trade and other issues. The
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policies that have added to inter- est rates and created uneasiness
N.Y. Newspaper Tieup Continues
NEW YORK (APl—The strik- newspaper delivery men’s union reversed itself Tuesday V nigh-t and announced it will not vote Thursday on a $7 wage pack-
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: Feldman said the deliverers fWiIl continue the strike they be- .(san a week ago against the city’s vldaflly Papers. His statement was to reversal of the union negotiat— ing committee’s agreement ear- l‘er Tuesday night to re-submit Daclkalge offer to the member- P-
.SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) - A “In, Dale boy who said a child’s
'e antics and mother‘s mama drove him into a frenzy
‘ of killings, stood with bowed head
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I I’Viclims were read off at his ar- uts J ._ Imminent on murder charges.
Carl A. Eder, 16, was remanded ii custody of the juvenile divi- llon of Superior Court, Which Will determine Whether he is to be “med as an adult or juvenile I The victims were named in a 5 murder'complaint read by J “(13.9 FED/ton Garfield as Mrs. Lois
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. lPOUND FAMILY SLAIN I m3 capture in an unused ball- .”Om Monday night ended a hunt What Started when T'tomas Pen- rgash 39’ a San Diego aircraft .pipefittel‘, found his family 5181))
Friday night.
He had been befriended by the dergasts and taken into their Ki! weeks earlier. He
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among investors. The price of government bonds has sagged in the last few months. ..
Thus it appears likely the Lib- erals with 49 members and the OCF with eight attempt to launch strong attacks against the Conservatives who hold 208 of the 265 Commons seats.
With the exception of disclos— ing the date of Parliament’s op- ening, Mr. Diefenba-ker declined to answer reporters’ questions. indicating he plans to hold a press conference later this week. CONSIDER APPOINTMENTS
Later he told a reporter .the cabinet will continue its'deliber- ations today and that “some ap-
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pointments” are under consider- ation. It appeared likely these would be appointments to the Senate where there are nine va- cancies in the lOZ-seat chamber. The Liberals have 74 members: Progresswe Conservatives 16; in- dependents two; independent Lib- erals one.
Asked to comment on the re- sults of the two byelections- in Toronto Trinity, where Liberal Paul Hellyer won, and in Spring- field, Man., where Conservative Dr. Joseph Slogan retained the riding for his party, Mir. Diefen- balker said: - . 'u “
"I have no comment. The pen- ple’s decision was made."
lest Hospital Scheme BeloreMakingChanges
By KEN KELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP) — The federal
government plans to stand pat on the present hospital insurance scheme until it can be tested in operation for a while. ~
Health Minister Monteith said in an interview Tuesday that he can see no change for the next few years in the hospital insur ance program he described as “probably the most ambitious project ever undertaken in the field of health in Canada.”
An extension of the program to include hospital c. e for tuber- culosis and m e n t al hospital patients is not being planned, he said.
Four of the eight provinces that joined the plan have asked that the federal government include such care under the cost-sharing scheme.
SHARE PLAN EQUALLY
The federal and provincial gov- ernments share the hospitahcare costs on roughly a 50-50 has“ al. though the share is higher for the
Touth Blames ChiIcI’s Antics For Touching Off 5 Killings
helped care for the children.
The blond, pimplyJEaced run- away from a Rochester, N.Y., suburb was quoted by officers as saying:
“Diane was in the bedroom, jumping up and down on the bed.” I picked her up and threw . n the floor." heBltfod came from the child's head, he said, and Mrs. Fender- gast screamed.
SHOT MOTHER The youth said he tlen got a gun and, when Mrs. ‘endergasi screamed again, he shot her. He shot her again after she fell. “Then I looked for a knife and killed the little kids," he sald. They were Diane and Allen, whose throats were cut, stom- achs slashed and skulls frac- tured. . Eder said he didn't want to kill David and Thomas when they came home from school but that David saw the bodies. DaVid screamed and he was stabbed. Eder said he then chased Thomas to a bathroom in the garage and stabbed him. . ' . A psychiatric examination is expected to be ordered by the juvenile court.
federal government in som e provinces and lower in others, depending on local costs.
Extension of federal participa- tion in such a scheme to cover medical care also has not been considered. Mr. Mouteith said.
Extension of coverage to in- clude mental and TB patients was sought more than a year ago at a federal-provincial fiscal con- ference by B riti sh Columbia, M an itch a, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker said at the time the government has “no objection in principle” but the $68,000,000 or more it would cost annually, if all prov- inces entered the plan, would mean that much less in other federal aid to the provinces.
TWO STILL NOT IN
At present all provinces except Quebec and Princ e Edward Island have entered the hospital insurance plan. which provides standard ward hospital care and diagnostic services.
Prince Edward Island was one of the first provinces to declare in favor of the scheme when it was proposed to Parliament by the Liberal government.
Mll‘. Monteith said Quebec ap— pears to be interested now in join- ing but needs more hospital beds. Prince Edward Island also had indicated that it still is interested in joining.
Mr. Monteith said no changes are planned in the program of hospital construction gran-ts.
SEE NEED FOR BEDS
With the advent of hospital in- surance in Ontario and Nova Scotia next month and the plan now in effect in B.C.. Alberta. M a nit o b a, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. some increase in the demand for bed accommoda- tion is expected. New Brunsw1ck is aiming at a start in the plan
x Jul . newaevgr. said Mr. Montei‘lh, experience with provinces which had hospital insurance schemes of their own before the federal- provincial one indicates the de- mand for hospital beds Wlll level off after a time.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
CAPE'I‘OWN, South Africa (Reuters) —— J. H. Synman suf- fered internal and head injuries Tuesday in an accident in which his car plunged 400 feet over a cliff. was caught by a tree and left dangling precariously over a river.
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Sailors, Canal Workers Score Victories Over Ice
NATO Members Back Big 3
In Reiecting Berlin Deal
PARIS (CPl—A solid rank of North Atlantic treaty powers Tuesday pledged full support to the Western big three in their de- termination to reject Russia's de- mand that they get out of West Berlin.
The annual NATO ministerial council meeting also declared Western readiness to meet Russia in negotiations on Germany as whole and on European security and disarmament.
In a communique issued at the end of their first day’s meeting, the 15 powers declared:
“The member states of NATO could not approve a solution of the Berlin question which jeopar— dized the right of the three West- ern powers to remain in Berlin as long as their responsibilities re- quire it.”
Moreover, they declared the Soviet Union would be wholly re- sponsible for any hampering of traffic between the West and the former German capital.
“The 2,000,000 inhabitants of West Berlin have just reaffirmed in a free vote their overwhelming approval and support of that posi- tion," they said.
NOT A PROVOCATION
Palul‘Henri Spaak, NATO's sec- netary—general, told a press con- ference after the communique was issued that “this is not a provocation."
The West, he said, wanted to demonstrate that “threats don’t pay," and that on “big questions. we are united."
The West Germans were with the commnique. Press chief Felix von Eckardt said “the NATO council has re- affirmed the viewpoint of the German government in a way which is both distinct and im— pressive."
Speaker after speaker had chal- lenged the Soviet demand for withdrawal of Western garrisons from West Berlin, 110 miles be- hind the Iron Curtain.
A NATO spokesman quoted State Secretary Dulles of the US. as saying:
“We don‘t need to worry about Russian threats on Berlin. I am quite convinced that, in view of
NATO’s strength, the Soviet Union will not risk war about Berlin.”
Canada was said by conference sources to have played a pronu- nent part in getting the NATO alliance to declare its readiness to negotiate with Moscow- over Germany while flatly rejecting the Soviet Union‘s Berlin propo- sals.
Canada was a member of a six- power drafting committee that spent two hours worlz'ng on the last passage in the Word com- munique declaring Western wil- lingness to negotiate.
External Affairs Minister Sid- ney Smith of Canada was said to have asked for something more than a reiteration of Sunday’s statement rejecting the Soviet proposals.
OTHER KEY ISSUES
Although Berlin took up most of the day's talks, the council also discussed such key issues as East-West relations generally and closer political consultation on
world problems within the alli- ance.
It appeared possible that out of talks among the four powers chiefly concerned—France, Brit- ain, West Germany and the United States—may come a more positive formula for replying to the Khrushchev note of Nov. 27.
That was the note in which Khrushchev gave the Western powers six months to agree to a new formula for Berlin.
WIDE SUBJECT-RANGE
After agreeing in the morning session to the united response on the free-city proposal, the mem- bers spent the afternoon outlining
TUCUMCARI, N.M. (AP) — A supersonic, four-engined B-58, one of the newest class of United States atom bombers. crashed Tuesday near Tucumcari. The pilot was killed and two other crew members were injured.
A spokesman at Carswell said the pilot was killed in bailing from the plane. He was identified as Maj. Richard D. Smith, 40.
It was the first of the new Hustler bombers, which travel more than twice the speed of sound, to crash;
An air force spokesman said the big delta-Wing craft was on a test flight from Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Tex., at the time.
By DON HOYT
Canadian Press Staff Writer
SPRJIING‘I'mJL. N. S. (CPI— Presiden-t Monson Harrison of the local coal union said here Tum:- day night the Nova Scotia gov- ernment should say immediately what it is going to do to replace the sealed No. 2 mine which claimed 75 lives in a cave~in Oct. 23.
“It doesn't seem to me that the Nova Scotia and federal govern- ments have come up with any— thing definite,” he said in an in- terview. “Why are the govern- ments beating around the bush? The government ministers have not indicated what they are going to do."
Mr. Harrison suggested con- struction of a prison farm here could provide an immediate solu- tion to the severe unempllyment problem caused by the closing of the town‘s only industry.
“I have heard that five prison farms are going to be built in Canada. There Is no excuse at all that the government couldn’t build one here.
WINTER CONSTRUCTION? “The governments are always
talking about winter construction. Why don’t they start constructing
New US. Crashes On Test
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agreements that [they must eon- sult on an ever-widening range of subjects, including those far out of reach of NATO's arms.
Then the members swung into a discussion of disputes among themselves, including the bitter one which Monday night found Europeans firing threats at one another over trading privileges.
A large number of delegates spoke, trying to smooth ruffled tempers.
"They all expressed the con- viction." said a NATO spokes- man, “that it would be difficult to maintain military unity in a Europe split on economic mat~ ters."
Bomber
A helicopter landed at the crash scene, about 35 miles southeast of Tucumcarl, and the pilot radioed back to base that the pieces were so small he could not identify tht craft.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) —A jet bomber crashed and ex- ploded in Tampa Bay Tuesday night, about 300 yards offshore from a thickly populated St. Petersburg residential area. No survivors were found.
MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa identified the craft as a six-engined B47 jet bomber from MlacDilI. Ar spokesman geld 3-479 usually carry three-man crown and *ometimes four on training missions.
SpringhiI-I Union President Is Critical OI Jobs Delay
and not wait until the summer?”
He estimated that the 800 mem- bers of his United Mine Workers (1nd.) District 28 Union could “get by" for five or six months on the $144 that they get monthly f r o m unemployment insurance and grocery credit from the dis- aster relief fund.
“1 can't hold the men any longer than spring. We can‘t live on relief." Mr. Harrison said the Dominion Steel and Coal Corpor- ation and controlling A. V. Roe of Canada Limited have a major responsibility in replacing the closed subsidiary Cumberland Railway and Coal Company here.
“Dosco has made thousands and thousands of dollars out of this town,” he said. “It's only been in the last few years um they started to lose money."
DEAR SANTA CHICAGO tAPl—In the annual flood of letters addressed to
Santa Claus, post office workers found this one, carefully printed by a child‘s hand and unsigned: “Dear Santa: please send some presents to my brother. Give mine to him too. He was burned up at school. He is with Jesus in Heaven."
Russia's 6-Jet Bomber Said Fastest In World
By MILTON MARMOR
LONDON IAPl —— Russia now has in operational service a se- cret six - jet intercontinental bomber twice as fast as any operational United States heavy bomber, Jane's All The World Aircraft reports today.
The new Soviet delta wing bomber can travel about 1.400 miles an hour —— about twice the speed of sound —— the authorita- tive British aviation publication says.
Fastest US. box 'ber in regular service now is the eight . jet B~52 with a speed of about mach 1 (speed of soundl. The Ameri- cans havc a multi - jet heavy bomber, the 8.58 Hustler. which has achieved mach 2, but is not yet in operational service.
NATO has given the Soviet bomber the code name Bounder.
NUCLEAR TEST BED
One of the bombers is lieved earmarked for use as a
flying test bed for Russia's first
reports.
There was no official confirma- tion of this report. British ex- perts believe a Russian nuclear- powei'ed aircraft has not yet flown.
The American magazine Avia- tion Week said recently intelli- vgence reports told of a Soviet nuclear - powered plane being sighted over Moscow. This report also has not been confirmed.
Jane's also reports that the American X-15 rocket plane is nearing the flight stage. This North American aviation experi- mental aircraft has a designed speed of at least mach 7 or be-
hour),
The publication says America's “great Atlas ballistic missile is progressing beyond the testing stage to production as the first of the socalled ‘ultimate weap-
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airborne nuclear engine, Jane's developments in the missile field
are sparse.
“Russia’s oft . discussed inter- continental ballistic missile is re- ported to be designated T3 and to be a three-stage Weapon with the second and third stages con- sisting of modified T-l and T-2 missiles," Jane's states.
“Test firings over ranges of up to 4.800 kilometres (3.000 milesl have been detected fre- quently by the US. radar listen- ing post on Mount Samsun in Turkey. and adaptations of this weapon are said to have been used to launch Russia‘s Sput- niks."
The T-l is believed to be based on the wartime German V - 2 rocket. Jane‘s puts it in the same class as the US. Redstone.
The T-2 is believed to be Rus- sia's intermediate range ballistic missile, now in service. Jane’s says it is a two-stage liquid— propelled weapon 100 feet long with a firing weight of 122,000 pounds and a range of 1,800
miles
Blame 'Chicken' Incident For Death Of Girl
WEST NEW'B-URY- Mass. (AP) Fear of being called “chicken” may have caused the death of the 17year-old daughter of a former police chief and serious illness of three boys who drank anti—freeze at a Christmas party.
This opinion was expressed Tuesday by former police chief Buell Curry, whose daughter Carol died Monday night in Bos- ton's Peter Bent Brigham Hospi- tal after d-rinkinganti—freeze in the belief it was creme de menthe at the teen-age party In her home Saturday night.
The heartbroken Curry said: “It was one of those things that. teen-agers call a ‘chicken inci- dent' in which some of the kids would be called 'chicken’ if they didn‘t take a drink of liquor."
In Peter Bent Brigham Hospi- tal were Richard Keller, 17, Gene Trafton, 17, and Thomas Berge- ron, 16. Keller had lost his sight temporarily but vision returned Tuesday.
First Missile Fired In Calif.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AlPl—A gleaming white Thor, first ballistic missile launched by a crew that would fire them in wartime, blasted off Tuesday from this new space age training base.
Trailing a roaring tongue of fire, it climbed spectacularly sky. ward and sailed into the setting sun before vanishing into the late afternoon haze.
The shot was the first from Vandenberg, created to train mis- sile chs. it also wan the-3d U.S. ballistic missile firing out- side the long - established test range at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Tuesday's was the first of many practice shots of various kinds of weapons at this 64,000- acre base.
This first one was little more than a test of new launching and tracking facilities.
But soon the air force will be firing the larger intercontinental missiles. And within only a few weeks it may attempt to hurl from this base a 1,300<pound sat- ellite into orbit around the earth's poles. Other satellite shots may follow, perhaps as often as once a month.
The first of these will be pow- ered by Thors with second-stage liquid fuel engines. Later shots will use the more powerful 6,000- mile Atlas llCBMs.
'NATO Chief Rejects German
Defence Plan
PARIS (APl—Gen. Lau-ris Nor- stad was reported Tuesday to have rejected a West German proposal for reorganizing the northern defence perimeter of the Atlantic alliance.
NATO's supreme military com- mander in Europe met Monday with the West. German Defence Minister, Franz Josef Strauss. Qualified informants said after- wards that Strauss agreed to drop his plan. at least for tht time being.
Under NATO's military setup the supreme commander, in ef- fect, must approve any reorgan- ization.
Military planners in West Ger- many want a revision of the Baltic Sea command. They frown on splitting German forces, with some under the central command and some under the northern
command. When the plan first was broached during the fall the
Danes objected and expressed fears the Germans were trying to take over the northern com— mani.
Balloon Radio Reported Silent
LONDON tAPl—Amaleur radio operators in Britain failed again today to pick up any signals from the transatlantic balloon, Small World.
No signals had been heard up to 2:30 a.m. today, and none was heard Tuesday.
The last. repor. from the bal- loon and its four British passen- gers was heard Monday when its position was given about. 600 miles southwest of the Canary Islands.
The balloon left the Canaries last Friday hoping to be carried across the Atlantic to Barbados. British West Indies, 3,000 miles
MONTREAL (CPI — Th r ee Canadian ice - breakers Tuesday prepared to make a full-scale as- sault on the icy barrier that keep's 30 saltwater vessels from
the Atlantic Ocean. 800 miles away. The powerful N.B. Maclean,
which left Quebec City Tuesday morning, was to join the d'Iber— _ville and the smaller Ernest La- pointe in a cor-ordinated attempt to batter open a channel through 15«foot ice packs roughly 40-miles downstream from Montreal.
Eleven freighters are trapped in an ice jam off Lanoraie, about 30 miles from Montreal harmor, and another 19 vessels marked time in the harbor until a channel was cleared.
The ice—breakers are faced with the task of breaking up 30 square miles of ice on Lake St. Peter and cutting I fill-foobwide path through the ice packs for 20 miles up the river from the head of the lakes.
The St. Lawrence River chan- nel engineer's office In Montreal said it was still too early to say whether any of the vessels im— prisoned 00f Lanoraic would be freed tomorrow.
ONE AT MONTREAL
In Montreal, only one ship re- malned in the iceencrusted La. chine Canal.
“For all practical purposes. you can consider the canal season ended," said canal superintend— ent Paul St. Germain.
Canal workers Tuesday coaxed through the nine<mile waterway the remaining two ocean vessels and two lake vessels. The Beaver- ton still is trapped in die Cote St. Paul lock and workers were to concentrate Ihei-l‘ efforts on ha.
Two tugs have taken on the task of trying to move the Beav- eiton. If they fail to budge her» canal workers will try to work out other schemes.
The powerful icebreakerr d'lber- ville Tuesday morning reached the vessels off Lanoraie, but late Tuesday she retnmed to Lake St. Peter to clear the way through shallow waters that freeze rap- idly.
The Ernest Lapolnte steamed
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30 Ships In River Head For The Atlantic Ocean
downriver to Trois - Rivieres to pick up supplies and was sched- uled to return early this morning to continue the task of maintain- ing a navigable passage.
CONDITIONS IMPROVED
Ice conditions below Quebec were described as much improved Tuesday. The Norwegian ship Stringhiem and the British Norco arrived at the provincial capital Tuesday from 'I‘rois-Rivieres.
The Stringhelm, Norco and As- teris were scheduled to leave Quebec, escorted by the ice- breaker Montcalm, in an effort to reach the easily navigable wa- ters to the east.
A three-ship convoy left Quebec City Monday and anchored for the night 70 miles downstream. Navigation buoys had been re- moved from the river and the ships make no attempt to sail through the ice at night.
As the battle against the ele- ments continued, communications between signal service stations along the St. Lawrence were dis- rupted by a break in teletype and telephone cables.
George Heroux, signal service chief, said the cable was cut by a contractor installing under- ground lines for the Bell Tele- mac Company in the city’s east
The telephone company was to install a mobile service at signal service headquarters until repairs to the broken cable can be com- pleted.
Labrador To Aid
In St. Lawrence
HALIFAX- (OP) -— The ice- bresker Labrador left here Tues- day to aid sister ships in their battle to free vessels stranded in Ice in the St. Lawrence River.
Transport department officials said it was not immediately known in which area of the river the Labrador would be used. A spokesman said department offi- cials in Quebec would decide where to use the former Cana-
dian navy icebreaker.
A verdict of accidental death was returned last night by a cor- oner's jury following an inquest at City Hall Into the December 9th death of Reginald Joseph Mac- Donald of Charlottetown.
The 39-year-old carpenter was fatally injured when he fell from the third storey of the new Royal Bank building at the corner of Richmond and Queen streets shortly before four o‘clock in the afternoon. He died about seven hours later in the Charlottetown Hospital.
The inquest was conducted by coroner Dr. LE. Prowse assisted by Crown Prosecutor J .P. Nichol- son. Eight witnesses were heard during last night's sitting includ- ing Cpl. Gordc: Humphrey of the R.C.M.P.; Dr. Clark Coady, Dr.
Accidental Death Verdict. Given By Coroner’s Jury
George Eisenger, Hamid Banal, Russell Thompson, Emmett Cam eron, Chester Baxter and Chief C.W. MacArthur.
IDENTIFIES PHOTOS
Cpl. Humphrey, NCO in charge of the Identification Branch of the R.C.M.P. Detachment in Char; lottetown, Identified three photos that he took of the accident a: the request of Chief MacArthur.
Arriving at the hospital at about four o'clock, Dr. Coady, who at- tended MacDonald on his arrival to the outgoing patients depart- ment, .said that his patients con- dition began to deteriorate con- siderably around five o’clock.
The result of his injuries had
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In Store
BOGOTA- Colombia (Reuters) At least 100 persons died Tuesday when a fire swept through a de- partment store crowded aith hol- iday shoppers.
Ten others were badly injured, a statement rfom the mayor‘s of- fice said.
The statement said most of the victims were women.
The fire broke out in the eve- ning rush hour when the store
100 Lose Lives
F e was jammed with shoppers.
It was believed Io have beefi caused by a light bulb that ex- ploded over Christmas decora- tions.
Panic gripped the shoppers and people pressing forward into the entrance from the street made escape impossible.
The fire was extinguished In half an hour, but by that time the store was completely gutted.
WASHINGTON (CPI — Without putting the charge into so many words, the United States Tuesday accused the Soviet Union of com- plicity in the anti-American de- monstrations which greeted a visiting high state department of. ficial in Baghdad Monday.
Through chief press officer Lincoln While, the slate depart- ment blamed “irresponsible and subversive elements" for the rock- and egg—throwing demonstr- ations which met U.S. Assistant State Secretary William Roun-
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U. S. Blames Communists For Anti-American Riots
capital to confer with Iraqi of- ficials.
Reading a statement, White re- frained from labelling the inci- dents as Communist-inspired, but later said that anyone who had noted recent Moscow attacks on Rountree‘s fact-finding tour of the Middle East could “draw their own conclusions.“
And. if he were asked for hit personal opinion, he went on, “certainly the incidents werl Communist-inspired.” But he re fused to go on record as giving
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