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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gets Coll Art disqualifies slay ton for space shot from press dispatches Washington the space Agency said that a heart condition first detected in november 1959 will pre vent astronaut Donald k. Slayton from becoming the second Ameri can in , a 38-year-old air Force major was to have followed Johnh. Glenn or. Into orbit in a Mer Cury flight scheduled for May or june. The National aeronautics and space administration Nasa said Scott Carpenter 37-year-old Navy lieutenant commander has been selected for the next Orbital flight known As Mercury Atlas 7 ma7. Carpenter was backup Pilot for Glenn on the Pioneer Orbital flight successfully launched feb. 20. Navy cmdr Walter m. Schurra 39, who had been picked As Slayton s Back up will serve in the same role for  space Agency said later that Slayton will not necessarily be barred from future space flights because of the heart  Nasa spokesman said slay ton s condition has never been considered serious at any. Time since it was first diagnosed in 1959, but a decision to Rule him out of the next shot was based on a review of the total  review of Slayton s Case was made thursday several weeks after cont. On Page 84, col Slayton european edition ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of i . Armed forgot in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 20, number 331 5 Gnu daily 10 Emit sunday d saturday March 17, 1962 Scott Carpenter lost on plane off Invulnerable rocket Khrushchev promises patience to soviet Ite in orbit frees dispatches soviet pre Khrushchev in offhand manner three big space an its Friday. Khrushchev interrupted a at communist election say that Russia has put a vehicle into orbit he declared that the so i Union has a new i Vulner Cocket that can Fly around and deliver a blow at target. The soviets said they will series of space shot different Sites throughout country this year. The official a Cement said these launch i Are to study the upper Atmos Kourtes instrument official news Agency Tass the soviet space launching was of an instrument carry f  it a sputnik and was orbiting the Earth once minutes. Its highest of orbit was Given As 608.94 and its lowest 134.83 Miles. Maid the satellite was the of a whole series off artificial Earth Satel a which will be carried out various Cosmod Romes of the � of the speakers preceding at the rally a scientist the Premier s efforts inthe soviet Union to Vari Foont on Page 94, col. V disarm Parley asks Rusk Gromyko Iron out views Geneva a the 17-nation disarmament conference on a motion by India called on Secretary of state Dean Rusk and soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko Friday to Start prompt informal negotiations on their rival arms reduction and control measures. The conference got off to it expected Start when Rusk and Gromyko presented contrasting disarmament  prospects suffered a blow soon after when Russia turned Down president Kennedy s terms for cancelling resumption of us. Nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere. The tests Are scheduled for late april. Russia s rejection made it appear certain that the test series will go  United states and Britain want a test ban treaty based on their draft of last april with afew modifications including arrangements to guard against secret preparations for tests. Inter National inspection procedures would be the keynote of such a pact the soviet Union wants to sub stateside Static new Brunswick no. Up mayor Chester w. Paulas greeted visiting Robert Briscoe the lord mayor of dub Lin on the Steps of City Hall and announced that the new Bruns Wick High school band would play the Irish National Anthem. The band played god save  statute National for International inspection arrangements. The rus sians put Forward a draft pact of that sort last november at a time when they were setting off a giant series of nuclear blasts. In the american and British View it is highly ironic that the russians now should try to blame the americans for the threatened nuclear testing race when the pres ent situation grew out of the so Viet autumn tests. And again Friday the soviets accused the United states of seeking a resumption of the nuclear arms testing race and said the american negotiators in Geneva were avoid ing a serious approach to this  charge from soviet Ambas Sador Semyon Tsarapkin appears to represent an attempt by the Kremlin to make the United states shoulder in Advance the blame for any new round of nuclear tests. Or. Kennedy has said his administration will go ahead with its planned mid Pacific series of Tessin late april if the russians still refuse by then to accept an internationally enforced test ban. Russian Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev warned that the so Viet Union will fire off a round of tests if the american explosions in late april take place. Gromyko had already made the same sort of statement the government Leader of the third nuclear Power Britain s prime minister Harold Macmillan said that despite disappoint ments and setbacks the West must keep trying for a nuclear test ban agreement with the russians. Green Mazzoli Ball for St. Pat York up they were Erin go brag. Shalom eating Kelly Green matzoh Friday night in what must i been the most unusual St of Day Celebration in town occasion was the first an banquet for a group ious new yorkers tended together under the unlikely name of the Loyal league of yiddish sons of Erin Lloyse. Membership in the club is limited to persons of jewish Faith born in Ireland. The founders Are confident they can swell the leagues ranks to a respectable size. They Point to recent estimates which indicate there Are no less than 9,000 jews in the new York area who came to this country from their native Ireland. Lloy Soe was conceived to give them a Chance to observe both the traditions of their Faith and the Auld Sod of their birth. The shindig was t the biggest St Patrick s Day party in new cont. On Page a col. 5j no firm Date on German peace treaty from press dispatches Moscow Premier Nikitas. Khrushchev promised patience in the settlement of the German question Friday but insisted that Russia cannot delay the solution of this important  Khrushchev said the problem of the German peace treaty had be come the Center of world attention and that the soviet Union wished to come to an acceptable agreement with its wartime allies Over this Issue. It would help restore the spirit of cooperation Between the soviet Union and its former allies he said. He repeated that the basis of the agreement ought to be the signing of a treaty Between the allies and Germany and the Solu Tion on that basis of the question of  no fatal course Khrushchev said the soviet Union is not committed to any fatal course in signing the peace treaty but said the  continued to be the establishment of Westerlin As a free demilitarized City and the liquidation of the occupation regime there. Last August he said in an obvious reference to the erection of the Berlin Wall by the communists on aug. 13. East Ger Many had exercised its Sovereign rights to safeguard its frontiers. The Western Powers he said must recognize that two German states exist one of which is developing along the path of social ism. Now he added the Road to the East is closed to them for  Khrushchev reaffirmed that there was no fatal Date set for conclusion of a German peace treaty. X -.,-,.this was take As referring to the fact that in a speech last fall he had lifted the previous dead line of a Berlin settlement by the end of 196l Airliner bound for Viet Nam from press dispatches Manila a chartered Airliner bound for South Viet Nam with 107 persons aboard was missing and presumed Down in the Western Pacific Friday. Reported aboard were 93 . Army enlisted personnel three South Viet namese soldiers and a civilian Crew of 11 americans. The super Constellation of the flying Tiger line was lost on the. Guam to Philippines leg of a trans Pacific flight from Travis air Force base in Northern  . Bases in the Pacific mustered an Armada of planes and ships to search for the missing Craft the first pilots to report Back after scouring a Good part of the42,000-Square-Miie area said they found nothing. All they had to go on was the plane s last routine radio message to Guam sent about 270 Miles Weston that american base in which a nine hour fuel Supply was reported. The plane took off from Guam at 8 57 . Thursday. It was due at Clark fab. North of Manila at 3 16 .  search began from Clark and Andersen fab on Guam at Dawn Friday. Us. Navy. Marine corps and coast guard planes joined in from the Philippines and several Navy vessels set nut from  aboard the Constellation were in route to Saigon As Normal replacements for american Mill tary personnel in South Viet Nam military sources said Friday. The sources said the flight was a routine movement of troops which included advisers technicians and other personnel needed cont.onpaffes4.oolu weather v partly Tom try my Oral of Haak Tutt he anal so Ray. He la it in fut Al Fly tatar. Fay a. Law 2ft. Tim ratan nm4t fray Vatral Eano aaa Tiaw 4 4 am. D m 4� a v at two it 43  4 h 4� m Barite i 34 is Fra kit at m 2s 41 34 pm Tam 3t 4ft i h air  
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