European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stapes news in review edited by International events East West opened disarm Parley East and West sat Down atthe Geneva conference table again but at week s end the Twain seemed to be is far from meeting As Over. Both sides had proposals for ending the nuclear test ban dead lock but the plans differed in detail and in Basic Conception. Among the differences the United states wants verifications of arms reduction and troop cuts. The soviets refuse to permit verification. The United states wants an internationally controlled nuclear test ban in the first stage. Rus Sia proposes an uncontrolled moratorium on underground a blasts until a control system is agreed on and a ban on other tests cheeked Only by the nations own detection systems. The United states plan Calls for . And soviet armed forces to be limited in the first stage to 2.1 million men and All other militarily significant states reduced to appropriate Levels. The russians want . And soviet forces to be reduced to 1.7 Mil lion in the first stage. The United states provides for partial 30 per cent discard of nuclear delivery vehicles in the first stage. The russians want abolition in the first stage of All delivery vehicles and bases from which they would operate. The United states wants a permanent International peace Force established within the United nations in the second stage. The soviets do not provide for an International Force but propose the earmarking of National police units for . Secu Rity Council use in stage three. Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko accused the United states of opening the Way to a new testing race if new tests Are carried out in the Pacific. Secretary of state Dean Rusk held the russians to blame. Rusk pointed out that while the three Powers still were negotiating a tart ban the soviet Union set off it series of atmosphere tests. Meet at Geneva the foreign ministers of the atomic Power meet at the beginning of the Geneva conference. They Are from left foreign Secretary lord Home of Britain. Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko and . Secretary of state Dean Rusk. Up photo red bullets chaff foreign Aid airborne chaff muddied Heberlin situation last week. East German police added to ten Sion by opening fire at a British military car injuring the Driver. Dropping of metallic chaff in the Berlin air corridors by so Viet planes was called dangerous by president Kennedy. The president said such harassment of Allied planes if continued could Lead to counteraction that could Only intensify the dangers. Or. Kennedy said the soviets should seek to decrease tension if they Are really interested in a peaceful settlement of East West issues. The thin strips of Metal were dropped at the edges of two of the air corridors to the divided City. It was similar to a world War ii device to confuse radar operators. A Pentagon official said the chaff has not created any operational difficulties for . Air Craft. British officials strongly pro tested to soviet marshal Ivan s. K o n i e a commander in chief of soviet troops in East Germany Over the shooting incident. The British charged that East German police fired without warning on the British military vehicle. The incident took place near the Village of St Arnsdorf half a mile from the Border Between West Berlin and East Germany. About 30 shoots were fired in bursts at the vehicle. The Driver a British army Corporal was severely injured. The injured Soldier was taken to a Potsdam Hospital where he was interrogated by russian officials. The British also strongly protested against the questioning of the injured Soldier. To president Kennedy asked Al Congress last week to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign economic and military Aid. The president said that any less than this sum $1 billion More than was asked last year would open the door to chaos and tyranny which All  armies and atoms could not quell. Or. Kennedy asked authorization to spend $3 billion Over the next four years for his Alliance for Progress development pro Gram in latin America. About $600 million would be used in the coming fiscal year. At least $624.1 million was asked in economic assistance to far Eastern countries faced by communist aggression. Military assistance for Europe was Cut by about $100 million. Other major categories in or. Kennedy s economic Aid request included $1.25 billion for develop ment Loans $335 million for development Grants $400 million for a contingency fund and $481.5 million for supporting assistance which allows foreign nations to put More of their own Money into military outlays. A cease fire in 1conflict still signed last week. The French go ened Security Meov further outbreaks of i after. The negotiator France agree on a for the algerian Territ French troops throw country were conf Racks. Units of the were reported Crull algerian coast. Heavy reinforcement police were moved into area. The right Wing Gerian movement Jacques Soustelle was i the government. In Algeria itself. Be organization Oas at tinted bringing the since the first of the be than 1,600 dead and be wounded. French authorities Rei capture in Algiers of of terror sections of t had assassination were getting ready  out a French official Oas terrorists struck and Oran killing a to varsity professor and i police commissioner television transmit to bombed. In Algiers european staged a series of including the execution persons at a social Center plane Loi an Airliner Larican troops to South Nam was missing and Down in the Pacific  the third major air i month. The plane a flying Tig super Constellation a 93 . Army enlisted three South vietnamese and a civilian Crew of 11 leans. The loss of All aboard make it the third worst Aster involving a single Ali american airlines Boeing crashed March 1 at new Idle wild Airport k 11 111 three Days later a Brit liner carrying 111 persons i in the West african rep Cameroon. The worst sin disaster involved an air of c124 which crashed near in 1954. Killing 129 person cuban food situation grew to first lady in India Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru in flanked by Jacqueline Kennedy above and her sister Princess i e Radzwill at a lunch in new Delhi. America s first lady arrived in India for her unofficial visit after a Stopover in Rome where the bad a private audience with Pope John Xxiii. Mrs. Kennedy a greeted at new Delhi s Airport by Nehru. About 10,000 turned out to a a her alone Tuc seven mile route she took Fecto my Citer from the Airport associated frees photo Belt tightening was or dered last week for the cub an populace. Premier Fidel Castro announced drastic rationing of food and other goods and said we Are ashamed of not fulfilling the promises  while blaming food shortages on counterrevolution Nairas and the brutal economic blockade by the United states. Castro admitted his regime had made ser ious blunders in planning. Rationing was ordered on Rice and Black Beans Staples of the cuban diet. In the Havana area rationing will cover beef Chicken fish eggs and milk. Castro had promised last july that food rationing in Cuba would end toward the Middle of this year. Earlier the United states or dered a halt to the exchanging of postal Money orders with Cuba. A Post office department spokesman said the step was part of the administration s decision to restrict Trade and other exchanges Between the United states and Cuba. The spokesman also said . Senders had complained that Money order addressees had to wait Well beyond Normal time for delivery of the Money orders in Cuba. About $500,000 in . Dollars was sent to Cuba by postal Money orders last year. A cuban move in the nations to have the aulsion of Cuba by the Tion of american states declared illegal was lab attempt to make the Jet to a soviet veto. Cuban chief Delegate Garcia Inchaustegui told Security Council the Oas a was illegal. He said the charter holds that no Agency can take Ensor action without the Council s authorization. . Delegate Adlai St said i think that what really facing is not a Legal Lem but a political Effo extend the soviet veto organization of american through the Security cd