European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse 24 the stars and sinks Kennedy offers plan to create office of science technology Washington up presiden Kennedy has asked Congress to approve plans for overhauling the government s scientific policy Mak ing machinery. Hie president submitted to con Cuba begins mass trial of invaders Havana up trial of 1,182war prisoners captured after last year s Bay of pigs invasion started thursday in Havana s Principe prison. A five Man military tribunal Catin judgment on the prisoners. The Public was barred. The Only newspapermen present represented the local press and Friendly it was the biggest mass trial i cuban political history. The official charges against the prisoners were not made Public. The government denied Access tothe prison to attorneys assigned by their relatives and friends to de fend them. A request that a Token delegation of outsiders be allowed to attend the trial was rejected. Travel ban end hinted from it tic ii the present time is the Early resumption of dependent travel to overseas areas so that our soldiers can Benefit from the influence of family life. Before the cutoff an average of9,147 dependents of military personnel of the three services went to Europe each month at govern ment expense. Since the suspension became effective last ocl 9. A total of 19,400 dependents have paid their own Way to Europe to be with their menfolk. They have not been permitted to live in government sup plied quarters t it have had to make Theli own arrangements. Because of this self finance travel the dependent population is virtually the same As it was jus before the suspension went into Force. It now totals 318,909 only764 fewer than last oct a member of the House armed services committee recently asked Gen George h. Decker army chief of staff whether thought has been Given to the difficulties involve Din evacuating us military families in event of a War conceded this is a serious problem but said. We have plans Hwy highly developed plans for getting them out should he did not elaborate. The suspension covers travel to Belgium. Denmark prance. West Germany. Greece Italy Luxem Bourg the Netherlands Norway Portugal. Spain Turkey and Brit Ain. It does not apply to West Berlin Gross a reorganization plan under which he would create an office of science and technology. It would be an Independent office Belo Cabinet status. The plan would be come effective automatically unless vetoed by Congress. The new office would be headed by a director at $22.500 a year and a Deputy director at $20,500 year. The director would be As signed certain functions now vested in the National science foundation. Principal purpose of the new of fice will be to coordinate the vast and sometimes scattered planning of National scientific policy. Staff resources or. Kennedy s message to con Gress said the president would have under the reorganization plan permanent staff resources capable of advising and assisting him on matters of National policy affected or pertaining to science and technology considering the rapid growth and far reaching scope of Federal activities in science and technology or. Kennedy told Congress it is imperative that the president have adequate staff support in developing policies and evaluating programs in order to assure that science and technology Are used most efficiently in the interests of National Security and general Wel the National science foundation will continue to originate plans for supporting Basic research an science education. Liz Eddie breakup reported new York a a new Yor newspaper reported thursday that Singer Eddie Fisher has suffered nervous breakdown and had told an associate that his marriage with Elizabeth Taylor was Over and there would be a divorce. According to the copyrighted ally news report. Fisher is a patient in a private mid town psychiatric Hospital the newspaper said the Prospect of divorce from actress Eliza Beth Taylor proved too much Lorthe Young but it was announced thursday Fisher had left a Hospital which he entered monday for a rest at the same time a spokesman termed ridiculous reports tha Fisher had suffered a nervous breakdown. Miss Taylor alarmed by report that Fisher had suffered a nervous breakdown called the Singer s physician from Rome thursday fish or s manager reported. The doctor told her Fisher was simply fatigued and needed a rest. Fisher returned to the United states a week ago and said upon arrival he would be in the country indefinitely to attend to business. Taylor briefed on . Policy London a _ prime min ister Harold Macmillan was re ported thursday night to have told Gen Maxwell a Taylor president Kennedy s military adviser tha Britain is unable to take on a larger nato Load because of he overseas commitments. Informants said Macmillan gave the american general a full state ment of his government s military policy during an hour s talk in the prime minister s office at the House of commons. Earlier this policy had been spelled out in detail to Taylor by lord Mountbatten. Chief of the de sense staff and top army Navy and air Force commanders during Day Long talks. The general arrived wednesday night from Berlin. Navy drops plan to rate wives with husbands Washington Cap Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth announced thursday he has ordered Elimina Tion of a Section in a fitness report that would rate officer wife said after reviewing the form i have concluded that the pro posed report will not produce the information needed and May unnecessarily Hurt the promotion chances of some officers who Are exceptionally Well qualified for sea and other duties not requiring Spe Cial attention to the suitability of dependents for such reaction critical Orth undertook the review nearly two weeks ago after there was a critical reaction to the Sec Tion of the form which the Nav said was designed to provide essential information on the effectiveness of officer wife teams As representatives of the Navy an the nation on foreign when the new form was pre pared it had been expanded to provide for comment by senior officers on the suitability of wives As Well As Junior officer husband sin a team. Charles Evan Whittaker coup leaders deny Syria to rejoin . Damascus Syria the leaders of the military coup d eat denied emphatically thursday that they wanted Syria to return to its former Union with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. The general command of the army and armed forces issued a bulletin broadcast by Damascus radio describing such comments As false rumours at the same time the command issued a communique abolishing Syria s six hour curfew. Damascus radio later announce that frontiers with Lebanon and Jordan would soon be opened an that flights on nil internal routes would be resumed Friday moves seemed directed at demonstrating the army Leader ship s Confidence in Public support for its actions. City on the High he was named Dowhitt court wit five All appointed Are chief jul justices John Ter Stewart the Hugo and by former i appointed Harry s. Llam a by Eisenhower. Whittaker. Now tation on the j painstaking Jurii or. Kennedy will be Ai refused to whether secretion off of the welfare named to the Whittaker wat court to real act Jyh Reed a Roosevelt he was on the in the court m split the Wing led Frankfurter. In \ mental authority Al liberties he a vote for govern i Jackie l Hungary Stamps Honor . Astronaut Glenn Vienna up . Astronaut John Glenn or. Is being honoured by Hungary with a series of stamp issued to Mark space exploits. Radio Budapest said. Hungary is the first communist country to Honor Glenn. His por trait will appear along with soviet spacemen Yuri Gagarin and Cher Man Tlatov. President Calls Berlin crisis urgent nazi victims to get $10 million in 1962 Copenhagen a distribution of 810,075.000 in 1962 for the Benefit of 170,000 needy nazi Vic Tim in 25 countries was decide her by the conference on jewish material claims against Germany tto year s allocation brings to580 million the sum the claims con Ference has allocated Tor nazi Vic Tims outside of Israel since the original agreement was reached with the Bonn government in 1952. Continued from Page to work they have done to reach a agreement without threat of a strike. It was reported wednesday that a steel pact had been agreed upon by Union and management which called for a 10-cent-an-hour boost invocation pension and supplemental employment benefits but without an immediate pay boost also reported included in the pact Are provisions to reopen discussions of wage increases Al the end of the first year. Union committees still must ratify the agree ment and will meet in Pittsburgh saturday to do so. See Story on Page 3j Summit conference asked whether Secretary of state Dean Rusk. Just Back from nuclear Dis armament and Berlin talks in Geneva got anything from soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko that would indicate a better out look for a Summit conference said he has nothing to add to what he has said before thus restating his position against going to the Summit without preliminary developments indicating benefits be apportionment the administration supported the principles adopted by the supreme that the High court has acted. There is no sense or. Kenned said. In a Tam after representing 10,000 people sitting in a state legislature next to one represent ing 500,000. He said the problem is not confined merely to ten Nessee. Budget balance or Ken Nedy indicated there now is doubt Inari London up line Kennedy Kcf by her by britons new York started her 3 trip Rushing to America s first pan american Jet into the air 12 minute mrs. Kennedy was that Hind schedule in Leav Don Home of her Zisterer in Law Prince and Siwill. Where she has mrs. Kennedy freq. Cited a lady s right Toher tour of India and the minor tardiness her no time to male of Farewell Days in London in lunch with Quee Buckingham Palace. The president s wife of the Radz wiil Home Brief smile at photo Gat a crowd of some 300/ and whistled at her into the Blue with her sister and and their 2-year-old Mindszenty Cal Washington a president Kennedy was asked at his news conference whether after 14 months in the White House he would seek the Job if he had it to do Over again and second whether you would recommend it to with a smile the president replied the answer to the first is yes. The answer to the other is Don t recommend it to others at East for a court in its ruling that Tennessee voters have the right to a hearing in Federal court on their complain that City dwellers do not have equitable representation. The principle that each vote ounts equally. Or. Kennedy said s Basic to a democracy and he Hopes Normal political processes will bring about such Equality now about the Prospect for balancing the budget for fiscal 1963, but said the administration will have better idea when first Quarter re ports on economic developments rein. If the recovery is Well sustained he said there will s till be balanced budget despite his re cent request for a new $600 million Public works program. Human rights Vatican City Vatican radio thursday Josef Cardinal mind Szepi Symbol of human Righta a Vang document of the Vatican made the in marking the 70th the roman Catholic Hungary who has been legation in Budapest in asked Tor political during the 1936 he deserter sent to Kansas City John Gessner army deserter charged ing the russians n was committed Days in the us. At Springfield mo., for i
