European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes so urday june 9 Wal Fifer unfazed by perils of xi5 flights i z editor s note this week x15 test Pilot Job Walker took it cute of from setting Altti tide and Speed records to put his rocket plan Tho ugh. A. High Speed curving dive that pioneered a risky new Landing Telmi avg for spacecraft. Edwards air Force base up when America s in Ost famous xl5 Pilot Steps from " is i rocket ship after a world record flight to the Edge of space. You re not surprised by his appear " " "jhe1 looks Jike what you might expect of a Man who is a combi nation physics graduate and super flier., i. With his Silver pressurised flight suit Bulky boots and Large space helmet he gives the impression of being a futuristic spaceman out of science once Veteran lest Pilot Joe Walker diffs his exaggerated at lire for his simple Street clothes you re in for a . = instead of being a Young and dashing Buck Rogers Type Joe. 41, is an unsophisticated onetime Farn Iboy who still retains his Home spun drawl and mannerisms. He � Elands before you in a sport shirt Slacks and scuffed Loafer shoes. There is nothing pretentious about the x15 seems unperturbed by greatness and danger of his missions and wisecracks about them the Way humorist will Rogers used to spout jokes Wilile spinning a Cowboy s rope. After his historical flight to 46.7 Miles above the Earth the highest Man Ever has flown in an aircraft of quipped about his flight up Ward at five times the Speed of sound. I thought if i ran thai darn engine any longer i d shoot into or Bitt he said amid laughter from newsmen. Joe also says there Are More frightening things for modern Day Man than Hying a rocket ship. Driving in that heavy Auto traffic on the los Angeles freeways some 110 Miles South of this base bothers me a lot More drawls Joe. And sometimes i think it s a whole lot More Joe is married has three children and is n methodist Lay preacher. He likes to bowl for recreation and drives to work at this base in a battered old pickup truck that he admits is pretty his Hobby is do it yourself repairs around the House. His wife is a schoolteacher and they have four was born on a farm in Wash Ringlon. Pa., and was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College with a physics degree. Dur ing world War ii he was a combat flier for the army air Force in the Mediterranean theater. New cite t11 o new Heights Veteran test Pilot Joe Walker emerges from his x15 plane at Edwards fab calif., after a record flight to the Edge of space. Associated press photo Africa crisis feared / Wash i n g t o n . Diplomats fear the next foreign crisis will come in Africa s Ruanda to Rundi and that it could become As Kinessy As the playing a major role will .be1, Belgium hat country which once was in control of the Congo rules Ruanda Burundi As a territory. The area is located at the mountains of the Moon where both the Antte and Congo Rivers Rise. In. Simplest terms the problem is that Ruanda Burundi. A belgian territory since world War ,1, is due a july l to become two inde pendent states Ruanda and Burundi. The a in Burundi is a return " to the ancient name in the Case of the Congo a thai a is nowhere ready for in rival tribes Are on the Brink of civil War. The Bel whose forces now maintain a semblance of order Are under ,3strbag pressures to leave. If this Jia Peris be up to1 the United nations. Of j1""h. I. Dictator s opponents joining exodus Paraguay s big new Export people Asuncion Paraguay people have become the main Export of this landlocked nation ruled by the Dean of latin american dictators. By unofficial estimate from 500.000 to 750,000 citizens have gone abroad in the last decade or so. The latter figure would represent nearly half the population. Argentina a big draw of the emigrants go to Argentina. Buenos Aires 1,000 Miles away is a sort of Mecca. Why do they go the reasons Range from political instability to limited Job opportunities to the be Lief that things must be belter else where. The emigrants have included the Ljula of the political opposition to president Alfredo Stroessner. Thousands of sullen angry of position lists remain but their effect uveness has been muted by a state of siege. The r puts the citizen directly under the jurisdiction of Tanganyika where Otbo blk Bra War newsman shows Ronnda Prundl in ._i.east/Africa, a former belgian Colony. The United nations is trying a Turyi Ingv to head off an explosion Between the rival government of Filanda and Burundi. " " United press International Stroessner a general with Only theoretical recourse to Appeal. The state of siege has been in effect with Brief lapses for 13 years. It is renewed every 00 Days b. An obliging Congress. Stroess Ner who has ruled since 1954, says the 1963 elections will be free but that the state of siege must continue. We arc a geographically de senseless country the Burly 49 year old general explains. The state of siege permits us to protect our democratic institutions against invasions by communist infiltrated Paraguay has turned Back seven invasion in four years. A medical student said " Here is some truth in his Stroessner so fears. But his greatest worry is that full Freedom Wil mean a free press and free speech and thus a revelation of the scandalous corruption among the privileged oligarchy and the Mil cells reported student leaders report Small Well organized pro communist groups in the Unher sity and among some of the opposition parties. But they argue that Stroessner is attempt ing to discredit his opponents by applying the communist Label. Stroessner is maintained in Power by the army and the usual forces of repression found in dictator ships. Plainclothes men and inform ers Are known As Pyra gues pronounced puh Rah Wehs a Guarani Indian word meaning people with hairy the hair presumably cushions their footsteps. One never knows they Are about until trouble starts. There is no evidence that the Stroessner dictatorship has Ever reached the level of blood letting that marked the Trujillo and Batista regime but there Are countless stories of prison Camp horrors. Foreign observers in a position to know say Stroessner has eased up considerably on his opponents lately even cleaning up political prisoners obtained Freedom by paying fines in gasoline. This came about when the police ran out of credit it the Gas stations. To meet the shortage they started releasing prisoners on payment of gasoline several paying 7,000 Gal Lons. There Are some signs of Progress. Under Stroessner the country has built up its River Fleet to a total of 30 ships of 1,000 tons. Construction of Low Cost Homes for workers is under Way. The poor Don t seem As bad off As their counterparts in other latin. Ameri can countries. Even in slum areas most people seem busily indifferent Rind some even Happy. Rochr noir. Algeria thirty mites from the Juroff Algiers an embryo algerian was Horn. Known As t he a Tom i n istra Tive it of Rocher noir it houses 15flflt persons. Some Are preparing 4 Geria s future others Are dating its past. In their isolation Behuni. Protective barbed wire few aware of everyday problems aah feelings of Algeria s terrorize cities and its fearful Interior. Next to the building housing the algerian provisional executive i the office of the French High Cor missioner. Who Wilt become to tic ambassador of France after Tfir july 1 self determination vote. New office moslem officials ins Brand net offices dictate tetters to Frencic secretaries and algerian nationalist rebel representatives in Fiew fatigues Brush past French office ii carrying Riding Sticks. There is no tension and no a k Parent ill feeling. Moslem and european children go together. $ the primary school Andi High named after a great French Nizer of Algeria. Marshall Bugeaud a steet he meter moslem Soldier stands guard not far from " he pole flying the French Tricolour until july 1. Rocher noir will still be a part of France. Orderly step Rocher noir was created eight to months ago to remove French offi Cills from the influence of Algiers and its right win european settlers. It was also meant to ser As the first step in the progressive installation of a new Algeria government. Algerian officials Are doubtful they say Rocher noir is too far from the however it continuing systematic destruction of Public buildings by the secret. Army organization Oas rna Force the algerians to keep the capital Here for some time. Most of the 15.doo inhabitants f Are families of moslem lives an unreal lift -. Virtually Cut off from the grim Andi f. Seldom encouraging reality of at Geria on the verge of Independence. European edition army Navy air Force col rid Way p. Smith or. Usa. Editor ii cult col John j. Caulfield Usan. A puns aim Teadt Al so rep m 741j two Ruf mgt to 04189-331 Stul Gorf Williom c. Duren c w21 i. My 7295, to a 7-23607 Munick Bob Hoyt c 493663, m 8354 Tel 5-23886 rom Ilcin Henry b. 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