European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stapes Friday. May 24, 1963 time nearing for dissolution of original Mercury astronauts by Howard Cape canaveral a in Tel tally the Mercury user nuut team which pioneered . Nance flight Hud to dissolve. Thi Limp apparently linear. The Mercury pilots will Moke additional flights. They will continue to work closely thing won t be the witness the United states pushes Nhei Odwith More ambitious Man in space ventures. The seven men of Mercury Alan shepord cub Grossom. John Glenn. Scoti Carpenter fully Schurra Gordon Cooper and a Etc slay Tan have welded into Brilliant team since their Selec Tion four years one of them soured into space the others held key ground jobs and it was always we who got the Job done. When the hero of the moment received the accolades of the crowds the others usually were close by to share the Glenn vacationing in Japan was mining As Cooper re celled cheers in Washington and new York this week for his acc Ord american manned space Jour Ney of 23 if another Mercury mis Sion is flown a decision to be made in a week or so the script will be different. Nine new astronauts were in the wings when Coop a rocketed into space lost week. They have been training for months and Are ready to assume major assign ment on future Short the team has grown from Teren to 16 and Wilt look head to the gemini two Man flights and the three Man Apollo jaunts to the 19 even Are negotiating As group to sell their personal stories for publication just As the original seven made a Deal with St National Gem enl Apollo specially assignments were delegated by the notional aeronautics and space administration in january Only Cooper and Curt pin met. They Wen Tab had for remnal Nln Pilot Jihn ses of project thus Shepard is Likely to be it the controls if there Iff another Mercury per hips for three the specially jobs each astronaut concentrates on one of the development pro and periodically All As semble to compare notes and make suggestions to the planning engineers. Glenn is l it on Man Between the astronauts and the Overa Lapollo planning program. Girl som has the same assignment a Ltd gemini. Carpenter is concerned with lunar excursion training Schurra with Overall operations and training and Slayton barred from flight because of a heart murmur continues As coordinator of astronaut affairs. The new astronauts and their roles net Armstrong trainers and simulators Frank Borman launch vehicles and abort sys tems Charles Conrad cockpit layout and systems integration James Lovell recovery James Modl Vitt guidance and navigation Elliot see elect Recal sequential and Mission planning Tom Stafford communications Edward White flight control sys. Terns and John Young Environ mental control and survival Crews for the gemini and Apollo rides will be named later. Initially. It is expected that one of the original astronauts and one of the new group will comprise each two Man gemini , All 16 will be Elig Ible for Apollo lunar trips unless the first launching slips far beyond the present 1069 schedule. Then Njie Moy Rule out Home of the older Nitro nut. Glenn it 41, lit the oldest the nine new pilots average about four Wirs younger finn the Mercury members. Additional astronauts Wilt be selected in the coming on any major undertaking when men work so closely there have been differences most of them eni Tlly last Timmer criticized the numerous Public ppr Frances which he said were hindering Glenn s usefulness to the pro Gram. The Public interpreted this is n feud Between but Schirru emphasized he Wax not Grill Rel of a Fanti hut of the Offit Lii to who the irn curricular i be Job nil Ali maintain close social relation. Mast live in Tom mime urea of Houston tex., headquarter of the manned apace flight Center. Warm friendships have devel oped Tuu nil in and car pen Ier Anil Between Schurra and fall certain Mercury of flu Ila reportedly Felt Cooper the Only eligible Pilot who had not made a Light was too Headstrong to attempt a mis Sion of More than one Day an were considering passing Over him in favor of Shepard. Schurra jumped quickly to Coop or s defense and helped swing the decision his Way he Confidence in Cooper who had been his Back up Pilot was proven last week. . Advises nato allies to improve Force balance Ottawa a Secretary of def True Robert & Mcnamara told the nato countries in effect wednesday to take a Leaf out Olathe us. Book and improve balance in their conventional meant the Airlift ground transport Supply organization Cuba getting millions Aid Washington a into nation reaching Ujj. Intelligence indicates that Cuba s Fidel Castro has received around 9300 million Worth of soviet arms since no camber and Wilt get about s3so million in communist economic help Thia year. This la in addition to an Esti mated 1500 million Worth of so Viet military equipment turn Dover to cuban armed forces be fore last october s missile crisis and 1300 million to of million in previous economic Aid. Despite the Large scale help from the soviet bloc. Cuba s econ omy waa reported in bad shape and getting was said to be Faher in for Lack of spare Parta an maintenance. Even Castro s per Sonal automobile were reported in bad repair. Some of the bloc made vehicles were described As unsuitable or tropical use. And other elements which military authorities feel Are needed for a truly effective Force. The current Force goal Calls for30 nato divisions on the Central front about 26 divisions have been committed so far by various did not suggest go ing beyond the to divisions but urged that the backup for these divisions be filled out to give them greater mobility and staying . Sources said that to achieve the balance Mcnamara is talking about would Call for More men and More Money something the allies have not been eager to pro Pentagon chief told the Al lied leaders nato Hai gone a Good distance in the Field of nuclear deterrence und defense. He cited the assignment of three submarines armed with deep striking Polaris missiles and said this had increased the nuclear Power under Gen Lyman a Lemnitzer supreme Allied com Mander in Europe. Secretary of state Dean rus sought to Lay at real any impression among the allies that the uj3. Commitment in Europe extends Only to conventional weapons. Source said Rusk stressed the necessity for a nuclear conventional Bounce in the nato arms Structure. Cooper s Papee route astronaut Gordon Cooper Wavea Tat looks up into the paper filled any a a Parade in his Honor Nora through new York s Union Square. Sanitation men after the Panda picked of mho tone of paper putting Cooper behind fellow astronaut Tjohn h. Gitonn or. And Oen Dowdye Macarthur in the amount of paper dropped from Manhattan s skyscrapers. A Phot Force without a name9 by Martonak a new analyst Ottawa. Canada api France and the other 14 nations of the Atlantic Alliance appear to have restored much needed har Mony in nato by giving unanimous final Blessing to what Allied diplomats now cell the Force without n this Force is what Washington used to Call the multinational or More recently the enter Allied nuclear striking Force. It was proposed originally As a new command within nato by presi Dent Kennedy and Britain s liar old Macmillan at Nassau last two leaders believed then that this Force could be a modes first step leading to a More am Btl our goal a porn Rex of i r i n g nato seaborne Force truly integrated and manned by Crews from All or most of the participating nations. French president Charles Degaulle immediately cold shouldered the entire concept. He still appears firmly opposed to any thing that smacks of Inte Gration in nato and anything that would even indirectly ques Tion Franco s right to develop us National nuclear multilateral Force plan As conceived by Washington policy makers foresees thai National contributions will be completely obviously was not acceptable to Gaulle and the Ottawa meeting of nato minis ten. Noting that some Progress has been made on the question decided that time Haa not yet come for formal decisions on this project but the diplomatic Man Euver ing which preceded the nato meeting produced agreement on the Force without the French privately list what concessions the other Side meaning the other 14 member made before Paris agreed that the Alliance should make some kind of a formal step in creating a new Frame for nato s existing nuclear French insisted there is no need to establish any new Structure inside nato to Deal with the assignment of , Polaris submarines British a bom , for that matter the two Sui Irons of French air plane already Sla Luned in Ger Many and to be equipped with american nuclear weapons. The other 14, including the United states in deference to French sensitivity said if the French not want to give name to the Force. It should re main without a main thing is that the Structure come into being they said. 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