European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday october 18, 1964 International events the stars and stripes Page 7 Khrushchev despot Clown was removed Nikita Khrushchev despot enough to master the Rulh ios Power slut Flo of the Kremlin Cyl Buffoon enough to Clown in the International spot Light lust thursday was shunted aside from leadership of the soviet Union. In 1938, Khrushchev could mercilessly direct Josef Stalin s bloody purge in the Ukraine removing about 3,000communist parly officials Many of them sent to slave labor Camps or executed. Yet in 195, he could get headlines with a farcical Rebuff at Disneyland or by pounding desk at the United nations with his shoe. Born into a peasant family Khrushchev followed his father Down into the mines at hed Onbas coalfields. From this Bleak beginning he Rose to head of the soviet communist party in 1953 and on March 27, 1938, he was named chairman of the user Council of minis ters or prime minister. These wore the two Post from which he was ousted by his aides. In a sudden switch Nypower that caught the world by Surprise. The official Tuss new Agency said the party Central committee and the supreme soviet parliament presidium relieved the. 70 year old Khrushchev of both jobs at his own age and deteriorating health were the reasons Tass said for the smoothest Chance of Tnp Kremlin Leader ship in soviet history. It was voluntary in appearance although the pres sures that May have been involved in he transition Are not yet known . Conid i. Brezhnev Khrushchev s chief party Deputy took Over communist leadership and Alexel n. Kosygin his govern ment Deputy became new regime quickly dedicated itself to Khrushchev policies. Soviets orbited 3 cosmonauts labor party won election in Britain maybe it was the influence of the Shakespeare year. Beamed into Spucci lust week was b line from a Lumiel there Are More things i heaven and Earlh. Horatio than Are dreamt of in there was a thins in the heavens lie soviet spacecraft Sunrise the world s first Pas Senger spaceship. The collective Horatio be ing addressed was the three Man Crew being refused per Mission to remain in space on extra , the soviet newspaper reported the elizabethan play last tuesday after the Landing of the cosmonauts. The crewmen were feeling Fine Izvestia said after n voyage of24 hours 7 minutes in 16 orbits. The flight covered 435.000miles. Officially the russians said everything went according to plan but the unusually elliptical orbit indicated the space Craft May have been Force Down Early. The 90.1-minute or bit ranged in Altitude from 112to 255 Miles. Sunrise landed with the Zaidof parachutes inv Estiu said after rocketing into space fro the Bai Konur cosm drome 1,290 Miles Southeast of mos cow the Craft landed on the Northern Edge of the Kuza Khi Stan farming Region in South Western Siberia. 1.000 Miles East Southeast of soviet press announced that the spacemen landed i their Cabin something the americans but not the rus sians had accomplished be up the Crew were a Pilot cosmonaut. Col Vendi Murm. Komarov. A 37-year-old air Man who overcame heart defect to win the right to Lead the Sunrise Engineer scientist Konstontin p. Fcook Lastov. 38. Who made on the spot tests determining work canc Fly in space and or. Doris b. Pro Rov a 27-Yeur-oui physician who carried nut medical tests during the journey marked the first time anyone but an aviator or trained cosmonaut had Ridden in Pace. The crewmen dispensed with the traditional Bubble top space suits of rus Sia s six previous russians did not disclose the size or weight of the space Craft but hinted the rocket Booster was More powerful than America s mighty Saturn. The 570-ton Saturn has 1.9 Mil lion pounds of thrust. The flight gave Russia a t-4edge in the orbit Box score. Nine soviet citizens including woman and four americans have orbited the Earth. Two americans have made suborbital . Officials indicated that the soviets now Lead the United states by anywhere from 2 to 6 years in the manned Conquest of space. The next . Representatives in space will be Astro nauts Virgil i. Grissom and John Young who will Pilot a two seater chem uni capsule three times around the Earth. They Are grounded however at least until next february. Their space vehicle originally scheduled for completion a year ago. Is still in the As Sembly Stag. After 13 years of conservative Rule the British electoral voted into Power the labor parly of Harold Wilson. At 48. Wilson became the youngest British prime min ister of it is i Ontrey the i Alhi rite majority Wasso Small however i hat there were doubts about whether Wil son could Long keep control of the House of commons. It was fell Wilson would Riska Quick fall if he charged ahead with his socialistic party s policies 01. Such controversial issues As re orbit anyone col Vladimir Komarov holding Tennis Racquet reals with or. Boris Yegorov Center and Kons Falln Frok Lastov during training for their flight in a soviet three Man spacecraft. Their 16-Orbll flight look 24 hours 7 minutes. Associated press i Holo St. Louis cards won the series the biggest week in Sporl history proclaimed the snort Custers. Usually some allowances made for such pronounce ments sports casters being a notoriously n i h i a s tic fraternity. World of sportscast week however they could Point to these particulars a Down to the wire world series Start of the games and College Council s gravest crisis the ecumenical Council Las week faced what was called the gravest crisis since the Council Issue were forthright declarations on anti semitism and religious Liberty. On monday is leading Liberal cardinals including America s Albert Gregory Meyer culled on Popo Paul i to Block conservative Maneu vers aimed a softening the declarations. The cardinals appealed to the pontiff in a signed petition Tob lock the Maneu vers which impede the Progress of the on tuesday Council source said Pope Paul had sided with the 1 i b e r a i a giving reassurances to the group in a series of liberals wanted the declarations about the jews an religious Liberty strengthened with jewish people specifically absolved of deicide. Football in full swing. There were these develop ments the is. I mis cardinals won their first world Chain pin ship slurp 1911 with u 7-5victory Over he Favori d new York Yankees in the crucial seventh Merles Gume at Bunch Madu Iii. The cards won Hind the pitching of Bob Gib son working with Only two Days rest ribs of broke All series strikeout records Wilh total of 31. Including nine in Hie filial Day after the series ended the curds announce that Lunny Kane had resigned us manager. Also the Yankee said thai a if in i Wuu lil Siut return to Pilot the club next year. The United states got of to u Good Start in the race for honors winning More Hun i Gold medals. The . Victories include these world records Jed Graef. Of Verona n.j., in themen s 200-Mc Ter backstroke Cathy Ferguson Burbank,calif., w o m c n s 100-meter backstroke Sieve Clark i us Altos calif., Mike Austin Rochester. . Iviry Lyman. Sun just. Ciilif., und Don is Hal lamer. Lake Osu eur ore., in the 4fll -me1cr freestyle relay Dirk it nth. Alicr Lam calif., in the 4ui.ineli-r individual relay fiary e Afulei min in the free Rifle Hayes. Jacksonville flu., lied the world record by run Ning 100 meters in 10 seconds. Haves was clocked it 9.9 seconds in the semifinal but was not credited with a world record because the wind at his Back was above the minimum allowed. In football. It was a rough weekend for the service acid emits. Penn stale upset army,6-2 Georgia tech Deal Navy. 17-0. And notre Dame Defeated he air Force. 34-7. Veteran Driver Parnell Jones won the 200-mile River Side culit., grand prix for sport s cars. Driving a Cooper Ford he finished 2 second ahead of Roger tensile. Britain won the International Amateur Golf team championship in Rome trouncing a favored . Team which finished fourth. Home Wilson of steel and the abandonment of Britain s separate nuclear deterrent. Wilson has declared repeatedly that the labor party wants to get Britain out of the nuclear weapons business. He favors scrapping his nation s atomic weapons and depending on the massive . Force. Wilson was appointed prime minister on Friday by Queen Elizabeth a few minutes after sir Alex Douglas Home handed her his resignation and that of his government. Sir Alex told newsmen he would still Lead the conserva Tives in opposition. Wilson said it is his party duty to govern no matter How Small the majority. Although 20seals usually Are regarded the minimum workable majority in the commons Clement Allce formed a government with a margin of Only six scats. However Allce Britain s prime minister was forced to cull new elections in18 months. Parliament is elected for five year term but a prime minister can Call for a new election any time he likes Dur ing that period when he think conditions favor his parly. In last week s election jog Rimond s Small Liberal group won eight cuts. This could give he liberals a balance of Power position in the new com Mons opening nov. 3. Wilson s aides urged him to push ahead with his program. 14th victim m meningitis last week claimed its 14lh victim this year it it. Ord. Calif. I addition Bis persons have been stricken by the latest victim was a 22 year old recruit who died Only two Days after the defense department ordered strict Meas ures at the Post to combat the disease which also has been traced from it. Ord to three of four recent eases in the san Fri in buy Wren. One of those was last week the army ordered a temporary suspension of recruit training at the base for the month of Decem Ber. In addition trainees we retold they could receive no Visi tors except their parents would be granted no passes and would report to new assign menu immediately after Basic training without the customary two week leave
