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Space probe

teams

worry

By ANGELA CROOME

BRITISH scientists in-

volved in preparing ex- "Scout" periments for the space satellite programme are becoming restive at the delays in obtaining decisions from the National Space

Committer. The Scout is the joint U.S.-U.K. satellite

THE CHINA MAIE, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1960.

No new policies until a new President

by

JOSEPH

C. HARSCH

-but let this be understood:

the Alliance is intact...

What must the West do now?

The China Mail is presenting this week opinions from many of the best-informed minds of the Western world on the situation created by the shattering events of the past few weeks which have climaxed even the collapse of the Summit.

The preliminary analysis below comes from the pen of a world-renowned political analyst. Its frankness will be read series arranged last summer with all the more interest because its author, the senior European the National Broadcasting Company, is in which the British are to correspondent of

of the most powerful of all provide the instruments and American-indeed. he is one the Americans the rocket commentators to the United States........ facilities.

The arrangements for

the first satellite to be launched SOMETHING, obviously, has gone wrong with the

in auluma, 1061, were

known

before Christmas and announced

in February.

The main proposals for Scout II, were also clear before Christ- mas and were expected to be a

nounced at the same lime as Scout I or son after. They have

not been announced yet. In fact, ments are to go into it have no

the decisions on what experi

been made.

organisation, posture, and influence of that thing we imperfectly define as "the Western world." Its disor ganised condition shows up most prominently in the Far East. There President Eisenhower's grand tour of great capitals turned into a visit among parish pensioners.

The Chinese Communists contemptuously shelled Quemoy as he left Formosa surrounded by the entire U.S. Pacific Fleet. In Japan Prime Minister Kishi will resign, and no man can foresee what will take his place, These may be tnalised today when the sub-committee con- American induence is reced- corned with this incets for lying in the Far East and Peking Arst time for months at the Royal is manifestly intending and Society.

expecting to fill the vacuum.

Three groups

Mr Eisenhower's personal capa- elty to clicck the deterioration

For nine months the experi-is in doubt. menters have been wondering

There is pathos and tragedy where they stand. Three groups in the spectacle. Mr Elsenltower are affected.

is a man of enormous good The Meteorological Offices Re-will. He wished, and undoubt search Department wants io edly expected, to crown his study the way the atmosphere public career with a noble con- mixes between 15 an 50 miles tribution to the peace of the high;

world. He has been rejected as a peacemaker.

*:

Radio astronomers Cam- bridge want to coserve the rario waves in space that have never been picked up before because they cannot get through the "electric blanket" of the Iono- sphere that is wrapped around the earth;

And scientists at Manchester University are interested in counting by a new technique the number of minute shouting stars in space (called micro- meteorites).

To do each of these things now and highly complex instruments need to be developed. These in-

Ferment

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COMMENT BY CUMMINGS

larly new has happened else- where,

Africa and Latin America are in ferment and the old Western capitals are observing rather thon guiding everis. Fidel pened. Castro has become Moscow's but Chiang Kai-shek. political and even military base

A

Frider

are

Communism enjoys. and abels, the disorganisation every where. But it is not enough to that the Communists say responsible for all that has hap

They may be shrewd, not a whole nation of Russian Machiavellis could have consciously planned the series of events leading up to the polguant moment when Mr Eisenhower heard that he could. not be received in Tokyo.

Communisin is not the cause of all our troubles. It is most skilfully exploiting them.

Eisenhower

in Cuba is not inconceivable.

In Europe the problems of Berlin, of the "sixes and reconciliation all

British-German sevens," of a

remain in dangerous abeyance.

Danger

The

personal

THE THIN H.P. LINE

จ

Khrushchev

America has the power to no matter what happens after de Gaulle can be the marriage existing strength of destroy the usefulness of the Kishi, or on Russia with its capa- broker without Washington and its allies or their regenera- President, to tell him where he city for retaliation, or on China help.

Live powers. The Alliance is may go and where he may not which alone of all countries in We must solve the problem Intact," It is

only for the go, to open up new vistas of the world positively and by of releasing Africa without moment pilotless and drifting. opportunity for his Chinese ally, avowal would welcome a world leiting is fragments slip into

Mal

Moscow's hands.

Weak

There is little purpose in attempting at this stage 10 search out the story of how it all happened, and where, if any where, we of the West have gone wrong.

It is sufficient for the moment

The greatest immediate prob- lem is to reorganise the con tainment of China, in which alone. task we are surely not Moscow would suureely welcome. sudden or massive increase in Chinese power,

Also, much that is happening today would have happened regardless of Washington, or

And were it not for the last

six unhappy weeks the men who We must work out a new are contending for the succession. relationship with Japan, and in Washington would be perhaps with China as well.

The strength

Last but not least, useful con- tact with Moscow will have to be re-established.

prived of the chance they now have to see the problems ahead in their fullest shape and pro- them- portions, and prepare selves with new answers to what are, in fact, new

problems. We have lost several baitien, the usefulness” of Mr

and

Mr Eisenhower will never Eisenhower. We have also besti

story contains elements at a to recornise that there is all the capitals of the Alliance.

No one, trouble and that men of Zood Japan could not for ever be tied have a chance now to do these reminded that Western man will

classic Greek tragedy.

There is danger for all in what has happened. In his per son Eisenhower symbolised, if he did not actually exercise, the lendership of the West. He was feared and respected, as well as liked. Among our enemies he is no longer feared or respected.

Suddenly. admost overnight, Everywhere there is the man caused it. No man can w must do what they can lo he is stripped of his majesty, and danger that the idea of the right sny exactly how or why i of his ability to do either good of a minority to dictate to the happened.

in There was first the U-2, not Eden got through the Com- munder Crabb incident scarcely a scratch.) compounded by the faut pas of the "cover story" which boomeranged. then the open avowal which in the circum stances was almost inevitable.

to the just, or harm to the un- majority, as has happened

co-ordinate their damage-con- trol operations and take counsel with each other about ways and means of getting the West once with ment

more into the forward move-

struments will take more than a just, The king is seen to be Japan, will become contagious, in itself too serious. (Anthony

year to, perfect; then they have without clothes.

Symptoms of this disorder are to be "shaken down" with each

The deterioration As not to be found in the current limited .to other and tested in rockel flight.

the For East, troubles of the British Labour -London Eress Service). although, nothing so spectacu- Party,

DRUGS & ATHLETES

WH

WHAT real help would an Olympic athlete get from a pep drug if he

took it surreptitiously before competing in an event?

This question to be dis- all increased their distances ly fast times so that they can be cussed by sporting doctors, in- with the aid of the drug-in one subjected to a sweat or saliva cluding Dr Roger Bannister, the case more than four feet. The lost. four-minute miler, at the Bri- 351b. weight throwers registered

Shaken

caric

IL was

the crash

The times call not for recrimi- nation, or a search for scape- goals, but for prudence and caution. If an American may counsel alles, he would suggest putting aside any idea that America, in a state of panic, is likely to reach for its nuclear weapona.

After that

The last thing that D landing on the Summit, the Republican Party standing for cancellation of the visit to re-election is likely to do is to Moscow, and the probable seek war as a way out of its mistake of the decision to carry difficulties,

on with the remainder of the

trip (few were as sure of its tolly at the time as think they are now).

visit.

The task

to Washington's apron strings.

Africa and Latin America were bound to assert themselves.

things, and a six-month inter- pot long survive in this chang- regrum in Washington has its ing world by consumer goods

alone. painfully obvious disadvantages.

It would be unrealistic to Much, of course, needs to be expect Washington to produce done, and can be done. Some new policies until there is a dlay Britain and Germany must new President. But it would be be reconciled. Perhaps General foolish to ignore either the

TOMORROW:

ASSORTED OPINIONS

'MISSILE CITY' READY

SAYS AMERICA

AMERICA'S £36 million "missile city," Vandenberg, has been declared by

base commander Major-General David Wade to be ready "to launch in anger and on a very few minutes' notice."

Three of the pads are of the Vandenberg, the first of the

Atlas is blasted off to its distant tish Medical Association meet an average improvement of two check on the human runners a Kishi in tying ratification

There will be no comparable

Add a tactical error by Mr Its whole domestic political U.S. air force's intercontinental conventional gantry type; the target.. Ing in Torquay can now be feet.

of position is based on the promise ballistic missile bases, is in others are the newer, more At other Atlas bases now, L= answered following a thorough

the Olympic Games in Rome. the new U.S.-Japanese security of "peace and prosperity." It is the Santa Maria foothills, near complex "coffin"-type launchers. der construction throughout the inquiry in the US..

The doctors assessed the effect and it is unlikely that the

treaty with the Eisenhower not a war party. It's too late the Californian coast.

The "coffin" pads are actually United States, the "coffins" will of the drug on judgment an B.M.A. doctors will. suggot

now for it to shift its campaign

ensure them There is no dout that the important actor in events that there should be one.

Incident by incident,

Here the giant Atlases are concrete buildings which house be buried to the strategy to any other foundation.

Atlases in horizontal cater protection from enemy

attacks. right dose of a pep pill taken involving several laps-by com-

to fatal sequence has unrolled to its If the Republican Party has a kept on combat alert while the the about three hours before an paring each athlete's actual The decision on whether

If the signal to fire is Underground "silos" also are event could make that difference performance with his estimate take the advantage of a pep pill unhappy denouement. Call It the weakness It lies in the very fact air force rushes the construction position.

In will be left to the conscience of story of six weeks which shook that for sever and a half years of underground pads for the.

and the between being a Gold Medallist of how well he had done.

it has been too preoccupied with Titan

Minuteman received, the roof rolls off the under construction at Vanden- which will permit the pad and a boom raises the Atlas berg and an also-ran.

contrast to certain drugs such each contestant.

Those w.ceks have shaken prace and prosperity at home to missiles.

Although General Wade re- into its firing position. This "birds" lo nest underground in generate any new foreign policies

Lakes about

upright firing position, to replace those left over by its fuses to reveal the exact number operation

mounted on elevatory which will predecesors and, by this Ilme, of missiles maintained on "war minutes.

Fuelling the missile and raise them to the surface for aleri" one missile squadron has Besides, at whom could bombs six launching pads ready for checking its readiness require firing.

another 12 minutes before the -[London Express Service), be thrown? Surely not on Japan, combat operational use.

Tests show that this is true

as alcohol the ves pills did not,

for swimmers, runners, and shot- mata athletes overrate their Chapman

putters. It is presumably true for Jumpers and every other type of track athlete.

performance.

The doctors report: "The runners reported feeling more 'revved up before the race. The drug used the U.S.

their legs feit stronger. they inquiries, which was supervised tired later. their bodies by doctors for the the American

responded better to their will,

Medical Association. was their running was more smooth amphetamine, the commonest and rhythmaic. type of pep pill also sold under the names of dexedrine and benzedrine,

Stronger

Run ers and swimmers were fested with real pep pilis and fakes which looked the same but were inert. The men did

"The swimmers reported that they swam faster. felt looser. and made the turns better.

"The weight throwers reported better co-ordination, greater strength better balance, and more snap and explosion,

"

Exactly how the pep drug works is uncertain. its effects not know which pill they had it may also boost the working may be mainly mental, though

taken.

of the lungs and heart. Though be dangerous f Every type of athlete, whether pep pills can competing over long or short taken excessively, the U.S. distances, performed better after inquiry showed that the health of athletes is not threatened by taking the pep pili.

taking occasional doses before competing in strenuous events.

Over 100 yards the vills made a difference of more than half a second on average to free- style swimmers. With the butterfly stroke it was more than three seconds in one

Conscience

Until now medical opinion swimmer. Over 200 yards with about pep pls had been so the breast stroke improvements conflicting that most athletes of up to nearly three seconds could place no confidence in were obtained.

them. Clearly, with nil tils

On a 600-yard run up to two authoritative now evidence, an seconds were gained, ever 1,000 ambitious Olympic athlete may Yard neatly nine, and for the be tempted to try them now.

mile as much as 16 seconds. lo marathon events up to 12.

miles, improvements of more

Olymple competitors spe officially forbidden to take drugs

to improve their performance. than a minute were registered, but the practice is believed to be

'fairly common in the United

Bhot-putters and weight tales and possibly In Russia. throwers were fested over a On every racecourse there are. number of attempte, stewards and yela watching Bor

sapt, the puttere winneri which put up bisphosocial

Pincher

-(London Express Service).

the world.

Dwight Eisenhower down from the pinnacle of his prestige and from his ability to influence the course of events.

The appearance, if not the reality, of today is that Nikita

somewhat out of date.

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