THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960.
U.S. nuclear war agency
SELECTION OF
TARGETS FOR
DESTRUCTION
Washington, Aug, 17.
The US. Defence Department today announced the formation of a central agency to select targets and specify the weapons, bombers and missiles that would be used against them in case of an all-out nuclear war.
mitment.
defence coni-
The US. Defence Secretary; commanders involved in the Mr Thomas S. Gater assigned nation's global the responsibility for strategic target planing to Gen. Thomas S. Powth Strategic Air Com- mander, ind said that the re- vised and unified selection of targets marked for nuclear destruction in ease. of all-out war should be ready for up- proval by the Joint Chiefs of Staff by December.
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Mr Gale: told reporters that
decision the
centralis strategle target planning. jected the concept of a separate
strategic force
exercise direct operational control of all international missiles, bom- bers and such new systems the Navy's polards missile launching submarines,
as
'MOST IMPORTANT'
MrGates said that he con- sidered his decision "the most Important he had made in his years in the Pentagon.
Mr Gates and Gen. Nathan F. Twining. Chairman of the Joint Chlefs, met with reporters after he had announced his decision and discussed military readiness problems with the eight military
Protection of coloured subjects
Coventry, England, Aug. 17. Coventry Indian Workers' Association plans to ask Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, for an act of Parlia- ment to "make provision for the ol coloured and protection colonial workers" In Britain.
A resolution passed here drew attention to "continued crimination" against coloured people in their efforts to obtain "equal status in social and indus-
trial spheres."
dis-
oc
It also urged that sympathe- tle consideration be given moral and psychological grounds to allow women and children separated from their husbands and fathers to have "the pri- vilege of joining them at once in the United Kingdom."
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Mr Geles emphasised that this plan is strictly a United States war preparedness plan to pre- determine precisely what actions would be taken in case of all- out war, supposing a maximııer. 15-minute warming of alleek by enemy intercontinental missiles.
The Secretary said the plan any represent "does not chang
the established to national military policy or in our relations with our allies." He ant General Twining said that the allies now know the American plan and that when the new one is worked out any portion of it affecting allied preparations or intentions will be fully explained,
ONE YEAR
Mr Gates said that it had taken him and Gen. Twining exactly one year to reach the strategic target decision.
Picture shows the Queen walking through the streets of Lerwick during her visit to
the Shetland Isles last week. Left: the fishing boats are lined up, fishermen aboard.-Ex- press Photo.
Labour boss Parent
STILL SICK
Glasgow, Aug. 17. Mr Morgan Phillips, 58-
year-old General Secre tary of the British Labour Party, in hospital here following a stroke, had
ย
"comfortable night,"
Glasgow's western Firmary said today.
in-
identifies
slain son
in Sydney morgue
Sydney, Aug. 17.
Mr Phillips was taken to hos- Mr Basil Thorne, who won a fortune in a lottery
General Twining and M Gates emphasised that the cur- rent US strategic target plan is a good one, and that it is co- ordinated at the Pentagon (US. military headquarters.) They noted, however, that it was based largely on the Strategie Air Command's manned bomber
The hospital spokesman said force capabilities and that the
that Mr Phillips' condition advent of long ranged land and which was yesterday "giving sea-launched missiles required | cause for anxiety" remained un- the new programme-AP.
pital on Monday night when he collapsed after recording television interview.
changed-Reuter,
South African
court
denies charge
of 'secret trial'
Durban, Aug. 17.
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When the Cato Manor African murder trial re sumed here today the judge, the defence and the prosecution joined in denying a British claim that 75 people had been condemned to death at secret trials in South Africa.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Implied but not
(5)
expressed
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8 Not at all unusual.(6)
10 Propel with one our. (5)
12 Pollux partner. (0)
14 Man inclined to be merciful.
(7)
17 in attendance, (4)
19 Like Pisa? (7)
20 Broadcast. (7)
22 V.C. winner? (4)
23 Beast
starts on Egyption. (7)
27 Colour of a negro. (0)
29 Optra, (5)
ancient
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(B)
$ sling your hook? (4)
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7 Brought to a standstill. (6)
Light, Chinese, maybe. (7)
11 Suck together, (6)
13 Safe-keeping of goods. (7) 15 Decoration from Honiton
16 Goes by road (8) 18 Frenchman? (6) 20 Moves the workers? (8) 21 Bring to life. (6)
24 Smided intended, (5) 25 All ready to have a night! (5) 26 What could be sweeter? (5) 28 From which big things have
developed (4)
but lost a son as a result, made the heart- breaking formal identification of his kidnapped and slain eight-year-old boy's body at the city morgue today.
It took Mr Thorne five minules to confm that the httle body with a black scarf wound tightly around it neck was his only child, Graeme, who had been kidnapped, for ransom white on his way to school on July 7,
Five detectives accompanied Mr Thorne, and they said after- ward he was visibly shaken by the ordeal.
When he emerged from the morgue he sat in a police car for 25 minutes, his head forlorn- ly in his hands, before being driven home to join his wife
under sedation
who was shock.
Shocked
for
The kidnap-killing of young Graeme shocked officials, public and police as molbing' else has in recent years. His was the first kidnapping for ransom in Australian history, and police were determined to catch his slayer.
Colin
Mr.R. N. Leon, Q.C., leader of the defence team, said he wish.
Police Commissioner ed to refer to a matter of the "ulmest gravity." He read a te Delaney ordered what was call port carried in a British Sundayed the most relentless murder newsuper, of July 10 quoting hunt in Australian criminal an- Mr David Ennals, National Vice-nals for the man who kidnapped Chairman of the British Anti- the boy, demanded ransom, and Apartheid Committee, as saying then committed murder before in a speech that 60 mex has the frantic parents could com- recently been condemned
to ply.
demanded death at a secret trial in South
the Irantic Africa for the murder of nine policemen in the Cuto Manor parents who had won £A100,000 riots.
in a lottery shortly before their The report also quoted Mr son's abduction.-UPI.
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Ennals as saying that another
15 death sentences had been alven for the murder of a single person in a later riot,
ARTICLE
Mr C. Rees, for the Crown, said it appeared to him that the article clearly referred to "even's in this case" The court is trying 28 non-whites for the murder of nine policemen in Calo Manor township near here last January Mr Rees said that of the 65 people who were committed for trial, two were released on the instructions by the Attorney- General. The 28 before the
The
kidnapper A25,000 from
2,000 mph jetliners predicted
Honolulu, Aug. 17.
court at present were indicted. A prediction that Australia's
The Altomey-General would serve indictments on those he proposed to indict in the near future.
"This statement attributed to Mr Ennals is false. It is a false attack on the administra. tion of this court,
"It appears to be calculated
Qantas Empire Airways will be flying 2,000-mile- an-hour jet aircraft by 1970 is made by C. O. Turner, the airline's chief executive and general manager.
to bring the administration of . But, he warns, speed alone
justice and the persons con- could not make an airline cerned in this particular case prosper.
into disrepute," he said.
'FALSE'
.
Sino-Soviet
magazines
stop
publication
SEVERED
RELATIONS
SENSELESS
-Dutch view
The Hogut, Aug. 17. The Dutch Government said today Indonesia's break- ing off of diplomatic rela- tions with Holland was "disappointing and sense- less.
But it indicated unofficially that It considered today's event "ample justificatlon" for recent measures to strengthen defences of West New Guinea.
The Foreign Office announced meanwhile that Halland would ask "a friendly power" to repre- sent her in Djakarta. The Bri- tish Government was believed to have been approached,
Well-informed sources said there were several courses of action open to the government:
To let matters rest where they are now, having Dutch interests represented by a friendly power.
vene
To ask Australia to inter- Indonesians. with thu Australia itself administers the other half of New Guinea,
To go to the United Nations. The dispute, in the Dutch view, does not sentre оп New Guines At all but is considered 稳 "pretext" for the nationalisation of Dutch property which took place in 1958.
Today's communique did not indicate what the Government intends to do.
The Goverment said off- clatly. "Hollard has always kept the door open for an Im- provement in Indonesian-Dutch relations."-URI,
'Cyprus must remain in Commonwealth'
Nicosia, Aug. 17. Archbishop Makarios, pre- sident of the two-day old. Republic of Cyprus, told a press conference today: In my personal view, Cyprux must remain with- in the British Common- wealth."
the
In a prepared statement Archbishop declared: "Emery- Ing from a hard liberation struggle, we forget the past and Washington, Aug. 17. extend the hand of friendship An official spokesman said and cooperation to all without today the State Depart- exception whether they found ment had received reports, themselves in our camp or in that two joint Sino-Soviet our opponents." magazines had recently: Cyprus republic's object would caused publication in the be to cultivate friendly relations Soviet Union.
with all peoples of the globe.
But the spokesman, Mr Lin- coln White, said it was not clear whether it was the Soviet
autho or Communist Chinese rities who had stopped publica- ton of the magazines,
He said the publications con- a monthy called cemd were *Friendship" and a weekly! called "China".
President Makarios said the
Reuter.
U.S. Embassy attacked
San Salvador, Aug. 17.
A crowd estimated at more than
and 1,000 attacked Mr White added that it was
United States not clear what if any relation damaged the there was between this and news Embassy here last night after demonstration stip-
despatches reporting a large-scale staging a the Cuban Prime
withdrawal of Soviet technicians porting from Communist China,
Minister, Dr Fidel Castro, it was reported today.
Mr White said "Friendship" The crowd, which marched
streets the
after had not appeared since June and through
univer.. "China" had stopped appeating a meeting in the shortly afterwards. He said the sily grounds, also attacked the magazines were produced co-building of a local newspaper,
the operatively in
Russian Prensa Grafice, but was driven language by the Soviet and off by workers armed Chinese authorities--Reuter. cudgels-Reader
with
200 injured in
Persian
election clash
Teheran, Aug. 17.
"There is no point in having Two hundred people were injured when Persian tast jets if people love to writ
Mr Rees said the matter re-two days to get on one to fly quired serious consideration by from one place to another," he the Crown.
Mr Justice James said the re- port was not merely distorted and inaccurate but was "funda mentally false." He Bald he was presiding over a court of justice in which to the best of his abilly justice would be ad- ministered according to the low and without prejudice, or fear or favour.
5878.
POLICY
Qantas policy would be to the crease the frequency of fight
After September. 1, the airline will have six trans-Pacific fighte a week. "What we're trying for is a daily service," he says,
Qantas next year will take Mr Leon said the allegation in delivery of three more Boeing YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aero Knock-out, 8 the report had no foundation in 707 Jats It flew across, the Lald, Kilowatt, 11 Bruce-let, 13 Peal, 15 Dedicate, 18 Hoop- fact. There was no question of Pacific 481 times in the past iron, 19 Eyes, 21 Stacking, 25 Hand cash, 28 ear, E7 Laveness.triels being held in secret where year, carrying 78,141 passengers to airports round the world, Down: 1 Club, 2 Pisa, 4 Nail, 5 Clot, B. Orate, 7 Total, 9 Ketch, men were condemned to death. Len-to, 12 Reedy, 14 Acorn, 16 Ame 17 Epoch; 18 Ethel, 20 The hearing was adjourned flew 16300 hours and 388,000
till tomorrow-Reuter.
900 jet passenger miles--AP: Egret, 21 Scan, 22 Aika, 23 Théz, 24 Germ,
The
troops fired on opposition, party supporters who attacked a polling station at Miandooab province, it was reported here today.
Teheran · newspaper | of 15 candidates of their choice Etely'at wald party supporters for the new Majlis (Lower tried to steal ballot boxes House). Voting in the city con-
the during
elections at tinies tomorrow and on Satur- Miandocab,
Line quinien; fortnied today
day.
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