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1 I In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered fry restrictions from either the administration or the student body. ; The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they P are not necessarily 1 representative of feeling on the staff. April 14, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 141 The Time Is P ciSt Attendance at the Yankee open er with Baltimore probably bene fited from the teacher's strike in New York Wednesday. When more than 22,000 of the city's teachers failed to show u$ for work, there was little else for the students to do besides go to the ball game. But aside from boosted Yankee gate receipt, any good that wijl come from the strike has yet to materialize. The teachers were or dered back to work Thursday without the pay increase and the students returned, most of them, to classes. The United Federation of Teachers had asked a substantial increase in salaries. They now range from $4800 to $8600 a year, plus bonuses. The UrT sought to in crease the figures to $5400 tQ $9500 a year, plus bonuses. New York's teachers are appar ently angry. They- chose to go along with the UFT',2 call to strike in cpen defience of the Condon-Wad-lin Act which prohibits strikes by public employees under penalty of dismissal and forfeiture of pay in creases if and when they are re hired. Despite the heavy threat represented by the At, the teach ers rose up in strong protest. The strike, dire though its con sequences were in terms of the chaos it created in New York's schools, was wholly in order. For decades teachers have suffered un der inadequate salaries. The knowl edge that a teacher's strike has its most telling effect on the children and not the school boards or the state has kept many a teacher on the job at a pitifully low pay rate. The fact that the teachers were so disgruntled that they struck, in full knowledge of this, and in de fiance of the law, should provide a lesson .not only for the . people of New York, but for every person in the country. The time when dedi cation vvas enough to keep, a teach er on the job is past. teel Price Hike The decision of U. S. Steel to rescind its decision tq boost prices marked a victory of the Kennedy Administration. Secretary McNa mara's announcement' that mili tary steel buying would be shifted to mills which did not go along with the price hike took hold. Inland Steel, the country's eighth largest producer, was the key fac tor. Inland refused to go along with the price hike, putting the pressure on U. S. and Bethlehem. Had all the companies followed the lead of U. S. by raising prices and then standing firm, the Adminisration would have had to rely on what probably woulq have been a lengthy grand jury investigation which may or may not have been effective. Plans for the investigation still stand, but th eissue is less crucial. The President acted quickly and commendably in taking action again st the move to increase prices. His denunciation of U. S. for its an nouncement of the hike se the stage for the rapid rnoye3 which stopped the increase. Along with Kennedy, the heroes of the action were Inland, Arnco, Kaiser and smaller companies which held off, stopping a sweeping in crease throughout the industry be fore it could take hold.. These com panies acted in the best interests of the country. President Kennedy hailed the In land decision in particular as "very good." Roger Blough, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, had said Thursday it might be difficult to stick with the $6-a-ton hike if In land arid Arnco refused to follow. Apparently it proved more difficult than Blough imagined. R acism Is Racism Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York has been un- EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne King. Editor n n H u ii h i' H 1 m Mike RoBiNsoN-..Assoeiate Editor Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris Managing Editors Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett News Editors Jim Wallace Photography Editor Chuck Montrey Feature Editor Ed Dtjprkk JSports Editor CtTtRY KlRKPATRICK Asst. Sports Editor Garhy Blakchard ' Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF TtM B UHNETT-.-J3 usiness Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim 'EvAnsSubscription Manager Jim Eskridge ' ' Circulation Manager Tem Daily Tab Hxxl is published dally accept Monday, examination period rod vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Rill N. C pursuant with the act of March 8, 1873. Subscription rates i H0 per- eemest?r, $3 per year. Tas Daily Tab Em Is a subscriber to the Pnited Press International and Utilises" the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. - published by the Publications Board of-the University' of North Carolina, Chapfcl Kill. N,. C. . . It der fire of Tate from several quart ers, not the least of which has been the New York Times. Caljhig at tention to Powell as "an almost un surpassed absentee through his years in Congress," the Times points out that Powell's wife, who holds down a $13,00Q-a-year job as a sec retary, also earns her salary in absentia. She is in Puerto Rico. Regardless of this and other criticism equally, if not more barb ed, from other areas, Powell will probably win reelection. The Negro Congressman is a skillful politician. His speeches, if demogogic, are powerful. His constituents follow him with a fervor that borders on the religi ous, and it would be as difficult to unseat Powell in his district in New York as it would be to get him elected to the same position from a district in Alabama. Powell rides on a crest of racism. The fac, that it is. racism in favor of a Negro makes it nonetheless reprehensible. Demogouery in the form of hatred of the black man is vile. Yet it is equally worthy of censure when it ricjes a unfit man into office year after year because he IS Negro. " " " ""' " U.S. Changes Attitude To West Berlin By PIIIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst An important change has taken place in United States policy toward West Berlin. Until recently, U. S. reaction to Soviet threats against the city pri marily was rpilitary. The military . phase received stepped-up emphasis after President Kennedy's 1961 Vienna meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in which the Soviet leader placed a year-end deadline on a peace treaty with East Germany and abolition of Allied rights in West Berlin. Tense moments followed as Gen. Lucius Clay arrived in Berlin to be the President's personal representa tive and the U. S. began re-establishing its rights on the German city. Threat to Morale Now a second phase equal to the military is being emphasized. Secretary of State Dean Rusk left Geneva with the belief that so long as the Soviet challenge re mains, there also remained a seri ous threat to West Berlin morale and a subsequent threat to invest ment and production. On this baisis then, Soviet har assing tactics in the air corridors represented less a challenge to Allied rights of free access than to the spirit and economic health of West-Berlin an attempt to dis courage establishment of new busi ness and to encourage West Ber liners to leave. In answer, the United States is trying to encourage U. S. firms with operations in Germany to open branches in West Berlin. Student exchanges are being considered, as are suggestions to make West Eer lin universities centers for inter national education programs. A- glance at statistics illustrates the cause of concern. Population Loss West Berlin gained steadily in population, from 1953 to . 1953 when Khrushchev issued his first ulti matum against the city. Since then, there has been a slow but steady decline. The population which reached a peak of 2.2 million in 1950 has been projected to 1964 at an even two million. German government officials ex plain it partially by the fact that Berlin is a city of the old, with a death rate far exceeding the birth rate. But it also is true that West Ber lin's work force has diminished at a rate of between 15,000 and 20,000 a year since 1958. Formerly, the city replenished its work force with refugees from the East. The Soviet-erected wall cut off that flow to scarcely more in a year than used to arrive" in a week. Exit The B-52. Enter The RS-70 Poetical Potshots There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge gress lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college pro fessor I There once was a maiden Circassian Who was loved by a courtier of fashion. When he vowed he adored her, (The asterisks indicate passion.) The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are comical! About Letters The Dally Tar Heel Invites f readers to use it for expres- sions of opinion on current topics regardless of viewpoint. Letters most be signed, con-- tain a verifiable address, and be free of libelous material. Brevity : and legibility ' In ' -' crease the chance of public -; tioa. Lengthy letters may be t edited or omitted. Absolutely ,4 ' 4 Ssrw tone will be returned. On the SAC base runway a silvery jet bomber stands poised for take off. Huge and streamlined, length 157 feet, wing span 185, the magnifi cent warplane shudders from the massive vitality of its engines. Eight Pratt and Whitney turbojets blast off, pouring out streams of searing heat merged with a crash ing din that seems like the voice of a magnified acetylene torch, hov ering on a pitch between scream and thunder. The Boeing B-52 glides smoothly down the runway. Its airframe glit ters with a sleek menace; the engines press onward toward the peak thrust of 80,000 pounds. Spec tators see an airplane that cost nine million dollars to build, total weight 200 tons, loaded with sup eradvancd radar devices and com plex navigation instruments. Yet its crew totals a mere six less than half the crew of a B-36, its used-up predecessor. The plane gathers speed; the en gines thrust more and more force fully; now with a cautious lurch the Stratofortress heaves aloft, soaring upward in a low ascending slant. Its rate of climb steadily increases, the ship hoisted by the aerodynamic principle of lift the disruption of air pressure above and below each wing, with the greater pressure un derneath, forcing the wing upward. Cruising altitude is attained, and the B-52 levels into flight, elevation 55,000 feet, darting forward at 650 mph, slicing the lower levels of the stratosphere. The wings cut through the air with an awesome, sweptbaek cleavage. America's Sunday punch is on airborne alert: range over 6,000 miles, nuclear cargo 25 tons, air frame top-notch in speed, mobility, and firepower. The destruction that it carries makes all the carnage of World W7ar II seem trival. During that war the Anglo-American bomb er fleets brought death to at least 500,000 German civilians (deliberate ly the figure is set low) and gravely injured roughly a million. The two atomic bombs on Japan racked up Handwriting On The Wall ' pace Launches To Be Conducted In Secret .VLilitary By CHARLES W. CORDDRY WASHINGTON (UP) The ad ministration has determined that space is going to be a secret realm as far as U. S. military operations there are concerned. Aimed" chiefly at banishing from the news any inforrnation about satellites' that have the unsavory designation "spy in the sky," the Defense Department has ordered that all military space launches will be conducted in secrecy from now on. The department will admit some thing has been launched but after it has been launched. What it was will remain a mystery. There is a rough sort of parallel which may illustrate what, the gov ernment has in mind in the crack down, which was ordered by Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gil patric -March 23, but not announced. To Avoid Provocation There is more than a hint here . that an underlying goal of the new satellite secrecy is to avoid any publicity that could give the So viets grounds for yelling "provoca-' tion." The Russians know quite well that America is developing both missile warning and intelligence satellites called Midas and Sames. But Defense Department reasoning is that they may be less annoyed and less prone to protest about it if America keeps quiet about what it is doing. The new order-banning press cov erage of military space launches, and concealing the identy of all military space craft in orbit is the clumination of actions started in this administration's first days. President Kennedy Called on the press to exercise self censorship on sensitive matters .Defense Sec retary Robert S. McNamara be came so concerned about weapons data that he told . Congress the Rus sians should be led to think the Nike Zeus - antimissile missile was the greatest' thing ever devised, in stead of reading about its weakness. Bends To Task McNamara set about tp reduce what he called the vast library of military-data in the public domain. A key target was military space craft, 'about which there has been diminishing information while space activity has been steadily expanding. This week's secret launching, ap parently of a prototype warning or reconnaissance satellite, was the fourth in five months about which nothing much has been said. A real test o fthe policy will come in a year or two when the air force gets ready to fly its Dynrp Soar, a manned spacecraft to be boosted into orbit by a Titan III missile and to he flown back to earth under its own control. It is a forerunner of the vvhicle with which future space forces wi?i be equipped. There is a school of thought which holds that America, as a nation which will not attack first in all out war, must have overwhelming superiority in some " new deterrent approach. Besides revolutionary wea pons, this thinking holds, there must be military space applications which wipe out Russia's advantage of sur prise missile attack and prevent accidental missile-triggering inci dents. Progress toward the goal appar ently is being made. But the speed of this program seemingly will have to be taken on faith from now on. a sickening total of 115,000 de:.- But the bomb of ONE E-r2 s.v.n-, a greater potential than all th;, combination. Ever since 1952, whn the pre-,, type B-52 made its flight, thn h;: been our main strategic deurrf But to penetrate the maximum c.;. tance, to be truly intercontir.cn:;; the B-52 needs tanker support, ; midflight refueling means a 'r.ir reduction in speed. Also, a the re-, cal range of 6,000 miles docs r. mean a sure combat, radii-.? ; 3,000. Navigational errors, tlv r.eH for target-searching, the pos-iL.e need for evasive action on tur : run, all mean additional fuel c ... sumption and cutback in ni::.;-. Though vulnerable to a rri;e defense, the B-52 heavyweight has little to fear from fighter ir.tercvp. tion. The newest model carrier Sky. bolt ballistic missiles quite eruni,: to handle anything that Hie?. F;.,: even a B-52 cannot dodge ground-: air missiles, and for this exclud e reason its crews can scent the wh,:: of obsolescence. And it will hero bear repeating that the age of the missile is still in its formative per iod. The immediate successor to the B-52 is not the ICBM but the v,;-h American RS-70, with its superi,r range ,23-mile altitude, and Mac; 3 speed. There is no longer taik of a "missile gap;" this was a CIA myth. The time is not ripe f, r this country, or for Russia, to con centrate on all-msisile strategy. Our sweptwing heavyweight i still worth the cost of product ion. but its planned successor, the RS-Tj. will soon be desperately needed. Ar. : so the legislative-executive battle thunders on. Congressmen and .Vr Force planners want this deltawin? miracle badly enough to puh f;r it with all they have. Can they swing it? At the mo ment, apparently not. But an RS-70 prototype will fy this December, regradless. Its per formance will probably be suff icier;: to melt down executive opposnjr. And meanwhile that opposition is intense so much so that the plan ners have lost the first round. Wade Wellman 'Getcliytf Garbage Can To the Editor: We are subject to the whims f local in merchants in what iver they choose to charge us for the.: wares. The new W. T. Grant store offers new conpetition, thus, it would nor mally be something for us to be grateful for. But for some stranize reason they don't seem to redive we are here. They offer garbage cans, clothes pins, stamp books and rubber plan's as come-ons for their opening. Th. isn't exactly the sort of thing th v. gives students a good impression They may go out to get free donut. but its not very likely that they'll keep coming. The topper Grants doesn't even have button-down shirts. II. J. Pringle 1 Fairview Ave. mo now -Kiis(Q Split Up In Laos By Arthur J. Dommen HONG KONG ( UPI ) Many Asi ans and Americans are wondering why the United States supports the formation of a Laotian government that would include the pro-Com-munbt Patfiet Lao rebels. They believe that a coalition gov ernment of the three Laotian fac tionsthe pro-Western Royal gov ernment the neutralists, and the rebels might fall, sooner or later, to the Communists. But one factor of enormous im portance in the Communist world has emerged since China was lost to the Communists. It is that the United States is no longer dealing with a single center of CommuriTst influence in the world. There are two headquarters of the world Communist movement to day, one in Moscow and one in Peiping. And they are becoming more and more independent of each other. This independence is of the ut most importance for Laos. Peiping Causing Conflict While neither Red China nor the U. S. wants to commi( its troops to a fight for Laos, Peiping is whole heartedly supporting an active "na tional liberation movement" in "La os which conflicts directly with the interests of both Washington and Moscow. The idea of a largely uncontrol led Chinese center of Communist ex pansion is a new and frightening one. Even Chiang Kai-shek reportedly no longer regards the Chinese Com munists as mere puppets of their Soviet masters. Peiping, meanwhile, continually proclaims its backing for "national liberation movements," in South Vi et Nam, in Thailand, in the Philip pines, in Africa and Guatemala. If recent economic difficulties have cooled the Red Chinese pro pensity for siding with "the people" against their governments, there has been no sign of it. Peiping's view of how "imperial ism" should be driven backwards by the two-pronged spearhead of "armed struggle" coupled with "struggle by negotiation" was set forth last month. Used Double Tactks "To deal with imperialism's coun ter-revolutionary tactics," the Chin ese leaders said in a people's ijy editorial outlining the significant of the victory of the insurgents m Algeria, "the Algerian patri' forces correctly used the revolut : ' ary double tactics of combining ai" -ed struggle with negotiation." The editorial added: "Under the hammer blows c: the peoples forces, the imperial! ' and colonialists, driven into a t1 :r er, are often forced to accept pea. - ful agreements." Then it warned: "But when they think they --" get away with it, they will viol.A' and even scrap these agreermr.'.-. "There have been innumerable amples and lessons of this in d past." In Peiping's view, the L r. ' -States is "violating" the May ; 1951, ceasefire agreement in 1--" -by continuing to arm and equip Royal government's forces. " said to nnmber 60,000 men. Po.p" has been attacking the lT "double game" of verbally sup " '' ing a Laos coalition while ai same time arming the anU-::-' munis ts.
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