tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318045522024-03-14T03:05:26.491-04:00This Day in the 1960sWatch the 1960s unfold day by day. A news feed for what happened 46 years ago today in the Cold War, politics, science, the arts, religion, leisure and society.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1171034240952283282007-02-09T10:16:00.000-05:002007-02-09T10:17:21.663-05:00February 9, 1961: Kennedy Calls for School Integration, Supports NATO, Awaits Data on 'Missile Gap' and Confers on Laos; Brit Wants Red China in UN"President Kennedy said today that both the Constitution and public opinion demanded the admission of children to public schools 'regardless of their race,'" the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"President Kennedy pledged the United States today to unstinting and expanding support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"The Administration has come to no conclusion on the 'missile gap,' President Kennedy said today," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"Britain's Foreign Secretary declared today that the facts of international life required Communist China's entry into the United Nations," the Times reports.<br /><br />"Possible steps to meet the crisis in Laos were studied today at a two-hour conference of President Kennedy and his top advisers," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1171033672744674262007-02-09T10:04:00.000-05:002007-02-09T10:07:53.386-05:00February 8, 1961: White House Backs Missile Gap, Soviet Spy in London, $1 Minimum Wage May Get Boost"The White House branded as inaccurate today reports that the Kennedy Administration had tentatively concluded that there was no 'missile gap' favoring the Soviet Union," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"Britain's Attorney General charged today that the Soviet spy system had sent secrets of anti-submarine devices from a bungalow in a suburb of London to Moscow," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"President Kennedy called on Congress today for prompt action to increase the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour and to extend the protection to 4,300,000 workers," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1171033077615705192007-02-09T09:55:00.000-05:002007-02-09T09:57:58.170-05:00February 7, 1961: No Missile Gap, US To Help Latin American Nations, Safe Cigarettes Proposed"Studies made by the Kennedy Administration since Inauguration Day show tentatively that no 'missile gap' exists in favor of the Soviet Union," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"The conclusion appeared to back the views of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who told Congress last month that the missile gap 'shows every sign' of being a fiction."<br /><br />"Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today that the United States was ready to cooperate with other American states in ending tyranny in the hemisphere, whether that tyranny is of the Left or Right," the Times reports.<br /><br />"A new theory on how cigarette smoking may be associated with lung cancer has been proposed by a General Electric Research Laboratory physicist. According to an article in the Jan. 21 issue of Nature, a British scientific journal, the glowing tip of a cigarette generates a cloud of electrically charged particles. The particles, when inhaled, may be the materials that change normal tissues to cancerous tissues. If this is true, it was suggested by Dr. Kenneth H. Kingdon, the author, the effect could be 'completely suppressed' by smoking cigarettes that were enclosed in a metallic screen," the New York Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1171032308475793352007-02-09T09:44:00.000-05:002007-02-09T09:45:08.993-05:00February 6, 1961: Rioting in Angola, Cuba Controls Water for US Base, No 'Super-Cabinet' for White House"Rioting broke out today in Luanda, capital of Angola, and four persons were killed and seven wounded, the Portuguese press agency Lusitania reported," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"The Cuban Government seized yesterday the aqueduct that supplies water to the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay. So far the water supply is said to be normal," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The President needs more help formulating security policy, a Senate sub-ccommittee said today. But he will not get it by creating 'super-Cabinet' positions in the White House, the Senators said," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170820372556272192007-02-06T22:52:00.000-05:002007-02-06T22:52:53.346-05:00February 5, 1961: Soviets Put 'Huge Earth Satellite' Into Orbit, Warn USFebruary 5, 1961: Soviets Put 'Huge Earth Satellite' Into Orbit, Warn US<br /><br />"The Soviet Union has accepted the United States request for a six-week postponement <br />"The Soviet Union announced today it had put into orbit a huge earth satellite weighing more than seven tons. An 'improved, multi-stage rocket' hurled the satellite into space, the announcement said. There was no indication that anything living was aboard the satellite, the heaviest object man has ever put into orbit," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The Soviet Union warned President Kennedy today that he had taken the first steps toward an expansion of the arms race," the Times reports.<br /><br />"In an abrupt departure from the circumspect attitude heretofore maintained publicly toward the Kennedy Administration, Moscow complained that the United States President had evoked 'irksome echoes of the cold war' in his State of the Union Message."<br /><br />"American auto manufacturers are getting ready to offer the public new economy cars for 1962 with more zip, greater comfort and higher styling than the current crop of compacts," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170819327972098722007-02-06T22:35:00.000-05:002007-02-06T22:35:28.123-05:00February 4, 1961: Kennedy Confers on Laos, Wants 'Federalized' Laos; Ted Kennedy Launches Career"President Kennedy received a first-hand report today on the situation in Laos from Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"The Ambassador was called to Washington from his post in Vientiane to participate in a comprehensive high-level review of major problems facing the United States in Asia," the paper reports.<br /><br />"The Kennedy Administration is convinced that a new 'federalized' government in the Congo, embracing the leaders of all the factions, offers the only hope of preventing that nation from sliding from chaos into civil war," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The youngest of the Kennedy brothers, Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, is expected to launch his own political career Monday as an assistant district attorney here [Boston]," the Times reports. "But everyone concerned, including the 28-year-old Ted, as he is best known, is keeping official silence."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170818821600506242007-02-06T22:26:00.000-05:002007-02-06T22:27:02.213-05:00February 3, 1961: Pentagon Prepares to Meet Limited-War Scenarios"The Pentagon has placed orders for fifty-three military cargo and troop transport planes for a speedy build-up of the long-range airlift. The purpose is to give the United States forces mobility to meet limited-war situations anywhere in the world," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170818580367375192007-02-06T22:22:00.000-05:002007-02-06T22:23:00.910-05:00February 2, 1961: Kennedy Agrees to 1964 Debate, Hammarskjold Wants New Powers, Minuteman 'Spectacular Success'"President Kennedy declared today his willingness to engage in a televised debate with a contender for his office in 1964," the New York Times reported on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"President Kennedy said today that the United States' position in critical world trouble spots 'is less satisfactory than it was last fall," the Times reported today.<br /><br />United Nations "Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold asked the Security Council today to widen his powers in the Congo so that he might stop factional fighting among politically motivated groups of the Congolese Army," the Times reports.<br /><br />"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 1 -- The three-stage Minuteman, intended to become the Air Force's No. 1 weapon, was fired for the first time here today and scored a spectacular success. The test shot of the intercontinental ballistic missile was probably the most ambitious in the nation's missile program."<br /><br />"A gap in the nation's satellite-detection fence will be plugged this year by the construction of one of the world's largest radio transmitters," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170817819571377932007-02-06T22:09:00.000-05:002007-02-06T22:10:20.410-05:00February 1, 1961: Chimp and Spy Satellite in Space"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 31 -- A male chimpanzee nicknamed "Ham" was rocketed 420 miles over the Caribbean today in a test of the Mercury capsule that is scheduled to carry a human astronaut into orbit," the New York Times reported on this day in 1961. "The thirty-seven pound ape was in good condition when a helicopter pulled the capsule from the water almost three hours after the launching."<br /><br />"POINT ARGUELLO, Calif., Jan 31 -- The United States fired a Samos reconnaissance satellite into polar orbit today. The vehicle, an experimental version called Samos II, is designed to perform photographic missions once done by U-2 aircraft," the New York Times reported today. "Samos II is not a full-fledged substitute for the U-2, but within two years the United States plans to have a network of such satellites photographing parts of the globe."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170523704050118322007-02-03T12:27:00.000-05:002007-02-03T12:28:24.503-05:00January 31, 1961: Kennedy Wants More for Defense, Computers 'Come of Age'"President Kennedy challenged Congress and the nation today to face up to grave perils abroad and a worsening economic recession at home. In his first State of the Union Message, given before a joint session of Congress, he called for executive and legislative actions to strengthen the national defenses to avert big and little wars and to spur the lagging economy," the New York Times reported on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"President Kennedy's State of the Union Message today pictured the problems of the United States and the world as much more ominous and urgent than did former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's message to Congress eighteen days ago," the Times reports in another story.<br /><br />"Mr. Eisenhower said grave problems lay ahead and there was no room for complacency. But the tenor of his message was that he was leaving the country in sound shape. He said: 'We have carried America to unprecedented heights.'<br /><br />"But Mr. Kennedy said the American economy was in trouble and needed bolstering immediately. As for the Communist threat, he said, there will be worse news before there is better news, the tide is running now against this country and the free world, 'but turn it we must.' He said he spoke in an 'hour of national peril and national opportunity.'"<br /><br />In another story, the Times reports, "Digital computers, the so-called electronic brains, have 'come of age' in masterminding industrial production processes, according to a report given yesterday at the winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Last year saw a rapid expansion of the use of digital computers in industrial process control, Gerhard L. Hollander said in giving a report on '1960 Computer Progress' compiled by a unit of the institute."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170522782363357642007-02-03T12:11:00.000-05:002007-02-03T12:13:02.560-05:00January 30, 1961: Congo Policy Examined, JFK Urged to Cut Funds for Schools That Discriminate"President Kennedy has ordered the State Department to re-examine United States policies in the Congo and to recommend changes," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961<br /><br />"A week-long pursuit of the rebel-held Portuguese liner Santa Maria will come to a conclusion later today when a United States admiral boards her near this port to negotiate the removal of the more than 560 passengers," the Times reports.<br /><br />"Ruanda, northern half of the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which Belgium operates as a United Nations Trusteeship, has declared itself an independent republic," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The Southern Regional Council has urged President Kennedy to adopt a sweeping program of executive action in the civil-rights field," the Times reports.<br /><br />"Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. demanded last night that his long-pending proposal to bar Federal funds to schools discriminating against Negroes be adopted now either through legislation or 'Executive order of the White House,'" the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170522657594625352007-02-03T12:09:00.000-05:002007-02-03T12:10:58.513-05:00January 29, 1961: Communes in China, Peace Corps Tested, Oval Office Fix-up and Sit-ins Spread"Communist China has substantially modified its system of 'peoples' communes' and slowed down its 'great leap forward' in industry in the wake of severe agricultural reverses last year," the New York Times reports on this day in 1961.<br /><br />"The Government announced today it planned to send 150 young teachers to Africa this year. The plan is regarded as an experiment to test the practicality of the Administration's proposed 'peace corps' program. This program would send young Americans, primarily teachers and technicians, into under-developed countries to help them attack their most pressing economic, educational and health problems," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"White House maintenance crews moved into President Kennedy's Executive Office today for a quick weekend painting and renovation job. When it is reassembled next week, the oval=shaped office will resemble more of a New England sitting room, a warmer and more hospitable atmosphere than the austere formality of the office as it was furnished previously," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"The Negro lunch-counter demonstrations that began a year ago next Wednesday have grown into a national protest movement against many forms of discrimination. The sit-ins continue today in cities like Atlanta, where merchants have refused to desegregate eating facilities. But the lowering of racial barriers at lunch counters in more than 125 Southern communities has led the students and their adult supporters to turn to other fields of protest," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170202123221401312007-01-30T19:07:00.000-05:002007-01-30T19:08:43.346-05:00January 28, 1961: Navy to Free Ship Captives, Kennedy Tones Down Military's Rhetoric"The United States Navy has apparently persuaded the captors of the Portuguese liner Santa Maria to release the 560 passengers on this side of the Atlantic, probably at a South American port," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"The Kennedy Administration indicated today that it was not irrevocably opposed to summit meetings," the Times reported today.<br /><br />"Two United States Air Force officers, held prisoner without trial by the Soviet Union for nearly seven months, came home today and were greeted by President Kennedy."<br /><br />"The Kennedy Administration has ordered stiff controls on 'tough' policy speeches or other 'inadvisable' statements by generals and admirals. The first to be affected is Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations," the New York Times reported today.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170201605080320542007-01-30T18:55:00.000-05:002007-01-30T19:00:05.153-05:00January 27, 1961: Downed Airmen to be Welcomed, Hammarskjold Warning on Congo"President Kennedy will welcome the two American airmen just released from a Soviet prison when they return to the United States tomorrow," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"[U.N.] Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold told the Security Council today that it might be necessary to remove the United Nations force from the Congo because of the withdrawal of some Asian and African military contingents," the Times reported today.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170201292830976632007-01-30T18:54:00.000-05:002007-01-30T18:54:53.323-05:00January 26, 1961: Moscow Releases US Fliers, Captured Ship Found"President Kennedy announced tonight that the Soviet Union had released two United States airmen shot down in an RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea and held prisoner since July 1," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"The captured Portuguese passenger liner Santa Maria was found far out in the Atlantic yesterday by a United States Navy patrol plane. Her captors told the Navy pilot by radio that she was bound for the Portuguese West African colony of Angola," the Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170200873513198172007-01-30T18:47:00.000-05:002007-01-30T18:47:53.610-05:00January 25, 1961: Search for Portuguese Ship Continues, Woman is White House Doc"An intense search by sea and air continued early today along the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies for the seized Portuguese liner Santa Maria. The United States and British vessels and planes engaged had been concentrating their search along the Windward Islands above and below St. Lucia, where the Santa Maria last was sighted at 10 A.M. Monday," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"President Picks Woman Doctor, First to Serve the White House," according to a front page headline in today's New York Times.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170200518131831422007-01-30T18:41:00.000-05:002007-01-30T18:41:58.396-05:00January 24, 1961: Portuguese Ship Siezed"A group of passengers seized control of a large Portuguese cruise ship in a gun and grenade battle in the Caribbean yesterday morning," The New York Times reported today. "Responding to pleas from the Protuguese Government, United States and British warships immediately began a search for the captured vessel. Led allegedly by a prominent political foe of Portugal's Premier Antonio de Oliverio Salazar, the band of conspirators among the ship's 600 passengers was said to have taken command of the ship in a battle in which one officer was killed and several wounded. There are 300 in the crew."<br /><br />"A 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court upheld today the constitutionality of state and local movie censorship. The court held that cities and states may require a censor's permit before a film may be shown," the New York Times reported today.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1170200000389762122007-01-30T18:31:00.000-05:002007-01-30T18:33:20.983-05:00January 23, 1961: Arms Supplies in Congo, Prominent Puerto RicanFrom the Congo: "Six trucks with arms were reliably reported today to have arrived ar Aro, a town close to the Congo's frontier with the Sudan. The convoy is considered here to be the first hard evidence of surface supplies from outside for the forces supporting Patrice Lumumba, imprisoned former Premier," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"KENNEDY MAY OFFER JOB TO PUERTO RICAN," says a headline in today's edition on the NY Times.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169697366440877232007-01-24T22:55:00.000-05:002007-01-24T22:56:06.640-05:00January 22, 1960: President Said to be 'Busy'The sub-head on the lead story in today's New York Times is "PRESIDENT IS BUSY"<br /><br />The lede is: "President Kennedy and his new Administration went to work today."<br /><br />In other news, "The Chinese Communist party today declared the United States 'the main enemy of the peoples of the world.' At the same time it reaffirmed its belief that a world war could be avoided."<br /><br />"Mrs. John F. Kennedy disclosed today her plans for redecorating the White House. She said she planned to have the walls of the Presidential apartment done in pastel tones. She also is selecting draperies -- probably gay English and French chintzes -- and rugs.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169696044843005822007-01-24T22:33:00.000-05:002007-01-24T22:34:05.510-05:00January 21, 1962: Kennedy Sworn InThe banner headline in today's New York Times:<br /><br />KENNEDY SWORN IN, ASKS 'GLOBAL ALLIANCE' AGAINST TYRANNY, WANT, DISEASE AND WAR; REPUBLICANS AND DIPLOMATS HAIL ADDRESS<br /><br />The lead story begins: "John Fitzgerald Kennedy assumed the Presidency today with a call for 'a grand and global alliance' to combat tyranny, poverty, disease and war.<br /><br />"In his Inaugural Address, he served notice on the world that the United States was ready to 'pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."<br /><br />In another front-page story it is reported from Havana that "Premier Fidel Castro said tonight that the Cuban Government would 'begin anew' in its relations with the United States<br /><br />"The Premier stressed, however, that Cuba would hold the United States responsible for improving relations between the countries."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169523981237986632007-01-22T22:45:00.000-05:002007-01-22T22:46:21.606-05:00January 20, 1961: Castro 'Hate Campaign,' Kennedy Official Opposes Red China in UN"Premier Fidel Castro's Government stepped up its hate campaign against 'United States imperialism' today," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"As the United States prepared to inaugurate a new President, the Castro regime announced the arrest of six more 'Yankee invaders' and promulgated a new series of anti-United States decrees."<br /><br />"Chester Bowles, President-elect John F. Kennedy's choice for Under Secretary of State, opposed vigorously today formal recognition of Communist China or its entry into the United Nations," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The Government authorized the American Telephone and Telegraph Company today to establish the first space communications link between the United States and Europe on an experimental basis," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The action by the Federal Communications Commission clears the way for the company to launch a series of experimental communications satellites capable of relaying telephone calls, television programs and other messages across the Atlantic."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169416491291604862007-01-21T16:54:00.000-05:002007-01-21T16:54:51.500-05:00January 19, 1961: SAC Bombers Fly Around-The-Clock"The Strategic Air Command began flying some of its heavy bombers on an around-the-clock basis today in the second stage of a plan to make possible as airborne alert. In such an alert, a certain number of nuclear-armed bombers wold be constantly in the air, ready to retaliate in the event of an attack," the New York Times reports. "Heretofore, the Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offut Air Base, near Omaaha, Beb., has been conducting 'feasibility studies' at various bases.... President Eisenhower referred to the plan in his Budget Message, in which he stressed the threat of a ballistic missile attack."<br /><br />"Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver urged tonight a retreat from Georgia's policy of massive resistance to public school desegregation rulings of the Federal courts. The Governor asked the Legislature to adopt a package plan that would allow communities to decide whether to close their schools or obey the courts," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"Adlai E. Stevenson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the United States would have to face the possibility of Communist China's admission into the United Nations. He denied that he ehad ever advocated Peiping's entrance into the international body, but he said that it might be 'impossible to prevent," the New York Times reports.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169415388116194232007-01-21T16:36:00.001-05:002007-02-06T22:39:44.300-05:00January 17: US Restricts Travel To Cuba, Soviets Warn US is Broadening Conflict in Laos"The United States announced today limitations on the travel of Americans to Cuba," the New York Times reported on this day in 1960. "The State Department said that United States citizens desiring to travel to Cuba must until further notice, obtain passports 'specifically endorsed by the Department of State for such travel.'"<br /><br />"The Soviet Union told the United States today that it was risking a broadening of the conflict in Laos by bolstering the Government's forces with military aircraft. The warning was contained in a protest against the United States' transfer of four AT6 military training planes to the Vietiane Government," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The Algerian nationalist Provisional Government announced today its readiness 'to begin negotiations with the French Government on conditions of a free consultation of the Algerian people.' 'Free consultation' was taken to mean a referendum to determine Algeria's political future," the Times reports.<br /><br />"Two Negroes attended classes without incident today at the University of Georgia. Their re-entry marked the second day of desegregation in the state's public education system," the Times reports.<br /><br />"The Eisenhower Administration has authorized the Navy to install Polaris ballistic missiles aboard the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach. This would be the first installation of the Navy's prize nuclear weapon aboard a surface warship," the Times reports. "Informants say the Long Beach will carry eight Polarises, compared with normal complements of sixteen on submarines, for which the weapon was originally designed.Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169415478723484592007-01-21T16:36:00.000-05:002007-01-21T16:37:59.833-05:00January 18, 1961: Eisenhower Farewell Warning, US 'Uneasy' Over Congo, Laos Wants French Out"President Eisenhower cautioned the nation in a farewell address from the White House tonight to be vigilant against dangers to its liberties implicit in a vast military establishment and a permanent armaments industry unparalleled in peacetime," the New York Times reports.<br /><br />"The United States is becoming increasingly uneasy over the trend in the Congo and the performance of the United Nations there," the Times reports. "It seems certain that the Kennedy Administration which assumes its responsibilities Friday, will be told by its political and military advisers that it must act quickly to redress a bad situation."<br /><br />"The Laotian Government of Premier Boun Oum has demanded that some French advisers be withdrawn from the country," the Times reports. ... "The Laotian-French dispute has complicated the already complex situation in Laos and has contributed to the inability of the Allied powers to arrive at a unified stand, diplomats acknowledge. ... withdrawal of the French would imperil the existence of the small United States Military Advisory Group in Laos. This group, it was said, is in Laos only uner agreement with the French, ostensibly to instruct the Laotian Army in the use of arms and equipment supplied by the United States."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804552.post-1169312812713613472007-01-20T12:06:00.000-05:002007-01-20T12:06:53.143-05:00January 16, 1961: Recognition of Red China UrgedA group of prominent scientists, business men, educators and technicians agreed here [Harriman, N.Y.] today that it was in the interests of world peace that Communist China be drawn closer into the international community of nations," the New York Times reported today.<br /><br />"The group also agreed such a move should lead to diplomatic recognition of Communist China by the United States and other nations and the assumption of full participation and responsibilities by Communist China in the United Nations."<br /><br />In companion story today the Times reports, "W. Averell Harriman, designated as ambassador-at-large by President-elect John F. Kennedy, questioned whether Communist China wanted to be recognized by the United States. The former Governor and Ambassador to the Soviet Union told a panel on a taped interview over radio station WOR that nevertheless, 'sooner or later the majority of the U.N. members are going to vote to admit Red China.' ... Mr. Harriman said that several times he had attempted to gain entry into Red China but had been turned down."Rounderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11929942183463815241noreply@blogger.com0