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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1963 Page S Washington, By SID MOODY Of th6 Alloc tiled FrcM If the White House-Kremlin tie ljne is ever installed, it might be a busy one. For when Khrushchev it up pacing the floor, chances are President Kennedy is, too. They both have the same problems. A review of the leading tones of 1962 shows anew that most of the major ones involved both the United States and Soviet Russia. Cuba, space, Berlin, disarma ment, nuclear testing, South Viet Nam, India's border war with China they caused head aches in Moscow and Washing ton. Even stories that seem at first of purely domestic concern had overtones that touched the op posite capital. Russia used the stock market crash of last May and the Oxford riots over James Meredith to document its propa. ganda campaigns that the Unit-, d States is awash with bigotry and Wall Street imperialists. The United States, which pro duced record crops in 1962 to overflow the surplus bins even further, could hardly miss the significance of the Kremlin's admited failure of its agricul tural plans and the resultant shakeup of its bureaucracy. And Washington, burdened with a chronic unemployment problem that lessened but still lingered in 1962, could take some comfort from the Russian announcement several months ago that 47,000 workers had found Siberia less than a good place to work and had walked off the job. India was an embarrassment to both parties. Both Khrushchev- and Kennedy- found themselves offering arms to Nehru to resist the invasion of Russia's surly protege, Com munist China. This got Russia's Chinese ally mad and there was Between U.S., Poland Economic, Political Relations in Trouble By GENE KRAMER Of tb Associated Praia WARSAW, Poland Relations between the United States and Poland could take a turn for the worse in 1963. The next few days or weeks may set the course. One indication will be wheth er Poland pays its annual $4 million installment on $40 mil lion in compensation for Ameri can private property national ized in the Communist takeover. The third annual payment is due the first week of January but the Warsaw government has not disclosed its exact inten tions. Competent sources say Poland recently warned the United States it may default on the payments because of con gressional action last fall af fecting Polish exports to Ameri ca. Cancellation of the payment could start a downward spiral in the economic and political relations which have developed between America and Poland in recent years. The Poles have accused the United States of bad faith be cause Congress included in the new foreign trade act a clause calling on the President to can cel tariff concessions, known as "most favored nation treat ment" now granted Poland and Yugoslavia. The concessions have not been revoked yet. There still appears to be a possibility that before taking too drastic action, the Poles might wait for anoth er move by the U. S. administra tion or Congress. Polish authorities contend U.S. negotiators morally obli gated their government to grant Poland "most favored nation" treatment at the time the prop erty claims agreement was worked out in 1959. There is no legal connection, however. Several congressmen who vis ited Warsaw recently expressed T962 at Capital S1HL SfcMi BfkS SHIMS. BECIKM Off-porn km saet said, feseij, few baj tssan. turns TfOtps quiff MtypcdkM cms bloetyasAirstetOxfort WA11ST. Stock! pknmr) h mst onksinaimL inrrwui long U0Qfo v US i a noticeable cooling by Pakistan towards Uncle Sam'a stepped up weapons aid to the Nehru re gime it mistrusts. There was another meeting of minds between the Kremlin and the capital a Kind of cold war horse trade. The U.S. swapped Russian spy Rudolf Abel in ex change for U2 pilot Frances Gary Powers, who a few months later found himself in a divorce action with his wife. The chronic sore point be tween the two great powers Berlin festered mightily dur ing the early part of the year. It looked as though Russia fin ally intended to live up to its latest deadline to sign an East German peace treaty, thereby making a Berlin blockade a definite possibility.- But the United States got there first with its own blockade, of Cuba, and the tough talk over Berlin faded into uneasy silence. Russia and the U.S. domi nated negotiations that finally surprise at hearing U.S. officials talk of- such a moral obligation, They said that while ths Ken nedy administration had op posed cancelling the trade con cession for Poland and Yugo slavia, they had not been in formed in Washington of any connection with the claims agreement. Besides commercial trade, Po land is looking to America again as a source of wheat, needed particularly because of a bad 1962 harvest. After repeated delay, talks began in Washing ton in late November on a Po lish request for new shipments of surplus wheat on long-term credit. Progress, if sny, has not been announced. Poland owes $425 million for surplus U.'S. foodstuffs import ed since 1957 on 40-year credit. Officials say repayment, due to start in 1967, depends on op portunities for Poland to earn American dollars. Polish exports to the United Slates have been growing stead ily since 1960 and now run about $40 million dollars a year. But Polish sources claim orders are leveling off, partly as a result of congressional hostility toward East-West trade and sporadic boycotts by U.S. anti-Commu nist groups. Polish ham, a major export, would not be affected by the loss of "most favored nation treatment." But Polish officials say the change would hit bi cycles and other simple ma chine goods they hope to move on the American market. Crop failures and other eco nomic troubles have prompted Poland's regime to give more emphasis than ever to boosting exports and conserving hard currency. An deterioration of U.S.-Folish economic relations thus Would be certain to lower the modest degree of American influence with Warsaw. mam IRf ONTrra STATtt WTWXAl UK ft KjrVM Miffiiw fidofi DtaosA hwBM CartontiM Moscow Had J WASHINGTON resulted in a truce in Laos. It was more of an uneasy cease fire which did not remove American suspicions that Com munist troops remained In the Laotian hinterlands. But it did remove the prospect of a grow ing U.S. involvement in an area the Pentagon felt was all but indefensible. 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Both Kennedy and Khrushchev had some governmental prob lems of their own. Kennedy found the going a little slow with Congress, asked for a more amenable one in the fall elec tion and still wasn't sure he had got it when returns showed the Democrats retaining their numerical edge. Khrushchev solved his difficulties more typi cally. Ho purged peaceably, this time a number of Kremlin brass and gave some of the younger boys a chance to solve persistent farm and industrial problems. If they had had their phone in during the year, K and K could have talked about the troubles they were having with those two agrarian reformers Hao Tse-Tung and Billie Sol Estes or what to make of the European Common Market or the Catholic Church's Ecume nical Council, or the revolt in Yemen or the purging of Sta linist Premier Anton Yugov in Bulgaria, or the strike of doctors in Saskatchewan. Being a professed atheist Khruschev might have good na- turedly prodded the President a bit about the Supreme Court's ruling against a school prayer. Kennedy might have countered by asking whether Mikoyan real ly did call Castro a screwball, And maybe they could have forgotten their cares for awhile pondering the year's most Stretch 1 Pants f 7" Famous name stretch pants. Black Blue Coral. I e Sizes 6-16. SPECIAL 10 PRICE PRICE FASHION 164 W. BROADWAY Hem Owned Horn Operated asked and least answered question: What REALLY gives between Burton and Liz? Franco Hikes Wage Scale 1 MADRID, Spain W General issimo Franco has nearly doubled the minimum wage of Spain's unskilled force. Now they'll make about 100 pesetas $1.66 a day. Franco in a radio-television New Year's broadcast called for increased industrial production but warned that Spain could not hope to achieve wage parity with richer nations immedi ately. 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