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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2. 1963 Only Four Countries Expected To Hold Power in NATO Nuclear Force Washington - WPU - Actual power under the "Nassau Plan" for a mulli nation NATO nuclear defense force, if it ever comes into being, probably will be held by no more than four countries -the United States, Britain, France and West Germany. And the United States will assign only a fraction of its massive nuclear military pow er to NATO control, since it must have veto-free ability to cover commitments ranging far beyond Western Europe. These facts emerged from OPS-Blue Shield Announces Plan Portland - IUP1I - A new medical - hospital coverage plan for individuals and fami lies was announced Tuesday by Oregon Physicians Service-Blue Shield. The announce m e n t said some OPS-Blue Shield sub scribers will be transferred automatically to the new plan. Others may apply for transfer. The plan includes coverase for major and minor surgery, office visits for accidental in jury, some consultation with specialists, non surgical hos pital visits, and laboratory services for accidental injury. CBS - Blue Shield said the plan extends some benefits. II also reduces the waiting per iod for maternity coverage. The announcement said any person under 60 may apply for coverage under the new plan. Persons over 60 may apply if they are leaving another OPS plan. PLAN RESCUE ATTEMPT Asahikawa, J a p a n UIPH Mountain climbers planned an attempt today to rescue nine Japanese college stu dents trapped high up on Ml. Ashidate. The snowy moun tain is on Japan's northern most island, Hokkaido. The Kyodo news agency said a 10th member of the party died when he fell into a vol cano crater. talks with administration of ficials who were trying to ex plain just what it was that President Kennedy and Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agreed upon at their pre-Christmas meeting in the Bahamas. Cost Factor Cited Officials said the cost factor alone, aside from technical limitations, would make it impossible for the 11 other NATO countries to have their own nuclear forces within the framework of the multi-lateral program. The United States has told the allies what the program will cost the participants and has warned that it does not intend to underwrite the ex pense of creating any "hon orary" nuclear powers. But Kennedy and Macmillan said the force would be created -hopefully by 1970 - in "con sultation" with all NATO countries and subject to as signment to NATO command targets. The Nassau plan appears to most Western diplomats at this stage to be more of a political outline for realistic long-range military planning than a specific military pro gram. U. S. officials admitted there were many questions that could not yet be answer ed. Other Objectives Seen The plan, in addition to Senator's Home in Capital Ransacked Washington-IUPD-Police re ported Tuesday that the home of Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) was broken into and ransacked last week end. The s e n a t o r's secretary, Luna E. Diamond, told police she found the residence total ly ranracked. Police said en try to the home had been forced through a rear window in the kitchen, and that a screen was cut out. Anderson is in New Mexico and is not expected to return to Washington until next week. carrying forward Kennedy's theory that nuclear defense of the West is "in livisible,'' appeared to have other objec tives, including prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons to countries in the West which do not now have them or possess the clear capability of developing them. Diplomatic observers said the plan, if successful, ob viously would: -Discourage French Presi dent Charles de Gaulle's pres ently primitive but eventually dangerous plan to create an independent French nuclear force which might be used without the consent of other allies by offering him muh more sophisticated nuclear weapons than he can hope lo achieve by 1970, if he will join the plan. -Provide a framework with in which to control any nu clear force which West Ger many might at some future date decide it wanted to create. Creation of an inde pendent German force might spark an unpredictable Rus sian reaction since one of Mos cow's major fears concern what the Russians call re surgent German militarism." De Gaulle Silent There has been no reaction from De Gaulle as yet to the Presidcnl's invitation for him to join the Nassau plan on terms similar lo those given the British. The British will receive U. S. Polaris missiles, minus the nuclear warheads at cost and use them on sub marines to be built by Britain from blueprints supplied bv the United Stales. It probablv would require congressional action lo authorize the ad- (ministration lo supply similar blueprints to France, since the McMahon act limits "nu clear sharing" to the British. And the French may require British help in developing a nuclear warhead with which to arm the Polaris missile. But administration officials appear confident these prob lems can be surmounted. The U. S. ambassador to France, Charles. E. Bohlen, leaves for Paris in a day or two and will seek De Gaulle's reaction to the British-American program and Kennedy's invitation for France to join it. Officials here do not expect an early answer one way or the other. They think he will want to study the long-range implications thoroughly he fore indicating what he thinks of the whole idea. American officials also plan bilateral talks with the West Germans, but the initial con versations will concern the general concept of the plan sibilily of eventual West Ger man participation. The invitation to France offers De Gaulle two obvious advantages which may or may not outweigh his desire to further French "prestige" by creating an Independent nu clear force for his country. These advantages are: -A considerable step toward recognition of his long-stand- rather than the specific pos-I ing demand that France he , t v n , . i , ft v i rrfi Earl M. Miller and County Commissioner Edwin Taylor. A reception for Mrs. Offen bacher and Wendl, who is leaving Ihe coun ty court after eight years, was held Friday in the courthouse. Wives of the county court members. Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Wendt and Mrs. Miller, served. PRESENTATION Mrs. Delpha Offenbach er, retiring county court secretary, second from left, received a copy of a county court motion commending her for her long serv ices lo the county Friday. Holding the docu ment in an embossed white leather folder arc from left: County Commissioner Chester Wendt, Mrs. Offenbacher, County Judge given a position of equality , cussed and may be very in with Britain and the United volvcd. Stales in Western strategy leadership. The opportunity lo receive the Polaris engine, which is far beyond anything France can hope to achieve in the way of precision with her present small machine tool industry. However, De Gaulle holds some high cards which he might decide to use in an ef fort lo weaken the Anglo American relationship which he complains of as a special "Anglo-Saxon" tieup that does not take into full account the realities of the European situ ation. He is in a position: -To block Britain's entry into the European Common Market by insisting on terms which would sabotage Ihe British Commonwealth rela tionship. -He could seek closer re lations with the Soviet Union and then attempt to create in Western Europe a "third force" with the idea of hold ing enough strength to tip the balance of power between Russia and the Uniled States in cither direction. Interim Measure Britain and the United States agreed at Nassau lo allocate some of their nuclear bombs and tactical nuclear forces in Europe to NATO at once as an interim measure. The language indicated this meant they would be assigned to NATO targets but not necessarily entirely under NATO command. The long-range multi-nation defense strategy calls for the U. S.-supplied Polaris missiles to be "assigned as part of a NATO nuclear force and tar geted in accordance with NATO plans." But officials acknowledged that the Im portant question of who holds the trigger has not been dis- Thc Polaris forces could be used independently by Ihe British and presumably by the French outside of NATO only when "supreme national interests are at stake." The United Slates, in addi tion to warning most of its NATO allies they cannot af ford their own nuclear forces, has urged them to build up their conventional forces to the goals they promised some years ago. The United Slates, which holds 1)5 per cent of the West ern world's nuclear military power, is the only NATO country which has fulfilled its promises on conventional forces by putting In Europe all the troops it promised. The United States is making it plain to its allies that thi one - sided situation cannot continue indefinitely. .. 772-6128 Phone w or i Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. KHRUSHCHEV SUBMITS A 'STALINIST BUDGET' (First of a two-pari series) The Kremlin has pulled another fast one on the Russian people. Nikita Khrushchev wrapped up the Soviet's all-time rec ord 1963 budget of 86.1 billion rubles in bright promises of more and better consumer goods, higher agricultural output, stepped up industrial production. But a breakdown of the actual budget figures - which have just become available here - reveals a startlingly different story. The 19C3 Soviet budget will do nothing lo end Ihe grim . shortages of food and clothing in Russia. It will do nothing : to shift Soviet spending on heavy industry to light (consumer goods) industry. In fact, although the Kremlin has stopped revealing the ratio of spending on heavy industry versus light manufacturing, the informed estimate is that it is nine rubles for heavy industry to one for consumer goods. j The budget actually cuts appropriations for Russia's crippled farm economy. In the face of Khrushchev's re peated speeches about doing so much for agriculture, the percentage going for agriculture it down from 10 per cent in 1962 lo 7 per cent in 1963. Although the amount earmarked for industry is 26 per cent against 23 per cent last year, the total allocated to des perately needed housing is still less than a meager 5 per cent. Question: How. then, will the 3 4 billion ruble difference between last year's budget of 82.7 billion rubles and this year's budget of 86.1 billion rubles be spent? Answer: On hot war armaments and cold war efforts In the fields of educations, propaganda and science. "It is a Stalinist budget," concluded Dr. Ellsworth Ray mond, professor in charge of Russian Area Studies at New York University and a long-time expert on Russian finances. In an interview. "The emphasis is still on heavy industry and armaments at the expense of the civilian economy. The agricultural allotment is not only reduced but also three-fifths of the appropriations go to state farms which have only one-third of the total acreage. The Russian leaders don't separate hous ing from "industry spending," because they arc ashamed to saw how badly they are doing in this area. They don't dare admit publicly the nine-to-one ratio of spending for heavy industry as against consumer goods. "Here," in the 1963 budget, is the hard proof that the Soviet system hasn't changed since Stalin's death." It was on Dec. 10 that Soviet Finance Minister Garbuznv submitted the 196,1 budget to the Supreme Soviet (Parlia ment) amidst much shouting about Ihe goals of more and better food and goods for the people. Raymond, however, refused to accept the published reports until "Pravda" ar rived here with the detailed statistics and he could break them down for himself. What he finds is hardly what the Kremlin claimed. For instance, Krushchev frequently boasts that the Soviet Union spends only about 16 per cent of ils budget on defense while the United Stales spends more than half of ils budget on defense. (The budgets are simply not comparable be cause the Soviet budget is the only budget in Russia, in cludes all that would be in our stale, city and village hud gets as well as the Russian equivalent of what we spend on private education and of what our industry spends on mod ernisation and expansion of factories.) Khrushchev's claim ll nonsense lo begin with, there fore. Moreover, the Soviets hide their military spending by splitting up the outlays among other sectors of their economy. "Much of the science, education and propaganda spending will be for military needs and this takes 16 per cent of the budget," Raymond emphasises, A good pari of the 26 per cent earmarked for industry spending alio will be for military needs; industry spending includes lubsidies for defense plants. Most of the scientists paid by the government are working on military projects." Finally, the Soviet budiiet includes a category marked "secret" which accounts for S per cent of all spending. "Here Is where spending for rockets, H-bombs and military hard ware is concealed." 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