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Reservist Who
Objected To Cuba
Service Retained
San Francisco - (UPB A 25-
year-old Army reservist will
be permitted to complete his
military obligation, although
he threatened to defy his com
mander in chief. President
'. Kennedy.
The reservist, Thomas L.
Clark, had faced possible dis-
charge at an Army administra
tive board hearing scheduled
:, for Friday.
, Clark, who works on a
ranch in Napa County, Calif.,
wrote to his commanding gen-
! eral last October advising him
; that he would refuse to par
ticipate in any possible inva-
: sion of Cuba. His letter said
; in part:
"I want to advise you be
fore any possible reserve call
up takes place, that I have
no intention of obeying such
a recall. I take this action in
(. protest of our naval blockade
. of Cuba, a policy I regard to
; be dangerous, foolish and im
moral. "I regard President Kenne
dy's decision to be Ill-conceived
and irresponsible, prompt
ed more by domestic politi
cal considerations . than by
threats of security to the
United States.
i "I have no intention of sanc
tioning this decision, so please
be forewarned that I will ig
nore any reserve callup which
Involves me." ,
Clark, who. was on active
duty as an enlisted man in
Germany from 1998 to 1960,
never was recalled to active
duty. However,, the adminis
trative board hearing was
scheduled to decide whether
he should be discharged prior
to the completion of his re
serve obligation next March.
Friday's hearing was called
off by Lt. Gen. John L. Ryan
'Jr.,- commanding general of
the Sixth Army.
"It is preferable that Clark
be held to the completion of
his military obligation, rather
than face an administrative
board which could recommend
his discharge," Ryan said.
Clark said he was "delight
ed" by the general's decision.
Nixon To Cross
Into East Berlin
" Berlin fllPD Former U.S.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon planned to cross the
Berlin Wall today for a first
hand look at German com
munism. . Nixon, who has drawn
crowds of hundreds of people
in other Communist cities
visited during his current
European tour, invited West
ern newsmen to accompany
him to East Berlin.
He said Tuesday that he,
his wife, Pat, and his daugh
ters, Patricia and Julia,
planned to make a three-hour
trip "not a guided tour"
into the Soviet sector of Ber
lin.
Nixon said he had no objec
tion to showing his passport
to Communist guards at East
West border control points.
. "I've shown by passport to
border officers before in East
Europe in Budapest and
Warsaw and Moscow," Nixon
commented.
Tuesday Nixon and his wife
walked along Berlin's Ber
nauerstrasse for several hun
dred yards to take a look at
the wall. The houses on one
side of Bernauerstrasse are in
West Berlin, and the houses
on the other side are in East
Berlin.
The Nixons walked along
the grim street, peering at the
ugly anti-refugee wall, the
bricked-up windows and the
VOPO (Communist police)
guards on the Eastern side.
Clergyman Called
In Rights Hearing
Washington - (DPD - One of
four congressional groups
holding hearings on President
Kennedy s civil ngnis Din can
ed for testimony today a prom
inent clergyman who recently
was arrested for taking part
in an anti-segregation dem
onstration. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake,
chief executive officer of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.,
was summoned to testify and
read a statement on behalf
of himself, Roman Catholic
and Jewish spokesmen and a
member of national religious
organizations representing the
three major faiths in the
United States.
At the same time the Sen
ate Judiciary committee re
called Ally. Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy for more question
ing on the administration's
oitril rlnhu nroDOsals. The
Senate Commerce committee
and the Senate employment
and manpower suocommiure
lcn u-heduled hearings on sec
tions of the civil rights pro
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