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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 20, 19S3 (Thursday)
The Medford city council
last night voted 6 to 2 to au
thorize Mayor Flynn "to take
preliminary steps necessary
for an examination of the
Medford police and traffic de
partment by an outside per
son or agency professionally
qualified."
Ashland voters yesterday
rejected an initiative proposi
tion for the city to purchase
Twin Plunges swimming pool.
20 YEARS AGO
Aumiit 20. 1S43 (Friday)
1 Rent overcharge in Med
fnrri area totals SI 1.500.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudse Pot " column: "Many
municipalities are now muit
Ins nnat-war nlans. In not a
tingle instance have arrange
ments been made to transform
social centers into soup kit
chens."
SO YEARS AGO
August 20, 1933 (Sunday)
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. V. Car
penter return home after
visit in California.
M. N. Hogan installs ticker
service.
40 YEARS AGO
August 20, 1923 (Monday)
Prof. Irving Vlning of Ash
land named president of
chamber of commerce.
Rattlesnakes reported plen
tiful along Rogue river.
M YEARS AGO
August 20, 1913 (Wednesday)
Total of 2,761 visitors at
Crater Lake park smashes rec-
Cole auto representatives
driving 1914 model car, visit
Medford on testing and good
roads observation tour.
What's Your I.Q.?
uu. -. Hind la iu sarler
even w tight h mctllent; fin r
ah is goo.
1. Which is the correct of-
flr-inl name of the European
country - The Netherlands
or Holland?
2. In what religion is a
mosaue a place of worship?
3. Only even numbers are
used to designate U. S. tilgn
ways; true or false?
4. Name the original col
onics that became states of
the Union.
5. Was Paul Bunyan a real,
or fictional character?
6. Who was the female star
in "Mamba'a Daughters," and
'Cabin In the Sky"?
7. What agency is responsl
ble for federal flood control?
8. Name the two Presidents
of the U. S. whose last names
contained only four letters
9. What human organ is pie
tured. on the back of a one-
dollar silver certificate?
10. Following are names of
cities: Burlington, Erie, Mil
waukee, New , Haven, Santa
Fe; what else have they in
common? t
Answers! 1. Tha Nether
lands. 2. Mohammedanism. 3'
Falsa. 4. N.H.. Mass., Conn.,
R.I., N.Y.. N.J., Dal.. N.C
I.C.. Va., Ca. 5. Ral. I. Eihal
Waters. 7. U. f . Army Corps
of Engineers. I. Polk and Taft.
t. The aya. 10. All nicknames
f railways.
TUESDAY. AUCUBT 20. 1883
Catholics and
. . .
Catholic Church is a ricidlv authoritarian insti-
TI,rinn whns mpmhprs
any issue until the pulpit gives the cue.
Evidence of how fatuous it is to talk of "the
church attitude" as something either monolithic
or frozen is abundant in the vast range of Catho
lic opinion on birth control, as reflected in The
m il. .1 1 1-J ml
limes survey mar, conciuaea xnursuay.
nriHR crisis rreater. in
enormous expansion of population and the
resulting misery for hundreds of millions of men,
women and children has prompted a widespread
-1 e a lji: i : . :
reappraisal ui uauiuunai fjusiuuns, uuut as w
mntUnla rf lirwiflwn- 1.11'fVla unthflllr VinlatlTIOf trip
lllClillUUO Ul lllllllrlllg Uli liio Hiwivuv tv..v. w..w
church's basic beliefs and as to the formulation of
1 ! 1- il ! J J 1 1 1
puDiic policy on tne dissemination 01 Knowieuge
about birth control.
There is among church authorities an increas-
moral views of all groups
tnai Dircn control nas a
mnltinorf onliitinn rvf rho
is not for the Catholic
.1 ' 1.1 1 IL.
aooub meinou on uie nun-auiuiic , il is nut xui
the non-Catholic to insist that the Catholic accept
birth preventives offensive to his religion.
A WORLDWIDE ferment is going on in all in
stifnti'nns Thp nrinrph's readiness to keen its
own thinkine under constant reexamination has
been demonstrated in many fields by ropes Jonn
XXIII and Paul VI.
Out of the exchanges
oroach encourages on birth control come hopes
a i ii ?i;a!
ior a Detter reconciliation
lics on a community and world problem both
should be working in joint conscience to solve.
New York Times
Passports and Cuba
A threat of jail and fines hangs over the
heads of the 58 students who defied the U.S. gov
ernment and accepted an invitation to visit Fidel
Castro's Cuba. Their passports not valid for
travel from the United States to Cuba, they by
passed travel regulations by flying to Czecho
slovakia and then to uuba.
. Now they are returning the same way. Presi
dent Kennedv at his Aue. 1 cress conference said
that their journey was
Cuban eovernment.
Then the President
students' passports would be lifted, he said, and
"other steps may be considered in regard to a
few who are not students but who are Commu
nists." The students had
faced lail and fines up
One of the ctoud.
student, on July 31 said
believe the government
DassDorts. This was after learning by Miami
radio that the passports
few years ago," Stuart said, "the Supreme Court
ruled that a passport is private property."
STUART was referring to a ruling of 1958. The
Supreme Court also held that the Secretary of
State had no authority to deny passports on the
basis of an applicant s
The House of Kepresentatives in 1958 ana
1959 passed a bill giving the State Department
authority to bar passports to Communists, but
the Senate did not act in either year.
A 1960 report of the
Activities Committee recommended that the Sec
retary of State be authorized to deny passports
to persons "whose purpose in traveling abroad
was to "advance the objectives ot uommunists.
And in January, 1962, the Department of istate
issued new regulations denying passports to Com
munist Party members
be allowed a hearing.
THE case against the students would not appear
to be governed by the 1958 ruling, for they
willfully violated the terms under which the
passports had been issued.
A more likely parallel
Worthy, Jr., Negro newspaperman who spent 41
days in Red China in 1956 and two days in Hun
gary in violation of passport regulations. The
State Department refused to renew Worthy's
passport.
The refusal was upheld by the U.S. Court
of Appeals in Washington, and the Supreme
Court in December, 1959,
on travel by newspapermen in Red China and
nungary were later nnea.j
1XORTHY ran afoul of the law again two years
ago when he shipped for Mexico where no
passport is needed but left the ship at Havana
because, he said, he was ill. He stayed 11 weeks
writing articles for his paper. He returned by
plane in October.
Curiously, six months
indicted for violation of
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. He
was convicted and last Sept. 17 was sentenced
to three months in jail and a year on probation.
The conviction is beinc annealed.
Worthy's prosecution was unusual, to say the
least. Indications are that the erring students
will tare better with the
haps for those who are
Birth Control
jj.ii.iu n
are loath tn sneak nn
manv countries bv the
must be respected and
necessary piace m any
nfinlllatinn nmhlfttTI. Tt
to impose his morality
I!.. . IL .- Af f
of viewpoint this ap-
-ii.i. f.l .f n.il
01 me lueas 01 tjawiu-
paid for in cash by the
issued a mild threat, ine
been warned that they
to $5,000.
Todd Stuart, a Harvard
in Havana that he didn't
could take away tneir
had been revoked. "A
associations or belieis.
House Un-American
but providing that they
is the case of William
denied a review. (Bans
passed before he was
the McCarran-Walter
government, except, per
not really students.
E.R.R.
"I'm A Young Goil
Help Youse Wit'
iisjil-eRttffc.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear tAe name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication fs permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of trx
paper. In fact the contrary is often the case.
Rebuttal
To the Editor: Your edi
torial of 8-16-63 requires an
answer. It reminded me of a
letter I wrote about two years
ago on insecticides. To it you
appended a derogatory re
mark. Silent Spring has vin
dicated every statement.
No, we of the "far right
do not have a letter writing
system. The impulse that
causes me to write is the
same as the one that causes
Everett Acklin to write. The
results we get are different
because our personalities and
backgrounds are different.
The function of Robert Welch
and other "right wing" lead
ers is education - to put us
in contact with information
concerning current affairs
that is not found in the cur
rent "controlled" press.
To illustrate, I heard last
night on the Manion Forum
(6:15 p.m. Sat. Channel S)
Craig Hosmer, congressman
from California. He is a mem
ber of the House and Senate
Committee on Atomic Energy.
Prior to entering Congress he
was an attorney for the Atom
ic Energy Commission. He is
an "educated, intelligent and
informed member of the com
munity," yet he agreed com
pletely with every statement
Mrs. Pheteplace, L. C. Powell
and I had made. He urged
every listener to write his or
her senators opposing signing.
But not a word he said would
ever find its way into the
Tribune or any other of our
controlled" press.
We have heard something
about the testimony of the
chiefs of staff. It was evident
from the little we were per
mitted to know of their testi
mony that they were not too
enthusiastic about the treaty.
Senator Goldwater remand
ed concerning their testimony
mat it "contained an unusual
ly large number of ifs and
buts." The lesson of the Gen
eral Walker case has not been
lost on them. It is not safe
for commanding officers to
express opinions differ i n s
from those held by the Russo
philes in the White House and
State Department.
No, the huge increase in
mail to government officials
is due to a growing awareness
at the grass roots level, of
the terrible inroads Commu
nism has made in our country.
It expresses the people's de
termination to save our coun
try while there is yet time.
But the time is so short. Dan
Smoot said last night the 1964
elections may well be the last
free elections in our country.
The result of the Young Re
publican Convention in San
Francisco is an expression of
the same spirit.
Anna M. Slreed
.16 North Peach st.
Medford
Joins Letter Writers
To the Editor: Your edi
torial on the letter writers, in
Mall Tribune of Friday, Aug.
16. forces me to join those
Illiterate, un-informed letter
writers.
I am not a John Bircher,
nor do I condemn them. They
are Americans who believe in
and express their view i jints
as individuals. This is their
God-given right. We all can
learn a lesson from those so
convinced in their beliefs as
to take the time and effort to
write 500 letters (as the edi
torial states one woman did.)
If freedom is this important
to John Birchers, far-rightcrs
or ultra-conservatives as they
are sometimes called, I think
they deserve credit not con
demnation! The United States of Amer
ica is the only nation on earth,
made up ot 50 states, united
into one whole, yet free as
individual beings and states
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Your Shopping"
under God to express and act
as individuals. Let's not close
the mouths of those who
speak out for what they be
lieve in. There are and always
have been, those who think
they have an option on wis
dom and power, and would
make us bow down to them,
whether we agree or not.
Some of America's greatest
leaders were not the so-called
intellectuals of their day. far
from It, they went down in
history for their dedicated
duty to preserve and .ven
fight if need be for their na
tion's freedom.
Education is vital as we all
know, but it doesn't take a
degree in college to write a
letter, nor are all people with
out a degree un-informd on
political affairs, and those
who imply this are the most
uninformed of all, and would
do well to take a long look
at their own opinions of right
and wrong, and refrain from
classing others as illiterate,
who do not agree with them.
Freedom and Truth pre
vails, only in nations where
its individuals are free to ex
press in the best way they
Know, and as long as they are
not infringing on another's
right, nor forcing opinions on
anyone, I say "More power
to them."
Doris K. Spoerl
89 Janney lane
Medford, Ore.
Losing Confidence
10 the Editor: Sppmt thai
Mark has got himself sorta
between the Devil anH th.
Deep Sea by making a state
ment in a letter and then
saying it's ridiculous It is
just such things that is caus
ing more people every day ;o
love confidence in him.
In circulatine mv fiv no.
titions was surprised at the
numner of folks who are do
ing just that. After giving the
petition the once nvpr thpv
would ask, "Is Mark for or
against this?" He is against
it. "Good, then I'll si an anil
only sorry that I can't sign
several times."
Ten more signatures tn pn
and then after countings milpQ
over dusty dirt roads old
Leapm Lena gets a thorough
wash and a long rest In the
garage while my pet bunion
enjoys a whole afternoon of
soaking in the creek.
(Jlaude M. Hall
2860 Placer rd.
Sunny Valley, Ore.
Minority Groups
To the Editor: The Demo
crats want to change the im
migration laws and admit
more minority groups to
America. The reason should
be obvious. If enough minori
ties are admitted, they soon
will be the majority. When
Immigration becomes a tool
of the state department, there
will be no limit to admit
tance of immigrants.
The United States has net
been able to provide full em
ployment since the early days
of the big depression. With
an increase from births of
more than four million per
year, and millions of new
workers coming into the mar
ket annually, one fails to see
why we need skilled fore;gn
workers.
r. bert Hutchins tells us
there are not enough jobs for
trained workers already in ti e
United States. Birth rates
abroad are so high that any
quotas given would provide
only minor relief.
O. L. Brannaman
3970 Sierra Vista ave.
Sacramento 20, Calif.
Should Visit Rhodes
To the Editor: It is enlight
ening to read that Gov. Hat
field is against submitting to
the voters the issue on Ore
gon State Income Taxes. Ore
gon has the second highest in-
Door Open for Legitimate Speculation
Over Course Now Possible for Red China
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Just as the nuclear test ban
agreement has aroused spec
ulation over possible new
areas or agree
ment between
the United
States and the
Soviet Union,
so there also
is room for
, legitimate
I I s p e c u 1 a-
VJ tion over the
course now to
N..om bfi followed
by Red China.
President Kennedy phrased
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, word has
just come from Washington
that acceptance by both sides
of BINDING ARBITRATION
of the two key issues involved
has apparently killed the
threat of a nationwide rail
road strike which has been
hanging over the country for
months.
Late Friday, Labor Secre
tary Willard Wirtz announced
the acceptance of his proposal
-first made on Aug. 2-that
the questions of firemen's jobs
and train-crew makeup be
submitted to an arbitration
board made up of representa
tives of the railroads, the five
on-train unions and two PUB
LIC members.
This board would make a
final decision, BINDING on
both parties, only on the fire
men's jobs and the train-crew
makeup. Throughout the bat
tle over what the railroads
call feather-bedding there has
been general agreement that
if these two thorniest prob
lems could be solved the par
ties could AGREE on all less
er issues without great diffi
culty. THROUGHOUT the long ne
gotiations, COMPUL
SORY (binding) arbitration
has been the chief issue. That
raises this question:
What is compulsory arbitra
tion? LET'S PUT IT this way:
The jury system is com
pulsory arbitration. Individ
uals, or corporations, or part
nerships disagree. They can't
settle their dispute among
themselves.
Somebody sues somebody.
The disagreement goes to
court. A jury decides it. There
may be appeals. But when all
the courts-clear up to the U.S.
Supreme Court, if it is carried
that far-have had their say,
the final decision MUST be ac
cepted. What Is that but compul
sory arbitration?
It is an interesting story.
The jury system was estab
lished in England by Henry
II, grandson of William the
Conqueror, in the late 1150's.
Prior to that time, both civil
and criminal cases had been
decided through the oath, the
ordeal or the duel.
THE COURT would order
one of the litigants to
muster a body of men who
would swear to the justice of
his cause and whom, it was
believed, God would punish if
they swore falsely. That was
me oatn.
Or. the lurleps wnnM mn.
demn the accuser!, unrlnr thp
supervision of a priest, to
carry a red hot iron, or to eat
a morsel of bread nr tn he
plunged into a pool of water.
If the iron did not burn him,
or the bread choke him, or the
water REJECT him so that he
could not sink, then Divine
Providence was adjudged to
have granted a visible sign
that the accused was innocent.
The duel, or trial by battle,
was a Norman innovation
based on the theorv that tho
God of Battles would strength
en tne arm of the nghteous
and so the winner of the duel
would be innocent. Or, if he
HIRED a champion, and his
champion won the duel hi
would be innocent. If his cham
pion lost the duel, it was a
sign that the accused was
guilty.
WEIRD, isn't it?
But, after all -Is
it much different from
our modern system of settling
labor disputes
PROBING question:
1 What is a strike but a
come tax of all our 50 states.
Perhaps Gov. Hatfield, instead
of visiting so often with Gov.
Rockefeller of N. Y., should
call on Gov. James Allen
Rhodes of Ohio.
When Gov. Rhodes took of
fice he found the State of
Ohio's finances badly out of
balance. Representatives of
ten states have come to his
office to hear and to se
how he has taken "chaos out
of government and is restor
ing sanity to the State of
Ohio." In ix months time n
has saved the state $22 mil
lion dollars, and he isn't
through yet.
Bruce Y. KleinSmid
1719 SE Portola dr.
Jrants Pass, Ore.
it in somber tones when he
said at his Aug. 1 news confer
ence that a continuation of
present Red Chinese policies
into the 1970's could create a
situation potentially more
dangerous than any since the
end of World War II.
The failure of the two Com
munist giants to settle their
dispute in last month's Mos
cow meetings effectively iso
lated Peking from Moscow,
and the nuclear agreement
simply added to Red phinese
frustration.
This is a frustration of long-
DUEL?
Tt isn't waged with swords
and spears and battle axes, as
were the duels prior to Henry
II and the jury system that he
introduced into England, but
it is a test of endurance,
nevertheless.
The jury system succeeded
the duel in Henry II's Eng
land, as a means of settling
disputes. Maybe in our time,
it will succeed the strike as a
means of settling industrial
disputes.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
c Field Enterprise!, Ine.
CREATURE OF CREATION
While driving through a
state park the other day, the
children saw me carelessly
tossing a dead match out of
the car win
dow, and re
minded m e
of S m o k e y
the Best's
warning: "One
tree can make
a million
matches, but
one match can
burn a mil
1 i o n trees."
This is more
Barrla
than a homely aphorism for
children, and it says more
than the dangers of being
careless about fire. It strikes
to the very heart of the hu
man condition.
We can observe the same
truth, on the chiildren's
scale, at the seaside. Six chil
dren may labor for hours to
build a lovely and intricate
sand castle - but in one sec
ond a baby can come along
and wantonly destroy their
achievement.
Man is a creature of crea
tion and destruction. The cre
ation requires labor, talent,
skill, patience, co-operation,
imagination, and often great
courage. The destruction us
ually requires little except
the urge to destroy; or calls
for no distinctively human
abilities.
Naiura has loaded the
die against us. One fanati
cal assassin with a gun can
change the course of his
tory, no matter how many
statesmen and savants art
ranged on the othtr side.
The work of decades can
be undone in an instant,
as a cathedral that took a
century to build can be de
molished with a well
placed charge of dynamite.
These are all the most
obvious truisms - yet tru
isms seem to be the last
things that human beings
learn, accept, and act upon.
Our capacity for creation
and for co - operation has
lagged far behind.
Humanity has not yet be
gun to fight its real war -which
is not the war of
people against people, but
the war of all against our
own destructive tendencies,
and against Nature's indif
ference to our fate. Better
control of the physical uni
verse, combined with better
control over our own na
ture, is the only way to as
sure our survival as a
species.
But we have not yet begun
to regard man as a species.
What L. L. White calls "the
unitary nature of man" is
dimly perceived by only a few
in each country; the rest re
tain a primitive view of their
own sub-culture as being the
finest and the best.
The basic task of modern
education is not to teach read
ing and writing and counting,
but to teach young people
(and older ones as well) what
it means to become a human
being. All other tasks are sub
ordinate to this one, for if
we turn out skilled technical
animals who do not know
what a human being ought to
be. we are simply hastening
our violent extinction.
Man's nature is not for
ever given, like the other ani
mals, which cannot help being
what they are. We make our
selves, as we make our his
tory; and it is wholly up to us
whether we use the trees for
matches or $V the matches to
trees.
o ;
standing, having its roots in
steadfast U. S. opposition to
Red Chinese expansions and
now abetted by Soviet refusal
to help the Chinese develop a
nuclear arsenal of their own.
Will Consolidate Influence
It may be expected that
Red China will move strongly
now to consolidate her influ
ence over the Communist par
ties of Asia, and to extend it
over similar parties in Afrfica
and South America, using the
color line as one of her weap
ons. She also may be expected
to continue boring from with
in tactics. She has denounced
the leadership of the World
Federation of Trade Unions,
the International Union of
Students and the World Fed
eration of Democratic Youth
for supporting the Nuclear
Treaty. But she has made no
move to withdraw member
ship in such Communist or
ganizations. Militarily she is able to pose
a threat in Korea, in southeast
Asia and against India.
But reckless as the Red
Chinese leadership has been
with words, it has shown no
Matter of Fact
(CI New York HfraM
(Joseph Alsop will be on
vacation this month - and
gathering material both in
this country and abroad for
future columns. During his
absence, top members of
the staff of the New York
Herald Tribune will sub
stitute for him.)
By SEYMOUR FREIDIN
THE MEANING OF
AGUILLA KEY
The arrogant Castro Cuban
raid on a little Bahama islet
the other day was a dry run
for bigger combined oper
ations to come. It involves a
future Soviet technique aimed
at all underdeveloped areas
and tempting soft spots.
Actually, it is based on the
most mammoth intelligence
program in history. Organized
care fully, plotted cogently,
the Russian aim is to pick off
the immense potential in the
markets of the underdevel
oped world.
They cannot achieve - so
they have apparently decided
- dominance in these markets
with the euphemism of com
petitive co-existence. In short,
their policy-makers have de
cided that the vast and cum
bersome Soviet heavy indus
trial machine cannot compete
with that of the U.S. There
fore, the answer is planned
upheaval, directed by highly
skilled agents who build up
the apparatus for a takeover
, in a given territory.
'
11HIS is not the synthesis of
some exile committee, bit
ter and burdened psychologic
ally with no futures. It is the
hard- headed assessment,
based on what they claim are
indisputable fact, statis t i c,
and operation, of important
men who try to advise on the
course of policy for this gov
ernment. Nobody, including the dedi
cated men involved, can pre
tend to say whether their un
emotional, surgical presenta
tions can affect the present
course of U.S. policy. This is
an epoch, somewhat schizoid,
in which the quest for power
accommodation with the Rus
sians has become obsessive.
The plangent bells of caution
keep the pace, at least out
wardly, rather dignified and
measured.
Soviet policy isn't deterred
by our approach. It has been
made up and implemented
abroad for some time now.
Let's get down to a few cases,
as the men who make these
assessments would say dryly.
Take the wretched episode of
Aguilla Key. Castro gunboats
sealed off and invaded the
heat -seared British - adminis
trated islet.
0
UR planes watched. Under
orders, they did nothing.
rsOr-Co .-4' i! Lex. L
"Do you ever get the feeling that this luaaiit is a
re-run of last summer and the tumatr kfoa thai
and the summer befora that and . . . ?"
real desire to take on a fight
it is certain to lose.
With the U. S. 7th Fleet
patrolling the Straits of For
mosa, she has made no real
move against the Chiang Kai
Shek stronghold or even
against the off-shore islands of
Quemoys or the Matsus.
When shooting broke out
along the Korean truce line
and three Americans died
there last month, there was a
flurry of speculation that this
might be the start of a new
Chinese - directed attempt to
start something.
South Korean Elections
Finally, more than to any
thing else, it was attributed
to the season and to a desira
to disrupt approaching South
Korean elections.
The chance that Red China,
with an obsolete air force and
without nuclear weapons,
would start a major action
against such a lineup seem
increasingly remote.
But, meanwhile, the nu
clear reactor given to Peking
by the Russians in 1958 con
tinues to cook its bomb-making
material and In 10 years
the picture could be different,
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
Onto Aguilla Key stormed a
landing party. Their comrades
trained anti-aircraft guns on
watching U.S. aircraft. They
even sent in a helicopter
from one of the little war
ships. So, 19 exiles from Cuba
were forcibly repatriated aft
er a bald invasion of foreign
territory. The incident - so
melancholy in its utter insen
sitivity to human dignity and
right - was Soviet conceived.
The U.S.S.R., around thn
world, never ceases to try and
bring back citizens who fled
and want no more of the So
viet system.
The act of Aguilla Key,
while successful from the So
viet operational point of view,
was small potatoes. It proved
one most useful point, though,
to the vast and recast Soviet
intelligence methods: that
Cuba under its present regime
is of untold value as a jump-ing-off
spot for Latin Amer
ica. The biggest, proportionate
ly, Soviet intelligence oper
ation abroad is in Cuba today.
Access is easier and more di
rect, as a result, with Soviet
missions throughout Latin
America. Every Russian mis
sion in Latin America today
is headed by a highly ex
perienced intelligence officer.
THE grim, old joke that the
chauffeur in a Russian Em
bassy really ran the show has
long since been interred with
Stalin. Instead of using intel
ligence agents in covert and
lower-echelon levels, deliber
ate Soviet decision has placed
them in No. 1 spots.
And not just in Latin Amer
ica. This is now true in most
of Asia and Africa. The objec
tive is the same: seizing by
subversion the regimes and,
thereby, the markets of new
countries. An undergr o u n d
apparatus and disaffected,
ambitious politicians are all
pay dirt in the targets marked
out by Soviet policy.
Some ultra - sophisticated
people may say, loftily, that
it doesn't sound very new.
Well, it is and had better be
recognized, because the Rus
sians never before used intel
ligence operations on such a
high level to strike for a
given objective.
Maybe this remark from a
highly gifted man, who holds
glittering credentials, has a
little impact:
"It's a life-and-death compe
tition for the markets," ht
said, dry smoking a filter
cigarette. "There ought to ba
a lot more said about it. But
that's not up to me."
Obviously, ifs up to the top
to see and shed some light on
this deadly phase of co-existence.