The San Juan Star (Aug. 10, 1960)

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Churches May Close Reds Say Powers

Pleads

\Demands Guarantee

On Right To Worship

Guilty To Spy Charges" MOSCOW

(AP)—The

official

Soviet

news,

HAVANA

agency

vana

Tass said yesterday Francis G..Powers has “pleaded guilty to the substance the charge” that he spied on the U.S.

8. R. im his

LB2

experts

-and

the

witnesses.”’ “It added

that

the

against him runs 4,000 words.

Tass

said

drawn

up

the by

the

and

Roman

U.

indictment

indictment

Committee

by

State

was

accuses”

was

Security

approved

on

Rudenko,

S: S. R.’s prosecutor It

of

to approximately

Juy

9

testimony

Powers

the

general.

of

‘having

been engaged in active espionage against the Soviet Union, ‘which

represents a manifestation of =

aggressive policy followed U. S. government.”

by the

Powers felt into Soviet hands on May 1 when ‘his high altitude spy

plane came down near Sverdlovsk. ‘Phe Soviet version is that it was crippled by an anti-aircraft rocket.

According +6 the — indictment, Tass said, Powers ‘‘intruded into

purpose

of

collecting

ligence of strategic location

of

rocket

bases,

f{ship,

radar network and other highly. important defense and industrial | / under article two law “on criminal for state

church

sourte+

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Evelio Diaz, highest ranking active prelate in the Cuban Roman Catholic hierarchy, made this known in a call on the

on the airfields,

objectives of the U. S. S. Tass said Powers is

a high

said.

intel-

nature

R.” accused

presidential

day

of the Soviet responsibilities

palace

afternoon,

crime.’

the

The’

source

added

Msgr.

said

the

preliminary

American

FRANCIS

investigation

that Powers’ spy flight was organized with the knowledige of the - government.

by

an

intelligence detachment specially designed to conduct ~ espionage

against the U. S. S. R. and based at the American-Turkish of Incirlik. 8

airbase

churchgoers

unless

is

» reportedly

Moscow to

coming

ing

confessed

to

officials permit

defend

him

trial.

It

U.

interview S. law-

at his has,

first

in

a

stration

dral

forth-

in front

earlier

of Havana

granted his mother and father visas to attend the proceedings.

all churches morning and

When

to

a

neutral

foreign

kingdom. Reported cut

in

policy

off

ern

mier

was

Tiao

his government

for

100 miles

joPrehang

the

turo Morales day that his

the away

pro-west-

Sai

and

valdo

extent

of

the

received

any

the

official

word

plot to gather

radicals’’

to

on the Cu-

‘Puerto

foment

a

social

and

economic

have

failed

te

produce

142,000 elementary, intermediary afd college: graduates ~

And

.we

know

defend freedom,” Morales “Tt would be. wise,’’ he

reform.

by the

Although

island’s school

how

after

with

Buch

Diaz was President

not Os-

church

develepments,

priest, who

holds

PRELATE,

Page

a high

20)

Katanga Will Let wn Move Into Province By

LYNN

HEINZERLING

LEOPOLDVILLE, —Katanga’s

agreed admit

the

rebellious

conditionally the

U.

N.

Congo

(#

government

yesterday troeps

it

to

once

barred with a threat of war. But Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba threatened to invade Katanga province with his own and other Af-

-

rican’

soldiers.

The break came on a day which

to

saw:

1. A U.N. Security Council order for immediate replacement of

DR.

MORALES

Belgian troops in pendence-minded

CARRION

the rich, province

(See KATANGA,

te study

inde with

Page 20)

Economie Growth heads and a staff of economists

e@onomy.

enrollment,

other

(See

said. added,

or the Castro little homework

Behind needed

predicting that-by 1975 the educational system at its will

; know what democracy We know how to bring

emerged

that the archbishop had Buch. There was no in-

a Catholic

be closed this church will be

of Puerto

on Puerto Rico.”

Be

By. A. W. MALDONADO Mufioz’ Committee on Human Resources has reyeraied. that despite an over 700 per cent increase in education expenditures since 1940, the island’s educational system is lagging far behind Puerto Rico’s economic growth. The committee has released a 16-page report _ growth

Rican

here, Morales said:

Gov.

of

Rico.”’ “We means. about

the people

“for the ‘Che’ revolution | brothers to do a

PR’ Education rate

from

from

freedom.

‘Asked to comment ban

coup

(See LAOS, Page 20)

present.

Ar-

Carrion said yesterdepartment has not

sistence

Diaz

Dorticos.

In

the U. S. government on the 28- We know how to argue and how page document made public Sun- to vote. We know how to live in,

of this tiny. country

that has lived largely on bounty, of the United States. While

revolution in Puerto Rico. Assistant Secretary of State

ali. foreign proclaimed

Msgr.

dication. why Msgr. received by Cuban

cathe-

“As a public official and citizen The Commonwealth Department 'of.State has asked Washington to of the Commoriweaith, I feel that send here the complete. text of any subversive plan fomented by By DAVID LANGASHIRE SAIGON, Viet Nam (#—An army the U. S. State Department memo- the Castros or the ‘Che’ (Maj. group seized military and civil randum charging Fidel Castro’s Erneste Guevara, Cuba economic power yesterday in Vientiane, Cuban government with plotting a chief), will provoke a strong re Laos, asked leave, and

described

Presidential palace communiques

In Vientiane of to

coun-

at the presidential pa-

said only met with

Army Stages P.R. Asks State Dept. Coup D'Etat {For Castro Plot File capital troops

was

a 25-minute conference the declined comment.

yesterday.

will the

archbishop

curtain

ister.

Msgr. Diaz was quoted as saying, “if there are no guarantees

however,

iron

He_ was received by Buch, whose rank is below that of cabinet min-

safety

call

that the what is

lace.

issued the warntelephone

some

personally

the presidential palace, the church source said, during a noisy antichurch and anti-American demon-

has refused to let U. S.

diplomatic Powers, or

yers

POWERS

the

in

The

guaranteed.

The archbishop

Tass, “that it has been established by

in silence’’

silence so will know

as very angry at the time of his phone call. Later, he appeared

Diaz

of

church

by shoofing.

notes,”

lence’ tries).

source

ment

-indictment

all of

happening in Cuba.” (Roman Catholic churches operate ‘‘in si-

said. told Luis Buch, minister of the presidency, would declare “the

“The

declared in whole world

yester-

The crime for which. Powers has been arrested can draw a. penalty ranging from 7 years inrprisont0 death

to close

Castro regime guarantees freedom of-wor-

Powers is due to go on ‘trial in Moscow on Aug. 17. The agency said the 81-+ airspace of the U, S. S. R. for the

threatened

|Cuba’s Catholic churches unless the Fidel

plane.

year-old. flier’s guilt “is confirmed by material and written evidence, the findings of

(AP)--The archbishop of Ha-

yesterday

the

number

of teach-

Reimer's

and sociologists under

supervision.

ers, and classrooms have more than doubled since 1940, according to the report, the educational rate of growth

Whereas in 1950, 62 per cent of all jobs were held by people with less than five years schooling, by 1975,

has

according to the will be available

not

kept

up

with

the

economic

development.

The report was prepared by Everett Reimer, secretary. of the Committee on Human Resources. This committee was created by Gov. Muioz several years ago to conduct scientific studies on socio-economic

trends in Puerto. Rico; It*is composed*of-government

tary

report, only 12 per for people with less

education. By 1975, the report

_ than Ray *

half as many

(See

farms

continues, workers

EDUCATION;

cent than

there

of all jobs an elemen-

will be less

as in 1950, twice

Page

20)

as


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