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Powers Tells Soviets:
I'm Sincerely Sorry
Trial
On
U.S. Policy
Denies
Ike
Angry
By PRESTON GROVER ‘By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON (AP)--President Eisen- ; MOSCOW (AP)--Francis Gary Powers told the military sechower yesterday hotly denied that the tion of the Soviet Supreme Court yesterday that he was sorry anything to do with his U-2 flight over the Soviet Union. United States itself is on trial in the Moscow heHe had pictured himself as a $30,000¢ Powers. trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary a year spy who disliked his job Soviet attorney assigned to defend that as a direct result of his flight, that+
also said
Eisentiower
Powers’ plea of guilty to spying was not evidence that
ing
high-fly-
his
since
to trial.
elon “be came
Powers
the
said
He
plane
reconnaissance
yent.down inside the Soviet
and
viet
|; aa te: tet Se, eee
the U.S. flier, in Communist captivity
:
not ad 7, had been brainprotest the Soviet But he did
Soviet
custom
international
the
,teq
viol-
Union
under which any foreigner accus-
ed of a crime is supposed to have the right his own counsel. At his news conference, the President declined to comment on the trial -itself. He said it
©
(See
EISENHOWER,
Page
24)
who
knew
about the equipment ing, on
He
little
if
anything
camera and- recording his plane was carry-
its flight
added
last
May.
his business
was
fly-
ing, not spying. The
handsome
pleaded
guilty
American
to
piloting
flier the
jet
and manipulating its intelligence gathering equipment at the outset of the trial. He underwent more than four hours of questioning by Soviet Prosecutor Roman A.
Rudenko
tioned
before
by
he
Mikhail
was
ques-
Griniov,
the
him. The
espionage
Powers year
are
charges
punishable
prison
term
or
the summit conference failed to materialize in
against
by
death
and the invitation to President Eisenhower to visit the Soviet
a 7-15 but
in Paris mid-May
as
the questioning progressed the death sentence seemed a more and more unlikely outcome.
Union was canceled. “I suppose it (the
The general prosecutor, Rudenko, and defense counsel Griniov,
flier said. ‘I am sincerely sorry I had anything to do with it.’”’
seemed Powers
to be trying to picture as a young man exploited
Looking on in the ornate Hall of Columns were the flier’s wife,
by his government for purposes of - international intrigue. Soviet
Barbara, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Powers of Pound,
creased
Va.,
authorities have made it clear they consider U. S. foreign policy is
on
trial
Powers
with
he
had
anxiety
and
(See
heard
in-
grief showing
their faces as they ed the proceedings.
Powers.
testified
flight)
tension in the world,” the
tensely
POWERS,
ia
watch-
Page
24)
Ferre Asserts Island's Economy Is Far Short Of Mufioz’ Promise By HAROLD
J. LIDIN
Statehood standard-bearer Luis A. Ferré said yesterday that Gov. Mufioz has “‘fallen 50 per cent short” of the economic goal he set for Puerto Rico seven years ago. In an interview with the STAR, the Ponce politico said that Mufioz, in his 1953 message to the Legislature, promised that 90 per cent of the island families would have a $2,000 annual income by But
the
‘‘government’s
own
fig-
ures” show only 56 per cent have reached the $2,000 bracket to date,
PRESIDENT
on
not
Ferre
claimed.
forecast
of
trial|land
a net income for the is$1.9 billion by 1960. But
By JACK RUTLEDGE
JOSE,
moderates
Costa Rica
against
to
offer
possible
a resolution
punishment a
the
(AP)—The
planned
asking
all
under
the
.
Venezuela a
cused the Dominican
engineering
a recent
has
ac-
Republic of
The
cluded
figure were cal1950 dollar as a
added,
then
the
failure
nistration
to
Venezuelan
its
esti-
ing
the
was the
delegates
raw
(gee MINISTERS)
Page
formal
24)
unemployBoot-
materials.”
wallboard,
eonfront-
at the
economic
paper,
industry, pulp for
etc.,
as
an
ex-
ample of a ‘‘natural’’ for Puerto Rico which has been neglected. The ‘‘indifference’’ of the present
of . diplomatic
problem
admi-
Operation
has
toward
cost Puerto
oyer the last five sugar revenues
$160 million
“years alone,
in
lost Ferre
charged. The
recent efforts of the governremedy the ‘critical si-
of
have come
left
by
the
the sugar industry too late, the GOP can-
Cuban
place
that
the
local
fill*the
gap
quota
cut.
in
Puerto
government
Rico.
statistics
unemployment
at
now
15
per
cent said Ferre.He gave the present
jobless
figure
above.
the
twenty
years
fs
90,000,
66,000 ago
above the 1950 cent and 89,000.
well
unemployed and _
figure
slightly
of
11
per
LUIS
FERRE
-50
yer’
coat
sbert
SSS Given Health — Insurance Contract For UPR Students
agriculture
Rico
relations with the government of didate .said—noting dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and econogaie sanctions producers can not This
Munoz
match
island’s
ment to . in- tuation”
demands
the
to eradicate
government
suspension
of
He cited the bagasse which utilizes sugareane
assassi€a | pening of the ministers confer-
tion attempt-on the life of Presi-|-
leged
cal
Hemnis-
Western
Rasuis, Gelanecort
Det
1947 Rio Treaty, stort of armed intervention.
Ferre
Latest
charged.
strap, Ferre chided, should have focused on industry ‘‘rooted in lo-
on Venezuela to soften its plans for demands
minican Republic. Venezuela originally
base,
ment. The
phere foreign ministers meeting got down to business yesterday with soothing speeches and increasing pressure from of full. sanctions
Ferre
If the latter culated on the
goals—and
OAS Moderates Ask Venezuela To Ease Resolution On D.R. SAN
$1,070,000,000,
The GOP gubernatorial candi- mate would shrink to $1 billion. “A misguided industrialization”’ date also recalled that Munoz had. was blamed by Ferre for the al-
EISENHOWER
.. we're
at only ‘employment
the’ island’s income stands
1960.
The
University
of Puerto
Rico
has
awarded
its new
student health insurance contract to the recently created Servicios de Seguros de Salud (Health Insurance Services). Blue Cross had held the contract for the past 16 years. The executive director .of + the
SSS,
Felix
Lamela,
an-
nounced yesterday the UPR contract
is
the
gest of its type He
estimated
will involve year.
The’
second
big-
in Puerto
Rico.
that
the
contract
“about
$150,000”
biggest
health
Goverhment
Assn.-sponsored SSS_ that the University accepted the recommendation of a special com-
a mittee in-
.The decline in agriculture is surance policy in Puerto Rico, blamed by government planners he said, is the Blue Cross confor the continued high raté of ‘ua-“tract which covers Commonwealth
employes.
UPR Chancellpr Jaime Benftez notified the P.R. Medical
appointed
study
whether
Cross
Policy
to
the
(See
to
or
by retain
to
him the
switch
to Blue
over
SSS.
CONTRACT,
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24)