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Vol. I
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, August 20, 1960
Tel. 3-8400
No. 247
at San Juan.
Fuerte
Rice
Rights Investigation
To Ask Civil Liberties EnquiryBy HAROLD Into J. LIDIN ‘Abuses’
e 4
U.S. Makes Space History;
Air Force Recovers Capsule In Mid-Air Over The Pacific WASHINGTON
ejected
from
One of ten specially equipped transport planes snagged the 85-pound Discoverer XIV at 6:14 p.m., about 300 miles northwest of Hawaii.
capsule
space
in
the
air,
scoring
ry
Soviets Orbit ‘Space Ship, 2 Dogs Aboard their
lofty
FT.
MONMOUTH,
(AP)—A
signal
picked
up
N.
Discoverer
the
dogs
aboard
(See
SPACE
DOG,
at
was
—Foreign
by
It was vehicle
te
try
on
a
to
work
Dominican
in
at
its fall was
the
life
Republic
attempt
discussion were: 1. Venezuela’s
miles.
capsule, containing instruand equipment designed
The
ment
Last
part
on
the
three
complete
proposals
(See
CAPSULE,
the
radars
a ship
in the
Page
a release
by
July
campaign.
19,
Mario
Davila,
Popular
Party
ma-
were
being
kept
from
them
by
the Elections Board, and another claim that the Commonwealth government is “menacing with economic retaliation” citizens whe favor registration. In a letter dated
July
tary
Hiram
of
Justice
21, Secre-
(See CAP, Page 21)
Cancie
\
under
demand
break
in
for
a
diplomatic
tions.
21)
with
the
by
jority against supporters of the Christian Action Party (CAP). The CAP complaint included a charge that needed voter lists
President
was
of
coincided
announce-
abuses
the
its
planes
area
official's
of CAP, sent Baldwie complaint of - alleged
MIELE
of two
pre-determined tion.
CAP
registration
future,
on
formal-
Baldwin on the matter of the CAP
relatiéns with the Trujillo regime and strong economic sanc-
and
be
Secretary of Justice Hiram Cancio of correspondence between him and ACLU director Roger
to further the development of the space-spy rocket in the near seen
will
chairman a cabled
Betancourt.
from
502
inquiry
the the
The delegates hoped that agreement could be reached last
parachutes.
to
for
| Venezuela’s
Romulo
their+
by of
agreement
condemning
recent
of
on
ly made after the Aug. 28 deadline for filing voter petitions, Flores added.
of the Amer-
out
program
night. The
116
Liberties
RUTLEDGE Costa Rica (AP)
ministers
trampling
electoral rights by the Mufioz administration. The demand for the Civil
ican republics met privately at the Teatro Nacional yesterday
alti-
made
JACK JOSE,
The Discoverer satellite was orbiting at altitudes ranging The ments
are
an
feet. rocket
separation
slowed
meansquir-
Page
recovered
alleged
OAS Expected To Condemn Rafael Trujillo By SAN
Party Secretary Eduar-
mand a “full-dress investigation” American Civil Liberties Union
history.
Alaska.
The
lite is in an. almost .circular orbit 198.8 miles up, ringing the earth every 90 minutes. Inclination to the equator is 65 de-
two
in satellite
pdies.
5:46 p.m. EST., and
News satel-
named Strelka and Bielka, ing pointer or arrow and
was
over
oratory.
grees. The
caught
was launched
tude of 10,000 ejected from the
Astro-Observation Center of the U.S. Army Signal Corps labMoscow Radio and Tass Agency said the five-ton
first
XIV
earth’s
It
J. the
by
yesterday
Thursday from Vandenberg AFB, in Calif. The capsule was planned to be ejected from the satellite on its 17th trip around
ship” carrying animals was
yesterday
historic
the
from
Force
same area. This instrument package fell inté*the Pacific before it could be ‘fecovered in the air. It was later: picked up from the ocean with the aid of a frogman.
adventures.
Soviet “space experimental
a
Air
This aerial catch follow-+ ed by eight days the recovery of the capsule of Discoverer in the ocean in the XI
MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet Union orbited a new space vehicle yesterday carrying animals and a television camera to flash back
US.
Action
do Flores said yesterday that CAP will de
a capsule
from
(AP)—The
Christian
=e
.
2. A
US.
suggestion
that
the
separa-
Dominican
Republic
21)
undertake (See
free elections under OAS, Page 21)
be
made
to
Reds Sentence Powers To 10 Years Detention MOSCOW pilot
Francis
The
(AP)—The Gary
sentence
final day moved The
Powers
sentence’
was
Soviet to
imposed
with calls
fort
: After *court
k |
the
sentence
permitted
was the
read
prisoner
} Bo.and meet his wife, Barbaand his parents in a little pont just baek of the stage where be had pleaded guilty to the charge of espionage but strove to avoid being branded as a spy. ‘IT. am
a
pilot.””
b>
insisted
Supreme years
after
the swift
three years in prison, and detention—perhaps in a work camp—for the rest of the time. ;
10
Military
a fast
action
in
moving
his
final
statement
the court he asked for and expressed regret pentance for his act.
three-day tes-
to
leniency and re-
ask
sentenced
U-2
the
trial
in
the
which
court
to
feigh
all
the evidence and take into consideration not only the fact that I committed the crime but also the circumstances ‘n do so...
that
“I realize the Russian think of me as an
led
me
people enemy:
I can understand this, but I would like to stress the fact that I do not feel nor have I ever
“I realize I have committed a grave crime and I realize I must be punished for if. ‘I
yesterday
of a drama.
while he was giving his own timony before the court.
But
Court
detention.
felt
any
enmity
whatsoever
against the Russian people. “I appeal to the court to judge me
not
as
an
enemy
but
as
a
human being who is not personally an enemy of the Russian people and who has never had
any charges brought against him in any court and who is deeply (See
POWERS,
Page
2)
SENTENCED—U-2 as he pleaded guilty Court for espionage. detention yesterday.
pilot Francis Gary Powers is shown before the Soviet Supreme Military. Powers was sentenced to ten years (AP Photo)