The San Juan Star (Sept. 26, 1960)

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Vol. I "No. 277

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j|Engine Is

Gives UN Challenge

At Fault / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fila. (AP)—Rocket engine failure yesterday thwarted a US. effort to fire a satellite into

orbit

around

the

first

the moon

time

in

GLEN

his-

tory. “Malfunction of one of the upper stages’’ brought the failure, the National Aeronautics and

Khrushchev unless the

This

bad

rocket

a

had

Dr.

in

Republican

Munoz: GOP,

Thiel third

out

of

Puerte

Rico’s

internal

af-

fairs. In a firm telegram. sent to the soviet leader at the United Nations, Ferre stated, “I reject your

recent

statement

Gov. Mufioz

charged

during

the

ty

is

aiding

the

cause

of

Com-

munism

by insisting that Puerto

Rico

a

is

colony

of

the

United

States. Speaking

before

a

crowd

of

ican

citizenship

with

pride

it was

the

NASA

satellite garth,

del

Castro

that

describe

Fi-

Puerto

Rico

as a colony,

when

he speaks

mier

Khrushchev

did

last week.

“Consciously

unlikely

at all and

or unconsciously,”

and Mufoz said, Ferre and the Repu-

lovalty becau8e we are happy to blicans are doing a disservice to help ‘adv, \the great social and Puerto Rico. Who says Puerto politital tion under freedom Rico is a colony? Khrushchev, (See MUNOZ, Page 21) (See FERRE, Page 21).

will

not

abandon

project. NASA

said a backup are available

moon

Lawrence

Ho-

project

manager,

rocket and

payload

to repeat the

launch-

ing. He did not say when but other officials said it might come in two or three months. It was explained that analysis of what happened

this

time

would

deter-

mine the time for the next try. This Pioneer VI project had been

(See THOR-ABLE,

Fidel Recruits PR.

for

an evening

Primé

determine

day

wind-

date

Minister

with

Nehr

their

position,’’

Kbru-

shchey told newsmen at his’ sepond news conference of the day,

this time on the driveway in froat of

the

Soviet’s

palatial

residence. “They should

Glen

Cove

determine,

in

other words, whether they want to be associated with France. I sup-

port President ‘second

de

de Gaulle—not

Gaulle’

but

the

the ‘first

de Gaulle’ who said Algerians should be granted self determinaPRIME

MINISTER »--may

NEHRU ease

crisis

U.N. Future At Stake As — Talks Resume By MILTON BESSER UNITED

this fact in a column he wrote {spokesman said here yesterday Fidel Castro are recruiting a from the United Nations and he had heard nothing of such “task foreé” of Puerto Rican which appears on the editorial a deyelopment, but “That natibnalists in New York City, page of today’s STAR. doesn’t mean it el true.” acedrding te STAR columnist The recruitment of a “task On Aug. 7, the State DepartRalph McGill. force” is apparently a new de- ment said in Washington that McGill, editor of the Atlanta velopment in a month-old wrangle Premier Castro has as one. of (Ga;) Constitution and nationally between the Cuban and Puerto his aims a revolution in Puerto icated columnist, reported Rican governments. An FBI (See FIDEL, Page 21)

a busy

Algeria should be granted the freedom it has been fighting for since Nov. 1, 1954. “The Algerians themselves should

Page 21)

Fanatics

the

just arrived for the U.N. Gener: Assembly meeting. Khrushchey declared also that

craft fiery

“Task Force’ Forming In Harlem

Agents of the Cuban regime of

York

the

the

it,

war.”

during

India’s

added

destruction in the atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Although keenly disappointed at this failure—especially since it came’ with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in this country—

Governor

will

it was fired

instrument-packed space in its nose probably met

the

predicted

said

cold

ferences

of the admin-

newsmen

wants

ing up this weekend at the Russians’ luxurious mansion here. Then he headed back to New

nose.

Thiel

told

stage

2,000 persons at Catafio last night,

Ferre continued, “have chosey in before the U. N., as Soviet Prefree election to be part of the United States and to enjoy Amer-

with

of the rocket with the 387-pound,

weekend that the Republican Par-

requesting

independence for Puerto Rico which is an unwarranted interference im our internal affairs.” “The people of Puerto Rico,”

its

of

he

continue to be in a

He made these statements at two separate, lengthy press com

“if it did, it would have been so far off trajectory that it would have plunged back into the earth's atmosphere. : He guessed that the upper stage

By A. W. MALDONADO

caé-

didate for governor, has angrily told Nikita S. Khrushchev to stay

aloft

as

“shall

state

Plunged ‘Back To Earth

Ferre Aiding Of PR Affairs Soviet Cause A. Ferre,

11:28

eight minAtlas-Able

5,000-pound second stage engine of the three-stage launching rocket -|that malfunctioned. He said it LUIS A. FERRE .| “ignited but burned in an abnor--censcious or unconscious? mal fashion and did not burn its normal time of 110 seco’

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV +.- object of Ferre wrath

Luis

at

world

instrument-packed

Adolph

istration

K: Stay Out

came

thundered

387-pound,

satellite

Ferre Cables

news

EST, an hour and after the huge

Nikita 2

also declared that United Nations igs

reorganized

Space Administration announced. a.m. utes

ng (AP)

Premier

Khrushchev said yesterday “everything is ready” for a Russian launching of man into space, but the attempt hasn’t been made yet

for

space

COVE,

—Soviet.

NATIONS,

New

York

(AP)—The U. N. General Assembly, gripped by crisis, moves today into a full wéek of stormy debate, with the future of the world organization itself at stake.

_ But in advance of the speech

making—which includes an oration of a least four hours by Cuba’s

Fidel

Castro—the

spot-

light turned on possible attempts by Britain’s Prime Minister Macmillan and India’s Prime

Nehru

Minister

to ease critical East-West

(See U. N., Page 21)

tion.’’

The Soviet with newsmen

premier talked for an hour and

a quarter at the iron gate of his Glen

Gove

estate.

Khrushchev’s

U.N.

demand

be revamped

secretaries general Western, Communist

countries, (See

that the

havmg thr’

replacing

NIKITA,

, aed

sate

|

the prese: : Page

21)

1 Killed, 21 Injured In Traffic Accidents One 21

person

others

traffic

was

were

killed

injured

accidents

and in

over

10

the

weekend.

Flor Flores Llanos 34, was killed by a car driven by Juan Garcia Marrero, while walking along the Carolina highway

day

Canovanas on Satur.

at 7 p. m.

Police

said

' that

Flores

nos jumped into the the oncoming car,

path

Lila

of


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