CONFERENCE LT-~. 77~rv.i.., ✓ ~. Th e speec d elivere d by Dean Rusk at Punta Del Este - is one of the stro ng est t h at an m eri can Secretary o f S t a te ha s e v er a i m e at the head of a foreign g overnme nt . P ossi bly the strong est ever -in our peacetime h is t or y . :. Subj ect, needless to sa y - the Red re g ime in Havana. S e cre tar y R usk, excoriatin g Ca stro as - a pett y tyrant. D esc r ibin the bearded dictator in the powerful phrase - "a smirking sycophant for the Communist bloc. 11 Our Secretar y of State, adding - that Communist uba is a menace to the free nations of this hemisphere. Dean Rusk went on to propose four steps - in dealing with ~ astro. First - formal identification of the pett y t y rant as a Soviet satellite. econdl y - his ous ter from the inter- A m erican system. Thirdly - an end to trade with his regime. Fourthly - collective defense measures, to stop ag g ression based on uba. Toni g ht, the conference seems shapin g into - an CONFERENCE - 2 unequivocal defeat for C astro. Most of the delegations ' ..... ~ . ~ " A majority seem ready to g o most o f the wa - with the Rusk proposals. The real question - strategy. How to put the anti-Castro case - into a legal fora , , consistent with existing treaties. In short, Punta Del Este may yet become - the greatest triumph of Dean Rusk, as Secretary of State. CARACAS The City of C ara · cas is peaceful tonight - because the Venezuelan government used~ stretegy.a::.1n putting down t h e violence. The army, ordered not to let the leftists have any martyrs. The rioters, methodically dispersed - b troops armed with rifles and tear gas. The ring leaders - rounded up. /ustled off - to the . lock up. ) Some Venezuelans ~ the government averted a full scale Communist revolt. At BJ any rate, Caracas is • quiet tonight - after the turbulence t h a t ~ resulted&tc ~ l g h t y fatalltles,~two · hundred injured. ~ SPY - ~Rome . ~ has not y et d eci de w h ether to in ict "41~ S o lakov )- ~ e~~ e B ul ga rian pilot who cras h - lande near Bar i. - u &t1lr-~dsl1 iA•.raaM. g e.e~. His stor, nd t h ee u ip m ent in is plane - b oth being chec k e d . 'fhe:4;J S""~ The official e>ommuni ue ,ia - cautious about the inci de nt) ~--te..¾- Solakov is almost certainly a sp y . He' s been contradicting himself - ab out his alleged defection from Communism. Besides, his plane carried a camera.: for special missions. ~ } h i s f01l.Q..evidentl y h i g h level espiona g e over ~ Nato bases in Southern Italy. D eGaulle is tetermined to have a solution in Algeria - by the end of spring. oo say official• close to - the French Foreign kinistry. They p icture the French P resident as unwilling to wait any longer - for either the right wing settlers or the Moel•• rebels. Capture of a headquarters in Algiers yesterday - striking a blow at the dissidents who are led by fugitive General Salan. As for the '6os le a rebels, DeG aulle no• say a he'll push his plan for Algeria - without the■; if they don't agree to a settle■ ent and do it - quickly. He's ■aking one last concession - a Moale ■, to be the head of a provisional governaent for Algeria. An hlgerian Algeria~ Su■■ er. CENSORSHIP Our former Chief of Naval Operations never s~w anything sinister - in the censorship to which he was subjected. A dmiral lei g h Burke, telling a Sen~te sub- committee - there was no pattern in the deletion of his anti-Communist remarks. J(o - conspiracy. But it was, in ,) his words - "capricious, irritating." Admiral Burke, considering this a result of - s bordinate officials in the Pentagon, wielding the blue pencil. The target date at Cape Canaveral - ia still S aturday morning. The weather-man, predicting clear skies. The scientists, evidently satisfied the rocket is ready to go. Astronaut John ~lenn all aet. So it looks as it ~aturday it will be. Banger Three - also ready. Blast-off ti ■ e, tomorrow for the one on the way to the Moon. ROCKET The important thing about our Minuteman shot today - it was the fourth consecutive success. The rocket, thundering up - from its underground silo at Cape C anaveral. Flashing through the sky - down the Atlantic missile range. Hitting its target more than three thousand miles away - between Africa and South America. Another bulls eye, for one of our chief deterrents - the Minuteman. SHOWDOWN 7GiR Wdtdl-t( ieday•, s h owdown along a lonely railroad track ' ~ near Ramse y , ~ erse7 ~ R e ~ 1111:~~ ie -1111.~;. }uok ~ h o P ~ ~ '1011ce Sergeant John O a t e s ~ fac'~ a desperate gW!Dlan - when convict Abraham Prins whirled on him, pistol in hand. Prins had escaped from a Patterson courthouse - only twenty.four hours before. He boasted - that no one would take him alive. So the police sergeant knew there might u be gunplay - when he saw Prins and ordered him to stop. The escaped convict spun around on his heel - and for a split second the two fa men faced each other, gun in hand. Said Gates - " Drop it!" Prins hesitated - and then dropped it. The boastful convict, afraid to trade shots - with the lawman who brought him in. COLUMBUS Over in London, one of the world's most valuable documents - is about to go on sale. Or - is it valuable? Is it - authentic? i!Ae~e qations aPe -Q&tts1Ag _ 9Q.. international controversy.~~) / ~ ~fttw ~ ~ 4'.s~ ~Christopher Columbus. ~ ~ letter dated pril Eighteenth, Fourteen Ninety- Three. Addressed to Columbus - and signed by his ro_y · ' . l patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The letter, &DfinltJlg conferring on the great na*igator - the title of 11 dmiral of the Ocean Sea. 11 Making him rule:,in their nam~ of the lands he had discovered - during his historic voyage~ "' This letter is going under the hammer - at Ch ristie's salesroom in London. sking price - thirty-five thousand pounds sterling. About - a hundred thousand dollars , Which Christie's expects to get without any trouble - once the bidding begins. r \ ~ ~ from Spa.in comes - a issentin g opinion. Professor Joae De Lapayna, insiettng - the so-called Colu ■bue letter ia a phoney. A fake cooked up in the place Colu ■bua discovered over here. ay eo ■e enterprising AMrican forger. Chrietie'a expert, - are 1tanding by•• docuaent. Their ••rdict 11 that the letter••• drawn up by the royal ecribe - for Ferdinand and laabeit; an4 was eent to Colu■bu1 - on April ~i1hteenth, fourteen linety-Tbree. Anoth~ story of - free enterprise in the Soviet Union. Com~ade Bayaond Tekasso, acquiring aeven wives without bothering to notify the authoritiea. Or - the ladies in the case. Coaraae Tekasso, a photographer - whoae job keeps hia on the road. His task, to take snapshots of government in1tallationa - froa Leningrad to Vladivo1tok Along the way, he made a practice of taking - wives. One - in Leningrad. A second - in liev. A third - in Stalingrad. Beg pardon, now it'• Volgograd. Co ■rade Tekaseo, running his aarital string - to seven. What happened to ruin the syste ■ 1 The Co■muniat peripatetic polygamist became careless. When he hit To ■ sk, he aay have bad - a couple ot vodkas too many. Anyway, in Toask he married - two wives. The ladies, finding out about one another - blowing the whistle on their joint husband. ! ' oday a Soviet newapaper ooaaent,eci - •&o■racie Tekasso ia obviously a vestige of ~apitali••·• then it added philoaophically, .1Jick - •J.ta sur~riaing how he managed to run his affairs.•