ASTRON UT -------~ l SU ose L .T.-OLD S . TUES D AY, MAY 14 , 19 3 ( Ri chard c . Hottelet, s ubst it u t in • L .T. on Ne w Gu i nea tr ip ) ' that the re a ction of most. p eo p le to the cancell a tion of to da y's s a ce fli ht - wold go something like 1his. First, an exas era t ed query about - why the tracking station at Bermuda wasn't ready. econd, the questi o n - what's so important about th a t particular tracking station? Let's take a look at ~e answers - froa the S p ace A g ency. At Bermuda - the radar system started to malfunction this morning. The rest of the p re p arations for the space flight continued in the hope that word C""'1. f\JTl!.-12.. might come from the British island - that the radarA.1111 was ready again. But - that word never came. The technical problem wasn't cleared up - in t i • to let the rocket aaet off at Cape Canaveral. As for the second question, an American space flight never gets the go-ahea ' signal - until every last detail checks out. And a tracking station is m ore t ha n a mere detail - ev en w hen itk on he o , p osite side of the world from the l n n 1n are a . The phrase "trackin g st a tion' - means exactly that. Each one is art of a communic at ion system - extending around ~e world. Each one picks up the space cabin - as it flashes above the horizon, and zooms overhead. The failure of a single tracking station - would mean a break in communication. A period when the astronaut - might be 'lost• in the sky. Something that is ruled out absolutely - no matter how many postponements it involves. There you have the reason for - today's postponement. The leap of L. Gordon Cooper - into apace - put off until tomorrow, at ~e earliest. Disappointing - but understandable. The re orts of fighting in northern lraq - indicate t a t the demand for a K urdish state h as been rejected in B gdad. Wen the p resent lraqi regime took over after the assassination of remier Kassem - Kurdish envoys arrived to negotiate for Kurdish autonomy. They said at tie time - that the military junta agreed to a p olicy of decentralization for lr•q. Since then - silence. But travelers reachJng Beirut from Bagdad - tell of severe fighting near the 911 center of Iirkuk. So severe that the Iraqi government has sent warplanes - to bomb and strafe the insurgents. This outbreak in lraq, incidentally - is a threat to Gamal Abdel Nasser. Iraq is part of Nasser's United Arab Republic - which would be hard hit by an Iraqi civil war. I CZECHS ------- t y be ikiL a ' hrush c he v can e t some c o n solat ion - fr o m t i e following. The dist at e of Af rican students for the Co mmunist blo c - i susce p t t le to a ar xist inter retation. e in the West Lend to link of t h e antagonism - as racial. But it may be more a matter of - economics. Take t h at affair - in Prague. A ga ng of Czechs - beating a couple of A frican students. And slashing ~e tires of a car - belonging to an African diplo ■ at. Motive? The Czechs resent the h igher standard of living - accorded to the students. The Bed bosses, trying to lure the students into Communism - with money and consumer g,ods. The Czech p eo p le, angry - because ~ey don't have enough of either. Taking their economic frustrations out on - the Africans. Wouldn't you call t hat a Marxis t inter p retation - - of Kh rushchev's pro blem? - B lR l G AM ---------- Te cau t iou s o ti m i sm ith re ard to irmin g am, Alabama - comes from Birmin g am itself. nd - from as in g ton. The tension in the city - rel a xed a bit further today. Federal observers, re p orting - no signs of another race riot building up. The mo d erate elements on both sides - evidently keepin g ~e h otheads under control. l n W asbi ng ton, President tennedy is said • o feel that, as of no• - Birmin g ham a pp ears to be solving its own crisis. The P resident, hoping he won't have to provide Federal assistance - in the form of troops. The Commander-in-Chief still has Army detachments on the alert - in A labama. But he won't order them into Birmingh am - if he can ossibly avoid d o in g so. AlTI ----- The itu a Lion in : a iti 1 s o c o nfu ed toni g ht that observer a ree on u tone t i n g . A sho.do n - is immin e nt. E ither resi ent uvalier - ill to le from p ower. O r - he ' l l entrench h imself more securely a s the strongman of Haiti. The betting toni g ht - is on the former p ossibil~ Almost everyone, expecting - the fall of LJ uv a lier. In fact, Duvalier is described as h a nging on in Port-au-Prince - until he salvages what he can in the way of money a nd p ersonal belongings. Then, off to exile-in a plane that is standin g by. iiuch of this remains in the realm of speculation - because newsmen can't file their stories from Haiti. Duvalier has sla p ed a tight censorship - on ° ort-au- rince. n e f l i ht t a t d i et o ff t oday - w s t h e X-15. A n d y o u c a n b et t ha t ilot ob Ru shwo rth ,as ha pp y a b o ut it - b ee use he'd been throu g h two p ostponements. To da y's fli g ht over the Mejave D esert - was perfect. T h e Air Force M ajor, zooming up almost twenty miles - at five times t h e s p eed of sound. T h en putting his rocket plane through the sharpest turn ever - a full ninety degrees. All this, with the external te ■ p erature or ~e X-15 - at nine h undred degrees fahrenheit. The purpose of today's f l i g ht, to s ee how stress and heat combine - at th a t altitude and that velocity. Yore da ta - on condition s ne a r fue ed g e of outer space. Brou g ht back by six h un d red s ensors - attached to t h e X-15. C OOPE R -- - - · ---- T od ay' e x ~ erience ke Coo e r - the s econd most frustrate of our a tron uts. e's just behind G us G r i so m , "' o ot w i t i n t e n m i n u t e e of b 1 a s t - off - before his rocket ride was scrubbed. Cooper reached twelve minutes - to zero. Third in line, our first ■ an in space - John lenn, who came within thirteen minutes of •A-Okay.• Astronaut Cooper spent almost six h o urs in his space capsule - before he learned that he wouldn't get off today. His comment on emerging - was appropriate. •A very realistic simulation• - said L. Gordon Cooper. BR ITA I 1 I • ( ' B r . 1 t , ri , l, 0 r v n 'o r h 0 l. w O 1 or y 11 l H y h in ern ion· l p oc h b n n ny , · ~ , Br t a in h A WO h 1 of the rl n the Uni ed states Qu rren de n when c e r y of t ,. t e n R us k a~k ed the Civil Ae ronautics a d to go along w th the increased f a res. It wil l now cost about wenty-seven dollars addt tion al , round trip betwe~n New York and London but Bri tain will now at least let Pan Am anG TWA land at Heathrow. 1 ------- - - T cl o ck f o r m r i c r 11 1 r o c , · b n tick n o n y - wit. L u mi ion f c i r o rt t o t e r i d n l . . e n r . K I P, t, Ii n I n11 e y u r e ncy b 0 r d r t m nth - · r d Lrlk f o r t I d rl y y s aft r le r e p o rt 1 n. 0 \ ' ' n e r p o r t i in - ~ nd t h e fir t d a y i s j us t b o ut o ne. i ch m e a n t t man a ement a n d l a b or a ve t w enty-nine d y s - to a ert a n a tion-wi d e strike . The i s sue, as you rob a bly kno - is featherbedding. That vexed question - of s u p erfluous jobs. At any rate, management c 11s them - su p erf l ~ous. And ha s the b a c k ing of the Supreme Court - to do something a bout it. The fir s t p roposal of the r esilenti a l bo a rd - is that both sides g et down t o s ome s eri o us bar g aining. And - ri g ht a way. 1 -- ----- - l o n r if 1 i d c fr o m d n y , us r lia mak It u . ' E vy so un u i t u ., i v rl r o u . Y t r y h \8 0 t. hr hu n r m n fr o m he ir r ft. rri r " C orel 1 • - h j um J d ·hi in y n ey m rry u r 11 i n rl . el , h c p in o f t h i y it. i n' t so. The actua l number - r cl l y t o . w bou t. - t hee r ier re p ort? A ppa rently lot of the crew - c am e s pr i n t i ng up the g a ng p 1 an k at the l st moment. And - were re p orted A.W.O.L. by mistake. Rathe r unchivalrous - would y ou say? 1'he vociferous denial that 1he gals Down Unde r - c aus ed three hundred Amer ican sailor s to g ive u p the ship. When the members of the British nous• of Com ■ons ri•• as one aan to cheer and applaud. you can be aure of the occa1ion. Another visit - from Sir Winston Churchill. The old warhorse, returning to the chamber - where he peraonall7 made ao much of the hiatory ot the Twentieth Century. Each ti ■ e, 10• M.P. is sure to 1a7 17 ■ pathetic - •1t•1 the last we'll see of the old bo7.• Each ti ■• - the prediction turn• out to be pre ■ ature. As it did toda7 - with Sir ifnaton'• arrival at the Houa11ot Parlia ■ ent. Be 1ta7ed half-an-hour, applauded Tor, 1peakera - and reoeiYed another ovation as he left. On• of the ■ eaorable scenes of oar ti ■• - lin1ton Churchill in the Bouse ot Commons.