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ATLANTA—Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox and his wife buckle up
aboard a special flight from Atlanta on a 10 day tour to Rome
and the Holy Land. Maddox is leading a 160 member group on
the tour. (UPI)
To see daughter
Cancer patient to get his death bed wish
CHICAGO (UPI) -Thanks to
“politics, publicity and prayer,”
exiled Romanian poet Vasile
Posteuca’s death bed wish has
been granted—one last visit
from his daughter.
Posteuca, critically ill with
terminal cancer in Columbus
Hospital, was informed by
Romanian officials Monday that
his daughter, Mrs. Donna
Vircol, 33, and her 3-year-old
son, Alexander, have been
granted a 30-day permit to visit
the United States.
"She could arrive in Chicago
as early as today,” a hospital
spokesman said. “We are
praying that he will live to see
her.”
Informed of the decision by
Romanian officials to relent
and allow his daughter to visit
him, Posteuca, with tears in his
eyes said: “God wanted me to
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Posteuca has bitterly criti
cized communism in his writ
ings and speeches.
Posteuca fled Romania in
1941, leaving behind his wife,
their daughter, then 3, and a
son Doru, 9 months. He lived in
Germany, Austria, and Canada
before coming to the United
States. While in Germany,
Posteuca was put in a Nazi
concentration camp during
World War n because of his
political beliefs.
Mrs. Posteuca joined her
husband in the United States in
1968, and their son, an engineer,
came in 1970. Both were to
have returned to Romania, but
did not.
A professor of modern
language at Mankato State
College in Minnesota before
cancer disabled him, Posteuca
came with his wife to Chicago
to spend his last days under the
care of an old friend Dr.
Alexander Ronnett, also a vocal
anti-Communist exile who was
with Posteuca in the Buchen
wald concentration camp.
The professor, who has made
his own funeral arrangements,
desperately wanted to see his
daughter. His friends launched
a campaign to get her here.
However, Romanian officials
refused to grant a permit until
U.S., Cuba expect
talks on hijacks
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
United States expects to begin
indirect negotiations with Cuba
on a broad agreement to foil
hijackers this week, possibly on
Wednesday, State Department
officials said today.
The officials reported that
Cuban authorities have pro
posed that the talks begin on
Wednesday and the State
Department informed the Swiss
Embassy here to tell its
diplomats in Havana to proceed
at their earliest convenience.
The Swiss handle U.S. diploma
tic contacts with Cuba.
The indirect exchanges will
renew U.S.-Cuban negotiations
of 1969 and 1970 on a possible
hijacking accord which became
stalemated. Those earlier nego
tiations, and the negotiations to
begin shortly, were carried on
by Swiss diplomats in Havana.
Cuba has become increasing-
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Chairman softens
on fight for job
By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
mocratic National Chairman
Jean Westwood apparently has
softened her earlier position
that she would fight efforts to
remove her by party leaders
distressed by the landslide loss
of presidential candidate
George McGovern.
The Utah woman, handpicked
tty McGovern for the party post
after he won the Democratic
nomination last summer, said
Monday that her future as
chairman “is subordinate to
considerations about the future
of the party.”
For two weeks following
McGovern’s trouncing by Pres
ident Nixon, Mrs. Westwood
had been saying that she would
fight for her job and would not
Monday, and then only after
heavy political pressures by
Sens. Charles Percy, R-111., and
Walter Mondale, D-Minn., and
Rep. Sidney Yates, D-111.
James Monohan, a spokes
man for Columbus Hospital,
also played a vital role.
Romanian officials, according
to Monohan, said they wished
the hospital had worked
through normal channels to
obtain the poet’s last wish.
Monohan said he replied that
“We used the only ammunition
we had—politics, publicity and
prayer.”
ly annoyed and concerned about
the continuing hijackings from
the United States to its
territory. In a diplomatic note
Oct. 30 and in a Havana Radio
broadcast Nov. 15 the Cuban
government signalled its desire
to reopen negotiations with the
United States.
It was understood that the
Cuban Foreign Ministry has
already developed a number of
draft proposals for the con
sideration of the United States.
Swiss diplomats will receive
these proposals and forward
them to Washington. The Swiss
diplomats will also seek any
necessary clarifications and
serve as a pipeline to transmit
American proposals or counter
proposals.
The 1969-1970 talks broke
down over the Cuban insistence
that any agreement to return
serve as a “scapegoat” for
McGovern’s defeat. But in her
Monday statement she said it
was the safety of the party’s
reform rules that she was
interested in;
“I will resist with all my
strength any effort to roll back
the progress we have made,”
she said.
It also appeared today that a
proposed deal to unite the party
had fallen through.
Reports circulated Monday
that McGovemites would be
willing to see Mrs. Westwood
give up the party leadership in
favor of George Mitchell, a
Portland, Maine, lawyer who
backed Sen. Edmund Muskie,
D-Maine, for the presidential
nomination but also has been a
staunch supporter of the party
reforms which tried to give a
larger voice to youth, women
and minority groups.
But Gov. Dale Bumpers of
Arkansas, leader of a group of
Democratic governors seeking
a change of chairmen, may
have doused the Mitchell deal
by saying that “I don’t think it
would be acceptable for Mrs.
Westwood to resign and name
her own successor.”
Light speed measure
may mean new channels
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
National Bureau of Standards
today reported a “break
through” in measurement of
the speed of light which it said
opens the possibility for a 1000-
fold increase in the number of
frequency bands available for
communications.
Involved is laser light, a
particularly pure form of
electromagnetic radiation which
promises vastly more channels
than the limited number of
radio and microwave frequency
bands now so strictly allocated
for communications purposes.
The breakthrough, as NBS
called it, came when scientists
at the bureau’s Boulder, Colo.,
laboratories measured the
speed of light more accurately
than ever before.
They arrived at a new speed
figure of 186,282.3960 miles a
second, plus or minus 3.6 feet a
second. The new value, NBS
said, is 100 times more
accurate than the one that had
been accepted for the past 15
years.
Work with Laser
The Boulder scientists worked
American hijackers to the
United States should be coupled
with an American commitment
to return to Cuba people who
flee illegally to the United
States. In the last six years,
U.S. officials said, 3,000 Cubans
have fled to the United States
in small boats and rafts to seek
political asylum.
In a related development, the
State Department spokesman,
Charles W. Bray HI, announced
Monday that Cuban authorities
have declined to return the
hijackers of a Southern Air
ways jetliner. The Cubans
stated that the hijackers could
not be returned because they
are to be tried in Cuba “on
certain charges, including ex
tortion in various forms.”
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The 30 Democratic governors
have been called by Bumpers to
a special meeting at St. Louis
Dec. 3 to discuss the party
leadership and agree, if possi
ble, on a candidate to succeed
Mrs. Westwood. Bumpers said
he did not expect the governors
to come to a unanimous choice
but did expect a consensus to
develop.
The controversy over the
party chairmanship may come
to a head Dec. 9 when the 303-
member Democratic National
Committee meets in Washing
ton. The committee has the
power to remove the chairman.
While the Democratic con
troversy since the election has
centered on Mrs. Westwood, the
underlying issue has been the
fate of the proposed new party
structure that would break the
hold on Democratic policy
making and operations tradi
tionally held by professional
politicians and elected officials.
The reformers put their
changes into effect at the
national convention but per
manent changes in the party
structure were delayed until
after the election.
with a laser whose frequency
had been stabilized to prevent
unwanted shifts. They then
measured the frequency by the
most accurate standard availa
ble-oscillations of the cesium
atom—and the wave length by
best current length standard,
the wave length of krypton.
Multiplying the frequency and
wave length figures thus
derived gave them the new
value for the speed of light.
The speed of light is what
scientists call a constant. All
electromagnetic radiations,
whether low-frequency radio
waves or high-frequency X
rays, travel with the same
speed in a vacuum.
This constant, representing
the maximum speed attainable
by anything, appears in many
equations describing the beha
vior of the universe. So
increasingly accurate measure
ments of the speed of light
have a profound affect in many
fields.
One Great Potential
These include calculation of
interplanetary distances, track
ing of space vehicles, manufac
ture of precise instruments for
gauging minute quantities of air
pollutants, and expansion of the
number of telecommunication
bands.
One of the great potentials
stemming from discovery of
the laser is that pure light,
unjumbled in frequency and
wave length, offers tremendous
ly more communications chan
nels than those now available.
But only by knowing precisely
the frequency and wavelength
characteristics of laser light
can scientists move on to the
next step of harnessing it
effectively for communications.
The new measurement of the
speed of light, with what the
experiments tell of laser
frequencies and wave lengths,
makes that step possible,
according to NBS.
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TOKYO—Evangelist Billy Graham jogs around the National
Parliament Building to keep himself in shape even while he is
on tour around the world. From Tokyo, Graham will go to
Taipei and then to India. (UPI)
About people
Peter Lawford
feeling chipper
By United Press International
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Peter
Lawford
PETER GOES HOME
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
Peter Lawford went home from
UCLA Medical Center Monday,
16 days after having a cyst
removed from his pancreas.
“I’m feeling chipper and will
be glad to get home,” said
Lawford, 49, actor and former
brother-in-law of President
John Kennedy.
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Georges
Pompidou
POMPIDOU ARRIVES
OUAGADOUGOU, Upper Vol
ta (UPI) —French President
Georges Pompidou arrived in
the capital of this poverty
stricken country Monday on
what has been described as a
move by France to demonstrate
support for its former colonies.
Pompidou rode in an official
motorcade with President Gen.
Sangoule Lamizana, a veteran
of the former French colonial
army. Lamizana spared no
efforts to show Upper Volta’s
attachment to France in
defiance of leftist opposition
which claims France’s aid to
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Elvis
Presley
BENEFIT CONCERT
HONOLULU (UPI) -Elvis
Presley said Monday he would
perform in a benefit concert,
televised worldwide via satel
lite, for cancer research in
Hawaii.
The singer said the benefit
would be for the Kui Lee
Cancer Fund. Kui Lee, a
songwriter, died of cancer in
1966. He wrote “I’ll Remember
You,” a regular in Presley’s
repertoire. The one-hour con
cert, to be broadcast from the
Honolulu International Center
Jan. 14, 1973, will be beamed
into American homes on the
National Broadcasting Co. net
work.
CRONKITE OPERATED
NEW YORK (UPI) —Walter
Cronkite, managing editor of
CBS News, underwent surgery
last week for removal of a
benign throat tumor, the
network said Monday.
A CBS news spokesman said
Cronkite, 56, was resting at
home on the advice of his
doctor and “the only effect of
the surgery is some temporary
hoarseness.”