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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, May 11, 1961 Testimony Release Shocks McNamara By The Associated Press WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara was shocked when Pentagon security experts released so much of his secret testimony on mili tary matters. McNamara said so in testmony released Wednesday by the Sen ate Armed Services Committee. He appeared before the com mittee on April 4 and 5 at closed hearings on the Kennedy admin istration’s $43.79-billion military budget, as revised from the one submitted by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. McNamara noted that he had appointed Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Carroll, Air Force inspector gen eral, to devise ways of reducing the release of information that is “of benefit to our potential ene mies.” At the time McNamara testi fied newsmen were given copies of a prepared statement he took into the hearing room. The state ment first was screened by De fense Department security spe cialists. The transcript just released also was considerably censored, but it showed the secretary ex pressing shock that so many mili tary secrets had been left in his initial testimony for public re lease. He said the security screeners left in statements about weak nesses of U. S. military forces “which, if I were a Soviet mili tary planner, would be of great value to me.” Space Pay Today 1 in l Hay WASHINGTON—(A 3 ) — Astro naut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made $14.38 by flying into space last Friday. The Navy came up with the figure Wednesday after checking his pay status. As a commander on flying duty Shepard gets an extra $230 a month but has to fly four hours a month for it. He draws regular pay as well, but no special com pensation as an astronaut. The 15-minute ride 115 miles high counts on the four hours. The transcript then quoted Chairman Richard B. Russell, D.- Ga., as agreeing that too many military secrets have been leaked and published. “About the public’s having a right to know the most highly secret of our defense plans, I think that’s absolutely ridicu lous,” Russell told McNamara. “I have an almost unspeakable con tempt for any man in politics who would be frightened by news papers telling him they would attack him because he was not giving them intimate details about defense planning.” Bulletin Board ‘Now that we have compact police cars, we need compact KK’s!’ AMID DOUBTS Rusk, West Ready For Laotian Peace Conference Set Friday FINFEATHEIi DRIVE IN 1608 Finfeather Rd. CUSTOM BARBECUEING For Parties, Etc. Owner B. H. KRENEK ’41 THRU SATURDAY “THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG” with William Holden Plus “THE RAT RACE” with Tony Curtis By RICHARD O’REGAN GENEVA — (A?) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrived Wednes day night for the 14-nation con ference on Laos amid doubts that the sessions will get under way on schedule Friday. Rusk said he would take part in the conference “if information from Laos permits it.” Rusk, as well as other Western officials, have declared they would refuse to take part unless there is a real cease-fire between Communist and anti-Communist forces. Three leading members of an Indian - Canadian - Polish control commission, whose job is to cer tify that a cease-fire is in effect, finally left for headquarters of Communist and neutralist rebel headquarters at Xieng Khouang in Laos Wednesday after being rebuffed on Tuesday. Random fighting continued, but there has been no serious out^ break for a week. Despite uncertainty as to when the conference may open, Rusk was the fourth delegate to arrive. He was preceded by Soviet For eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, who said the Soviet Union would make “every effort to solve the Laotian problem justly and with out procrastination and stamp out a hotbed of war danger.” Gromyko was followed by Chang Yen, secretary-general of the Red China delegation. Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi was expected later. Another Communist leader, Ung Van Khiem, foreign minister of North Viet Nam, also arrived. In the same plane was a delega tion headed by Information Min- NOW SHOWING THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering ; Otto R. 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For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. BOB SLOAN EDITOR Tommy Holbein Managing Editor Larry Smith Sports Editor Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman News Editors Gerry Brown, Robert Denney ! Staff Writers Johnny Herrin Photographer Jim Earle Cartoonist ister Quinim Pholsena from the neutralist Laotian faction of Prince Souvanna Phouma. Aside from the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Red China, North and South Viet Namahd Laos, these countries have been invited: Canada, Thai- laid, Poland, Burma, India and Cambodia. A spokesman in London said Britain hopes for confirmation of the cease-fire in time for the con ference to get under way on schedule. “We are going ahead with plans to attend,” he said. Attendance of Thailand and Cambodia remained problemat ical. Officials in Bangkok deferred departure of Thailand’s seven- man delegation, headed by For eign Minister Thanat Kouman. Thai authorities expressed little hope that the control commission would be able to verify the cease fire by Friday. Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, who originally pro posed the 14-nation conference, announced May 1 that he was washing his hands of the Laotian question because Laos’ King Sa- vang Vathana opposed the talks. Amid the preliminary bustle came a complaint from the Com munist Pathet Lao that royal government forces were trying to wrest back territories lost before the cease-fire. A Laotian government official newly arrived in Tokyo said Laotian leaders were disappointed by U. S. policy in Southeast Asia. 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