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I 4- Section 1A SPOTLIGHT ON THE WORLD CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1965 12 Full Shopping Hours Monday Thru Friday at Sears Neighborhood Stores State Street Monday, Friday 9:15 A.M, to 8:30 P.M. i 1 Hawaii Lacks NATO NOW NEWSMEN CHECK RUMORS for in Coverage if Attacked Exceptional Values BY JOHN HALL ON PRESIDENT Washington, Aug. 7 (UPD If Red China should bomb Pearl Harbor, America's part ners in the North Atlantic Typical Report Cited Treaty organization would be under no direct obligation to strike back. It Never Saw Print BY MERRIMAX SMITH tUPI Whitt Horn Reporter The state department, the defense department, and the legal division of NATO have concluded that Hawaii, unlike Washington, Aug. 7 (LTD north Atlantic area as described in article Hawaii, by no stretch of the imagination, falls within the article 6 boundaries.

In any event, the United States plans no move to expand the alliance formally to include the 50th state. The result, officials at the state department feel, "would be to turn NATO into an unwieldy world-wide organization, since, they say, overseas possessions of other members would have to be included. The reason for the current discussion was a recent newspaper column which raised the question. A constituent forwarded the column to Hawaii's senators and representatives the 49 other states in the Un OF HERE'S PRO Now that the incident is past it may be safely told how an ion, is not protected by the treaty's basic provision: An armed attack against one other stock market nose-dive may have been averted recent member country shall be con ly in connection with a rumor sidered an armed attack about President Johnson's health. against them alL Really Doesn't Matter ihe New York tock ex change, still shaky from Far from being dismayed, American officials have dis plunge set off by mysterious calls to brokerage houses, had missed the matter as insignif just opened.

An editor In United Press In icant, from either a military or political standpoint They wish the defense of the mighty fortress in the mid-Pacific 2,000 ternational's Washington bu reau took a telephone call. A and the state department Called a Technicality Defense department officials were notified and after some research, Douglas MacArthur II, assistant secretary of state, brushed off the matter as a "technicality." "It is difficult, If not impos young man inquired if the UPI knew that Johnson had been rushed to nearby Bethesda, miles from California were the most pressing problem besetting the NATO partners. But they agree it is a curiosity that the bombing of Honolulu would not obligate the NATO partners to the same extent, as, say, the strafing of Naval hospital. How Story Started sible, to imagine any attack The caller, refusing to iden against the United States, whether directed at Hawaii or the California coast, which another state, which would not be part of a major war," he tify himself, said that a fnend who worked at Bethesda had called him moments before to say that the President had been carried into the hospital also is on the Pacific. And said.

In that event, he added, they acknowledge there has hardly been any consideration about Hawaii's coverage un the consultation andor col lective defensive provisions of secretly and that FBI men were swarming around the the north Atlantic treaty would der the NATO umbrella. The Senate foreign relations place. lillpllW jjlff Ui i I 'L V- 1 ,1 -ifc' 1 1 i lliiiiiiiiw M'-'-iM'j' "ji ui iiMinnri'fffj- yvin mm amiwu uimmij. nmw mimw -nnwriTT-T-i 1 1T 1 toTjr A kMW4 apply." It later was admitted that a "major war" had nothing to The UPI began the delicate job of checking delicate be committee, in recommending approval of the NATO treaty in 1949, emphasized that the do with the issue that the consultation provisions would mandatory collective defense cause if the President had been taken to the hospital secretly and did not want the fact known, knowledge that a news apply in any event and the col provision of the treaty "would not apply to any 'of the lective defense requirement not agency was checking could overseas territories outside the at all. into New York press associations and newspaper offices.

PRO-REDS STIR DISCONTENT IN WEST BERLIN Quick checks with proved the stories false. Rumors of Presidential Illness are somewhat recurrent Continued from first page right over the choice of a rec tor, who is chosen yearly. Leftist influence at the uni 6109 versity has increased as the number of refugee students from East Germany decreased and the number of students coming to Berlin from West Germany increased. regardless of who occupies the White House. Most rumors seem to start with half-heard conversations.

Callers telephone news organizations frequently, saying, "I just heard on the radio that so and so died So and so usually is a world leader or some prominent figure of the entertainment or sports world. Running Down Rumors Editors patiently inquire when the broadcast was heard and over what station. More often than not, the callers can give the approximate time, but not the station. When the caller is precise about the time and source, the editor can run down the rumor quickly. It usually turns out that the listener telescoped two or more news items.

Paying half attention to a broad Rightists Cause Trouble The student organizations Sears Newest 1966 19" Portable Gives Crisp All-Channel Reception (19-in. over-all diagonal; 174 sq. in. viewing area) caused trouble two years ago but then it was with rightist cause many official news sources to dry up immediately. And the hospital, if the President were a secret patient there, probably would do all in its power to squelch any rumors to that effect Security a Factor In such cases, the news-gathering organization must operate on the simple theory that most officials would lie glibly on the ground of national security.

Therefore, the job was to seek out stray bits of information such as whether there had been any unusual vehicular traffic out of the White House grounds that morning, whether the President had come to his office from his residential quarters which he had not when the rumor started. UPI editors exercised caution not to let any word of the rumor get on news wires or message circuits, or, for that matter, discussed on the telephone except with reporters immediately involved. End of the Rumor Suddenly the rumor collapsed. White House reporters telephoned the bureau to say that Johnson, looking hale and hearty, had strolled into the West wing and chatted with newsmen on the way to his office; and the presence of FBI men at the hospital was explained. The post exchange at the hospital had been held up earlier in the morning by bandits who escaped with several thousand dollars.

Because the exchange is a federal establishment, it was normal for FBI agents to rush to the scene. The big stock market collapse triggered only a week or so before the hospital incident students. In 1963 the right wing elected a member of a dueling society president of the student council. There was an uproar minor compared with the present one and in a referendum the cast, a listener may hear that student body overwhelmingly ousted the dueler. The vote was 6,146 to 3,441, with 72.6 per cent of the students voting.

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Telescoped, the two items add up a broadcast report of de Gaulle's death. Source of Rumors Sought When calls inquiring about a report of a President's death or illness come into the White House switchboard, operators make a determined effort to pin down the source of the information. Usually they are unsuccessful. Most callers to either the White House or news offices decline to give their names for fear of involvement and most calls of this nature can be ignored unless they follow a pattern. Citizens sincerely concerned for the President's well-being could evidence it by giving their names, telephone numbers, and precisely when and how they heard the rumor.

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Sears 11-inch Union housing is owned and assigned by the government "His children had grown up and he wanted to trade apartments, to get one closer to his work. I told him it would be considered but I couldn't give a definite answer because no such possibility exists now. The mayor then went to a meeting of a city district committee to discuss the land for the music theater in that district "We argued and argued and finally we came to a decision and adopted it" It was the third place. Decisions Follow Study The mayor said that decisions follow lengthy study of problems. The Communist party, which makes the basic decisions in the Soviet Union, is represented.

fact that I am a party member testifies to the fact that the party participates in making decisions," the mayor said. "Executive council decisions never run contrary to trends of the party. The council adopts decisions aimed to help fulfill the party's tasks." After another meeting with another group on anottier problem he went home to lunch. He often eats elsewhere but his daughter had asked him to come home because it was a school holiday, the mayor explained. A construction engineer, Domnin was elected by the executive council as mayor last March for a two-year term.

There was no other candidate. Did the Communist party in fact select him before the election? Domnin said it was "quite possible" that the party him. Personal Size Portable TVs (11.t.4-."1",", PriCed Continued from first page traction design engineer in the new Bratsk town built in the wilderness where the dam's electricity is drawing industry. Two daughters are in school here. He earns $611 a month, lives In a small two-story house owned by the government, and has a government car at his disposal.

Like many Russians, Knyazev reads some American literature, especially enjoying Jack London's tales of the Klondike. When he came to work at 9 a. m. one recent Monday, Mayor Yuri Viktorovich Domnin, 41, of Khabarovsk went right into a meeting with a group of citizens about construction of a new music theater. The city's executive council which Domnin heads had allocated land for the theater in its master plan for the growth of Khabarovsk.

This economic center has 410,000 persons and is expected to grow to 550,000 by 1980. Cultural officials "agreed, but then they found a better place where we plan to build a circus," Domnin related later. "On Saturday we drove around town and found a third place" Seek to Merge Mews The Monday meeting was to coordinate views on the third place, the mayor explained as he sat at his massive old desk of carved black wood with a green felt top. "Then a worker of the Pedagogical institute came to see me. He wanted a different apartment." In the Soviet IN THE KITCHEN ON THE BEACH 1 S) 6104 CAMPING BOATING At SEARS Satisfaction Gnrnted mr Ymur Money Daek Shmp at SEABS axil Save You Can Cnnt Vm far Qaallty XVK.

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