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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, December 21, 1963 7 REVIEW OF WEEK'S NEWS - Berlin Wall Punched | For German Reunion By JIM PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer Joyous Noel in Berlin Africans stage protest French base may close A merry Christmas season began in Berlin this week when Communist authorities punched holes in the Berlin wall to allow West Berliners to. visit relatives in East Ber- lin, Elsewhere, African students staged demonstrations in Mos- cow, talk that one RCAF base in France may_ be closed arose as the NATO minister-, ial council met in Paris, and the United Nations 18th Gen- eral Assembly ended after hearing an address from | President Johnson. JOY IN BERLIN mum, Banks was ordered to appear Dec. 23 for voluntary statement, a pre-trial stage in Quebec. HOSTAGES FREED Nineteen persons -- four of them Americans -- were re- leased Monday night at Cat- avi, a Bolivian tin mining town where they had been held hostage for.10 days by striking miners, The miners, retaliating for the arrest of two union leaders, accepted government settlement terms that included pulling back 3,- 000 troops in the Catavi re- gion, 180 miles south of. La Paz, the Bolivian. capital. WEDDING BELLS Elizabeth Taylor and Rich- ard Burton spoke of wedding bells following the divorce ob- tained in Mexico Monday by | Sybil Burton, ending her 15- A great and joyful reunion | was in full swing in Germany as the weekend approached, West Berliners streaming through the Communist wall to meet relatives in East Ber- lin for the first time in 28 months An agreement, worked out between the Communists and the West-Berlin city govern- | ment, was completed after long negotiations and by Thursday night the first of the visitors--all on one-day per- mits -- began moving through five holes punched in the year marriage to the actor and giving her a $1,500,000 settlement. By Thursday, Miss Taylor and Eddie Fisher were reported te have reached a financial agreement-- throught heir lawyers -- that would permit Miss Taylort 0 divorce Fisher and marry Burton, perhaps before Christ- mas. MARITIME BLIZZARD At least 10 persons died and | two others were missing as a wall, As many as 800,000 are | expected to. visit relatives in the East before midnight Jan. 5 when the Christmas cross- ings end AFRICANS PROTEST Moscow residents were as- tonished Wednesday when some 700 banner-carrying Af- rican students studying there battled with dozens of Soviet police and stormed their way into Red Square to show their anger over the death of an African medical student, As- told Addo froze to death, but The protest ended only after a delegation of students was received by Education Minis- ter Vyacheslav Yelutin The students told him Addo was stabbed to death by a Rus- sian, They said they told Addo frozet o death, but they didn't believe this One student leader said Addo was engaged to marry a Russian girl last Saturday, but the girl's parents were "against this black man going with a Russian girl." NATO MEETS Ministers of the North At- lantic Treaty Organization na- tions met in Paris Monday and Tuesday, then appealed in a, communique for a true easing of East-West tensions. They also expressed hope the Soviet Union will meet the Western powers half way in the quest for peace. External Affairs Paul Martin of Canada took time out for informal consul- tations with French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville. One item discussed was the problem of equipping Cana- dian air force squadrons in Europe--four in France, four in Germany--with U.S.-made nuclear warheads, France won't allow nuclear arms on her soil unless she controls them Martin said Franco - Cana- dian talks on the issue will continue when he returns to Paris Jan. 15 with Prime Min- ister Pe arson. Meanwhile, speculation began that the RCAF would move its nu- clear-equipped: planes to Ger- many or Belgium, closing its Gros Tenquin base and keep- ing conventionally - armed planes at Marville. An Ottawa source said Thursday that Gros . Tenquin would be closed. UN SESSION ENDS The United Nations General Assembly closed its 18th ses- sion Tuesday night after hear- ing President Johnson appeal for an end to the cold war The world organization was expanded to 113 members the previous day when Zanzibar and Kenya were added to its rolls Assembly President Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez of Venezuela said the three-month session had hinged on three issues-- maintenance of peace; elimi- nation of colonialism and rac- ism; and the improvement of the lot of underdeveloped countries: BANKS TO TRIAL Harold C. Banks, president of the Seafarers' International Union of Canada (Ind.), was committed Thursday to stand trial on a charge of conspir- ing: to cause serious injury to a rival union-or izer--Capt. 'Henry Francis Walsh--beaten up in Owen Sound in 1957. In committing Banks, the judge amended the original 'charge, which carried a maximum two-year prison sentence, to one carrying a 14-year-maxi- NAMED MANAGER OTTAWA (CP) -- Myles F Craston, 38, 'has been appointed manager of the CNR - owned Chateau Laurier Hotel effective Jan, 1, it.was announced Thurs- day. Mr, Craston has been act- ing manager of the hotel for the last two months. He suc- ceeds C. Arthur Mann who re- tired. were | Minister | blizzard pounded with cane force at Friday after leaving the Mari- time provinces virtual para- lysed. Winds that reached a force of 100 miles an hour in gusts Caused mountainous | seas Six seamen died while seek- ing safety in dories after abandoning their sinking freighter, Mary Pauline, off North Sydney, N.S. Two fish- ermen were missing and four others were dead from mis- cellaneous causes attributed to the storm Hundreds were marooned Thursday and nearly all land, | sea and air traffic was dis- | rupted at the storm hit the | dumping snow in Atlantic provinces, nearly a foot of many areas World briefs: The call- 1965 budgets Thursday, ing for spending totalling | $213,500,000,000, including $46,- 000,000,000 to expand the So- viet Union's chemical indus- try and increase production of chemical fertilizers, and reducing by $666,000,000 or 4.3 per cent its military spend- me. . The Communist party of the United States won a round Tuesday in its | hurri- | Newfoundland | Soviet | parliament approved 1964 and | 13-year fight against register: | ing as an agent of the Soviet | Union as the U.S. Court of | | | | Appeals overturned a lower court verdict that the party had wilfully refused to regis- ter under U.S, legislation. .. . Ane stimated $300,000 in art | works -- including valuable | paintings by Picasso and Que- | bec abstractionists Paul Emile Borduas and Jean-Paul | Riopelle--were destroyed by fire in a Detroit art gallery | Wednesday night.... Presi- | dent Johnson opened the door | to a summit meeting with | Premier Khrushchev, telling a | press conference Wednesday: | "Tl am ready and willing to meet with any of the world leaders at any time there is | any indication a meeting would be fruitful and produc- tive." WEEK IN: ONTARIO Premier Robarts said Tues- day that stricter contro] on Joan sharks in Ontario may be about a year away follow- ing a-Supreme Court of Can- ada ruling in Ottawa Monday ! Ontario's Unconscionable nsdctions Act was. valid, reversing an earlier Ontario Appeal Court decision. The act protects borrowers from ex- cessive interest rates. Mr. Robarts said the government wil] investigate the whole field of consumer credit, Wednesday, the premier re- jected a request by the On- tario Association of Mayors and Reeves that the provinte assume 75 to 90 per cent of soaring education costs, Mr. Robarts described the request made in a 50-resolution brief, as 'wishful thinking' but said provincial grants to educa- tion, now about 43 per cent of total expenditure, would be increased Storms whipped by 25 mile- an-hour winds dumped up to 0 inches of snow across On- tario Tuesday and Wednesday closing four main highways for hours, stranding 600 school children in the Sarnia area and. snarling traffic in Tor+ onto. After a calm day Thurs- day, snow: started falling in scattered regions Friday. Falls were lighter in the north where the winter freeze-up began in earnest. The 1963 Lakehead shipping season ended Thursday as the grain - carrier Coverdale de- parted with a cargo of. 420,000 bushels of wheat. 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