C lo u d y I f P e o p le . MICHIGAN . would obey the rules, and m ild with some light there would be no need rain. Saturday: partly fo r rules. STATE cloudy and cooler. -- Jovid Hesley UNIVERSITY Vol. 58, Number 64 East Lansing, Michigan Friday, Dec. 3, 1965 Price 10c Strike Force Ordered Into Zam b ia B y Britain Astronauts Set ‘W ill Cool D ow n To Go Saturday The S ituation9 LONDON .1’— Prime Minister Harold Wilson ordered an air meals and measuring their cal­ strike force into Zambia after President Kenneth Kaunda accepted CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. f — cium intake for one of the ma­ Britain’s terms Thursday for the air defense of his African re­ Passing every test with ease jo r medical exams planned on the public bordering rebellious Rhodesia. Thursday and benefitting from two-week journey. A fleet of Argosy and Beverley transports carrying hundreds the smoothest prelaunch pre­ " B o th crew s are in t ip ­ of British men, "guns, radar and other equipment is to take off parations in the history of U.S. top shape," reported the flight from Nairobi, Kenya, at first light Friday for key Zambia air­ manned space flight, the Gemini surgeon, Dr. Charles A, Berry. fie ld s . 7 astronauts were anxious to Berry said Borman and Lovell Then, government sources reported, a squadron of Javelin BURNED OUT — T wo coeds examine the remains of their property burned in the begin their 14-day space adven­ were primed and anxious to get jet fighters w ill follow--offsetting the air power at the disposal Fee Hall fire Wednesday night. The fire broke out in their room during a bomb ture on Saturday. going on the record flight which of Prime Minister lam Smith’s breakaway regime in Rhodesia. scare. Photo by Russell Steffey Frank Borman and James A. is to take them 206 times around Wilson told the House of Commons: "The presence of the Royal Lovell Jr., and their backup pi­ the world in 329 hours 30 min­ A ir Force w ill be a very important factor in helping to cool down lots demonstrated th e ir h ig h FRANK BORMAN u te s. the situation." spirits by playing food tricks on He said conditions in central Africa were "critical and explo­ the dietitian who keeps a close s iv e ." watch on their menu. In Lusaka, the Zambian capital, Commonwealth Relations Sec­ As Gemini 7 preparations en­ Our Man At retary Arthur Bottomley still was tussling with Kaunda and his Bomb Threat, Fire tered the final hours, technicians ministers over conditions under which a British ground force began readying the Gemini 6 The Cape could be provided. spacecraft for the second launch­ Sources said Bottomley is insisting Britain must have control ing in Am erica’s space double- The State News w ill have on- of all ground forces— even those foreign international troops which h e ade r. the-spot coverage of the Gemini may be sent by other African states—and that may be deployed in Liven Night In Fee Borman and Lovell are to ride 7 launch scheduled to take place defense of Zambia against white-ruled Rhodesia. a Titan 2 rocket into the skies A dispatch from Lusaka quoted informed sources as saying they started,” Miss D orm an said, The students went back in­ Saturday at Cape Kennedy. By BILL PRITCHARD at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Editor-in-Chief C h a rle s C, believed Kaunda still is insisting that British troops take over the "the firemen said it was care­ sid e after a half-hour’s wait in State News Staff W rite r Nine days later, on Dec. 13, vital power installations at the Kariba Dam on the Rhodesian side less smoking or a dropped cig­ th e c o ld . Wells will cover the launch as astronauts Walter M. Schirra part of a program sponsored by Fire broke out in Fee dormi­ a r e tte ." Public Safety Director Richard of the border. Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford are Life Magazine, tory Wednesday night after the None of the women were in­ O. Bernitt said his department to take off in pursuit from the Life has selected 20 college A diplomatic source in Lusaka dorm’s 1,200 residents had been ju re d . is investigating the possibility of same launching pad in an effort newspaper editors to attend the said Kaunda may agree to give evacuated following a false bomb The fire was confined to the a link between the bomb threat to rendezvous and.fly in for­ a little and see British troops s c a re . room, but smoke spread to other and the fire. launch. D am Set mation with Gemini perhaps stationed in the hills overlooking . University police emptied Fee parts of the floor. The weekend at Cape Kennedy w ith in a fe w in ch e s, the border dam. There they w'ould after they received an anony­ includes a press conference with " W e ’ ve g o t a reasonable be ready to go into action—as mous phone call around midnight astronauts Frank Borman and chance of doing it,” flight direc­ W ilso n _has pledged— i f R hodesia To B lo w that there was a bomb some­ James Lovell Jr., an actual view tor Christopher C. Kraft Jr. cut off the power to Zambia and where in the dorm. of the launch and a tour of the said, "Much w ill depend on the its copper mines. While officers searched the spaceflight facilities. JAMES LOVELL White Jury Says quick turnaround on Pad 19 and building for the alleged explo­ —Sm ith the condition of Gemini 7 after Despite British and Zambian sive, a policeman noticed fire nine days in space.’’ fears, the white regime in Rho­ SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UP1)- in one of the, fourth floor rooms "W e’ve never had pre-launch desia, which declared its inde­ Rebellious Premier Ian Smith of the women's side. Strange Is Guilty activities go so smoothly on a U.S. W ould Attend pendence of Britain Nov. 11, has Will order the Kariba dam pow­ Speculation was that 'Is coed manned flight before," com­ insisted it has no intention of er complex blown up if British had brushed a lit cigarette against m istrial at worst or an acquittal. ANNISTON, Ala. T-A jury of mented a space agency official. shutting off the power. or African troops invade Rho­ some clothing as she left during The attorney said he would ap­ white mer. Thursday convicted There have been the usual m i­ Asian M eet—Rusk Underlying stiff British condi­ desia, highly-placed sources said the evacuation, setting a closet Hubert Damon Strange, 25, a p e a l. nor technical difficulties, but tions for stationing troops in T hu rsd a y. full of clothes on fire, police It was the first conviction of JOHNSON CITY P.— Secretary' the Soviet Union to join with white man, of murder in the sec­ nothing worrisom e." Zambia is a major considera­ The sources said Rhodesia’s said. a white man in the slaying of a of State Dean Rusk said after Great Britain in calling a con­ ond degree in the July slaying Borman, Lovell, Schirra and tio n : * armed for.es have completed Both of the closet^near the Negro in Alabama, although the a conference with President ference to arrange a cease-fire of a Negro foundry worker and Stafford met with Kraft, Gemini plans that would wreck the giant door of the room w ire gutted In Viet Nam and bring about a The Wilson government has set the penalty at 10 years im ­ Brewster slaying had not ini­ p ro g ra m manager Charles Johnson Thursday that thel'nited power station-which provides before firem en could quench the States is w illing to attend a con­ peaceful settlement. recognized that Kaunda is under prisonment« tially been considered racially Mathews and other officials to re­ electricity for neighboring Zam­ Rusk said the conference co­ tremendous pressure by the Or­ b la ze . related. At the trial, however, view the mission-rocket, space­ ference on Southeast Asia o f the bia’s rich copper belt. Damage to the room and per­ Strange, a tall, blond-haired vered a number of topics, men­ ganization of African Unity to the prosecution contended that craft, weather, worldwide track­ sort proposed by British For­ They said the demolition would sonal property was estimated youth, stood with his hands on tioning among others, the Rome accept contingents from coun­ Strange and two white compan­ ing network and recovery' forces. eign Secretary Michael Stewart. follow any "lim ited operation" at more than $5,000, police said. his hips as Judge Robert M. meeting of the Food and A gri­ tries like Ghana, Tanzania and ions bad left a segregationist The green light was flashed on Speaking briefly with newsmen against Rhodesia such as the Kathleen Dorman, Hastings Parker read the verdict, con­ at Bergstrom Air Force Base cultural Organization of the possibly the United Arab Re­ rally and wantonly fired into all phases. measures outlined by British freshman, one of the room's oc­ victing Strange of the slaying United Nations, and the Rio de p u b lic . Brewster’s car, m ortally wound­ A final flight review is sch­ near Austin, Rusk was asked his Prime Minister Harold Wilson.