CONVERSATION WITH DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REGARDING SENATOR STUART SYMINGTON'S USE OF PERCENTAGES IN DISCUSSING SOVIET MISSILES

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 THE NEW YORK. TIMES, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1962.
LQYI FINDS CUB,
CAUSED DEFEATS
Crisis Cost 20, Candidates
Victory, Parley is Told
By CABELL PHILLIPS
{ W Special to 'fhe New York Times
AgHJT~6TON, Dec. 7--
publican leaders blamed the
Cubigi crisis today for their
party's disappointing showing in
last month's Congressional elec-
tions.
Representative Bob Wilson of
Galiforpia, chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Cam-
paign Committee, told a lunch-
eon meeting of the Republican
National Committee that the
sudden` upsurge in President
}1,1ennedy's popularity after the
Cuban blockade had caused the
defeat of at least 20 Republican
House candidates.
Others lost, he said, because
of gerrymandering by ~tc:te
Legislatures controlled by bem-
ocrats.
"We were Cubapized and
gerrymandized," he said.
Representative William E.
Miller of New York, national
chairman, made a similar diag-
nosis of , why the party had
gained only two seats in the
House and lost four in the Sen-
ate.
But his analysis implied a
partial sharing of the blame by
Republicans themselves, since
the steps which the President
finally took, he said, were
those "which Republican lead-
ers had been urging upon him."
"It must be assumed that the
Democratic party gained rather
,than, lost by its leader's well-
dramatized action," he added.
The two-day meeting, which
opened at the Mayflower Hotel,
brought together 153 national
committeemen and state chair-
men for the first conference of
the party leadership since the
November elections. The ses-
sions are concerned chiefly with
post-mortems of those elections
and plans for the presidential
election of 1964.
Reports Show Optimism
There was a determined opti-
mism in the official reports to
the membership. Mr. Miller
gave a detailed analysis of the
November results acconipanied
by illustrated slides purporting
to show that, in spite of its
losses, the party had actually
gained strength across the
country.
The party, he said increased
its strength in State Legisla-
tures by approximately 150
seats. He said it had increased
the number of states in whi
lit held majority control of b
houses from 14 to 19.
Before the election, he said,
!Republicans held governorships
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Foley Square area included in plan for vast redevelopment.
Existing buildings that would remain are diagonally
shaded. Proposed buildings are cross-hatched. Old City
Court structure north of City Hall would be demolished.
publicans sharply increased
their percentage of the guber-
natorial vote this ?year over
1960. In Philadelphia, the rise
was from 31 per cent to 43 per
cent; in New York, from 37
per cent to 45; in Detroit, from
29 per cent to 33.
On 'the basis of such statis-
tics, Mr. Miller declared:
"Our position is fundamen-
tally good." We have not lost
an inch of ground since 1960's
agonizingly close defeat. Our
fortunes are on the upgrade."
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complex over our Southern in- segregation and still work en-
roads." thusiastically within the party.[
bious of Mr. Miller's announced
purpose of having a Republican
candidate in every Southern
Congressional district. in 1964.
This year there were 57 uncon-
tested House seats in the South.
George L. Hinman, national
committeeman from New York,
told reporters the party had to
be tolerant of sectional differ-i
ences. But if Gov. Rockefeller
of New York is the Presidential
nominee in 1964, as Mr. Hin-`
man believes he will be, it is a
certainty that he will commit
the : party to a strong civil--
 THE NEW YotU TTMES, SATURDAY`, DECEMBER 8
some persons, while pleasing
others.
The television he is now most
interested in is an adaptation
of Jessamyn West's "Cress Del-
ahanty" for a series in which
Mr. Wasserman is a partner
with 20th Century-Fox.
The stories are about an ado-
lescent girl in California. Cast-
ing for a lead is under way. Mr.
Wasserman said that the Co-
lumbia Broadcasting System
had twice put up option money
'infrequently shown up in prime
time in recent years.
The program, "An Evening
with Carol Burnett," is the first
of three specials that the come-
dienne will do on C.B.S. next
year. .
1- adaptations of Ken Kesey's "I
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,"
starring Kirk Douglas under the
direction of Sidney Lumet, and
sll the theater script of his own
for the proposed series and that
others had expressed interest.
"This is an adult show about
children," he said. "If we try to
sweeten or charm it up, it will
fall flat, and I will leave it."
'His nontelevision activities
include the stage and movie
"I, Don Quixote," which will be
staged as "Man of La Mancha,"
with Peter Coe as director.
Robert Preston to Appear
Robert Preston will be Carol
Burnett's only guest on 'C.B.S.
Sunday, Feb. 24.
Mr. Preston is appearing in
the title role of the film "The
Music Man," which he also
starred in on Broadway. He
crops up in old movies, but has
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Republican" Congressional
Committee, . told the Re-
-publican National Commit-
tee here yesterday that the l
Cuban crisis cost the Grand
I15Id-arty as many as 20
House seats.
He said that he and some
,other members of Congress
-knew about the existence of
'Russian offensive weapons in
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cal aides try to head off
any boom for Presidency
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11,1962 election, having been
,given the information by Ad-
i itniatratipn officials at a se-
t on Capital Hill.
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ti ng ~Vflson said, until
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tQ al g a recent remark
byr. ennedy that Ameri-
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f ower luncheon audience (that
die sometimes has nightmares
that t" the Democrats will ar-
tn gfor a crisis every Octo-
b~r vanr9e of an election,
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eri$,is does not appear to have
bettered the prospects of mast
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President i's deeply concerned
over the 'misreading of inten-,
tioixs on each side,he also feels1
that Khrushchev was guilty of
deliberately deceiving him.,
This was not the first such
deception. The breaking of,
the nuclear 'te'st,,moratorium,,
15 months ago, was 'another."
Over the Cubon deception"
Mr. Kennedy evidently feels,
.that t jlrushchev, is personally,
implicated. That being so, no
agreement that depends on,~
trusting 'the other's wordA,
seems possible. Although ne-
gotiations on a test ban, o;
disarmament and on Germany,
will continue, the Unites
States has no more hope of
success than before the Cu
ban crisis.
In the President's eyes Rus-
sia remains expansionist. He,,
criticizes some British liberal
opinion-in a friendly way-,
for being too little aware of,
this. He wishes that the Rus-
sians were more truly ready
to go in for competitive qo-
existence-especially in trying G
to lift the poorer nations out,
of their poverty. But militant
expansionism has to be faced.
At the same time the Presi-
dent criticizes some of the
American press for a "syn-
thetic hard line," the logic of o
which would be to leave no
option but nuclear war.
Question Remains
How far will the t'nited 1
use nuclear weapons? (To
1 some of us, on the European
?I side of the Atlantic, the Cu-
,!ban crisis marked a change:
-I for the first time a limited
tactical use of nuclear weap-
ons was threatened.)
The answer to this is not
1clear. Over Berlin, for ex-
al ample, the United States has
-'many means of bringing pres-
'sure to bear-many options
.!other than. the threat to use.
,dInuclear weapons. Convert.
' ventional alternatives would
he sought first. But ultimately
the readiness to use nuclear
;!weapons must he there.
It is added, without rancor,
that the question does not
come too well from Europeans
j (Britain included) who have l
not provided all the conven-
tional forces they should.
European Deterrent
What then of the European
deterrent? Is there to be a
European nuclear force? With-'
,out doubt President Kennedy
;regards it as a waste of effort.
He sees no need for it; but he
the United
believes that
States must respond con-,'
structively to the European
demand for nuclear sharing- 1
.The proposal is that Polaris,
subpiariges should be crewed
bV men drawn from the Euro- i
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government; not to, withdraw in less strategic areas of thei?ebel government introduced
its 5750 troops here, one third Congo are being hurriedly! of its own free will last month
of the U. N. force until re- shifted into Katanga.
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