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otn by Scvrnoures/i Soviet missile-arine which cans off our coast?tnces in missiles 'nt threat seemIo th elt;0CO4}lt;DO©COACOdH3H%lt;0 * O co00 05uoK r«C aSCO Q♦ManSlwancePlaneirmyReported MissingWASHINGTON (.Pi-The/mec/ at Indiasquadrons from the Reserves Saturdaythat Cuban weapons had fired on unarmedreconnaissance planes. One American plane was reportedmissingDELHIAministry000ooefromtroopsforce was rejmrted driving down a jeep trail from Towang Saturdayin a ixx«dble effort to breakJang, a village five miles east cfAsked if the action signified that an invasion of Cuba wastownimminent, a Defense Department spokesman declined com-a possible through the eastern into India’s thickly plains of Assam.Outnumbered andChinesement.Himalayaspopulatedtured three days ago. The Chinese wereSecretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara ordered theadvancing callup about two hours after President Kennedy told Sovietalong a jeep trail southeastward ; Premier Khrushchev that he was willing to negotiate an im-outgunnedIndian troops were putting up suffer resistance after a week ofTerpur, a tea planters’. mediate end to the Cuban crisis if Khrushchev stops work on000heavy fighting, a Ifense Ministry spokesman said, but two more Indian positions wrcre overwhelmed.away from Tewanjt, Tezpur, ornuclear missiles bases in Cuba and defuses the missiles.Defensetho Brahmaputra River is the mil. said an American reconnaissance plane was missing anditary administrative center of theregion.Defense DepartmentRE PASS STANDPrime Minister Nehru, whose Authoritative nourcm indicatednot. know whether the aircraft was a victim of Cuban gun fire.government has proclaimed aIndian battalions of aboutIn Key West, Fla., military- sources who conducted astate of national emergency, told a delegation of 45 members of hisi.ooo men were trying to make a s031*0*1 from about 1 p.m. until dark for the missing Ameri-stand against 10,000can plane, said they also did not know if the aircraft hadCongress party, India is makingPaaa. beenarrangements to match Communist firepower with abroad.arms fromIt mile* southeast of Towang:,If the Chinese break through“So many things could have happened,’' one source said.Tc/pur they would be in the midstFTPLEAS SENTHe »aid he had written lo allof the broad Assam plains, whichthat» *nations, except South Africa and Portugal with whom India has nonever have been in tween India and China.back or haddicating that no word had reached here from the plane be-diploniatir. .* lalions, explaining hU refusal lo enter cease-fire nr-gotiations with the Red Chinese unlevs they pull back to their positions of Sept. 8.One such letter went to the Soviet Union. Premier Khrushchev is believed here to have prompted the Red Chinese to propose ceasefire talks and a 12’2-rnile pullback by both sides from present positions.Si far the fighting has been in a32,000-square-mile Himalayan border land which China claims and which Tndia administers as the North East Frontier Agency.disappearedDefense DepartmentAndersonThe front is almost completely rut off from the main body of India by East Pakistan.The Pentagon listed Anderson as missing in action.McNamara said that in order to fulfill the resolutionsadopted by the Organization of American States, “it isessential that such reconnaissance continue.''YR’s to Present Speechtroopunits
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