July 12, 1963 An East-West nuclear test-ban treaty cannot be achieved, according to sources in London, if the Russians insist on linking it with an East-West nonaggression pact. The United States and British delegates at the test-ban talks, scheduled to open in Moscow on Monday, are understood to have no authority to negotiate on anything except the test ban. The door to Britains eventual entry into the European Common Market was unbolted for the first time since France slammed it last January. After a day-long debate in Brussels, the markets Council of Ministers agreed to hold political and economic talks with Britain every three months. With a show of troops and tanks, the army of Ecuador besieged the palace of President Carlos Arosemena. After a defiant holdout, the President surrendered. He was put aboard a Panama-bound plane and a four-man junta was set up to rule the country. Communist China acknowledged that it would take 10 to 20 years for it to overtake the great powers in armaments, science and industry. Chinese scientists and technicians were exhorted to work harder. Chinese and Soviet conferees in Moscow appeared to have called another recess in their ideological talks. Informants said the talks were so snagged that the delegates were merely seeking a face-saving way to end them. A senior Soviet intelligence official has defected to the West and is understood to be in Britain. His name and whereabouts were being kept secret and he was being heavily guarded to prevent any attempt against his life. The defector was understood to have brought with him much information on Soviet espionage operations. Seventy-five demonstrators were arrested in London when crowds protesting the state visit of the King and Queen of Greece clashed again with the police. At least five were shot as racial violence erupted in Cambridge, Md. National Guard troops, who had been withdrawn from the troubled town last Monday, were again in control. Secretary of Defense McNamara predicted a leveling off of defense spending but he declined to indicate when it would be possible. Since the Kennedy Administration entered office in 1961, defense outlays have increased by $10,000,000,000. (1:4) Gerardo A. Re, his son Gerard and three co-defendants were found guilty of a multi-million-dollar stock fraud conspiracy. The jury deliberated four hours. Spain asks U.S. to ease Cuban shipping ban. House panel cuts foreign aid 430 million. Freeman jokingly warned on Soviet trip. Dispute widens over TFX contract award. Retraining of rural youths is begun.
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