MRS KENNEDY’S TOUR

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 8

MRS KENNEDY’S TOUR

Indian Visit Shortened

(NZ.P. A. -Reuter— -Copyright) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.

President Kennedy's wife. Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy, has shortened her visit to India next month by eight days for health reasons, the White House announced. An announcement said she was suffering from a sinus infection and her doctors had advised the tour change. Mrs Kennedy, had been advised to postpone the visit from March 4 to March 12. Mrs ■ Kennedy planned to visit Pakistan after her Indian trip. The White House said that the sinus infection had caused an occasional fever, but lhe fevers had been low. Mrs Kennedy was at the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, today to see the President off on the flight taking the astronaut, Lieu-tenant-Colonel John Glenn and his family to Washington for a ceremonial parade to honour his orbital flight. She went water ski-ing yesterday and took a ducking in the ocean. Mrs Kennedy, the White House said, would arrive in New Delhi, at rhe beginning of the Indian trip, on March 12, instead of March 4, as previously announced. Officials indicated that she still planned to fly to India by the same route, but her stop in Rome would be about a week later than had been arranged earlier. The United States Ambassador in New Delhi, Mr Kenneth Galbraith, today notified the Indian Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, of the changes. The White House said that the President and Mrs Kennedy had expressed their thanks to the Indian Government for the preparations for the trip and to official' of the areas of Mysore and West Bengal which she would not now be able to visit.