“U.S. WELL BEHIND”

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29909, 24 August 1962, Page 11

“U.S. WELL BEHIND”

Kennedy On Space Race

(K.Z PA-Reuter —Copynpht) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.

President Kennedy said today the United States was well behind the Soviet Union in space exploration “but I believe that by the end of the decade the United States will be ahead " Asked about the space programme at his press conference today, he said that the United States was well behind the Soviet Union—anyone who said otherwise was misleading the American people—but the United States was carrying out a big space programme and would lead before 1970 The President said that the United States faced a “tremendous job” in building a rocket booster of a size the Soviet Union possessed now

He warned that United States space programmes would require tremendous amounts of money in the future, even though the current space budget was larger than the combined totals of space expenditures in the previous eight years.

Time For Talks?

(H.ZPA -Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug 23

“I don't know whether he is coming but if be did I would hope to have a chance to talk to him." President Kennedy told a questioner at his oress conference who

a c ked if Mr Khrushchev v-oujd be attending the United Nations General Asse">b!v onening next month

To many observers the President’s remark sounded like a hint that the time had come for him to have another exchanee with the Soviet Prime Minister on Berlin, nuclear tests and other East-West disputes,

Reuter reported.