MOSCOW, Jan. 21--The Soviet Union said today the United States is planning to set up nuclear and missile bases in the Middle East. It warned Middle East countries such bases would be a threat to their existence and their religious shrines.
The warning was sounded at a special news conference called six days before the Baghdad Pact members open a conference at Ankara.
Leonid Ilychev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, used the news conference as a springboard for a denunciation of the Baghdad Pact and especially of Turkey, the host country for the pact meeting next week. Turkey, he said, had taken an especially aggressive stand against Russia at the NATO meeting. Turkey is a member both of the Baghdad and NATO pacts.
Hammarskjold May Visit Russia
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 21--Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold declared today the U.N. will remain the main arena for breaking the East-West dead-lock on disarmament.
He indicated he is considering a trip to Moscow for talks with the Russians, who have announced they will boycott any negotiations in the newly enlarged U.N. Disarmament Commission. The U.N. remains the main framework for disarmament talks, Hammarskjold stated, and he knows of no government which has taken an opposite view.
The four ways in which U.N. machinery could be used in the disarmament picture, he said were his own office, the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Disarmament Commission.
Defense Dept. Faces Reorganization
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21--Secretary of Defense McElroy said today three retired military leaders and three civilians will join him in a top priority search for ways to reorganize the Defense Department.
McElroy said there is a target date for completing the study which will take several weeks, but he declined to disclose it now.
The three civilians appointed by McElroy include William C. Foster, former deputy secretary of defense; Charles A. Coolidge, former assistant secretary; and Nelson A. Rockefeller, chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization.
McElroy last Wednesday also appointed Air Force Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the two retired officers who previously held that job--Gen. Omar Bradley and Adm. Arthur F. Radford--to the group.
Committee Approves Missile Fund
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21--The first payment on the new U.S. missile program, a $1,410,000,000 fund for space age weapons and defenses, was approved by the House Appropriations Committee today.
The 50-man appropriations group okayed the full $1,260,000,000,000 in new cash the President asked for. It also approved Eisenhower's request for authority to transfer 110 million in funds now available, and added 40 million to this amount.
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