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Show Rep. King Praises Kennedy Talk As Move to Restore Initiative t Ml' i . x the Soviet Union to continue to attempt to play the lone wolf. "He has challenged the Russians Rus-sians to play the role of a responsible re-sponsible member of the global family of nations, by inviting them to cooperate in the solution of major global problems, in- eluding the exploration of space, rather than persist in their present pres-ent highly dangerous and wasteful waste-ful course. "The President's goal is to force concessions from the Russians. Rus-sians. Now that the President has laid our challenge before the world, the Russians can decline to join certain cooperative programs pro-grams only at the risk of losing the gains in prestige which they have made since the first Sputnik. Sput-nik. "This country could work very closely with the Russians in the alleviation of hunger, the conquest con-quest of disease, the industrial development of backward countries, coun-tries, communications, weather forecasting, and many other programs, pro-grams, without yielding any military mil-itary secrets or sacrificing other technical advantages. The President Presi-dent has clearly recognized this in laying down the challenge," Mr. King said. REP. DAVID S. KING Rep. David S. King Monday praised President John F. Kennedy's Ken-nedy's message to Congress as a "bold move to restore to the U.S. the clear cut initiative in global opinion which it held before the first Sputnik." The President, Mr. King observed, ob-served, is "charting a course that will make it very difficult for |