Thursday, Dec. 6, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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Volunteers Asked For ACCION
ACCION (Americans for Community Cooperation in Other Nations), a community-development project in the Venezuelan urban slums, is looking for KU volunteers.
THE PROGRAM, affiliated with the Institute of International Education, is financed by private sources, both individual and businesses. It is non-sectarian and non-political.
Initiated last year, the organization works with Venezuelaan students, private citizens, industry and government to help build schools, community centers, water systems and establishing small industry in slum areas.
John Augelli, professor of geography and director of Latin American studies, received information about the program this week from Jerry M. Brady, ACCION assistant director, of the organization's New York headquarters.
The organization, similar to the Peace Corps program, is sending 40 volunteers to Venezuela for 18 months. Forty Venezuelans are also being recruited to work with the Americans.
ROBERT E. NUNLEY, associate professor of geography and Prof. Augelli's administrative assistant, said, "I can endorse the program without reservation. For the type of program in Venezuela, I think ACCION works as effectively or more so than the Peace Corps.
"However, both programs are complementary. They work toward similar goals and have had similar impacts on foreign countries as well as upon our own culture."
Robert Blatchford, director and founder of ACCION. has said.
By working together, ACCION members hopes to encourage the Venezuelans to continue the work themselves.
"We count our work a success only when the Venezuelans have found a new sense of unity and elected leaders to continue the work themselves. Without this self-spirit and permanent democratic institutions to carry it on, our billions in air will fall on barren soil."
The ACCION volunteers, mostly between the ages of 20 and 35 years of age, live and work in the Venezuelan slums without salary. They receive approximately $140 a month as living expenses.
BEFORE GOING ABROAD, the volunteers will attend a two-week orientation session in the United States. In Caracas, the Americans will be joined by the Venezuelan volunteers for a two-month orientation before beginning their assignments in early April.
ACCION volunteers are selected upon their leadership, problem-solving ability, industriousness and knowledge of the Spanish language.
Students may obtain application blanks from Robert Nunley, assistant professor of geography, in 311 Summerfield.
Santa Comes Early For French Club
Santa Claus came early for four language students who received $50 checks at the French Club Christmas party last night.
Susan Shottil, Kansas City, Mo. senior: Gail Eberhardt, Wichita senior: Sharon Moore, Leavenworth senior; and William Canno, Humboldt junior were awarded the checks between rounds of French Christmas carols and the Buche de Noel, a French cake shaped like a loz.
Reinhard Kuhn, associate professor of Romance Languages, said the awards were given for outstanding work in the French department.
The awards are part of the Annette Elise Rolli fund established by Elise NeuenSchwander, professor emeritus of Romance Language in honor of her niece, a tuberculosis victim.
Nato Missile Bases Switch Albanian Stand
ROME, (UPI) — Albanian communists today unexpectedly made their voice heard in the Italian Party Congress with a message about one of the few things on which they and Moscow agree—hostility to U.S. missile bases.
The Albanians, who are aligned with China against the Kremlin and are not represented at the Italian communist congress, have played whipping boy in a four-day verbal offensive here of the Moscow bloc against Peking.
As if nothing had happened, Congress officials read a message of greetings today from the Albanian Workers (Communist) Party. The message ignored the attacks and said the Albanians "have been following with interest the fight of Italian communists against capitalism and against the transformation of the country into a missile base."
The Congress, now in its fifth day,
has devoted hardly a word to Italian
problems because of the stormy debates
on whether Communist China's
tough line or Russia's peaceful coexistence policy is the correct one.
NATO bases of U.S.-made Jupiter intermediate range missiles have long been the pet hat of Italian, Albanian and Soviet communists. Several of them are in the southeastern part of Italy, just across the narrow Albanian Sea from Albania, but their range extends over most of Eastern Europe and as far as Moscow.
Earlier, Italian communists said privately that the Peking-Moscow ideological fight at the current party congress may hurt the chances of red candidates in future election campaigns.
And the Italian Communist Party, with 1,754,000 members the largest in the West, has troubles of its own that need debating. The chief one is what to tell the voters to convince them communism could improve on the present economic prosperity and political stability.
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In addition, the series of shocks within the communist world in recent years has cost the Italian party many members. Its leader, Palmiro Togliatti, admitted this Sunday.
"The destruction of the artifician and anti-Marxist-Stalin myth caused painful sentimental reactions in the party," he said.
Party figures show the losses clearly. Since the repudiation of Stalin and the Hungarian revolt six years ago, they have lost 279,000 members. The party's problem now is to stop a comparable loss in votes.
Party members said privately that a Sino-Soviet reconciliation would improve communism's chances. And despite the fact that both Togliatti and Central Committee member Giancarlo Pajetta have joined Moscow in attacking Peking, a number of rank-and-file communists appeared torn between their allegiance to Moscow and their sympathy for China.
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