Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 1, 1962
De Gaulle's Power May Be Slipping
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Since May, 1958, when President Charles de Gaulle took over French leadership with dictatorial powers to settle the Algerian conflict, the French people have been dutifully following his lead
This week the President won another of the popularity contests to which he has resorted frequently over the last four years as he has gone about changing the political and physical structure of France.
But it was won by a narrower margin than hoped and accompanied by many a cry of foul by a united parliamentary opposition to his demand that future French presidents be elected by direct vote of the people. orderly, there must able
RESPONDING TO De Gaulle's threat that he would quit "at once and without return" if he failed to receive a substantial vote of confidence. French voters gave him a healthy 62 per cent of the votes cast.
But it was the slimmest margin of any since June, 1958, and growing opposition was signified not only by those who voted against him but by the substantial number who staved at home.
In 1958, French voters endorse his constitutional changes by a margin of four to one. This week, his support came from actually less than half of France's registered voters.
Victory was won, however, over formidable opposition.
Returns from the April 8, 1962, referendum approving the Algerian peace settlement showed a growing number of Frenchmen opposed to increased powers for De Gaulle.
SUNDAY'S referendum taking the presidential election out of the hands of about 50,000 privileged politicians, found every political party aligned against him with the exception of his own.
With considerable reason, De Gaulle's opposition accused him of obscuring the real issue, the constitutional change, and making it one of his own prestige. There also were bitter complaints that the government was monopolizing radio and television air time.
In any event, it seemed apparent that the honeymoon was all but over.
A NEW NATIONAL assembly will be elected next month and there seems little reason to believe that De Gaulle can win anything like a majority.
The new assembly cannot topple De Gaulle but it can withhold approval of his budget or speedily overthrow any premier he might name.
If government processes are to be
Castro Talks On Blockade To Cubans
HAVANA—(UPI)—Premier Fidel Castro will report to the Cuban nation in a radio-television address tonight on his talks with United Nations Acting Secretary General U Thant on the question of the dismantling of Russian missiles.
A broadcast by Havana Radio said Castro's views will be disclosed in a panel discussion with newsmen and commentators, with the Editor of the newspaper El Mundo, Luis Gomez Van Wanguermert, acting as moderator.
The broadcast also reported that Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan will arrive in Havana late today "to discuss matters connected with the new trade treaties and also matters related to the present Cuban crisis."
This was the first mention on Havana Radio of Mikovan's trip. It also was the first official disclosure that his trip was related to the Soviet agreement to dismantle the missiles and ship them back to Russia.
The radio report also said that "conversations over Cuba will resume this morning at the United Nations," but did not clarify the statement.
orderly, there must be a considerable change in De Gaulle's tactics which heretofore have been to run roughshod over the assembly in matters both domestic and foreign.
OPPOSITION to De Gaulle springs from sources which are both political and economic.
All parties are demanding a greater voice in foreign affairs.
Socialist Party leader Guy Mollet, a former premier, has accused De Gaulle of ignoring the "legitimate demands of the workers."
Strikes and threats of strikes reflect pressing demands for increased wages in nationalized industries and public services.
Cuba Returns Pilot's Body
NEW YORK — (UPI)—The body of Air Force Major Rudolph Anderson Jr., whose reconnaissance plane was lost over Cuba Saturday, will be shipped home by the Cuban government for "humanitarian reasons."
This was announced yesterday by acting UN Secretary General U Thant following his return from two days of talks with Cuban officials in Havana.
The Cuban regime announced Saturday that its anti-aircraft guns had fired on an unidentified plane. Shortly thereafter, the Defense Department disclosed in Washington that Anderson's plane was missing after a flight over Cuba.
Anderson's father, a retired nurseryman from Greenville, S.C., would not give any information about his son's most recent military assignment.
It was not revealed whether the craft had been shot down. The Air Force declined to identify the type of plane Anderson had been piloting.
He said the pilot was a Clemson College graduate with 11 years service in the Air Force. The son, a 1948 graduate of Clemson College with a textile engineering degree, was married and the father of two young sons.
Before joining the Air Force in 1951, Anderson worked briefly in a Greenville textile mill. He served as a fighter pilot in Korea.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Moscow Radio attacked the U.S. naval blockade around Cuba today, claiming its resumption "aroused alarm among millions of people in America."
Moscow Radio Attacks Blockade Resumption
Even before the arms quarantine went into effect at dawn, the radio proclaimed:
In an English language broadcast to North America, Moscow Radio said Cuban Premier Fidel Castro had "suggested measures" to ensure his country against attack. It said the measures "would provide a good basis for a lasting peace in the Caribbean."
"War hysteria brought about by the recent U.S. threat of aggression against Cuba has hardly died down when the ominous word "blockade" again appears on the pages of papers."
The broadcast did not mention Guantanamo by name. But Castro's recent statements of conditions for a settlement of the Cuban crisis made a Guantanamo pull-out a prime requisite.
AT THE SAME TIME, the Soviet press and radio stepped up its campaign to get the United States to abandon Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
(The Soviet Union's major Asian ally, Red China, called Castro's stand 'absolutely just, absolutely
necessary and entirely correct." Today's edition of Red Flag, the Chinese Communist Party's leading theoretical magazine, urged Castro to stick to his Guantanamo demands and other conditions.)
The Soviet Army newspaper Red Star published an article headlined "Guantanamo: Springboard of Aggressions and Provocations." It called the naval base "a tick which has bitten into Cuba's soil."
THE RADIO ALSO renewed its attack on Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), calling him a "fomentor of ultra actions who sneers at other nations as inferior."
Quality Watch Repairr
Lowest Prices
DANIELS
See You At ANTIQUE SHOW Fri.-Sat.-Sun—11 to 10
Book Nook-Cobweb
"Tareyton's Dual Filter in duas partes divisa est!"
says Sulla (Skipper) Augustus, famed leader of the Roman fleet. "When you're out on the aqua," says Skipper, "there's nothing like a Tareyton! The flavor is the maximus. In fact, inter nos, here's de gustibus you never thought you'd get from any filter cigarette!"
Dual Filter makes the difference
DUAL FILTER Tareyton
Product of The American Kelco Company - Kelco is our name
1