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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1962
Peace Corps Trainees To Study Costa Rica
About 35 college and university graduates will arrive at KU Friday to begin training for the University's Costa Rica Peace Corps project.
Thomas M. Gale, assistant professor of history and project director, said the purpose of the KU project is to improve the quality of education in Costa Rica. He estimated only 10 per cent of Costa Rican children graduate from high school.
The KU program was developed this year by the Peace Corps and KU with the aid of the University of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry of Education.
The volunteers who complete training here will travel to Puerto Rico for further physical and language training. After a brief orientation meeting at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose in February, the volunteers will begin their work as teachers or library assistants. Prof. Gale said.
KU 1962 graduates who will participate in the project are Petra Moore of Lawrence, Suzanne Strayer of Shawnee Mission, Barbara Richards of Hays, and Sara Pringle of Kansas City, Mo.
Saturday Patricia Bowen, assistant officer in the Peace Corps volunteer support division, David Fledderjohn, Latin American international relations officer and Gregory Newton. Corps training officer, all of Washington, D.C., will interview the trainees.
India Asks Peace Talks
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — India announced today that it is ready to talk peace with Red China, but only if the Communists pull back beyond the disputed border between the two countries.
A foreign ministry statement expressing conditional willingness to talk peace came shortly after the defense ministry disclosed that the Chinese had overrun five more Indian outposts on the notheastern front.
Peiping Radio earlier had broadcast a Chinese government statement calling for troops of both sides to pull back an equal distance from the positions they currently hold while Premiers Chou En-Lai and Jawaharlal Nehru talk over the border disputes.
THE INDIANS countered with their own proposal which said they would be ready to talk peace if the Red Chinese withdrew north beyond the McMahon line, the border accepted by India but disputed by Red China.
But the military situation continued to look gloomy for India, and a Red Chinese withdrawal did not appear imminent.
The defense ministry's statement said that in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) "on the Khingzemane-Lumpu axis, the Chinese have been making a push with considerable strength and they have reached Lumpu."
During their training here, the Corps trainees will attend special classes 10 hours a day, six days a week in the Kansas Union. About 70 KU faculty members will conduct classes in Spanish, English, sciences, American studies, world affairs, area studies, physical education and health.
"The training period here is a further means in the overall selection program. On the average, five out of six Corps trainees are accepted as volunteers," Prof. Gale said.
Women trainees will be housed in the Varsity House, and men trainees will live in Oread Hall.
Cabinet Out Of Campaign
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy has barred all members of his cabinet from further participation in this year's political campaign, the White House announced today.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said Kennedy issued the instructions yesterday because he felt it would be inappropriate for the cabinet officers to campaign during the current Cuban crisis.
It also was felt that they were needed in Washington, Salinger said.
THE PRESIDENT already has removed himself and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson from further political appearances before the Nov. 6 congressional elections.
Salinger said Kennedy previously had prohibited four cabinet members from taking part in the campaign. They are Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Ataty, Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon.
Kennedy's new directive will apply to Postmaster General J. Edward Day, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and Welfare Secretary Anthony J. Celebrezze.
SALINGER said he did not know whether Kennedy's directive applied to sub-cabinet officials or any other lower-level officers.
In another political development, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said last night that Americans should support Kennedy's action against Cuba. But he said that did not mean they needed to support his political views.
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VIDALIA, La. — (UPI) — Divers planned to make another attempt today to raise the first of four tanks loaded with potential lethal chlorine from the bed of the Mississippi river
Efforts to hoist one of the 358-ton tanks yesterday were postponed when sand and river debris drifted back into one end of a barge carrying the tanks.
Chlorine Still Menaces Town
WORKING AGAINST a 2 p.m. deadline today, divers labored overnight to keep the barge clear of sand and silt. They used suction hoses to vacuum the bottom of the vessel in order to fasten one of the steel cylinders to a huge lifting cradle called "strongback."
By late last night, four of the six
German Measles Virus Is Isolated
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (UPI) — An important breakthrough in the fight to control German measles, a disease which often severely damages unborn children, was reported today by two groups of scientists
The Harvard School of Public Health here and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., said their research teams, working independently, have succeeded in isolating the virus known to cause German measles.
German measles, or rubella, often cause deafness, blindness or heart disease in the child when the mother contracts the ailment during pregnancy.
Harvard said "this advance in virology now makes possible for the first time accurate diagnosis of German measles infection when it is in doubt and opens the way to development of a vaccine for control of the disease."
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metal straps to secure the tank to "strongback" had been slipped into place and connected. Divers hoped to have the two other straps in place by mid-day today.
Officials said no attempt would be made to lift the tank after 2 p.m. because of the danger of being forced to work in darkness. Authorities promised to conduct salvage operations during the daylight hours when children in the danger area are in school.
A TOTAL OF 80,000 persons live in the six county area of Mississippi and Louisiana which would be endangered should one of the tanks spring a leak, mixing the chlorine with water and forming deadly gas.
Military and state authorities maintained a 24-hour vigil here and across the river in Natchez, Miss. in case area residents should have to be moved.
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