Consultation Seen As Asian Solution
TOKYO — (UPI) — Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy reached agreement with Indonesia President Sukarno today that the Malaysia crisis, which threatens the peace in Southeast Asia, should be solved by consultation.
Kennedy, in his first diplomatic mission for President Johnson, held a cordial 90-minute meeting with Sukarno, whose threat to crush the new British Commonwealth nation of Malaysia has increased tension in Asia. He made no statement after the meeting. A second round of talks was scheduled for tomorrow.
GUTHEMAN SAID the talks were "cordial, a friendly exchange of views."
An Indonesian spokesman also described the talks as friendly and said "there was no difficulty at all in finding ways for the solution of the problems, which should be solved by consultations by the parties concerned."
Ed Gutheman, spokesman for the attorney general, said "agreement was reached that the problem (of Indonesia's opposition to Malaysia) should be solved by consultation."
THIS SUGGESTED that one of the attorney general's aims is to bring together the leaders of the three nations involved in the crisis Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Asked about the U.S. role in the dispute, Gutheman repeated Kennedy's views that the problem should be solved by the Asians involved, not outsiders.
Kennedy will fly to the Philippines Sunday for talks with President Diosdado Macapagal, whose nation claims some of the territory Malaysia occupies on Borneo.
He may then go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, to see Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman.
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The Weather Bureau predicts clear to partly cloudy skies this afternoon through Saturday. It will be seasonally mild with strong southerly winds at 25 to 35 miles per hour this afternoon. The high today will be in the upper 50's, with the low tonight in the upper 20's.
THERE WAS a possibility of a third meeting with Sukarno before Kennedy leaves here Sunday.
Sukarno opposes Malaysia as a new form of British colonialism that threatens his 3,000-island nation on its borders.
Kennedy is believed to have told him the Johnson administration is under pressure from Congress to cut off U.S. aid to Indonesia unless it pursues peaceful policies.
THE TWO LEADERS met in the Imperial Hotel, where Sukarno is staving.
Sukarno was accompanied by his foreign minister, Subandrio. Kennedy's aide was Howard P. Jones, U.S. ambassador to Indonesia.
Subandrio, who hinted on the eve of Kennedy's arrival yesterday that Indonesia might seek military ties with the communist world because of the western opposition to its Malaysia policy, was smiling broadly as he shook Kennedy's hand in farewell.
KENNEDY STRESSED yesterday that the Malaysia conflict "is a matter that must be decided, resolved, and determined by Asian countries, not by outsiders."
But his itinerary of visits here, in Manila, and in Kuala Lumpur made it clear the United States wanted all the parties to the dispute to know its views.
Earlier, the attorney general and his wife were received by the Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko at the imperial palace. Their half-hour visit was not considered an audience because Kennedy is not a chief of state.
SUKARNO HAS opposed Malaysia since its formation in September from Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, and Sarawak. All were former British Colonies and Sukarno contends the new federation is only British colonialism in new guise.
Sukarno maintains that his militant "policy of confrontation" against Malaysia is intended to bring about a peaceful settlement of the dispute.
Friday, Jan. 17, 1964
Malaysia believes it threatens war, and in Kuala Lumpur today, Malaysia's government was reported preparing to send a guerrilla warfare security team to North Borneo, on the borders of Indonesian Borneo, to combat Indonesian efforts at penetration and subversion.
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61st Year, No.74
Four American newsmen also were arrested by the Zanzibar revolutionary regime.
The two U.S. diplomats were freed today on orders of Karume. Picard was flown to Dar-Es-Salaam, on the East African coast opposite the spice island of Zanzibar.
WASHINGTON REPORTS have said it was Karume who personally arrested Frederick P. Picard III, charge d'affaires at the U.S. Zanzibar Embassy and Embassy 3rd Secretary Donald K. Peterson yesterday following an angry outburst by the rebel president over what he considered distortion of events in Zanzibar by diplomats and newsmen.
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Zanzibar Releases Two Americans: Holds Four
The broadcast said that Sheikh Abeid Karume, who had held the post of president since Sunday when a coup toppled the Arab-led old Zanzibar regime, had been appointed vice president.
DAR - ES - SALAAM, Tanganyika — (UPI) — Zanzibar's revolutionary government today released two U.S. diplomats arrested at gunpoint yesterday. Zanzibar radio said the man who arrested them has been supplanted as revolutionary president.
"Field Marshal" John Okello, reported to be a former Kenya Mau Mau member, broadest over Zanzibar radio today that he has assumed the office of president of the revolutionary government of Zanzibar.
THE U.S. STATE Department said the second diplomat, Petterson, was also released but was permitted to remain on Zanibar. He thus became the only American official there. All other Americans on the island, including personnel of a U.S. space tracking station on the island, had been evacuated early this week.
State Department officials said the four American newsmen who were arrested yesterday at the same time as the two diplomats were expected to be freed shortly.
The correspondents were identified as Robert Conley, of the New York Times, John Nugent of Newsweek, Bill Smith of Time Magazine and Peter Rand, described as a special writer for the New York Herald Tribune. Conley, Smith, and Nugent were said to have been accused by the revolutionary government of
sending out exaggerated reports on the situation in Zanzibar.
SOURCES HERE SAID the newsmen were charged with illegal entry and then were ordered confined to their rooms in the hotel in which they were arrested.
An embassy spokesman here said President Karume stormed up to Picard while the diplomat was talking to the four newsmen at a Zanzibar hotel last night.
He charged the newsmen sent out stories full of "lies" and that Picard had supplied them with false information, the Embassy spokesman said. "Why don't you recognize us?" Karume shouted at Picard, according to the spokesman.
The United States and Britain, despite requests from the six-day old rebel regime, had not recognized Karume's government.
Club's Racial Policy Brings City Action
By Fred Frailey
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission last night formed a special committee to talk to the Plaza Club about denial of use of the club's swimming pool to two Negroes in an integrated KU group.
Miller and Stephenson scholarship halls early this week reserved the club's facilities, including the swimming pool, for a party in May.
THEY WERE TOLD Wednesday night by manager Marvin Maddox, that the three Negro girls in Miller could not use the pool because of the club's policy restricting its use to white persons. The private club,
Approaching Finals Exhaust Students
LAST MINUTE PREPARATIONS—Long days, weary students and bright nights are some of the characteristics of the final weeks. Russell Mehl, Coffeyville sophomore, like many others is spending those long night hours getting ready for his examinations next week.
By Jackie Helstrom
"If I had only studied all semester like I have this week, maybe I could get some sleep."
This moan is being heard all over campus as sleepy students burn the midnight electricity night after night. They are starting to prepare for that week of weeks, the week of the finals.
Cigarettes, coffee, caffeine pills, benzedrine and even cola are being used by tired students to help push themselves through just one more hour or one more chapter, far into the night.
AND WHEN THEY do fall asleep, it is only for a few short hours. They drag themselves out of bed still bleary-eyed to take up once more where they had no longer been able to see the book in front of them the night before.
Some students' philosophy of studying for a final is to go to a movie the night before, and forget about the whole thing until the time comes. But most are busy reading and reviewing right up to the last minute.
Whatever preparation is being made, that first final is approaching fast for everyone.
SOME LUCKY students have a final schedule spread out over the whole week with no more than one or two examinations on any day, but there are others with two, three, and sometimes even four tests bunched on the same day.
Even worse are the schedules of those bilingual students who find out that they are taking two different language finals one right after the other on the same day.
Amid all the cramming, the students sometimes take time out to express their opinions on the value of final week. Many feel that it is unnecessary and useless. They say that because they have so many finals to study for all at once, they don't really learn anything they did not already know.
ANOTHER OPINION expressed is that the teachers should already know their students before final week, and that this one big test taken under so much pressure should not be very important in determining the grade.
Other students feel that studying for a final gives them the chance to relate all the material in a course and fit it into the total pattern.
For better or for worse, however, it will all be over in eight days and everyone can do what they will have been waiting for since the beginning—collapse.
opened in November, was formerly known as the Fire Bird Club.
Miller Hall residents last night voted to cancel their reservation with the Plaza Club.
"We're definitely not going to have the party at that club," Danielle Goering, Moundridge sophomore and Miller's social chairman, said. "They were as definite about the stipulation as we were in insisting it be lifted."
WILLIAM BINNS, a clinical psychologist for the KU Health Service and chairman of the city's Human Relations Commission, said the club's swimming facilities are not covered in the public accommodations law passed by the Kansas Legislature last year.
"We will make an effort to meet with the Plaza Club's management and see if we can prevail upon them to change their policy," Bimns said, "If we cannot reason with them, there is nothing we can do."
Binns called the incident an example of why the commission has asked the Lawrence City Commission to pass an "umbrella" public accommodations ordinance.
"The STATE LAW is limited to types of accommodations specifically mentioned in the law," Binns said. "The ordinance the commission has recommended would be far more inclusive."
Although Binns said private clubs might avoid the proposed city ordinance because of their exclusive nature, he doubted the actual "privateness" of most of the five clubs in the Lawrence area which have swimming pools.
Maddox said the Plaza Club is within its rights to restrict all sections of the establishment except the public restaurant to whomever its members please.
"We rent the club to all types of groups from the University, and this is the first time a situation such as this has arisen here." Maddox said. "However, the club cannot be rented unless a member sponsors the group."
Junior Circuit Vetoes Finley's Kentucky Move
American League owners yesterday rejected a request by Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, to move the team to Louisville, Ky.
The vote of the league owners was 9-1 against Finley's proposal—Finley cast the only vote approving his suggestion. And by the same vote, they told Finley to come to an agreement with the city on a new lease for Municipal Stadium by Feb. 1 or face expulsion from the league. See story page 13.