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Prizes Given Best Three In Potpourri
Three students were chosen winners of the Speech I Potpourri last night by fellow Speech I students.
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The audience voted for its choices as a part of a research program by several Speech I instructors. The object is to discover if students and instructors judge speakers on the same merits. Faculty members made out rating sheets last night but their votes were not counted. They will be used only as a comparison to the student voters.
THE TWO GIRLS and one boy chosen by audience ballot are: James C. Pitts III, Wichita sophomore; Maryate Mary, Prairie Village freshman; Linda Gilna, Manhattan freshman.
SHE EXPLAINED the reasons for birth defects and gave examples of the different types. Most of them occur in the early stages of pregnancy, she said.
In his winning speech Pitts discussed "Embalming." He explained the techniques and equipment used on a dead person.
"The Haunted Ten Per Cent," concerning birth defects was the winning speech of Miss Tate. She spoke about the one out of every ten babies born with a birth defect.
Linda Gilna, Manhattan freshman, used "Memory" as her prize-winning topic. She traced the physical causes of memory and the many uses of it.
The three winners were awarded gold-banded gavels by E. C. Buehler, chairman of the Speech I program and forensics.
MISS GILNA described the need for a good memory and why students have special reasons to cultivate a good long-term memory.
The eight topics for tonight are "Facts About Our Berlin Power," "Only Fools Sneer at Superstition," "Albert Einstein and Stuff," "Penicillin," "The Forgotten Fundamental," "The Greek Orthodox Church," "The Steaks of Human Life," and "Crucifixion."
Students Leave For Big 8 Meet
Twelve KU students leave this afternoon for the Big Eight Student Government Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Topics under discussion Friday and Saturday at the conference, which will attract about 100 students from the Big Eight, will range from foreign exchange programs to university financing.
ONE OF THE KU delegates, Ray Edwards, Bethesda, Md., junior, will lead a discussion Friday morning on new student orientation and international student programs.
Wednesday Edwards sent letters to the Big Eight schools, asking support for a plan he will offer to set aside blocks of seats at athletic events for visiting schools.
DELEGATES are Edwards; Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo, senior; McCormack; John Underwood, Parsons senior and student body vice president; John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior and All Student Council chairman and Fred Frailey, Sulphur Springs Tex., sohomore.
"KU is now doing this, but most of the Big Eight schools are not," said Reuben McCornack, Abilene senior and student body president.
Alternate delegates are Bill Brier Overland Park junior; Jackie Caesar; St. Louis, Mo., sophomore; Dick King, Kansas City sophomore Charles Portwood, Shawnee Mission senior; Carolyn Power, Kansas City; Mo., junior, and Bob Stewart Bartlesville, Okla., junior.
WITH THE LOSS of christian democratic popularity in recent years, the party, although still by far the largest, has had to seek coalition allies. When it allied with the parties of the right, the socialists joined with the communists in opposition on many bills. The center-left alliance was Moro's own plan to end this.
It is the crowning of seven years of efforts by moderates in both christian democratic and socialist parties to weld the two political forces into one.
The new cabinet—composed of Christian democrats, socialists, social democrats, and Republicans — is more than just another in Italy's series of postwar governments.
MUTE MEMORIAL—The American flag continues to wave alone at half-staff today in mute memorial of the late President John F. Kennedy. The KU flag, usual companion of the American flag atop the twin spires of Fraser Hall, has been removed during the 30-day memorial period.
Italy Inaugurates New Government
ROME.—(UPI)—Italy ended its month-long government crisis today with the swearing in of a new government dominated by Christian Democrats and Marxists.
Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro and his socialist Vice Premier, Fietro Nenni, were confident that the new center-left alliance would bring the nation stability after years of weak coalitions and cabinet shuffles.
Moro, a firm friend of the west and advocate of Italy's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, accepted the premiership last night, ending the crisis which began when Christian Democratic Premier Giovanni Leone resigned.
NENNI AND MORO are certain the result will be the opposite that socialist cooperation in the government will leave the communities isolated and will end their former ability to wreck legislative programs.
But other politicians feared that the inclusion of the socialists in the cabinet could lead to communist influence.
But the socialist divorce from their former communist allies—begun at the time of the Hungarian revolution seven years ago—is not yet complete.
The socialists retain close links with the communists in the labor unions. This is considered dangerous at a time when communist-led strikes threaten to precipitate inflation.
But even without the support of this group, the new government has a secure majority of about 350 in the 350-member Chamber of Deputies.
ONE WING OF NENNIS party emains so strongly pro-communist hat it has threatened to vote against he coalition in parliament.
Moro, a soft-spoken 47-year-old lawyer, won the socialists' grudging approval for continued Italian membership in NATO, for the proposed multi-lateral nuclear force, and for a degree of anti-communism.
There was compromise from both sides during the long talks that preceded the formation of the cabinet.
FORMER COMMUNIST Antonio Giolitti, 48-year-old socialist economic expert, got the key job of budget minister, with responsibility for over-all coordination of economic policies.
But he had to surrender at least partial control of the nation's economy to Nenni's party last night.
Two moderates, social democrat Roberto Tremelloni and Christian democrat Emillo Colombo, were given the finance and treasury posts is counter-balances.
The social democrats split with Nenni's party some years ago over the socialists' links with the Communists. They served in previous coalitions, but like the republicans are a minor political force.
Rebels Release Army Colonel
CARACAS Venezuela — (UPI)—
CARACAS, Venezuela — (UPI)—A U.S. Army colonel, kidnapped eight days ago by a Communist terrorist underground organization, was freed today unharmed and "in good shape."
The release at dawn of Col. James K. Chenault quelled growing fears about his safety after anonymous telephone callers had warned he was considered a "prisoner of war."
CHENAULT, 45-year-old World War II veteran from Sherman, Tex., and for the past two years deputy chief of the U.S. military mission in Caracas, was released at 6 a.m. and took a taxi to his two-story modernistic home in the eastern end of the city.
Maj. Joseph C. Blevins of the military mission said Chenault was in good shape.
About the same time that Chemault was released, it was announced that "Lt. Col." Juan De Dios Moncade, self-styled "supreme commander" of the Falk Terrorist organization, was captured by government forces last night.
IT WAS not certain whether there was any connection between the capture of Moncada and the release of Chenault.
He was scheduled to make a full report to Ambassador Stewart, and then to speak with newsmen at 10 am.
After breakfasting at home, Chenault went with his wife to the U.S. embassy. They both looked serious but happy as they left their home for the 10-minute drive to the embassy.
First word of his release came from Mrs. Chenault, who telephoned U.S. Ambassador C. Allan Stewart minutes after her husband arrived home.
VENEZUELAN investigators questioned Chenault while he ate breakfast.
Chenault was kidnapped a week ago Wednesday at 7 a.m. as he left his home to drive to the U.S. military mission, situated at the Conejo Blanco Army Base on the outskirts of Caracas, one of Venezuela's largest.
FOUR ARMED MEN had been waiting about five minutes to surprise him as he appeared. He was hustled into a waiting car and driven away so quickly that his wife, who had accompanied him to the door, was not even aware of what had happened.
Later, an anonymous phone caller told the U.S. embassy that "We will not harm him—We only want him for publicity."
His kidnapers identified themselves as members of the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a communist underground terrorist group.
Police said other security agencies had been acting under personal orders from President Romulo Betancourt to find Chenault.
CHENAULT, WHO IS deputy commander of the U.S. military mission here, had not been seen since terrorists seized him outside his home and rushed him away by automobile a week ago yesterday.
Anonymous telephone callers had assured U.S. officials and various news media here that he was being well treated and that he would not be harmed, but they kept putting off the time of his release.
At first, it was said that he would be set free Saturday, then that he would be released early next week.
One caller said Chenault would be held as a hostage for the release of 70 women who he said had been arrested by the government. The tone of his call suggested reprisals against the colonel if the women were not set free.
So far as was known, no prisoners were released in exchange for Chenault.
Moncada, an extreme rightist who had been working with the Castro-Communists, was captured by military intelligence agents in a private home in the Las Palmas district of central Caracas.
Details of the capture were obscure. It was not clear whether he offered any resistance to his captors.
The capture of Moncada was regarded as a serious setback for the terrorists.
A visiting expert on Latin America said today that while American news coverage in Latin America has improved over the past few years, it is still not good.
Latin American Expert Slams News Coverage
K. H. Silvert, American Universities Field Staff director of studies and expert on Latin American affairs, said reporters in Latin America cannot interpret the information which they receive.
"News coverage," Silvert said, "is at least twice as good in Latin America as it was three or four years ago, but it is still not good."
PROF. SILVERT said the news reporters have knowledge about the country in which they work in and do (usually) know the language. He added many of them frequently marry native-born partners.
"It's not that they (the reporters) don't know the area, nor that they don't have sufficient data," Prof. Silvert said. "The problem lies in their inability to interpret their information and to report in depth," he said.
When asked for his opinion on the success or failure of the Alliance for Progress between the United States and Latin America, Prof. Silvert said he does not consider the Alliance a failure.
Silvert said, "is just the beginning of a long-term program. It is not a short-run proposition. It is intended to do just a piece of work and I believe it is doing the piece it set out to do."
"The Alliance for Progress," Prof.
WHEN ASKED if he approved of United States aid being given to Latin American dictatorships, Prof. Silvert said that if the particular dictatorship supports and promotes an open society, the aid is justified.
"If, however, the dictatorship is retrogressive and personalistic," Prof. Silvert said, "I do not believe we should aid it."
Prof. Silvert said he believed the U.S. should be "cold" toward any dictatorship even if the U.S. does give it economic aid.
Weather
Skies will be fair tonight, becoming partly cloudy tomorrow. A temperature drop is expected for tomorrow. The low tonight will be in the upper 20's, the weather bureau said.
A surge of cool air from the Northwest may enter the state Friday or Saturday, dropping the afternoon's high temperatures near 50.