Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1963
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—(UPI)—A mass rally voted today to renounce all U.S. aid immediately on grounds the United States is backing a plot to overthrow the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
The resolution was adopted at the Prince's request by the "Congress" of 20,000 Cambodians from all parts of the country, including youths. It called for the immediate ending of an estimated $10.4 million yearly in economic aid and another $18.8 million in military aid from the United States.
U.S. Aid Renounced By Cambodian Rally
FUTURE MILITARY QUEEN—The three branches of KU military service will crown one of these candidates as the Military Ball Queen on Dec. 6. The candidates are, left to right, back row, Judy Fraser, Larned senior, Karen Swartz, Pratt junior, and Cathy Bergstrom, Kansas City, Mo., junior. Front row, Linda Machin, Ottawa senior, Sharon Rogers, Prairie Village sophomore, and Susan Morrison, Wichita sophomore.
SIHANOUK, 41-YEAR-OLD chief of state, has teetered between neutralism and a slide towards communism in recent weeks.
The Prince said he had sufficient proof that "certain American services" were helping the rebels.
He did not name these agencies today, but informed sources said yesterday the Prince fears the activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and is afraid it is plotting to overthrow him.
THE SOURCES SAID Sihanouk is convinced the CIA was behind the coup in South Viet Nam and that a similar fate could be in store for him unless he removes U.S. influence here.
U. S. officials here were concerned not only with Sihanouk's views on aid but with his plans to invite Chinese Communist economic advisers here.
He also announced over the weekend that his son and political heir, Prince Norodom Naradipo, 18, has undergone three years' training in Communist China under the personal guidance of Premier Chou En-Lai, Foreign Minister Chen Yi, and Chen Yi's wife.
Soviet, UAR Support Iraq's New Regime
BEIRUT, Lebanon—(UPI)—Iraq's new military regime, bolstered by support from its two strongest neighbors, moved today to consolidate its control over the nation.
The Soviet Union and the United Arab Republic both expressed approval of yesterday's overthrow of the Baath Party regime of Premier Ahmed Hassan Bakr, and the U.A.R. praised the new military strongman, President Abdul Salam Aref, long an exponent of friendship with Cairo.
But Syria, whose own Baath government was linked to the Baghdad regime, attacked the Iraqi military leaders as "reactionaries, opportunists," and traitors to the Baath Arab socialist cause.
Syria, whose position appeared threatened by the fall of the Bakr regime, also was concerned because many of its top leaders were reported held as hostages in Baghdad.
THERE WERE conflicting reports of fighting. Baghdad radio last night denied Syrian reports that the pro-Baathist national guardsmen were continuing to resist the army. But the 24-hour curfew clamped down after Aref's dawn coup remained in force.
THERE ARE also 5,000 Syrian troops in Iraq, part of the joint military arrangements the two nations had before Aref stepped in.
They are Syrian strongman Amin Al-Hafiz, who is premier and head of the revolutionary council, Michel Aflak, ideologist and cofounder of the Baath party, and several military men.
The Syrian leaders and other Baathists from Lebanon and Jordan went to Baghdad last week to take over the government temporarily because of a power struggle inside the Baathist ranks.
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Democratic congressmen from Florida were impressed by the apology Kennedy received in defending his civil rights proposals before he Florida Chamber of Commerce it Tampa.
Kennedy's major address of a five-peech day was his Latin American policy statement before U.S. and South American editors. He said that the American states must do everything they can to prevent the establishment of "another Cuba" in his western hemisphere.
Several Lawrence area families have offered to host KU foreign students in their homes for the Thanksgiving vacation or for Thanksgiving dinner.
Kennedy Encourages Coup To Overthrow Cuban Regime
"There's room for only 20 foreign students," said Colleen Ryan, Mission junior and People-to-People vacation placement chairman.
"GREAT TRIP," one White House official observed with an eye to the unexpected enthusiasm shown in a state that has voted Republican in the last three Presidential elections.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy all but invited the Cuban people today to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist regime and promised prompt U.S. aid if they do.
"The American states must be
Kennedy's encouragement of a Cuban coup was contained in a major foreign policy speech before the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) last night in Miami Beach, Fla.
HIS PLEDGE AND an offer to extend U.S. backing for any Latin American nation seeking aid to resist a communist takeover attempt climaxed a busy politics-filled trip to Florida.
The chief executive was reported encouraged by the warm reception he received in Tampa and he told an airport rally in Miami that he was convinced Florida would vote for the Democratic presidential ticket in 1964.
The President said it would be a happy day if the Castro government s ousted.
Kennedy acted like a man running for the White House as he motorcaded past cheering crowds, shook hands with dozens of bystanders and flashed his familiar campaign smile.
Families To Host Foreign Students
"Foreign students are to sign up in the P-t-P office if they want to to a Lawrence family's home for Thanksgiving," she said, "but it will have to be on a first come first served basis."
Skies will be cloudy tonight, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. There is a chance of rain this evening or tonight. The low tonight will be in the upper 30s.
Foreign students must sign up by Wednesday.
Weather
ready to come to the aid of any government requesting aid to prevent a takeover linked to the policies of foreign communism rather than an internal desire for change," he said.
"MY COUNTRY is prepared to do this." Kennedy pledged to applause from the 1,000 persons at the IAPA banquet.
He also promised that this country would work to block any effort to replace Castro with a right-wing government reminiscent of the former Fulgencio Eataista dictatorship.
"No Cuban need feel trapped between dependence on the broken promises of foreign communism and the hostility of the rest of the hemisphere," Kennedy said.
"For once Cuban sovereignty has been restored we will extend the hand of friendship and assistance to a Cuba whose political and economic institutions have been shaped by the will of the Cuban people," he said.
ance for progress program to reform the economy and political structures of Latin American nations.
KENNEDY ALSO said he believed more than ever in his much criticized multi-billion dollar alliommendation that the number of new instructors requested be cut by about 70. The schools had requested new positions on a ratio of one teacher for every 25 additional students.
He indirectly nudged Argentina to provide fair compensation for American oil producers whose contracts were cancelled last week by warning that private capital is needed to develop the countries south of the Rio Grande.
Kennedy flew directly back to Washington after his Miami Beach speech. His jetliner landed at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and he took a helicopter to the White House.
The President was away from the White House for four days. He spoke at a road-cutting ceremony on the Maryland-Delaware border Thursday, addressed the AFL-CIO convention in New York Friday and visited the Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile center Saturday.
After a restful weekend in his Palm Beach, Fla., home, Kennedy swung through Florida in a campaigning style before addressing the Inter-American dinner in Miami Beach.
KU Research Surplus Brings Budget Debate
TOPEKA —(UPI)— Hearings on the record $451.4 million state budget request brought a heated session yesterday between representatives of higher education in Kansas and the state budget director.
The Kansas Board of Regents, and schools under the board, spent the whole day arguing their requests before Budget Director James Bibb and representatives of the legislature. Gov. John Anderson also sat in on part of the hearings.
KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe appeared to explain a $138,000 surplus that had been saved back from a research fund. He said the money was allowed to accumulate for the purchase of a computer.
BIBB, NOTING the University had a surplus in its research fund, recommended a cut of $138,000 in the fiscal 1964 fund request.
The educators spent considerable time trying to justify $3 million of their $72 million request for running state schools in fiscal 1965.
One argument centered on the formula for distributing a salary raise for teachers. The Board of Regents recommended an increase of 7.5 per cent in salaries and wages above present levels. The raise would be distributed on a merit basis ranging from 12 per cent for some to 5 per cent for others.
Bibb recommended an across-the-board increase of 5 per cent for all state-employed instructors.
A SECOND issue which drew fire from the educators was Bibb's recommendation that the number of new instructors requested be cut by about 70. The schools had requested new positions on a ratio of one teacher for every 25 additional students.
Bibb said the requested number of new positions was based on projected enrollment, while his figures were based on actual enrollment this year.
James McCain, president of Kansas State University, told the members at the hearing he wanted to holdover until the 1965 legislature a fund containing $550,000. The money would be used as a start for a new auditorium.
A $1.2 million authorization for the auditorium was granted Kansas State for the current fiscal year. School officials found the sum insufficient, and estimated that $2.1 million to $2.5 million would be necessary to complete the structure.
THE $590,000 was the remainder of the $1.2 million appropriation. The rest of the sum was spent on an addition to Kansas State's engineering building.
Bibb had recommended that part of the remaining funds be diverted to a project for a childrens center at the KU Medical Center.
McCain protested that he needed the money as a starter on the auditorium and that neither the medical center nor KU had requested use of this specific fund.
The hearings continue through Nov. 26 and involve all state agencies.
US Officials To Hear Barghoorn
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — (UPI)— Yale Prof. Frederick C. Barghoor prepared to tell State Department officials today of his 16 days behind Russian prison bars on spy charges.
Barghoorn's trip to Washington includes a session with foreign advisers of the Kennedy administration.
Speculation was high that the political scientist might meet with President Kennedy. No appointment has been scheduled, however.
BARGHOORN WAS scheduled to talk with Llewellyn E. Thompson, Soviet affairs adviser, William R.
At a rolly last night in the university's Woolsey Hall, 2.500 students and faculty members jammed the hall to pay tribute to the returned scholar.
Tyler, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, and Richard H. Davis, Tyler's deputy. The session was to be held at the state department, but Secretary of State Rusk was not expected to attend.
Barghoorn was expected to reveal details of his arrest and imprisonment. He has not spoken publicly at length about either since his return to the United State Sunday.
BUSINESSLIKE at the podium of the giant hall, the sandy-haired 52-year-old professor called his ordeal a basic conflict between segments of Soviet society.
"My case represents a conflict between open and closed society in Russia," the professor claimed. "There are people in the Soviet Union who believe in free communication."
Barghoorn said the massive support voiced by American academic communities was "a vindication of my activity. I did not go to the Soviet Union with any kind of intelligence mission in mind."