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Albania Denounces Test Ban and U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI) —Tiny Albania, dubbed the pariah of the Communist world, today denounced the nuclear test ban treaty, accused the United States of openly threatening Communist China, said Washington defends all the worlds corrupt regimes and pledged full support to Castro's Cuba.
A policy speech delivered to the General Assembly by Albanian Foreign Minister Behar Shtylla was a sharp departure from the conciliatory cold war line followed by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week and echoed by other speakers from the Moscow bloc.
ALBANIA, Peking's only Communist bloc ally in the ideological split with Russia, last week made this year's move to seat Communist China in the United Nations. Nationalist Chinese Ambassador Liu Chieh promptly characterized Albania as the pariah of the Communist world.
Only minor Soviet diplomats showed up to listen to Behar in the big assembly hall which was nearly empty.
In this morning's other major assembly speech, Foreign Minister Thanat Khouman of Thailand said his government would do all it could to help settle the Malaysia dispute involving the new Southeast Asia country and Britain against Indonesia and the Philippines. Khouman was reported to have suggested privately a month's cooling-off period to be followed by a meeting in Bangkok of the foreign ministers concerned.
KHOMAN SAID President Kennedy's offer of a joint U.S.-Russian
Bobby Raps Law Misuse
KANSAS CITY — (UPI) — Atty Gen. Robert F. Kennedy charged today that some attorneys and public officials are misusing legal principles to thwart justice in the civil rights struggle.
The current situation, he said, "reflects a crisis in the legal profession—in the whole judicial system on which our concept of justice is based."
Civil rights problems would be "much less severe," he said, if all attorneys and public officials in the nation shared a spirit of courage, high principle and true engagement with the social realities.
KENNEDY TOLD the Missouri Bar Association three legal propositions were being used in improper contexts, "espoused as absolutes and carried to extremes."
- The proposition that it is proper and just to avail oneself of every legal defense to test either the validity or applicability of a rule of law.
- The proposition that a court decision binds only those persons who are a party to it.
- And that a court-made rule of law should always be open to re-examination and is susceptible to being over-ruled on a subsequent occasion.
All are basic to the nation's system of justice and none needs any defense, Kennedy said.
Eut today, he continued, they are being "used in isolation, invoked in improper contexts . . . and have placed the sanctity of the law in jeopardy."
KENNEDY CALLED on the legal profession "to make our legal system work . . . to make it responsive to legitimate grievances."
"To do this we must work to prevent the unscrupulous exploitation of all the obstructive devices available within the system," he said.
"If we can accomplish this," he continued, "I believe we will begin to see a new phase in the movement for civil rights—an increased awareness that sit-ins and demonstrations do not in themselves cure social evils."
Kennedy's speech highlighted the two-day annual convention of the Missouri Bar Association.
moon expedition would be a notable advance for science but a treaty to end subversive activities would be of great importance. He renewed his 1961 proposal for an international solidarity among the socialist countries and said his government would do all possible to achieve good relations with our neighbors. On the outs with Moscow, Albania also has been sharply critical of Yugoslavia.
But Behar said U.S. imperialism tries to turn back the revolutionary wave sweeping the world.
U. S. statements are not confirmed by the facts, he said. "Its strategy of peace is only subversion and war mongering. It has committed aggression against Cuba, in the Congo, in Laos and Viet Nam. Racists in Africa with American weapons massacre Negroes in their fight for freedom."
"WHEREVER THERE is aggression, subversion, colonialism, racism, there American imperialism raises its ugly head . . . there is flagrant proof that the United States is assuming the role of defending all corrupt regimes."
Behar said tension in the Far East is accentuated by bellicose U.S. policies.
It is conducting a campaign against Peking, the Albanian said. "Its general openly threaten the people's republic of China . . . with aggression around the rims of China. Viet Nam and Korea are parts of the aggressive efforts of the United States, contrary to law and human justice . . ."
South Korea has been turned into a nuclear arsenal and the United States hampers the unification of Korea. In Viet Nam, it tore up the Geneva agreement, it keeps in power the Fascist (President Ngo Dinh) Diem-regime, which is hated by all the Viet people. The United States interfered with weapons and is carrying out war against the Viet people."
BEHAR SAID the Moscow nuclear test ban treaty, ratified by both the United States and Russia, was like the Munich agreement of 1938 by which Adolf Hitler took over Czechoslovakia.
Correction
The name of one of the Mont Bleu (Blue Mound) ski resort developers appeared incorrectly in the Daily Kansan yesterday as William Dunaway. Mr. Dunaway's first name is Robert.
Frosh Hawks To Parade Before Football Game
Thirty convertibles, overflowing with crimson-sweatered Frosch Hawks, will parade from Corbin Hall parking lot to the football stadium before the KU-Svracuse game tomorrow at noon.
The caravan of cars, furnished by the KuKu's, the men's pep club, will circle the campus before delivering the 250 pep club members to the stadium.
Suzanne Fisher, Prairie Village senior and Frosh Hawk adviser, said the parade will leave Corbin at noon and arrive at the stadium by 1 p.m.
"Frosh Hawk SKIRTS!
Jury Indicts Four On Cuban Charge
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY evidently expects the proposed tax reduction program to help redeem some of his 1960 campaign promises about getting the country to moving again. He believes the tax bill would provide considerable protection against a recession; that it would tend to reduce unemployment by a substantial margin; that the nation's economic ills he discovered and promised to remedy in 1960 would, indeed, be substantially remedied by his tax program.
There is another urgency to the tax program. It is this:
Every week of delay diminishes the political advantages the President can expect from enactment of his tax bill. In terms of politics, Kennedy needs the tax bill now. The sooner the tax bill is enacted, the sooner will Democrats expect the political climate to clear for them.
Defeat Seen for Tax Cut If Proposal Postponed
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Internationa
United Press International One solid reason for pressing the administration tax bill through Congress with first priority at the expense of civil rights and all else is this:
NEW YORK—(UPI)A federal grand jury today indicted four New York City men on charges of conspiring illegally to organize and promote a trip to Cuba despite a State Department ban on travel there.
The bill would be beyond the reach of Congressional economizers before President Kennedy reveals his 1965 fiscal year spending plans. If the tax bill were held over until the next session of Congress, a big new spending figure might recruit enough opposition to defeat the project.
Three of the four also were charged with illegally traveling to Cuba and back. Joseph P. Hoey, Eastern district U.S. attorney, said the indictment stems from a trip
Next year comes a presidential election. Kennedy promised in 1960
to deal effectively with many problems, including unenployment and an economic stagnation he detected in the growth rate of the gross national product. Promise and performance have not kept perfectly abreast. Democrats expect the tax program to correct that situation.
WITH SO LITTLE accomplished in the first nine months of this session of Congress, the administration now must press for much vital legislation before Christmas. If civil rights is put aside for the tax bill and finally goes over until the next session, much time will have been saved in the Senate which otherwise might be stymied by filibuster.
The filibuster would come next year, of course, because the administration is committed to a civil rights program and might lose much presidential election year support from Negroes if none were enacted. The disadvantage to Kennedy of postponing civil rights until next year is that the Senate contest will precede the presidential election by a few months, instead of by many.
Negroes would protest, of course, any postponement of civil rights legislation. But they would be expected to get their bill before election day, 1934, and that is the important thing in terms of presidential politics.
The Negroes have been patient. The 1960 Democratic platform and Kennedy's campaign promises added up to a program of instant civil rights. The president did name Negroes to high and unaccustomed office.
59 Americans — most of them students made to Cuba last July and August.
THE INDICTMENT named Lee Levi Laub, 24. Phillip Abbott Luce, 26, and Stefan Martinot, 24, all of whom made the trip to Cuba, and Anatol Schlosser, 26, who did not go but was charged with conspiring to recruit and arrange for the trip along with the others.
It was charged that Laub, Luce, and Martinot did not have passports when they went to Cuba. The State Department issued regulations Jan. 19, 1961 requiring a specially validated passport for travel to Cuba. The regulations were issued under immigration laws which authorize special travel regulations during war or a period of national emergency.
THE FIRST SEVEN COUNTS in the indictment charged all four defendants with unlawfully, willfully and knowingly conspiring to induce, recruit and arrange for Americans to travel to Cuba in violation of the regulations.
The indictment charged that the conspiracy began in October, 1962, and continued until Aug. 29 of this year, the day when the travelers returned from Cuba.
They formed a committee to promote the trip to Cuba, recruited travelers and raised travel funds, the indictment charged. In order to conceal the timing and purpose of the trip, the defendants met only in small groups, it said.
TWO OTHER PERSONS who made the trip to Cuba were named as co-conspirators but were not indicted. They are Salvatore Cucchiari, 19, and Ellen Irene Shallit, 20, both of New York City.
The conspiracy count cited 31 overt acts, including a number of meetings in late June in New York, Paris, and Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia. Laub was accused of distributing applications for trip in New York and at San Francisco State College.
Three of the other six counts charged Laub, Luce and Martinot individually with leaving the United States for Cuba via Europe without valid passports.
Car Too Hot To Test
ENGLAND — (UPI) — Pamela Haye's pre-war car burst into flames yesterday on the way to a road test. Miss Hayes, 21. leaped to safety.
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