Thursday, October 31, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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students to work abroad under AIESEC program
By JOE NAAS
Kansan Staff Writer
When Bud Zachary, Wichita senior, offered to take charge of an exchange program for business and economic students, he felt he was stepping out on a limb.
After all, the KU chapter of the Association International des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales was almost totally inactive last year.
But Zachary's qualms have now ended; AIESEC has already recruited more students than in any previous year at KU.
Thirty students attended the organization's first meeting. Ten students are already planning overseas jobs this summer, Zachary said.
He said last year when he heard of the organization it was too late to obtain a job.
He said students who wish to work abroad must find a job in this country for a foreign AISEC member.
Zachary then contacted the national president of AIESEC, who agreed to get him a job abroad if he would take over the KU chapter this year. He agreed and spent the summer working for a textile firm in Drammen, Norway.
Part of his summer was also spent planning out his KU recruiting campaign for AIESEC. "It was a challenge to see if I could organize this thing," he said.
Zachary said he was uncertain
the program would be accepted by KU students, since they have little contact with international elements of business.
Zachary attributed much of his success to the support given by Clifford Clark, the new dean of the School of Business.
When Zachary arrived at KU this fall, his first move was to talk with Clark.
Clark arranged for AIESEC to obtain financial support from the School of Business. He also spoke at the group's first meeting, Zachary said.
He said AIESEC offers international business experience along with the opportunity to go abroad.
"Valuable experience is also gained in the process of convincing domestic businesses to hire foreign students," Zachary said.
AIESEC members have the opportunity to work in one of 42 different countries, he said. "Each member chooses three countries where he would prefer to work. He is bound to be given a position in one of these three," Zachary said.
Zachary's personal plans call for another summer abroad. This year, however, he wants to work in South Africa or Australia.
He said last summer's experience has meant a lot to him and he wants other students to have the same opportunity.
"Anyone who is majoring in economics or business is welcome," he said.
Russian soldiers retain calmness in face of Czech demonstrations
PRAGUE (UPI)—Soviet troops were ordered not to suppress the anti-Russian demonstrations that rocked Prague and Bratislava for two days, informed sources said yesterday. Russian soldiers remained calm even when spat upon and tugged at by demonstrating Czechoslovak students.
Czechoslovakia appeared calm after the tidal wave of protest against the Soviet occupation from thousands upon thousands of patriotic youth massed in Prague and Bratislava.
Only the usual exuberant crowds of fans that follow the nation's reform leaders were evident in Bratislava yesterday when Slovaks, with tears in their eyes, witnessed the signing of a bill giving Slovakia near automov.
Regional Slovak Communist party leaders signed the bill along with national leaders from Prague, fulfilling a long campaign by Slovak nationalists to achieve a large measure of autonomy from the Central Prague government.
During the three demonstrations the Soviet troops barely blinked under harassment, an
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Witnesses disclosed that two Soviet soldiers trying to hand out the Soviet "white paper," which explains why the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia, stood stoically when spat upon and jeered by Prague youths on Hastal Square Monday night.
McCarthy hints he may quit Demos
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen.
Eugene J. McCarthy, shepherd of many of the nation's disen-
chanted youth, will stick with the Democratic party just long enough to vote for Hubert Humphrey.
McCarthy, still embittered by his defeat by Humphrey at the Democratic National Convention two months ago, called on his devotees Tuesday to vote for Humphrey, but added that he would never again ask them to work within the "established political processes" of the Democrat party.
He told reporters—who cornered him after issuance of his endorsement statement—that Humphrey's "position on Vietnam, foreign policy and the reform of the draft laws falls far short of what I think they should be, but the choice is between the vice president and Richard Nixon, and I support Mr. Humphrey."
The wording of McCarthy's statement, issued by aides, raised immediate questions whether he was considering formation of a splinter party to run for the
Senate in 1970, when his term expires, or for the presidency in 1972.
"In order to make it clear that this endorsement is in no way intended to reinstate me in the good graces of the Democratic party leaders, nor in any way to suggest my having forgotten or condoned the things that happened both before Chicago and at Chicago, I announce at this time that I will not be a candidate of my party for re-election to the Senate from the state of Minnesota in 1970. Nor will I
seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic party in 1972."
McCarthy made clear he did not consider his Humphrey semi-endoresement a "last hurrah" in politics. He assured his followers that he would never again ask them "to test the established political processes of the Democratic party" unless they "have clearly been changed."
"I wish to assure them that I intend to work to that end and at the same time to continue to discuss the substantive issues"
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