Laos Conflict Brings Rusk Home
By United Press International
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will cut short his stay at the CENTO conference in Turkey to rush back to Washington to deal with the growing crisis in Laos where Pathet Lao troops, ignoring the international cease fire agreement, continue their attack.
A flurry of diplomatic action marked today's developments.
In Moscow, Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson called on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday to discuss the Laos situation.
The U.S. Embassy did not say what the two officials discussed. It was believed to concern the problem of getting an immediate cease fire in Laos according to Monday's joint Soviet-British appeal.
The Russians have been urged in Washington, London and Paris to
help enforce the cease fire appeal promptly.
In New York, intelligence reports from Laos and other world trouble spots today dominated meetings of President Kennedy with two elders of the Republican Party.
Kennedy met for 20 minutes with former President Herbert Hoover. Then he visited Gen. Douglas MacArthur, where he talked for 70 minutes with the leader of American World War II forces in the Pacific.
The President then went to the residence of Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, where the chief executive continued his discussion of world affairs over lunch with Stevenson, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, and Kennedy's appointees to the U.S. delegation to the U.N.
In Lao a heavy Communist-supported offensive against pro-Western
troops threatened all efforts to bring peace to the little jungle kingdom.
Reports say the situation is growing so critical that the United States again considered the possibility of military intervention.
Moscow radio accused the United States of "endangering a peaceful settlement in Laos." But dispatches from Vientiane said Soviet-built liyushin planes were continuing to airlift supplies to rebel troops on the Plain of Jars.
Rebel troops were reporting pouring into the former royal government stronghold at Muong Sai, north of the royal capital of Luang Prabang.
This was the last major government outpost between the royal capital and the Communist Chinese border. It fell Wednesday under a mortar-supported infantry attack. A Lao army source said the single government battalion at Muong Sai
was outnumbered two to one.
There was no word on whether the government troops had taken up new positions or had scattered into the hills.
Western military sources said it was clear the Communists were trying to gain as much territory as possible for bargaining at an international conference.
Meanwhile, Prince Souvanna Phouma, former "neutralist" premier of Laos, flew into rebel territory in the jungle kingdom today direct from conference in Communist China and North Viet Nam.
Peiping Radio proclaimed that before he left Hanoi, Souvanna and North Viet Namese Premier Pham Van Dong reached "identical views" on ways to settle the crisis in Laos.
It indicated these views contend with the Communist Chinese demand that all U.S. military advisers and supplies be removed from Laos as a condition for a cease fire. The
United States already has rejected such a term.
Tension gripped the Western capitals over the Soviet failure to answer requests for enforcement of the British-Soviet cease-fire signed this week. The Russians had not answered up to today but Communist China's Peiping Radio said the rebel leaders were waiting at Xiang Khouang for a delegation from the royal government to discuss cease fire details.
There was no word from Vientiane that the government had agreed to any such arrangement since Xiang Khouang is in rebel-beld territory.
A 14-nation conference—including Communist China, the United States, Russia and Britain—is scheduled to open May 14 in Geneva to discuss the future of Laos.
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But the United States had indicated it will not be there unless a cease fire is in effect in Laos first.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 28, 1961
De Gaulle Begins Mass Arrests; May Retain Dictator's Power
PARIS — (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle's purge of disloyal elements in France and Algeria assumed massive proportions tonight. The number of civilians and military personnel arrested approached 3,000.
As government police swept through metropolitan France and Algeria making more arrests, it was announced De Gaulle would address the nation May 8 to tell of the crushing of the four-day Algerian revolt and its drastic aftermath.
De Gaulle is making good this promise.
Before the munity of the Algiers Generals that started last Saturday had collapsed 96 hours later, De Gaulle assumed full dictatorial powers and said he would use them ruthlessly, without "bity or mercy," to bring the insurrectionists to justice and rid both Algeria and France of traitors or potential traitors.
More than 2000 had been arrested in France and more than 600 in Algeria, and the roundup continued.
How long the purge was likely to go on was not known but in setting May 8 — VE Day — for his nationwide radio and television report to the people. De Gaulle obviously was giving himself time to do a thorough house-cleaning job.
He is expected to announce in the speech fundamental changes in the political, social and economic life of the country. He also is expected to
give an account of the purge operations undertaken with his absolute powers to consolidate the future authority of the state.
RELIABLE SOURCES predicted De Gaulle would announce that he was retaining his dictatorial powers — some predicted for months — to make sure he had cleaned out every vestige of potential dislobby.
Coinciding with reports that the Moslem leaders were now ready to talk peace was the resumption of Algerian terrorist activities in Paris itself.
U. S. Ambassador James Gavin called on De Gaulle last night to relay a message of congratulations from President Kennedy on the collapse of the revolt. Sources described the Kennedy message as "very warm and friendly."
Six Moslem lobbed hand grenades into a north side hotel early today. The grenades failed to explode and the terrorists fled in a car, raking a nearby building with machinegun bullets. No one was injured in either of the attacks. Police said they arrested a suspect.
INFORMED SOURCES said leaders of the rebel Algerian "Provisional" government in Tunis were so impressed at the way De Gaulle crushed the opposition to his Algerian independence program that they were offering to begin peace negotiations between Mav 5 and 10.
Rebel National Liberation Front (FLN) had earlier agreed to sit down with French delegates on April 7 to try and work out an end to the $312-year rebellion. But they backed out at virtually the last moment when the French announced intentions to hold parallel negotiations with a rival Algerian Nationalist movement.
Famous Regiment Faces Disgrace
The Tunis-based leaders of the
ALGIERS — The major surge resulting from the Algiers rebellion signalled the death today of several crack French fighting units, including the Foreign Legion's First Paratroop Regiment, which won glory at Dien Bien Phu.
Announcement of action against the legendary legionnaires coincided with the arrest of five generals and other officers. All were sent to Paris, presumably to face charges of aiding the army uprising.
The units were ordered dissolved as punishment for their support of the four-day insurrection that was crushed by President Charles de Gaulle and forces that remained loyal to him.
All officers of the Foreign Legion's famed First Paratroop Regiment, which made an historic stand at Dien Bien Phu, were ordered to place themselves under arrest, presumably to face military trial.
Curator to Lecture On Baroque Art
The keeper of all paintings in the museum having the greatest collection of art treasures in the world will deliver Humanities Series lecture at 8 p.m., Tuesday - the second in the "hit parade" series of three humanities speakers in three weeks at the University of Kansas.
He is Charles Jacques Sterling, curator of paintings in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. His illustrated lecture on "French 17th Century Baroque Painting" will be given in Fraser Theater. It will be followed by a public reception given in his honor by the Museum of Art in its parlors.
TO ILLUSTRATE the lecture, the distinguished French scholar will show color slides projected by two lanterns to permit effective comparison of the work of various French painters with that of contemporaries in other countries. He chose to speak about baroque painting, he said, because "until now, only French classical art of this period was known in the United States."
During his two-day visit to the KU campus, he will give two illustrated lectures to art history classes and will speak in French about the Louvre and its treasures to students and faculty members in French classes.
His lecture to the class in Baroque Art at 11 am. Wednesday will be about Georges LaTour, a 17th century French baroque painter who faded into oblivion. A half century ago, only three of his pictures were known. Through careful research by Professor Sterling and two other experts, the story of LaTour's career has been reconstructed and his works rediscovered; now about 35 of his paintings are known.
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Seven Answer Ad For Peace Corps
Russian Women Talk Shop
Only seven students have answered the Peace Corps Information advertisement which has been running in the UDK since Tuesday, April 25.
Students desiring detailed information about the Peace Corps may go to the Maupintour Associates Travel Agency at 1236 Mass. and there obtain the "Peace Corps Fact Book" as well as Peace Corps Volunteer Questionnaires. Questionnaires are also available at the Campus Post office in Strong Hall.
The two women are staying in Lewis Hall. Inna Korotkova works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Inga Runova is a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth section of Pravda. Both are married.
MRS. RUNOVA, a brownish redhead, who does not speak English, watched the girls closely. Her brown eyes snapped when she thought she understood what was being said. Mrs. Korotkova would translate the conversation. Mrs. Runova replied with a wave of her hand, a nod of her head or staccato Russian.
Russian women like to be active and take part in social life. They do not like to stay at home.
They had returned from a downtown shopping trip earlier in the evening and were talking about their family to three visitors in their fifth floor room.
The Lewis women were interested
in what the Russians did with their children during working hours and where their husbands worked.
"I DONT HAVE any children." Mrs. Korotkova said. "Inga has a daughter one year old."
She translated for Mrs. Runova:
"My mother or mother's sister takes care of the child. When she is three, I'll take her to kindergarten because she can get good training there."
Mrs. Korotkova said some Russian women put their children in a nursery, but it is not required. She said the children in kindergarten and nursery could stay there all week and be taken home for the weekend or that the mothers could take the children home every night.
SHE SAID that the kindergarteners were for children from three to seven years old and that they were taught verses, music and drawing.
Mrs. Korotkova sat on the bed pinning up her dark brown hair. She laughed as she said that both
women's husbands were television engineers. Her blue eyes twinkled and she said Inga's husband was a set designer while her husband worked in the planning stage.
SHE SAID she did not know exactly what her husband did in his work because she had never been to the plant where he worked.
"Do you have hamburgers and hotdogs in Russia?"
Both women laughed and looked at each other. Mrs. Runova spoke rapidly in Russian and waved her hands. The answer to the question was "yes."
The Lewis Hall women said that they had learned a lot from their guests. "The nursery is not required, the food has more salt and pepper, the vacations are like ours except that Russian workers get paid vacations — with camps for children and resorts where people could go swimming or mountain climbing."
AT 2 P.M. Wednesday, the French scholar will talk to the class in Medieval Art on "The Author of Pieta Avignon Identified." Using slides, he will tell the story of what he says is "one of the greatest and most mysterious masterpieces of European painting of the 15th century."
Professor Sterling is 60 years old and has been on the Louvre Museum staff since 1929, for the last 16 years
Charles Jacques Sterling
as curator of paintings. He received diplomas in law and in arts and literature at the Sorbonne, Paris, and from the Ecole du Louvre, a special school for prospective curators.
In 1942, he joined the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as senior research fellow, and during the next five years he delivered more than 60 lectures in American museums and colleges. He was also a professor in the Free French University of America in New York, and, in 1946 and 1947, was visiting professor in Teachers College, Columbia.
Until 1954, he was foreign adviser in paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lectured in Canada in 1956 and since then has been foreign adviser to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
HE HAS published eight books about paintings, has produced 28 catalogs of art, and has written more than 100 articles published in French, German, British, and American art periodicals.
On his way to Lawrence from a lecture engagement at the Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, he will visit the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City and consult with the museum staff there.
Weather
Generally fair, windy and cooler today. Fair tonight and Saturday. Colder with freezing temperatures likely tonight. Highs today 50s. Lows upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs Saturday 60s.