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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 21, 1961
Laotian Prince Offers Position To Lao Rebels
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI)
Prince Boun Oum said today he would be willing to step down as premier of the Vientiane government if it would bring peace to war-ravaged Laos.
In answer to a written questionnaire, the silvery-haired Laotian premier said he was considering granting free passage to Communist-backed Pathet Lao leaders to attend next week's royal funeral for the late King Sisavang Vong.
The prince also said his government would be willing to seat Pathet Lao rebels in a new government if they would give up their ties with the Communist bloc.
"The royal government wishes that all Lao citizens could meet in Luang Prabang to give their last homage to his majesty, Sisavang Vong."
BOUN OUM SAID the government was "ready to assist all Lao personalities . . . to accomplish their duty as faithful subjects of our late, great monarch and the royal family.
Both the "Red prince" Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao guerrillas who are trying to overthrow the pro-western government, and his half-brother, former Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma are thousands of miles away. Their absence from the funeral rites would be considered by most Laotians as political suicide.
(The East-West peace plan for Laos appeared to be shaping up into a 14-nation conference at Geneva, possibly to be convened May 5.
(In Moscow, British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts emerged from a 65-minute meeting at the Soviet foreign ministry today and said he expected a cease-fire agreement on Laos "soon.")
Zone D Closed
GENEVA, Switzerland — The nuclear test ban conference was jeopardized today by a Soviet demand that the West feels would block effective policing of a treaty.
Test Ban Talks Break Down
Zone D will be closed and remain closed until tomorrow noon for the Engineering Exposition. The parking permits for Zone D will allow holders to park in other zones. The only zone where they may not park is Zone H.
United Press International
The dispute is over who should run a control system to police a nuclear test ban treaty. The answer could set a precedent for the control system of any disarmament agreement.
The Western view is that a control system should be headed by a single, neutral administrator, while the Soviets want it headed by a three-man directorate with a built-in veto.
The single administrator would call on-the-spot inspections to control suspicious underground rumblings. He would dispatch special aircraft to sample radio-activity in the air.
But the Soviets, disgruntled by the actions of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, want the three-man committee to be in control. The proposal is similar to what the Russians proposed at the United Nations to replace the single U.N. chief.
The committee would represent the West, Communists and neutral nations and would act by "mutual consent," which would virtually give the Soviets a veto if they withheld consent.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.-Bishop Richard Cumberland
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — Dr. Hubertus Strughold, foremost medical doctor among U.S. Air Force space scientists, has a prescription for astronauts:
By Carlton Wilson United Press International
"Make the trip as short as possible by developing more effective propulsion methods."
The German pioneer space doctor believes the time factor to be one of the most critical in manned flights.
"THEE ARE definite limitations on space travel from the viewpoint of the physician," Dr. Strughold said.
Ten years of theoretical and experimental studies in space medicine Dr. Strughold to advise scientists that the eight months required for a low energy orbit trip to Mars might be too long.
"Time problems arise mainly from the necessity to recycle the total environment and from the psychophysiological nature of the human creatures," he said.
Dr. Strughold explained that the oxygen and water supply would have to be replenished by plants and reconversion of body wastes, but that could only be done for a limited time.
Short, Fast Space Trip Best
On the other hand, higher speeds would increase the impact of cosmic rays on the space vehicle and the ship might run into a self-produced "disintegration barrier."
Once a compromise speed is worked out between doctors and rocket experts, Dr. Strughold predicts a "modest goal" of trips to the moon, Mars and Venus.
"The rapid development of rocketry in the past 10 years has given a tremendous impetus to the problem of life on other worlds" he said.
UPON ARRIVING, travelers will need to know what if any life to expect. Dr. Strughold also is studying the field of astrobiology, "a fruitful combination of astronomy and biology."
Dr. Strughold has already zoned the planetary system by climate and
presence of water, carbon dioxide and oxygen needed for the type of growth found on earth.
Temperature studies, for example, place Venus in the hot. Mars in the cold border zone and Earth in the "golden middle of the biotemperature belt," he said.
Liquid water may be found in the belt on Earth, Mars and Venus, according to other scientists. That is the same area in which ultraviolet light from the sun might be expected to produce growth, Dr. Strughold added.
BUT THE RANGE of the planetary system where Dr. Strughold expects life is only four per cent of the area from the sun to Pluto, the most distant planet.
Only Mars and Venus, besides Earth, are believed habitable, said Dr. Strughold, who explained that dense clouds of what may be carbon dioxide crystals wrap Venus in mystery.
Dr. Strughold has written a book on the possibility of life on Mars, which he calls "The Green and Red Planet." The climate there could, on the surface, "support only very hardy and cold-resistant organisms according to Earth standards," he said.
"But the question of life on Mars is presently in a lively flux of theoretical, observational and experimental studies," he added. "It might be that the final answer will not be available until the first astronaut sets his foot on that planet."
STRAC Exhibit Shows Weapons Development
The Strategic Army Corps, a group of units within the regular U. S. Army trained and ready to fight the sudden brush-fire wars Washington defense chiefs envision as an instrument of Soviet global strategy, is on display today and tomorrow in an exhibit in the Kansas Union.
The exhibit is designed to show STRAC's ability to cope with small limited conflicts as well as all-out atomic war. It forecasts weapons that may be used in 1975.
The exhibit traces the development of weapons from man's earliest attempts to defend himself in the Stone Age to future atomic-electronic-missile weapons.
The exhibit, prepared by the Army's Chief of Information, attempts to inform the American public on the army's present and future military problems. It explains the concept behind the Strategic Army Corps. It emphasizes the modern Army's requirements for "far-ranging mobility, long-ranging firepower and the wide-ranging communications necessary to achieve victory on the atomic battlefield."
A three-dimensional sequence theatre and a motion picture will supplement the models of the weapons The pictures show modern Army soldiers using new weapons in actual field maneuvers.
The exhibit also includes a tribute to the teams of military and civilian scientists, soldiers and civilian industrial leaders who have assisted the Army in its complex defense problems.
Army information specialists will attend the exhibit to answer questions about the display.
AUTHOR
He sowed his ten or dozen things a year,
Fertilized them with his friends and foes,
Plowed under two wives and several children
And raised this "minor classic of prose."
— Arvid Shulenberger
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