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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 23. 1961
Nikita Toys With Communists in Iraq
By United Press International
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Perhaps no better sample of Nikita Khrushevis than those of coexistence at work can be seen than in his treatment of Iraq.
For at the core of his theory is his belief, for which he draws support from Lenin, that middle class leaders only play an important role in the early stages of nationalist movements and must inevitably be replaced later by Communist leadership emerging from the dissatisfied masses below.
SO, THE APPARENT conflict in Communist strategy in Iraq is because of the comparatively early stages of revolution.
Thus, the Communist newspaper Literary Gazette in Moscow, may, as it did, bitterly attack Iraqi Premier Abdul Kassem for death sentences handed a group of Communists by an Iraqi military court.
State Theaters To Organize
Representatives from 12 community theater groups in the state will meet on campus Saturday in an attempt to form an official state organization to be called the Kansas Community Theater Conference.
Tom P. Rea, instructor of speech and drama, stimulated the organization with the publication of his newsletter, "Community Call Board," that he started sending to groups over the state two years ago in an effort to coordinate community theater activities.
"The formation of such a group would be of benefit not only to the community theaters themselves, but to the University too.
"KU's graduate student directorship program, which provides graduate theater students with the opportunity to actually direct productions, is worked out in cooperation with Kansas community theaters who request these students as directors for one play." Rea said.
He pointed out that another advantage of the proposed organization would be its affiliations of membership with the American Community Theater Organization which is a part of the American Educational Theater Assn.
At the same time, Khrushchev may, as he has, approve huge Soviet loans to Iraq and send in Polish and Czechoslovak advisers to assist the Kassem government in an expensive five-year program to double the amount of land under irrigation.
Soviet and Czech aid will account for $190 million of the cost.
AS KASSEM has walked the tight rope of Iraq and Middle East politics, his relations with the Soviet Union and the Communist Party inside Iraq have been of special interest.
From the date of the Iraqi revolution on July 14, 1953, until May 23, 1959, the Communist party operated with such freedom and influence both in and out of the government that predictions freely were made that Iraq soon would be wholly within the Soviet orbit.
In March, 1959, the Mosul Revolt occurred which the Kassem government blamed on President Abdul Gamal Nasser of the UAR and which was followed by a massive Communist-led purge in which as many as 15,000 persons were arrested.
IN APRIL, the Communists demanded a place in a "popular front" government and arms for their "popular resistance" forces.
Then, in May, Kassam for the first time rebuked the Communists and warned them against obstructing the course of the revolution.
From then on, Communist fortunes inside Iraq followed a downward course.
Kassem placed several Communist army officers under house arrest, ordered the Communist-dominated people's resistance movement under army control and fired his pro-Communist minister of agrarian reform.
FINALLY, REPORTEDLY on orders from Khrushevhely himself, the Iraqi Communist Party abjectly condemned itself for "criminal acts, emotionalism and miscalculations."
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Law School to Hold Assembly Tomorrow
A panel on "The Importance of Belonging to the Bar," will be featured at the Law School Convocation at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Court Room, Green Hall. Attorneys Frank C. Sabatine, Topeka, and Gerald Cooley, Lawrence, will be on the panel.
International Club Sponsors Tour
Foreign and American students will tour through the South during spring vacation. International Club is sponsoring the vacation trip to New Orleans.
Dave Roberts, Wichita senior, said that some seats are still empty in the chartered 33-passenger bus. He added that the trip is not limited to students but anyone interested is welcome to go.
Community Theater Plan Aids Graduate Students
The deadline for registration is tomorrow. People can register at the International Club office in the Kansas Union or call Dave Roberts at VI 3-7415. The trip costs $60.
Sidney Berger, Brooklyn, N. Y.
graduate student, is the seventh student to take part in a community theater directorship program.
Tom Rea, instructor in speech and drama, called it the "most unique opportunity of its kind offered by an academic institution. No other college or university in the country is doing so much to shorten the gap between the community and academic theater."
THE PROGRAM, sponsored by the University Theatre and the University Extension, offers the graduate student in theater a realistic training ground for the responsibility of directing a production in a community outside the academic framework.
Community theaters throughout the state can apply for a student director to aid them in one production. In return for the student's services, for which he receives no pay, the community provides a place for the student to stay during the 4-6 week period he will spend in directing the play.
Berger is now at the Colby Community Theater in charge of "My 3 Angels," which will be presented April 14-15. He chose the play from three offered by the local theater group.
Other communities taking advantage of the student directorship program since its beginning two years ago have been Ottawa, El Dorado and Coffeyville.
"The program helps to build a stronger community theater, rounds out the student's total theater experience and provides an excellent training ground for students who might become interested in professional community theater work.
"SOME STUDENTS who haven't considered this type of work professionally have changed their minds after participating in this program," Mr. Rea said.
Although participating is not an academic requirement for a degree in theater, it is "strongly urged." "It's prime offer is experience," Mr. Rea said.
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