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Reform Needed For AFP Success
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A speech by the administrator of President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress (AFP) needs more exposure than it got last week. And, most urgently, it needs more exposure in Latin America, as much exposure as it can get.
AFP is the administration's $1 billion four-year project to improve social, economic and political conditions in Latin America. This is a starter on a $20 billion project. The administrator is Teodoro Moscoso. Moscoso spoke at the National Press Club. Between the lines of his speech could be read Moscoso's and Kennedy's anxiety about AFP.
THIS ANXIETY reflects U.S. fear that Latin American countries will not undertake the land, tax and other reforms essential to permit AFP to function. Congress will consider the $3 billion AFP authorization bill next month. Assurance of the good faith of Latin American nations will be demanded by powerful legislators. Failure of such assurance could kill, delay or substantially diminish the project.
Rep. Otto Passman, D-La., is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee which will have jurisdiction over the $3 billion appropriation if Congress first authorizes the sum. Passman told the House this week that AFP was doomed to fail unless the United States insists that the receiving nations firmly undertake the tax and land reforms stipulated and agreed upon.
That is just what Moscoso seemed to be talking about last week. He said all Latin American countries signing the AFP charter had obligated themselves to undertake necessary actions, including land reform and more equitable tax structures. Passman claims the Latin Americans are welcoming on that. Moscoso seemed to have similar fears.
"WE HAVE. THE job." Moscoso said, "of making sure that it (AFP) is not derailed by extreme right wing elements who oppose social reforms — reforms which they fear would mean the end of their privilege and riches. However, the objective of AFP is not to redistribute the shares of an existing pie. It is to redistribute the shares of a rapidly-growing pie.
"The rich need not get poorer as the pie grows, but the poor must certainly become richer. The members of the traditional ruling class who support the AFP and its objectives have nothing to fear.
Ole Miss to Teach State Flag Pledge
JACKSON, Miss — (UPI) — The House passed a bill yesterday requiring that the state's public school children be taught a pledge of allegiance to the Mississippi flag along with a similar pledge to the American flag.
The proposed pledge states that "I salute the flag of Mississippi with pride in her history and achievements and with confidence in her future under the guidance of Almighty God."
"But those who try to frustrate the AFP have a great deal to fear— not from the United States but from their own people."
IN SUCH LANGUAGE Moscoso tried to reassure the wealthy land owners and other rich elements of Latin America that the proposed reforms will cost them nothing. And in the same language he sought to warn the rich that they must reform or risk political upheaval.
The political upheaval indicated is a communist take-over in some Latin American countries. It could happen there. If it happened there the United States would become increasingly isolated. And it might happen here.
Every U.S. family has an urgent stake in what the wealthy Latin Americans do about the land and tax reforms now demanded of them.
The Kennedy administration is trying to get to those ruling classes the word that they may lose their heads as well as their money if the Alliance for Progress opportunity is lost.
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Gallery Visit Planned
IDs or $1.00
Saturday, February 24
SUA will sponsor a bus trip to the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City tomorrow to see a new display on primitive art. The bus will leave the Kansas Union at 1 p.m. and return to KU at 5 p.m. Tickets will be sold at $1 until the bus leaves. The trip through the Gallery is free.
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DURHAM, N. C. — (UPI) — A scientist has been teaching a physics class for the last three years at Southern High School here—without pay.
"Nation's Schools," a journal for educators, reports on the contribution made by Sherwood Githens Jr. deputy chief scientist, Army Research Office, Durham. Lack of equipment for experiments didn't bother Githens. He borrowed enough from Duke University and transported it to the high school.
Peace Talks Start Today
VIENTIANE — (UPI) — Laotian neutralist leader Prince Souvanna Phouma arrived today for peace talks aimed at formation of a "government of national union."
THE ROYAL government has been waging a sporadic civil war with Souvanna's neutralists and the proCommunist Pathet Lao rebels for more than a year.
Souwanna, Premier "designate" of a proposed coalition government, was welcomed by Royal government Defense Minister Gen. Phuou Nosovan.
Phoumi and Souvanna agreed last weekend in talks at Luang Prabang to seek in Vientiane a final solution on welding the three rival factions into a coalition government headed by Souvanna.
"My trip here is a continuation of my trip to Luang Prabang," Souvanna said in a brief statement at the airport.
"I HOPE THE exchange of views at Luang Prabang will now reach tangible results for the formation of a government of national unity and I hope this will take place rapidly, for the welfare of Laos."
Souvanna's position has the apparent support of the U.S. State Department, which is holding up its February aid check to the right-wing government until it is satisfied that such "tangible results" are in sight.
The peace talks are expected to center around possession of the vital defense and interior ministries, claimed by both Souvanna's neutralists and Boun Oum's right-wingers.
Mudroch to Read Poetry
Vaclav Mudroch, assistant professor of history, will read Medieval poetry at the Poetry Hour tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Music Room of the Kansas Union.
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