Wednesday. May 20.1964 University Daily Kansan
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By Phil Newsom
U.S. Increases Its Aid To Rebel Communists
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In the United States-Romanian trade talks now underway in Washington, the Romanians have let it be known specifically that they are interested in buying a complete synthetic rubber plant and equipment for their petro-chemical industry.
Less specific has been the interest of both sides in reaching, further, more far-reaching agreement on the political and cultural level, including closer diplomatic relations.
From the United States' standpoint, it is part of a continuing program to break down the once-closest-knit structure of world communism and to take advantage of rising nationalism within the Soviet bloc expressing itself in increasing independence of Moscow.
A PROGRAM OF economic aid to Yugoslavia helped the Tito regime to survive after Tito's excommunication by Stalin in 1948.
Although some evidences of mounting Romanian dissatisfaction with Moscow's dictatorship were apparent as long as four years ago, they have become the most obvious within the last year or so.
Eight years ago similar aid was extended to Poland after Wladislaum Gomulka's defiance of Khrushchev in 1956.
Internally, the Romanians abolished the Russian-language institute and the Russian language as required teaching in Romanian schools.
OUTWARDLY, THE signs were even more visible.
A year ago in June, Romanian President Gheorghi-Dej was conspicuously absent from a Communist bloc summit meeting in East Berlin to discuss Soviet-Chinese differences.
Romania restored diplomatic relations with Albania, ostracized by the Soviet Union for its support of Red China.
Romanian newspapers began publishing both sides of the dispute.
In late April, a Romanian Communist party statement, in effect, told both the Chinese and the Soviets to clean their houses and flatly declared for the independence of every Communist party and country to manage its own affairs.
THESE WERE SOME of the evidences for which the United States waited before initiating moves which could place Romania in the
same category as Poland and Yugoslavia and perhaps set off a chain reaction of negotiations with others among the satellites.
Perhaps the greatest sign of Romanian independence of Moscow was its refusal to cooperate with "Comecon," the Moscow-sponsored organization which was to link Communist economies, assigning to each those goods which they could produce the best and cheapest and which would have relegated Romania primarily to a position as supplier of raw materials.
Romania is rich in oil, natural gas, coal, iron, manganese, bauxite, salt, wood and agricultural produce and she resists the status of backward country.
Against Khrushchev's wishes she pressed ahead with the huge Galati steel mill, part of which is being built with the aid of western concerns. Last year she signed with Yugoslavia an agreement for joint construction of an $800 million hydro-electric and navigation project at the Danube river's iron gate.
For this show of independence, the United States now is considering a reward.
Cellist to Perform KU Senior Recital
The KU School of Fine Arts will present Jane Yust, cellist, in recital at 8:00 p.m. Thursday in Swarthout Recital hall.
Miss Yust, Wichita senior, attended the University of Arkansas where she studied with Robert Collins. In the summer of 1963 she was granted a full scholarship to Tanglewood.
She is a student of Prof. Raymond Stuhl.
For her program she has selected "Concerto in C Minor" by J. C. Bach, "Sonata, Op. 5, No. 2" by Beethoven, and "Sonata, Op. 40" by Shostakovich.
Jan Chiapusso, professor emeritus of piano, will be the assisting pianist.
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Students, according to Herbert J. Ellison, chairman of the Slavic and Soviet area studies at KU, are to be in good standing in an accredited college or university. He said that scholarships are based on academic achievement and financial need.
The program will begin June 8 and run until August 14 and will be located in Ellsworth Hall. It is sponsored by the universities of Kansas and Colorado with the aid of a grant from the National Defense Education Act.
Scholarship funds are still available for qualified students who wish to study in the ten-week intensive summer Russian and Polish program at KU.
Prof. Ellison said about 60 to 70 students are expected to participate in the program.
Prof. Ellison said applications have been received from as far away as New York and North Carolina.
Sixteen teachers will participate in the program, ten from the University of Colorado and six from KU.
The program is in its second year. It alternates between KU and the University of Colorado.
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Courses to be offered and the college credit to be given for each are beginning Polish or Russian (10)
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Area courses to be offered are: history of central Europe with an emphasis on Poland, taught by S. Harrison Thomson, director of the center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Colorado and director of the KU summer language program; and imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, which will be taught by Prof. Ellison.
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