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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1964
Neutrality Used by Communists As Weapon in Southeast Asia
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Vientiane, which lies along the Mekong River and is the administrative capital of Laos, the Japanese are building a water system designed to give the capital for the first time a water supply which its residents can drink without boiling first.
Airliners take off from an American-built field after passing through a French-built terminal.
A NEW gambling casino operated by Chinese and Vietnamese is an another of the innovations moving in upon gently resisting Laotians who in the main prefer a less complicated life.
But despite these things, and a flood of western educators, economists and agricultural experts sent to help preserve a neutral Laos from Communism, Vientiane remains a sleepy town dedicated to its ancient Buddhist ways.
It is the countryside which provides the real testing ground for the Laotian neutrality agreed upon in Geneva in July, 1962, and which remains as it was before, a cauldron of conflicting interests with the military advantage remaining with the Communists.
U. S. planes take off from the Vientiane field to airdrop supplies to friendly people cut off by the Communist-led Pathet Lao.
COMMUNIST NORTH Viet Nam exports leadership and supplies to the Pathet Lao.
Within the government there remain the divided forces of right, neutral and Communist, including separate military commands.
As Soviet influence wanes, Red Chinese influence grows.
An international control commission set up to enforce neutrality is hamstrug by the intransigence of its Polish member until he makes a sudden about-face. There is speculation that the Pole's about-face is due in part to Poland's fears for the future of U.S.-Polish trade.
Within the torn land there are the trappings of neutrality as seen by trade agreements both the West and with Moscow and Peking.
RIGHT-WING leader Gen. Phoumi Nosavan occasionally hears himself praised by the Moscow, Peking or Hanoi radios.
Job Opportunities Varied For Graduates in Speech
Jobs in industry now being filled by journalists are good positions for people with speech backgrounds, he said.
The fields open to speech majors aside from speech education are numerous, and for the most part unknown to many prospective speech graduates.
Writing speeches, training company employees techniques in good public speaking, personnel interviewing, and management development are some of the specific jobs speech majors find. Prof. Pyron said.
Charles Pyron, assistant professor of speech and drama and director of industrial communications research, discussed the varied professions open to people with speech and communications majors yesterday afternoon at a speech and drama colloquium.
Occasionally, neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma confers with his Red half-brother and Deputy Premier Prince Souphanouvong but agreement stays just out of reach.
To illustrate his statement, Prof. Pyron pointed to personal acquaintances who had graduated with a degree in speech and who now were working with companies such as General Dynamics Corporation.
In business today there is increasing need for the employer to communicate with the employee. Prof. Pyron used examples of firms in which production had gone up due to increased communication between manager and employee.
He also cited the example of the General Electric Company which through extended communication with its employees was able to form a contract which offered more benefits to the employees than the union contract. In this instance the union called a strike protesting the contract, which had been prepared before collective bargaining had begun. The strike failed and the conditions suggested by the management were adopted for the most part.
In the plain of Jars, tactical key to Laos, neutral forces retreat before the Pathet Lao and finally lose the plain altogether. The Communists reinforce their hold upon the Ho Chi Minh trail leading to South Viet Nam and approach to within 15 miles of the Mekong across from Thailand.
Summarizing, Prof. Pyron indicated four areas where research in speech opportunities is in progress. The areas were inter-personal communications, labor-management relations, problems of administering changes, and clear message lines between employee and employer.
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Neutrality has been but another weapon working for the Pathet Lao and the Viet Cong of South Viet Nam who are political brothers. And it has added to the danger of Thailand.
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It is a gloomy picture, emphasizing that for the Communists there are no separate theaters in Southeast Asia. Laos, South Viet Nam and Thailand are one. In Thailand, the death of a strong leader led to a replacement still untested. And in South Viet Nam, a military coup led to a new government still unproved.
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Chemist to Discuss Moon
A University of Chicago nuclear chemist will talk about his experiments for surface analysis of the moon, as the first lecturer in a new series starting at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 124 Malott Hall.
Anthony Turkvich, recipient of a $5,000 E.O. Lawrence award for his applications of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, is one of at least six outstanding scientists who will talk at KU this spring.
The interdisciplinary series is sponsored by funds from a $100,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant to KU this year. The lectures are being coordinated by Prof. James M. Akagi, Professor of microbiology.
Turkvich's talk, which also will be sponsored by the KU section of the American Chemical Society, is titled "Proposed Chemical Analysis of Lunar Surface Using Alpha Particle Interactions."
The Chicago scientist will describe his experiments to establish remote-control techniques for chemical analysis of the monn's surface. He also will discuss the design of instruments for inclusion in the surface rocket scheduled to make a soft
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Dean John S. McNown of the School of Engineering and Architecture, and chairman of the committee administering the NASA grant, said the new series will carry out the grant's over-all purpose to bring together research interests related to space from many scientific disciplines.
"The series will provide a service not only to KU but also to interested persons at Kansas State University, Midwest Research Institute, Washburn University and other institutions in the area," he said. "We expect this activity to stimulate cooperative research at frontiers falling between traditional disciplines."
The $100,000 NASA grant, titled "Interdisciplinary Studies in Space Science and Technology," also is financing 30 research projects in various science fields at KU.
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