SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THILE"E SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Novotny Ousted As Czech Leader Party Elects Dubcek as Secretary; Government Reshuffle Expected LABOR SHORTAGE, CHINESE INFLUENCE: Hanoi Fears Provoke Peace Feeler PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (P) - Soviet-educated Alexander Dubcek emerged on top yesterday night in a dramatic power struggle in the Czechoslovak Communist party that ousted Antonin Novotny as party leader. The switchover, virtually certain to be followed by a major govern- ment reshuffle in the next few days, was announced in a commu- nique at the end of a four day secret party caucus. Novotny, now 63, had risen to the top of the party hierarchy when the country was deep in the grip of Stalinism. He kept his posi- tion of state president, which he had held in dual function. The term ends next year. In what looked like the biggest upheaval since the country came under Communist control 20 years ago, Premier Josef Lenart also was reliably reported to be on his way out. . His successor is likely to be Old- rich Cernick, 44 year old deputy premier and chief of the govern- ment's Central Planning Commis- sion. Termination of Novotny's dual party-state role reduced him to figurehead status in the govern- ment. The official communique said the party's central committee separated the functions "in keep- ing with the initiated process of democratizaiton in the state polit- ical sphere." 'Request' "For these reasons, the plenum approved the request of Comrade Antonin, Novotny, Czechoslovak president, to be relieved of the function of first secretary," the communique added. Dubcek, 46, has headed the Slo- vak wing of the Communist party, the prime force in the campaign to oust Novotny. In a brief speech, the commu- nique said, the newly elected party chief "emphasized the basic Lenin- ist principles of the policy of our party, its unity and loyalty to Marxism Leninism." Underground Dubcek spent most of his youth in the Soviet Union and then re- turned to Czechoslovakia to join the Communist underground in 1939 during the Nazi occupation. He rose through party ranks and in 1963 replaced Karol Bacilek, a staunch Stalinist, in the presidium of the party. Dubcek is a Slovak and charges that Slovakia did not get a fair shake in economic development projects figured in the power struggle. There also was unrest reported among writers, students and officials of the Slovak branch of the party. In'his New Year's address, No- votny declared in the Slovak re- gion "must be accelerated" but the gesture failed to stem the opposi- tion. Alexander Dubcek New Heart Shows No Rejection CAPE TOWN, South Africa (lP- Dr. Christiaan Barnard said yes- terday Dr. Philip Blaiberg may be sent home in about three weeks if his new heart continues to func- tion normally and described his patient as feeling fine. In an optimistic report on his second heart transplant patient, Barnard said the 58-year old re- tired dentist had a steady pulse, stable blood presure and improved liver and kidney functions. "His heart function is normal, the size is normal' and the lungs are clear," Barnard added. A hospital bulletin said Blai- berg's body was free of infection and showed np sign of rejecting the transplanted heart he received Tuesday in history's third human heart transplant. Barnard said once Blaiberg is released he would return to Groote Schuur Hospital for daily exam- inations. Once he goes home, Bar- nard said, "he could not play golf or anything like that but he could walk about in the house and go for rides in a car. Within a few monthes we expect he could go back to normal activity." "We like to discharge heart patients as soon as possible. The chance of infection outside is less than in the hospital and if he does catch an infection it is not likely to be so resistant to drugs as an infection he might catch in the hospital." Associated Press News Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN A severe labor shortage and fear of long range political con- sequences could be an important factor behind cautious peace probes now being attributed to Ho Chi Minh's Communist regime in North Vietnam. At least some in the ruling North Vietnamese Politburo may fear a superabundance of help from Communist China could mean entrenchment of Peking's influence. Sources in Paris with contacts in Hanoi say Communist China has stepped up by five times since last fall the number of coolie la- borers sent into North Vietnam to repair bomb damage to roads, bridges, rail lines and the like. They say there are about 250,- 000 Chinese laborers in North Vietnam, apart from a flood of technicians and advisers in other fields. The stronger the Chinese influ- ence, the less chance there seems to be a negotiated end to the con- flict, at least while the current Maoist regime, pledged to "peo- ple's war," remains in power. The longer the war goes on, the more Chinese there are likely to be in Vietnam, which historically fears China. Low Output Hoc Tap, the theoretical jour- nal, conceded that 90 per cent of labor in North Vietnam is manual, an enormous amount of it in ag- riculture, and that the output is low. "The demand for increasing la- bor output is very decisive," the paper said, "because only by in- creasing labor outputs can we satisfy the present great manpow- er needs of production and com- bat and at the same time strength- en our economic and national de- fense potentials." The party was told to make a total effort to "simultaneously provide labor for production and satisfy the troop replenishment needs of the armed forces under all circumstances; provide enough labor for agriculture to continue to develop it; provide manpower for communications and trans- portation so that operation of this branch may be carried out smoothly; and provide manpower for industries, especially local ones." The rule would be to "save manpower, positively mobilize all sources of manpower especially youth and women in order to sat- isfy the immediate needs of the war." The demands on manpower in North Vietnam must be enormous. Apart from its investment of men in South Vietnam and Laos it-is called upon to maintain supply U.S. Regrets' Hitting Soviet Ships in Port lines by semi-primitive means at a big- cost in manpower. It uses hundreds of thousands to repair damage from American bombing. The needs of agriculture and the circumstances of the war must be acute. Peking Excuse This shortage provides an ex- cuse for Peking to send help from China's vast pool of manpower. However pro-Chinese some ele- ments in the ruling upper stratum in Hanoi may have been in the past, the prospect of an inunda- tion of Chinese manpower is un- likely to be a happy one for the North Vietnamese. It could impel them to weigh the advisability of ending the need of such assist- ance. In Bonn the executive of For- eign Minister Willy Brandt's So- cial Democrat party called yes- terday for an immediate halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam to clear the way for peace nego- tiations. "The executive identifies itself with UN Secretary-General U Thant's proposal calling for an immediate halt of the bombing of North Vietnam to clear the way for peace negotiations," said a communique after a meeting of the party's 33 member ruling com- mittee. "If the bombing were stopped, cease-fire negotiations would fol- low between the parties con- cerned," the communique added. "The Social Democratic party calls on all concerned to show signs that they are ready to start peace negotiations with the other side in the conflict. WASHINGTON (R5-The Unit- ed States voiced regret to Russia yesterday about any U.S. bombing of Soviet ships in Haiphong har- bor. But it said accidents can happen. This was the State Department's preliminary response as Washing- ton began an investigation into Moscow's latest charge of Ameri- can bomber damage to Soviet merchant vessels in North Viet- namese ports. Moscow reported what it called a piratical attack on the 3,726 ton Pereslavl Zalessky during an air raid on Haiphong Thursday. This is because for the first time Moscow indicated it may arm its merchant vesels. "In connection with the situa- tion that is being created," said the note delivered by Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to Secretary of State Dean Rusk Thursday night, "Soviet authorities will be compelled to carry out measures to insure the safety of Soviet ships" going to North Vietnam. Obviously the presence of anti- aircraft weapons on Soviet Mer- chantmen would increase the po- tential for a direct, shooting clash between the vessels and American bombers. Without confirming or denying any U.S. caused damage to the Russian vessel pending an in- quiry, State Department officer Robert J. McCloskey said: "Now if any damage to inter- national shipping in the Haiphong area was the result of ordinance iropped by U.S. aircraft, it was inadvertent and is regretted." Petitioning for Joint Judiciary Council Six Seats Available Pick up petitions at SGC offices in the SAB Petitions Due 5 P.M., Tues., Jan. 16 I Antonin Novotny egro Group Shuns Grant In Detroit DETROIT (')-A militant Negro leader in Detroit announced yes- terday the Negro federation he heads was rejecting a $100,000 ggrant from the Ford Foundation and warned the' city could be ripped by another destructive riot this summer. The announcement was made at a news conference by the Rev. Albert Cleage, Jr., who heads the Federation for Self Determination, a group established to help rebuild Detroit's Negro community ra- vaged by riot last summer. Cleage also said his federation was severing all relations with the New Detroit Committee, a blue ribbon group appointed by Gov. George Romney and Mayor Je- rome Cavanagh to coordinate the city's rehabilitation. An avowed Black Power advo- cate, Cleage said that there will be another riot in Detroit next sum- mer if the white community fails to recognize what he said was the *heed for self determination on the part of the Negro community. The New Detroit Committee dis- closed Thursday that $100,000 in Ford Foundation grants would go to Cleage's federation and to an- other, less militant, Negro group known as. the Detroit Council of Organizations. Cleage told newsmen, "The New Detroit Committee can keep its strings attached money." Viet Cong Propaganda Aims at Negro Soldiers World News Roundup DA NANG, South Vietnam (P)- Viet Cong troops launching rocket attacks on the big Da Nang fight- er base are supplementing them now with propaganda leaflets aimed at Negroes. The first of the leaflets, calling. on "colored American servicemen" to surrender, turned up Christ- mas Day. It was attached to a log float sailed down a river near the base camp of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Marine Regiment. The battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. William J. Davis of Eph- rata, Pa., is based nine miles southwest of the Da Nang air base. Its units patrol throughout Happy Valley, where a Viet Cong rocket regiment poses a threat to the base. The base has been hit with Rus- sian designed rockets six times over the last year, most recently Wednesday. 'Noel' The float picked up Christmas Day, had a wooden cross on it, letters cut out from crepe paper spelling out "Noel," and a North Vietnamese flag designed from crepe paper. Two similar floats were sent down the river. Davis said both of these were booby trapped, but no Marines were hurt since they detected them. The Christmas Day leaflet said in part: "Colored American serv- icemen. Twenty million fellow countrymen of yours in the U.S.A. are being abused, oppress- ed, exploited, manhandled, mur- dered by racist authorities. You don't forgot (sic) the bloody Ala- bama cases, don't (sic) you. 'Misleading You' "Now, they are misleading you. driving you to South Vietnam and using your hands to slaught- er the South Vietnamese people who are struggling for peace, in- dependence, freedom, democracy, national reunification, for equal- ity and friendship between the pe'oples all over the world. "Is it conceivable that you re- sign yourselves to help the U.S. aggressors, the common enemies of colored Americans and Viet- namese people, in murdering your Vietnamese brothers for U.S. monopolists capitalists sake? "Resolutely oppose to your be- ing sent to the battlefront . . . if forced to join the battle." "There is no reaction at all" to the leaflets, said one Negro soldier. "There is nothing we can do except keep fighting. It is making us fight much harder." TONIGHT and TOMORROW CINEMA 11 PRESENTS SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER'S "A ILET" with JEAN SIMMONS and BASIL SYDNEY Also: "FLASH GORDON" By The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India-U.S. Am- bassador Chester Bowles and his five member team leave Monday for Cambodia and talks with Prince Norodom Sihanouk about the use of Cambodia as a sanctu- ary by Communist troops fighting in Vietnam, a Bowles spokesman said yesterday. The party will fly from New Delhi to Bangkok on a commer- cial airline and then transfer to a U.S. military plane for the flight to Phnom Penh, he said. Accompanying Bowles on the mission will be Philip Habib and Douglas R. Perry from Washing- ton. Habib is deputy assistant sec- retary for east Asian and Pacific affairs and Perry is a Cambodian desk officer. * * * LANSING --An advisory com- mittee to Gov. George Romney on public relations has reaffirmed its contention that public employes should have the right to organize and bargain collectively but not to strike. 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