SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 'PALM i! 10,54211 V rAULTHIM 5 Algeria's Political Juggling Irritates Communists By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH ALGIERS (P)-The Algerian re- gime of Col. Couari Boumedienne has taken a sharp anti-Commun- ist turn at home while trying hard to build up friendly relations with the Soviet bloc and the West. This political juggling act has brought the wrath of Soviet edi- torial writers and the French Communist party down on the colonel's head and is seriously, threatening the African-Asian summit conference scheduled to open here Nov. 5. Some 30 French Communists and an unknown number of Al- gerian leftists are in jail, ac- cused of plotting against the Boumedienne regime. The Soviet Communist party Smith newspaper Pravda thundered against the recent arrests and the Paris Communist paper L'- Humanite denounced Boumedien- ne as a fascist dictator. Algerian officials tend to shrug off these attacks as meaningless propaganda and point out that Moscow has shown no signs of slowing down its military or eco- nomic aid to Algeria.. L'Humanite is banned in Al- geria; the Algiers Communist paper Alger Republican has been suppressed and most of its edi- tors are in jail. Yet officials pro- test that the regime is not against communism-only against "Com- munist interference in our domes- tic affairs." In the West there is a new confidence in Algeria that is be- ginning to pay dividends. For the first time since French rule ended in 1962, private in- terests-mostly French-are tim- idly investing in Algerian industry. Planes from France are filled with European businessmen and technicians displaying a new faith in Algeria's future. Shops are filled with sophisti- cated consumer goods and West- ern diplomats are talking of a possible substantial increase in economic aid. However, in the nearly four months since Ahmed Ben Bella was ousted from the presidency, little has been done to end the mismanagement that provided a main pretext for Ben Bella's re- moval. A few private businesses seized under the Ben Bella regime have been returned to their French or Algerian owners with the official explanation that seizure was an administrative error. But the bulk of Algerian in- dustry and virtually all agricul- ture remain under often chaotic state control. Employes of state enterprises and workers on the self-managed farms may go for months without being paid. Labor unrest is increasing while the re- gime tries to purge the labor unions of leaders suspected of Ben Bella sympathies. One official said strikes or- ganized to embarrass the govern- ment will not be tolerated. When asked why some workers had .not been paid, he replied: "That is the price we are paying for Ben Bella's misrule." Many ministries have barely resumed functioning since the pre- dawn military coup of June 19 brought Boumedienne to power. The new ministers, many of them keen and able men, have had no time to reorganize their depart- ments or clean up the chaos they say was left by Ben Bella. For more than three months, most ministers have been travel- ing about trying to drum up sup- port for the summit conference originally scheduled to open June 29. It was to be the first African- Asian summit since the historic 1955 meeting at Bandung, Indo- nesia. In the confusion, rioting and sabotage that followed the June coup in Algiers, the leading Afri- can-Asian governments decided conditions were too unstable to go ahead with the meeting then. The beautiful new conference hall is at last completed and ready, but Algerian officials are becoming doubtful that the meet- ing will really take place. At first, Boumedienne staked all his and Algeria's prestige on the gathering, which was to es- tablish the nation as a top leader of the African-Asian world. The growing divisions within the group gradually cooled the enthusiasm and raised fears that failure of the meeting-far from enhancing Algeria's prestige- could do it crippling damage. Red China's Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi made a remark at a Sept. 29 Peking news con- ference that hit Algerian officials like an icy blast. The Chinese-prime movers be- hind the conference-will de- nounce and condemn American imperialism, Chen Yi was report- ed as saying. This was not at all Boumedi- enne's idea of the conference. The government press and radio continue to sympathize with the Viet Cong rebels in South Viet Nam but no longer is this posture allowed to cloud Algeria's desire for friendly relations with the United States. Nor does Boumedienne's regime -like many other African-Asian governments receiving substantial American aid-feel inclined to bite the hand that feeds it. Algeria also fears that the con- ference may turn into a noisy Chinese-Soviet slugging match, whether or not the Chinese can prevent seating of the Soviet Un- ion. The India-Pakistan war, the re- volt in Indonesia, the Indonesian- Malaysian quarrel, Pakistan's break with Malaysia, and the con- tinuing squabbles between Ghana and its French-speaking African neighbors have cast doubt on the advisability of an African-Asian solidarity conference now. Officially, Algeria is determined to go ahead with it. Privately, officials are having s e c o n d thoughts and would be relieved if the whole summit could be swept under the rug. _ , ____ Expects Rhodesia To Declare Independence MONDAY, OCT. 11 Teology & he Literary Imagination" 7:30 P.M.-Multipurpose Room, UGLI LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia said yes- terday he believes his nation soon will declare itself independent from Britain-now that negotia- tions in London have collapsed. "If we have to get out of our country," he told a news confer- ence, "then we would rather go out fighting than crawling on our knees." A white minority governs Rho- desia. The British maintain that a declaration of independence by the Rhodesian government would amount to treason against the crown. And further the British be- lieve such a step could plunge a wide section of Africa into con- fusion and strife. Smith gave a lengthy review of the position of the Rhodesian gov- ernment. He first read a state- ment maintaining that he had tried to compromise with Britain on terms for independence, but Britain had refused to budge. Then reporters asked him about independence. "I just don't think it will take us very long to reach a decision on this," Smith replied. "As you know we have given this a tre- mendous amount of study. I think we have made up our minds al- ready. I will be going back home for a final decision on this, and I do not believe it will take long. "As for any alternative, quite frankly if we are to preserve our Christian Western civilization in Rhodesia, there is no alternative to independence. If we cannot ob- tain independence by negotiation, then I do not know of any other alternative." Talks between Smith and Prime Minister Harold Wilson collapsed Friday, with Smith insisting that Rhodesia b e c o m e independent without further delay. INDONESIAN ARMY ON THE PROWL: Radio Malaysia Re ports Anti-Red Push Spreading Wilson demanded that inde- pendence be held off until the white minority takes steps to en- sure eventual rule by the colony's 3.9-million black African majority. Smith, leader of the 250,000 white Rhodesians, seemed ready to defy Britain and declare inde- pendence unilaterally. But some observers said he might avoid any immediate declaration of inde- pendence until he returns to Rho- desia and consults his Cabinet. If Rhodesia breaks away, its Africans are expected to recat vio- lently, feeling they have lost their last hope of ever attaining ma- jority rule. Observers also fear a violent reaction against whites elsewhere in Africa. At the United Nations in New York, the United States warned "concrete action" to oppose a Rhodesian breakaway. The United States has said it would not rec- ognize a whitepgovernment that took such a step. There has been talk in the United Nations of organizing a Congo - type international f o r c e aimed at installing a new regime in Rhodesia. British sources said the govern- ment has made it clear to Smith it would not oppose U.N. action connected with Rhodesia. Wilson warned Smith that Bri- tain and other Commonwealth na- tions plan diplomatic and eco- nomic sanctions to isolate Rho- desia if it breaks away. Observers said Britain also probably would fly troops to neighboring Zambia -formerly Northern Rhodesia-to guard against violence in that na- tion, now ruled by Africans. In Salisbury, capital of Rhode- sia, whites expressed dismay but showed little surprise when they learned of the breakdown of talks in London. "Well, that's that,"' said a white railway worker. "We're on our own." The immediate reaction of the Negro majority was not known, but it's an open secret that most informed Africans expect trouble. WILLIAM F. LYNCH, S.J. BACK TO WORK Looking remarkably fit for a man who recently underwent major abdominal surgery, President Johnson poses for photographers at the U.S. Naval Hospital in suburban Bethesda, Md. Johnson spent a typically active day yesterday, signing 13 bills into law and taking several short strolls around the hospital. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (T) -Radio Malayisa said yesterday the Indonesian army's anti-Com- munist campaign is spreading from Java, showing up in both the Celebes to the east and Sumatra to the west. Prime Minister Abdul Rahman of Malaysia, harassed economical- ly and militarily for months by its big island neighbor, suggested in a speech that Indonesian Presi- dent Sukarno will lose a golden opportunity if he fails to oust the Communists now. "As if in answer to our prayers, the Indonesian people have now realized that the real enemy of Indonesia is not western imper- ialists or Malaysia, but rather the Communist imperialists w h o s e plan is to dominate Southeast Asia." T h e Malaysian government radio account said Moslems and the National party in the Celebes, following the lead of Jakarta dem- onstrators, demanded that the In- donesian Communist party-PKI -and its affiliates be banned as an aftermath of the uprising. The broadcast also told of side- lights from the abortive leftist coup last weekend: 0 Geni. Abdul Hanis Nasution, the defense minister and armed forces chief, has taken direct charge for the time being of In- donesia's official news agency An- tara. The army suspended the agency's operations a week ago on the ground it was infiltrated by Communists. * Government forces uncover- ed a rebel cache of 234 rifles near the Halim air base on Jakarta's outskirts, where a common grave previously yielded the mutilated bodies of six army generals. l *A seventh general, Brig. Gen. Samusi of the national police, was another victim of the rebellion. Reporting on a previously undis- closed incident, the radio said he was killed saving the life of Dep- uty Premier Johannes Leimena Oct. 1. The PKI, whose Jakarta head- quarters were burned by a youth- ful mob Friday, has denied it was involved and called the plot "an internal affair of the army." Sukarno has given no sign that he intends to turn against his Red friends, whose support he has wel- comed and encouraged in the past. He has urged that there be no revenge. Two demonstrations were re- ported in Sumatra, rich in oil and rubber, which is second in size only to Borneo among Indonesia's islands. The Malaysian station said workers seized a Communist- control union headquarters. Sukarno expressed disapproval of the anti-Communist campaign at a cabinet meeting last Wednes- day at his summer palace at Bo- gor, 40 miles south of Jakarta. Armed Forces Chief Abdul Haris Nasution boycotted the meeting. The Tokyo newspapers Asahi Shimbun published a report by a Japanese correspondent who said he was "shocked" by the number of weapons owned by Communists In Java. He said local Reds virtually con- firmed reports that Communist Chinese ships were secretly un- loading small arms at fishing re- ports for distribution to PKI members. Communist North Viet Nam ac- cused the United States of "seek- ing to whip up an anti-Communist campaign in Indonesia." Radio Hanoi quoted North Viet- namese newspaper reports that in recent months "the reactionary forces in Indonesia, encouraged by the U.S. imperialists, plotted a coup d'etat to oppose President Sukarno and Indonesia's republi- can regime." ORGANIZATION NOTICES USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to official- ly recognized and registered student organizations only. Forms are avail- able in Room 1011 SAB. Guild House, Monday noon luncheon; Prof. Inis Claude, Dept. of Political Science, "Is the UN Peace Machinery Breaking Down?", Oct. 11, 12-1 p.m.; Tues., Oct. 12, 7-8:30 p.m., seminar on "Existentialism," Guild House, 802 Mon- roe. La Sociedad Hispanica, Tertulia, lunes el 18 de octubre, 3-5 p.m., 3050 Frieze Safe y concersacion. vengan todos. * *~ * Lutheran Student Chapel, Worship services at 9:30 and it a.m., Program with David Peterling, Grad student- "God the Creator-or Is DNA the Se- cret of life?" at 7 p.m., Sun., Oct. 10, Hill St. at Forest Ave. Newman Student Association, Inter- national dinner, Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m., 331 Thompson. University Lutheran Chapel, Sun- day morning services at 9:45 and 11:15 a.m., Oct. 10, Pastor Alfred T. Scheips, speaker. All welcome, 1511 Washtenaw. South Quad Quadrants, Homecom - ing meeting, Oct. 10, South Quad Council Room.. CAREER PLANNING VOCATIONAL APTITUDE TESTING COUNSELING ANN ARBOR COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE 321 SOUTH MAIN ST, Suite 213, Whitker Building Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 665-3635 665-7902 By Appointment -author of Christ and Apollo; The Integrating Mind; The Image Industries: An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Plato through the ,Parmenides; Images of Hope. -drama director: "Oedipus Rex," "The Ecumenides," "The Clouds," "The Aulularia,/ Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," and "Everyman." -former reporter for New York Herald Tribune; editor of Thought (national quarterly); doctoral studies in classics, Fordham University; fellowship at Princeton; Co-director of Georgetown University Honors Program. -presently Visiting Professor of Religion at Carleton College, Minn. and faculty member, St. Peter's College, New Jersey. This University Lecture is the 3rd in the fal lecture series sponsored by The Office of Religious Affairs, The University of Michigan. ALL STUDENTS, FACULTY & STAFF WELCOME READ Ii THE DAILY World News Roundup By The Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (/P)-In- tegrationist Bayard Rustin will speakaat the University of Mary- land as scheduled next week, but only to members of the Law En- forcement Institute. The public and the press have been barred from the two-day meeting because, said a university official Friday, "it was felt it would detract from the purpose of the program." , Rustin, a leader in'the intergra- tionist movement and a director of the 1963 march on Washington, was invited to speak at the law enforcement seminar because of his firsthand knowledge in dealing with demonstrations. * * * NEW YORK--New York City's idled newspapers began returning to print yesterday following tenta- tive settlement of a 24-day strike- shutdown. The Times, focal point of the labor dispute, remained off the newsstands, however. Its return awaited rank-and-file acceptance of the contract approved by ne- gotiators for the AFL-CIO New York Newspaper Guild. The Guild's 2,200 members in the Times' editorial, advertising, business and building services de- partments struck Sept. 16. In addition to the Times, News, Long Island Press and Journal- American, the dispute idled the World-Telegram and Sun and the Long Island Star-Journal. . . .* VIET NAM-Viet Cong guerril- las ambushed a 20-truck trans- port company of the U.S. 1st In- frantry Division about 40 miles north of Saigon Friday night. A military spokesman said the Americans sufferedamoderate cas- ualties before fighting their way out of the trap. As if in response, eight U.S. Air Force jets pounced before dawn on a North Vetnamese convoy of more than 30 trucks on a coastal highway 160 miles north of the border. The spokesman said they destroyed 11 trucks and dam- aged 21. Read Daily C lassifieds T d a s i .C li _1 PROF. RICHARD L. 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