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Cuban Farm abor Shortage Threat to Eci
onom
HAVANA tom)-The annual mass
mobilizations of "volunteer" cut-
ters for the sugar crop are cre-
ating havoc in other industries.
Some of the government's junior
officials and administrators com-
plain privately that they can't ac-
complish their tasks and meet pro-
duction quotas with the manpower
remaining.
They say the recruiting drives,
taking tens of thousands of ex-
perienced workers from their jobs
to cut cane for several months
a year, often produce serious fi-
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nancial consequences for tne coun-
try.
Along with production head-
aches these officials complain
about the vast amount of bureau-
cracy in ministries and govern-
ment "empresas," enterprises rang-
ing from small factories to com-
plex organisms with thousands of
employes.
These lower-level officials can't
do anything about the situation.
To protest or criticize actions being;
carried out by the Communist
party could be disastrous for them.
"La zafra," the harvest, comes
above all else in today's Cuba.
Some of these administrators
shake their heads and go along
with party dictates to send half
or three-fourths of their staffs
into the fields for three, four
or five months a year.
Many prefer to go off to the
harvest themselves because they
know they will be held accountable
for undimnished production with
skeleton staffs, sometimes aug-
They leave behind less capable
subordinates to carry on as best
they can.
"Let somebody else take the
blame for the resulting drop in
production, the needless rise in
costs and the waste incurred," said
one.
Some of the direct loss to the
country is in dollars-the foreign
exchange Fidel Castro emphasizes.
"The agricultural mobilization
plans are all right on paper, but:
they just don't work in practice,"
says a young administrator as the
port of Havana. .
Production activity that doesn't turn out en masse Fridays, Sat- A lower-run official told of confederation has its rules; the
yield sugar comes to a virtual urdays and Sundays to work in what he called the incredible labor minister and the minister
standstill in April and May, par- the fields. amount of buraucracy and pal- of each ministry concerned often
ticularly. Though the country continues iticking going on in government have to personally approve an ap-
Castro has decreed, too, that its creeping pace of industriali- offices and empresas: have to en yn
virtually all inhabitants of small " The Young, Communists Union pointent.
communities in the interior devote zation, 80 per cent of its work is trying to place its men; depart- In some cases it has taken as
half their day to farm tasks, with effort, by party decree, is being ment heads have to recommend long as five months to receive
the emphasis on cane cutting, and placed in agriculture and livestock. some of them; the Commission for final approval for putting a man
the other half of the day to their There are plans to use an ever the Struggle Against Bureaucracy to work. Meantime, he may be
jobs, homes and studies. increasing number of cane-cutters has to approve them; the party drawing full salary as a result of
Students spend half their time each year in the long-range goal has a liaison man, whose sole being cut by another organism
Students spend ha their tm to produce 10 milllion tons of job is to try to determine the in the "struggle against bureau-
.n school, half in the fields. Many 1 sugar by 1970. The goal this year i political status of each employe; cracy." Much of this struggle is
receive instruction in agricultural is 7 million, which will be a rec- the workers' unions have their against featherbedding, the excess
camps. Entire communities often ord if achieved. say about new employes; the labor of personnel.
mented
women.
by hastily recruited
CIA
Subsidized
Students
Ghandi Party, FRONTIER BUILDUP:
Sees Losses Peking Calls on Peasants To
In Election Strengthen Border Defenses
Under Presidents Orders
Cbarge Made
InStatement
By Kenney.
Committee Chairman
Russell Declares 'It
Was a Good Program'
WASHINGTON MP)-Sen. Robert
F. Kennedy, (D-NY) said yes-
terday the Central Intelligence
Agency operated under presiden-
tial orders when it financed stu-
dent trips to foreign meetings
"If it 'was a mistake, it was
one of policy made in the execu-
tive branch and it should not be
blamed on the CIA," Kennedy
contended.
Kennedy said that when he was
in the Cabinet he knew the gov-
ernment was paying the bills for
student travel abroad and he said
the decision to do this through
the CIA was made "at the high-
est levels" in the Eisenhower, Ken-
nedy and Johnson administrations.
The CIA's activity was under
executive supervision at all times,.
Kennedy said.
Sen.\Sturart Symington (D-Mo)
also said, in a separate interview,
that' the CIA was operating under
instructions when it offered finan-
cial aid to the National Student
Association.
He leclined too be specific about
who gave the instructions, but he
presumably referred to the Na-
tional Security Council which is
headed by the President.
Symington spoke after CIA Di-
rector Richard Helms told the'
Armed Services Subcommittee in
secret session that the agency is
withdrawing financial support
from some private organizations it
has subsidized.
Subcommittee chairman, Rep.
Richard B. Russell, (D-Ga) de-
clined to identify any of the or-
ganizatfons affected.
Russell gave some indication of
the extent of the CIA subsidy
operations when he said:
"They've had contacts with al-
most every facet of American life
that has any connection outside
the ,United States."
Russell said he has been aware
from the start that the CIA had
been channeling funds to the
NSA.
The student group's supervisory
board held an emergency meeting
last week and some of the group's
leaders said they had been trapped
in to gathering intelligence for
the CIA.
Russell said it would not have
been possible to openly subsidize
such groups. This would have cast
doubt on the status of any Amer-
scans attending asy international
meeting, he said.
Russell commented that most.
intelligence is obtained, not by
spies in foreign embassies, but
by the compilation of many re-
ports from many sources.
The United States has compiled
"a great deal of information," he
said, by piecing together data
offered by world travelers.
-Associated Press
VOTE COUNTING TOOK place yesterday in one of the main centers of New Delhi after the
week-long general elections in India. Supporters of the local candidates stand in the background
watching the counting to see that no irregularities occur.
Gavin Urges Peace Negotiations
As Vietnam Air Raids Continue
Violence Mars Ballot TOKYO IP)--Radio Peking call-
Counting, Rightists ed on Chinese in frontier areas
today to strengthen China's de-
Lead in Early Returns fenses by rallying behind Mao Tse-
tung. The frontiers include Man-
NEW DELHI. India (R)-India's churia and Sinkiang Province,
ruling Congress party suffered where four Soviet divisions were
tellng osss ysteray o t.'oreported facing seven Chinese di-
rightist parties in the early hours visions.
of ballot counting following a day A seond broadcast issued in
of severe election violence, the name of Mao called on peas-
In two important parliamentary ants in farming communes all
races in New Delhi, rightists were over the mainland to begin
leading their Congress party in- "spring sowingand actively work
cumbents. to achieve production targets."
Opposition led by the rightwing This was an indication that Red
Swatantra party and the Hindu China's power struggle had se-
Jan Sangh party posed a threat ously hampered farm production.
.to the Congress party in the as- The broadcast on the frontier
sembly of the western desert state situation, while carrying an im-
of Rajasthan, land of the princely plied warning to 'the Soviet Union,
rulers, also seemed more concerned with
Communists were winning the production.
legislature in the southern state
of Kerala. WokSopae
In New Delhi where Congress It implied there had been work
held power traditionally, the Jan stoppages in the frontier area
Sangh won 13 of the first 19 seats stretching from Sinkiang in the
decided on the 56-member Metro- west to Heilungkiang Province of
politan Council. Manchuria bordering on Siberia.
By the time the counting of The broadcast was an "emer-
about 150 million ballots is finish- gency appeal" to workers and
ed Friday or Saturday, the Con- tpeasantntoreturn to their post
gress party hopes to have at least by holding "a gun in one hand
300 of the 520 seats in the lower adhlig" u noehn
house of Parliament. In the elec- a a plow in the other." n
tion five years ago the party won All through this area, opponents
361 seats. of Mao have been reported putting
361 ~~up armed resistance t h 3
In addition to Parliament, voters yearod rsiman's to the 73-
chose 3,560 seats in state assem- year-old party chairman's attempt
blies. to impose austerity in the name
Balrau Madhok, national presi-of sreproltarian revl-
dent of Jan Sangh, led Raghaven- tion-or purge.
draSinh f te Cngesspary. Many workers and peasants
drall SinhSofgthelCongess party, have been reported deserting their
of Ivn JNeSangDeld eas in sixjob- inthe frontier regions.
i ofseen NwDeh easi Pr We warn all reactionary ele-
T tiamenta ments both in and outside the
in nortense parliamentay enra country,' said the broadcast in
K. Krishna Menon, leftist former Ri appeared to be notice to the
defense minister, and Congress Rusians."If you dare cause dis-
candidate S. G.' Barve, bubbled turbance or destruction, the Chi-
over into street fighting involving
mob o 3,000 people. L J rosa
At least four taxis and 100 huts
were burned. Authorities blamed
the burning of the huts on Menon "
supporters aio sUn e
They imposed a ban on public
gatherings of more than five per-'
sons on that section of the porty GENEVA ()-President John-
city. No casualties were reported. son invited the Soviet Union today
Reports said the violence started to join in conducting peaceful
when the crowd spotted taxis car- nuclear blasts for the benefit of;
rying empty ballot boxes and countries that would be banned
thought they- were full ones being under a projected treaty from
spirited away in an effort to hurt owning nuclear weapons.
Menon's candidacy. Johnson made the proposal in
Menon, who quit the Congress a message to the 17-nation dis-
party and filed as an independent armament conference, which hopes
after Congress denied him a ticket to get the treaty written by the!
in Bombay, went personally to the time the U.N. General Assembly
scene and pleaded with the people meets in New York in September.
to disperse. The proposal was aimed at over-
In drought-stricken Bihar State, coming objections, specially from1
a clash between Congress and So- West Germany, that the ban wouldI
cialist groups reportedly resulted hurt the peaceful industry of non- I
in injuries to scores of people. nuclear nations.
Forty-eight persons were in- Negative Reaction
jured in one incident near Mu- The first Soviet reaction was l
zaffacpur in northern Bihar near negative. Soviet Delegate Alexei
the Nepal border. Roshchin told newsmen there was
Election-connected fights were no change in the previous Rusian
reported in several -other states. view that such explosions would
One man was beaten to death in violate the Moscow test ban treaty.
the Southern state of Andhra William C. Foster, the U.S. dele-
Pradesh in an election fight. This gate, told a news conference the
was the 11th election death re- United States has not yet devel-
ported. oped a device to produce explosions
nese people and army will destroy
you."
The appeal was issued by the
Ministry of State Farms and Land
Reclamation, which is in charge
of developing frontier areas.
Tokyo Shimbum published a
map compiled from reports by its
Peking correspondents showing
the Soviet Union and two divisions
on the Manchurian border facing
four Chinese divisions and two on
the Sinkiang border facing three!
Chinese divisions.
This map had most of China in
the handgs of Mao's foes, chiefly
believed to be supporters of Pres-
ident Liu Shao-Chi. Liu is known
Meany Speaks Out Against
L (ET SlL~ tk' Lifbk' St klr&
By The Associated Press
While UPS. B52 jets blasted sus-
pected Communist positions near,
the central coast of Vietnam yes-
terday, soldier-diplomat James M.
Gavin advised the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
He told ,the committee the
United States should take ad-
vantage of the internal turmoil
in Red China to negotiate peace
in Vietnam. But don't do it by
escalating the war, he said.
Such an escalation, the retired
three-star general and former am-
bassador to France said, "might
provide the very basis of bringing
order into the Chinese situation,
with prompt and militant response
to the aid of Hanoi."
Gavin said the term may "seem
to us to be rather a stiff price to
pay for peace." -Some might call
it appeasement, he indicated.
"But the alternative, is a pro-
tracted conflict."
Gavin said he believes "that we
can negotiate with Hanoi and
with the National Liberation Front
confident that a free, neutral and
independent Vietnam can be es-
tablished with guarantees of sta-
bility from an international body."
to have strength in the provincial
government and party apparatus.
-Moscow radio also said anti-
Mao forces are active in Fukien
Province of southeast China and
Shantung Province of east China,
both areas claimed by Mao. Mili-
tary reinforcements also were sent
to Tsingtao, the big naval base in
Shantung.
-Chinese Nationalist intelli-
gence sources said that thousands
of dissidents attacked Mao's sup-
porters Sunday in Lhasa, capital
of Tibet. They reported a power
struggle in the city of Chamdo,
near Tibet's eastern border 380
miles northeast of Lhasa.
world News Roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON-The commit-
tees deliberating Adam Clayton
Powell's congressional future fail-
ed yesterday to reach hoped-for
unanimous agreement on a plan
to seat and then censure the con-
troversial Harlem Democrat.
Rep. Claude D. Pepper (D-La)
-who said earlier in the day he
favors Powell's expulsion from the
House for alleged official miscon-
duct--apparently remained the
only holdout on the basic ques-
tion of penalizing Powell rather
than expelling him.
WASHINGTON -- The federal
government unveiled yesterday a
new high interest savings note-
the "Freedom Share," bearing 4.74
interest yearly when held to its
4%2 year maturity-and tied its
existence directly to the Vietnam
war.
The new notes will go on sale
May 1 and can be purchased on a
one-for-one basis only in combi-
nation with series-E savings bonds
through the payroll savings or
bond-a-month plan.
Officials said it will be offered
for a limited time to meet the
Vietnam emergency-until the end
of the war or for two years, which-
ever is longer.
It's hoped the new notes will
attract up to $1 billion over the
next year to help fight the war.
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TOKYO - Red China charged
yesterday that U.S. military planes
intruded over Hainan Island on
Monday and yesterday in another
incident strafed two Chinese fish-
ing boats in the Tonkin Gulf,
killing one fisherman and wound-
ing three others.
Peking's official New China
News Agency said the Chinese For-
eign Ministry issued the 425th
"serious" warning against the U.S.
"provocaktions."
In Vietnam, the allies reported
342 Communists were slain in
widespread skirmishes.
A Communist booby trap killed
Bernard B. Fall, 40, war corre-
spondent, for various magazines,
author of five books on Vietnam
and a professor of international
relations at Howard University in
Washington, D.C. A U.S. Marine
sergeant died with him.
They tripped the booby trap
while on a Leatherneck operation
12 miles northwest of Hue, the
old imperial capital 400 miles
north of Saigon.
Best known for his book "Street
Without Joy," Fall was the eighth
correspondent to be killed in the
Vietnamese war.
U.S. fighter-bomber pilots try-
ing to stem the infiltration of
reinforcements and supplies from
North Vietnam for the Viet Cong
and their North Vietnamese allies
reported one of their most effect-
ive strikes in months at Com-
munist truck traffic.
Air Force, Navy and Marine
fliers said they destroyed 55 and,
damaged 31 of a convoy of 127
southbound trucks spotted through
a break in the clouds Monday at
Mu Gia Pass, gateway to the Ho
Chi Minh trail through Commu-
nist-held eastern Laos.
Bombs and cannon fire loosed
in a 10-hour attack set off foun-
tains of secondary explosions, in-
dicating hits on ammunition or
fuel.
The convoy, camouflaged with
nets, tree branches and paint, was
the main objective among targets
singled out by the Americans in
90 multiplane missions north off
the border.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (P)-AFL-
CIO President George Meany said
yesterday any new federal law to
comple strikes to go back to work
would be "a step toward destroy-
ing the American free way of
life''
Menay spoke in a news confer-
ence after he and other labor
~leaders quizzed White House as-
sistant Joseph CalifanoHon Pres-
ident Johnson's study of possible
new strike legislation.
Meany said he doesn't think
Johnson will recommend any com-
pulsory low to stop labor strikes.
In discussing the subject direct-
ly with Johnson earlier, Meany
said, "his reaction is its a prob-
lem and he's studying it and he
hasn't come up with a solution."
Meany said q there were a
major strike against the nation's
trucking or railroad industries this
To Benefil
r NUclear Ban
above ground that would be per-
missible under the test ban treaty.
Johnson and Foster both ex-
pressed hope that a treaty to halt
the spread of nuclear weapons
would be agreed soon. Neither he
nor the President gave a date.
"We have made more progress
in the past four months than in
the last 20-odd years," Foster said.
American negotiators eypect to
overcome the objections from West
Germany and other nonnuclear
powers.
To reassure these countries, the
Presidenteurged in a message to
the conference that ''the treaty
clearly state the intention of' its
nuclear technology-including any
benefits that are byproducts of
weapons research."
a I or~FI r) es1IN
year "it might get Congress up in
arms" to pass a hasty strike law
without proper deliberation.
"That's always a danger," Meany
said.
James R. Hoffa's Teamsters
union is currently discussing a
new national contract for nearly
500,000 trucking industry workers
with a March 31 strike deadline,
and several railroad unions have
indicated a possible strike April 12.
But Hoffa, whose Teamsters
union was kicked out of the AFL-
CIO 10 years ago, has said he
would never call a nationwide
trucking strike.
The railroad unions are mem-
bers of the AFL-CIO.
Meany said he did not think any
antistrike proposal would come
from the White House and that he
did not believe the Johnson ad-
ministration was using its strike
law study as a club over organ-
ized labor.
"It's a knotty problem," Meany
said.
Califano was the second major
Johnson administration figure to
mention to the AFL-CIO Execu-
tive Council the White House stu-
dy on how to deal with strikes
that effects the national interests.
Secretary of Labor W. Willard
Wirtz said Monday the matter is
still under active consideration.
The laborleaderssalso talked
with federal budget director
Charles Schultze about taxes and
federal spending, and will hear
from Secretary of the Treasury
Joseph Fowler yesterday.
Meany said Vice President Hu-
bert H., Humphrey will talk to the
AFL-CIO council Monday.
Asked the significance of the
array of major Johnson admin-
istration officials before the coun-
cil, Meany said:
"I guess they heard the report
that we are in the doldrums, and
decided to come down and help
us out."
us out."
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In Without A
Beth Israel Congregation will be interviewing appli-
cants for teaching positions in its Religious and
Hebrew Schools on March 8th and March 9th and
March 16th .from 7:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Appli-
cants should submit summaries of educational back-
ground and teaching experience to the synagogue
office, 1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, before March
1st. Interview appointments will be established
accordingly. Please include telephone number and
address.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
The Rev. Joseph Fletcher speaking of
SOME MORAL CONSIDERATIONS
FOR OUR TIME
12:15-1:30-"A New Morality?"
Luncheon & Discussion at Canterbury House-
OPEN TO PUBLIC
330 Maynard Street. (Bring a brokn bag, eat out
early, a few sandwiches available there.)
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Medical Science Bldg. 7th level lecture room for
Medical Students and the Victor Vaughan Society
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