WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY '22, 1887. THE MICHIGAN UATT.V .s A .nms .....,....« WEDNESDY, FEBUARY 22 1987 1-,- Vila- Vlua l\ L[11 U PAGE THREE 9 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- . 1 vnr"ninl nn«..... w....... ....., r.... iL_ ,I 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. * * * 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. 1. idW 1 o tp I 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." U You Can't Get 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. 'I --- -------- - n- SESQUIGRAS 2aininq Con ted 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.) 2:00-4:00-"Moral Considerations in Medical Practice" Medical Science Bldg. 7th level lecture room for Medical Students and the Victor Vaughan Society 5:00--"iatonl _mnuse. 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