SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, x.966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Two Years After Nikita, USSR Changes Its Style MOSCOW P,)-Two years of new Soviet leadership since the ouster of Nikitia S. Khrushchev have brought significant changes for the Kremlin. At home, industry and agricul- ture are being put on a more real- istic basis that will bring them a little 'closer to satisfying the needs of the Soviet people. Abroad, the Soviet Union re- asserted its influence in Asia nd within the world Communist movement. These gains have been at the expense of China, whose competitive influence has waned. Soviet Stand Unchanged On New Talk Request by Britain For Reconveninig Of Geneva Rejected UNITED NATIONS (P) - The Soviet Union turned down a re- quest from Britain yesterday that the two set up a new Geneva Conference to negotiate peace for Viet Nam. Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet co-chairman of ! the 1954 Geneva Conference, got the request from Foreign Secretary George Brown, the present British co-chairman, in an 80-minute talk at the Soviet U.N. mission, in New York. Brown asked Gromyko to join him in reconvening the confer- ence, British sources said, but the response was not encouraging, and there was no basic change in the Soviet position.° The Soviet position has been that the conference should not be reconvened now. In the last two years, the Soviet Union has re- jected repeated British requests for a new conference, on grounds either that the time was not ap- propriate or that not all the par- ticipants would attend. After visiting Moscow last July, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said Soviet Prime Minister Alexei N. Kosygin told her the Soviet Union would not call a new conference till North Viet Nam asked for one. The British sources said that when Brown met Gromyko, both men knew that North Viet Nam had rejected the six-point plan for peace in Viet Nam that Brown had put forward Thursday in a speech at the Labor party's annual con- vention in Brighton, England. But Brown feels he must keep talking about how to end the war in Viet Nam, they said, and he is not going to be deterred by snap reactions or reflex actions from Hanoi. He will seek U.S. reaction to his plan at meetings in New York to- morrow with Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, the United States' chief delegate to the United Na- tions. Johnson, Gromkyo To Meet WASHINGTON (P) - President .Johnson carries his campaign to thaw out U.S.-Soviet relations an- other step tomorrow with a per- sonal meeting with Foreign Min- ister Andrei A. Gromyko. No progress is in sight on Wash- ington - Moscow differences over Viet Nam. The Kremlin's official news agency stressed Saturday that Gromyko is "conducting no negotiations" on the Southeast Asian conflict. The basic aspects of Communist industry remains more important While less exciting, the new Khrushchev added to the prob- promises more tractors, fertilizer, rule and outlook remain unaffect- than consumers. leadership seems to Western dipio- lems with erratic attempts to solve and other resources for farmeis. ed. But there has been a striking mats to be more rational. them. This and the way he rode Incentive payments for good crops There is no sign the new leaders change in style here. Khruschev's Foreign observers here are im- roughshod over his colleagues were have been widened and more op- have lost sight of the importance flamboyant one-man show has pressed by efforts to eliminate major reasons that they removed portunlty given to private garden- of avoiding war with the United given way to bureaucratic man- problems that Joseph Stalin built him two years ago next Friday. ing. States, despite Viet Nam. They are agement. into the economy 35 years ago. He Personal Interest The farm problems are. tenici- primarily concerned with internal The ideology of Marxism has deprived agriculture and consumer The top man among the new ous and expensive to solve how- progress - and that makes it Cs- faded farther into the background, industries of resources in order to leaders, General Secretary Leonid ever. sential to keep conflicts contained replaced by the necessities of busi- develop heavy industries such as I. Brezhnez of the Communist par- Soviet agriculture is basically' in distant parts of the world, nesslike administration. The new steel. ty, has taken a personal interest inefficient, primitive and rundown leaders worry about the lack of The years made the problems in improving agriculture. His col- both in equipment and talented The Communist party is unchal- p u 01 i c inspiration, particularly worse. Agriculture lagged behind league, Premier Alexei N. Kosy- manpower. Agronomists are scarce, lenged as the centrally controlled among a cynical younger genera- needs and industrial production gin, is directing the attempt to weather fickle and the Soviet diet elite that runs the country. Little tion, but seem unable to do any- got increasingly out of line with make industry work more sensibly. still heavily weighted with bread dissent is heard publicly. Heavy thing about it. demand. Brezhnev's agricultural p 1 a n and potatoes.I As the investment in agriculture rises in an effort to overcome dec- ades of neglect, the percentage of return on money goes down at a discouraging rate. Investment cap- ital is scarce. Kosygin's efforts to make the economy work in a more feasible way are encountering great con- plexities. A small start is being made on revising prices so they more ac- nurnfA e t i r on t alue? Withouit Money From Spacejraey refien v . W Te nefronemigh this. it is hard to judge efficiency The new farm money might be in Industry. coming from the Soviet space pro- gram, among other places. It has Price reform is tied to ideas of been more than a year and a half Prof. Yevsei G. Liberman for a since a Soviet cosmonaut gent more efficent system using profit aloft. Meanwhile, U.S. astronauts motives and greater initiative of have taken virtually every record factory managers. The Liberman except the honors of being first. ideas are slow going into practice Russia Can Vacillate On Troop Cuts BICKERING OVER SALARIES: Viet Constitutional Assembly Bogs Down in Preliminaries, Silence on Jolmsoi SAIGON UP)-The creation of a Proposals Indicates new constitution for South Viet Weighing of Reasons Nam is getting off to a slow start. gsA 117-member Constituent As- MOSCOW (iP)-The Soviet Union sembly elected Sept. 11 to draft has major reasons for deciding to the national charter as a first step reject President Johnson's pro- toward a return ,in civilian rule posal to reduce troops on both has been absorbed in procedural sides of the Iron Curtain-and it business and side issues. also has reasons to accept. The assembly opened Sept. 27. It Soviet leaders kept silent yes- it now considered unlikely to start terday on the proposal, possibly- weighing the reasons. The proposal was omitted from press reports U here of the President's speech, while Johnson was said to be de- termined to keep up Western Trea. strength in Europe. JThreat to BI The Soviet Union might with- draw some of its 375,000 soldiers now in Eastern Europe without WASHINGTON (P)-The ' AFL- being willing to talk publicly about CIO said yesterday that "the urge it. Some withdrawal could even to merge" among America's giant come after a denunciation of the corporations carried the danger of Johnson proposal. eventually turning the nation into One strong reason against the one enormous company-o w n e d "gradual and balanced revision in store. force levels on both sides," which "Money is power," the labor fed- Johnson suggested Friday involves eration said, and the billion-dollar Viet Nam and China. sums of corporate giants are being The United States already has used to shape political, social and pulled some troops out of West cultural standards as well as the1 work on the constittulon until late provinces of the Mekong delta. -Associated Press BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY GEORGE BROWN, left, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, right, following their meeting at the Soviet U.N. mission yesterday. The two foreign min- isters, whose nations were co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference responsible for peace in Viet Nam, met to talk about reopening it. At center is British Foreign Office Aide Denis Greenhill. SITUATION ACUTE: Navy Extending Viet Duty OfFigjehter Pilots, Officers October. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky'sE military government wants it to finish the task in six months- that is by next March. Politicking Assembly members have devoted themselves to backstage politic- king, checking credentials, writing resolutions, and forming an emer- gency relief committee for flooded Prge' Seen as usiness Life used in the U.S. production. "If this rate continues," he went on, "America will be faced with a condition of super concentration within little more than a decade. "By 1977, the 100 largest manu- facturing corporations will control more than two-thirds of the na- tion's net manufacturing assets." "The after-tax profits of one firm alone, General Motors, ex- ceeded the 1965 tax revenues of every state in the union except California and New York," he said. "It was greater even than the total revenues of 18 states combined." Beller proposed a stiffening of federal laws, including a reouire- ment that the government be gw- en advance notice of proposed mergers and more power co delay mergers which might violate the law. So far, 97 of the 117 members have been' seated officially with the approval of the Credentials Committee. Members have been forming and reforming in blocks, mostly along regional-interest lines. '24-24' One is the 24-24 group consist- ing of 24 young deputies who vow to toil 24 hours each day to form the new constitution. Another group, knowns as South Viet. Nam's Renaissance, is made up mostly of deputies from south- ern provinces. The Vietnamese-language news- paper Dan Chung-The Masses- said: "A majority of the deputies are bickering not over the con- stitution but their own salary; some demanded as much as 60,000 plasters ($508) per month.... We think it's too early to talk about money while state affairs are like boiling oil and burning fire." Delegates took time this week to urge the junta to extend amnesty to prisoners "in order to mark a new order in the building of democracy." Few of the resolutions under study by the assembly seem re- lated to a constitution. One resolution is reported to be a report on the Vietnamese war to the United Nations General Assembly. Another will be presented to the seven-nation conference on Viet Nam scheduled later this month in Manila. Germany to send to Viet Nam. It is considering withdrawing more, regardless of whether the Russians do anything. But any Soviet withdrawal would . WASHINGTON UP) - The Navy,i battling a serious shortage of ex- perienced officers, now is permit- ting older officers twice passed' over for promotion to stay on the job, sources revealed yesterday. Such men normally are forced to leave active service. This was learned in the wake of the Navy's announcement Friday that it would continue to extend the duties of an estimated total of 1,000 pilots and other highly skill- ed officers for another year to meet Viet Nam needs. Up to Two Years And in Saigon, the U.S. military command announced that some selected officers in advisory and staff positions in the various serv- ices would serve up to two years, double the normal tour. 9fficials here, however, emphasized that the officers-said to number only a few score-had agreed to stayI on and were not ordered to do so. The policy does not apply to en- listed men. Some older officers are known to have been trying to get out of the Navy for two or more years. The pilots and other officers af- fected by an initial retention order in 1965 were permitted to leave the service earlier this year. The rentention order did not affect the Marine Corps. In Saigon, U.S. officials said the extended duty for officers would affect only "commissioned and warrant officers assigned to Head- quarters MACV-Military Assist- ance Command, Viet Nam - and MACV advisory groups and de- tachments." open the Kremlin to the charge, Navy has reported in the past that which the bitterly critical Red it may not be able to train enough Chinese are sure to make, that the Soviet Union is in collusion with pilots - at an average cost of the United States to help crush' $500,000 - to ease the current the Vietnamese Communists. shortage until the 1970s.' nation's economy. "The implications of the frantic merger kick upon which American, business has embarked are pro- found," said AFL-CIO economists Irving Beller. Beller said merely 100 of the nation's approximately 400,000 separately owned manufacturing companies owned well over h)ilf the land, building and equipment Pentagon officials said the an- nouncement puts on record what' "they've been doing for a long time in Saigon to provide continuity in SUNDAY, October 9 7:30 P.M. UNIVERSITY PLAYERS CHILDREN'S THEATRE presents command." The new order makes clear what many officers have been saying Many headquarters officers al- privately for months: The critical ready have served at least 18 shortage of senior officers will con- months, one source said. tinue for at least two more years "Gen. William C. Westmoreland because of unsatisfactory retention has asked a number of key officers rates. Recent statistics show that to extend, and they have," an offi-' about one in three officers decides cial said, noting that Westmore- to stay on in the service. land, head of U.S. forces in Viet Although no specific figures are Nam, had been in that country for available, the Navy is known to 34 months without relief. be short 4,500 officers-about 43 "There's a hell of a lot of co- per cent-in the top ranks of the lonels who want to get over there submarine and surface line service. -and when Westmoreland keeps Pilot Situation others on they don't get a crack The Navy's pilot situation is at the job, and they're sorry," he! equally acute, sources said. The added. JAMES THURBER'S "CHINA-THE BACKGROUND OF THE 'PROLETARIAN CULTURAL, REVOLUTION" DR. ALEXANDER ECKSTEIN Dept. of Economics at the PRESBYTERIAN CAMPUS CENTER 1432 Washtenow Ave. (Continuing the series on Nation Building in Asia. Following programs focus on Indonesia and Japan EVERYONE WELCOME THE .. CLOCKS SATURDAY, Oct 29,at 10 A.M. & 2 P.M. SUNDAY, Oct. 30, at 2 P.M. TRUEBLOOD AUDITORIUM ...--.--.......--------. ---- .-- X11 I 1 I. i ULLR SKI CLUB MASS MEETING Tuesday, Oct. 11 UNION BALLROOM 7:30 I World News Roundup I By The Associated Press I not be American supplies. BROWNSVILLE, Tex. - Hurri- 3. The money for the project 4 caneIniez, leaving 150 dead behind must be collected and the sup- it, took an ominous turn west- plies purchased by Oct. 12, so they northwest, possibly toward the may be put aboard the Soviet Texas coast, yesterday the Weath- er ureu rpored.freighter A 1 e x a n d e r. Pushkin' er~ Bureau reported. which sails fi'om Toronto on ihat Inez came into being Sept. 24 date. and has made her winds felt in . Guadeloupe, the Virgin Islands, jPuerto Rico, the Dominican Re-I public, Haiti, Cuba. the Bahamas, Florida and Mexico. SAIGON-U.S. B52 squadrons D O N 'T blasted at the old demilitarized zone in waves yesterday to, block infiltration of fresh troops for the the LAST Communist army that lost the equivalent of two battalio_-s inNP RE prisoners alone to allied foces in HUM P RE one sector during the past week. Though the Communists still bar International Control Com- mission teams, bombardiers &void- ed the 24-square-mile seafront segment. that the U.S. put off!T REASU H limits Sept. 27 in an effort to pro- mote an ICC check on North V:et- namese violations of the treaty. NEW HAVEN-The U.S. Treas- T H E I ury Department has granted per- mission to a group of Yale Uni- versity religious leaders to send * slides of our activities " refreshments " skiing every weekend " vacation trips to Colorado & Vermont Academic Affairs Committee Presents LAW SCHOOL DISCUSSION Learn about the University of Michigan Law School from .an admissions officer of the school. Monday, Oct. 10-4:15 P.M. 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