22, 1960 THE MMCHI# ' N DAILY 22, IRGO THE MICHU' ~N DAILY Laotian Loyalists Report' LETTER TO NATIONS: African Students Protest Racial Bias in Moscow Steel Umon Volence Erupts at Convention Delegate Asks Government Help To End Union 'Reign of Terror' Rebels Stopped in Attack Soviets Say U.S., SEATO ___ I Interfering Declare Nations Give Support to Attackers MOSCOW (A1-The Soviet gov- ernment charged the United States and its SEATO allies yes- terday with organizing a rebellion against the neutralist government which came to power in Laos last month. It declared the Western powers are "grossly violating the Geneva agreements of 1954"-the pacts which drew the boundaries of the new states born after the Indo- china war. "The Soviet government... .can- not ignore in silence instances of crude interference by the United States and its allies of the ag- gressive SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) block in the internal affairs of Laos," a state- ment broadcast by Radio Moscow and Tass said. The statement charged that after the coup which saw the downfall of the pro-Western Laos government Aug. 9, "the United States began to encourage its stooges to organize an uprising against a government which en- joys the confidence of the parlia- ment and the people... "It is no secret now that money, weapons and ammunition are flowing in a wide torrent to the insurgents and United States mil- itary advisers are the real masters of the insurgent forces." "It is precisely with the en- couragement and support of the United States that the uprising, headed by Gen. Phoumi Nosav- ana, was organized against the lawful government." IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chev, full of complaints and threats, gave an informal press conference from the balcony of the Soviet United Nations delega- tion building yesterday. Khrushchev Calls U.S. Rule 'House Arrest' fron Balcony NEW YORK (A')-Soviet Pre- mier Nikita S. Khrushchev walked out on a balcony at his quarters yesterday and complained, he was under house arrest. He also raised the possibility he might nQt even listen to Presi- dent Dwight' D. Eisenhower's United Nations speech today. The Soviet Premier spoke in an impromptu press conference from a balcony in front of the Soviet -~ 1960-1961 STUDENT DIRECTORY. NOTICE All students who did not in- elude their Ann Arbor tele- phone number, extension, and address on their regis- tration card may be placed in the Directory by calling the Student Publications Building between, 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Numbers will not b be accepted after Fri- day, Sept. 23. United Nations delegation build-1 ing along Park Avenue. Good Spirits The Kremlin boss, seemingly in bubbling good spirits, strode out on the balcony about 3:20 p.m.-- 20 minutes after he should have been at the UN as head of the Soviet delegation - and said he was going to be working at the delegation building during the afternoon instead. Then, asked what progress he is making on his trip to America, Khrushchev replied: "I'm not seeing America." "This is my America," he con- tinued, pointing to the balcony he was standing on. The United States government has restricted Khrushchev to Manhattan Island during his UN visit, saying this was needed for security. 'House Arrest' "I'm under house arrest, so what I can do is restricted," Khrush- chev added. Under further questioning, Khrushchev said he would be go- ing to the United Nations General Assembly meeting tomorrow. Eisenhower is slated to address the body late in the morning. Asked if he would hear Eisen- hower, Khrushchev said that he did not know who would be speak- ing while he is at the Assembly meeting, Comments on Issues Khrushchev had these com- ments on a wide range of other issues, some of which he treated seriously and others in joking fashion: He would like to talk with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is expected to come to the UN session later. He plans to go to Havana. at the invitation of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, "as soon as we come to terms with Fidel Cas- tro about the travel time." No Decision As to whether the two Ameri-' cans captured by the Russians when they shot down an American RB47 reconnaissance bomber July 1 are to be tried for espionage, that is for the Soviet prosecutors and investigators to decided. On who he would like to see win, the American presidential election this year, Khrushchev quipped back to his questioner: "I shall welcome you if you are elected. I wish you success." Army Chief Claims Win At Paksane Revolutionaries Give Differing Reports VIENTIANE, Laos (AP-The gov- ernment of neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma claimed yes- terday its troops have stopped a drive on this administrative capi- tal by anti-Communist rebels un- der the command of former De- fense Minister Gen. Phoumi No- savan. Gen. Ouane Rathikone, govern- ment army chief, said Gen. No- savan's forces fell back Tuesday at Paksane, 110 miles northeast of Vientiane, following the first clashes of the 11-day-old civil war.' Gen. Ouane said three of No- savan's soldiers were killed and a large number wounded. The general added that three of his men were wounded. Figures Accurate Western military sources here said reports they received on the fighting indicate his casualty fig- ures are accurate. Reports reaching Thailand from Gen. Nosavan's headquarters gave a different picture. They claimed a significant victory over Vien- tiane forces and said a river gun- boat and two tanks had been cap- tured in the Paksane area. (Thailand Premier Sarit Than- arat meanwhile warned in a ra- dio broadcast that if Laos goes Communist, Thailand would act on its own if need be to meet any Red threat.) Cross Thailand Phouma's government charged that two companies of rebel troops reached Paksane by crops- ing through neighboring Thailand and that Thai officials have sup- plied Gen. Nosavan with arm and ammunition. The Premier said he had ask- ed the United States to intercede with the Thai government. "I think the United States has done so," he added, but Thailand is ignoring it. Every opportunity they have, they help Nosavan." To Discuss Medical Plan LANSING (M)-Gov. G. Mennen Williams and key legislator were scheduled to meet behind closed doors last night to clear away any potential barriers to swift adop- tion of a new program for medical care for the aged. The same group of Republican and Democratic legislators reached agreement last week on the gen- eral outlines of the plan, geared to the federal program to go into effect Oct. 1. The full legislature will meet in special session today. The gover- nor told a news conference yes- terday he had spotted no sign of disagreement and hoped the law- makers would accomplish their task in one day. The program would be financed for the first six months with exist- ing welfare funds, leaving the 1961 legislature the job of making up the allocated amount and setting up permanent financing. The Federal government would pay half of the $7 million cost through next March, counties 10 per cent and the state the rest. The proposal calls for home nursing care and physical examin- ations for 60,000 residents receiv- ing old age assistance. FRANKFURT, Germany "Three African students have sent an open letter to the heads of all' African governments charging "constant (racial) discrimination and threats" while they were studying at Moscow University. Announcing their intentions to "expose Soviet colonialism" be- fore Premier Nikita S. Khrush- chev addresses the United Na- tions, the three told a news con- ference in Frankfurt today that they and scores of other African students are leaving Moscow "dis- gusted" at Communist pressure. Student Protest They identified themselves as Theopohilus Okonkwo, 28, of Ni- geria, who said he was the secre- tary of the executive committee of the African Students Union in the USSR; Andrew H. Amar, of Uganda, and Michel Ayih, 28, of Togo. All were medical students in Moscow during the last three years. "We left-and others are leav- Ike T UMeet 22 Off icials WASHINGTON (P) -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower will meet with President Tito of Yugoslavia and leaders of Ghana, Nepal and Lebanon this afternoon in New York. The White House announced the appointments last night, bringing to 22 the number of high government officials with whom the President will confer after his speech to the United Nations General Assembly this morning. It had been announced earlier that Eisenhower would give a luncheon for 18 representatives of Latin American countries. SHis scheduled meetings with foreign leaders were part of a two-pronged diplomatic campaign which will open with his speech to the UN General Assembly. The White House said the speech will be about 40 minutes long. The President reportedly will try to steal the play away from Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush- chev with a revamped version of his open skies inspection plan to forestall sneak nuclear attacks! and a proposal to aid the emerg- ing nations of Africa. The President's Press Secre- tary, James C. Hagerty, said the meeting with Tito, scheduled for 5 p.m. (EDT), would be Eisen- hower's first get-together with the independent Communist leader. ing-because of constant discrim- ination, threats, restrictions on our freedom and even brutalities," Okonkwo said, "Used as Agents" "Students from all over Africa and the Near East are finding in Moscow that they are merely be- ing used as agents of Soviet pow- er politics, One hundred and fifty students left last year. Scores have left and are leaving this year, disgusted." -The three distributed copies of a letter they said they sent to UN Secretary General Dag Hammar- skiold last night, Act for Majority They said they were acting for a "majority" of the 75 to 90 Afri- can students still at Moscow Uni- versity. The trio claimed that students from Algeria, the Cameroons, the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya,M Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, the Su- dan, Togo, Tunisia, the UAR and Uganda had met recently in secret session in Moscow and empowered them to "present our case against communism when we arrived here in the West." Decide to Protest The decision to protest "Soviet deceit" was taken, they said, after conflicts with Soviet authorities. Okonkwo said he felt that the western powers were keeping the doors open for communism to flow into Africa by their outmod- ed policies. "The West," he said, "has not yet found a way to convince the African people that they belong to the community of free people." S*G.0. I ATLANTIC CITY, (AP)-Another outbreak of violence at the steel-' workersdunion convention yester- day led to a formal complaint that the federal government step in to end an asserted "reign of terror" at the meeting. Donald C. Rarick of Mc Kees-! port, Pa., a political foe of union President David J. McDonald, engaged in a bloddy melee with McDonald supporters just off the convention floor, A Rarick sup- porter was roughed up in another such incident Monday. McDonald, blaming Rarick for instigating yesterday's rough stuff, bluntly warned that if he did itj again he would be ousted as a; convention delegate. Rarick said he wasn't so sure he wanted to chance another fistfight. Relates Beating Rarick said he was jumped upon, beaten and robbed without provocation just before Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell was called upon to address the conven- tion. He later sent Mitchell a for- mal complaint that union demo- cracy guarantees of the Landrum- Griffin law are being violated. Mitchell told newsmen he could not pass on any such complaint without knowing the facts, but the labor secretary added: "I think it's very unfortunate in a democratic union such as this that acts of violence take place." Suffers Injury A man identified by Mc- Donald supporters as George Elliott, a staff representative of the union, suffered a bloody nose in yesterday's melt. The wild- swinging group overturned and broke a water-cooler before police and ushers restored order. Some newsmen were jostled and told to "go back to your cage." Rarick suffered badly bruised ribs. BIKE AUCTION Rarick charged later to re- porters and in his complaint to Mitchell that the convention was illegally stacked with union staff employes and that violence was being provoked to discourage Rarick forces in their attempted drive to unseat McDonald as national union president in elec- tions next February, Rarick got about one third of the votes in the official tally of votes in an election race with Mc- Donald four years ago, but Rarick said he actually won. "I have been warned by ad- ministration men that if I stay in Atlantic City I will be killed," Rarick said in his telegram of complaint to Mitchell. Cuban Rivals Start Brawl NEW YORK (P)-A gang of Cas- tro sympathizers invaded a Latin- American restaurant on Eighth Avenue yesterday, and started a barroom brawl with rival Cubans that ended in gunfire. A 9-year-old girl bystander was gravely wounded by a stray bullet. Three anti-Castro Cubans were injured, one of them by a bullet and the others by beer bottles smashed over their heads. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's presence in New York for the United Nations General As- semnbly has provoked street fight- ing but this was the first eruption of gunfire between Cubans divided for and against his regime. The El Prado restaurant near 51st Street was thrown into an uproar by the battle, and diners scattered in terror. SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 Bikes on display from 8-9 A.M. AUCTION at 9:00 at S.A.B. LOADING DOCK Read Daily Classifieds i I .......... - f NO 23-24-1 NO 23-24-1 .._ . HOMECOMING I I1 Tf^kI If!Li. T I .. .._ _ _ ..titi,...