THE 13ICHIGAN DAILY J.S. Bans. Exports to Cuba Foods Except Medicines, n AT FRIENDSHIP 'U': Soviets Offer Education Free to Foreign Students MOSCOW WA -- Money Is one thing the Asians, Africans and Latin Americans attending Mos- cow's new Friendship University don't have to worry about. The students told foreign news- men touring the university Tues- day that the Soviet government pays their plane fares to and from Moscow. They get an initial 3,000 rubles to buy a winter wardrobe. Room and tuition are free. Give Allowance And they say they get a monthly allowance of 900 rubles-the pay of an average Soviet factory work- er-to cover food and incidentals. (The ruble is valued officially at 25 cents but 10 cents is considered a more realistic rate.) Soviet Premier Khrushchev an- nounced during his tour of In- donesia last February that the. university would be established for students from the three under- developed continents. Open Schools After considerable fanfare, the institution opened Oct. 1 with a student body of about 300, includ- ing 65 Soviet students specializing in foreign languages. Soviet of- ficials say the enrollment ulti- ,mately will total 500, from 65 countries. Some of the foreign students said their home governments tried to stop them from attending. "Eleven wanted to come from my country, but only I made it," Joseph Sankona of Cameroon, re- ported. "Our government didn't want us to go." Sankona said that he escaped from his West African homelandj by getting permission to fly to Togo, and the Soviet consulate there helped him fly to Moscow. A similar story was told by 24- year-old Jeffery Gatende, who said he had done some walking and used devious methods to get out of Kenya, a British East African' colony. Asked by a British newsman if he was a Communist, Gatende replied, "Not yet." The Briton then asked if he had taken Mau Mau oaths, the pledges of loyalty to the anti-white terrorist move- ment in Kenya. Takes Oaths "You call them oaths," Gatende snapped back. "I call them nation- al allegiance."^ Several students said they had come to Moscow instead of seek- ing education in the West because of fear of racial problems at west- ern universities. ~There is no colored problem here," Gatende declared. "In fact, people like you so much they al- most become a nuisance at times." Varied Homelands Those interviewed included stu- dents from Zanzibar, Sierra Leone, Chad, Japan, Ceylon and Mexico, as well as the Kenyan and the Cameroonian. One student had a big picture of a smiling Fidel Castro, the Cuban prime minister, pinned on a wall near his bed. The university offers a five- year course, and the foreign stu- dents spend most of the first year studying Russian. Asked if he found it difficult, Kahnis Haji of Zanzibar answered, "Russian isn't any harder than English." Britain To Ask Tanganyik Independence DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika (A') - Britain will ask soon for United Nations authority to end the trusteeship over Tanganyika,l it was announced last night, as a: final step toward making this an independent nation. Tanganyika's Chief Minister,1 Julius K. Nyerere, told the legis- lature Britain's request would be placed before the current UN General Assembly in New York. This step toward independence is to be followed by a conference between British colonial officials and African leaders in London next month to give Tanganyika full autonomy. Spokesman Says Policy 'Not Reprisal' Calls Move Defense Against Castro Acts WASHINGTON (P)-The Unit- ed States yesterday took its tough- est action yet against the Fidel Castro regime, banning exports of all United States goods to Cuba except medical supplies and food. A United States spokesman billed the move "not economic re- prisal" but rather a reluctantly undertaken action to defend American businessmen "against the discriminatory, aggressive and injurious economic policies of the Castro regime." The State Department charged that the Havana government has deliberately failed to pay $150 mil- lion owed to United States busi- ness and has put a squeeze on United States goods, cutting the once-large United States trade by more than half. Ends Commitments The official embargo will make it easier for Americans not to go through with long term commit- ments to ship goods to Cuba. American shipments to Cuba, which have been running at the rate of $300 million a year, are expected to be cut by about two- thirds by the move. The United1 States is Cuba's biggest supplier and in the past has provided about 75 per cent of that country's im- ports. The economic impact of the embargo, measured in dollars, will TV-RADIO: Candidates To Debate Tomorrow NEW YORK (A) - The last of four scheduled television-radio de- bates between the presidential candidates goes on the air tomor- row night -- with Sen. John F. Kennedy still pressing for a fifth. Kennedy, the Democratic nomi- nee, and Vice-President Richard' M. Nixon, his Republican op- ponent, will speak face-to-face from a New York studio in the fourth broadcast, from 10 to 11 p.m. Any possibility that the program would be extended to two hours as an alternative to a fifth en- counter appeared remote. Both candidates expressed willingness, but neither has asked the net- works for an extension. In New York Their campaign schedules brought them both to New York yesterday for three days leading up to the debate. Kennnedy renewed his jibes at Nixon for rejecting a fifth debate nearer the Nov. 8 election. Nixon has held that his travel schedule makes it impracticable. The Democrat said he is willing to meet Nixon anywhere in the United States, any day, any hour in the 18 days remaining before the election. He said "the Ameri- can people are entitled to know' why" Nixon would close off debate. Asks New Debate "Why is Mr. Nixon unwilling to; give one more hour of his time to 70 million viewers in the last 18 days?" Kennedy asked. "Why is a man who boasts of his debate with Khrushchev reluctant to debate before American voters?"; That was a reference to Nixon's now-famous "kitchen debate" at the American exhibition in Mos-. cow last year.! "The fact is that the closer a debate is held to election," Ken- nedy said, "the more difficult it is for any candidate to engage in anys questionable tactics or inaccuracies1 for which he may be called to1 account in a face to face encoun- ter." Government Holds Goods In Stockpiles Island Could Draw On Nearby Countries HAVANA (A') - Shiploads of spare parts and other essential imports from the United States have been stockpiled by the Cuban government in an attempt to blunt the effect of the United States trade curb posted by Wash- ington yesterday. Prime Minister Fidel Castro's government took full advantage of the drawn out Washington debate on the economic embargo by building up the stockpiles. Cuba may also find loopholes through Mexico and Canada, Find Solution Economic experts said yesterday that the spare parts, rushed here from the United States in the past few weeks, may help Cuban factories to operate and Cuban automobile wheels to turn until the Soviet bloc can move in and take over the supply problem. Official American sources said drastic steps will be taken in the United States against any ex- porters who try to evade the em- bargo by sending goods to anoth- er natio nfor shipment to Cuba. They said any American export- er whose sales abroad are out of line with previous operations will face investigation. If violations .found, shippers might be prohibit- ed from exporting anywhere. Denounce Embargo The Havana radios immediate- ly denounced the embargo as a new United States aggression, but officials were silent. Shipping manifests show the Cuban government anticipated the economic boycott, which covers everything but food and medical supplies, by heavy orders of such automobile parts as spark plugs, fuel pumps and carburetors, plus oil refinery replacements and su- gar mill supplies, These and other imports have been flooding into government- controlled storage points since al- most unlmiited funds and import permits were released for this pur- pose. --AP Wirep BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES - British Minister of State -David 0. 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The twin restrictions were an- nounced 'just as the Cuban ques- tion was emerging as an important issue in the presidential election campaign. Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Dem- ocratic nominee, has criticized ad- ministration handling of the Unit- ed States-hating Castro regime while his Republican opponent, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, called Tuesday for a quarantine of Cuba. Foodstuffs and medical items, which generally are exempt from the trade ban, last year accounted for $139 million of all American shipments to Cuba. Jiussia days I U.S. Proposal Only Politics UNITED NATIONS (A)-A Unit- ed States request for quick ap- proval of a surplus food distribu- tion program yesterday drew a Soviet charge that the plan was "aimed at getting the farmer vote in the United States election cam- paign." The charge was voiced by P. M. Chernyshev in the United Nations Assembly Economic Committee. 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