How Romney By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM Special To The Daily LANSING-Triumphantly spread across Gov. George Romney's proposed higher education budget is a mesh of unwieldy numbers combining to form the record total figure of $131 million. But to a hard-core group of educators from the 10 state- supported higher institutions, the triumph is not ultimately numerical. It is very personal. It is theirs. Fight Against Austerity To this perenially vanquished group of educational officials, the budget submitted to the Legislature last Tuesday is a tribute to their long fight against traditionally sparse recommendations to meet higher education needs. They realize that Romney's proposed budget may spell the difference between austerity and expansion. It takes account of the onrushing crop of booming babies. Make Michigan Competitive It seeks to make Michigan competitive with salary levels offered at tax-supported institutions in other states. But, most important, it stands as numerical proof that Decided 1 ins are taking strides toward refocusing their thinking needs of higher institutions, so long neglected. is with great pride that the educators can look upon this which Romney has asked his Republican-dominated Legis- to pass. The educators have scrimped through the lean riation years to keep their institutions flourishing. And at though the danger remains that the Legislature may still tially slice the budget, a very powerful cry for higher on has been sounded. No Complaints imney's $131.5 million reoommendation-$21.5 million more as granted last year-is significantly below the $144 million ,hich the institutions had requested for the 1964-65 fiscal s. But educators, accustomed in the past five years to ranges which have never surpassed $110 million and which unk as low as $87 million, are not complaining. ey point to the fact that if this year's appropriation is as recommended, it would practically double in one year 7-$110 million advance which has taken a five-year span mulate. w do Romney aides, state legislators and educators piece pon Education Reques together the decision to allow education such "luxury?" The de- cision, they are in accord, is a testament to the governor's flexi- bility, in that he overcame original grave doubts as to the actual financial plight of higher education. No Sudden Reversal But for all his flexibility, officials still contend that last Tuesday's $131.5 recommendation does not reflect a sudden and complete reversal of past thinking on the governor's part. They trace a logical chain of events leading to what may some day be called the historic decision for Michigan higher education. It is a chain which climaxed-ironically enough-not in Michigan, but aboard an airplane bound for Omaha, Nebraska, on Nov. 20, some two days before a national historic tragedy. In the air the governor uttered his decision to give higher education "about a $20 million increase" to Controller Glenn Allen who was accompanying him on the trip. "It was the first time we dared think in such meaty terms," one budget aide recalled. Out of the Blue? However, if the decision was made up in the blue, it certainly didn't come just out of the blue, he went on. Leading to it was an inexorable chain of combinations-a strange link of person- alities, pressure and prosperity which made possible numerically what educators had worked for unceasingly during the past five years. The specific events leading to Romney's recommendation become chronicled as early as the summer when he confided to close friends his desire to hike the appropriation for higher education if projected revenue estimates for Michigan continued. But he was not letting on. In preparing budget and revenue estimates for public perusal, Romney instructed his aides to "figure conservatively." The governor knew that budgets did not have to be finalized until long after January-after the Legis- lature had a chance to chew on the more pressing issue of fiscal reform. Highly Misinterpreted Qne source explained that the speculative budget issued during the summer was highly misinterpreted as an accurate telltale of the one forthcoming in January. "Concerned educators at that time need not have been so concerned," the source notes. If the projected budget was any- thing, it was a propaganda piece for fiscal reform, he explained. See AIDES, Page 3 DE GAULLE IS MAKING THE RIGHT MOVE See Editorial Page :Y 4 4 ip au ~IaitA& CLOUDY AND COLD High-32 Low-22 Snow flurries with diminishing winds Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXIV, No. 91 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAG British Special Forces Alerted in East Africa After Military Mutinies ONE-THIRD INCREASE: More Sugar Required For USSR-Cuba Deal WASHINGTON 0?)-Cuba will have to boost her sugar production by 50 per cent to meet Prime Minister Fidel Castro's announced commitment to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, according to figures compiled by United States officials. Castro's Moscow visit was concluded with a Soviet-Cuban agree- ment under which Russia is to buy two million tons of Cuban sugar next year, three million tons in 1966, four million in 1967 and five million the followin g VIOLENCE THREATENS-The government of Kenya Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta (left) is being threatened by a full- scale uprising following sniper attacks near Nairobi. Tanganyika President Julius Nyerere called for help from Kenya after revolts in his own country last Monday. CONFERENCE : British ilngTo Join In Global Satellite System By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-British officials have indicated they now are ready to join in a global communications satellite system, a source in the'Communications Satellite Corp. said last night. The source said British representatives at a European com- munications conference-which was attended by American officials-- said they Would recommend that their government move quickly to $get into the proposed global sys- Quiet Settles Over Uganda, Tanganyika Rebel Troops Shoot At English Outpost In Northern Kenya JINGA, Uganda 0,P) - British commandos stood a tense vigil in Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya last night after brushfire army mutinies threatened to enflame all three former East Africa col- onies in a wave of violence. Rebellious African soldiers snip- ed at a base north of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi that was seized by an arlifted commando unit. An uneasy quiet settled over the other two commonwealth nations, whose leaders asked Britain's help amid the wave of unrest set off on the mainland in the wake of the Zanzibar coup two weeks ago. Dawn Attack Brig. Pat Sholto Douglas, ousted by mutineers of the Tanganyika Rifles in a brief revolt last Mon- day, led 500 commandos in a dawn attack on . an African barracks near Dar Es Salaam after heli- copter landings from the British carrier Centaur. Three African soldiers were kill- ed and 20 wounded in the renewal fof violence at the barracks. The British troops restored order with- out casualties. Other troops took over an African base at Tabora, 400 miles west of Dar Es Salaam. Commandos were flown in from neighboring Kenya at the request of President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika. He said he feared that a threatened general strike plus the new army flareup would bring bloody racial violence. Sev- enteen Africans were killed in rioting after last Monday's revolt. No 'Foolish Talk' Nyerere went on state radio to urge mutinous soldiers still in the bush to surrender and put down See Related Story, Page 3 "foolish talk that the British have come back to rule Tanganyika." He said he would have asked help from Kenya or Uganda if it were' not for their own problems. In Dahomey, President Sourou Mignon Apithy said the former French colony in West Africa is in danger of another revolution like the, one that overthrew Dahomey's first government last October. "The counter-revolution is . . . at our very doors," he told the national assembly. Plan Anti-Bias Demonstration A three-phase civil rights dem- year. The announced six cents a pound. Castro went on the air Friday night, exhorting his fellow Cubans to step up production of sugar, the Caribbean island's main money earner. According to United States sta- tistics, Cuba's sugar output will have to do an about-face from previous years under the Castro regime, which saw the harvest plunge from 6.8 million tons in 1961 to 3.8 million in 1963. This has helped to push up the world market price. Washington forecasters estimate Cuba's 1964 crop will be even lower-about 3.3 million tons- and that 1965 will see little in- crease. To meet the commitment of five million tons for Russia in 1968, Cuba's sugar production would have to climb by about 50 per cent above her United States- estimated harvests in 1964-65. United States experts believe the Soviet-Cuban agreement, which reshuffles previous Cuban sugar commitments to Moscow, has these purposes: 1) To give Havana freedom to sell as much sugar as it can to free world buyers this year. Prices are now high, around ten cents a pound. 2) To prop up world sugar prices after 1964 by incidating that Rus- sia will be taking much of Cuba's sugar. 3) To encourage Cuba to grow more sugar by promising six cents a pound. price was Bill Urges Investigationi A resolution to establish a House committee to investigate "outside interests" of state college and uni- versity presidents has been intro- duced in the House by Rep. Wil- liam D. Romano (D-Warren). Romano pointed out two prin- cipal reasons for an investigation. He cited the question of conflict of interest in financial matters, noting that one state university president "put telephones in all the students' rooms and then be- came a member of the board of the telephone company a short time later.' And he said there were several otrier incidents of this sort. Secondly, he said he was con- cerned with the amount of time some college and university presi- dents spend on other activities They have an "obligation to their university" and should not be "gallivanting around the country" or "holding jobs outside the state," he said. The resolution is now in the House Rules and Resolutions Com- mittee. Romano said he was con- fident that it would be sent to the floor and passed. Speaker of the House Allison Green (R-Kingston) said that he would rather not comment on, the resolution at this time since he had not yet seen it. U' May Get Study Center, For Tropics By ALAN Z. SHULMAN A long-standing goal of the University-to establish a center for tropical studies-may be ful- filled during the present academic year, Dean Stephen H. Spurr of the School of Natural Resources said recently. The University, in conjunction, with Harvard University and the Universities of Florida, Kansas, Southern California, Washington, and Costa Rica, has established an Association for Tropical Stud- ies, Inc. to promote research in tropical biology in a tropical locale-. "Each member of the associa- tion helps put up the money neces- sary for incorporation and each appoints two directors to the or- ganization's staff," Spurr ex- plained. "Although Michigan took the lead in calling the meeting at which these universities agreed to pool their efforts, all the members of the corporation are equal part- ners. "The association's greatest prob- lem right now is financial," Spurr declared. "The universities have put up organizational money, but we have no funds for buildings, faculty, or laboratory. "We have applied to the Na- tional Science Foundation for funds, and they are presently evaluating our application. If we get their support, we are prepared to offer a summer school at the University of Costa Rica this year." Looking to the future, Spurr hoped that the association's pro- ject would shortly expand into a international graduate school centered at Costa Rica, for stu- dents interested in tropical bio- logy, and offering a wide selection i of courses and research projects. Chiang's response was not re- corded. The informants said the French leader's request was presented in Taipei recently by a French dip- lomat, Gen. Zinovi Pechkoff. No Deterioration Pechkoff's assignment, they said, was to stress that French recognition of Red China should not be a cause for deterioration in relations between Formosa and France. There had been unofficial re- ports that Nationalist China in- tended to break with de Gaulle's government as soon as the Peking- Paris deal goes through. The Unit- ed States, however, is reported to have urged Chiang not to take that step. The United States is seeking to cushion the impact of the impend- ing recognition with reassurances that it will not change our policy in the Far East. Hold the Line High diplomatic sources making this known yesterday said Secre- tary of State Dean Rusk, in pri- vate talks with Japanese and South Korean leaders over the next five days, will stress Ameri- can intentions to hold the line in its policy toward Peking. In addition, Rusk is due to make an important policy speech in Toyko Tuesday in which he will restate the American policy of supporting the independence of young postwar oountries faced with Communist subversion and infiltration. DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION: Peking To Accept De Gaulle's Policy By The Associated Press PARIS-President Charles de Gaulle apparently has persuaded Peking to accept France's two-China recognition policy and has made his pitch for President Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government to go along, informed sources said yesterday. De Gaulle was reported to have asked Chiang not to sever diplomatic relations with France after it recognizes Red China, an event now expected tomorrow.'- Seeks New. Relationship With]Panama WASHINGTON (P) - President Lyndon B. Johnson called yester- day for a resumption of relations with Panama, but efforts by the inter-American peace committee to bringy the two countries closer together bogged down. "We are hoping that we can have relations and, after we do that, th en we can try to reason together," Johnson told a White House news conference. Within the councils of the peace comnmittee, however, it was re- ported that the President's objec- tive would not be fulfilled immed- iately. The reason, an old one, was Panama's insistence on a specific United btates agreement to ne- gotiate new conventions regarding the canal. Non-Committal The United States has offered to discuss all outstanding prob- lems with Panama, but ha's shied away from a commitmentto write a new treaty. It was'reported after yesterday's meeting of the peace committee that the United States had con- ceded the specific mention of the Panama Canal in the draft agree- ment tbich the committee is working on. The United States, informed sources said, has now agreed that any talks: and negotiations with Panama shall cover all mutual problemrs. "including those deriv- ing from the existence of the Panama Canal." Agrees to Begin The United States also agreed to begin talks witn Panama 15 days after resumption of diplo- maticyrelations r ther than the 30 days %~hich had been its pre- vious position. As Johrnson put it yesterday, the United States is following a policy "of, being fair and just and dis- cussing any problem tat arises." Both Johnson and President Robert Cbiari of Panaman express- ed similar conciliatory li n e s Thursday, But Panama fell back on its position that the United States agree to negotiate new rules re- garding the canal, and yesterday's committee meeting broke up after six hours with agreement that an- other ses ion would be held today. U N Unit lews SNCC Protests ATLANTA (P) ,- Negro pickets protesting segregation yesterday greeted members of a United Na- View Hannah As Candidate For U.S. Senate LANSING - Booth Newspapers report Michigan Republicans have a man they think can beat Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich) this year, but the man isn't biting-at least not at last report. He is John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State University for the past 22 years and a Con-Con delegate in 1962 on the Republican ticket. Overtures have been made to the MSU leader, whose career as head of that institution has been marked by hard work and excel- lent organization. Hannah has many attributes which could aid him in a senator- ial campaign. He is recognized as a leading educator in Michigan and throughout the nation, and he is and has been for many years a national leader in the fight for civil rights oy virtue of member- ship and chairmanship of the fed- eral Civil Rights Commission. Hannah is a more .liberal col- tem. France and West Germany already had stated they want to be a part of the system, but there had been evidence that Britain was holding off. In other recent space develop- ments, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a glittering new man-made star-the 13-story bal- loon satellite Echo 2-rocketed in- to the heavens yesterday. Popping open in space some 800 miles above South Africa, the 135- foot diameter baloon became the largest artificial moonlet ever launched and was expected to be seen by more people than any other object ever made by man. Men's Rush Starts Today Between 700-800 rushees are ex- peted to take part as the 43 fra- ternities begin their semi-annual rush today. Open houses will take place from 2-5 p.m. and from 7-10 p.m. to- day and will continue from 7-10 p.m. tomorrow and Tuesday. Smokers, beginning Tuesday, will continue each night through Feb. 6 from 7-9 p.m., with the BEAT SPARTANS IN 'TKO': 31' Five Outscrcips MSU, 91-77- By TOM ROWLAND Special To The Daily EAST LANSING-"Bloody Nose Lane," as the story goes, is that forbidden area of the court between the key and the basket where basketball ends and rugby begins-where wild-flying elbows gnash skulls and "cutting the meat" is a carnivorous term for pulling off a rebound or throwing in two points. Michigan and Michigan State battled it out here yesterday after- noon for two hours, and after the elbows stopped flying, after fans stopped throwing toilet paper on the floor, after Bob Cantrell threw ~a perfect cross body block into State's Fred Thomann and re- ceived a foul shot for his effort, the Wolverines won it, 91-77. About 12,200 f a n s watched Michigan State's wide-open of- fense and second-half zone de- fense force Michigan's conference- leading cagers to "play as hard as they knew how to the very end" in the words of State's coach Forddy Anderson. The Wolverines had to survive three comeback efforts by Vthe pesky Spartans and never had For details of Wolverine vic- tories in track, wrestling, swim- ming and ockey, see pages 5 and 6. > ; ..;. e