ARUH 13, 196Z THE MICHIGAN DAILY Administration Begins Drive for Acceptance Of Major Trade Plan French Predict End Of Algerian Dispute News Agency Says Negotiators To Announce Cease-Fire Today By The Associated Press EVIAN-In an atmosphere of hopeful expectancy French and Al- gerian negotiators last night wound up their sixth day of talks to arrange a cease-fire for strife-torn Algerian. The French News Agency (AFP) declared the end of the more than seven-year war in the North African territory will be announced today. Representatives of President Charles de Gaulle's government and members of the Algerian rebel regime pushed their secret deliberations Ask Jobless Plan Extension COMMUNIQUE: Report 75 Algerians Die In Tunisia Border Clash, ALGIERS (M)-French headquarters said yesterday 75 Algerian rebels were estimated killed and 150 wounded in recent fighting along the Tunisian frontier. A communique which followed an inspection of the frontier in- stallations by the supreme commander in Algeria, Gen. Charles Ail- leret, said 6 French soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in the frontier belt. Fighting Coincides The flareup of fighting coincided with the start of Algerian- French peace negotiations in Evian-Les-Bains, now in their sixth day. aThe figures announced by the Justification. WASHINGTON (RP)-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara feels the Army must achieve a breakthrough answer to enemy missile barrages to justify produc- tion of its Nike-Zeus missile killer, informed sources said yesterday. McNamara was pictured as be- lieving such a breakthrough is not yet in sight-and that the im- pending single-missile intercept tests in the Pacific will not an- swer what to him is a key ques- tion-can the Nike-Zeus cope with a mass missile attack? . 1 headquarters covered the period from March 6-11. The army said the rebels mass- ed "very important elements" in the northern part of the frontier {while their mortars and cannons pounded French positions. Despite the size of the rebel effort, the French said only several hundred yards of defensive installations were destroyed. French defenses stretch 300 miles along the fron- tier to keep rebels from infiltrat- ing into Algeria from their Tunis- ian bases. Kills 10 Algerians The rebel fire killed 10 Algerian civilians and wounded 35, the ar- my said. Most of the victims were near the mining settlement of Kouif. Meanwhile, French troops fired on Moslems in the west Algerian port of Arzew, killing 11 and wounding 16. A 3 p.m. curfew was imposed on the town, where French infantrymen surrounded' the Moslem quarter. Army sources' said the firing started after a Moslem shot and wounded a sol- dier. When an army patrol inter- vened, Moslems began firing from rooftops and windows. In Paris, a strike was called as a gesture of indignation for the terrorist secret army, blamed for the explosion of a bomb-laden- truck before a hall which had scheduled a meeting of a leftist organization critical of secret ar- my tactics to block Algerian inde- pendence. U.S. Reveals Latint Aid Plan of $1 Billion WASHINGTON (M)-The United' States has announced it has com- mitted more than $1 billion to the Alliance for Progress aid plan in Latin America in one year. Of this, 87 per cent is in loans, 13 in outright grants. About 25 to 30 per cent of. the $1 billion actually has been spent on proj- ects as varied as schools, roads, housing projects, water systems for villages and big cities, and farm resettlement and irrigation. A statement by Teodoro Mosco- so, coordinator of the alliance pro- gram for the United States gov- ernment, said the United States commitments, totalling $1,029,- 576,000 "fulfill the promise made to the other member nations of the alliance at the beginning of the Charter of Punta Del Este last August." At the same meeting the Latin American countries agreed to mus- ter about $80 billion in self-help efforts. Hodges als For World Unification Proposal Requests Five-Year Expansion WASHINGTON (JP)-The Ken- nedy administration opened a new phase of its drive for passage of a major.new trade program yes- terday with a pitch by Secretary of 'Commerce Luther H. Hodges. "We are going to have to face a Communist economic offensive and I think it is essential to have free world unity," Hodges said. Hodges urged the House Ways and Means Committee to look with favor on President John F. Ken- nedy's p'oposed five-year trade expansion proposal which could wipe out 'tariffs completely on some major products and perhaps avoid a trade war among Western nations. Main Proposals The trade bill, one of Kennedy's main legislative proposals, would give the President special and wide-ranging authority to bargain with the European Common Mar- ket. This group of half a dozen west European countries is elim- inating internal tariffs while maintaining a wall against goods from outside. Hodges, a former textile indus- try executive who said he spoke as a business man, told the com- mittee the Common Market is a fact of life and so is the United States' $7-billion stake in west European trade. 8.5 Per Cent of Sales He said exports account for 8.5 per cent of United States sales and "as a businessmen, I would say that the loss of a customer accounting for one-twelfth of sales would be for many companies the difference between operating at a profit and operating at a loss." While United States wage scales are the world's highest, Hodges said, "our advantage in cost of materials-oil, coal, iron, wood, agricultural goods for instance--is so great as to offset our competi- tors' advantage in labor costs." He argued that United States businessmen are experienced in the type of large-scale merchan- dizing which the Common Market is now making possible in Europe and therefore have an opportunity to "score commercial successes." into a night session, seeking to work out final details of a peace. It was the first time since the talks began last Wednesday at this Lake Geneva resort that the delegates had remained in session so late. Dampens Optimism As rumors mounted that the cease-fire was imminent, a source close to the French delegation moved to dampen the optimism. The informant said "very con- siderable progress had been made" in the latest session, but he de- clined comment on the French News Agency report and cautioned "there remain many points to be settled." Informants said that among the remaining problems is the makeup of a provisional government to rule Algeria until a self-determi- nation vote can be held. Lacks Precision The French agency, which has Well-placed informants in govern- ment circles, distributed a dispatch saying it is not yet possible to furnish "with the slightest preci- sion" an authorized report of the settlement terms. The dispatch added, however, that "the Algerian war will be fin- ished" today. WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP: Netherlands Sets Talk on Guinea j Soviets Stall Air Corridor BERLIN (W) -- The Russians came up yesterday with another way of making trouble for the Western Allies in the air corridors to Berlin, even as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei Gromyko talked tbout the problei in Gene- va. Informed sources said the Rus- sians scheduled four flights by mil- itary planes which roughly coin- cided with flight plans of United States commercial airliners be- tween Frankfurt and Berlin yes- terday morning. No incidents were reported, and informed sources said no Soviet planes were even sighted. The three corridors to Berlin are each 20 miles wide, and traf- fic is not heavy. The danger, one expert said, is that Soviet and Western planes in the corridors are not subject to the same air traffic control. By The Associated Press THE HAGUE-The Netherlands and Indonesia have agreed to un- dertake secret preliminary talks in an effort to decide the future of disputed New Guinea, Dutch Premier Jan de Quay said last night. De Quay said both countries are accepting a United States proposal for such a meeting, with a neutral observer sitting in. * * * WASHINGTON - The White House announced yesterday that President John F. Kennedy will inspect missile sites at Vanden- burg Air Force Base in California on March 23. - * * * GANDER, Newfoundland-Im- migration officials said yesterday the co-pilot of a Cubana Airlines plane bound for Prague, Czecho- slovakia, from Havana defected Sunday night and asked for poli- tical asylum. * * * F. Kennedy yesterday scheduled a news conference for 3:30 p.m. EST tomorrow. * * * WASHINGTON-President John F. Kennedy disclosed yesterday that he will speak on his program of medical care for the aged at a rally in New York's Madison Square Garden May 20. * * * ORLANDO, Fla.--A hearing on James R. Hoffa's attempt to have a criminal indictment against him dismissed began slowly in Federal Court yesterday. Attorneys for the Teamsters Union president attack- ed the legality of the Grand Jury which returned it. * * , PARIS-Paris was hit yesterday by a half-hour general strike pro- testing a bomb blast Saturday. The strike, backed by all big Paris unions, halted subways and "sub- urban trains and interrupted mail service. * * * V r / I - 'I High waist and handsome! Duppioni silk sheath, completely lined, midriff boned and bowed. 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