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ORIENTE PROVINCE:

Observers Report on Cuban Rebels

Praises U.S.

By HAROLD MILKS
Associated Press Feature Writer
HAVANA - Insurgents in in-
creasing numbers are active in
Oriente province's mountains but
most-if not all-appear to be
defectors from Prime Minister
Fidel Castro's regime rather than
arrivals from abroad.
Qualified observers who toured:
Oriente, Cuba's easternmost pro-
vince, reported yesterday they,
found no direct confirmation of
reports widely circulated of "land-
ings" by rebels in several areas of
eastern Cuba.
Fled To Fight
But the observers reported they
learned reliably that up to 600
opposition men had fled into the
hills between Baracoa on the
northern coast and Guantanamo

on the southern coast to fight the
Castro regime.
A survey lasting several days
failed' to produce a single direct
confirmation of reported landings
in the Baracoa area or in the La
Plata-Pilon region on the south-
ern coast. Landings in these areas
have been widely rumored since
early February.
But the survey did produce proof
in the form of conversations with
relatives of rebels and Cuban of-
ficials that there is steadily in-
creasing insurgent activity in
Oriente which. may in time grow
into an opposition "second front."
Troops Dispatched
The observers confirmed that
considerable numbers of Castro
militiamen and troops have been


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dispatched into the area midway
between Baracoa and Guantana-
mo because of insurgent activity.
The government, meanwhile,
maintained silence on progress of
its "cleanup" effort against a main
concentration of rebels in the Es-
cambray mountains of South-
central Cuba.'
The "liberation army" radio
from somewhere outside Cuba said
the insurgents made a "successful
attack" on militia positions ring-
ing the Escambrays. The broad-
cast said rebels used only bayonets
and commando knives to avoid
alerting the militiamen held in
reserve.
Report Facts
Those who took the Oriente tour
made a report including the fol-
lowing facts:
Lt. Emilio Vera, chief of the
Guantanamo jail, decamped into
the hills Feb. 14 with a number of
political prisoners and 20 guards
-all armed. Crstro's agents ar-
rested Vera's wife and held her
incomunicado, the observers said.
Nearly 40 other members of Cas-
tro's police and military organiza-
tions led by Capt. Argimiro Fon-
seca have deserted and moved into
the hills.
Arrest 200
In the roundup of anti-Castro
suspects that followed, more than
200 persons were arrested. Among
those detained was an ex-captain
of police, Jose Rodrigues Moreno,
chief of the territorial taxes bur-
eau in Guantanamo and brother-
in-law of Regino Boti, Castro's
minister of economy.
Two national policemen who
deserted their unit in Havana
reached Guantanamo, these in-
formants went on, but were shot
down by militiamen before they
could join insurgent forces in the
hills.
Castro's opposition in Oriente
appeared in individual or small
group actions, the observers said,
rather than in an organized move
against the regime.
"Some of those who fled into
the hills did so because they op-
posed Communism; others because
they had personal troubles with
their superiors or associates," one
said. "Many others joined opposi-
tion groups simply because they
were fed up."
Kennedy Picks
AEC Member
WASHINGTON 4P) - Leland J.
Haworth, director of the Brook-
haven national laboratory on Long
Island, was appointed yesterday
to the Atomic Energy Commission
by President John F. Kennedy.
Haworth's selection completes
the membership of the five-man,
commission. Glenn T. Seaborg,
who won a Nobel prize in chemis-
try, is slated to be chairman.
Other members are Robert E. Wil-
son and two lawyers, John S.
Graham and Loren K. Olson.
Haworth has specialized in nu-
clear physics, high energy physics
and the surface structure of
metals. He is a past president of
the American Nuclear Society.

'Good Intent'
AVERILL HARRIMAN
Leader Asks Parley . .. to go to Europe
Including 14 Nations
PHNOM PENHCambodia ()-TNew Roy ng
Prince Norodom Sihanouk has
written President John F. Ken-Am ud r
nedy the United States, showed OT. l
good intentions in backing a neu-
tral commission to end the Lao-
tian civil war, but says the com-
mission would fail.
Replying to a Kennedy letter,
the Cambodian chief of state said WASHINGTON (') - In his
he felt only an international con- first direct move to tighten NATO
ference of 14 interested nations- unity, President John F. Kennedy
including Red China-could end yesterday assigned Roving Am-
the fightingybsdrA sgedHrrimn.to
Sihanouk said United States bassador W. Averell Harriman to
support of Laotian King Savang tour western Europe at once and
Vathana's proposal for a three- confer with the chief allied leaders.
nation neutral commission was Harriman will visit London,
proof the United States inten- Paris, Bonn and Rome to meet
tions were good. But he said such with the top officials, convey Ken-
a commission is unacceptable to nedy's personal greetings and "dis-
pro-Communist rebels who control cuss matters of broad mutual in-
much of northeastern Laos and, terest.
therefore, could not hope to ac- The action comes at a time of
complish much. steadily' increasing tensions in the
Cambodia and Burma rejected relationship between the United
the king's appeal that they serve States and the Soviet Union. It
on the commission, leaving only also coincides 'with some irritation
Malaya willing. in relations between this country
The United States turned down and Britain, particularly over the
Sihanouk's idea when first pro- Kennedy administration's new ap-
posed because it would bring sev- proach to African problems.
eral Communist nations into the "It is anticipated," the White
negotiations, including Red China. House said, "that Harriman will
In Xieng Khouang, Laos, the see Prime Minister Harold Mac-
rebel radio announced ex-Pre- millan in London, President
mier Souvanna Phouma presided Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Chan-
over a government meeting that cellor Conrad Adenauer in Bonn,
decided to press the civil war until and Prime Minister Aintore Fan-
the entire country was "liberated." fani in Rome. While in Paris, Har-
Soviet planes have resumed sup- riman also expects to meet with
ply drops to rebels in the central the permanent representatives of
plain area, the government said, the North Atlantic Council."
and are presumed to have shot Details of the itinerary were left
down an unarmed transport owned to the State Department to an-
by the Laotian Veha Akat Airlines. nounce.
National Roundup
By The Associated Press that unless arms control agree-
SACRAMENTO - California ments can be reached "some day
Go. Edmund G. Brown yesterday we are all going up in smoke and
signed into law a bill to permit flame."
55,000 jobless Californians to
start drawing extra unemployment Sparkman, a member of the
insurance payments tomorrow. Senate foreign relations commit-
"We needed this bill to get help tee, said he agrees with Adlai E.
into areas of economic distress Stevenson, United States ambas-
immediately," Brown said. The bill sador to the United Nations, that
provides some $8 million before steps should be taken to "rid the
extended benefits under existing world of the menace of nuclear
law become available. weapons and that we should work
* * * toward eventual disarmament."
CAPE CANAVERAL - Space
scientists yesterday abandoned a GOTHIC FILM SOCIETY
slim hope that orbit was achieved
by the "radio brain" satellite RENE CLAIR'S
launched from this spaceport last LE MILLION *
night.
The 75-pound sphere was hurl- FRANCE, 1930
ed skyward in the nose of a four- AND
stage Juno II rocket. Its mission
was to study the effect on com- ENTR'ACTE
munications of the ionosphere, an (CLAIR, 1924)
electrically charged region which *"The only true international sound
surrounds the earth fil, 'Le Million' dispenses with
* * * English subtitles because none are
WASHINGTON - Sen. John needed to clarify Its story." Mu-
Sparkman (D-Ala) said yesterday

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