THEMICHIGANDAILY nglh, Russians Appeal FINAL HOURS: Royalists Flown to Fro For Conferences on PEACE CONFERENCE: U.S. Threatens Boycott Until War Ends WASHINGTON (RP) - The Unit-, ed States yesterday greeted with "satisfaction" the calls for a cease fire in Laos. But it warned it would join no Laotian peace conference unless the fighting actually stops. The State Department's initial reaction to the British-Soviet cease fire call came shortly after word reached Washington of a new mil- itary push by Communist-aided Laotian rebels. Co-Chairmen Britain and Russia, as co-chair- men of the 1954 Indochina peace settlement, issued the new pro- posals calling for a cessation of hostilities, use of a three-nation commission to check on the cease fire and a followup 14-nation con- ference on Laos to start in Gene- va May 12. The British and Soviet ambas- sadors to Washington Jointly pre- sented the proposal to Secretary of State Doan Rusk yesterday morning. Rusk did not reply im- mediately, but presently intends to 'go to the opening sessions at Geneva, officials said. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White said "our initial re- action is one of satisfaction" with the proposal. But "until there's a verified cease fire, there's no con- There's fun afoot r. for the-whole family in .. that'swhy fun-loving guys and gals of all ages choose this fanmous shoe, and have for years! Comfortable, cool, sturdy CHAMPIONS come in many bright colors, wash so easily. Get several pairs... step into fun! ference as far as we are concern- ed," he said, adding: Always Clear "We have always made it clear that there could be no 14-nation conference on Laos until a cease fire was called for and put into effect. "The (rebel) Pathet Lao this weekend launched an offensive at the eleventh hour in the direc- tion of Vientiane knowing that a cease fire was imminent. We shall therefore see whether a cease fire is, in fact, observed." Authorities said the cease fire terms did not provide for a halt to the Soviet arms airlift to. the rebels. United States aid to the Royal Lao forces would not be called off without a guaranteed halt in the Reds' outside assistance to the Pathet Lao, they said. A high United States official said the British-Soviet cease fire call was not wholly satisfactory from Washington's viewpoint be- cause it set no specific date for an end to the shooting. Rusk and other US. authorities faced the prospective Geneva Con- ference with scant optimism. The Reds have the bargaining cards stacked in their favor because of their= strong military 'position in Laos. Under a policy of keeping its powder dry, the U.S. governm~ent planned to continue its supplying, training and advising of Lao gov- ernment forces during the confer- ence. Hodges Predicts Business Scandals WASHINGTON () - Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges pre- dicted yesterday that more scan- dals like the electrical price-fix- ing case soon will blot the record of American business. SECRETARY RUSK ... no reply $479 .! World News Roundup By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-A compromise bill to keep the federal interstate highway program on schedule by raising an additional $900 mil- lion annually was approved yes- terday by the House Ways and Means Committee. * * * TEGUCIGALGA, Honduras - Honduras severed diplomatic re- lations with Cuba yesterday untill it "submits to the norms and dis-1 cipline of the inter-American sys- tem." NEW YORK - An attorney for General Motors Corp. said yester- day it appears that defects exist In a federal grand jury criminal antitrust indictment handed up against the company last April 12. s * s LONDON-A Laborite minority last night proposed in Parliament a motion congratulating Fidel Cas- tro on repelling the Cuban inva- sion and condemning the United States' role in the attack. Among the signers was tom Dri- berg, a member of the party's national executive, and onetime government minister John Dug- dale. There was no indication the motion had official party backing, or how many backers it had. But if presented on the floor of the House of Commons, it would probably meet defeat. FAVORS I by BUD-MOR 1 03 S. University NO 2-6362 Laos, USSR Drops Immediate' Truee Call Arrangements Stick On Armistice Timing LONDON (P)-A long-awaited appeal for a cease fire in Laos was issued yesterday by Britain and the Soviet Union as a pre- lude to what is certain to be months of hard bargaining with the Communists on the political future of the divided southeast Asian kingdom. The appeal was directed at the torn nation's major warring fac- tions-the Pathet Lao rebels, sup- ported and supplied by Commu- nists, and the pro-Western gov- ernment in Vientiane, backed by the United States. Request for India Althougth the appeal did not ask for a cease fire immediately, as the West had demanded, it was accompanied by a request for India to call a meeting of a truce commission for Laos. The com- mission, headed by India, with Canada and Poland as the other two members, scheduled its first meeting in New Delhi Friday. The truce commission repre- sented the second step in the Laos peace plan. The third will be a 14-nation conference on a permanent political settlement in Laos, to open in Geneva May 12. The main sticking point in working out the arrangements was the timing of a cease fire. The Russians wanted the talking to start before the fighting stopped, a tactic used with success by the Communists in Korea and Indo- china. Instruct Commission The British and Soviet govern- ments instructed the truce com- mission first to discuss its own functions, then to report to Lon- don and Moscow for "directions on going to Laos to carry out the work of controlling the cease fire." This procedure seems to indi- cate some time will elapse before the cease fire is verified. But the British government, in a state- ment to Parliament, specified that it would have to be satisfied a cease fire was being observed be- fore its representatives sit down at the conference table in Gene- va. Folk Singers Demonstrate. NEW YORK-Some 2,000 folk- song fans jammed a street near Washington Square Park Sunday, protesting the new ruling two weeks ago by New York Park Commissioner Newbold Morris that the traditional Sunday singing is now banned in the park. Folk singers strummed banjos and guitars and warbled new lyrics to old tunes, such as "Npwbold Morris is a grizzly bear." VIENTIANE (P)-Hundreds of government troops were airlifted to the front north of Vientiane yesterday to shore up crumbling defenses against the pro-Commu- nist rebels in the final hours be- fore a ceasefire in the civil war. Pathet Lao rebels pushed south-. ward along the main north-south highway during the weekend, sending royal army troops into a headlong retreat of 30 to 40 miles. Three American military advis- ers may have been captured in the rebel thrust to Vang Vieng, a ma- jor government military headquar- ters 80 miles north of here on the Vientiane - Luang Prabang highway linking the administra- tive and royal capitals. 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