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LAOTIAN PARLEY-Leuam Insisiengmay, right, chief of the western-backed royal Laotion delegation
to the Geneva conference 'has said he would boycott the meeting because the pro-Communist
Pathet Lao and representatives of Prince Souvanna Phouma's self-styled neutralists were also
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Reopen Talks
VIENTIANE, Laos (P)-- Gov-
ernment and rebel negotiators re-
opened talks yesterday in an ef-
fort to get a unified delegation to
the Geneva conference.
The talks, recessed Monday,
have stumbled over disagreement
on whether to give top priority to
cease-fire guarantees or forma-
tion of a coalition government that
would appoint a delegation to
represent all Laos at Geneva.
Informed sources said Western
diplomats failed to convince Dep-'
uty Premier Gen. Phoumi Nosavan
he should order his royal delega-
tion to attend the conference. He
balked because the pro-Commun-
ist Pathet Lao rebel, representa-
tives were seated at Geneva as
equals of the government delega-
tidn.
Phoumi Adamant
Informed sources described
Phoumi as adamantl in his refusal
to order royal representatives to
attend the Geneva conference as
long as the rebel delegation is
seated.
United States ambassado~ Win-
trhop Brown met with Phoumi
several times. Phoumi was des-
cribed as hurt and angry because
of the United States decision to
accept a compromise to permit the
Pathet Lao to be seated at Geneva.
Some Laotian observers inter-
preted United States acceptan ;e
of the Pathet Lao delegation as the
latest in a series of diplomatic
withdrawals.
Tin-Rooted School
The Laotians' efforts to settle
their own problems will be made
again in a tin-roofed schoolhouse
in the village ofVBan Namone, 75
miles north of Vientiane.
Some diplomatic sources said
the opening of the Geneva con-
ference may stimulate the Ban
Namone negatiators to come to
terms. Also, King Savang Vathana
now is in Vientiane for consul-
tation on the talks.
The government has modified its
demand that cease-fire details be
worked out before political talks
begin and further adjustments are
likely.
Conference
Boycotted
By Royalists
Refuse To Attend
Talks with Pathet Lao
GENEVA VP)-Britain's Foreign
Secretary Lord David Home called
last night on the United States
and the Soviet Union to cease
supplying arms to warring groups
in Laos.
His appeal made as an interna-
tional conference on Laos opened
here, was followed by an attack on
United States Vice-President Lyn-
don Johnson by ChineseCCommu-
nist Foreign Minister Chen Yi.
The Red Chinese delegate accused
Johnson of plotting war in South-
east Asia.
The conference itself opened
without the representatives of Pre-
mier Boun Oum's pro-Western
Royal Laotian government, who
refused to attend because the
Communist-led Pathet Lao was
granted a seat at the negotiating
table.
Home proposed that an embargo
on the shipment of arms to Laos
be policed by international in-
spectors.
Refrain from Mention
He refrained from mentioning
either the Americans or the Rus-
sians, by name but stressed that
one of the great needs in the Lao-
tian crisis was to shut off the flow
of weapons to that jungle king-
dom.
The United States has insisted
that it shipped arms to the Roy-
al Laotian government to preient
that regime from being brought
down by Communist-led Pathet
Lao rebels supported by North
Viet Nam.
Home, Chen Yi and Prince
Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian
chief of state, all proposed the es-
tablishment of a neutral Laos as
the delayed sessions got under-
way.
Proposes Program
The conference, which convened
after four days late-heard Home
propose a four point program aim-
ed at bolstering theeonmyof
Laos and removing the landlocked
Southeast Asion state from the
spheres of either of the world's
two power groupings.
World News
SRoundup
By The Associated Press
GENEVA-The neutralist chief
of Cambodia, Prince Norodom Si-
hanouk, last night began a new
effort to endythecRoyal Laotian
government's boycott of the Laos
peace talks.
* *
UNITED NATIONS-The UN
commission for the unification and
rehabilitation of Korea sent word
from Seoul yesterday that its staff
had asked for a 24-hour guard of
military police after the declara-
tion of martial law in South Ko-
rea.
* * *
WASHINGTON - The Senate
yesterday ratified a treaty under
which the United States hopes to
put an end to the use of Brazil as
a haven for fugitives from this
country's justice.
By LYNN HEINZERLING
Associated Press Staff writer
LEOPOLDVILLE UP) - The
greatest single improvement in
the scenery of Leopoldville in re-1
cent months is the disappearance'
of the Congolese Army from the
streets.a
The ragtag military mob which
roamed the streets and the coun-
tryside last year, terrorizing whites1
and blacks alike, has become re-
spectable. Maj. Gen. Joseph Mo-
butu, the commander, has restored
a large measure of discipline and
the effect is startling.
Soldiers who were committingj
all sorts of high-handed outrages
10 months ago are now polite,
neatly dressed and reserved. Mo-
torists who give a soldier a lift
often are astonished to see himj
draw to attention upon leaving1
the car and voice his thanks.
-No Gun
You can walk the streets of the
capital all day without seeing a1
sub-machine gun except in the
hands of a UN soldier.
Some diplomats who felt last
year the only hope for the Congot
was in disarming the army say to-
day it could become the most
powerful single force for forging
and preserving the unity of the
country.1
The army totals 25,000 men. Ofl
these, Mobutu controls perhaps
17,000. Various units are on active
duty in remote parts of the coun-
try, but a large part of the army
now spends most of its time in
barracks and on the training1
grounds.
About 8,000 men are in the
Stanleyville area under Gen. Vic-
tor Lundula, the- onetime army
nurse's aid who has declared his
allegiance to Communist-backed
Antoine Gizenga.
Legal Head
Gizenga claims to be the legal
head of the Congolese government
and has invited the nations of
the world to send their ambassa-
dors to him for accreditation in-
stead of to President Joseph Kas-
avubu in Leopoldville.
Attacks on the few white per-
Discipline Restored
In Congolese, Army,
Secretary
Sees Upturn
In Economy
WASHINGTON (A)-The coun-
try's economy is out of the cellar,
Secretary of Commerce Luther H.
Hodges said yesterday.
Personal incomes rose last month
to a record rate of $410.3 billion a
year, and factory sales and new
orders both were higher than in
March.
Hodges told a news conference'
that rising sales and new orders
in the steel and automobile in-
dustries accounted for a large part
of the improvement. New defense
contracts helped, he said. ,
Hodges said sales by manufac-
turers in April were four per cent
higher than in March. This was
still about five per cent below a
year ago, he said, but new or iers
rose to the year-ago rate to as-
sure a continued upward trend in
output.
Hodges said the rise in individual
incomes, pasing the March peak
by $500 billion and surpassing the
February rate by $4 billion, was
concentrated largely in salaries
and wages.
It was the second straight
month of advancing payrolls.
GOODWILL TRIP:S
Kennedy Begins Canada Vis
OTTAWA (P) - President John
F. Kennedy yesterday launched "It is fitting that I should come He repeated these ope
his Canadian goodwill visit with a here to Canada, the oldest of our marks in French, a gestur
declaration'that North America's neighbors and among the closest the French-speaking sect
two neighbors must stand to- of our friends." population.
gether more firmly than ever in
trying to build a world of lasting \
peace.
It was Kennedy's first trip out-
side the United States since he -
became President. He was greeted
by the traditional 21-gun salute
as ne left the plane.
In a brief statement the Presi-
dent reaffirmed United States-
Canadian friendship and declared
he came to Ottawa to renew the
partnership which has held the
two countries so closely for so
many years. ,.
The President will address par-
liament today. He and Canadian
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
will meet 2/2 .hours to. review °
world problems. They are expected
to give special attention to aid s $
for underdeveloped countries -
including those of Latin America --AP W
-rand totherdisposal of surplus WELCOME CEREMONIES -- Canadian Prime Minister
agricultural.products- Diefenbaker welcomes Kennedy on his first visit to Canad
The Cuban problem also is slat- being elected.
ed for discussion.____________________________
Kennedy, in noting that this is
his first trip away from the
United States since he took office TODAY'S SPECIAL
observed:
sons remaining in Stanleyville
have largely ceased. But there are
only about 150 left 'out of 6,300
who were there in 1959. They keep
the brewery and the tobacco fac-
tory and a few stores going.
Mobutu and Lundula have been
negotiating through various emis-
saries. It is not inconceivable that
they could one day reach an agree-
ment which would accomplish
what the politicians have failed to
do.
President Chief
Under the new constitution
drafted at Coquilhatville, the pres-
ident of the federal government
is supreme chief of the army and
appoints its top officers. It re-
mains to be seen whether Gizen-
ga will agree to attend the com-
ing parliamentary session sum-
moned by Kasavubu to consider
the new constitution.
The entire officer corps con-
sists of men who had no higher
rank than sergeant only a year
ago. Western military men would
like to see some of the Congolese
officers sent to Western Europe,
the United States or Canada for
training.
The Kasavubu government is
well aware of the threats made to
assist the Gizenga regime in Stan-
leyville with military help. These
have come from the Soviet bloc
and from the Casablanca group
of African nations, notably Presi-
dent Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
Some of Kasavubu's ministers
would like to see the army ex-
panded to 50,000 men.
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