THE Ml TUU~7HHIG II% D AlTU Czechoslovakian President's Move Tr Topples Premier PRAGUE (M-President Antonin Novotny fired Premier Vilem Siroky in a full-scle Czechoslovakian government shakeup yesterday amid official recriminations over the nation's Stalinist past and present economic woes. Siroky was dismissed for "shortcomings in his work" and "cer- ain mistakes in his past political activity," among other reasons, the official news agency CTK reported. Josef Lenart, a Slovak and head t of the Slovak Communist Party, VILEM SIROKY * out of a job COLLEGE TALKS; Ask To Bar Governors KALAMAZOO (9)-Negro Con- gressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D- Detroit) yesterday urged Western Michigan University officials to cancel a speech by Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett scheduled for next Tuesday. Barnett was invited by WMU's senior class Ito- talk on "Segrega- tion in the South." Diggs said in a telegram to WMU President James W. Miller that the Barnett appearance would be."patently offensive to the of- ficial democratic character of this state." Verboten Diggs pointed out that Missis- sippi law does not permit inte- grationists to speak on any cam- pus under its jurisdiction. Barnett was also to have ad- dressed the State Bar of Michigan convention in Detroit on Tuesday, but the appearance was cancelled by the southern governor. Meanwhile, in New Haven, Con- necticut, the acting president of Yale University intervened to per- suade a student debating group to cancel an invitation to Alabama Gov. George Wallace to speak at Yale. Devastating Impact University Provost and acting president Kingham Brewster Jr. had appealed to the officers of the debating group, the Political Un- ion, to consider the impact the invitation to Wallace would have on New Haven and its Negro popu- lation. Wallace had accepted the in- vitation and was scheduled toj speak Nov. 4. The invitation to the Alabama governor was sent a day before a bomb exploded in a Negro church in Birmingham. Four Sun- day school students died in the' explosion. was named to the premiership that Sirosky, also a Slovak, had held for 10 years. Two deputy pre- miers and several ministers also were replaced. Drastic Move Neutral quarters in neighboring Austria called the dismissals a drastic move prompted by No- votny's own fight for political sur- vival. They said Novotny's ap- parent aim was to brand those ousted as the culprits of the no- torious Stalinist purge trials of the 1950's and Czechoslovakia's declining growth rate and power shortage. These quarters felt, however, that Novotny is himself too iden- tified with these policies to es- cape blameless. Siroky had come under public attack recently for his part in the prosecution of the so-called "Slo- vak nationals." One of these men, former Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis, was excuted along with one-time Czechoslovak Communist Party chief Rudolf Slansky in 1952. Posthumous Acquittal The Czecholslovak supreme court has since held that all defendants in the Slansky trial were unjustly condemned. They were legally re- habilitated, posthumously. Novotny also played a role in the Slansky purge. After the 1952 trial, Novotny was publicly praised for his part in "unmasking the Slansky clique." He succeeded Slansky as party secretary on the same day that Siroky became pre- mier, March 21, 1953. Like his successor, Siroky had been Slovak party chief before his appointment as premier. Blamed for Economy In Vienna, it was said Siroky also figured in. Czechoslovakia's ailing economy; for it was he who submitted the economic' plans. CTK said his removal was also prompted by his having "inade- quately implemented the party line in directing the activity of the government." Czechoslovakia's economic growth rate has seriously declined, observers in Vienna said. Power savings measures, announced last winter, are still in force. A five-year development plan was scrapped last year and re- placed by one-year programs which provide for almost no growth. A new seven-year plan was expected to be presented next year, but it will have no detailed provisions for longer than two- year periods. Czechoslovakian Communists have blamed red tape and insuffi- PAP Wins Singapore .elections SINGAPORE (-Prime Minis- ter Lee Kuan Yew and his People's Action Party were returned to power yesterday in Singapore elec- tions that dealt pro-Communists a sev re setback. Lee's party, which follows a firm anti-Communist line, secured 37 seats in the 51-member state legislative assembly. The sweeping victory gave the party a majority of 12 seats. It held 25 in the old house. The PAP's most potent opposi- tion, the Barisan Sosialis (Social- ist Front) wound up with 13 seats, one less than it held in the last assembly. Another leftist splinter group, the United People's Party, gathered one seat. The victory assured the PAP of its second term as the government of Singapore, an island state that became a part of the Federation of Malaysia last Monday after years as a self-governing British colony. Although the elections were held on the state level only, they were significant, since Lee plans to pick Singapore's 15 members to the Central Malaysian Parliament from the new assembly. T reaty N ear Ratification WASHINGTON ()-Assured of more than enough votes to ratify the limited nuclear test ban treaty, Senate leaders set out last night to kill off any entangling reser- vations to the document. A half dozen proposals have been offered and these will be voted on tomorrow, with the final roll call on ratification set for Tuesday. Meanwhile Sen. Herman Tal- madge (D-Ga), who had been counted as being inclined to vote for the treaty, said today he will oppose it. In a brief statement Talmadge said he believes the pact is "too great a military gamble and would pose too great a threat to our national security." After Talmadge's announcement an unofficial tally showed 81 sen- ators either announced as for the treaty or inclined to vote for rati- fication. However, some of them may vote for reservations to the treaty which the administration says would have a crippling ef- fect. Proponents of the treaty con- ceded that many of its supporters, in speeches during the past two weeks of general debate, had tem- pered their endorsement with fears and misgivings. While the reservations may com- mand more support than there are opponents of ratification, both Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) and Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill) have expressed confidence of enough votes to turn them back. The big question tonight was- by how big a margin? Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt), an outspoken supporter, said that Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), a possible GOP 1964 presidential as- pirant, might muster as many as 30 votes for his Cuban reserva- tion. Goldwater, who has said he will oppose the treaty even if it should mean "political suicide," wants to hold off its effectiveness until af- ter the United Nations can assure the Senate that Russia has remov- ed its military base from Cuba. By W. B. RAGSDALE JR. Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON-"In the early days we used to think anybodyI could learn to speak Spanish or Swahili. Now we give them a tough language aptitude test." This comment by Deputy Direc-I tor William Moyers hints at the changes that have been made in the Peace Corps since it came into official being two years ago to- morrow. There is more know-how about what it takes to do the job, but, surprisingly, the same eagerness about getting the job done. By the Numbers However, even though the Peace Corps has made an impact at home and abroad that exceeds the fondest hopes of Director Sargent Shriver or President John F. Ken- nedy, who conceived it, numerically it is a flop. In the heady days of its organ- ization, plans called for 10,000 vol- unteers in training or oversease by Aug. 31, 1963. There were already 200 volunteers overseas Sept. 22, 1961, when Kennedy signed the bill formally creating the Peace Corps. He had started it in early 1961 by an executive order. Congress appropriated o n 1 y enough funds for 9,000 volunteers in the past fiscal year ending last June 31, but $4 million of this total has been returned to the Treasury. Latest figures show only about 6,600 volunteers in training and overseas. Great Demand Despite these figures, demand from overseas has never been; higher. The Peace Corps is now operating in 48 countries, but moved into only two new ones this year. Thirty nations ave been either formally turned down or discouraged from asking for volun- teers. During 1962, applications from prospective volunteers ran 85 per cent above 1961 and currently are running 240 per cent above levels of the early days. The reason why the Peace Corps didn't reach its numerical goal ap- pears to be a calculated slowdown, an emphasis on quality rather than numbers. Achievements Count "Our programs don't have to do with numbers," said Moyers. "They have to do with achievements. It's twice as hard to get into the Peace Corps this summer as it was a year ago." "We made a big impact initially with a lot of good people," he said. Russia Refuses Bid To Mingle In Laos Affair UNITED NATIONS ()-Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro myko yesterday rebuffed Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phou- ma's efforts to have the Russians intervene with Laos' rebellious pro-Communist faction. Informed sources said Gromyko told the neutralist Laotian leader that the Russians consider the Laotian troubles an internal af- fair and the Souvanna would have to settle it by negotiating with his half brother, Prince Souphanou- vong, leader of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souvanna and Souphanouvong have been unable to agree on a site for negotiations. Souphanou- vong is a deputy premier in the neutralist-leftist-rightist coalition set up with the blessings of the United States, The Soviet Union and Red China, among others. However, he is refusing to partici- pate in the coalition now. Gromyko and Souvanna spent two hours together at lunch at New York headquarters of the Soviet UN delegation. A Laotian source close to the prince said: "It seemed to our prime minister that the Soviet Union still backs the Pathet Lao." The informant said the two did not discuss the position of Poland on the international control com- mission for Laos. The Polish mem- ber has declined to go along with the Canadian and Indian mem- bers in findings against the Pathet Loa. "In examining our program, we decided the best way to continue and expand this impact was not to send large numbers of people over- seas hurriedly, but to send fewer, but better people overseas." After the three-month training period, volunteers often have to sink or swim in a strange country largely on how fast they pick up a brand new language. Surprise! This sometimes results in strange mixups, such as the volunteer in a former French colony in Africa who thought he was bargaining to have his clothes washed and wound up with a wife. Last January, the Peace Corps toughened up its requirements on language aptitude and has doubled the amount of languages taught during the training period. For example, a group training for Nigeria at UCLA is being re- quired to learn the rudiments of threedtribal dialects, with special- ization in one the last three weeks, even though the official language of the country is English. Aptitude Emphasized "This emphasis on language ap- titude meant that we accepted fewer people," Moyers said. Eng- lish speaking programs are not the wave of the future for the Peace Corps." Where one of six applicants was accepted before the new language requirements were established, now only one of 11 is invited for train- ing. Also, Moyers said there now is an assessment officer-a trained phychologist-who stays with each group of trainees and the screen- Language Tests Aid Corps ing process continues through the training period. High Attrition Rate "Even though we have better in training, fewer graduate," Moyers said, adding that the at- trition rate in training has risen from about 18 per cent to nearly 25 per cent. But he predicted fewer people trained this past summer would fail to complete their two years overseas duty than from previous groups. So far, 380 volunteers have re- turned home for all reasons, about 6.6 per cent of those sent overseas. None has been requested to leave by the host country. Syracuse Hits Student Action SYRACUSE (P)-Syracuse Uni- versity officials yesterday assailed reported efforts to recruit stu- dents from classrooms to partici- pate in racial demonstrations at a nearby urban renewal site. Syracuse Vice-President Kenneth G. Bartlett warned, "If this sort of think continues, it will be stop- ped." He did not say what steps the university would take. Meanwhile, 20 more persons, five of them Syracuse faculty members, were arrested at the re- newal site yesterday. The total number of arrests at the site now stands at 82, including nine fac- ulty members. Many of the 82 have identified themselves as uni- versity students. World News Roundup I III , By The Associated Press MOSCOW--The newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya yesterday called the Malaysian Federation "a new barrier to the national liberation movement in Southeast Asia." It said only imperialists could rejoice in its foundation. WASHINGTON-Eight Americans investigated and found of doubtful loyalty to -the United States still are employed by interna- tional organizations such as the United Nations, it was disclosed yes- terday. The information was published by a House appropriations sub- committee, which held a hearing on the matter last Jan. 23. * * * *' NEW DELHI-India's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly session in New York is being instructed to support various Asia-African resolutions aimed at South Africa's segregation and Portugal's overseas territorial policies, informed sources have reported. BELGRADE-Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, opened the American exhibition "Atoms for Work" here yesterday and called for further cooperation between Yugoslav and American scientists. * * * * ROME--Maria Ciampi, a star of Italian musicals back in the 1920's, died yesterday at the age of 86. HAVANA-The Cuban government announced yesterday it will continue to hold Teodoro Picado Jr., the son of a former Costa Rican president, to determine whether he had any part in recent raids on Cuba. Four others with him were released. He was forced down by anti- aircraft fire while flying over the Cuban coastal city of Cienfuegos Sept. 11. ' 4' * * SANTIAGO-Two conservative ministers walked out of Chile's caretaker cabinet yesterday in protest against the visit next Monday of President Tito of Yugoslavia. 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