Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1961 — Page 8

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Laotian Leader “ I y Warns Os Danger

I • VIENTIANE, Laos (UPD—Neutralist leader Prince Souvanna Phouma warned today the tense Laotian crisis could touch off .an international war. “If war should start, it will not be just a Civil war, ’ Souvanna told newsmen here. Souvanna. who is to become premier of a coalition government, said: “1 anstill pursuing my efforts to avoid a rupture." ”■ ; The ex-premier of Laos and his half-brother. Prince Souphanouvong, leader t of the Communistbacked Patfret: Lao guerrillas, flew here Wednesday from the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a conference' which the West had hoped would ease the Laotian crisis. But the rebel leaders were rebuffed by pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum who l refused to hold a formal meeting with them. The proposed "three princes” conference had taken two months to arrange. Rejects Agreements Boun Oum Wednesday mght denounced previous agreements on formation, of a coalition government representing all three factions. ■ . Communist diplomats told United Press International that the rebel princes would give up their efforts to negotiate with Boun Qum and return to their headquarters unless the royal Laotian government backed down on its tough stand. U.S. diplomats, headed,by Ambassador Winthrop *G. BroWn, also called on government leaders for a peaceful settlement. Boun Oum abruptly torpedoed the talks Wednesday even before they had a chance to get started. ; "I have nothing more to tell j them," he said after a” 30-minule i courtesy call by Sbuvanna and his half-brpther. "Zurich is finished,” Boun Oum ) said in reference to the agree-1 ment reached by the three.pnnees in Switzerland last June to form a coalition government. Gloom in Geneva (In Geneva, news of the breakdown in the three princes' confer-1 ence cast gloom over the 14- ■ nation Laotian peace conference. ("It looks like we’ve got to begin all over again,” said one Western delegate after learning of Boun Oum’s refusal to negotiate with the rebel princes. (The conference had virtually completed its work and was waiting for the princes to meet to form a government so that a declaration of Laotian neutrality could be signed by representatives of the 14 nations meeting here. Without the signatures of a united Laotian delegation, the Geneva

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i- 1 agreement would have been worthless, a Western delegate said.) iln Washington, Stat? Department Press Officer Lincoln White ( underlined U.S. concern over the a breakdown in talks. <“So much is at stake here—e namely, peace in Laos—that the d United. States would view with n deep regret a failure of the three d ) prihCes to have a meaningful I ' The latest dispute between the s I rebels and theYoyal Laotian -govH ernment was touched off Wednes- , day with a verbal barrage by Souphanouvong. so-called “Red | Prince of Laos." He said Boun a Oum’s government "continues to j carry out the plans of American y- warmongers." The struggle for control of Laos, . in which the Soviet Union has r supplied Communist guerrillas 7 with arms, is strategically linked to the Soviet-backed Communist guerrilla war in South. Viet Nam. British Troops Converge On Middlefast 1 1 LONDON (UPD—British troops, ’' planes and warships converged on I the tense Middle East today, but ■ j the government refused to say i whether the armed forces was being senttO protect the oil-rich I sheikdom of Kuwait. The movement of 3.000 men. an aircraft carrier, two frigates and i a tank-landing ship from England i and Kenya responded to a Christtmas a'ert of units of Britain’s j Strategic Reserve—a highly mo- ( ( bile trouble-shooting outfit. :\ Observers .noted that the small , I bfgan steaming toward j the Middle East after Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem repeated his demands that Kuwait. , I which is located on the Persion , 1 Gulf south of Iraq, belongs to his . i country. ! Kuwait won its independence ( , from ‘Britain last June. Two weeks later .’British troops rushed in when Kassem threatened to inL I vade and take oyer the tiny count i try, which is about the size of I Connecticut. However, the Britr! ish force has been replaced since . then by Arab League troops. J British newspapers reported ( I sign? of an Iraqi troop movement . toward Kuqait, but said they . doubted a second "Kuwait crisis” ' j was imminent. I This belief was reinforced by a ' British Defense Ministry s.tate- [ ment that the situation did not call "for further action at this stage as sufficient had been done to raise the level of preparedness of the Middle East command to meet any emergency.” The statement followed an emergency meeting between Defense ' Minister Harold Watkinson and his service chiefs here. Two Youths Killed As Car Hits Wall j By United Press International.. Two youths were killed WednesI day night when their car spun out lof control on a highway curve and smashed into a tree and stone . wall, raising Indiana’s 1961 traffic ! death toll to at least 1.060 The victims were D. E. Hoffman, Jr., 18, Milltown, and Carl Manuel Crecelius, 20. Marengo. T Three other youths including ‘ Stanley Simon, Milltown. the driver, were injured and taken to Orange County Hospital at Paoli for treatment. The others were Marion Hickman. 18, Paoli, and Marvin Crecelius, 17, a brother of Carl. . The accident occurred a mile east of Paoli on U. S. 150 about II p.m. CST. The 1,060 deaths this year com- , pared with 1.099 on this date last I year.

Congo Policy Is Defended By State Dept. WASHINGTON v (UP!) V The . State Department has taken the offensive against critics of U.S. nolicv in the Congo with a sharp attack on back ( ers of secessionist Kalanga Province. G. Mennen Williams,- assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Carl T. Rowan c ired the rtew barrages in speeches Wednesday night. Williams told a meeting of Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity in Detroit that foreigners and "local extremists" rather than Katanga President Moise Tshombe were responsible for Congo violence which led to U.N. military action,.. Describing ,Tshombe as "a man of some responsibility,” he said lhe real force behind Katangan moves against the United Nations this month were "local political extremists and some 400 foreign mercenaries, men of the worst reputation.” • • - Hits Foreign Interests Rowan, speaking before Phi ) Beta Sigma fraternity in Philadelphia, said thtft outside finan-| cial interests backed Katanga’s J secession because they wanted "a safe little kingdom” they could control. I g Hp said the vast Union Miniere I mining complex has been paying)! about 80 per cent of the tax revenues collected in Katanga. He called Tshombe "pro-Union Mini-, ere.” Union Miniere is financed by European, American and other) I capital. ... I ’ Rowan said Jt was “natural I that those with financial interests I in Union Miniere would ratherd see as an easily con- I trolled ‘separate, nation’ than as I part of a larger Congo nation I whose government might not be I as friendly as-Mr. Tshombe and, I his associates." Cites News Reports "The U.S. official quoted news I reports that bomb racks fori I Tshombe’s Dornier bombers were g fitted in Union Miniere machine | shops and that the Katanga presi- | dent used the firm’s telephone. | radio and transport facilities for d his military operation. I Rowan said the U.S. policy of I supporting the U.N. action in Ka- I tanga was designed to be a real- I firmation of American opposition I to colonialism, support for Afri-d can development free of outside I domination, and a renunciation of racist policies by European groups in Africa. I Youth Fatally Hurt When Sled Hits Stump GREENWOOD, Ind. (UPD — Ad prominent physician’s athlete son I was injured fatally Wednesday I night when his sled hit a-, tree I stump and ruptured his liver. The victim was Ricky Machledt. I 16, whose father. Dr. John H. I Machledt. is a well-known John- I son county physician and presi- I dent of the Greenwood School I Board. | Separate Trials For Alleged Murderers LA PORTE, Ind. (UPD— Judge Alban M. Smith Wednesday ruled that Robert George McLean, 20. and his half-brother, Richard Lee Westfall, 23. should have separate triare on murder charges in the I death nearly a year ago of Mrs. I Fannie H. Sommerfield, 92. Me- I Lean will be arraigned Jan. 2. A I hearing on a motion for a change o f venue for Westfall will be held Jan. 5. JJIII f. J SB K R ■ K K- • v /JKFjr \ xg tv 1 -' INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR —Celesta Chen, 18, arranges a fish net in Comacchio, Italy, for a British TV documentary on eel fishermen. Celesta is the daughter of a Portuguese mother and a Chinese father. International flavor? Bather!

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