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Today's Commentary Peru Takes Action To Stop Communists By i’HIL NEWSOM United Press International The Peruvian Army is nailing down the lid on Communists plan ning to overthrow the government of Peru. “OPERATION Cleanup” start ed last weekend. Army trucks moved through Lima's misty and foe-shrouded streets rounding up hundreds of known and suspected Communists and carting them off to jail. The swift move was made to nip a plot "planned by the agents of Moscow and Havana to implant a pseudo farmer regime of the ex treme left,” in the words of a government announcement. 11 said the plot was to align Peru with Castro’s Communist Cuba and prepare for the Marxist revo lution to subjugate the nation for Moscow. PERU’S RULING military junta says early targets of the plot were to be the American-owned Toquepala and Marcona Mines WORLD FOCUS UPI-AP REPORTS . and Standard Oil of New Jersey’s subsidiary. International Petrole um Co. The revolution was to be com plete by May Day Almost any Latin American na tion presents special problems for the United States ... but per haps none as dramatically as Peru. An example came in August of 1961, when the United States was setting up its Alliance for Prog- < ress Program in a meeting of American ministers at Punta Del Este. Uruguay. It was Peruvian Premier and Finance Minister Pedro Seltran who became the chief opponent of Cuba's Che Gue vara. PERU BROKE relations with Castro’s Cuba even before the United States did. But on a chilly night last July. army tanks rumbled to the gates of Lima’s presidential palace, ar rested 73-year-old President Man uel Prado, and established mili tary rule. Prado had refused military de mands that he invalidate June elections which gave the most votes to moderate leftist presi dential candidate Raoul Haya De La Torre. UNDER THE .Alliance for Prog ress, the United States already allotted nearly 90 million dollars to Peru for new roads, for water and sewage systems, and for aid to the program to open up new lands for Peru’s landless Indians. 3S World Mews IN BRIEF Satellite Launched VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. (UPI)—'The Air Force has launched another sec ret satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. Al though the Air Force has adopted a strict information policy on mili tary satellites, the new moonlet may be one of the Discoverer ser ies. Police Search OC OREGON CITY (AP)—Police searched Monday for a man want ed for questioning in connection with the reported rape of an 8 y^ar-old Portland-area girl Sun day. it may have some connection with the slaying of Mona Rae Minyard, 6, said Clackamas Coun ty Sheriff Joe Shobe. "ROOM 13" downstairs OSBURN HOTEL olcc required Light and Dark on Tap 1 ne military coup sh uck a diow at the foundations of the Alliance for Progress, conceived as a U.S. answer to threats either from the political right or left. PRESIDENT Kenned y de nounced the coup and promptly suspended U.S. aid, which brought this comment from General Ricar do Perez Godoy, gray-haired lead er of the military Junta; "What Washington does not understand (he said) is that this is a Peruvi an solution to the problem of preserving democracy." By mid-August, the United States was convinced that the military men intended to keep their promise of free elections in 1963. On Aug. 17, the U.S. lifted the aid ban and recognized the new government. As in many another Latin Am erican nations, unrest in Peru is chronic. FEW ATTEMPTS have been made to bring into national life the Peruvian Indians who make up more than half the population and who scratch a bare subsist ance from barren, worn-out soil. They are natural targets for Communist and Castro elements which have encouraged them to seize land violently. Pedro Beltran did much to lift Peru by its economic bootstraps when he served as premier and finance minister, and. although a member of Peru's "40 families,” he pressed hard for land reform BUT PRADO as president did not always act with equal strength and the threat of revolution re mained. The present situation puts to the test the military Jun ta’s claim that theirs is the way to preserve Democracy. Meredith May Leave Rebels of 'Ole Miss' OXFORD, MISS. (Ul’I)—Negro James Meredith has announced he may not be at the previously all white University of Mississippi next semester. But, in a meeting Monday with newsmen, Meredith added that he is not giving up ef forts to study at the Oxford, Miss school. MEREDITH told newsmen he will dron out of the University of Mississippi next semester unless, in his words, "very definite and positive changes are made to make my situation more condu cive to learning.” Meredith has been under pres sure since he entered the campus the night of Sept 30 Rioting at that time caused two deaths and bt ought thousands of federal troops to "01 ■ Miss." As recently as Sunday nil'll crudely printed handbills were distributed on tlr* campus calling for Meredith’s ouster. Th-’re have b^en renorts that Meredith's grades are suffering due to har assment. Monday. Meredith said he if freed with what he called a "de termined, resourceful and unprin cipled" enemy. He added that even it he should leave school af ter this semester, he is not giving "o as he nut it "A bitter war for the equality of opportunity for our citizens." MEREDITH did not specify what steps m ust be taken if lie is 'Bible' to Criticize King George VI LONDON (UPI)—The -Bible” of British nobility, according to a London newspaper, is about to criticize the late King George the 1 Sixth for snubbing his sister-in law, the Duchess of Windsor. THE LONDON Daily Express said Monday that the attack will be in the forthcoming edition of Burke's Peerage, the authorita tive publication of British nobili ty This goes back to June, 1937, when King Edward the Eighth, now the Duke of Windsor, abdi cated to his younger brother. George Siv months later, EJ ward married Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee Bl'RKE'S Peerage, says The Daily Express, will assail the fad that King George never granted the Duchess the rank of "Royal Highn* ss.” Burke’s Peerage re portedly will describe this affront as “rn act of discrimination quite unique” in British history. The publisher of the Exnress is Lord Beaverbrook, a close friend of the Duke of Windsor to remain ot the University of Mississippi University Chancellor John Williams said lie docs not know what Meredith is referring to and, in Williams’ words, "until 1 do I will have no statement Attorney General Robert Ken nedy announced in Washington he hop \s Mississippi and Univer sity officials "Will take appropri ate steps" so that Meredith will he able to remain in school Defense Still OK COLORADO SPRINGS (UPI > The No-th American Air Defense Command has brand'd as "ridi -dour" renorts that British bomb cr>: oenetrated the Norad Defense Network London newspapers have renorted British jet bombers slipped past U S. defenses in a mock attack Cuban Crisis Ends UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The United States and the Soviet Union have submitted a joint statement to the United Nations, rormall> ending the Cuban crisis Long negotiations failed to get assurances of on site inspection of Castro’s island, so Mr. Kennedy has withheld his "no invasion" pledge in the dioloinatic "the ••nd ” ^■ryyvvyvvyvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvYvvyvvvyvYYYVvvvvvvvvYvyYYYVTnnnnf j| TYPEWRITERS ;j SALES & SERVICE • RENTALS • j 1416 Orchard | LANE COUNTY OFFICE MACHINES CO. • Nearest to Campus J • Free Parking ! • Free Pickup & Delivery E • ( all DI 22127 ! • Across from I^w Williams ; Chevrolet ! wpgpcwwwwgwgwogqguuuuuuwwwAiC 21 Great Tobaccos make 20 Wonderful Smokes! 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