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Joint Latin
Front Against Castro
Other Nations Warn Of Communist Threat By
STANFORD
BRADSHAW
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP)--Secretary of State Christian A. Herter yesterday urged the hemisphere’s foreign ministers to show their grave concern over Cuba’s “toleration and encouragement+ of Communist intervention munism in the hemisphere’s
He in
declared
Cuba
affairs.”
that
events
that
nation’s
indicate
Tleaders are directing it “in the Communist direction.” Herters
words
to
the
OAS
ministers were echoed by Uruguay, Bolivia and Chile, which all expressed their sympathy with the Cuban revolution but voiced
concern
over
threats
ers to intervene
military
in
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—The ‘Big Seven,’ making up the new PDP. executive committee pose briefly after their election yesterday. They are (seated, from left)
hemisphere.
Ernesto
then left he yould
Ramos
San Juan; Sanchez
Antonini,
Gov.
Munoz,
dota
(standing from left) Armando
Vilella,
and
Teodoro
Moscoso.
Felisa
Sanchez,
(STAR
Rincon
de
Yldefonso
photo
by
Gautier,
Sola
Gunter
mayor
Morales,
Cuban Roa
of
Robertu
Hett.)
Cuba’s
sed
the
and
of
the
| e
E
F
D
i
‘Big
Seven By
A.
rf
e
Oo WwW
i
Ss
Cc T
u
today.
was
The
the
other six members
party’s
presidential
of
com-
mittee are: Ernesto Ramos Antonini, speaker of the House of Representatives; Yldefonso So-
1a
Morales,
party
-secretary
and
Senate floor leader; Felisa con de Gautier, mayor of
RinSan
Juan; Teodoro istrator of the opment Sanchez
state,
Moscoso, Economic
adminDevel-
Administration; Roberto Vilella, secretary of
and
Rep.
Armando
San- »
chez, a labor leader and chair-| man of the House Labor Com-|
mittee.
Sanchez A Surprise The election of Sanchez, represeatative-at-large since 1952
a8
was considered a surprise. His selection came over’ veteran party leaders R. Quinones,
Ree
Senate,
and
such as president
Dr. Antonio
Samuel of the
Fernoés
Isern, Washington resident commissioner, both instrumental in
held
|Sunday
convention
to
form
New
Transit
could
Havana
early
By LYNN
the
Two other yesterday at party headquarters | presidential panel. in Puerta de Tierra was comOnly members were absent. posed of seventeen party leaders (See BIG SEVEN, Page 24)
Protest
in
Law
LEOPOLDVILLE,
MANUEL
to stage a “march”
9
tagleza_ to rotest cjauses” in the law
Friday
the capitol and La For-
eged hich
“discriminatory went into effect
Flying black flags from trucks gathered in front of
their cabs, the Capitol
the governor’s for:
spokesman called
mansion
while
A thirty day suspension of the law. An information campaign to inform
drivers the
the and
the
necessary
equipment
of
a
clause
to wash the tires of a construction site.
Tolerance
in
a
the
| them from driving Of their wheels.
~(For Eisenhower's remarks and Castre’s TV speech, see page 2.) Herter in his speech to the meeting
Union
and
named
Red
the
China
Soviet
as
the
“We
should
resistance
call
for
effective
to these efforts of the bloc
and
restate
the
validity of our regional associa tion and its principles as guide and instrument for our continued cooperation.”
.
Herter did not spell out (See OAS, Page 24)
what
Congo
(AP)—Steel-helmeted
that
truck
forces
before
clause
that
with smooth
hundred
or more
sok
diers were reported to have been
sent
in.
Premier Patrice Lumumba them
leaving
prohibits
has vowed to keep the Congo im tact and there was speculation that the operation in Kasai, of Leopoldville province,
presage
an
invasion
east may
of rebellious
tires on any | Katanga Province, farther east. Katanga itself was deve Geube
In the absence of Gov. Mufioz who was | diately concerned with pro-Luraum-
addressing
a
Popular
Party
meeting,
the
presentatives of the drivers presented petition to Hiram Torres Rigual an aide
told them that it suspend the law. The
the
of its provisions.
Time to buy law demands.
of heads of state to iron out the
| Congolese soldiers streamed by airlift yesterday in Kasai province, where bloody tribal fighting parallels the growth +of a secessionist movement.
Revocation
_ The drivers of more than 200 dump trucks quit work in the metropolitan area yesterday
at this meeting
difficulties.
Six
SUAREZ
not
the poss-
HEINZERLING
The
Truckers ‘March’ On Capitol By
was
open
Congo Calls Troops To Quell Secession
Munoz, who for the first time in the party’s 22-year history will not head the party, was elected yes-+ who had been selected at a terday as one of the “big the founding of the party. conference
Castro
situation
held
ibility—admittedly slim time—of a hemispheric
Latin neighbors’ attempts to control Cuba’s leanings toward Com-
MALDONADO
summit
what
yesterday where he scoffed at his
ference of severiteen. party leaders.
The
the
He
stres-
a walk-
be expected from Roa came from
which will replace Gov. The “big seven” of the Popular Democratic Party, Mufioz as supreme head of the party, was selected here yesterday at a summit con-
seven.”
however
hopeless.
Sino-Soviet
Fidel
Fi-
remarks,
not
of
President
told a news conference
with to present, low ministers:
It
was
indication
An
Executive W.
Washington,
senhower
Communist powers moving in on word | the hemisphere and told his fel
to Herter’s
his leaving
Raul
out.
|
Reds. In
OAS
Minister
the session come back
case
foreign-
affairs
Foreign
listened
by
ideologically
and said Cuba would to be friendly with the
continue
drivers
would
agreed
that
be
impossible
suspension
rethe who ,
to
would
be impossible but pressed the other complaints on him. The committee of four drivers, headed (See TRUCKERS, Page 24)
ba
demonstrations
on the
western
shore
at
Albertville,
of Lake
Tan-
ganyika. . Mali U. N. troops, Belgian para chute troopers and Katanga pro vincial soldiers were reported te have calmed that town after disturbances in which four Congolese were killed and three Belgian sol(See CONGO, Page 24)