. from the associated press News Roundup: WASHINGTON (AP) - A new investigation summon the U.S. adviser who wrote the re- "The committee never really got started. He listed ' 7 types of corruption ranging From the State, of corruption in the South Vietnamese govern- ports, Gruening replied, "We'll do what is And it's possible it won't get going. from "the personnel official who can't place a ment was promised yesterda- by Sen. Ernest necessary to bring the facts out." qualified applicant in an open position until Gruening after disclosure "When you get into the business of trying of U.S. advisers' re- The monthly reports to Washington and to make another government clean, .aider inter- a 'fee' is paid", to the "high official, and ports stating "grave doubts that there is any the adviser's recommendations to the U.S. who arrange iheir govern- possibility national law, you get into tl.e question of some not so high, Nation & World of ever achieving any responsible de- mission in Saigon were made available to The sovereign nations." ment affairs so that official transactions re- gree of honesty and integrity in Vietnamese Associated Press on condition the adviser's dound to their personal benefit." officialdom." Sen. Gruening said U.S. efforts to curb name not be used. He is chief of a 22-man corruption "are not effective because some of The Alaska Democrat, chairman of the advisory team that has been working with In battle action, the Communists shelled our agencies aren't concerned about it. It's 16 points, in the third straight day of such long- The World Senate foreign aid expenditures subcommittee, Vietnamese government officials for four years. tolerated from the top in our government." said the reports show "wholesale corruption on At the same time the adviser offered his range operations, but slacked off at Khe Sanh. Czechoslovakia!! Official Defects to U.S. Speaking of the South Vietnamese last Fri- • every level." recommendations, he told his superiors in day, President Johnson said in Marines there said they counted only 100 The State Department announced a speech at , WASHINGTON — The adviser said in reports to the U.S. Washington of previous problems in winning Beaumont, Tex., "certainly, they have corrup- incoming rounds over a 24-hour period a far yesterday the defection to the United States of Maj. Gen. support for get-tough proposals, and blamed cry from the massive poundings which have son and the son s mission in Saigon that the United States, must tion and we also have it in Boston, in New Jar Sejna of Czechoslovakia, with his initiate bold action to stamp out corruption "hearts and minds purists" in the U.S. mission. York, in Washington and in Johnson City. Some- gone as high as 1,300 in a single day. The fiancee. , . „ . in January, he told Washington the Agency U.S. Command said damage and casualties Soviet "and, once having started, must continue with body is stealing something in Beaumont right Sejna , 40, is believed to be the highest ranking it." for International Development would cut his now." there and elsewhere were light. bloc officer ever to cross over to the West. team to 20 persons by July 1 despite what he A senior U.S. officer said he believes Hue, on details, "Vietnamese government officials are so The adviser told the Saigon-based AID While U.S. authorities kept tight secrecy involved that very few have hands sufficiently called its success in stimulating increased cus- committee that "corruption in Vietnam is an the old imperial capital, rather than Khe there were indications that Sejna fled from Prague last toms collections. Sanh, is the next objective of the North Viet- new Czech clean that they can make an immediate major ever present fact of life, permeating all eche- week a step ahead of a purge planned by the contribution," the reports said. Stern Measures lons of government and society, corroding the namese forces. Communist leadership. The adviser's recommendations for stern Staff and of Corruption Widespread vitality of this nation, eroding the framework The Communists clung longest to Hue of Sejna was a member of the Czech General U.S. measures went to "Public Administration of government, and unnecessarily prolonging all the cities they attacked in their lunar new the National Assembly Presidium and chief of the Com- He told of corruption reaching even the Ad Hoc Committee on Corruption in Vietnam " 's de- now-deposed dictator the war." year offensive, but were ousted by U.S. Marines munist Party Central Committee in Czechoslovakia general of South Vietnam last Nov. 29, shortly after the committee was "UnK.ss it is substantially reduced on a and South Vietnamese troops after a four-week fense ministry. customs, Nguyen Van Loc. established by AID. broad scale, Prague Feb. 25, and very soon at that, there are battle. They were reported to have more than Shortly before he disappeared from Sen. Gruening said he would start new In Washington, an AID spokesman told The serious doubts that this war can ever be 'won,' " 10.000 men still deployed around Hue, 60 his committee came under political attack by the new hearings in about a month. Asked if he would Associated Press Tuesday: he said. miles southeast of Khe Sanh. ruling faction which replaced conservative Antonin Nov- otny with Alexander Dubcek as the country's Communist party leader last January. • • • Urges Student Action No Survivors in Guadeloupe Plane Crash POINTE-A-PITHE, Guadeloupe — Rescue crews found the scorched silver fuselage of Air France's newest Boeing 707 jet imbedded in the slopes of a dormant volcano yes- terday and reported no survivors among the 63 persons on Prof Discusses board, including the wife of real estate millionaire William Zeckendorf. The $8-million craft, put into service Jan. 26, plunged Tuesday night into Matouba Mountain, a lower peak of the 3,937 foot La Soufriere volcano on Basse-Terre, one of the two main islands which make up this French West o:- Indies territory. Witnesses said a bright flash and an By BARBARA BLOW lishments as well. "Yet stu- the results. "It was an ex- Collegian Staff Writer dents at this university," he cellent report; honest, and sur- earsplitting explosion followed impact. " prising." added, "The sup- Search teams, guided by French soldiers and heli- l)av»u *_ottueu , proiessor 0{ said, seem much more aware He sociology, said last night that than the faculty." plementary reports will be even copters of the Gendarmarie Nationale, cut through thick In response to questions from They will point jungle to reach the crash site. They found sheared metal, there is a "growing militancy more valuable. and rejection" on the part of the students as to what they out how the distance and alien- scattered clothing and dismembered bodies. could personally do about the ation between Blacks and The crash occurred as the jet headed over Basse-Terre black students at the ' Univer- sity. problems disc ussed , Gottlieb Whites is greater than we on its approach pattern for Pointe-a-Pitre's Le Raizet Air- proposed a program in which realized, and how dialogue to- port. "And even when there is communication, it is oi. the one year's social service in day is almost beyond possibil- old lever of condescension," he Appallachia or in an urban area ity." • • • said. would be counted equivalent to He again emphasize . that the Speaking at the Jawbone Cof- one year 's academic credit for situation is not beyond hope. Warsaw Pact Nations Open Conference all willing Penn State students. "There are at least five things SOFIA, Bulgaria Leaders of the Warsaw Pact na- fee House Student-Faculty — Dialog ue, Gottlieb dis cussed Jawbone director, Edward the University could be doing tions opened a summit conference yesterday and Romanian Widme r, offered to back a right now in the area of social opposition to Soviet policies was expected to produce with students the topic "Black and White, Up Tight." proposed petition which would change." He suggested as ex- some fireworks. circulate for supnrl of this amples giving just one tenth Communist sources said the two main items on the After working for the last three years with the War on idea. of the University's scholarship agenda are Vietnam and the Soviet-American draft of a Gottlieb, who worked with the money to students who "really treaty prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, now un- Poverty, primarily with the to MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM College Bowl Team receive Job Corps, Gottlieb said, "We President 's National Advisory need it," or perhaps lowering der consideration at Geneva. trophy last night after winning championship. Left to right are Anion Ness; Don Erns- Commission on Civi" Disorders, the admissions standards in a Romania assailed the treaty at the Geneva disarma- released this week, commented certain number of cases. ' ment conference, saying it placed restrictions on small berger; Diane Clymer of the Undergraduate Student Government; Doug Cooper, team For Relied Article See Page 8 countries and failed to limit armaments of such major captain; Laura Wertheimer; Jeff Long, USG president; and Jay Clenny. powers as the Soviet Union. tend to think in terms of the Still fresh in the minds of the Communist party and urban' problem', while" the same government leaders was Romania's walkout of an inter- problem exists right here on national meeting of Communist parties at Budapest last this campus." week after its policies and Red China's were criticized. Gottlieb challenged those Communist sources said European security could be YAF Crowned Champion present to become concerned discussed but it might be avoided because of Romania's with tutoring programs and refusal to go along with the other bloc members in con- social work in nearby areas.