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The Sept. 9,. 1962 Wornqn Determined On Panqrrianiqh Victory By LEON DENNEN (NEA) Thelma King, a tall, dynamic brunette, is Fidel Castro's leading partisan in the She is the only woman elected to Panama's National Assembly. She herself to getting Uncle Sam out of the Canal Zone and substituting a "dictatorship of love." The congress woman, just returned from an extended trip to Cuba and Moscow, toid me: "My goal is complete Panamanian sovereignty in the Canal Zone." She insisted that the 1903 treaty which granted the United States exclusive rights to the Canal is null and void "since no freely eleced Panamanian legislature ever ratified "the treaty." Panama's most famous leftish jwlitician is 40-ishh with a fiery bubbling with good will during her conversation with me. Senora King even agreed to let the United States foot the bill and contribute the technical personnel for years to the operation of the Canal.

But, she added grimly, "If I my way there will be one flag flying over the Canal, Pana- jna's flag, all authorities will be Panamanians and there will be North American governor in the Canal Zone." Thelma King clearly represents the new type of leftist leader rising in Latin. America to plug Castro's and Moscow's line against the Alliance for Progress. Like Fidel Castro, before he seized power in Cuba; and Premier Cheddi Jagan of British Guiana, she insists she is not a Communist. But each time she speaks she utters a Red Cliche. For instance, there was no doubt in her mind that only Russia fights for peace and that the United States wants war.

Also, like all Reds she had nothing but contempt for pro-democratic and pro-U. S. Latin American leaders like President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Costa Rica's former President Jose Fig- ueres. Castro is her model and hero although she says she often disagrees with him. "I am not a Communist," Senora King asserted.

Then she added with a smile: "The Communists are clever; they never admit that they are Communists." Did she receive any instructions i about the Panama Canal during! her recent trip to Cuba and cow? "Oh; no," she replied. "My visits were of a purely social nature although a Premier Khrushchev did mention the Can-' al and other Latin American prob- lems casually. But only casually, you In 1942, during the last war, Senora King was jailed by the Panamanian authorities ostensibly because she held pro-Nazi views. But in 1W6 she was sent to prison again for staging a leftist revolt! in Colon. The revolt failed but Senora King is not discouraged.

"I was inexperienced in 1946," she remarked sadly. "The next time I shall know better." She was candid in her admission 'that she was in favor of a Cuban-type dictatorship "since Latin American problems cannot NEA. Telcphotos CAMPAIGNING HAS UPS AND DOWNS --George Romney, Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, slides down a pole during a visit to the Hamtramck Fire Department house. Romney was on a whirlwind tour of the Detroit area. be solved through free elections." However, she emphasized that what she aims to establish is "a dictatorship of love and not of terror.

I don't like to kill people if I can it." Is Senora King indulging in a pipe dream? This writer left her convinced that like British Guiana's Premier Jagan she is a far subtler leftist demagogue than Castro. The Virgin of Guadalupe is the patron saint of all Mexico. Oregon Sfucfenfs fo lobby for By JAMES United Press International EUGENE, Ore. (UPI) Students the University of "Oregon want more ''attention from state legislators. And they plan to get it the way any other cial interest does-4y lobbying.

Representatives of the school's senates-- an all-student y-have made plans for extensive lobbying at the 1963 session of the Oregon Legislature -at Salem. It will be a case of senator lobbying senator, and the students are dead serious about getting legislation to further their aims. They have laid the groundwork already. In the outcome, they may teach the professionals something about lobbying in a businesslike fashion. The Uniyersiiv 'of Senate, with the cooperation of other state-supported schoqls, plans to send four representatives to the state assembly.

they are students, a'nd because the eyes of the faculty, parents and others will be on them, there will be no lobbying in the traditional sense- that is no handouts, no drinks, no dinners--just' business. "Hie students intend to achieve their ends by explaining, and by working with legislators and education committees. In this they have ithe backing of the State Board of Higher Education. Among aims of the school body are: getting the best faculty possible; more money to operate a four-term year, more classrooms and lower tuitions. CMIWS uw QUALITY I QUAllTY A I A lew PLASTIC CONTAINERS For Your Favorite Milk.

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